Youtube comments of MarcosElMalo2 (@MarcosElMalo2).

  1. Turd mentality describes perfectly the mindset of Trump’s QAnon brigade.
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  2. Would you rather fight a duck the size of a T-55 or 100 duck-sized T-55s?
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  3. They had to thaw him out. If he wasn’t cryogenically frozen, his body would have been physically 100 years old.
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  4. It’s such a long shot that it probably isn’t worth mentioning, but if she had Democratic support, Liz Cheney could be elected Speaker.
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  5. Congratulations India! The prestige you will gain from this feat of science and engineering is well deserved. Thank you for your ongoing contributions to humanity (that part isn’t new).
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  6. I never even knew that there WAS a Japanese Diddy. Thanks for the transpacific rap news, Patrick!
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  7. He destroyed the 5G network that was controlling his mind. The irony is that it was a 4G network that told him to do it.
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  8. It’s 2019 and the right wing is still blaming video games?
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  9. They need to make one in the form of a bullet so I can locate my misplaced firearm and to accurately track the person I just shot.
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  10. As U.S. Hegemony continues to ease, India will take up the slack as a regional power. India and the U.S. are not allies, but we are aligned in our goals and principles.
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  11. For anyone interested, Perun’s Sunday Slideshow was on the topic of Russia’s industrial capacity for building conventional weapons. Worth a look if you’re into procurement assessments.
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  12. Imagine being a Fresh New Guy in a unit where the “old experienced soldiers who knew how to survive” had joined the unit only a few weeks before you.
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  13. The problem with introducing Abrams tanks is there is a huge and complicated logistical chain behind the tanks. It’s not just a matter of the time needed to set it up, it’s the logistical bandwidth. Artillery shells and missiles would be constrained while components for the tank infrastructure are sent in and set up. It takes a lot to supply, maintain, and repair the tanks. I don’t know how long training would take, but the Ukrainian soldier has shown great motivation and are able to cram a lot of training into shorter periods of time. I don’t think training should be an issue. But more than Abrams tanks, Ukraine needs ATACCMS long range missiles and HIMARS. HIMARS has proven its usefulness in destroying Russian logistics and command structure. ATACCMS would allow the Ukrainian soldiers to reach further back into Russia’s logistical chains. When Russia is disruptive, they cannot attack and their defenses are weaker.
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  14. It’s kind of weird how Rogan has a tendency to fall for lies, pseudoscience, and various other claptrap, but is quite resistant to taking in facts.
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  15. French artillery didn’t need as many rounds early in the war because their rounds had more elán. 😝
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  16. Jeff Goldblum’s girlfriend eventually joins the crew of the Nostromo.
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  17. It’s a sad rationalization that comes with age . . . FTFY You are unethical. Your excuse boils down to “everybody does it, so why bother trying to fix it.” The “I’m just one man so there is nothing I can do” is rationalizing bullpuckey so you don’t have to think about it. You’ve given up on self-awareness because self awareness is painful and often depressing. If you accept that you are making unethical decisions that cause suffering to people far away whom you will never meet, perhaps you might start making more ethical decisions or at least try to include ethics in your decision making calculus. We (the people watching this video) are all morally compromised. If we can admit this to ourselves, we can begin to make more ethical decisions on a daily basis about small and seemingly trivial things, such as purchases, driving, food consumption, etc. I’m not trying to dictate to you what you should do. I’m reminding you that you are a moral agent, and as a moral agent, “that’s just how the world works” and “everybody does it” are lame excuses you’re using to protect your false self-image. We can’t become better people if we don’t admit to ourselves we are somewhat bad people that need to improve.
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  18. Too be clear, the battle for Hostemel airport was a helicopter air assault to secure an air bridge. I think the worst factor for the first and second waves of VDV units was that they were unprepared for the mission and there was insufficient planning. Remember, the invasion was top secret until 24 hours (or less for some officers), and the intelligence was really bad: they were not expecting heavy resistance. This intelligence factor applies to the invasion forces as a whole. They didn’t plan for a worst case scenario because they 1) were told it was unnecessary, and 2) they didn’t have time to plan for it. So the first wave suffered heavy casualties and failed to secure the airport. The second wave was either shot out of the sky or turned back. The third wave, which would have included heavier equipment never left the ground. Rather than highlighting force structure weakness (which is also a factor, no doubt), the mission failure and the larger failure point to deficiencies in authoritarian government, namely distrust (the upper echelon keeping the invasion top secret from lower echelons, and probably not discussing it among themselves) and buying into their own propaganda. The intelligence supported the propaganda, and couldn’t be questioned. Raising doubts would be tantamount to disloyalty. A VDV battalion commander couldn’t just say “I’m going to prepare for the worst, just in case” without incurring the wrath of his superiors.
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  19. I don’t think it’s possible to humiliate Matt Gaetz. He has very little self awareness required for humiliation and absolutely no shame.
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  20. It’s weird that he saw advertisers dropping out as a personal attack. I wouldn’t even call it a boycott. Companies deciding to not do business with you is not a boycott. A boycott is a specific thing; for one thing, a boycott is organized. These companies didn’t organize to not do business with Twitter/Xitter. They just stopped advertising on the platform.
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  21. So we just got to hang in there for 3 1/2 months and then we can start pulling ourselves out of this nightmare.
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  22.  @Glade4  Seriously? A factory doesn’t need to be a sweat shop. Prices would go up to improve conditions and workers’ wages, but not crazy handmade prices. That said, people used to sew their own clothes (a few still do). I wonder how many people have taken it up as a hobby during this pandemic.
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  23. It’s kind of sick that the dad put his son up to killing someone out for a jog. It doesn’t lessen his guilt, it doesn’t make him less of a racist or less of a thug, but damn—he’s going to spend the rest of his life in jail because his dad got him hyped up. What a family dynamic!
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  24. As someone else said in a tweet: Musk: If they start taxing billionaires, soon they’ll come after ordinary Americans. Ordinary Americans: Uh . . . who do you think pays taxes now?
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  25. Clever idea.
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  26. I’ve heard a lot of ex-military say they regret separating and not re-upping because they 1) missed the purpose, and 2) they didn’t think about the retirement benefits when they were in their early 20s. But at 38 and not a lot to show for it, the benefits they could have gotten would come in handy.
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  27. From what I can tell, when people complain about the MIC, they’re complaining about lobbying. We should call it the Congressional Industrial Lobbying Complex, and we should note that defense contractors make up a very small part of it and face more scrutiny than other lobbying interests. Sometimes they complain about the military being overcharged for tools and parts from defense contractors. But they don’t educate themselves about government specifications and standards that push prices up. I do think there is a valid case for better and more social spending, but not at the expense of defense spending.
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  28. Real talk, people. Trump has crossed the line into genocidal maniac.
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  29. When you’ve beaten so many people that they form a class action against you, you might have a behavior problem.
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  30. I heard that general died from an electrical short or a careless smoking accident, and now they’re saying it was a landmine? I’m not sure what to believe.
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  31. I’m an ex-Republican. I forced myself to vote for Hilary because it was clear to me that Trump 1) wasn’t a conservative, 2) would make the country worse off. #1 has proved correct, unless you redefine the meaning of conservative. #2 was an underestimation by orders of magnitude. I’ll gladly vote for Biden. Even if by some miracle Trump is not the nominee, I’ll vote Biden.
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  32. With regard to Russia buying computer chips from China, it’s not that simple. Even if the PRC hasn’t joined the sanctions regime, Chinese companies that export their products to the West could find themselves cut off from important markets if they sell to Russia. If less than 10% of your business is to Russia, and 60% is to Europe and North America, you’d think twice before selling technology to Russia. Of course, one could try to sell via a cut out subsidiary or some sort of middleman, but it’s not as easy to hide these channels as it once was. The main problem, though, is that China itself is 5-10 years behind Taiwan and South Korea. Russia won’t have access to the same capabilities being shared with Ukraine.
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  33.  @HeRa06Ram  I think the bigger cartel threat is RPGs, so a likely upgrade for the AFV’s is reactive armor. That said, the party currently in power in Mexico has been very hands off wrt the cartels. I think there is a lot of mystification surrounding the cartels. They don’t maintain anything resembling a military, for example. They don’t even qualify as an insurgency. They are criminal gangs and organized as such. In some cases they are well armed and they are well funded, thanks to America’s demand for drugs. That said, their capabilities seem to be magnified in the minds of some paranoid Americans. They’re a criminal threat, not a military one. They lack the organization to become a military threat. Their power and funding is largely dependent on U.S. anti-drug policies.
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  34.  @carterthefarter3855  The shove wasn’t justified. It’s defined as battery, a crime. But shooting an unarmed man backing away is murder. Agreed? I understand that shoving someone arguing with your spouse might feel justified or relatable. And it doesn’t justify being murdered. I’m not saying that the victim bears any responsibility, not in anyway. As we know, the whole thing was instigated by the self appointed parking lot monitor. Just the same, the shove wasn’t legally justified—if the man hadn’t been killed, he might have faced his day in court.
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  35.  @Anyonymous92  You’ll say anything to avoid being sent to fight in Ukraine, GRU troll. Gotta make those quotas.
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  36. So you could utilize vacant office space to hold the juice? It’s not dependent on the bag (which contributes to landfill problems). You just need an app to control how much juice you squeeze out of your office.
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  37. Liz Cheney was a conservative Republican at conception. When she was born, the doctor slapped her bottom with a copy of Reflections on the Revolution in France. It always struck me that she could have milked her dad’s connections to get a senate seat, but she felt she could be more useful in the House. I have nothing but respect for her dedication to public service.
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  38. Russian troop movement is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, but worse. The iceberg has missiles and it hates deck chairs.
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  39. That was brutal. I’m happy Ukrainian soldiers are doing what it takes to win, but that was hard to watch, knowing it’s not just a movie.
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  40. Maybe Russia would be safer without a strong military, sort of like keeping matches out of the hands of children.
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  41. Agreed. I’m still not clear what that was all about, but the judge did her job efficiently. He respectfully conducted his business and left, whatever that business was. Two requests were turned down, but one of his concerns was that his client not be questioned about medication she was taking, and the defense was willing to offer an assurance that they would not pursue that line of questioning. So really, I don’t think this guy was a total bozo. He got in, he presented his business and got a response, then he left.
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  42. I really like hearing from highly trained medical professionals that are not doctors! Don’t get me wrong, I do want to listen to the analysis of expert virologists, but nurses, pharmacists and physician assistants often are better at explaining to us less educated members of the public.
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  43. Obviously, he’s not. He can’t be because I am the most humble person of all time. It’s the key to my spiritual greatness, being so very humble. People ask me all the time how I achieved this great enlightenment and spiritual profundity and I tell them it is due to self-awareness and humbleness. Now I know there are cynics out there who will raise their eyebrows and think at my claim to be the most humble person ever born (and therefore, the most spiritual) is immodest. They might say that I am bragging, but the opposite is true. I avoid false humility by being very clear that I am more humble, more spiritual, and generally a better human being than they are. Also, this is just a bit. Totally not serious.
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  44. It’s been explicitly stated and restated ad infinitum. But you’re dealing with MAGAs who don’t argue in good faith.
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  45. It’s literally evangelism.
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  46. That’s the funny twist in the story. The deposits are FDIC insured. The money is still there, safe, and the bank (or possibly banks) are apparently solvent. The hold up is that the records, i.e., which account is associated with which user, is lost.
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  47. Cuba “controlling” the straits is such a distant theoretical possibility that it doesn’t bear more than a fraction of a second of concern. Bringing Cuba into NAFTA is so crazy it might actually work. Certainly it could be a good carrot to offer the Cuban government. Pete also makes a good point about how Cuba could fit into NAFTA via Mexico. Mexico is and has been rapidly industrializing, and has spent the last 20 odd years developing an educated workforce. In some ways, their educational system is superior to ours—vocational but focused on industrial technologies. Anyway, I know there are NAFTA haters in Pete’s audience. If you’re one of these folks, you really ought to investigate how NAFTA works in practice between Mexico and the U.S., starting with the automotive industry. Or plastics and other petrochemical derived products. Or aerospace. It’s more than cross border trade, it’s cross border integration of manufacturing, and it keeps us and our neighbor to the south competitive vis-a-vis other economic partnerships.
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  48. This is a set. If it was his real office, it would be cluttered with turntables and midi interfaces.
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  49. lol, and when they had a chance to negotiate lighter sanctions, the said “no, we want the harder sanctions because hard brexit sounds more macho.”
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  50. OAN is like one big infomercial, and the product they’re selling is crazy.
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  51.  @Tubeytime  lol I just realized it’s THAT guy, the science explainer that doesn’t understand science. Telepathic electrons!
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  52. They’re using woke pronouns.
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  53. I lost a gallon of milk and I received 4 Quart Martials. True story.
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  54.  @bryanreed1328  which is ironic because beer (or more accurately, ale) was a big part of pre-Islamic peasant culture in the grain growing areas of the Middle East.
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  55.  @scld4649  He’s not a paid actor, but if he was, that sounds a lot better than being unpaid cannon fodder.
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  56. I’ll tell you what. I respect AOC for moderating her tone while still maintaining her passion when she spoke. When she was elected, I thought she would be the left wing equivalent of a Freedom Caucus Republican. But she surprised me with her ability to be a team player and work with others for the common good. I might disagree with Ocasio-Cortez on politics, but I respect her for doing the work of governance.
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  57. Thank you for the explanation. I was under the impression that the creator was trying to pass it off as real.
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  58. It’s very Christian to see that your neighbor is in need and accuse them of eating pets.
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  59. Even if the breakage of cables was accidental, Finland is well within its rights to impound the vessel for a full investigation for however long they think is necessary to complete the investigation. At this point, talk of confiscating it is premature (although I think that will be likely eventually). The presence of spy equipment is wild. I’m not going to assume that report is true. But I’m not going to dismiss it, either. I’ll just wait until more is revealed. Don’t get me wrong. I feel confident that the cable breakage was intentional on the part of Russia. I suspect that the Finns can prove it. They might well have these Russian ships under surveillance at this point. They might even have visual proof of when the ship dropped anchor as it traversed the cable crossings.
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  60. Inspections could slow down shipping enough to be a “semi-blockade” of St. Petersburg and it wouldn’t be an act of war. It would strangle a lot of trade to Russia. What would be the Russian response at that point? For example, would they use military escorts of ships and ignore inspections? I think Finland, Estonia, and other Baltic nations should impose a heavy inspection regime (including surveillance of Russia’s and China’s “alternative commercial fleet”, aka the Dark Fleet). But there must be coordinated plans to address the response, and so on. With regard to the territorial waters aspect, there are no “international waters” in the area in question. It’s all territorial waters, either Estonia’s or Finland’s waters. International law dictates that peaceful commercial shipping has the right of free passage through these territorial waters of Finland and Estonia. At the same time, both nations have the right to inspect ships passing through their waters. Russia and China have certainly given Finland and Estonia cause to impose a strict inspection regime on all ships entering St. Petersburg.
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  61. “Rudy’s attack failed, Mein Fuhrer. There was insufficient press at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping, and the terrain did not favor our forces.”
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  62. And the battalion level commanders didn’t get briefed until 24 hours before the invasion. Not just the VDV, but across the entire invasion force. Even with so little time, they were also given faulty intelligence about the resistance they faced. It would be exceedingly difficult to plan and prepare on such short notice AND with faulty intelligence. These are symptoms of the structural problems that undermine authoritarian regimes.
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  63. Well, now that he’s been sentenced to 20 years, who’s going to tase the litterbugs in the parking lot?
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  64. True. However, Ukraine has not banned an independent press. It hasn’t made reporting a crime. Ukrainian claims can be fact-checked, confirmed or debunked. Russia has no independently press and reporting the news, even if it’s being published outside of Russia, is a crime. It’s exceedingly difficult and risky to check Russian claims from within Russia or the territories it controls. For this reason, the Ukrainians might exaggerate the truth, but their claims generally don’t depart from it. Russian claims not so much.
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  65. Pssst. Do we really want more estadounidenses?
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  66. Especially don’t go flying in the mountains under foggy conditions. That was the key mistake here.
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  67. Are you aware of what John Deere is doing now in the IoT (Internet of Tractors) space? John Deere is not the best example, given their customers’ recent experiences. It’s gotten so bad that many long time customers have had to write Deere John letters to the company. But if your main point is that money is the root of all evil, you should quickly develop an app for it because the idea goes back at least 2000 years. I’m sure that there are others developing means to digitize cash and put it in the cloud so that people don’t have to be spiritually tainted by physically handling filthy lucre.
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  68.  @RyanMcBethProgramming  You’re an inspiration for me to be better. I hope I am similarly an inspiration for others. We can all make progress together and laugh and learn from our mistakes. I know how to do this, but you’re a good reminder of my purpose. Thanks, dude! 😊
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  69. We’ve been through this a million times, but some of you just don’t get it. The Monster isn’t named Giuliani. The Monster’s creator is named Doctor Giuliani.
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  70. Remember Michele’s speech. Do something. All that excitement will not get Harris elected if you don’t translate the emotional energy into action.
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  71. “How can you have an undercover operation without a pastor?” I know there are many that want Grady to run for office. I think the community would be better off if he stayed sheriff and did stand up comedy on the weekends.
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  72. It depends on the environment in which we were raised.
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  73. A mountain of evidence said he was guilty. The prosecutor didn’t invent the evidence.
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  74. Good point that I didn’t consider. I was more concerned that Ryan would be so absent minded.
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  75.  @pakde8002  stealing mail is an additional federal charge. I’m not sure if “official government mail” compounds the seriousness, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it did.
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  76. Mic, short for Microphone. Mike is the name of a person. It’s short for Mikerophone.
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  77. Carry a hammer and go out of your way to find anything that might be a nail. Proceed to hammer before you know if it’s a nail.
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  78. So tell me, what did he negotiate in NAFTA II that made it different from NAFTA I? Are you thinking about the part where he made Mexico pay for the wall?
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  79.  @Bialy_1  If the charging base is stationary or semi-Stationary, you can have a much larger solar array. You’re right that distant might be a problem. Perhaps the battery packs themselves could have mobility and follow after the exploring unit and return to base for recharging. Anyway, these sorts of robots will no doubt be useful for exploring Mars, but that doesn’t mean they will replace other types.
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  80. He’s disrupting small truck design by creating something truck aficionados have only dreamed of: a truck that not only serves no useful purpose(like a blinged out 150), but a truck that cannot serve a useful purpose. Elon fans are understandably excited because they also serve no useful purpose.
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  81. Just the same, there’s no greater feeling of accomplishment than hitting your target in the center of his body with a HIMARS missile.
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  82. Also used in Georgia. 14 years is not so long ago, and probably means they received upgrades.
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  83. He’s a good cop and runs a tight ship. He’s not afraid to clean his own house, either, and is transparent about that, too. He doesn’t take shortcuts and expects his people to do the same.
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  84.  @zacharyw4628  Possible jurisdictions: Ventura County, State of California, and . . . . Los Padres NATIONAL Forest? That’s federal charges. National Forests are federal lands, overseen by the Department of the Interior.
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  85. Probably not. Carlson knew which questions were acceptable without being told. He’s a natural bootlicker.
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  86. It’s gamer spec fetishism. Gamers fixate on weapons and the specs of those weapons, which is never the full story. The stereotypical example is the comparison of tigers to shermans. It’s meaningless to discuss tank specs without considering the multi-level multi-system contexts, from the operating level to doctrine to logistics to manufacturing. One of the reasons I enjoy Bernard’s presentations is that he understands this fundamentally and is always reminding us of the bigger picture and role that equipment plays within that bigger picture.
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  87. Physical water? That’s dumb. Nobody wants to deal with the hassle and mess of physical water. You know what’s smart? Water in the cloud. I’ll give you a minute to grasp what a genius idea this is. Water in the cloud can be moved anywhere for JIT delivery. It can be registered on a block chain or represented as an NFT and used as both a unique investment vehicle (no two water molecules are exactly alike) or as a liquid asset. Furthermore, if you know anything about homeopathy, you know that dilution generates value in the form of special healing properties. Do you know what nobody has done? Homeopathic water. Imagine if you could dilute water to a ratio of one or two parts per million. Do you get it yet? This is a license to print water and it’s 0000000.1% legal. Plus the water cures cancer.
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  88. Plus he’s throwing a bone to the military so that he can continue with his reforms. If you know a bit about Argentinian history, you’ll know why you don’t want to make the military unhappy.
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  89.  @robertjenkins6132  The use of color to signify politics is an indication that one has entered the realm of empty signifiers. Red isn’t the “proper signifier” of any political stance. It’s not just an over simplification, it’s a category error embraced by lazy minds. It supports manipulation of the many by the few. Don’t complain that conservatives have taken over the color red. Don try to take it back. Instead, point out the stupidity of such symbolism.
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  90. Lol, that’s still Karen mode, just a change in gears. She was still lying about the interaction, refusing to take responsibility or accepting consequences. The next stage is breaking into tears, possibly followed by a violent tantrum requiring police intervention. Someone needs to write a book, “The 5 Stages of Karening”.
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  91. I can’t believe they forgot to set the parking brake before running for shelter.
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  92. It’s the Night of the Dull Spoons.
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  93.  @NuclearGameVideos  You really ought to watch the video (and listen to the words said) before diving into the comments and asking people to support their statements. I don’t know one way or the other if MTG is undereducated, but if she is educated, her public statements do not showcase her education. However, she is certainly a troll. Source: her tweets. Go read them.
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  94.  @thomasbell7033  much like Ayn Rand, Von Daniken is thrilling for the adolescent mind. Thankfully we grow out of it, and either find other intellectual thrills or buckle down to learn real economics or archaeology (which can also be more thrilling).
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  95. Honestly, don’t we want antivaxxers to move to Russia? This is more of a win for us than a win for Russia.
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  96. Good to hear, but what going on with the cuckold flies?
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  97. You Canucks really took the lead on training the Ukrainian NCO cadre. This included the UK and the U.S. but when I’ve seen interviews of Ukrainian NCOs, they talk about their Canadian trainers the most.
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  98.  @bigriceman6043  hopefully never.
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  99. The odds were in the company’s favor that the tornado would pass them by. How many times previously had there been a tornado threat and nothing happened? However, low probability isn’t zero probability. The company could have hedged its bets by building a shelter. And where it really messed up was threatening employees that wanted to leave. It’s one thing to say, “OK, punch out, you’re done for the day. See you tomorrow,” and it’s another thing to say, “If you leave, don’t bother coming back. We’ll mail you the check.” If this case gets before a jury, that’s going to hurt the company the most. The company essentially killed 8 people through negligence. (I wouldn’t say murdered, which is too strong a word.) I hope managers and decision-makers take note—if you decide to risk your employees’ lives, you might get away with it for a while—maybe a long while. But it might just catch up with you and then you’ll be that person that allows x number of people to die out of greed or ambition. At that point, you should probably become a politician.
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  100. She did and is. But a detailed explanation will take more than 2 minutes, so don’t expect a dissection of events in one of these ads.
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  101. The thing that was clear to me is that the police officer was very caring and patient towards the arrestee who clearly has mental issues. (Whether the issues are brought on by meth use doesn’t matter.) He treated her as a fellow human being. I hope she gets the help she needs, both for the addiction and for any underlying problems.
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  102. There is a difference between taking out a current threat and settling old scores. This extrajudicial killing was revenge. If the goal was justice, India should have snatched him and spirited him back to India for a trial. Or they could have just used a drone. 😅
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  103. It’s very interesting how Fukuyama has evolved his thinking without abandoning his core principles. If anything, he’s refined his conservative ideas from the overly-simplistic neo-conservatism he espoused in the 90s and 2000s. This is what reality based conservatism looks like, although it seems rare and quaint compared to what passes for conservatism over the past dozen years.
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  104. I’ll say this in Bernie’s favor: What you see is what you get. He tells it like it is and doesn’t care if he’s popular or not. I’ve never supported him—in past elections I felt opposed to what I perceived as “overly progressive”. But he’s not afraid to tell uncomfortable truths and he doesn’t pander to people’s worst instincts.
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  105.  @mickser101  Why did you cancel your windectomy?
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  106. Fwiw, the Vietnam Minh was a national liberation organization, with both political and military branches. Even Ho claimed he was a nationalist first, communist second. Who knows what might have happened if the French had bowed out gracefully instead of trying to reoccupy their colony. The fact is that even though Ho Chi Minh was the leader, the organization itself was not communist until well into the 50s, when it became by necessity a client of the Soviets and the Chinese.
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  107.  @TheMotherofTacos It has to come to the floor first. It won’t. It will get stuck in committee.
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  108. “Moscow Rules” don’t apply outside of Moscow. But the truth is, despite Russia’s efforts with social media disinformation and with hacking, they just don’t have the massive capacity of the 5-eyes agencies for intercepting communications and analyzing the huge volume of communications that they intercept. We barely have a hint of NSA’s ability to capture data and metadata from communications within Russia and communications outbound from Russia, but this release of information gives a rough idea of the capability. This is why I tell Russian trolls that they are not safe. They aren’t safe. Their activity is being logged and filed away in some immense data warehouse in Utah or Colorado. It’s likely that there is a photo of them in their NSA record. It will be up to some U.S. government functionary whether or not to unmask them or worse.
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  109. Before there was Netflix, there was video rentals. I went through a bad breakup in the 90s. I had trouble letting it go—I unrealistically hoped there was still a chance we’d get back together. And I continued to use “our” membership to a video rental place that was secured with her credit card, until one day she took me off the membership. It felt like a slap in the face when I was denied the rental. A part of me couldn’t believe it. It seemed to me at the time that she was being petty. There was even a specific notation on her account that explicitly told the store clerk I was not permitted to rent on her rental account and I was asked to turn in the membership card. The clerk showed it to me. At the time I felt humiliated and angry. Mentally I blew it out of proportion (which is why I still remember this detail of the breakup). Of course this was me being a toxic ex. Maybe my behavior was minor, but it was toxic nonetheless. It was part of a pattern of our dysfunctional relationship and it was part of a pattern of my own dysfunction. Thankfully, this episode eventually helped me realize the relationship was over. It wasn’t the only thing, but it was a part of it. And it also taught me that a complete break when a relationship is ending is important. Even in a non-abusive relationship, making that break complete is important. Making the break abundantly clear is important (her part in all this was that she wanted to “keep the door open” and/or “let me down gently”). I’m sharing this story for the people on the other side of what Ryan is talking about. And it’s important that you do the same—secure and unentangle your digital life from the other person. You’ll feel better. And if you have the ex’s pssswords written down anywhere, delete them. Being dumped sucks, but you’ll get over it. Stay strong. Rebuild yourself—the part of you that was part of being a couple is dead and needs to be buried. I hope this helps.
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  110.  @randomman8097  It’s better to report him for promoting terrorism or misinformation, AND ignoring him.
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  111.  @neil216  Well, Tim and Bill are conservatives. I’m a conservative. We used to be mainstream conservatives. To be fair, I’ve come around on issues like health care and child care/child tax credits, but I think my values and principles remain the same. Maybe some of that has to do with conservatives like us sharing some bedrock values with liberals like you. Maybe it has to do with recognizing everything isn’t black and white. Take privatization vs government, for example. Sometimes (I’d argue much of the time) privatization makes sense, in other cases letting government run or subsidize a service makes more sense. In this case, I’m specifically thinking of broadband access to rural areas, but there’s plenty of other examples. Our tax system favors the wealthy. There’s no getting around that. We need to rebalance the tax code. I still believe that wealth formation fosters innovation, investment and job creation, but on the individual level how much goddamn wealth does a person need to motivate them? The wealth gap has become utterly corrosive. We conservatives had a great run from the 1980 to 2008. We got pretty much everything we wanted, which is why there is a dearth of fresh ideas coming from conservatives. Some of what we got didn’t turn out the way we had hoped. Now it’s the liberals turn for a while.
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  112. And just leaving is a no-win situation. This is the dictionary definition of dilemma. A problem with two solutions (stay or leave), neither of which is good. Yes, it’s more complex than that, with a lot of moving parts, but the push and pull is between less engagement or more engagement. Long term, the U.S. wants to ease out, and has been easing out, getting our regional partners to take more responsibility and to start cooperating with each other in a meaningful way. The recent Iranian proxy attacks tells me that Iran doesn’t want the U.S. to leave. And that is a clue that Iran is a proxy for someone else.
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  113.  The TacoCat  <— this jerkoff has been posting the same 💩 since the start of the invasion.
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  114. “Oh, the Putinanity!”, cries Tucker Carlson as he weepingly witnesses an exploding hydrogen balloon.
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  115. Don’t be so quick to dismiss the Russians. Give them another six months, 50,000 more troops, and 200 more vehicles and they’ll start making a dent. 😅 Someday the phrase “Putinic victory” will replace “Pyrrhic victory”, mark my words.
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  116. Enabled by the opacity of authoritarian bureaucracy. Opacity goes both ways—the same obscurity that keeps citizens in the dark about what the government is doing keeps the leaders in the dark about the facts on the ground.
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  117. “If you don’t understand his video, you need to watch more of his videos.” Something one of his followers actually said to me.
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  118. Marc Andressen understands perfectly well what PEP is. He’s just lying about it.
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  119.  @kellybe7030  😂
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  120. I avoided forming an opinion until the first 72 hours passed. After that, it was clear that Russia would fail to achieve a quick victory. And it seemed to me that even if Russia could eventually achieve a military victory over Ukraine’s standing army, it couldn’t successfully occupy Ukraine. Ukraine would be a constant drain on Russia’s limited resources. This wouldn’t be a repeat of the mighty Red Army rolling across Eastern Europe in 1945, subverting each country it occupied. If I take a cynical view, I think a slow Ukrainian victory suits the West. Russia might be able to make a recovery if it were to negotiate a withdrawal today and leave tomorrow, but the longer this conflict continues, the worse it will be for Russia long term in all respects. Perhaps greatest of all will be the psychic shock Russia will suffer. There is a saying, “You reach the bottom when you stop digging.” Russia is determined to keep digging.
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  121. AI is a misnomer, really. You use predictive text? That’s AI. Digital assistance is one or more orders more complicated. And still frustrating. Here’s the thing about “general AI” or “self-aware AI”—it will be indistinguishable from really good mimicry of self-aware intelligence. When the singularity happens, we won’t notice. The Turing test still holds, because there is no way to test if an AI has consciousness or if it is really good at faking it (much like humans, no?).
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  122.  @ShenandoahShelty  Can you back up the assertion that he was selectively prosecuted? Or are you not asserting it as fact because it’s just a feeling you have? It’s OK to say, “I suspect that . . .” instead of “I think that . . .”. Just so you don’t think I’m selectively picking on you. 😅
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  123. That’s very low probability, but not impossible. I assume you mean retired pilots, not pilots currently flying for their respective air forces. There is zero chance of a pilot actively flying for his country’s armed forces to be detached to the Ukrainian Air Force to participate in hostilities. That would be escalatory and the same as a declaration of war. Even retired F-16 pilots would be an excuse for the Russians to escalate if it was discovered. This is why I think it is low probability we will see it happen. Using non-Ukrainian pilots is unnecessary. The Ukrainian AF does not have a pilot shortage. It has an aircraft shortage. Furthermore, if reports are to be believed, experienced Ukrainian pilots have been training on the F-16 over the past year. So there is very little benefit to taking the risk of escalation. However, there is a factor that raises the probability. These missions are being flown well behind the frontlines, so there would be very little chance of a foreign retired pilot being shot down over Russian held territory. If the Russians managed to shoot down an aircraft with such a pilot, the Russians wouldn’t be able to capture the pilot or recover their body. They wouldn’t have proof of this sort of foreign intervention. I think we can rule it out your suggestion, but we can’t completely rule it out. And we can’t rule it out going forward if the situation changes.
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  124.  @fynkozari9271  They might not have been told anything about Chernobyl or they might have been told the danger was past. Chernobyl is the story of government corruption and coverup, so the whole saga might get downplayed in Russia.
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  125. For some things, it doesn’t even need to be coded in. You code in autofill that accepts data from the browser or a contacts app or the OS or a password manager, and you rely on the users’ to either use this built in automation on the user end or fill out the fields manually. The user already has the data in this case (but your issue sounds like the user didn’t have ready access to it, so it’s a slightly different problem). I still come across phone apps that do not allow autofill. It’s super frustrating in this day and age.
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  126. So is maximum force response. If police had ascertained the situation for five minutes instead of getting into a forward posture, this probably wouldn’t have happened. They unnecessarily exposed themselves to possible danger (if it had been a hostage situation). They’ve reduced their response options to shooting the supposed suspect but if the hung back a little they could have discovered the person represented no threat. It was the cops themselves that put themselves in this position.
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  127. It’s a shame that he’s sullied his name and his proud service to the public. For a guy like this, that’s got to be as painful and shameful as the time he is going to do in prison. And for what? For the biggest piece of shit loser in America, Donald Trump.
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  128. The Kherson counteroffensive was and is a real counteroffensive. Let’s be clear on that. However, it was planned as an “option play”. If Russian forces could be drawn south, opportunities to advance would open in the north. If not, Ukraine was still prepared to slug it out in Kherson. It should be clear that a lot of work went into reconnaissance work went into eastern Kharkiv to determine disposition of Russian forces, which ones were being moved out, which remained, where they were, etc. I imagine this was going on along other fronts, not just Kharkiv. There were other options on the table; they went with the Kharkiv option because it was the option with the highest probability of success. The key here is not the Ukrainian deception, although deception is part of it. The key is that Russia did not and does not have the manpower to hold the territory it has conquered. Russia was playing a shell game and the assault on Kherson was Ukraine calling Russia’s bluff. It is Russia’s deception which failed. Russia tried and failed to conceal its vulnerabilities.
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  129. I don’t know if this is true, but I heard that 5 people escaped from the Helsinki Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Eventually they were tracked down to Moscow, where they had all gotten jobs as school teachers.
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  130.  @garyfumeaux9226  You’re not informed. You’re not informing anyone. You are spreading disinformation and sending people to disinformation sites. I will not engage with you any further. Debating a troll such as yourself is a waste of time.
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  131. Why does this man deserve your level of defense? ”His parents are wealthy.”
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  132. That’s how Mordor rolls.
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  133. He seems to invite mostly guests that are liars.
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  134. She wants to destroy it because it’s not what she wants it to be. She and her comrades are moral infants.
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  135. Did you run out of coping juice, comrade?
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  136. Yes. There should already be consequences for the bomb threats. Vance has crossed the line from free speech to criminal speech, and he has already admitted that he made up the story. Let him keep talking and incriminating himself.
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  137. Unfortunately . . .
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  138. It’s more of a dredge now, but you’re right, it looks better, more blended in with the river.
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  139. I think you’re projecting your own feelings onto Judge Dearie. Judge Dearie is merely fulfilling his duties according to the law. 😉
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  140. This is an emergency revocation, to immediately prevent him from piloting an airplane. This isn’t the FAA’s final disposition of the case—there could be additional fines. However, the FAA can’t do much more than impose civil penalties. Any criminal prosecution is up to police agencies in the relevant jurisdictions. This could be federal (the crash occurred on Federal land in the National Forest System) or state or county authorities that go after him. Edit: That said, even if he isn’t criminally prosecuted, I don’t think Trevor Jacob will survive his own idiocy for very long. He shows terrible judgement and poor impulse control. He can plan, but he doesn’t really think things through. Sooner or later, reality is going to give him a good hard fatal kick in the nuts.
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  141. The Arc of the Covenant was an Antlantean nuclear weapon, as proven in the documentary Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc. Edit: It strikes me that measuring an object of unknown origin will not prove what they are trying to prove at all. The measurements don’t make the provenance issue moot. The unknown provenance makes the measurement moot.
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  142. Most places accept the local currency. Perhaps you’ve only been to tourist destinations, where it’s more common that businesses accept dollars. If you want to use dollars, you generally have to exchange them for the local currency. I live in a tourist town, so some but not all businesses accept dollars, usually at a terrible exchange rate. In the next town over, they do not accept dollars, rupees, yuan, rubles, yen, pound sterling, or euros. You might have a valid point but you’re not making it very well with your poor example. You sound like a person with some limited experiences outside the U.S. extrapolating from that limited experience. Perhaps what you are saying holds true in countries with very unstable currencies, suffering from inflation, and/or some other need for dollars.
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  143. And they don’t even need proof of vaccination. A negative Covid test is sufficient.
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  144. That reminds me of a probably untrue story about the L.A. riots. If you remember, the national guard was called in. My friend was one of them and he told gullible me this tall tale. His squad was assigned as security for a couple of beat cops who were called out on a break in on the periphery of the riots. One cop went around to the back of the house while the other approached the front door. He turned around and said, “cover me”. So my friend’s squad layed down suppressing fire. 😂 Anyway, I’ve heard this tale several times since and when I confronted my friend, he admitted it never happened to him and that it was bullshit due to the ROE. Funny bullshit, though.
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  145. Misappropriation of both words. They’re neither conservative nor warriors. They’re seditious scum, with very very few exceptions.
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  146. This is a great ad (as usual) but I feel it’s unfair to maggots that serve an important purpose in the environment.
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  147. I had no problems understanding Steve’s presentation. It’s Civil Procedure and professional responsibility. Sure, it’s complicated stuff—which is why we turn to Steve to help explain it. If you had trouble following the material he presented, I suggest you watch it again. Make notes of whatever is still giving you trouble and ask about it in the comments. Steve is here to explain complicated topics, not spoonfeed you, but if you make a sincere attempt to understand (such as multiple viewings and writing things down), nobody will fault you.
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  148.  @jerradwilson  Holy crap, I didn’t notice it was 35 minutes long. It seemed like 15 or 20 minutes. I think if I didn’t understand something in this video, I would have given it a second listen, and kept a pencil and paper handy to take notes of what I wasn’t getting. I might it might not give it a third listen before posting my questions as a comment.
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  149. Terrific interview. The Grugq is a great resource—I recommend checking out his Medium essays/slideshows. He has the expertise to get into gritty details, but more importantly, he has the wisdom to approach cybersecurity as security (that is, in the broader context of security). He’s really good at explaining the bigger picture to lay persons.
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  150. Musk wants to be King of the World, but he’s not picky about which world or how he gets there.
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  151. We really don’t know if the fighting east of Kharkiv was completely opportunistic or planned. We do know a bit more about the Kherson counteroffensive because it was announced and we saw the various missile attacks on Russian assets to shape the battlefield (depots, air defense, air bases, supply routes). When the attack kicked off, the strategy was a little unusual and perhaps confusing. UA seemed to be attacking on across the entire Kherson front line before settling on the three main lines. The approach east of Kharkiv seems too well organized to be improvised. I think this was planned as an option all along. Ukraine has been conducting reconnaissance and surveillance to get an idea of which strategically important area was most vulnerable. (And I suspect that in addition to drones, they were sending in Long Range Reconn Patrols behind enemy lines when they discovered that the front lines were thinly defended.) Ukraine probably monitored Russia pulling out troops and equipment to send to Kherson. Kherson is not a feint or diversion, but it is being used to fix Russian soldiers in place nevertheless. Russia has concentrated a lot of artillery on both banks of the Dnipro, making it deadly for Ukraine to concentrate its forces for a big breakthrough, but it is possible to surgically isolate smaller Russian units and either push them back or defeat them in detail. The mobile reserves of Russia’s defense-in-depth are having trouble staying organized and concentrated themselves. So I think Anders is right about the strategy for Kherson. Unless the Russians collapse entirely, it’s going to be a campaign of nibbling, avoiding concentration of large masses of soldiers. You’ll notice that although it is slow going, Ukraine seems to be maintaining the initiative, forcing Russia to react to the crisis of the moment. If Russia were to rush forces from Zaporizhe to reinforce Izyum’s lines of communication, we might well see a third counterstroke in the less defended area.
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  152. Trump’s just fundraising, riling up the rubes to give him money.
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  153. You’re not a wimp or a coward. Your position is 100% reasonable.
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  154. If anything they were holding back.
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  155. A nanny state becomes necessary when too many citizens act like misbehaving children.
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  156.  @garyfumeaux9226  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  157. I’m a bit unhappy that we will have to move out of the way just because a star goes supernova. We need to build a Dyson Sphere.
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  158. It’s hard to tell exactly what your understanding is about U.S. economic policy in relation to global geopolitics, but if you’re worried about trade deficits, you’re barking up the wrong tree and you do not understand the economic basis of our policies. To oversimplify, trade deficits are not owed by the U.S., they are owed by individual companies. These deficits are driven by consumer demand, as Pete points out. That demand is driven by demographics. However, those trade imbalances benefit our country, both in terms of global stability and in terms of powering our economy. The trade imbalances are part of the cement that make the U.S. dollar the base currency of global trade, and this creates a stability that benefits us. It’s the keystone of U.S. “hegemony” because it’s the keystone of global trade that benefits the greatest number of people worldwide, and those material benefits go towards those countries with internal stability that follow the international rules based order, i.e Western Democracies. This is a powerful motivation for countries to move towards capitalistic democracy. (I put “hegemony” in quotes because it’s a special kind of economic hegemony. It’s not imperialism nor colonialism as the socialists would have you believe, but clear thinking was never their strong suit.) That said, you are not entirely wrong. You’ve arrived at the right conclusion from faulty reasoning. The re-ordering of the world economic system is because of the change in demographics. The world economic system is based on growth and we’ve reached the limits of that growth. Pete frames this as the problem but I think that’s the wrong way to think about it. Problems can be solved. Instead it’s better to think about the global changes in demographics as the new conditions, conditions to which we must adapt. And part of that adaptation is global economic retraction and the slow unwinding of U.S. “hegemony”. We have to think about capitalism/globalism as a vehicle. It’s a vehicle that has served a purpose in our moving forward. Now road conditions have changed and we must adapt that vehicle to a bumpier road. The system of the world must change to meet the new conditions of declining economic growth, stagnation, or even economic decline. Keyword to the above is “system”. We must think in terms of systems and systems of systems. If we don’t, we will be totally unprepared to meet the future.
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  159. In Russia, to train a soldier means to put him on a train and send him to the front.
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  160. Do you get paid by the kite? 😅 jk. The exploitation of the animals’ behavioral tendencies is fascinating. Perhaps the deer lack depth perception, and the low walls are (to the deer) some sort of optical illusion.
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  161.  @ryelor123 That’s the old CPAC, when it actually represented something resembling conservatism.
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  162.  @eliasross4576  The main purpose of political science isn’t to make predictions. I know, it’s got “science” in the name, so one might come to this misunderstanding quite easily. Political science isn’t science and is not great at making successful predictions consistently. Mearsheimer’s biggest weakness is his inability to accord agency to non-superpower or great power countries. Mearsheimer likes to see geopolitics as grand manichean struggles, and everyone else are chess pieces. That’s how Mearsheimer can blame the U.S. for Russia’s invasion. In his mind, the U.S provoked the attack.
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  163.  @petersoerent2554 ecause the BRICS countries aren’t even a political alliance. They’re an artificial (in that they’re not geographically related) trade association. Two of the members are intense political-military rivals. One is a rogue state. And Brazil and South Africa are potential Chinese footholds on two different continents. This trade alliance has proposed some lofty goals, but has made little progress. I won’t laugh them off, but they don’t pose an economic threat to anyone. I don’t think any of them want to host Putin. Maybe China would take him, “for old times sake”, but Xi doesn’t strike me as the sentimental type.
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  164. I’m certain that Elon will put all his investments and businesses into a blind trust, because it’s ethical. Clearly he is a highly ethical person or he wouldn’t be so rich.
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  165. lol, but seriously I want to know what firm is handling this case for Musk.😅 I can sort of see Musk’s point, but I don’t think this case will go anywhere. Nor is he the best messenger.
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  166. God protect you, your family, and the Nation of Ukraine.
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  167. “Republican voters are confused.” *more confused
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  168. One form of defense-in-depth is to stage mobile defense reserves well behind the perimeter that can respond to attempts to break through. The pickets on the perimeter are not expected to hold out indefinitely, just long enough for the reaction force to arrive. You’re probably well aware of this, but it bears mentioning as ground work for the next part. Imagine that you (a generic Ukrainian general) discover that every other quick reaction battalion was sent to reinforce Kherson. Furthermore, you had a pretty good idea of where they are positioned and the routes they would take to reinforce whatever part of the front line was threatened. You could interdict those lines of communication and wreak havoc on the defense. You’d have more leeway to concentrate your forces, because a large portion of the Russian artillery had been shifted to defend Kherson. I don’t think this just fell into some commander’s lap. I think this was carefully planned as an option and was launched when the UA determined the least defended part of front that had strategic importance. So put me down for opportunistic but planned. A lot of prep went into determining Russian disposition of forces.
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  169. Anthropomorphic robots that can type faster than you threaten to take white collar jobs. 😮
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  170. Thank you, NSA and any other 5-eyes organizations that were involved.
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  171.  @kennyw871  I don’t know what’s worse, Russia’s James Bond Supervillain, or our own ex-president Scooby Doo Supervillain.
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  172. I think this is why the fire extinguisher(s) are so funny. Even if everything else lined up, why the frikkin frakkin firetruck would anyone strap fire extinguishers to their legs prior to flying the plane. The fire extinguishers demolish any doubt.
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  173.  @davidb7422  That’s not the main reason. Russia should have quick reaction reserves staged behind the front. When the frontline gets hit and the line troops are severely threatened, these mobile reserves spring into action. You also have your artillery to rain down concentrations of attacking troops. The breakdown here is that a good number of these units were sent to reinforce Kherson, including arty. Assuming Ukraine did its prep work, they knew where the remaining Russian units were and which roads the Russians would use to send reinforcements. There is a technical term for this in the military. It’s called catching the other guy with his pants down.
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  174. You don’t just apologize, you make amends for your wrong action.
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  175.  @HeRa06Ram  I think it’s an overestimation to even suggest that organized crime in Mexico has “squads”.
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  176. And if you see a backwards “N” it means it’s already been hit.
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  177. I somehow don’t think that’s how Ryan’s romantic partner initiates intimacy. It’s probably more like, “MACBETH!! Front and center!!”
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  178. The actually text of the ruling (pardon the legal jargon): LOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLLOLLOOOOOOL!! ROFLMAO UMAD? MYOB IKR OLOLOLOLOL!!!
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  179.  @kimberly1221  Just report these Russian trolls for Misinformation.
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  180. And he warned them in time, making him a You know A Time Warner
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  181.  @mikebrase5161  He failed to fix a extremely broken institution. It was broken for decades before he got there. Nothing about that was his fault. It’s like telling a mechanic to fix a broken down car, but he can’t use any tools and diagnostic equipment or replace any parts. He should have refused the appointment, but his dedication led him to accept the responsibility.
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  182.  @chip73731  She is a general that successful mobilized democracy’s most powerful weapon: the voter.
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  183.  @282XVL  Hitler considered deportation rather than genocide, but it was cost prohibitive. Setting up a Jewish colony on Madagascar was studied, considered, and eventually rejected. Separation of races was more important. Trump’s affection for Israel seems contingent on the Israeli government flattering him, and conservative American Jews giving him money.
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  184. It’s for passing other tanks on the tankbahn.
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  185. I think the daughter is done making excuses for her mom. Of course she still cares about her. But I got a whiff of Alanon from the couple. They’ve set boundaries and calling the cops was part of that.
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  186. Someone tell me if I’m correct: This was an emergency revocation of Jacob’s PPL, NOT a final disposition of the case. It’s possible that there will a stiffer civil penalties or additional penalties when the case is officially closed. As far as we know, there has not been a hearing before an administrative judge. The purpose of an emergency revocation is to immediately prevent Jacob from flying due to him being a danger to the public. Ultimately, I think Trevor Jacob will kill or severely injure himself through mishap or misadventure before he is granted the privilege of holding a PPL again. He is one of those dummies that overestimates his intelligence and abilities. He doesn’t think about consequences, even if he is able to make a plan and carry it out. He has poor impulse control. He has a rich mommy and daddy that bail him out of troubles and pay for his lawyers, so he’s really never suffered consequences for his actions or limits on his behavior. Maybe this FAA action will be a wake up call, but I doubt it.
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  187. Exactly this. I acknowledge there were peaceful protestors outside the barriers, but everyone crossing those barriers has committed a crime. Let’s also dispense with the myth that the police allowed them to be in the building.
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  188. You’re not understanding what the elements of supply and demand here. The demand wasn’t for living space. The demand was for places to invest your money. When you have more money (looking for investments) than places to invest this money, you get things like the Chinese real estate crisis or our various startup bubbles/crashes. (We’re not immune.) The main difference is that there were still relatively safe (low returning) investments here when the money began to flee the frothy startups. Apparently in the PRC, a huge amount of the economy was based on froth, because they’re less focused on value creation than on throughput/“social value”.
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  189.  @pansepot1490  I don’t say this disparagingly, but I’ll say it: Zelensky is a performer, and a performer is exactly what Ukraine has needed to rally against the despotic invader and to garner world support. His inner circle includes people he worked with in his previous career, and they know how to communicate ideas, combat disinformation, and present the right narrative at the right time. He has the charisma and communication skills of a Reagan or a Churchill (while also being very different from them).
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  190. The reporter says the later, too much competition on the market. However, they plan on using the mRNA technology for other treatments such as common Flu.
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  191.  @dahlemmuhammad9353  LOL, you’d have better luck arguing with a goat. With a candle or a rock. With the wind. Delusional people are not susceptible to logic.
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  192. The grain loading is made more difficult, but not impossible. I wonder how quickly the facilities could be repaired or new ones constructed. The purpose of insurance is to protect investments. In shipping, it’s a promise to ship owners that if their ship is lost or damaged, they will be compensated to replace or repair it. A wealthy nation or a cooperative group of nations could act as insurers. They could also charter cargo ships. It would be funny if China or India were pressured into insuring Black Sea shipping.
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  193. I’d be very cautious about this course of action until a lot more is known about omicron. And if it was something I intended to do, I would try to avoid a period when hospitals are at or above capacity. Just because it might be milder doesn’t mean your infection wouldn’t fall on the more severe side of the curve and not require hospitalization.
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  194. Hubris, or budget priorities? The generals need escorts more than the LSTs do.
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  195. Like most people, he’s not a hateful guy. He’s been driven to real righteous anger by the evil aggression of Russia. One can come to terms with that sort of anger, and eventually let it go. Not so much the fabricated anger and hate we see generated by “populist” politicians. To process that sort of anger, one must admit they were misled and that they were wrong.
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  196.  @Jim26D  The NSA was using ATT’s 5G network to control the mind of the bomber and they planted the suggestion that he should bomb the building to fight against his mind control. Everyone would think that the bomber was just a lunatic conspiracy theorist, giving ATT plausible deniability. See, I can make up laughably ridiculous shit, too.
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  197.  @defacto5122  OK. Go take your life savings and try to buy $500 in cash. Post a video of you with the cash in your hands.
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  198. The poor Finns ran out of munitions and never had a large army (or large population to mobilize). Even though they beat the Russians militarily, they couldn’t have survived another onslaught. So they made a peace deal with Stalin, giving up some land. I don’t think Ukraine is in any danger of running out of ammunition or equipment, nor is there a shortage of soldiers. Russia does not have limitless stores of equipment or soldiers to spare for the time being. Putin would need to declare war, and it would take time to mobilize reserves and equip them. But in terms of naked brutal aggression against a smaller country? Yeah, I can see why you’d make the comparison.
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  199. The geologists told them not to live on a cliff, but the homeowners thought it was a bluff.
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  200.  @firstlast8258  Also Thomas Jefferson: Not for black people, though. What are you crazy?
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  201. “Unfortunately for the Russians” is what I’m saying from now on when I hit my thumb with a hammer, stub my toe, or step in dog shit.
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  202. Trump can pardon people with his mind.
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  203. The RightStuff and no one seems to know or remember that Germany and Russia were partners in the invasion of Poland.
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  204. Pulling back to pre 2014 borders is actually a better way to preserve forces.
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  205.  @Lenny_Hondo Her family did the right thing by calling the police. I don’t know what you expected.
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  206. By GOP standards, this makes Donald an anchor baby. He’s now developed emotionally into a toddler.
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  207.  @gulfmarine8857  Which is why he must tear the hair off of his subordinates. He believes it is their fault he is bald, and he suspects that NATO has placed that hair on their heads to threaten his head.
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  208. Should have crossed over at Laredo and taken care of their medical business there. I’m not saying Nuevo Laredo is perfectly safe, but Matamoros is a kill zone.
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  209.  @KajtekBeary  Mongols burned down Moscow twice before forcing the local warlords to be their tax and tribute collectors. These guys later became the princes of Moscow Rus when the Mongols became distracted by other issues elsewhere. Moscow started as a vassal to an Asian empire, and it’s probably going to end that way.
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  210.  @badgerpa9 No. An attorney representing a client in a land dispute would send an investigator to examine the county land records. If necessary, they would hire a professional surveyor to go out—that’s what’s called an expert witness. Your example is silly. In this case, the law firm failed to confirm the veracity of a request (for a gay wedding website) and submitted it to the court as a supplemental document—as a type of supporting evidence—to bolster their case. And it turns out that the request was bogus and fraudulently submitted because the law firm failed to verify the request. This is taking them at their word and giving them the benefit of the doubt. The firm’s statement might contain falsehoods—I’d be much more convinced if the spokesman made the statement under oath inside a courtroom. But if we assume the facts that the law firm admits are correct, they brought this on themselves. It’s dishonorable weak to blame others for their mistake.
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  211. I don’t know if a reaction video is needed, but Perun’s videos are definitely worth watching.
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  212. Thanks for sharing your story! While I don’t believe anecdotes are a replacement for large datasets, I found your experience to be both encouraging and interesting. I’m also very glad to hear your doing much better with the gout. With regard to dosage, I’m taking 2,000 ui. I understand that requirements to avoid deficiencies will vary from person to person, although the dosage ceiling is pretty high before there are any adverse affects (one MD I follow is taking 10,000 ui, for example). I’d be interested to know more about your raising your dose from 2k to 5k, and how you felt it helped you. As it stands, after a week of 2000 iu, my urine got slightly darker and brighter, which I believe indicates that some of the vitamin D-3 is not being absorbed. Haha, it’s all good as long as there’s no blood and it doesn’t burn, right?
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  213. Please stop calling it a jack-in-the-box. It’s incredibly disrespectful of the design and engineering that goes into creating the Unmanned Aerial Turret (UAT). This pioneering design was developed by famous Russian weapon designer, Dr. Ivanna Popov.
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  214. Dude called the police asking for “federal protection”. He’s no longer minding his own business at that point.
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  215. There was increased activity in the Baltic around Kaliningrad prior to the invasion, including some aggressive maneuvers (approaching NATO ships closer than is “polite”. This was mentioned in the news, but by that time most of the world’s attention was on the Russian-Belarusian military exercises just outside of Ukraine. His timing was off because he didn’t take into account the 2022 Olympics in China. The Kremlin delayed out of deference to China. This lost them about a month of better terrain conditions before the March thaw that made the countryside too muddy for tanks. This is why you saw the Russians sticking to roads—it was like XXX Corps trying to race up the highway to Arnhem in WWII.
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  216.  @b.b.s7545  Because it makes perfect sense to Target a Walmart, and it makes absolutely no sense to Walmart a Target.
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  217. OK, this was pretty great. A few notes: I’m disappointed you didn’t mention the Mexican name for turkey, GUAJALOTE , which sounds a bit like the noise a turkey makes. Atole is still used to make thick sweet drinks, served hot, that often accompany tamales. At Christmas time, there is a frothier chocolate version called champurrado. Insects: grasshoppers (chapulín) is to this day a source of protein (and a snack food) out in the countryside. But all in all, great video! The best I have seen of its type!
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  218. “The food is terrible and the portions are small.” 😂
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  219. It’s the try-hard theatricality of the hit that is notable. With all the means available to assassinated Prigozhin and his lieutenants, this is what Putin went with. Such a flamboyant display of violent power tells me the nature of Putin’s greatest fears.
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  220. T-62 shell storage is still on the floor, making it catastrophically vulnerable to mines and top attacks. In other words, it still has the famous Popov Mechanism, designed by famed tank designer Ivanna Popov.
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  221. L.A. punk scene back in the mid and late 80s was almost 50% Mexican (in my experience).
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  222. Liz Cheney is in the House leadership. For now. They’ll probably remove her and replace her with Greene.
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  223. “Give us everything we want or you’re being divisive.”
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  224. The corruption pie has shrunk. Knocking off oligarchs is one way to maintain the size of your slice.
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  225.  @Theo_III No thanks. When I was first dipping my toe into aviation YouTube I watched maybe a half dozen of his videos. I got a general impression that something wasn’t right with him and he seemed to be involved with an inordinate amount of drama. If I want drama I’ll watch a movie or TV show. Someone who is entangled in a lot of controversy might be exercising poor judgement. They might be drama queens/instigators. They might be extremely unlucky and prone to stepping on rakes. I don’t know. I do know that it bores me rather quickly. I guess that’s the bottom line. If you’re a disinterested 3rd party, the trials and tribulations of Dan Gryder are boring.
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  226.  @archiedentone5950  That’s not entirely true. It IS true on a production like this, a Western with many actors portraying armed characters. Not so much on a production with a gun in a single scene—having a dedicated armorer is certainly an option, if the property master doesn’t have any experience or training with on-set firearms and practical effects. Many do have such training and experience. That said, many productions will hire an armorer for the day in such a situation, or only for those days they’re required. I’d agree with you in the case of this production or any production that had a half dozen or more actors using firearms through various scenes. In fact, on some productions, the armorer has their own assistant or multiple assistants to help keep track of all weapon props, whether or not they’re functioning firearms. Edit: Also, where did you hear that the property master quit with the others (from the camera department). I haven’t seen any mention of this. The only crew members that quit, according to every report that mentions it, were members of the camera department. I’ve only seen the property master mentioned once, in the L.A. Times chronology of events, and it said nothing about her quitting the show.
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  227. Sure, they can keep importing pork from the U.S. to their markets in China . . . as long as trade relations are happy between the U.S. and China, China isn’t engaged in expansionist behavior and saber rattling, and China isn’t supporting Russia. We are happy to give China a good porking, in whichever way China prefers to receive it. It’s really a shame that China has such terrible leadership. It’s a shame for the U.S. when we have terrible leadership, too, but we get to change it every four years when it’s bad. Poor China just has to keep suffering.
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  228.  @randar1969 It’s more of a problem with the leasing companies. Russia will have to reimburse the leasing companies in full for all planes that Russia stole. We’re talking in the range of $50-60 billion in compensation.
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  229. What’s that slogan they use? Where one goes we all follow? Right into prison.
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  230.  @johnbaker4246  wow, you were an awesome kid. Congratulations on being able to do at that age what most people can’t even do as adults. You’re very very special. Have a cookie and a parade. That said, you’re not being reasonable about this. You’re confusing “should” with either the way things really are or with criminal laws that govern gun possession. That said, Alec Baldwin has moral guilt he will carry with him for the rest of his life, and he knows it. Even if the fault for the accident lies with others, he knows he could have easily prevented it by checking the weapon himself.
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  231.  @jamessmith-yk3sc  lol, a larger carrying and towing capacity? How large a thing can it carry? How large a thing can it tow? I don’t think you understand the metrics and characteristics.
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  232. Ukrainian support companies are already pulling off a miracle keeping all the various equipment from different countries repaired and maintained. I find myself often criticizing video game players yammering on about throwing new platforms into the mix (A10, Abrams, Leopards I & II, etc,). Even incorporating new munitions must be a headache, such as the HARM AGM - 88 being retrofitted on MiG 29s. Although in that case, turns out that Raytheon had previously developed a package for the U.S. Top Gun school that used Soviet aircraft for combat training. (That secret program is worthy of its own movie, imho.)
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  233. That’s not accurate. The fair executive was offered just compensation: the original commission amount + whatever additional money would be needed to compensate for costs and inconvenience. That was made clear in the video. The executive’s real motivations were something different than greed.
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  234.  @DenysLukoshkin But how do you toast the crew of the Moskva? “Bottoms up!”
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  235. @John Hennessy He’s actually a conservative. That you consider him to be a liberal in the partisan sense shows how little you understand what liberalism means. Ronald Reagan, both George Bushes, John McCain, Bob Dole, the pre-2008 Republican Party, ALL supported liberal democracy in the U.S.A. and internationally. Re-watch the video and pay attention to Fukuyama’s definition of liberal democracy.
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  236. The humor is appreciated, but can you imagine how wild it must be to live in a society where any death can be treated with suspicion as a matter of course? Can you imagine telling someone that your great grandfather died in his sleep of natural causes, and that someone responding, “That’s what they want you to think.” That’s how messed up Russian society is. This Kremlin collaborator might have actually died from a legitimate accident, but the Russians can’t find out the truth because the truth and the facts are contingent. It is a society where there are no facts and there is no truth. It’s no wonder they are so effed up.
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  237. Yup. We’re exhausted by four years of Trump-in-your-face-every-fucking-day. We who have been practicing social distancing, mask wearing, and isolating when necessary have COVID fatigue, while the President and his supporters spread the virus and prolong the pandemic. We’re worse of than we were at the start, meaning it will be magnitudes more difficult to control the pandemic, and premature attempts to reopen the economy only deepen the damage and prolong the time to recovery.
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  238. Rudy has a drink when he gets up, but before he has that drink, he has a couple of drinks. And then he has second breakfast.
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  239.  @steviewonder417  Thank goodness we have you two sleuths to expose the secret public opening ceremonies. Which one of you is Sherlock and which one is Watson?
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  240.  @Ttkkn  If he appeals, he must post an appellant bond in the full amount of whatever part of the damages he is appealing. So if he appeals the punitive part that the jury awarded, he’s got to post approximately 60 million. Then if he loses the appeal, the money goes directly to the plaintiff. But the real people who will bear the burden are the Trump small donors, those fanatics that send him $20 on a regular basis like he’s a televangelist. He’s going to bleed them dry to pay this debt.
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  241.  中國擁有比登  Do you get your marching orders from Rodger Stone, Vladimir Putin, or the Grand Ayatollah?
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  242.  @Graahk-r8u I don’t even think you can call them maquiladoras anymore. There is a tightly integrated cross-border automotive manufacturing system and this has created cross-border expansion into other fields of industry, like plastics and petrochemicals. And it’s a major reason why fewer Mexicans are crossing to the U.S. in search of jobs, a fact that escapes most of the low information anti-immigrationists. Their inability to distinguish Mexicans from people of other nationalities is weird.
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  243. It seems clear that Canada, the UK, and the U.S. trained Ukrainian NCOs to train the rest of the Ukrainian armed forces. This has been a key element in both Ukrainian defense and in counter-attacks. When all is said and done, the Ukrainian military will return the favor. They’ll be able to teach our forces from the lessons they are learning on the ground.
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  244. There are other tactics, too. The Red Army would send a “punishment company” into an open area to draw fire and locate the German soldiers. Imagine marching into a field to draw artillery fire and being slaughtered so your commander knows where the German artillery is hidden.
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  245.  @A-X-25  His mind is still pretty good. That’s the important thing. His health is good given how old he is, plus he can afford the best healthcare if he needs it. My pop is a little bit older and he’s either in bed or in a wheel chair. He’s suffering from early dementia. He watches TV all day. He remembers who I am, but he doesn’t remember things we said ten minutes ago. So Warren Buffet is doing pretty good. I hope I’m in that good shape if I ever reach his age.
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  246. No, they fail the accurate naming test by including the phrase “customer service” in the department name. “Customer suffering” would be more accurate. The employees are paid to follow a script, and that’s what they will do to keep their jobs. In those instances where you find someone helpful who goes off-script, they are not destined to keep those jobs for very long.
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  247.  @Samanthax1221  <—TROLL
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  248. I once tried to see a homeopathic doctor, but he was too tiny. Another time I went to an acupuncturist. What a prick! . . . massage therapist rubbed me the wrong way. . . . . . chiropractor was on crack . . .
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  249.  @martinsmolik2449  Shitzkrieg
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  250. Uh, no. $15 million for the air frame, $29 million with all the bells and whistles. That’s still a hell of a lot of money, but it’s not $50 million.
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  251. A half hour is too short.
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  252. It’s more directed at Cuban Americans and Venezuelan Americans than (for example) at Mexicans. This is smart campaigning by the Lincoln Project. Latino Americans are not monolithic and don’t vote in a bloc any more than “Latin America” is a country. They share a common language and a colonial history, but not much more. The brain trust at TLP are well aware of this, which is why they’re targeting different ads at different Latino American nationalities. (This is something they’ve been doing for a while, and doing it better than the Democrats).
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  253.  @GolemRising  I’ll third the Perun suggestion. When I recommend his channel to people, I advise them not to be put off by the length of Perun’s videos. He has a unique approach in presenting topics that are generally to be found in specialized academia (military policy, economics, geopolitics).
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  254. They’ve already started up the Moldovan “festivities”, although at this point I think it will avail them nothing. It’s strong evidence that they were planning to roll right into Moldova, imho. Unless you think it’s purely transnistrians acting spontaneously, it’s obvious that Russia was preparing for this.
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  255. My great grandmother died from the Spanish Flu. Great grandfather took to drink, and my grandmother, at the age of 17, took charge of the family. I wonder if I’d even exist if history had unfolded differently.
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  256. All of those😅 guys, plus: Vlad Vexler for perspectives on Russian politics (and more general discussions of political philosophy and opinion), and for deep history I go to Timothy Snyder. Snyder is CURRENTLY teaching a class on Ukrainian History at Yale and releasing videos of the course. We’re up to the year 1699 after 11 lectures. I highly recommend Snyder for his historical perspective. He’s also given talks on the Nazi and Soviet genocides in Ukraine, the not-quite-fascism of contemporary autocracies, and other topics. Another good guy for Russian history during the Soviet Period is Steven Kotkin, author of a three volume biography of Stalin. He has an opinion or two about Putin. 😊
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  257. He treats Livermore and Ponzi with dignity, but Patrick is a lot less sympathetic to some of our contemporaries. I wouldn’t say he dehumanizes them, but he doesn’t pull any punches.
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  258.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  259. This ain’t to party. This ain’t no disco. It’s DSCA.
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  260. I pity the ignorant fools that fall for the Antivaxxer/QAnon bullshit, but my contempt is reserved for the spreaders of disinformation and conspiracy theories for political purposes, like this victim Appleby. He wasn’t just a victim of Covid, he wasn’t just a victim of his own ignorance, he was a victim of his own hate. I don’t feel schadenfreude, but I do feel something similar—that his death was avoidable and entirely of his own choosing. It’s sadly ironic that the family he left behind is now a burden on society.
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  261.  @cornellhoward3757  There is still not a shred of evidence to back your statement.
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  262. My mind is blown that so many damage control stations were out of service. I don’t know exactly what a damage control or firefighting station is. But I wonder how it’s possible to leave a maintenance period without putting them back into service. That just sounds crazy.
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  263. Peter’s explanation sounds plausible, but the truth is that we don’t know for sure what is discussed and decided at the highest policy levels. There is a complete lack of transparency in these non-democratic regimes.
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  264. It would work if they pivot into VR.
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  265. It occurred to me that Russian forces might be exhausted and weakest in the area around Bakhmut, and that could be a very strategic line of attack to cut the Russian occupation in half.
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  266.  @MrTheDif  Not as much money as you might think. This is considered an administrative error and can be handled by mail. Sometimes it can be handled with a phone call to the court, depending on the court.
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  267. Fox News Nazis: Ingram, Carlson, and Hannity. Literally pro Nazi in Ingram’s case, Tucker Carlson is overtly a white supremacist, and Hannity is a fascist grifter at heart.
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  268. It’s up to you and me and the rest of voting America whether Trump will receive Justice or not.
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  269. Oh, hell no! Well, can I get my Yacht up front?
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  270.  @jonnykidnap4082  I’m just wondering how the Russians remove the bodies of their dead soldiers in an IFV. A wire brush and scraper, then a quick pass with a shop vacuum?
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  271.  @wut3358  A private business’s mask policy isn’t unconstitutional. Furthermore, when the belligerent non-mask wearing customer refused to leave, he was trespassing. The store employee wasn’t out of legal bounds using appropriate physical force to remove him. I might not know you, but I know this about you: you know very little about the law.
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  272.  @BelloBudo007  Russian military had a limited amount of drones at the beginning. They can’t buy more drones due to sanctions. They can’t buy components to make more due to sanctions. (Side note: apparently the Russian military was paying $100,000 for recon drones that were assembled with < $5000 worth of consumer grade parts. They might have stockpiled 10x the amount of drones for the amount they paid.) When Russia loses a piece of equipment that uses silicon from Taiwan or South Korea, that equipment will not be replaced.
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  273. I find it hard to believe that ex-President Trump did any “homework” to the residence part of the White House. That stretches credulity.
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  274. This movie is like a mash up of The Omen and Goodfellas, with a few moments of Benny Hill. Picture the scene of Trump fighting for control of the steering wheel from the backseat, and put it to the music of Yakety Sax.
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  275. Pretty much, right? The 101st considered them serious foes. Just the fact that they were (and considered themselves) elite soldiers confers an advantage in morale, and troops with high morale operate at a more effective level. What I am curious about is what the paratroopers thought about never again performing airborne operations after Crete.
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  276. “But where are you really from?”
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  277. We’re way past “the emperor has no clothes” to “the emperor is shoving his choad into our collective mouth.”
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  278.  @nick-vv1lz  I live in Mexico, but I’m far from an expert on its various regions and its states. But I know enough to know he got the Bajio wrong, so I wonder what else he got wrong. I found his jumping around from region to region confusing, and his descriptions overly simple, as well. This was a disappointing video.
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  279. I’ll be not voting for him in 2024! !
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  280. The sacking part is not really true. He was already slated for retirement long before his testimony to Congress. I do think he was sidelined by Rumsfeld during the planning of the invasion and occupation because he wasn’t going along or getting along with Rumsfeld’s overly optimistic plans. And I really think this is why the Beret thing was amplified into as big a deal as it was and is to this day. Shinseki had to be smeared for contradicting Rumsfeld and his coterie of neocons.
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  281. In smaller and smaller toilets?
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  282.  @HesderOleh The careless vandalism reminded me of the cretins that broke into and vandalized the Capitol building. I just realized that shooting video of their crimes is another similarity.
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  283. With the Arctic thaw, Canada is also becoming a front line against worldwide Russian aggression.
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  284. The funny thing is that we don’t want to rush to judgement, but if you examine the video and follow the commentary I doubt you will find a single legit thing about the entire escapade. It’s like a ball of loose threads. Nothing about his story holds together. Even the least consequential thing—the ashes for example—has the aroma of bullsh¡t. As far as whether it will end well for him, I get the impression that he has wealthy parents that will pay his fines, hire a lawyer for him, and continue to bankroll his “adventurer lifestyle”. He will very likely lose his pilot license, but I am not going to hold my breath that he will ever go to prison for this incident.
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  285. I’m surprised all her wine hasn’t turned to vinegar because she is unable to put a cork in it.
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  286. She looks rough compared to four years ago, and she wasn’t too much back then, either. Did she spend the last six months trekking through Death Valley? She looks like Death Valley warmed over.
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  287.  @parasitelights3158 it’s obviously a joke, but giving it a straightforward delivery increases the comedic tension and acts as a filter for sophisticated senses of humor. If you require the certitude of clear categories, you are comedically impaired.
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  288. Or they will blame NATO.
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  289. Worse than that. Desantis would lure a dog that didn’t belong to him into his car and then dump the dog in a remote location. Then he would find the owner of the dog and needle him, “Find your dog yet?”
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  290.  @mememaster147  They don’t have a lot of infantry is part of the problem. They’ve managed to scrape together enough to press on in the Donbas, advancing in fits and starts. There’s indications from open source intelligence that instructors and trainers are being sent to Donbas. This will help Russia make some gains now, but it will make the problem worse later.
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  291. It could be a number of different psychological conditions, not necessary narcissistic. But judging from the mother’s statement, “He says things he doesn’t mean,” there’s that dynamic of a family suffering from an abuser.
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  292. That’s the “problem” with a global trade system. You can’t hoard all your wealth internally. You have to keep a certain amount outside for trade with other nations if you want to trade with them. This is a small, but crippling part of the sanctions. The other part is far worse—closing you off from the transaction system. This largely prevents you from trading at all on the global markets. You can’t pay or get paid. You can’t get short term loans to pay your trading partners. However, you can still trade with your two best friends (China and India), right? Won’t that make up for some of the economic damage? Yes, it will, but far less than you had hoped, because both these countries rely on the global financial system to move money. You’ll have to work out a way between each country, creating or using alternate exchanges. The problem is that these trade systems won’t be able to handle the volume of trading quickly enough. There will be a backlog of trades. The trades themselves, isolated from the global market, won’t be efficient, shaving value from the trades. You’ll always be one step (or more) behind the global market. Your trading partners will also be taking more from you to make up for the greater risk they are exposed to. The end result is that even with a couple of big trading partners, your trade with them is going to be a fraction of what it was. You won’t be able to stop contraction of your economy, and what little trading you can do will not slow that contraction sufficiently to help you weather the storm you have caused for yourself. Strategically, your “friends” also have you at a disadvantage. They will set exchange rates and interest rates in their favor. You cannot shop around for better rates. They will demand concessions and your bargaining position will be weak. You’re at their mercy.
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  293. How can you say he recovered? He’s still dragging around RFKJ. This is a permanent condition. If the worm has RFKJ removed, the worm could die.
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  294. From my ground level perspective (my unscientific observations), the young people are delaying having kids. The two young mothers in my circle of friends and acquaintances were 18 and 19 when they had their first hijos. A dozen years ago when I first moved down here, the ages when girls would get pregnant was closer to 15-16. I live in a working class neighborhood. I wonder if there isn’t also a technological aspect to this. Kids are more online today than ever before, thanks to cheap smartphones. Twelve years ago smartphones were for the rich and middle class kids. Nowadays every teenager has one. My sociological insight: the more time the spend online, the less time they spend fucking. 😂 Pretty deep, huh?
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  295. Reasonable costs (even paying someone to collate and copy documents) is built into most FOIA laws. Exorbitant or punitive costs could also open them up to a FOIA suit, which is why at the end of the day they only charged you $20 for the thumb drive—it probably took someone less than a half hour to find and copy a folder onto your drive. They were trying to frighten you off with the threat of exorbitant costs, obviously. You can easily shoot down threats by asking questions: how does the department enforce policy among officers and employees when the policy documents are so difficult to locate? How does it train officer in policy if the policy documents are unavailable? Are the documents spread among several custodians who jealously guard them from each other?
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  296.  @jordanlayfield what the hell are you talking about? Are you obsessed with race?
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  297. What makes this stock stink?
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  298. Please report James Hayden’s relentless spamming of Lincoln Project’s videos. It’s useless to argue with a spam bot.
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  299. Police in actual fear for their for their lives and not just reacting with adrenaline.
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  300.  @_PatrickO  I admire your ability to know the contents of the contract without having seen it. I admire your deep knowledge of contract law, especially contract law in different countries, without having studied it. It’s amazing to me how you somehow transform your uneducated opinion into legal expertise. Please tell us how that’s done.
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  301. Mutation happened. If you haven’t heard of the Delta variant, you’re not keeping up.
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  302. So was she.
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  303. It’s looking more and more likely the name will change to BICS.
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  304. It only takes 66 Senators to eject Cruz from the Senate. Pretty sure there are more than 16 Republican Senators that would be happy to see Cruz go.
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  305. Jesus Christ, all the vaccines have undergone equal scrutiny. Strange how the weak minded are always on about vague conspiracies.
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  306.  @YorkerEli  And why not? It seems bizarre that Russian AF wouldn’t take advantage of the element of surprise. It seems bizarre that Ukraine AF is still flying missions. It is rather strange that Russian AF can’t perform coordinated CAS sorties with fighter-bombers. It is astonishing that the Russian armed forces haven’t mastered Combined Arms doctrine, using air, infantry, tank, and artillery units to defeat Ukrainian forces. It’s crazy (and criminal) that Russia is instead using all of its force against civilians.
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  307. What happens if Trump is winning delegates, but is: convicted, disqualified, or has a coronary (or suffers some other malady)? What if Trump is unable to run? Will there be a brokered convention?
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  308. Can someone translate that into a language adults can understand?
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  309.  @johnf.1969  Cope harder.
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  310.  @GordonHitt  Context is important here, but threatening to kill is immoral or mentally ill or both, take your pick. The mother saying “He says things he doesn’t mean,” sounds like the abused spouse would say, or someone covering for an alcoholic.
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  311. That’s not how ethics and morals are supposed to work. You act ethically and morally because it’s the right thing to do. Whether your adversary acts ethically/morally or not does not justify your own failure to live up to your own code.
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  312.  @markfcoble  good luck as the control group.
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  313. They can flip Gaetz to go after the next level. I’d guess the next level is the level insulating Trump. Yes, that would include Stone.
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  314.  @edwardegyed4022  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  315. It’s worth pointing out that Appleby also infected his infant son “to own the libs”.
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  316.  @jimduffield7822  Russian artillery works really well against civilian targets, I think we can all agree on that.
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  317. Grudge or not, his office is incompetent. They mishandled evidence from the start, and the ongoing problems they had with delivering discovery to the defense was a big red flag. You can believe the worst if you want. I think incompetence and a lack of professionalism is the cause, rather than maliciousness. Even if they had an airtight case against Baldwin, Baldwin was going to get a successful outcome. If he wasn’t acquitted, he would win on appeal because of the Brady violations. I’ll say one thing more. I don’t think the source of the rounds was relevant to the case. But that is up to the defense to decide as they craft a legal strategy. It was the fact that the evidence was buried and not handed over, not the evidence itself, that got it dismissed. If the DA ran a tight ship and everyone on his staff and in the PD respected the rules of evidence and the rules of discovery, they might have won this case. They would have at least gotten a full trial out of it. In the immortal words of John Belushi, “But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
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  318. That pretty much destroys my “waylaid tooth fairy” hypothesis.
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  319. They’ll get charged with the murder of the dead robber because they were committing a felony at the time he was killed.
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  320. True, but was holding territory a viable option? The Green Berets had an interesting strategy with the Montagnards, creating village based defensive forces, but it wasn’t scalable—MACV tried and failed with the model hamlet program. The underlying problem for counter-insurgency operations is political, the relationship between the government and the people. The insurgency had popular support for the most part (and would ruthlessly eliminate those who didn’t support them). The SVG lacked this support mostly because it’s leadership was so corrupt, going back to Diem.
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  321. I think it’s an understatement. Trump is beyond not caring, he actively wants to harm us on his way out.
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  322.  @Elliandr  Sue? They should press charges.
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  323. I could never decide what was more troubling, MTG’s anti-Semitism or that she believed that space lasers were causing California wildfires.
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  324. Got it, thanks. Now can you give me advice for how to hire a defense lawyer after I land?
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  325.  @ryelor123 It’s not the first time I’ve seen an unhappy person trying to grift money off of other unhappy people by blaming something on “the libruls”. Far from it. You see, I was registered as a Republican for 25 years and they still keep sending me campaign fundraising emails. So, yeah, I’ve seen a lot of grifters playing the victim in the last seven years. Soldier boy here has all the makings for a career in politics.
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  326. Big thanks to Greg Reigal for explaining the legal nuts and bolts of the Jacob case. I wish they had delved deeper into the false statements issue. We don’t know for sure what Trevor Jacob said to the FAA, but I bet anyone a dozen donuts that he misrepresented the events surrounding the crash when he reported the crash.
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  327. And they still do. It’s no longer remarkable.
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  328.  @InTheFringeDeist  Nah. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make a short video about it. Who knows, it might go viral. (Also, that’s what PACs are for.) I’m being serious. You can do this, either on your own or with friends. It doesn’t need to be fancy.
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  329.  @davidmclean357  2014 was a wake up call for Poland, Sweden, Finland, and the Balkans. Poland and Sweden increased defense spending and began rearmament programs after the 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
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  330. What a ridiculous thing to say. There are millions of talented creative people in the world today without these types of behavioral problems. I’m not going to diagnose anyone in this comment, but statements such as yours are often an indication of jealousy. Sometimes they’re the sort of thing a controlling person might say.
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  331. Russians: Five minute break. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. Ukrainian BTR: Don’t mind if I do.
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  332. I can’t say I’m doing perfectly fine, but I seem to be handling the isolation much better than others as I’m more comfortable with extended solitude. However, pre-pandemic, I could and did participate in my community and socializing when I wanted. And I made it a point to get outside (and get out of my head) to be of service to my community (mostly teaching kids English in my working class neighborhood in Mexico). I’m still subject to falling into deep depression. But I have decades of experience with depression, I know the warning signs, I’ve set up safeguards. Most of all, I know that periods of depression pass. I know that even extended periods of depression have breaks, moments of relief and even joy. I’ve learned to take advantage of these moments. This last winter was tough, but winters are often that way for me, especially around the holidays. My usual strategy of being of service to others was limited this year and I had a loss of income leading to financial anxiety. I don’t want to paint myself as some sort of saint. I’m not. The point is, one of my basic tools to deal with my depression is to act in ways opposite my natural inclinations of selfishness and self-centeredness. I can counteract my cruel tendencies (to others AND myself) with acts of kindness. I can pull myself out of morbid introspection with physical activity. (While I believe introspection is generally good, I also know there’s such a thing as too much of a good thing.) The pandemic has made my usual depression-countering strategies more difficult, but I’ve tried to adapt and I’m still adapting.
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  333.  @shardlake  Thank you for this. I’m a smoker, and so far I have not been infected by Covid-19. As you probably know, tobacco contains nicotine, a mild neurotoxin. Organic farmers use a tobacco tea as a natural pesticide, so doesn’t it stand to reason that nicotine would work as an antiviral? I also find smoking to be calming, so it’s obviously boosting my immune system by relieving stress. Thank you for your water recommendation. I will incorporate water consumption into my anti-virus routine. Water (scientifically known as H2O) is well established as a life saving and life preserving substance. It’s been used for centuries as a folk cure for dehydration (despite big pharma’s attempt to suppress its use).
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  334. Thanks, old man. That was a good share. Sincerely, a younger old man
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  335. If the horse is potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, wouldn’t it be wiser to just put a lien on it? (which sounds like they eventually did, in effect).
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  336. That sounds like something his mother would say.
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  337. Interesting story. Like the goat case, I feel somewhat puzzled in addition to being horrified. I mean, what a weird flex, right? Do you need someone to feel your muscles and tell you how powerful you are? I believe in following the rules, but I also believe there are times when judgement and discretion can outweigh the rules. There’s a weird sort of pride going on in the people you’re talking about.
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  338. You were presumably toilet trained at some point in your life? If children can be trained to use a toilet, they can be trained to wear a mask.
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  339.  @user-iu4dq6wm1t  You’re ignoring the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt. The military occupation itself is not illegal, at least not yet, but Israel will have to answer for the documented charges of war crimes. Any Gaza civilian death is a tragedy, and 60,000 is 60,000 times as terrible. But it’s not genocide. Gaza has a population of over 7 million, and 60,000 is less than 1%. It’s super easy to blame Israel for issues of hunger while ignoring Egypts role or the role of a Hamas leadership that skims off of humanitarian aid to reward its political base. A solution to the humanitarian suffering of the Gazans won’t be found by placing all the blame on Israel.
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  340.  @wendwllhickey6426  That’s one of the issues. The company was notified it didn’t have the right to install the turbines, told to halt the work, and they went ahead anyway.
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  341.  @jaywalker3087  There’s no such thing as immortality, either, but people behave like they will live forever. That said, the fact that your car can be stolen by a skilled car thief is not a reason to leave your car doors unlocked.
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  342. No, it doesn’t, but any warlord that replaces Putin will have his work cut out for him consolidating power and crushing his rivals. If it’s Prigo, I think he’s made it clear that he would withdraw. He’s a brutal murderer and thug, but his words towards Ukraine have been conciliatory. He praised the Bakhmut defenders! Now he’s saying Russia’s justifications for war were based on lies. I’m not saying you can trust him. I’m saying that you could do a whole lot worse when picking the new warlord to be your neighbor. And in any case, no one right now is worse than Putin. They might become so in time, but if Putin died tomorrow, it would secure Ukraine’s future and regional peace for quite some time.
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  343.  @grahamatsea3575  <— <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  344. Good Churchill callback.
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  345.  @davidthomasheyes1965  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  346.  @williamholden3662  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  347. I’m a conservative (or I used to be, using the old definition of conservative). Bernie has character, and we’ve seen how important strength of character is over the past 5 years. While I’m not in favor of his overly progressive policies (not in general, anyway), I prefer it to the anti-democracy authoritarianism of GOP populism. I am surprised to say this, but I trust Bernie.
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  348. Dogs as calorie storage and transport vessels. Fatten them on fish before your journey.
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  349.  @jeremybrowand5941  I don’t think he’s blatantly lying. He’s revealing his own shortcomings and superficiality when it comes to getting outside his expertise. It’s not the first time he’s erred. Being blatantly uninformed and wrong isn’t the same as lying.
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  350. Yes, but it’s even worse. They REJECT critical thinking and all reason. They reject practical solutions (because Trump rejects them). Trump is the head of this monster, but they’re the body. Removing the head (in November) will stop the body, but let’s not fool ourselves that this monster can’t grow another head.
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  351. President Clinton’s worst crime was perjury, but he is a choirboy compared to Trrump.
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  352. Some of the welds look terrible with inadequate penetration. It looks not so much like welds but like they were stitching the plates together with small diameter filler. The weld on the M-10 looks sloppy but adequate. We can’t tell from a video of painted surfaces, but I imagine that the plates had been bonded into a single plate. I find it hard to believe that the Germans didn’t understand the welding process, so I wonder in the “joinery” was to compensate for a shortage of skilled workers on certain production lines. It would have been funny if the used dovetail joints. 😅 Supposedly stronger than finger joints.
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  353. I honestly don’t want to bring politics into it. But when politics are causing stupid responses to a public health emergency, it should be noted, if not addressed. (I’m not sure how we go about addressing great masses of people choosing “narrative” over reality.)
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  354. Think of each of us as a Petri dish. The more Petri dishes exposed to the virus, the more opportunities there are for genetic mutation. If fewer Petri dishes are exposed, there are fewer total viruses in existence, less replication, and therefore fewer mutations will arise. This is how social distancing, mask wearing, and lockdowns prevent mutations—there are fewer Petri dishes exposed to the virus. For those unwilling to be vaccinated because they “don’t want to be a guinea pig”, they are unfortunately already part of nature’s experiment. They’re volunteering to be a guinea pig in the control group.
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  355.  @t.m5465  <— illiterate Putzi troll
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  356. The ads don’t make themselves. If you agree that they’re effective, it’s because skill went into making them.
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  357. Just curious, how much did you pay for the mineral rights and how much for the property (surface) rights? If you don’t feel comfortable giving out that information, can you give us a percentage? Did you also acquire water rights?
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  358. Would you stop teeing up Pepperidge Farm jokes?!
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  359.  @The0spetsnaz0  A mythical past and/or an unattainable fantasy future, right? Often a return to a wonderful past that never existed, or a harmonious future paradise that ignores human nature. I liked Ronnie Reagan’s slogan “Make America Great”, because it was optimistic and forward looking. It was a call for improvement. We have come a long way, but we still have further to go. The slogan “Make America Great Again” is really kind of chilling and sickening to me.
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  360. Before I try to address your question, I want to distance myself from the sexist comments in this thread. Comments that use words like “misandrist” to describe people’s struggle to win their political, economic, and social equality. Second, I identify as a conservative of the old school, i.e., Burkean conservatism if you read political philosophers. I don’t see liberals and progressives as the enemy. Rather I see them as partners in a social dialogue as we muddle through life. I guess I’m confused about what sort of an uproar you want or expect. The related issues of abortion and birth control do directly affect men, but particularly with abortion the issue’s strongest impact is on the liberty of women and their right to make decisions regarding their own health and their own bodies. The real issue is not about men’s access to sex, but it’s about the rights and freedoms of approximately half of our population. How am I doing so far? You can see how I, as a conservative, think it’s wrong to limit the freedom of people based on their biological sex. As a conservative, I full support the right of a woman to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy or to let it run its course, resulting in bringing a child into the world (and all the challenge and responsibility that entails). The government should have zero role in making this decision. So here is where I get confused. I fully support the “right to choose”, and I will vote accordingly, even if that means voting for a Dem. There was once a time when the right was protected by Roe v Wade, and I could vote for an anti-abortion conservative despite their stance because I liked their other policies. I could be fairly confident that the conservative politician was merely trying to pass a social conservative litmus test. Politics, right? But I digress. So here is my dilema: how can I be a supportive and “correct” ally for women’s rights in the way you propose if I make the issue about me? I’ve tried your way, and I’ve gotten shut down for centering the issue on myself instead of centering the issue around women and letting women lead the charge. I’ve been told that the public discourse doesn’t need to hear anymore men’s voices, and that it’s finally women’s turn to speak for themselves. I’ve been told that it’s my turn to listen. And all of that is fair. It doesn’t mean I must be entirely silent, because I can still speak one-on-one with other men and try to be a voice for equality and personal freedom. Men do have a stake in the abortion debate, but it’s complicated. We do make a contribution to pregnancy, after all, even if it’s only some body fluid and genetic material. Permit me to use some personal anecdotes. I was in a serious relationship of two years when my girlfriend got pregnant. She told me she was pregnant, and then, without telling me, without any discussion, she had an abortion within the week. She was perfectly within her rights to do this, but it still hurt me because I wanted to make a family with her. She had led me believe she wanted the same. As it turns out, what was a serious relationship for me was not as serious for her. I think that the pregnancy caused her to reevaluate our relationship and decide I was not the man with whom she wanted to make a family. It hurt that she didn’t involve me in her decision making, that she just went and did it without telling me. Within six months she ended the relationship, so I suppose it was all for the best, but I was still devastated (I recognize my devastation was both the abortion and being dumped. It’s hard to separate the two events emotionally). The point is, we (men) are conflicted over the woman’s right to choose. A woman’s right to choose is absolute. And it sucks for the male partner to have no say, whether the man wants to have a child with the woman or wants to not have a child with her. Whether there is emotional involvement or not, whether the man is eager, willing, or uninterested in shouldering his share of responsibility for a child, the decision is out of our hands. And that makes us ambivalent on an emotional level. I’m not saying the ambivalence is right. I’m just saying it exists, whether it is logical or not. This ambivalence might explain why more men aren’t as vocal or as passionate about the abortion issue. We might full support a women’s right to choose despite our misgivings, but those misgivings still exist. I hope this clears up the confusion. I am a conservative because I believe in conservative values of personal freedom and the rights of the individual. I am sure many liberals also believe in these things, but the difference is a matter of emphasis. Civilization is always a balance between the individual’s rights and group rights. When the two are in conflict, I tend to favor the individual. Goddamn it, I wrote another essay in a YouTube comments thread! I’ve got to stop doing this. Probably no one will read it. But I felt the OP asked a serious question that needed a serious answer.
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  361. He’s like the Russell Brand of Ben Shapiros. I can’t tell from which direction on the political spectrum he sits, but that might be because the looney left and the looney right are near indistinguishable.
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  362. I believe the Colonel favors the Ukrainian cause, which is certainly bias. However, he is able to separate his bias from his professional appraisal of the battlefield. He is professional military and gives us an accurate as possible analysis according to the facts at his disposal, just as he would if asked by his country’s leaders. He avoids speculation on strategy and focus on the nuts and bolts of the operations at a tactical and operational level. On can be biased and fact based.
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  363. It sort of reminds me of the Doolittle Raid, the first U.S. bombing of Japan in the Spring of 1942. The raid was more symbolic and psychologically effective than militarily effective, demonstrating that the Japanese homeland was vulnerable. The drone raid on Sebastopol similarly demonstrated that Ukraine could reach out and touch Russia where Russia thought it was safe. Even before the attack, there were parts of the Black Sea that the Russian fleet was avoiding. The attack put a fine point on this fact.
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  364. Yes, and he said Alaska was brought in, in 1959. Maybe you didn’t hear it correctly.
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  365. Florida broke new ground with electing a trans governor, Rhonda Santos. You go, girl.
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  366. NAFTA has so transformed Mexican industry that Mexicans crossing the border aren’t much of a problem. It’s been Central Americans fleeing their failed states. Should we risk taking a look at why they’ve failed? Do we want to look at U.S. interventionist policies that turned the region into a war zone throughout the 70s and 80s? We broke the region. We had damn good reasons to do so, but we also created a problem and that problem is biting us on the ass.
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  367. It should be simple to completely reconstitute their commercial aviation jet engine manufacturing. 😐😐😐😐🫤😆😅😂 Sorry, I can’t maintain a straight face while saying that.
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  368. The only Democrat I can remember endorsing a Republican and speaking at the RNC was Joe Lieberman in 2008. Do you know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see George W endorse Kamala and Walz. Maybe George’s friend Michele can broker a meeting. I know most of you hate George Bush, but wouldn’t that be a sight to see?
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  369.  @Wargutz666  Also, if you were belligerent at a bar, they could legally ask you to leave and physically throw you out if you refused to leave. No difference here in that regard. The only problem this employee might have is if he violated store policy.
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  370. I want to point out that this raid included Ecuadorian police physically attacking Mexican diplomats. That’s an act of war. I’m glad Mexico’s response is measured and using diplomacy to make Ecuador answer for its crimes.
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  371.  @garyshymkiw5085  What’s even worse is that the Soviet leadership made the strategic decision to abandon the people of Ukraine to the predations of the Nazis. It was a “strategic necessity” because 1) Stalin refused to believe the Nazis would attack despite concrete evidence, 2) the Red Army was unprepared and the officer corp had been purged by Stalin in the 30s.
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  372. Asking you as one with experience in the matter, which sounds like a more serious request? “No peanut butter because I have an allergy” or “I don’t like peanut butter.” ——- “Even a little bit of peanut butter can cause me to die.” or “Peanut butter is gross.” ————— I don’t know what the 17-year old peanut victim told the workers, but they don’t seem like evil or stupid people. I’m going to assume he didn’t clearly express his needs. I bet he expresses them clearly next time.
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  373.  @ljubomirculibrk4097  Inspection of vessels isn’t a blockade. Ships enjoying free passage through territorial waters are still subject to inspections while the ships are passing through those territorial waters. As others have mentioned, a full and formal blockade is considered an act of war. Finland would be within its rights to inspect every single vessel passing through its territorial waters. It’s probably not practical to do so to every ship, but I’m confident that the Finns know which ships require extra attention. If this slows down shipping into and out of St. Petersburg, it might be almost the equivalent of a blockade, but it’s not a blockade.
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  374. I was kind of a McCain watcher, because he was entertaining in a refreshing sort of way. He said a few really stupid things (not unlike Biden’s infamous reputation for gaffes), but I came to realize it was because he often spoke from the heart (or from a twisted sense of humor inappropriate for a respected Senator, haha). The point is that John McCain was not a despicable liar. He was a straight shooter, and that sometimes got him in trouble with members of his own party. He wasn’t a bully who spread the most disgusting lies about his opponent. He didn’t game the system for personal profit. McCain didn’t whine, make excuses, blame others, evade responsibility, nor take undue credit. In short, McCain was everything Trump is not and will never be.
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  375. There are several other things that must be negotiated. The most important thing is the return of Ukrainians that Russia has kidnapped. The second is Russia handing over war criminals. It’s worth mentioning that once Russia is forcibly ejected from all of Ukraine, that Ukraine doesn’t have a lot of leverage to negotiate reparations, return of Ukrainian hostages, or turning over war criminals. The parties with leverage are those countries that have been waging the economic war against Russia. Russia wants sanctions and embargoes lifted. It will want to resume trade and normal economic relations. What is Putin willing to trade for such concessions? Will he allow extradition of field commanders and lower level generals? Many would think never, but they forget that Putin is a greedy villain. He wants his yacht back.
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  376. I knew two of the victims. They were the grandparents of a family my family was friends with. Maybe you remember the gas station at El Paso and Eaglerock Blvd? That was the family’s business. I believe they were the victims that were killed by machete. It was a terrible random tragedy.
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  377. It’s something we should always keep in mind whenever we think we need to use force or threat of violence to further agendas, policies, or interests. Years ago in my bad old days, I had to appear in court for being involved in a fight. It dawned on me during the proceedings that I was the bad guy in this case. I think the judge, the city attorney, and the victim actually saw the change in my face, and I got treated leniently at the end of the day. I really was remorseful because even if I didn’t swing first, I really did provoke the fight. Maybe the other guy shared responsibility, but that was on him to figure out. I can only take care of my own mistakes and shortcomings. Why am I telling you this? I guess because I can’t be a better person if I cling to the idea that I’m always right and justified. And I learned from this relatively minor incident to ask myself the question, “Am I in the wrong?” before it escalates. However, I don’t know if this type of thinking even applies to moral monsters like Putin. They don’t really think in terms of good or bad. To them, bad is anyone or anything in their way. Truth is what they say it is, and lies are anything that contradicts the story they tell themselves. And they think everyone thinks like them, or are dumb not to think like them.
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  378. Nah. It was fine. What did Trump do with the extra speaking time? He fellated his own foot, up past the ankle.
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  379.  @communitygardener17  Tim Miller at the Bullwark suggested watching the debate with the sound off because the body language will tell you all you need to know about the debate.
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  380.  @okanaktug364  Uh, no. China is not sending weapons. Don’t wait at home for the delivery man. Chechens can’t send many fighters, or the government will be overthrown. Syrian fighters? Ooookay. Belarus military has threatened to quit if ordered into Russia, from the top generals down to the humblest private. India wants to play both sides and get some concessions from Russia. Face it, Russia is isolated. It has no real friends, just opportunists hoping to gain advantage.
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  381. The lithography machines for using the newest processes cost billions. You might be thinking of tooling costs circa 1998.
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  382. It wasn’t a conviction, it was a finding in a civil trial.
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  383.  @M167A1  Did the employee claim he was a police officer? Or did he claim an authority he didn’t have (by detaining the trucks)?
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  384. Some wear Bunker Branding t-shirts.
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  385. 3. Trevor is such a lightweight that he needs something heavy attached to his ankles so he doesn’t just float away.
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  386.  @stepanova8  Also, if the new recordings are causing financial pain to Wall Street bros, objectively they sound better. That’s just science.
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  387.  @theflamingone8729  Directed by Werner Herzog.
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  388.  @Skagzi1la  It’s unique among bridges. His bridge is without pier.
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  389. He might not be a danger to his community, but he has demonstrated a propensity to travel great distances to engage in illegal behavior. He is a danger to other communities. He should be locked up until his trial, not monitored with an ankle bracelet.
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  390.  @TQFMTradingStrategies  Glad to encounter someone who understands the truth. Birds aren’t real.
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  391. Agreed. But Russia’s ability to set any terms is being reduced every single day. And the goals they have set are either unattainable or meaningless. I think it’s clear that the Ukrainian will to fight will outlast Russia’s will to fight. Once Russia is ejected from Ukrainian territory, it will have decide if it wants to continue. At that point it will have gained nothing and lost much. Will Russia want to stop bleeding? We can only hope so. I am assuming that Ukraine won’t try to march on Moscow once the Russians are pushed out of their company. Once hostilities have ceased, it won’t just be Ukraine and Russia in the negotiations. Russia will want sanctions lifted, it will want to resume trade, etc. This means that EU and NATO countries will participate in negotiating an agreement. They control something Russia wants (normal economic relations). They also control something that Ukraine wants, namely continued support. Now, if Russia would just leave, we could get to the negotiations sooner.
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  392. La brea is Spanish for “the tar”. The name of the site, fully translated to English, is the The Tar Tar Pits.
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  393.  @Angela-lp3lz  My speculation—she was bulldozed into not following protocol by the A.D. and her direct supervisor, the property master due to her inability to assert herself. Part of protocol as I understand it is that the armorer checks the weapon in front of the actor, showing the actor that the gun is loaded, loaded with blanks, or loaded with dummy bullets. I’ve never seen the A.D. perform this function. So I can imagine the A.D. usurping the armorer because he was hurrying the production, taking the weapon from the armorer’s cart, doing his faulty check, and handing it to the actor before the armorer was aware of what was going on. Ideally (and professionally), the armorer would call a halt loudly so she could personally check the weapon in front of the actor before personally handing it to the actor. Being assertive about your responsibilities is part of the job, especially when those responsibilities include on set safety.
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  394. I believe our friend Rick had a hand in that. 🤣
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  395.  @alaric_  including training armor that he lost . . . when? Before deployment? Was it something he was reissued after his return from Afghanistan? This is a con.
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  396.  @gerardodwyer5908  The butthurt plaintiffs are the ones that are generating fees for the lawyers. And it’s quite possible that they’ll end up paying the defendant’s attorneys as well, because the suit is that frivolous. The defendant gets more fame and possibly damages as well. I have to wonder if it’s the police union paying for the plaintiff’s attorneys, because this sounds like the dumb sort of thing a police union would do out of blind zealotry. I’m not anti-police, I’m anti-stupidity.
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  397. You’re right. So far they’ve lied to investigators about their 1/6 activities in addition to breaking the law.
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  398. The rural villages were given kulak quotas. So in a village of 200 families, the authorities required the village to denounce and give up 20 kulaks. Maybe only 18 could be counted as slightly more prosperous (owning 2 cows instead of one), so it became a matter of personal survival to denounce two more people regardless of their economic status. This sounds crazy and arbitrary unless one considers the true purpose: to impose a state of terror on the Russian people. Collectivism was only the cover purpose, at best a secondary goal, to Stalin and the Party maintaining authoritarian control. (I maintain that, despite their Marxist ideology, the USSR was essentially run by a gang of criminals, before and after Stalin.)
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  399. Do they have another mechanism for releasing a cable?
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  400. But if you were Putin, would you even risk traveling to any signatory country? This really bottles him up. He can’t attend any BRICS summits.
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  401. The problem with being a crooked real estate developer is that you can’t stuff your real estate assets into a suitcase and flee the country. The TrumpOrg owns real property in NY, and that property can be sold to pay his fine.
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  402. It’s like Soviet communism but without the socialism.
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  403. Just one clown there and she’s on her way to losing her seat on the committee if Donny Sugar isn’t elected.
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  404. I think Helvetica has been deprecated in favor of San Francisco and San Francisco Pro. Say what you will, but at least it’s not grotesque. 😉
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  405.  @WhatIsSanity  That’s not the point. The point is that supernovae can’t tell me what to do.
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  406.  @7Little701  Colonel MacGregor hasn’t been in his right mind since the incident with Peter Rabbit.
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  407.  @HesderOleh A soldier is under military discipline, no? I don’t think the vandal has the right to refuse to answer questions. He’s going to have to name the others with him or get piled in even deeper layers of shit for refusing to cooperate.
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  408.  @RussianSevereWeatherVideos  Setting aside the computing power problem of using 25+ year old CPU technology on newer hardware, and setting aside the issues of retrofitting existing equipment designs to accept these 120nm CPUs, what makes you think that Russia has the fabrication capacity to build all these required obsolete semiconductors? Does Russia have a thriving industry that pumps out vast quantities of technology that no one wants to buy? Russia might have the theoretical capability to fall back on obsolete technology, but if it doesn’t have the infrastructure in place to fab the chips, I doubt that it will have the capacity to replace the more advanced imports it has lost. It takes years to develop the needed infrastructure. Bigger picture, Putin has crippled the Russian military and Russia’s defensive capabilities on a strategic level that goes far beyond the war in Ukraine. Honestly, I don’t think Russia could be worse off if they elected Donald Trump to lead it instead of Putin. Everything Putin is doing to supposedly strengthen Russia is actually weakening it.
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  409. Build it yourself. Take some personal responsibility for a change.
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  410. In a trial, if there is conflicting testimony, the jury sorts it out during deliberations, not during the trial, and certainly not during the presentation of the case. Can you imagine a witness jumping up during opening statements, shouting, “Judge, judge! I want those statements concerning me stricken from the record!” If Senator Lee’s memory of events is different today than they were at the time of his interview, then the defense should call him to the stand.
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  411. Or not.
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  412. If you’re going to rebuild, maybe rebuild underground. Make the whole house your storm shelter. Plant a garden on the roof.
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  413. Government corruption reaching into the military, incompetence of planners and leaders of men, and treating your soldiers like mushrooms (keep ‘em in the dark and feed ‘em sh¡t).
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  414. As a devotee of homeopathy, let me assure you that Perdue was indeed present at the debate in an amount undetectable by the latest scientific instruments.
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  415. Isn’t Cryto the leader of the rebellion in Total Recall? It’s not his fault if he’s using a lot of computer power and electricity. That’s just life on Mars.
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  416. It’s not easy, but our predecessors and ancestors made it through worse struggles. The miserable fatigue we feel is real, but I don’t think the ultimate cause is the pandemic. The pandemic is a trigger that has brought out latent but fundamental problems. We each need to look within ourselves to understand the nature of those problems, which is not the most pleasant work. The terrible restlessness we feel must be contained a little longer. It’s especially hard to do so when we see others unable to do so, and it’s hard to watch them squander the sacrifice we’ve all been making. I’m still working through that and the bitterness it makes me feel.
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  417. I grew up with Polish jokes. They were much more common than jokes about other ethnicities when I was very young (I’m talking about those jokes that can be repurposed for any ethnicity). How many Poles does it take to screw in a lightbulb? How do you confuse a Pole? (Put him in a round room and tell him there’s a nickel in the corner.) You know, the really corny kids’ jokes. The odd thing was, I didn’t know any Polacks. Or I didn’t know any kids that were Polish in my multi-ethnic middle class neighborhood, as far as I knew. My little brother’s best friend had the last name Kalin. Mike was half Mexican, but I never made the connection that his dad was Polish. He was just American. Mike was just American. His dad went on to become a Federal Judge (which doesn’t exactly fit the stereotype of the dumb Pollack). Fast forward a few years. My own dad’s career had advanced, we were upper middle class and we had moved to a slightly more prosperous neighborhood. Still tract houses, but bigger ones with bigger yards. My family knew another family socially a few years later, the Sobieskis. The dad was also in the legal field. They were quite educated and cultured, more than anyone in my family was. (It turned out they were related to minor Polish aristocracy, but I didn’t learn if this until much later.) But the point is that, like the Kalins, the Sobieskis were Americans. They were the children and grandchildren of immigrants, as I was. Forty or fifty years ago, when I was a kid, no one needed to point out how hard working an ethnic group was, or whether they were family oriented. It was just assumed that was so. Everyone wanted to get ahead, and everyone wanted to prepare their children to get ahead. It was understood that mostly we would get ahead with slow progress. Oh, one detail I missed. People did sometimes identify as “hyphenates”. Japanese-American, Irish-American, Afroamerican, Mexican-American, Polish-American. I don’t think anyone on my street got angry about people remembering where they came from, although you might hear from elsewhere, “Why can’t you just be Americans?” I guess this line of thought came from people who came from nowhere and wanted everyone to be like them.
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  418.  @tomjohnson4681  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  419. Sixty miles! That’s unassailable proof that the act was intentional. There’s no way that the ship’s crew didn’t notice that they were dragging the anchor for hours. The next step is proving that Russia was behind it.
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  420.  @Мойевропейскийжидобандеровский  Yes. Even those that didn’t vote for him. And get this: even those Germans who were too young or who were born after must bear the stain of Hitler. The Germans have done a pretty good job on the whole of facing their past and attempting to make amends. I wish that we in America could do a better job of confronting the sins of our past, but we seem to have a large contingent that wants to return to them.
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  421. A WHOLE PIECE OF BACON. What you want to give the dog a medal? The dog doesn’t give a rat’s ass about a medal. Give him a piece of delicious crunchy bacon, Eugene. And me too, if you’re going to be in the kitchen, cooking bacon.
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  422. I agree, but you might be better to discuss this in terms of probabilities and think in terms of individual nations in Europe. And we should also understand the conflict as a two-front war, one front being the economic battle being waged with sanctions. The two are enmeshed, of course. So if some nations falter because of the winter and low energy supplies, how will this effect the shooting war in Ukraine? If Germany weakens in her resolve (the economic damage goes much farther than hearing costs for Germany) and begins to bow to Russian pressure, what then? I happen to think that such an effect will not be decisive, but it will make Ukraine’s situation more difficult. I also think that if we are realistic about such possibilities, actions can be taken to shore up nations struggling with the economic side of the war. But nothing is certain, not ever, not in war and not in peace.
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  423.  @Tatar_Piano Will 2024 finally be the year of Linux taking over the Desktop?
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  424.  @Allangulon  Did you watch the video? The rights holders contacted the company. The company refused to enter into an agreement with the rights holders.
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  425. 7:26 The “Yellow Peril” hysteria began post Civil War, and the Asian Exclusion Act banned immigration from China in 1885. The Chinese immigrants that stayed weren’t exactly tolerated, either. There is a history of massacres, pogroms, riots, and wholesale municipal ejections in the Western U.S., with the state and Federal government looking the other way. In only case I’m aware of where the white murderers were prosecuted for slaughtering a camp of Chinese workers and their families, the murderers were acquitted by the all white jury, despite overwhelming evidence of guilt. It was progressives and socialist leaders in the Pacific Northwest that were the greatest anti-Asian immigrant demagogues. And it was a hard liberal Democrat that locked up American citizens in concentration camps during WWII because they were of Japanese ethnicity. Racial immigration policies are not new to the U.S., nor are laws that support race based discrimination.
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  426.  @rogerstarkey5390  I’m taking this in as a meta-peer review. One thing I’ve got to say: it’s been very hard not to be skeptical and dismissive given the level of those cranks in these comments that have been banging the ivermectin drum. At the same time, I’m ready to listen to credible sources. I also did not hear Lowrie or Campbell suggest that ivermectin is a complete replacement for vaccination. I imagine that the usual gang of idiots will miss that point.
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  427.  @nickcharles6530  Looking over your other comments, I must urge you to see your doctor and ask him or her for a psychiatric referral.
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  428. Commanders’ feelings, apparently. Commanders who have the responsibility for training the sailors, insuring that equipment is operational, and conducting drills to ensure that everyone knows what they are supposed to do. Don’t blame this on a soft generation of sailors or “woke training”. This mishap is due to a command structure that has lost self-accountability. Trying to lay the blame anywhere else exacerbates the problem.
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  429. If the skilled technicians were employed at a studio, they were union workers. You can be damn sure those numbers make it into employment reports. What about the freelance non-union workers? Those are treated as independent contractors (which they are in the tax code) when employment statistics are tallied. For other purposes, such as working conditions and workers rights, they might be treated as employees by the law. But the thing is, how many workers are we talking about in a state with 40 million people? I don’t think the number is statistically significant. The reason that runaway production is a problem is that the business is highly profitable, and California loses tax revenue when those profits move to another state. It loses tax revenue when the support companies (vendors, equipment rental companies, other suppliers) follow the out of state production.
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  430. This isn’t even hyperbole. It’s the sad truth.
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  431. I guess you didn’t get taught about brushing and flossing your teeth. Try it, it makes mask wearing much more pleasant.
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  432. The bomb threats aren’t coming from the community. They’re coming from people inspired by Trump and Vance.
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  433.  @SusCalvin It makes you watch the video. 😜
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  434. Not so fast! You’re forgetting Trump’s plan C: An online insurrection led by YouTube Trolls who will type ominous but feckless threats.
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  435. It was the Last Tiger because it spent most of the war in the maintenance shed.
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  436. 1) survived the plane crash 2) survived the train crash 3) survived an encounter with the LAPD
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  437. I imagine if Trump had his war, he’d issue an executive order making it illegal to talk about COVID-19. That’s how dictators make things (and people) go away.
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  438. “On today’s video, we will be checking just how quickly Mr. Moran can exit the crew compartment of a T-34 when properly motivated.”
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  439.  @davidclaudy4822 Yes and no. Both Palestine and Israel have the right to exist, the right to self determination. Until both sides recognize the other’s basic rights, there is no basis for peace. And until the Israeli hostages are released, there is no basis for a ceasefire.
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  440. Peter is weaker when he gets out of his lane. He’s a straight shooter, though. Any mistakes he makes are sincere.
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  441. It’s beyond a defense—it’s how the cholla spreads itself, hitching a ride on unlucky victims.
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  442. It was a failure of doctrine, as you say. And political decisions. The doctrine flowed from the strategy, which flowed from the political decisions, which flowed from the political goals, which were based on faulty assumptions and, really, a lack of historical knowledge of the Vietnamese people. Our first error was early in the Cold War, when we supported the French effort to re-impose colonial rule. (Yes, I’m aware of the major SNAFU at the end of WW2.) This was done under the guise of anti-communism, but it was just a cover for re-colonizing a fiercely independent people. There was a sincere policy of opposing communism that the French used for its own national interest. The thinking behind anti-communist policies solidified around “the Domino Theory”, meaning that if Vietnam fell to communism, so would its neighbors, etc., until all of Asia was dominated by the Soviet Union and China. This was a faulty assumption, as was the idea that Vietnam’s nationalist movement was wholly communist in nature and obedient to Moscow and Beijing. U.S. policy makers and politicians were ignorant of Vietnam’s thousand year history of fighting the Chinese and other invaders. They were unaware that Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist first and a communist second. They did not know that the original armed nationalists, the Viet Minh, was a coalition of political groups fighting for independence. (VM later became the NVA in the north and the VC in the south). All of this ignorance led to U.S. politicians seeking a simple military solution to a complicated geo political problem that they didn’t fully understand. And that is the basic error. The war was unwinnable because the faulty goals were based on faulty assumptions. That is the cause of U.S. failure in SVN, not a socialist 5th column in the U.S.
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  443. Or local LE is letting the Feds do their job. The FBI is on this group like flies on shit. Their shitty little “security measures” will convince a judge to allow wire-taps, if they aren’t already in place.
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  444. The Greatest Generation fought World War II to end hyperbole FOREVER.
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  445. Tuberville is an embarrassment, but the House backing him up downright disgusting and dangerous.
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  446.  Jan 6 was "Wall Street Putsch" part 2  Get real. There are much more effective means of doing that if Russia wanted.
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  447. “I have concepts. I have a concept of a plan,” was pretty funny.
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  448. Conversely, the prosecution can get in big trouble if it is later found to have withheld exculpatory evidence—even if it was inadvertent. So it’s best to give the defense everything from the investigation, whether it seems relevant or not.
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  449. This is also why these territories have been contested often. Hitler’s whole program was based on conquering these fertile areas of the Soviet Union. It’s all about the calories.
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  450. I lived out in the Mexican countryside for a year and in a Mexican town for the past dozen years. Dogs are definitely used as security systems in both places. In town people have roof dogs to discourage thieves from entering a house from the rooftop patio. In the countryside, they tie the dogs up around a perimeter (and also use cactus as barriers). One thing I’ve noticed is dogs in Mexico learn early about the thrown stone. Simply bending down and pretending to pick up a stone can be sufficient to ward off an aggressive dog.
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  451. Worse than an embarrassment. He’s evil. This crosses the line.
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  452. Cigars, Mandrake. They’re fluoridating children’s cigars.
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  453. You think that’s funny? When the meteorologists were asked what ocean conditions we could expect, they said, “It’s gonna be swell.”
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  454. Really good episode, Ryan.
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  455. To be fair, they’re only scorching earth that the GOP has been salting for years. (Metaphorical) Fire might be the only way to rid the country of the GOP pestilence.
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  456. @Stephanie Walsh We’re not giving Trump the GOP. It’s already his. The party, from the leadership down to the grassroots, loves Trump. If you don’t love Trump, you’re not really in the party. You now have the honor of being a RINO. Welcome to the human race, we’ve been waiting for you! It might be hard to digest all this, especially for those of us that have been lifelong Republicans. But we will keep one fact in our hearts and minds, we are Americans first. And we will fight for THAT. The GOP is not worth saving nor worth fighting over.
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  457.  @forzatuner3916  And the day-to-day bookkeeper and the check signer shouldn’t be the same person.
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  458.  @daverok1113  I wish you lying trolls would get lost. When something has been explained to you a dozen times, you no longer have an excuse, you’re a lying troll trying to harm others by spreading disinformation.
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  459. Go back to the Kingdom of Galicia (capital at Kyiv)—the existence of Ukraine as a state (with a different name) preceded the existence of the Russian Empire. In fact, Moscow was a subsidiary of the Kingdom of Galicia. By Putin’s own logic, he should surrender to Zelensky and turn Russia over to Ukraine.
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  460. Yes, the video creator is wrong about all the prep needed for hydroseeding. I’ve seen it done on burn areas and in areas where the soil has been disturbed by development. I’ve seen it applied to road cuts, sometimes with a mesh applied where the cut is very steep, sometimes not. So the guy really doesn’t know what he’s talking about in that regard. He might be right about local Chinese governments committing fraud against the Chinese national government, though. That sounds about right.
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  461. It was a “feint” that saw Russian generals killed and others arrested. The overall commander of this “feint”, Roman Gavrilov, who was #2 in charge of Russia’s National Guard, and formerly the head of Putin’s personal guard, was arrested shortly after Putin’s speech about “purifying Russia of its traitors”. I haven’t seen this channel before. The video just came up in my recommendation feed. I’m just going to assume that the channel is unreliable and non-credible, whether or not it is Russian sponsored.
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  462. I don’t think NATO has ignored Russia, per se. I think some of NATO’s member states didn’t take the Russian threat seriously. Germany in particular was sleepwalking. Even now, France seems to be 80 or 90% committed. On the other hand, Spain seems to be giving all it can, and it’s the furthest from Russia as all the other European nations. I could be wrong about France’s position. I realize that the French government has its own right wing domestic problems with pro-Putin fascists and old leftist tankies that never left off their Stalin worship. There might even be utility in France keeping diplomatic channels open with the Kremlin (just so long as Macron keeps the material support flowing). France has always been the black sheep of NATO and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. While French stubbornness has been annoying to the U.S., their fierce independence has countered the propaganda the NATO is a tool of the U.S. We in the U.S. should acknowledge this, even if grudgingly. As far as the U.S.-French relationship, France is like that friend who will tell you the unpleasant truths you don’t want to hear. If we had listened to their advice and their concerns, we might have avoided the long term quagmire of Iraq.
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  463. Dr Mike should know better, but is subject to the same human foibles as are we all. This is a good reminder that despite his expertise in the field of Medicine, that expertise doesn’t confer wisdom or maturity. (The half-assed apology video underlines this point.) A half hour ago I learned COVID has hit my neighborhood. The family that operates the little bodega around the corner has been infected. The father has already died and one of the daughters is in the hospital. It’s really terrible news. And right now, I’m going over in my mind my exposure risk. It’s been over a week (closer to two weeks) since I visited to store, but I’m thinking about the times I’ve been lax in following the pandemic protocols. The slip ups, the momentary lapses. Because this is the neighborhood store, everyone in the neighborhood has potentially been exposed either directly, or second hand. It’s frikkin’ scary. I’ve primarily had contact with one person over the course of the pandemic, but we’ve rarely worn masks inside my home. I know that she wears a mask and maintains social distancing on the outside, but if I’ve slipped up, she probably has also.
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  464.  @M_mcin  Try wearing it over your mouth and nose, and not like a half bra over you manboob.
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  465.  @daviddebroux4708  He was a talented Austrian painter, and I mean really talented. He could knock out a two bedroom apartment in a single day. Two coats.
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  466.  @mariaf.6601  He’s going to say that the USSR retreated from the Nazis and won the war, completely ignoring that in the current war, the Russians are playing the role the Nazis and Ukraine, in defending its own soil, plays the role of the Soviets. In short, he’s delusional and ignorant. He really believes that Zelensky is a Nazi. He used to claim it anyway. When someone is that ridiculous, it’s hard to tell what they actually believe.
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  467.  @dh5380  Judge Dearie doesn’t need a full time court reporter, because he isn’t presiding over court cases every single day. You seem to think that court reporters are employees of judges or part of a judge’s entourage? That would be incorrect. The court reporters you see in courtrooms are employees of courthouses and get assigned to those courtrooms. Other court reporters are freelance and can be called in to record depositions, hearings, etc. I get that the legal system is complicated. Even people with great experience in the field don’t know everything and learn new things. But given your huge ignorance, you might want to refrain from making comments like you did. It doesn’t reflect well on you.
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  468. Imagine paying to attend a timeshare presentation.
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  469.  @OceanFrontVilla3  PLEASE SHUT UP.
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  470.  @extantsanity  Is that why there are zero tunnels anywhere in California? Because of the faults?
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  471. Did you see the Republican Convention? Was there a single person there not on cocaine?
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  472. That’s what I’m asking, WHO needs reform? “I don’t know” THIRD BASE
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  473.  @jic1  They definitely wouldn’t. Mexico is quite fond of the Irish people. The San Patricio Battalion fought with distinction for Mexico during the Mexican-American war. Indeed, many of the U.S. soldiers who were Irish slipped away from their units to join up with the Mexican forces. Mexico is indebted to Ireland and its people. I rarely see true red headed Mexicans, but when I do, I wonder if they have an Irish ancestor. ¡Viva Irlanda! ¡Vivan los irlandés!
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  474. Probably none. This is all Graham’s personal failings, a man who enthusiastically sought out his own corruption and degradation like he was starving for it. He turned his back on everything he supposedly stood for.
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  475. These are intriguing alternative possibilities that Anders has outlined. I don’t think he devoted enough time to the possibility of Ukraine creating its own “homegrown” air defense missiles. Ukraine certainly has its own weapons engineering capacity. Ukraine has capable weapon designers and engineers. There could also be technology transfer. Lastly, such weapons needn’t be produced in Ukraine. Ukraine could set up companies with manufacturing facilities in Europe or the U.S. (or anywhere in the world, really). Ukraine could lease such facilities from established manufacturers or buy surplus capacity. Nothing prevents this in friendly countries that support Ukraine. I’ll go so far as to speculate it’s already going on for some of the material used in Ukraine.
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  476.  @fungames24  If you can’t see the categorical mistake you just made . . . It’s very telling that you don’t know the difference between aggression and self-defense.
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  477.  @gonefishn5138 Inflation is going back down and Trump blocked the border bill. If there is such a big crisis on the border, why did Trump order the MAGAs to block the bill? The answer is that it’s not a crisis, it’s a campaign issue.
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  478. That’s not true. The parents didn’t do this intentionally. They were just avid World of Warcraft players, and as often happens when someone is obsessed with a video game, they forgot they had a daughter. Another way to look at this: the daughter was a vegetable, and they forgot to water her.
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  479. They’re a take cover band.
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  480.  @Ksins1  OK, Ivan. Maybe you Russians should withdraw from Ukraine, and let us worry about whether we withdraw our money.
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  481.  @afridgetoofar1818  you didn’t watch the video, did you.
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  482. You know, even if it’s very close it sends a message. When Biden wins, the people of Texas can ask the DOJ (Federal) to investigate voter suppression in Texas. That should tie up the Texas GOP for a while.
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  483.  @Changingtesting  It’s a in-the-moment judgement call. The officer had his shot right after exiting the vehicle and instinctively took it. You and I might react more defensively, but incapacitating the shooter before he shoots you is a valid approach. So in addition to being bold, the officer was extremely confident in his own shooting skills.
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  484. Their sacred geometry is messing up my feng shui. I don’t get why he’s discussing socles without mentioning shoesles.
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  485.  @obamabinladen4468  I reported it.
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  486.  @redlyfe6952  lol, look! A Stalin lover!
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  487. Sometimes I type so fast I have to change out the space bar.
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  488. lol, you might as well have said, “I just want to waste your time for a half hour because I’m going to buy whatever I want at Sweetwater or Amazon”. You boomers crack me up. You were never going to give that salesperson any business but you expect to be catered to while you treat the store like a showroom for online businesses.
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  489. Successful interception of NATO moon.
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  490.  @markfcoble  <— Troll
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  491. If they would just lay there motionless and stop squeaking, they’d be fine. It’s the squeaks that keep the dog riled up.
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  492. I saw an estimated price for KA-52 of $29 million - $32 million. This would be without weaponry.
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  493. The invasion has been a set back for China. Before the invasion, China had much more diplomatic maneuvering room among EU and NATO members, but now it faces a untied front thanks to Russia. Offering Russia aid will derail or slow down China’s other projects. I believe Putin withheld information from Xi with regard to the extent of the invasion, and this also has the Chinese angry and mistrustful.
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  494. When I told my colleagues that I was destined to be a great standup comedian, they all laughed at me. I worked to prove them wrong for decades. And now, finally, nobody is laughing. ~~Graham Hancock (in the universe where he made a different career choice).
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  495.  @jabbermocky4520 I take it you are Stalin-adjacent? Or maybe you have a predilection towards hyperbole? Liz Cheney committed political suicide to protect our Democracy, but “you don’t trust her”. She sacrificed her job and the years of hard work she had built serving her constituents. What have you done, other than offer your opinions on social media? I really hope you’re just engaging in knee jerk hyperbole. If that’s the case, we can laugh this off. But if you really think that Cheney is “fascist adjacent” because she’s a conservative (who also, let us remember, values democracy more than party), then there’s really something wrong with you.
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  496. I wanted to point out that there’s a very real security risk to buying your CPUs on the grey or black market (or from an untrustworthy OEM). Remember the server scare, where it was reported that some Chinese made server mother boards contained tiny payloads in the hardware? The story was plausible, if untrue. And it cuts both ways, especially if the distribution chain is murky.
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  497. If they can’t elect Emmer, they need to rename themselves the Donner Party.
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  498. Have Tom on more often. When I used to Twitter my time away, he was really a mainstay, part of my balanced political breakfast.
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  499. Exports = extreme sports = hiphop
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  500.  @bcterp2  the problem is California has been socio-political. Certain subregions within the state have not been willing to enforce health and safety regulations, based on “red vs blue” politics, while certain groups go out of their way to flout regulations and common sense protocols to “make a political statement”. As you might know, there is almost nothing stopping infected people in a “rebel” county from traveling to a compliant county and infecting people there. Maybe attitudes will change as a result from the holiday carnage, but I don’t hold out a lot of hope that very stupid and selfish people will suddenly become intelligent and caring.
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  501.  @daverok1113  <— TROLL
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  502.  @popaustinmedia8806  He probably means some racist BS, but Polk County Sheriffs are racially diverse, and one of Sheriff Grady Judd’s mentors was a black sheriff’s deputy in Polk County. You can complain about some of his opinions on some topics, but the sheriff doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. If you watch him for years as I have, you’ll see he’s a good leader and a decent man. He does put on a folksy hick act, but don’t let it fool you.
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  503. People in desperate straits will seize on desperate measures, but I don’t completely understand why one wouldn’t avail oneself of both traditional oncology and eating cauliflower, rather than substituting cauliflower for traditional science based medicine.
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  504. There should be a locking box or case on a cart. It should be part of her kit (for which she receives a kit rental). If she doesn’t have one, one should be rented for the duration of the shoot. She should be on set whenever firearms (functional or not) are being used on the set, and the moment they’re finished, she collects the guns and locks them up. The only person she directly answers to is the property master, in the case that someone else makes a request she is uncomfortable with. If she was put into an impossible position, she still shares in the blame for not making firearm safety her priority. (This is also one of the cases where she can tell the property master to F.O.) Honestly, if the terms of the job made it impossible to do the job, she should have turned it down and/or walked.
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  505.  @Agameda1  Bill Kristol is the conservative Larry David. (Not really, but mood-wise? He sort of is.)
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  506. What about Best Picture? Which picture? A 90 minute movie contains almost 13,000 pictures. They can’t all be best. The Academy should specify which picture in a film is the best (or favorite or whatever).
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  507.  @ryelor123 I don’t know that much about the insurance business or specifically about auto insurance. I just know that I need to have it if I want to own and operate a motor vehicle. From that basic starting point I can learn on my own what minimum coverage I need, what extra coverage I might want, and where to buy it. I wasn’t born knowing this and I didn’t need special training. I just needed to make a minimal effort at research. The specialist here doesn’t have to understand the ins and outs of the supply bureaucracy. He just has to know he’s accountable for the gear he was issued as his starting point. From there he can ask people questions and figure out solutions to his problem. And he had two years to do it. The kindest interpretation is that the guy spent his free time jacking off and now is trying to get others to cover for his mistake (while blaming the Biden administration for his self-created problem 😂). A worse interpretation is that he intends to con gullible right wingers out of many thousands of dollars over the value of the equipment he lost.
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  508.  @a.brekkan4965  The facts are unfair to Russia. 😢
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  509. What are you trying to say? That the Chinese deserve credit for the EPA and U.S. state clean air regulations (primarily California)?
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  510.  @RussianSevereWeatherVideos  “I would logically say that the systems run on Russian electronics”. Oh, boy. You’ve got some work to do, learning about 1) electronics manufacturing, and 2) logic.
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  511. “He died in a fancy restaurant.” ”There’s worse places. So how did he die?” “Choked to death. He was killed by the Yorkshire Pudding.”
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  512.  @MelissiaBlackheart  Even in right-to-work states, a legal employment contract prevails. At will employment laws do not automatically apply if there are terms and conditions in the contract that spell out termination. Absent a legal contract, the state employment laws are the operant laws. Marvin and Patrick are substituting their opinion for expertise. I doubt they have experience as employers or as an employee hired on contract. Of course, this doesn’t mean Musk has to let the contract employee work. He can have someone else do her job and let her sit in her office doing whatever. What he cannot legally do is take away pay or benefits or otherwise unilaterally break the contract. I joined a company where one of the managers and the owner had a dispute. The manager had a year left on the contract, so the owner still had to pay his salary and benefits until the end of the contract. The owner did this while relieving the employee of his managerial duties. Every day for about three months the guy showed up, went to his office and read the newspaper. The owner finally got sick of having him around. I wasn’t privy if the owner paid off the balance of the contract in a lump sum or just told the employee to stop coming in while continuing to pay him, but after a few months, we stopped seeing him. I later was also terminated, but as an at-will employee, so I didn’t get to sit around and get paid for doing nothing. 😂 Honestly, the owner was an SOB and I wasn’t sad to go.
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  513.  @makuru.42  We can have more engagement if someone would write, “Actually, it’s short for Michaelophone.”
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  514. Someone should do this. Not that hard to pull a matte when he’s wearing a knit cap like today.
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  515. I’m an ex-GOP Conservative. I believe we can work out many differences. We are not enemies. I believe that liberals and conservatives both want what’s best for our nation, we just disagree on how to get there.
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  516. Pete is the Anthony Bourdain of geopolitics.
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  517. They could certainly be arrested and held to get to the bottom of this operation.
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  518. @DeusÉAteu I guess It’s true, then. Putin outlawed having a sense of humor. I thought that was an exaggeration until I read your comment.
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  519. Abusing the de minimus system is how they were avoiding tariffs. All that is going on here is CBP enforcing existing law to shut down the abuse. Chinese companies have been free riding the de minimus system aka cheating. Price increases would reflect a return to “correct pricing” based on non-cheating, benefiting us in the long run.
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  520. They are definitely mercenaries and are NOT legally a part of the Russian armed forces. However, Russia uses them as an instrument of policy while maintaining official separation. Imagine an international criminal organization hiring a “security contractor”, and you start to get an idea. Now imagine that the international criminal organization is also a country.
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  521. Tread lightly.
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  522. They might do that if they had principles, but the people who put party over country are putting their ambitions and self interests over the party. 😫😂
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  523.  @Andy-sp6vq  Andy, you have no idea what you are talking about. Sit down, shut up, and listen, or go elsewhere.
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  524.  @massimopericolo9579  But Ukraine wasn’t currently seeking to be part of NATO. It had applied years before and had been rejected because it didn’t meet the requirements of membership. The question had been kicked down the road to be answered someday in the future. And it hadn’t come up at all until Putin invaded Crimea. It’s only now, after he has invaded Ukraine itself, that Putin has supplied NATO and Urkraine (and Finland and Sweden) with strong reasons.
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  525.  @slayba  Damage to property above a certain level is often treated as harshly or more harshly than hurting or killing people.
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  526.  @TheNorthHawk  Can you imagine what it must be like for Elias’ parents? How do they live with that sort of shame?
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  527. Bakhmut isn’t strategically significant for Russia, but it could be the base of an attack towards Rostov-on-Don, and I suspect the line is relatively undefended.
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  528. I’m not sure what you’re saying. If you mean that Ukraine doesn’t have to fight over every scrap, but can force Russia to leave ALL of Ukraine by taking strategic targets, I agree. However, it is a mistake to let the Russians keep any Ukrainian land.
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  529. This video could easily be expanded into four or five hours of material. Perhaps even more if one considers the contained environments of ancient walled cities, or contained zones like marketplaces (in both old cities and those modern ones with a tradition of public markets). The focus here is on interiorized cities in the U.S., but it would be interesting to see what (if anything) is going on in the rest of the world. There might even be material for ten hours. Of course, Stewart probably lacks funding to go exploring around the globe and is just doing what he can.
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  530. Joe He was incompetent, lazy, and still hoping for an easy win: getting a confession. He was trying to steamroller an innocent man. His incompetence and laziness showed right from the start when he said he wanted to get a sense of Michael, whether this was the first crime Michael had done or if he was a career criminal. Let me explain what this means: THE INVESTIGATOR STARTED THE INTERVIEW ADMITTING HE HADNT EVEN CHECKED IF MICHAEL HAD A CRIMINAL RECORD. (Sorry, I thought that merited all caps.) Then he said there were witnesses that had identified Michael but never mentioned a line up (or other method). This should be a tip off that 1) witnesses had not identified Michael, 2) the detective hadn’t spoken with any witnesses. If the investigator had no evidence, but merely a strong suspicion, he should have released Michael. If evidence was discovered proving Michael’s guilt, they could rearrest him. It happens all the time (and should happen more often if all police acted as professionally as they should). You bring in your “person-of-interest” for questioning, as you’re investigating. If they don’t
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  531. The videos of the wind generated ember storms are beyond horrific. I’m getting very bored with the well meaning suggestions that Los Angeles merely needs to use seawater. Some folks are making a big thing about the lack of water pressure. The fact is, it wouldn’t have mattered because this fire spread so quickly. By the time seawater pumps might have been realistically used, the fire was already across PCH. One channel that has been very useful in covering the fires in Palisades and Altadena is The Lookout. Zeke knows what he’s talking about. Go check it out, it might help you counter the misinformation and misunderstandings about the L.A. fires. Zeke was a professional fire mapper. He’s based in Chico. He understands very well the fuel situation in So Cal. I have two friends that were evacuated from their neighborhood in west Altadena. Their neighborhood and house was spared because the vegetation on two sides got burned in the Station Fire. The fire scar from that fire probably saved their house.
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  532. There’s been several videos touching on the subject.
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  533.  @katekattigerfeet8088  I actually sympathize with her—I think that’s where a lot of my cringe comes from. I can understand fantasizing, pretending, even wishing you were something you are not. Maybe you can too? I think Hilaria should embrace what she really is, without making excuses for her fantasy. She is a Guanabí.
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  534. I think I just stumbled upon Patrick this year, one of the rare times that The Algorithm has gotten things right.
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  535. The argument for collusion is that not in picking and not in the advice, but the “banding together” to “stay strong”. I don’t think this argument is morally right. I don’t think it’s the way the law should be interpreted. But it’s how an SEC lawyer might approach it. It’s a sufficient argument for a judge to let a lawsuit proceed. If you and your 1000 co-investors from your financial discord server get swept up, and you see what your legal fees are going to be, you’ll want to settle as quickly as possible. But maybe a crusading lawyer would take the case pro bono or at a reduced rate for the group . Who knows? I could see a young Mark Geragos jumping into something like this. Maybe even the real Mark Geragos.
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  536.  @SkyRiver1  It’s the game that moves as you play. 😆 Actions very often have unforeseen consequences. Example: A powerful country intervenes in the politics of another country militarily and prevents a communist takeover, leaving a murderous and corrupt regime in its place. The people of that country flee political persecution (which doesn’t mean they’re politically motivated, it means that the corrupt regime finds their existence inconvenient). Those refugees of war flee to one of the big cities of the powerful country where they become part of the urban poor class. Some of their young people form into gangs because they are threatened by the pre-existing gangs. It turns out that the young people are quite good at it! They become a major gang, and one to be feared. About this time, the Caribbean drug trade is interdicted and narco traffickers must reroute through Central America. (And now I’ve given the game away, so I’ll just name names.) This presents big opportunities for Mara Salvatrucha XIII (MS-13) to return to Salvador, which in turn makes life untenable for the people of that country. Those that flee from the criminal gangs taking over their country head north. The Reagan administration had good reasons to intervene. We were still in the Cold War. As you point out, it’s a futile exercise to endlessly chew over counterfactuals. The point I am coming to is this: unforeseen consequences are unavoidable, always (given a long enough time scale). But one is blinding themselves when they do not accept consequences of their actions. History is the study of past actions and their consequences. We hope that we can learn from our mistakes. And (most of us) hope we can take responsibility for the consequences of our actions.
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  537. I don’t want gun control, but what other options are there when gun owners won’t control themselves? People like the shooter here have the self mastery and maturity of a cranky toddler, but they’ve armed themselves with deadly weapons.
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  538. There were credible threats that Gazprom executives would accidentally fall out of windows if the pipeline wasn’t shut down.
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  539. I’d say there is a third troubling factor, and that’s that a few days of falling numbers are not understood as a demonstration that the lockdown is working, but as an excuse to relax the lockdown.
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  540. Not his friends, the soldiers under his command, for whom he is responsible.
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  541. Trump’s first clue was that his ears started burning, even before he heard or saw Bush’s speech.
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  542. Soft power. The Normans were wise enough to build up and replace what they knocked down, and they used religion and the abbey system to deepen their hold on the Northern parts of their kingdom. The violent campaign of suppression gave them physical control, but turning to a strategy of soft power gave them legitimacy. And no doubt the economic expansion benefited their coffers—they didn’t give away all their lands to the monks.
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  543. The UC system is tops. The Cal State system is not far behind, as good or better than other state schools and competitive internationally. On top of that, our community college and city college system is pretty good at preparing students to complete their 4-year degrees at 4-year universities. What is missing is a strong vocational education system, but this is also a problem nationally.
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  544.  @tbglover  Mostly accurate. There were a few sticking points that Mnuchin and Pelosi were not able to resolve, and there was a pause due to Trump ordering Mnuchin to walk away (that he quickly reversed to be fair). What torpedoed Pelosi and Mnuchin’s good faith efforts to reach a compromise was McConnell’s refusal to meet anyone halfway. When Pelosi postponed further negotiations until after the election, she was stating the obvious. McConnell’s obstruction is further evidenced by his complete opposition to the bipartisan compromise framework. Meanwhile, he’s still unable to pass anything substantial on his own. I never thought I’d say this, but I’m with Pelosi on this one.
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  545. You certainly showed them!
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  546.  @memeburgler187  By your logic, if someone murdered you as you were violating a traffic law, you wouldn’t be an innocent victim.
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  547. It’s actually a safe human medicine for certain parasites AT THE CORRECT DOSAGE. But there’s no known application for Coronavirus because there’s no medical mechanism for how it could work as an antiviral. It’s a neurotoxin that attacks the nervous systems of worms and lice. A virus doesn’t have a nervous system. The worlds largest manufacturer and distributor of Ivermectin is Merck (considered one of the biggest of the “Big Pharma” companies). Merck has no vaccine for Coronavirus and no therapeutic treatment. They could make hundreds of billions of dollars if Ivermectin did what the Antivaxxers claim. Instead, Merck published a study that said Ivermectin is of little use against Covid. But still, the Antivaxxers claim that Big Pharma is suppressing the scientific research.
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  548.  @armentumhominum9931  Yup. This right here. Being a man doesn’t mean being stupid. And if the guy doesn’t walk away, let him run out of steam. One can stand there and just stare at someone until they either realize they’re acting the fool or they just get tired out. I will admit I learned this lesson in de-escalation by being stupid. I learned that “protecting my honor” is not considered self defense in the courtroom. 😩.
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  549. Ossoff is also the first pencil neck geek to be elected Senator in Georgia. J/k, I’m very happy the Dems have a majority in the Senate.
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  550.  nunyabidness3075  The downside is that you’re paying more for your land than you would if simply bought the surface rights. In some cases it will be worth it, in other cases it won’t.
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  551.  @MatoVuc  Why would they air assault the airport in the first place if not as a forward supply base to quickly strike into Kyiv and decapitate the government? The target makes no sense, otherwise. The truth is, they failed to take the airport. Thus they failed to quickly get together an overwhelming force. By the time the airport was secured, the Ukrainian military had time to prepare the defense of Kyiv. The Hostemel operation was an utter failure and Putin threw away one of his most elite assets.
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  552.  @sheilakirwan9462  I have not heard anyone give that advice. It’s best to ask your mother’s physician about your concerns.
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  553. You’re in for a treat as you go through the back catalog.
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  554. A U.S. serviceman dies in battle, suicidally attacking an enemy position: “This patriot made the ultimate sacrifice, giving their life to save their comrades.” A suicide bomber or kamikaze pilot: “These savages have no respect for human life. They’re crazy fanatics.”
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  555. I’m beginning to suspect that the first major operation is going to be through Bakhmut towards Rostov-on-Don.
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  556. Another well known example is when wild animals drag their prey into caves. If the prey was humanoid, that could lead to speculation that the cave was used as a burial site, which suggests that the humanoids in question believed in an afterlife. This is one reason why archaeologists are so meticulous in gathering evidence before forming hypotheses. The presence of human remains isn’t enough, there must be other indications.
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  557. Heaven forbid they get what they want through bipartisan compromise. Do you know the H.L. Mencken quote? Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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  558. These aren’t chickens, these are MAchickens.
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  559.  @Lorvay What is Scott Ritter? Put it this way, you don’t want to get any on your shoe.
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  560. But you haven’t listened to doctors nor scientists either. In fact, you won’t listen to anyone with any expertise at all.
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  561.  @gordonclifton2694  Hot cocoa as a preventative is also being suppressed by big pharma, but that’s not the worst of it. The therapeutic effectiveness of gouda cheese from grass fed free range dairy cows is being suppressed by big farma. To be serious for a moment, be leery of ivermectin studies coming out of Manaus, Brazil. Terrible situation there, oxygen shortages, water shortages, public health infrastructure crumbling, and the Brazilian health authorities are facing intense political pressure from a pandemic denying populist President who prioritizes reopening the economy over science.
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  562.  @sysbofh  There’s a lot left out in the abridged translations of the Art of War. “Appear sober when you are drunk.” “Appear prim and proper when you are horny.” “Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.”
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  563. That’s not expensive equipment. It looks like $200 worth of stuff from Home Depot.
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  564. The HAD enough money. A billion rubles is worth about 10 million dollars today. Sure, they might have hard currency reserves of dollars and euros, but now they can’t buy the necessary equipment on the open market. I don’t know what that does to the price, but I’m pretty sure there’s a substantial mark up on the black market.
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  565.  Terry Hawk  Matt Gaetz was involved up to his elbows. ✊
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  566. The Manchurian Offense
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  567. That might be the greatest experience of your life (and congratulations to future you if you have experiences even greater). I wonder how remote the site is. It could be quite a challenge if it’s way up river in the hinterlands. You don’t want to get eaten by a wild hinter, let me tell you!
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  568. The defense of Toobin’s behavior is partisan hypocrisy. Imagine the liberals’ reaction if this happened to Giuliani. Oh, wait. Nevermind. Loved the bloopers!
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  569.  @krakhedd  Princip and Germany Solos are the same person.
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  570. This is what they will use to nail the sheriff. They might get him on abuse under color of law, lying to judges to obtain the warrants, etc., but it’s the misappropriation of public funds charges that will be most clear cut and not subject to interpretation. There’s no wiggle room.
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  571. Apparently there are a number of people who want to put a “time out” clause in the GC.
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  572. Hey! I’m from that country, too. Currently I’m stranded in a country that tried to religiousize the pandemic (the president here suggested prayer and magic charms as protection). You know the one? Just south of you. 😉
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  573. Big thank you, Nick! Your clear straightforward dispatch is a morale builder. Cheers!
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  574. You’re 100% right. And if you don’t obsessively care for you vinyl records, the can become dusty, further degrading the sound and (if you play a dusty record) degrading the vinyl itself. Excessive heat can warp a record. Records become scratched. All sorts of things can affect the accuracy. However, for some people, the hisses and pops on a beloved record played hundreds of times becomes part of the experience. It’s been decades since I made the transition to CDs, then digital downloads, and now streaming, and I don’t miss the hisses and pops as much as I used to when I first began buying CDs. All that noise imbued a side with a sense of personal history. But I got over it. 😄
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  575.  @anthonymartell9880  A lot of Republican voters are listening to Chris Christie. They won’t vote for him in the primary (sadly), but they’re listening to what he has to say about Trump.
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  576. They weren’t breaking and entering, they were foraging for microwave burritos.
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  577.  @Mozkonauta  My experience (11 years in Mexico) is the same as yours. My neighbor raises gallinas and an occasional guajolote. I buy pavo in the store (usually in the form of carnes frías packaged by Fud). I had thought that “gualojote” was related to the sound they make. A lot of neighbors raise a few chickens on their roof, but his operation is something you’d see on a rancho, not in town.
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  578. Pete is getting a bit too far out of his lane when he makes military assessments. It is true that Ukraine faces big challenges throughout the coming year, but it’s not true that Russia can win by grinding down Ukraine forces. This isn’t Russia’s war to lose. Russia has already lost. The question is really how quickly can Ukraine win and recover its sovereign territory. No one expected a Ukraine offensive before the muddy Spring Thaw, no one expects it during the thaw. Pete has a grasp of some basic operational concepts, like the weather, but glosses over others. It is true that Russia can and is throwing more bodies into the conflict, and it is true that “quantity has a quality of its own” as Stalin is reputed to have said. But it matters how and where those numbers are applied. It matters how motivated they are. It matters how they are supplied. So far, Russia’s superior numbers have made little progress over the past six months. Kilometers have come at the cost of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers, until entire battalions have been destroyed in offensive operations. At the same time, Ukraine has been rotating its defensive forces and maintaining unit cohesion. When Pete implies that Russia has an endless supply of soldiers and that the quantity of soldiers alone will determine the outcome, he is quite frankly incorrect. Frankly, it is surprising that he underestimates other important factors, such as logistics, home field advantage, and motivation/morale. Pete is trying to be realistic, but I think his appraisal is overly pessimistic.
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  579. Patrick Lancaster is an employee of Russia Today, an official news organization of Russia. The only reason you’re not a bot is that bots hace minimal intelligence requirements.
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  580. Smartphones are a fad, just like those newfangled “aero plane” flying machines and rock & roll. Don’t give in. Shouting and smoke signals were good enough for our grandfathers, and they’re good enough for you and me. Remember when we used to have to scale a vertical cliff face during a blizzard, both ways, to get to school? But we were better for it, unlike the current generation.
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  581. I understand that point of view. I understand that India has to do what is best for India. I understand that India was a founding leader of the non-Aligned movement during the Cold War. But betting on Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is not going to help India’s struggle against its real adversary which is China. Russia was weakening before the war and has been accelerating its decline by continuing its criminal misadventure in Ukraine militarily and economically. I can’t blame India for buying Russian energy. Countries in Europe are still reliant on it, despite the sanctions. But India’s stance is seen as giving aid and comfort to a rogue country that has moved from adversarial to the west to a belligerent enemy. This isn’t acting as a non-aligned country and it’s not in India’s long term interest. It’s a diplomatic dead end and you can bet that Beijing will use this to their advantage in the decades to come. India is not playing the long game. China is already increasing its influence in Central Asia, in the so called ‘stans that were part of the Soviet Union. Does India plan on facing this threat by itself? Does it really think it can foster long term cooperation by tying itself to Russia?
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  582. Any outbreaks or general surge won’t show up within a few weeks—it will be after that, and vaccinations will help minimize spikes. However, hundreds if not thousands will still probably die because Abbot and the maskholes are such idiots. Are Texans such babies that they can’t hang in there for another month while more people are getting vaccinated?
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  583.  Kevante  I think he’s referring to the narrative created by Trump, which the Myanmar military is borrowing.
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  584. It depends on who owns the for-profit company. If it’s the non-profit that owns it (or owns a majority stake if the FPC is a joint venture), it might be totally kosher. What about taxes? The FPC venture is subject to taxes on profits before they’re passed through to the NFP. Imagine a museum with a bookshop or gift shop. The museum is a NFP organization, but it operates the gift shop as a for-profit venture. Any profits from the gift shop get funneled to the museum. Obviously there are differences between the hypothetical museum and OpenAI, but it should be the starting point of how we think about this. However, my intuition also tells me that Musk has a point. The problem is that he’s a really bad messenger for this point, with questionable motivation and a high degree of hypocrisy, not to mention that his legal ground is quicksand.
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  585. I recently saw a Russian’s vlog where he’s reporting that they’re bringing back GOSPLAN, the agency for centralized economic planning. Sounds like the U.S.S.R. to me.
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  586.  @Robert-uo6qi  They have shipping capacity in the Sea of Azov. The Kerch Bridge wasn’t destroyed, only damaged. The constrained supply situation has certainly helped with the siege of Kherson, but the siege of Crimea is going to be different. Forget for a moment about logistics. The Crimean Peninsula is going to be a very tough nut to crack. I think it will be the last of the Ukrainian territories the Russians will be forced to leave. It is much more defensible than Kherson, and there are a lot more ways to resupply it. Which brings us back to the logistics. You might have noticed that Kherson has not been completely cut off. However, the supply lines have been CONSTRAINED to a sufficient degree that the Russian units have been slowly starved of supplies. This is what made their position untenable. Crimea is not only more defensible geographically, it is also more easily suppliable. The supply lines are more difficult to choke. In a nutshell, the Russians can hold out in Crimea for a lot longer than many people seem to think. The final assault is going to cost a lot of Ukrainian lives. It should be up to the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian government if they want to spend those lives and extend the war another year or two or more to retake Crimea. It might offend our sense of justice if the Ukrainians decide to trade Ukraine for peace, but ultimately it’s their call, not ours. On the other hand, if they decide to go for it, we should continue to offer our support.
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  587.  @ikke12345  You’ve never been to the Australian Alps?
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  588. Plastics recycling gets a bad rap because so much of it gets packed up and buried in land fills. But I like to think of it as burying treasure for future post apocalyptic societies. Someday knowing where all the plastic is buried will be valuable knowledge.
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  589. Hunter S. Thompson bonded with Nixon over football.
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  590. ⁠ @TheTimdoyle The G.U.L.A.G system was not the model of efficiency you seem to think it was.
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  591. Affirmative. I always tell aspiring filmmakers to put their money into lighting and grip, because that’s the stuff they’ll keep using no matter what camera gear they “invest” in (and continually upgrade).
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  592. Scroll ahead to 1:20
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  593.  @ipredictariot6371  It’s not so much whether the threat level was overestimated, it was the response to the threat that should be examined and criticized. The 9/11 attacks occurred because we underestimated the threat. After the attack there was a scramble to get a correct assessment. A truly accurate assessment of all possible threats is impossible (or at least very very difficult) because of the asymmetric nature of the conflict. The Bush defense/security/intelligence people took the “safer” course of overestimating the level of threat. Is this a huge error? I don’t know, but it did lead to what was a series of fatal errors involving the response to this overestimated threat. It was decided that the response to this estimated level of threat should be the occupation of a country in the Middle East. Iraq was selected for reasons of expedience: 1) it was conquerable, 2) Saddam was a mischief maker and a potential sponsor of terrorism, 3) Iraq had in the past tried to acquire WMDs, might be doing so, and might have them, and most importantly, 4) Iraq was politically isolated—it had no friends in the region, no Arab nation that could credibly oppose an invasion or was inclined to do so. Iraq had “accomplished” this alienation ten years before, when it invaded Kuwait. If the U.S. had a hammer, Iraq certainly looked like a nail! Iraq was the most convenient target. The Bush administration then did two things that I consider to be the fatal errors. 1) it used shortcuts to justify the invasion, including deceiving the public, and 2) it tried to graft the PNAC ideology onto the Iraqi occupation plan. Instead of open and honest debate about whether the invasion was the correct response or even a good idea was suppressed and we instead debated the existence of WMDs in Iraq. Instead of the sensible course of merely setting up military bases and insuring that Iraq’s petroleum industry continued to function, we took on the project of nation building and meddling in Iraq’s internal politics. The meddling was further complicated because we wanted both a puppet government (or at least a friendly one), but we didn’t want to impose one because we also wanted Iraq to be a democracy. Neither of these contradictory ideas are good ones, but combined they are even worse because of the contradiction. All these errors were baked into the project before the military even began to plan the invasion. Dissent was suppressed over most questions except for the WMD question, and even there, deception was used to bolster the argument, both within the administration and in the public square.
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  594. I understand your feelings on this and it seems like it would only take a small amount of extra effort. But these very large scale studies of countrywide data are designed to answer specific questions about vaccine effectiveness, particularly wrt variants. What we really want is larger scale studies on the topic of Vitamin D and what role it can play in Covid outcomes. That said, there is sufficient evidence that Vitamin D is helpful for general health, and we should already be making wise decisions about its use based on decades of knowledge. You also have the problem of some folks latching on to any alternative, no matter the harm or risk of harm, and imagining they are themselves safe and not a risk to the people around them. So I’ll continue to take vitamin D3 in 5000 iu gel caplets, which is a safe dose. I’ve received both shots of the Pfizer vaccine, and I’ll take a booster if and when it’s time, and I’ll continue to wear a mask, practice safe social distancing, and limit my time out in public.
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  595.  @chriscorbart  Yes. There is no need to resort to conspiracy theories. No one is censoring vitamin D3. (Nor are they censoring ivermectin. There’s just no grounds for promoting it.)
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  596.  @joek600  Seems to me that Putin kicked the door down. No one welcomed him in. Russian speakers, ethnic Russians in Ukraine are fighting against the Red Army and for Ukraine. If self defense is hyper-nationalism, so be it.
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  597. He said vaccinated or previously infected. In countries with very low rates of vaccination, more people have likely become infected and recovered at some point. So omicron isn’t in fact milder, as far as we know. It’s frustrating that we don’t know more, and it’s frustrating that there is this new evidence that suggests omicron is not milder. The silver lining here is that previous infection and/or vaccination seems to provide some protection against more severe and deadly symptoms. However, that’s the reality. The realistic response to this reality, for you and me, is to hope for the best and prepare for the worst accordingly until the conflicting evidence is resolved. More will be revealed as the variants spread.
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  598. Right on. I’m a 2A supporter, but not a 2A absolutist. And one thing that has confounded me about my former party is that as often as they say, “It’s not a gun issue, it’s a mental health issue,” they’re almost never willing to fund mental health. I’m no socialist, but supporting community mental health is money well spent, not another government give away. So I am very interested in a candidate who supports sensible gun safety law and also helping our communities look after their own. If that’s not conservative, I guess I’m no longer a conservative.
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  599.  @MasterMalrubius  What police departments were defunded? Once you’ve named a few, which ones of those cut officer training and just put untrained officers out on the street? I think you’re making things up or repeating bullpuckey that someone else made up.
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  600. The media isn’t running for office. Being liked shouldn’t be part of their job.
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  601. Trump 34!!
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  602.  @johnstevenson9956  Cake or death?
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  603. Constitutionally, States have the right to determine their own election parameters. Most states’ legislatures determine their own congressional district boundaries. If you want to change this, you have to invest time and effort at the state level (and I would urge voters of both parties to do this—it’s really a bipartisan issue).
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  604. The wall envisioned by Trump was stupid. Listen to how he has described it over the years. He’s talking about a perimeter defense. What you are talking about is a defense-in-depth, which is not only more effective, it’s a more efficient use of resources. Walls and geographic features are an important part of funneling flows of people, whether its soldiers, immigrants, or people trying to get into or out of a football stadium.
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  605.  @whazzat8015  The U.S. invaded Cuba in 1898, when Cuba was a Spanish colony. We invaded on the side of the Cuban rebels seeking independence from Spain, and we were successful. Bay of Pigs wasn’t a U.S. invasion. It was Cuban freedom fighters that attempted to invade, with some financial support but no U.S. military involvement. Read an actual history of it. I don’t agree with U.S. policy towards Cuba, but I really hate when people equate the Bay of Pigs and the missile crisis with “invasion”. The facts are that neither one was a U.S. invasion. I see this myth a lot these days, with ignorant people comparing Cuba with Ukraine to justify Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine.
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  606. Three murders, DUI, fleeing the scene. That’s 5 charges, (and there might have been more). It’s a stiff sentence, no doubt. But not crazy excessive, agreed?
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  607. Thanks, Sal. I’m looking forward to the Merchant Marine history video.
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  608. While I wish to the Russian field commanders bad luck and failure, I do think they are being unfairly maligned. They are being given very little to work with. They’re losing artillery by the day, and the ammunition situation is dire. Most of their troops are inexperienced recruits with a month of training, and the cadre of experienced troops is not big enough and has been beaten down too hard to stiffen the resolve of these green low morale troops. In terms of equipment and soldiers, the Russian officers in the field know they are much worse off than they were a year ago, and there is nothing that can save them. I won’t say I feel bad for them. I don’t. They have options to escape from their no-win situation, such as making the transition from the material world to the next one or simply surrendering.
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  609.  @noface6872  No, you misunderstand. Mexico has its own problems without the threat of fascism spreading down south. You know, America is not sending its best people, etc.
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  610. Ukraine has spent the past two weeks preparing the battlefield, and the past two months probing Russian defenses. Supply lines and supply depots have been disrupted. Air defenses have been degraded—Russia never had air supremacy in the area (the ability to fly at will and unchallenged) and only had limited air superiority. Going off publicly available information, we can say that the airspace is contested. UKR has been training new recruits for the past 6 months, and they’ve been keeping most in reserve. Same with many weapons that don’t receive press like HIMARS or long range artillery does. You know, the less “sexy” equipment. There’s a good possibility that UKR has the 3:1 numerical advantage, depending on how many soldiers they’ve been able to train. Russia might have been able to move more forces to Kherson, but they risk being under-defended on other fronts. It’s even possible that Kherson is a feint to pull Russian forces to the South, creating opportunities in the North and East. (I think Kherson is the real target, but I’m keeping an eye on Izyum.)
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  611. It will not be difficult for the authorities to track down the hired helicopter if Trevor did indeed remove the wreckage without authorization. That said, it’s possible that the local FSDO had the wreckage removed to a more convenient location. It the investigator is smart, he might even have gotten Trevor to pay for it! 😄 I haven’t watched any of Trevor’s videos, but I understand he has some about freight train hopping, including one where he is arrested. This wouldn’t fall under the FAA purview, but the NTSB would be interested if they get involved in the investigation. In any case, such videos shed light about Trevor’s willingness to break laws in pursuit of thrills and views—Trevor has a reckless personality. I hope the previous arrest, the intentionality of the crash, and the reckless operation of his aircraft will lead to a permanent loss of his pilot license. A part of me hopes that Trevor has done something (move the plane, attempt to erase raw video) to trigger obstruction of justice charges. It’s not really a part of myself I should be proud of, but this jerk really needs a comeuppance. Something to “bring him down to the ground”, like a stint in federal prison. Ah, well. It probably won’t happen for years, if it happens at all.
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  612. Who is the judge and who appointed them?
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  613. At least they aren’t calling anti-white racism “reverse racism”, one of the most ridiculous phrases ever.
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  614. This is a particularly good interview. I also really enjoyed his appearance on Perun’s channel.
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  615. I pity those who’ve caught the Hermès virus.
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  616. There are many such channels. And quite a few crap ones, too. Keep searching for the topics that interest you. The ones that I’d avoid off the bat are ones that make pseudoscientific claims, that revile “orthodox” academia, or that engage in conspiracy theory thinking. That said, experts can have different opinions about various topics, so that alone wouldn’t cause me to reject a channel.
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  617. There’s a famous Earth anthropologist named Claude Levi-Strauss.
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  618. The sequestering of the waste is definitely a physical problem, and a long term one at that. We are basically kicking the can down the road, making it the problem of some future generation. That said, climate change is the more pressing problem as well as a worse problem than nuclear waste for future generations. Climate change might already be causing irreversible changes, but perhaps those changes can be mitigated by using nuclear energy. It’s quite ironic that the Greens created a political environment that now threatens the physical environment. Idealism can be just as dangerous as brutal cynicism.
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  619. But he’s by-the-book. You’re looking at a leader that doesn’t take shortcuts and doesn’t countenance bad policing from his subordinates. He gets things done by hard work and leading a department by that work ethic.
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  620. You’re still not getting a new PlayStation.
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  621.  @rockothedoggo4875  thoughts and prayers for your warped and twisted soul, doggo. It’s not too late to be a better human.
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  622. There’s two gun cultures and it’s time we recognized and did something about it. We are people who support our second amendment right to own guns. We are sports shooters, hunters, self-defenders & home protectors, and gun enthusiasts with a healthy respect for firearms, firearm safety, and their fellow human beings. The other people in that other gun culture live in a fantasy where they are cowboys in a movie. They’re the ones that say, “I hope someone tries to break into my house.” Their sense of right and wrong boils down to: am I getting my way or not? I think people who are members of the positive gun culture understand the need to regulate emotion. We might not always be perfect, but we know that, outside of reacting to an emergency, better choices are made when the mind is calm. Being able to appropriately regulate one’s emotions is a sign of being an adult. The inability to do so is the sign of being a child.
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  623. If he allows a public right of way to be established across his property, it will objectively lower the value of that property. The plaintiff is a dick, but he’s within his rights and this isn’t necessarily a trivial suit. Imagine your neighbor made a practice taking a shortcut through your backyard without seeking your permission. Maybe it’s to go to the store and maybe other people start using the short cut. Being an easy going guy, you let it happen. Perhaps the path is behind some bushes so it doesn’t affect your privacy. In some locales, if it becomes established as a customarily used public path, it could become a right-of-way. Then when you try and sell your house to someone, the potential buyer says, “look here, the records show that you’ve got a right away running through the backyard. I’ll offer you 80% of what you’re asking.” This is how trespassing can reduce the value of a property if left unchecked. It’s objectively on the minus column.
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  624.  @kickicker6058  Good luck with your efforts to tell other people to read history. If you’re referring to “The Great Patriotic War”, the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union. Russia wasn’t even an independent nation at the time, and it suffered less than other parts of the Soviet Union. And if we stick to the facts, The Red Army of WWII had more men under arms, tanks, and planes than than the Nazis, but the USSR got invaded anyway. So apparently having a mighty military didn’t help back then.
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  625. Some people grow on you, but other people grow more grating. I initially liked his energy, but he never changes gears.
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  626.  @carlspam5335  He’ll find something that confirms his weird conspiracy thinking. It won’t convince anyone else, but it will feed his monomania.
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  627. “Served” sounds like “surfed”, and we all know Charlie don’t surf.
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  628.  @howardkerr8174 Romney is still a U.S. Senator. Do you and bjohnson know that and know the difference between a Senator and a Congressman? You know the Senate and the House are two separate chambers, right? I know this comes off as insulting, but some people seem unaware of this. I also like discussions with a basis in reality. There is a 0% chance of Romney becoming Speaker of the House. Cheney’s chance is so low it might as well be 0. I have no idea what happens next, but I do know that some things will not come to pass. Nevertheless, here is my prediction. At some point, either the reasonably sane but cowardly and craven congresspeople will come running to the Dems, or they will give in and become pod-people. Given their cowardice, it will be the later. The MAGAs are trying to grind out any hidden resistance. If you publicly supported Trump but had reservations in private, they’re hunting you down. This isn’t the Grand Old Party. This is the Donner Party. That might sound like a joke until you realize that they’re going to nominate Hannibal Lecter for President.
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  629.  @tomjohnson4681  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  630. I’m not sure what intelligence has to do with whether one is a criminal, in or out of uniform. I’ve known lots of people below average, average, and above average intelligence. The great majority showed no propensity for violence. What you are thinking of is sadistic bullies. No, the problem is that PDs don’t filter these personality types out of the hiring process. In some cases, they’re selecting for them. Maybe they think they can channel the violence of these thugs (and maybe they even do in some cases). But it seems like there are far too many of these cops that abuse their power, and the rest of the police look on.
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  631. Are we doing a pool? I bet on India. If India is already taken, I want Brasil.
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  632. [commencing all caps message] REPUBLICAN PATRIOTS MUST NOT VOTE IN ANY ELECTIONS EVER UNTIL Q GIVES US THE SECRET SIGNAL, WHICH WILL FEEL SIMILAR TO A FINGER BEING INSERTED INTO YOUR ASSHOLE. IF UNFAMILIAR PRACTICE “THE TRUMP TICKLE” AT HOME SO YOU WILL BE READY FOR THE SIGNAL.
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  633. Well, there is already a connecting rail system and the cartels don’t regularly derail it. Do you imagine that expansion of the already existing transnational system would suddenly make the cartels want to start derailing trains? Don’t be dense. The cartels are like any other industry. They rely on rail transport when and where it makes sense.
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  634. The Moderna Vaccine contains pepperoni pizza. Many of you will want to order your vaccine to go or home delivery, but be warned, the sauce is made from fetal AIDS.
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  635. Why did the gaffer take so long when the DP said he was shooting with available light? Because the DP wanted to use EVERY available light.
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  636. I take it that Transport Canada is equivalent of the U.S.’s National Transportation Safety Board or the Federal Aviation Administration? There’s a lot of commenters who seem to think Mexico is a hellhole, and that the charter group is stuck in some sort of danger. The cartels are going to get them! The fact is, these idiots are going to be fine in whatever luxury accommodations, which they can well afford if they can afford to charter a jet. Or they can take individual initiative and buy tickets from a regular airline. They’re not actually stuck anywhere, unless they insist on only chartering jets as a group.
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  637.  @begintothink  These aren’t ordinary Canadians. They’re French-Canadians from Quebec. The stereotype doesn’t apply.
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  638. I had a roommate that was sure that peanut shells were manufactured. They were made out of cardboard.
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  639.  @eurodoc6343  and an even worse human being.
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  640. And then what do you do about the resulting spike in inflation?
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  641.  @serafinacosta7118  This isn’t pork barrel politics that are on display in Russian procurement. It’s something else entirely. Sure, U.S military contracts contain fat. No arguments that they’re padded. But what goes on in Russian military procurement is a completely different level. At the end of the day, the U.S. military takes delivery of what was ordered. Contracts get fulfilled (occasionally after delays and cost overruns). The Russian military signs for delivery of 50 refurbished tanks but receives 40. Money changes hands, and a percentage gets kicked up the chain of command, so everyone is happy.
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  642. A video about secular variation of the earth’s magnetic field would be fascinating. Polar flip is extremely unlikely to happen without a preceding weak magnetic field, and there are no indications that the field is experiencing any significant weakening. You’d want to see a long term weakening of the field before making a prediction. A large impact could cause a much faster pole reversal, but now you’re talking about an event that would cause civilization collapse well before a polar flip caused problems. It’s low low low low probability that we would see a civilization ending chron (flip) in our lifetimes. But let’s say we did. What do you suspect might happen? Would electric motors turn in the opposite direction, like they do in Australia?
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  643.  @tomjohnson4681  <—TROLL
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  644. “My body, my choice” I wish they’d take their anti-social bodies far away from the rest of us. Can’t they set up an antivax antimask liberty island where they can all behave as selfishly as they want?
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  645. How about bunk beds and pillow forts? If you can’t convert office space into residential, how about dormitories? 😂 This business plan just needs a snappy company name. What do you think about We Crash?
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  646. He’s a straight shooter and always has been. When the night time opinion shows were engaged in all sorts of calumny and lying over HRC’s role in a uranium company sale, he devoted a show to setting the record straight. I was glad he quit FNC, but I had already stopped watching it by that point. I’m delighted he got hired at CNBC and has rejoined journalism. We need more like him.
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  647.  @asynchronicity  A much better price and on “ez credit” terms. China and India have Russia over a barrel. They won’t have to buy commodities—they’ll be able to lease mineral and petroleum concessions from Russia. Watch, it’ll happen.
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  648. Unfortunately that is not going to happen. The possible way forward is to limit their regional hegemony and apply any and all measures to make them comply with international rules. That’s the problem with dictatorships: they think they can change the rules whenever it suits them. Many are suspicious about the WHO investigation, and I think whether it’s honestly done or not, it’s going to lead to more questions than answers. There’s a few nations that have been pressing for an independent investigation (such as Australia), and I hope more nations will join them.
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  649.  @ateazy7801 A Mormon horse thief is still a horse thief. Not every LDS is a saint. I’m a Mormon adjacent agnostic. To be honest, I have a shallow understanding of the religion and what makes it different from other branches of Christianity. What I do know is that my Mormon friends and neighbors are good people that you can count on. I don’t assume that all Mormons are this way, but that has been my experience.
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  650. I don’t know if that would have been possible until much later, given the dynamics of the Cold War. I’m not saying our policy was a good one (obviously it wasn’t), but the Soviets had their hooks into Vietnam. Vietnam was answerable to Moscow, if not quite a puppet. The mutually beneficial relationship only became a possibility after the fall of the Soviet Union, although there was some tentative rapprochement in the 80s.
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  651.  @battlebbot  Are you eminently high?
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  652.  @daverok1113  <— DISINFORMATION AGENT and LIAR
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  653. It requires many businesses that are located in different countries. These are highly specialized companies that build one component of the lithography process, or they make the wafers or they make the machines that make the wafers. It’s one thing to say, “We will acquire or develop the capability or expertise to do x y or z”, but it’s another thing to pull it off.
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  654.  @safetyoff.4430  That’s funny. The blast of the explosion is channeled by the trench. I don’t think he was able to cover the bomb with his body. More like, they were shooting at the drone, and the soldier said, “You guys got this. I’ll be right back, I need to change my pants.”
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  655. They had a shit post war period until the sixties. So I think some of the issues were there before. I have to wonder how much of the UK wealth was based on colonial power and they just cruised on it until it ran out.
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  656. You are 100% correct. Turn enthusiasm into action! (And arguing online with trolls and bots is not going to get the job done.) Go out into your communities, generate enthusiasm in others, get people registered, get them to the polls.
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  657.  @DPtheOG  He is an red blooded American. He’s highly educated. Why would you think English language would present a challenge to him?
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  658.  @dean-gm1lg  Ukraine hasn’t been turned into ash yet. It’s suffered a lot of destruction, but its cities are holding on. Mariupol is a big exception, but that is a huge Russian operational mistake. Mariupol has strengthened, not weakened, Ukrainian’s resolve. What I am saying is agreement with you, but also that Ukraine is in a much better place to rebuild after Russia is expelled.
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  659. The 5-year warranty is built into the price of the car. The reason the home is priced at $350k is that it has a minimal warranty. It might cost $400k for a longer warranty. In many cases, honest builders are responding to consumer demand for lower priced homes with shorter warranties. Also, as the lawyer said, these home warranties are worded to protect the seller more than they protect the buyer. The National Electric Code (NEC) is more like a set of guidelines for local and state governments. While the NEC gets updated frequently (I think the latest was 2014), county or state government building codes lag behind. I’m somewhat troubled that the homeowner here hasn’t upgraded his circuit breakers (which would cost him $300-$1000, depending on whether he did it himself or hired an electrician) for his family’s safety. (And he’d probably want to hire an electrician if he wants to recover his cost from the builder.) Unfortunately, there are too many dishonest builders out there that undercut the honest ones on price, and homebuyers are choosing the cheaper homes. Until or unless the voters pressure their local and state governments to update their building codes and strengthen homebuyer protections, its “caveat emptor”—buyer beware. (And as always, “you get what you pay for” and “if a deal is too good to be true, it probably is”.) Buying a home is one of the biggest decisions many Americans will ever make. It’s surprising that they are not educating themselves nor doing their own visual inspections before signing the dotted line. Two of the defects in the video segment on that one house could have been detected by the buyer BEFORE or during escrow, especially the bay window misalignment. Things like cracked drywall or ineffective weather proofing might not show up for years, however. Sometimes it’s the owners’ fault if they’re not doing proper maintenance. In summary, dishonest builders are certainly a major part of the problem, but local government and the buyers themselves bear some responsibility. Local government is the responsibility of the voters, and voters that equate consumer protection and government regulation with “socialism” are also part of the problem. We conservatives have allowed ourselves to become extreme beyond common sense for the sake of party politics, enabling dishonesty in all aspects of business and industry, so we bear ultimate responsibility.
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  660.  @TuomoKalliokoski  It’s the GRU troll farms that have gotten the most (unwanted by them) visibility. Sadly, they seem to have recruited a lot of volunteers in the U.S. among the Q-fans. The way you tell the difference is that GRU operatives make English usage errors because they are non-native speakers, while the Q-fans make errors because they’re dumber than a sack of hammers.
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  661.  @rashkavar  But also, the Malaysian conception of the Vikings isn’t much worse than the European conception of the Vikings. 😆
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  662.  @Drunkenmeows ”Britain Soldiers On”
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  663.  @gl1406  You can’t compare your own attempt at self-immolation to the Holocaust.
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  664. Myeloman understood. Otoh, I hate losing momentum when it turns out to be more than a two-second fix, or worse becomes a total sidetrack. That said, I was sure that Adam was going to pull out a stick welder.
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  665. Why in the hell was she released? She should be locked up in a psych ward for 72 hours observation.
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  666.  @Kabodanki ignorant comment. Vietnam and China have very distinct cultures and societies. The truth is, U.S. Hegemony is preferable to Chinese or Russian Hegemony to most of the world.
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  667. Two suggestions: 1) learn how to fix a flat yourself, 2) don’t ever get lost and knock on the wrong door or turn around in the wrong drive way. In this case, the killer was a felon with a record of violence, but in many other cases the killers of lost people are average gun owners overly eager to use their weapons.
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  668.  @artyteatwaffle7536  Ask your physician for a psychiatric referral.
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  669.  @rullmourn1142  I agree. But there are some interesting questions underneath all this. I feel some empathy for Hilaría because I’ve had some experience wrestling with identity, which can be a slippery thing for some of us. Some people seem to be born with absolute surety about who they are. Perhaps they’ve never questioned their identity. Perhaps they’ve never had to question it. Perhaps people that don’t understand this woman have never had fantasy lives, or don’t remember having them. This woman had a fantasy persona or identity. She was apparently too hammy in the public eye, and that fantasy identity is shattered. I wonder what that must be like.
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  670.  @jansonshine9082  Booster = 3rd round. If that’s what you meant, you’re incorrect. After the booster, you have whatever resistance you still had at the time of the booster, and that protection should increase over the succeeding days. That’s why it’s called a booster—it’s boosting the efficacy of the original 2-shot vaccination (or 1-shot if J&J vaccine, but we’re still waiting to hear about that.)
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  671.  @danielkruze182  It’s sarcasm from people that have an unhealthy need to feel special. They “predict” a thousand different things. Then one of those things comes to pass (while 999 things do not) and they feel vindicated and demand recognition for their special insights and intelligence.
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  672. Some will say it’s six of one, have dozen of the other, but what seems to be the case is not that D3 is a miracle prevention, but that insufficient D3 increases risk of serious infection. The mechanism of D3 is built into the functioning of our bodies, and it’s the impaired function (due to low levels of vitamin D3 in the body) that creates the higher risk.
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  673.  @voiceofreason2674  You have a point. This thing in the U.S. has its own flavor. Our history of ideology based on racist hate also precedes the Nazis. But we can learn from the German experience. There’s differences but there’s also a lot over overlap. To a certain degree we might say that the ideologies are decorative bullshit to flatter and mislead the masses, and it doesn’t matter if you have a Hitlerian world view or a Leninist one. The real philosophy is “might makes right”, the goal is maximum power over others, and that goal justifies whatever means are necessary. Our American fascism uses conservatism as a front. It’s not real conservatism, but it divorces meanings from words to signal conservatism. This is part of the grift. The word “conservative” is essentially meaningless. For example. People who promote Christian Nationalism are not Christian. They use the symbols of Christ to flatter themselves and to flatter others, all the while setting themselves above the rest of us. They want to impose “Christian values”, but the values are not the key values of Christ.
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  674.  @djsonicc  Apparently the elected representatives of Texas don’t think it’s an important issue other than as a campaign issue, because they killed the bill that could have addressed the issue and kicked the can to next year at the earliest.
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  675.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  676.  @pk47831  unlike many other “home remedies”, there is science behind the claim that Vitamin D might help prevent Covid to some degree, and help prevent some of the worst symptoms of Covid if you do catch it. It’s relatively cheap and it meets the “can’t hurt, might help” standard. And even if it doesn’t directly affect the body’s response to Covid, it promotes overall health as so many of us are deprived of vitamin D, especially during winter months.
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  677.  @c3aloha If people aren’t writing their representatives to demand more resources for military standard of living, the appreciation seems like lip service. Maybe lip service is too harsh. Let’s say the phrase is like “aloha”.
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  678.  @email4664  maybe one of those anti-5G lunatics, which I believe is a sub group of Q conspiracy nuts. Or maybe it’s its own thing. The conspiracy has variations. One is that the secret world government is making people sick and/or controlling their minds with 5G mobile phone technology. Some have blamed the coronavirus on 5G towers.
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  679.  @LEE-nh5ut  lol, it’s hard to believe someone could post a comment that stupid, but you proved it could be done.
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  680. Same reason there isn’t a shark.
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  681.  @meteorknight999  Did you know that the Russian language has 250 different words for military failure and over 300 for bureaucratic corruption? The fact that you had to think that over for more than 5 seconds says something about Russia. 😂
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  682.  @nomore6167 There’s language in the plea bargain that will limit Jacob’s ability to profit from the crime. It was mentioned in the video in the context of YouTube monetization, but it would apply to any book or movie deal as well.
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  683.  @BBD40 Bridge envy is not pretty.
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  684.  @glengarbera7367  Solzhenitsyn has a unique talent of communicating simultaneously the horror and the absurdity of the Soviet G.U.L.A.G. But GULAG Archipelago can be overwhelming sometimes. If you don’t want to plunge straight in, might I suggest his short novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It’s a good first approach to Solzhenitsyn.
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  685.  @LitlMiraclePupnPony  You’re correct. It’s an effective neurotoxin that attacks the nervous systems of parasitical critters, such as worms and lice. It has no obvious mechanism against viruses, as viruses don’t have nervous systems. However, this is great news. There seem to be other mechanisms that make ivermectin a broad spectrum anti-viral, according to this video. I’ve been very skeptical about ivermectin, as those pushing it the hardest are antivaxxers and/or disinformation agents. Hearing positive news from actual experts is removing that doubt. I’m going to research this in depth (as in-depth as I can manage given my “advanced layman” level of knowledge). I’m in a developing country, where intestinal parasites are all too common. I’ve taken ivermectin several times with no ill effects for this application, at the doses recommended for parasites.
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  686. This weekend treat yourself to a news media-free 3 days. Just don’t click on news stories and vids. If you can do 3-days social media as well, do it. You’ll be happier this weekend.
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  687.  @ffjsb  Haha, no, you don’t get it. The government isn’t coming for everyone’s guns. Just the violent criminals’ guns. If you didn’t participate in the failed coup attempt and you haven’t committed any other felonies, you’re fine. Just be a responsible and safe gun owner and we’ll keep the 2A intact. It’s the nutters and the irresponsible gun owners that give the anti-2A people ammunition.
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  688. Wow! This is fascinating. Thank you for making and posting this video. I’m an American retired and living in Mexico. The sight of soldiers is common, but I’ve never personally seen an armored fighting vehicle. I guess I can research this myself, but I’d certainly like to know more about Mexico’s ministry of defense’s doctrines. What is the stated purpose of the military? Against what threats are the armed forces defending? Obviously, whether it’s formally stated, they are there to defend against internal threats. I don’t think they have any worries wrt to either of their next door neighbors. Wrt published tank doctrine, I doubt that the military will procure tanks in the near future, given which party was elected in the most recent election. Anyway, this video has opened up an entirely new interest for me. Thank you for posting it! I’m curious about how Mexico’s Marines and National Guard are equipped and organized. I’m also interested to know the history of Mexico’s armored development. I imagine it goes back to the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920.
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  689.  @ysomadbeats  OK, Ivan.
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  690. This is far from the most awful thing Trump has done. Perhaps it’s the most bizarre thing he’s done. I can’t say that I suspected he’d do this, but my reaction was “of course he is”.
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  691.  Preston Hanson  Happy one week anniversary 🎂 on your account, you flippin’ troll. When Shepard Smith left FNC, a huge chunk of truth-telling left that organization.
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  692.  @richardtheweaver4891  I don’t think realists thought Ukraine would completely fold. The assumption was that Ukraine’s standing army couldn’t withstand the onslaught and that Ukrainians would have to fight an insurgency against the Russians. Much of this assumption was based on the idea that the Russian military was in a much better condition than it really was.
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  693. Chekists, not checkists. (I’m surprised your spellcheck didn’t change it to “checklists”.) The organization was called the Cheka, not the Checka.
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  694.  @neeneko  He’s not in favor of bribery across the board, only for his side.
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  695. Abolishing the military is a really bad idea because it takes decades to re-create it if you suddenly need it. It might be possible to judiciously shrink it if you build in certain mechanisms that allow you to increase it in times of need (such as some form of conscription and ongoing training of “weekend conscripts”). I realize that the Argentinian military doesn’t inspire political confidence among the people of Argentine. It’s given the country strong reasons to hate and distrust it. But you can’t expect your neighbors to always be friendly forever, so you need to maintain a military.
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  696. There might be a military cemetery in your area. If not, there might be a memorial park somewhere in your town or city. A memorial park in your town was dedicated as such to memorialize the people in your town that gave their lives for our country in one or more wars. I’m not suggesting that you visit the park whenever you need to put things in perspective (although if you did and it helps, that would be great. What I am suggesting is that you visit this park (or the aforementioned military cemetery) with the purpose of meditating and contemplating the service and sacrifice that were given by the young people in your area. And then ask yourself what can you do to serve your community, what small sacrifices you can make to better your community and help the people in your community (your neighbors). It’s just a thought. Maybe it sounds corny. But I hope you or others will consider it.
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  697. Ha! As a GenXer, I appreciate you and your ability to poke fun at yourself. Humor will get us through the next ten years. (In the eleventh year we will all lose our sense of humor and then we’ll be screwed.) And screw the Boomers. You know what they called themselves in the 70s? They called themselves “The Me Generation”, congratulating themselves for their childish self absorption. The point is that the Boomers have aged. They haven’t matured. And now they blame us for their failures. If that is not hysterically funny, I don’t know what is. 😂 😅😢 😭
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  698. Who tells Navy Seal stories? SF stories? Probably not the guys in the Seals or Special Forces.
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  699. The morally stunted claim all the rights of citizenship, but deny and avoid the responsibilities. These so-called conservatives have the ethical and moral development of a 4-year old.
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  700.  @karlhawkes  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH Don’t be fooled by his “sincere” question. He’s trying to engage you in a debate so as to spread disinformation.
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  701. That’s if he returns to Russia. He should be offered political asylum by one of the Western countries.
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  702. Not to worry. Clever Russian tankers have devised special grills so they can grill looted sausages when their tanks burn.
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  703.  @terryslaughter1409  They probably won’t collect all the money, but they will collect some, and they will collect more over time. The defendants’ wages can be garnished for example—if they actually work and support themselves. The judge can order that assets be seized. All of which is to say that the plaintiffs are also being awarded the happy knowledge and warm feelings that the defendants actions are now causing dire financial consequences for the defendants. Thanks to case, the defendants’ lives are financially ruined for the long term.
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  704. I understand how dementia can worsen (or worsen at a faster rate without regular visits), but I’m unclear of how one dies of it. Does the brain’s autonomic functions cease to operate at some point? How do they distinguish death by dementia from other fatal maladies of old age?
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  705. Mike Johnson picked his moment and took his shot at the moment when Trump seemed weak and trending weaker. I don’t know things will work out for the Speaker, but his situation seems to be much better than I thought it would be, and much of this is due to Trump’s divided attention.
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  706. I really want to know Friedman’s tailor, because I too wish to be taken seriously as an intellectual. The clothes make the man, and Lex Friedman couture is clearly a viable shortcut to intelligence for the mediocre.
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  707. Lol, I think homeopathic principles are already a well known practice in the industry. I’m not saying that most bars practice it, mind you!
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  708. His first act was to attack the train station! First day on the job and he already committed a war crime!
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  709. TikTok’s parent company is owned by the Chinese government.
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  710. I can’t help but remember that time in the early 70s when Mao played the America card on the Kremlin when the least expected it. The members of the Politburo must have shat their pants in unison.
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  711. He’s living the Putzi dream. Hail Puto, the dumbest Russian Emperor.
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  712. Also, if you’re uneducated and incurious, any video you watch will tell you what you want to hear and you won’t learn anything new.
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  713. Dragon RaptorYT It’s a shady app, and I’d rather it be owned by a U.S. company subject to U.S. laws than Byte Dance. But I highly doubt Trump gives a flying frack at a rolling donut about protecting anyone’s privacy or security. He’s doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. This is revenge against the users of a platform that pranked him, not to mention an attempt to distract from the pandemic. Good luck with that.
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  714. It was to clarify that it wasn’t an accidental explosion, as many initially thought upon hearing the news.
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  715.  @NinjaBehindTheScene  taught those damn capitalist fish a lesson
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  716. @HeyMildred The majority of Republican politicians sacrificed their conservative principles at the altar of Donald Trump. Not all, but most. And for as long as these enablers and cheerleaders remain in office, Trump authoritarianism will infect the GOP. It’s not true to say that Trump hijacked the GOP. It is true to say that the anti-democracy white supremacist strain already present strangled whatever conservative and American values remained in the party. Until they’re removed, the GOP’s claim on conservatism is false. It’s packaging, marketing, PR. The GOP is not going to reform itself into a party of decent, honorable, patriotic conservatives from the inside, and the Trump Republicans will fight such a change tooth and nail, as we are already seeing. As we have seen for the past 4 years. And it’s possible that the cancer afflicting the GOP is inoperable. In which case, a quick painless death is preferable, and traditional conservatives can form a new party. Fact is, the Republican Party split off from the Whig party, which went extinct. We might call this new party The Lincoln Party in honor of our greatest president and as a nod to our friends here at TLP. Creating a new party might be a Herculean effort, but it might be a better investment of time, effort, and treasure compared with trying to resurrect the decrepit and corrupt GOP. Another possibility is to form a conservative faction within the Democratic Party. This could effectively turn hyperpartisan obstructionism into factional compromise. It would turn the legislature (but not the government structure) into a quasi parliament. A lot of democrats would cry foul, if not scream bloody murder. But the fact is, a large part of the country remains conservative. Conservatives joining the Democratic Party would move the country towards unity and away from division. That’s all something for the future. Right now, the immediate goal is to do all we can to give Democrats control of the Senate, and that means the Senate run offs in Georgia.
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  717.  @minealsomine9663  You’ll be fine if you keep your nose clean, avoid any and all appearance of wrong doing, and avoid any connection to legal entanglements of any kind. With any luck, you won’t be subject to any court orders because a court will never order you to do anything. If you don’t trust to your luck, maybe go live in the woods and shun contact with people.
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  718. What makes you think these Chinese aircraft carriers won’t be converted into submersibles? This could be a TITANIC leap forward.
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  719. Excellent recap. I realize the purpose was to cover the overall “what happened” and not get into details, but it might be mentioned that the initial Russian advance was slowed by self-inflicted logistical issues as well as Ukrainian threats to their supply lines. It might be mentioned that the original plan for the special operation was for a 15-day timetable. There are two places where the video implies something about this, but it’s not entirely clear in the video. Lastly, Russians failure to gain air superiority should have been mentioned. Setting those criticisms aside, this is an excellent and informative video, recapping the conflict up until recent events. You had to pick and choose which details to bring forward, what parts of the conflict to emphasize, and I think you nailed it wrt to the overall strategic picture.
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  720. Gotta be fair, it was refreshing to hear. I get why he wouldn’t admit he was intoxicated, though. Any lawyer will tell you to say nothing and admit nothing. But given the situation, I don’t know how you could defend against hit-and-run, operating while intoxicated, and operating the UTV on a prohibited trail. Just like the victim, the driver doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Cooperating and being honest was probably a good idea.
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  721.  @myself1525  Make Attorneys Get Attorneys
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  722.  @СергейМонин-д7с  lol, good luck getting parts for repair and maintenance. Good luck building your own parts supply chain. Good luck training people to do the maintenance and repairs. When the planes start crashing, maybe you should start a cargo cult.
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  723.  @CarrotConsumer  perhaps you meant t say, “They never won a major battle against the U.S. during the Vietnam Conflict”, because they sure as fuck rolled over SVN, then Cambodia (to take out Pol Pot), and they shut down a Chinese incursion. Their predecessor organization handed the French their asses on a plate.
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  724. Pete, next time you’re in Central Mexico, look me up. I’m a few hours north of CDMX and would enjoy sharing a meal with you. My interests are Mexico’s auto industry, plastics, and the technical education system.
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  725.    but psychologically an infant.
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  726. I’ve got a pretty good idea of what the locals think: they shrug their shoulders and say, “Ni modo.” Then they set themselves to earn money working for the gringos and catering to their lifestyles. Any environmental destruction pales in significance to the destruction already being done by Mexicans. The worst effects might be inflationary because gringos tend to over pay. If a bunch of gringos move into an area, property prices and rents go up. Its called gentrification. When rich Mexicans move into a poorer neighborhood and prices go up, its called gente-fication.
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  727. Ice Cold It was the perfect summation.
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  728. You’re not wrong, but I think the problems within the NRA go deeper than that. The organization was among the first to become radicalized (not to mention corrupted), years before Trump became a political figure.
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  729. Crashing an aircraft into a California forest in 2021 is criminal, putting tens or hundreds of thousands of people at risk.
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  730. If these small town PDs contracted out their internal investigations to Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Grady Judd would clean out the trash like a handyman cleaning out the rain gutters. The state of Florida should provide funds to small town PDs to hire outside agencies, but you know the Desantis crew and the Florida GOP will never hold corrupt cops accountable or admit police brutality is a problem.
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  731.  @kimoandrews5802  You would think a hybrid between a chicken and a fish would understand that. Also, you’d think by now that even people with average intelligence (like chicken-fish hybrids) would understand that American Democracy is at stake. This isn’t about the Democratic Party, it’s about America’s future as a representational constitutional republic. I’m a conservative and I appreciate Harris’ forward looking rhetoric*. And maybe someday we can niggle over policy, but there won’t be niggling over policy if we keep electing MAGA candidates, because MAGA doesn’t care about politics. It cares about power and it cares about spectacle. * I might not agree with all of her policy proposals, but I appreciate that she’s forward looking.
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  732. With regard to your point 3., Russia seems to be operating on the ancient principal of looting the occupied. They’re foraging in grocery stores, they’re robbing ATMs, they’re stealing cars. Early in the war I remembered seeing Russian position that had been retaken by the Ukrainians territorial defense force. The Russian soldiers had been staying in a building basement, and the basement was littered with refrigerators. My initial thought was that they were using the refrigerators as improvised defensive bulwarks (in case the building got shelled). Then I realized, THEY WERE STEALING REFRIGERATORS!! The ones scattered about in the basement were the ones that didn’t get loaded onto trucks before the Russians withdrew. For the Russian military, stealing and looting (and of course, much worse, as we have learned) isn’t an unfortunate breakdown in discipline. It would seem to be official policy. I think when Russia is eventually forced to withdraw, we will discover that they’ve stolen everything that wasn’t nailed down. I would also bet that they will try to destroy anything they can’t steal.
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  733.  @SmotritelMayaka29  You know who is next. Putin. Russia wasn’t invaded this time.
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  734.  @artruisjoew5473  The mongols certainly. Moscow was just another patch of Rus ruled by some robber baron “princes”. After they were beaten by the Mongols twice, and the town of Moscow burned twice, they submitted to the Mongols who set them up as their own vassal kingdom, Moscow Rus. The “Princes of Moscow Rus” were allowed to rule their own people as long as they collected the Mongols taxes and paid the Mongols their tribute. So the Mongols created the state that today we call Russia. Russia was once a vassal of an Asian empire. There a pretty good chance it will end up a vassal to another Asian empire.
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  735. The motivation should be having to live with your parents if you don’t work.
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  736. The bass is sick. I’m very impressed by this song.
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  737. Heh heh, thus the maintainer sources helping Ryan that wish to remain anonymous. Remember the first two rules of the E4 Mafia!
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  738. Technically, he’s rebunking bunk that has been debunked.
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  739. The Kremlin announced it was NOT going to share data with the rest of the world. India’s mission will benefit all mankind. That’s a big difference. If India is successful, the prestige will be well deserved. Recognition of India’s prowess in Science, Math, and Engineering is overdue.
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  740. Do white people consider Sharpton to be the spokesman of all Black Americans? My Fox watching dad seems to think that Sharpton represents the point of view of African Americans. I gotta say that the defense attorney’s comment equating Al Sharpton to someone wearing a “Colonel Sanders” mask was both weird and offensive.
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  741. Muchísimas gracias, Lourdes. Good news. Let’s hope everyone is vaccinated soon before the American tourists and expats bring in mew variants.
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  742.  @karlwalther  OK Ivan
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  743. What the hell is wrong with a country that holds the civilians of another country hostage and says, “Give up or we kill your people?” This is Putin’s war, but it is the Russian’s people’s fault. They will bear the guilt for this just as the German’s accepted and bore the guilt for Hitler after WWII. The Russians enable this.
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  744. Listen again to Pete’s explanation of the different mechanisms of each long term trend. Inflation moves towards a new equilibrium between supply and demand. Deflation self-reinforces because it reduces demand which has a negative effect on supply, which in turn reduces demand further. It’s a vicious cycle. Now the equilibrium Peter talks about is misleading, because it suggests a static point of balance, like the fulcrum on a scale. The truth is that it’s a range, not a point. Low inflation means the range shifts more slowly and change is more manageable. We don’t reach a perfect balance, but relative balance without wild swings (hopefully). I don’t know how well I explained that, so watch Pete’s explanation again. You say you don’t understand economics, but you can and should remedy that. I understand your resistance. It seems boring and overly difficult to study it. It can make you feel dumb at first to tackle a new subject. But you’re not dumb. It might take time and effort, but you can spread that effort by studying 20-30 minutes a day. There are free university lectures online. It might be worth it to buy a used copy of an economics 101 textbook (you don’t have to buy a new copy of the newest edition).
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  745. This is 2023. This is a woke cartel.
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  746. If you have not studied linguistics, have a look at the research on Proto Indo European, which is the progenitor of almost all European, Central Asian, Middle Eastern, and Indian languages.
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  747.  @evil9mailjew  That’s a lie! Russian AFVs were ordered to enter the river, drive downstream, and rendezvous with the Moskva! This wasn’t a bridge, it was a ramp. 😉
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  748.  @jasonsmith530  Kobe’s death was the result of an internal dispute between the East Coast and West Coast “weather controllers with space lasers”.
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  749. Unsurprising plot twist: there are no humans working at YouTube.
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  750.  @mariacullati2371  Yes, let’s see what happens with a sane centrist before we get our knickers all twisted up. Hopefully, Biden will “become Presidential”, right?
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  751.  @mvasiliev  Putzi troll. I don’t know what event or experience will take you to feel guilt or shame for trying to cover up these murders and to feel empathy for the victims, but I hope such an event or experience happens to you.
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  752.  @IBTU  <—another Putzi troll
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  753.  @RabJ973  <— FAMILIAR TROLL WITH NEW ACCOUNT
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  754.  @KevinWilliams-vm4ip  You’re talking about very costly infrastructure to move water from one aquifer to another. On top of that, it’s very difficult to predict on a local level the ongoing shifts in climate. Third, what’s in it for the Midwestern states? They might prefer that industry moves to them and their water rather than moving their water to Texas and Arizona. And lastly, the politics. How would you get such a mega-project through Congress? The MAGA republicans are against government spending (arguably they’re against governance of any sort). I somehow doubt that the Democrats are willing to deliver such a huge spending project to a state that has declared war on Democrats. Your water pipeline dream is literally a pipe dream. 😊
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  755. It happened last night. Navalny was alive and in (relatively) good health yesterday.
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  756. Fun fact: Ryan lost a toe on one of his feet. Thankfully, it was the evil toe. On the whole it’s been a good thing, besides limiting ryan to counting only up to 19.
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  757. Sad to say that the military has become a political football rather than a major stakeholder as it traditionally was.
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  758. I think you can gauge how democratic a people are by how much they allow dissent, criticism, and questioning. We still have real problems in the U.S., and strong anti-democratic currents. We are still a helluva lot better off than Russia, where dissent will get you 15 years in prison or even murdered.
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  759.  @jetzenijeboer4854  Your understanding is impeccable. The KGB ran and organized the black market and criminal underworld in the USSR. The original Bolsheviks had connections to organized crime even before the revolution. SMERSH was originally formed as a bandit organization with state approval. Stalin was an honest-to-God bank robber before he joined the party. The Soviet Union was a house of kleptocracy, with a display of socialism in the front window. The only thing that changed is the gangsters rebranded the country, changed the name and logo, and changed the window display.
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  760. Yes, cluster bombs on fleeing civilians is definitely a war crime.
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  761.  @tomschmidt381  Not to mention the wrangling of allies. This is one of the things NATO isn’t given credit for or at least not enough credit.
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  762. I hate to ask, but is the Mediterranean Shipping Company a Chinese owned company by any chance?
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  763. “You’re not the boss of me! It’s against the constitution to tell me not to touch boiling hot water!”
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  764.  @gpfmiller1977  This no secret, troll. Gtfo.
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  765. Shoigu learned about fund diversion and made his initial fortune as a civil engineer in the Soviet Union. That and his loyalty to Putin are his military qualifications. When we talk about his “lying to Putin”, it’s important to remember that Putin always got his percentage, too. Shoigu is a “good earner” for Putin. Digging defensive trenches is a construction project like any other, so no doubt Shoigu has a way of siphoning off funds from that, as well. By most metrics Shoigu is a miserable failure, but in terms of stealing for himself and for his godfather, he is quite successful.
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  766. “CNN ask retired businessman” . . . who has made his post-retirement life’s work gaining the expertise to fight infectious diseases. And then using his vast wealth to do it. Gates has subject matter expertise. You have, in a best case scenario, your paranoia, conspiracy theories, and a fanatical devotion to a con man. Worst case: you’re intentionally spreading disinformation, fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Either way, GTFO.
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  767.  @ashyclaret  Not yet. The Russians can’t seem to control or hold the cities in any meaningful way. If they garrison them, they don’t have enough troops to advance. If they don’t, the cities become a potential dagger at their back, especially if defense forces can retake a city (as has happened). Advance is slow because the Russian forces are in danger of being flanked at every move. If they protect their flanks, they don’t have enough force concentration to advance. It’s a stalemate and this stalemate favors the defender. The attacking force doesn’t have unlimited supplies, and Russia is out of cash to resupply stocks of munitions, rations, equipment and equipment parts. What reserve supplies they do have are largely reserved for the actual defense of Russia against all her neighbors (Russia has quite a long border) and to quell internal unrest. One estimate I’ve heard is that Russia has about 10 days worth of supplies to continue the stalemate.
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  768. While you have a point, the amounts we are talking about are not commensurate. If we save a few billion by cutting foreign aid, that’s not going to pay for an additional $1400 in direct stimulus, which will cost an additional $200-300 billion or more. How much could be added to the direct payments if we cut the foreign aid pork? $10? $25? Look, if it’s all the same to you, I’d rather have $600 in my hand then $625 or $1200 or $2000 that never arrives.
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  769. This is the new GOP m.o. When you don’t win, claim fraud without evidence. Evidence can always be manufactured later. Basically, you’re employing the tactics of a spoiled four year old denied candy. You’re an infant.
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  770. Imagine if they protested this hard when Russia invaded Ukraine!
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  771. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The recoil is going to send you in the opposite direction you’re shooting. Kinetic weapons wielded by individual space soldiers are going to be problematic. Energy weapons (wielded as a soldier’s weapon) are the holy grail. But really, we’re going to rethink strategy and tactics completely in this new battle space. You should make a video about that. What are the objectives? What are the strategic purposes? Space war is going to be much more analogous to air war, but rather than air supremacy being a goal, we need to think in terms of orbital supremacy. The practical application of the laws of physics will be very different (increase velocity to go higher, decrease to go lower). Higher orbit supremacy means you can control higher orbits, and even the surface (not in a boots on the ground way, but in a surface destruction via kinetic weapons way. Basically, throwing rocks.) Long term strategy is going to be about creating a logistics chain outside of the planetary gravity well. It’s very expensive to send material up the well, less expensive to bring in materiel from outside the gravity well. So, a race to control the asteroid belt? Would the moon be a viable base (either for material harvesting or fabrication of weapons)? I don’t know. I don’t know how important Lagrange points are going to be. Ultimately, automation is going to be key, whether we’re talking resource gathering, weapon construction, or war fighting. And the key to automation is AI. [trigger Skynet jokes]. Another key is viable non-planetary based society, self sustaining. If your society is not Earth based, you will always have advantage over Earth based societies. And you’re going to fight like hell to prevent other societies from becoming space based. The first one to accomplish this will control the rest of humanity. Yeah, it’s kind of fucked up (at least I think so), but that’s the reality. The society with the best technology wins. While they might eventually not need anything from the surface of the planet, they’re strategically bound to stop other societies from gaining a toe hold in space. Maybe better to kill everyone down there? Bomb them to the Stone Age and keep them there? Yes, it’s fucked up!
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  772.  @blacktrollmoldova  You can’t even troll properly.
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  773. Restaurant workers, retail workers, delivery people, security guards, airline workers. Antivaxxers and antimaskers should be free to practice their beliefs. . . . somewhere else, far away from civilized society. If they refuse to take the basic steps to protect their communities, they need to go start their own community elsewhere. I understand there are a few uninhabited islands in Alaska that would fill the bill.
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  774.  @MichaelDeSanta.  Bingo! Luka doesn’t want to ask Pooty for help, lest he get demoted to “Governor of Belarus Oblast”. And that’s if Putin has the wherewithal to assist. Wagner is like insurance (with the risk that the insurance company itself will take over your country).
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  775.  @faithrada  *bonafide I’m not trying to be a jerk. I hope that helps.
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  776. There will be another major election in 2022. In the meantime, I don’t think they’re going to let their creativity go to waste. While they might not be posting 3 or 4 ads per day + 2 vlogs, I’m sure that after a well deserved vacation they’ll be back sooner rather than later. PS: if you can’t get enough of Rick, check out the podcast he does with Molly Jong-Fast called The New Abnormal. They’ve got this force multiplier charisma thing. I can’t explain it, I just know I want to write fanfic about them. 😜
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  777. That’s the funny thing. Other than openly carrying a weapon in his hands, is there ANY indication that he wanted to rob the place? Is possession of a firearm now proof of intention to commit a crime? The accused man never pointed his weapon at anyone.
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  778.  @mariannehart8000  No double blind studies, no large scale studies. Nothing definitive published in respected medical journals. No known mechanism why ivermectin might work. It’s quite rational to be suspicious of ivermectin as a treatment for Covid 19. Doubling my skepticism is that it’s being touted as a miracle cure by antivaxxers, conspiracy theorists, and spammers. You seem to be an antivaxxer.
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  779.  @maryjaneneels5536  I left in 2006, after 25 years or so. I was hoping to help remove the racist strains, both the overt ones and the more subtle. I guess I was the token model minority. I actually liked Bush, despite his weaknesses (his biggest mistake was choosing Cheney and Rumsfeld). I was against the war in Iraq, but once the invasion began, I backed my country. It was the “peace” in Iraq that I worried about, and I was proved right by the incompetence and corruption of Wolfowitz and Cheney, and the general imbecility of Rumsfeld. The straw that broke the camel’s back, though, was what happened with Abu Graib and the debate about torture. I was shocked that the President, who I thought was a moral man, would allow the pretzel logic justifications of “enhanced interrogation”. But it was the rank and file “ordinary Republican” response that sickened me. Many gave up the justifications, and argued for worse torture as a matter of revenge for 911. Much of it came down to religious bigotry and racism. It was no longer worth it to me to fight for what was right in the Republican Party. I wasn’t missed, I’m sure. I was already being called a RINO and a traitor who supported Islam. Despite all I knew, I was still shocked by how the GOP so neatly embraced Trump’s overt racism. How easily they slid into deplorable fascism. How comfortable they were with being their worst selves. Jesus wept.
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  780. “Never interrupt your enemy when he is quoting Sun Tzu. That’s the perfect opportunity to hit on his wife or girlfriend.” ~~Ulysses F. Bonaparte.
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  781. I love to hear from Tom Nichols. Way back in the day he was my favorite Twitter follow.
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  782.  @jamauljacobs9542  I know you’ll anger some people because you’re a Russian bot. But I think it’s great how you’re cheating your employer with these lackluster comments. Russian quality control strikes again. Keep it up, bro.
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  783. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Democratic Party this united. Even in the 2008 Obama campaign, there were a lot of sour grapes supporters of other candidates that lost the primaries. I could mention a couple, but I’m specifically thinking of Joe Lieberman endorsing McCain/Palin in the general election.
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  784. What? I thought he had a concept for a debate.
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  785. LOL. “I like my corrupt judges to stay bribed.”
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  786. @boronium koronium Welcome to YouTube. I see you just learned of YouTube’s existence last week. That is surprising, given how long it’s been around, but I suppose it’s possible. A few helpful hints: All caps indicates you’re a loon. Cutting and pasting the same comment in multiple threads indicates you’re a troll.
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  787. That’s not cool, making fun of crayon addiction and crayon addicts. I’ve gone ten years without sticking crayons up my nose.
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  788.  @OgamiItto70 The laws he allegedly violated have to do with witness tampering and intimidation. Such laws fall broadly under obstruction of justice. The timing is key here. If he had waited until after the trial, witness intimidation or tampering wouldn’t be an issue.
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  789. Lol, for all of that, he knew the applicable rule, and thwarted the derailment with a derailment of his own. He’s old, but he’s not an old fool. I was surprised they picked him to preside over the trial, but maybe there was a method to the madness. He could have called Senator Lee’s motion out of order—technically correct, but potentially outrageous to some Republican Senators. Instead he started putting a motion to a vote, giving the House Managers time to sort out what they wanted to do.
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  790.  @alejandropalazonurtubi3520  <— TROLL Do not feed the trolls.
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  791. Which is why Trump was auditioning Nick Fuentes.
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  792. Bored people seeking violent and sensationalist news are going to strongly disagree. Some will be super upset that he’s being classified as a person of interest. They’ll complain about him being “woke”. I happen to agree with you, by the way.
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  793. I just heard about this from my oldest and bestest friend a few months ago. He had been referring to his boyfriend as his puppy, and I thought this had to do with age disparity. During a conversation about his love life he said they had a play date with another couple and he started describing the date. I broke in, “Wait, you’re talking like [name] is an actual dog.” My friend giggled and said, “What did you think I was talking about?” They’re both into standard dungeons and dragons role play games, so it makes sense. He’s a dom, so that also made sense. I had just not conceived of this particular form of role play. Shame on me for being small minded. 😅 OK, I’m going to watch the video now. I find the whole thing amusing and whimsical and cute, and that’s the sort of human behavior I can support. I wish more human behavior was this amusing, whimsical, and cute.
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  794. To be fair, she left December 1st. She’s still an immoral disgusting person.
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  795. How do investors ask for return on investment in a company’s investments? What is the mechanism other than selling one’s shares? Do you think that all the shareholders of all the companies that are investing in AI are going to all sell at once? The investors that sold at the peak in 2000 got their full ROI. The Dot Com Crash of 1999-2000 wasn’t really a crash, it was a shake out. Many people lost lots of money, many people were hesitant to invest in technology for a little while after, but it didn’t devastate the sector. The sector didn’t actually crash, it contracted.
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  796. I don’t know whether he has had training or was acting in instinct. I don’t know whether he kept a cool head or was in full panic. But he did the exact right thing, closing with the gunman. This saved his life and the lives of others.
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  797. Yang was a one trick pony. Universal income was his strongest pitch, and he focused almost exclusively on that. It’s an interesting idea and I’m glad he brought it into the mainstream, but that single differentiator wasn’t going to win him the nomination or even current political relevance. It’s an idea the Democrats put on the back burner, but at least it’s on the stove.
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  798.  @B2BWide  That’s a good saying! I think Trevor Jacob is one of those rich kids with more money than intelligence. That’s probably enough of a fence to keep most poor fools from trying to imitate him.
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  799. Agreed that Ukraine needs higher altitude air defense. That said, the Starstreak has an effective altitude of 5 km. That’s about a km. greater than the Stinger. The Russian Air Force was already pretty weak on providing close air support for soldiers on the ground. The Starstreak will make it even harder if not impossible. There’s a very high probability that Russian AF lacks PGMs to conduct attacks on Ukrainian Air Force and air defense assets. The evidence? Ukrainian pilots are still flying, aren’t they?
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  800. Keep trying. Combine the whisky with other mind altering substances. Eventually you’ll hit upon the right combination that will give you permanent artificial intelligence.
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  801. If this tank was knocked out by a javelin, it wasn’t high velocity, but rather a shaped charge. A shaped charge as you might know, cuts a hole into the armor somewhat like a plasma torch. The counter measure for this is explosive reactive armor, which causes the shaped charge to prematurely detonate, but the latest generation of AT weapons (such as the Javelin) have a two stage payload to defeat this. Older AT weapons do not. However, we’ve seen video of captured Russian tanks that shows the ERA containers filled with cardboard! The tankers might have thought they had some protection against AT weapons, but apparently they did not due to incompetence, unpreparedness, or corruption.
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  802. They thought (or maybe even had been promised) that the military was going to join in, and that Trump would publicly and explicitly call for an insurrection. Say what you will about Trump, he’s much too slippery to give that sort of direct support. He works through innuendo and having others do things for him. It’s an indication of how delusional these folks are, and an indication of how slick the president’s middle men are.
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  803.  @carmenmccauley585 If you’re choking on pronouns, you should go to the ER.
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  804. I saw some stormchaser video of the tornado at Rolling Fork. It’s night time, but the flashes of lightning illuminate it and it looks like a huge wedge. All of a sudden, there are lights whirling around in the funnel, going up way high. It took me a moment to realize they were cars.
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  805. Call her Trump’s traveling companion.
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  806. Yes, we who watched the video know that.
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  807. If you cannot afford gas or groceries in this economy, you’re doing something wrong. Did you take out some bad loans or make some other poor life decisions?
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  808.  @notsure6218  You find nothing unique about this case or the defendant that would differentiate its handling from how yours was handled?
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  809. SWORN STATEMENTS (from thousands of lunatics).
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  810. I knew it! CIA weather control! 😉
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  811. I’ve worked on plenty of low budget pictures that involved simulated gunfire. I’ve never been on location in New Mexico, so I don’t know what they do there. I’ve never seen anyone involved in the recreational activity of plinking, either during the working day or after the day was wrapped. Even on the most modestly budgeted movie, the armorer kept weapons and the prop ammunition under lock and key until they were needed on set. When a set up was complete, the actors immediately turned the guns (whether real or non-firing) over to the armorer, even if they would be used in the next set up. This is obviously for safety, but it’s even more basic than that. If we were talking about any other prop, you would never allow an actor or crew member to leave the set with it. Imagine a crew member wandering off with a prop book because he or she was bored between takes! It would never be permitted! The idea of crew (other than prop master or property assistants) taking ANY prop off the set is ridiculous, and I really have to wonder about the professionalism of that crew in New Mexico—and the producers who hired them. The prop master, the armorer, and the ADs (not just Hall) were not doing their jobs if they allowed this behavior anywhere near the set. The boredom of downtime is not an excuse, nor is it a satisfying explanation.
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  812. Funny how the trolls and Russian apologists managed to derail this conversation. Your point stands, and the contention that the attack on Kyiv was a feint is more bankrupt apologia. It’s like Peewee Herman crashing his bike and declaring “I meant to do that”.
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  813. Tag them as liars, then don’t respond further. It is useless debating a liar. These lying trolls are actively trying to hurt us, and their motivations, politics or delusions are unimportant. It’s enough to know they are sociopaths. Tag them as liars, then don’t engage with them.
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  814. Meh, doesn’t sound different from the public sector, i.e., normal government contracts. 😅
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  815. No, we don’t know that. But feel free to make any assumptions you want.
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  816. Those MDFers.
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  817.  @gavinw77  being. Cartoonist and then also saying asinine things in public does not make one a “political cartoonist”.
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  818. “So many people” = a handful of Russian operatives with multiple accounts. Yet, despite the efforts of these GRU troll farms, they’re losing the propaganda war. Their lies have become more and more obvious and they’ve become easy to identify. And frankly, I think fewer of them have their heart in their work.
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  819.  @matirion  But the “intended for disposal” argument falls apart if an individual intends to give the unwanted material to another. What about used furniture that the owner wishes to get rid of? Does that become property of the state? What if it’s broken? Should a handyman be prohibited from fixing it and repurposing it? If the answer is “the state owns it”, Goodwill and the Salvation Army are in a lot of trouble. They’ve been breaking the law for years.
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  820.  @wboyle5899  Good to see you, Mr. Boyle. Greetings from 🇲🇽.
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  821.  @ohsweetmystery  No, but it needs to be amended. There is good justification for such laws. However, there is also clearly abuse of the qualified immunity laws. The solution is to take away the ability to abuse the law while still protecting government from frivolous law suits and individuals from doing their jobs in a lawful manner. What you are recommending would bog down governments and eat up budgets.
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  822. Thank you for the thoughts, Adriel. While there might be incidents in the days and weeks to come, Trump’s “forces”, his most fanatical supporters are already sickening from spreading the coronavirus amongst themselves. The rest are keyboard warriors. They were afraid to leave their homes before the Pandemic.
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  823.  @joshualawson1579  Not to mention keeping the United States intact. So maybe the land grant colleges are #3 at best.
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  824. 👍 100%.
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  825. Did you get the worm’s autograph?
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  826. Again the “fine print disclaimer” 🤪 hahahaha, the best part.
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  827.  @SquillagusNiggle  Regarding pinging of random things adding to operator inattention, I think we should return to the matter of the drones and/or drones. What if drones had been dogging the ship over the course of the previous seven weeks. Not necessarily weapon carrying drones, but surveillance drones, etc. If you were the on the Ukrainian side, you could also probe the Moskva to determine at what distance she would consider a drone a threat and fire on it. As time went on, you’d dial back the drone activity, but always make sure there were a few drones moving in and out of the Moskva’s radar. The operators would become accustomed to a few bogies on the screen, to far away to be a threat, and you wouldn’t want to waste valuable AA missiles on them unless they come too close.
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  828. It’s certainly within his right, up to a point. That point is can the actual challenges in court change the outcome, and the answer to that is no. In court, one must show credible evidence to back one’s claims. After a certain point, further litigation is frivolous and should stop. Trump has exhausted his right. His wild and damaging claims made outside of court are also his “right” (as in the right free speech). However, he’s not only telling lies, he’s doing great and long term damage to the country. It’s immoral, unethical, and irresponsible. If he had credible evidence for any of his claims, it would have been presented within the past month. Al Gore had the right to challenge the 2000 election that he lost to George W. Bush. And he got two recounts in Florida (where the court challenges took place). It was during the third recount that the Supreme Court stepped in and said, “enough”! Al Gore had exhausted his right to challenge the counting of votes. Realizing this, he conceded, and then . . . HE SHUT UP. He did not continue grousing, whining, or complaining. He did not try to undermine the public’s faith in elections, for the good of the country. It would have been his right to do so but he didn’t because he’s a decent human being, whatever his liberal shortcomings. (And yes, I’m a conservative who left the GOP when it became clear that its shift to Authoritarianism couldn’t be stopped.)
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  829.  @Maggie-zr2ow  I recommend learning a smattering of Spanish from free apps or websites! There’s a couple of reasons to do this: One, it’s just generally enriching, and you might find it useful at home or while traveling. Two, someday you might be able to help a Spanish speaker in some way, either trivially or in an emergency. For example, I once helped an elderly couple by translating to a pet store clerk that they needed help getting a heavy bag of dog food the the check out and then to their car. Another time I was able to direct someone to the hospital (I don’t know that it was an emergency, but it could have been). It wasn’t complicated, I just told them to continue straight and they’d see it on the left. With the little Spanish I knew, I decided on a vacation to Mexico back in 2004, and I attended a school while there to learn more Spanish (There are schools geared toward visitors where you can take classes for a week.) I fell in love with the area I visited and seven years later I retired there. The point is, learning a language can open up your horizons!
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  830. Giving other people their opportunity to talk is not silencing you.
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  831. It’s a bit ironic that the antivaxxers that accuse us of being human guinea pigs in vaccine experiments are also guinea pigs (by their way of thinking, not mine). They’re just choosing to be in the control group. 😫
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  832. Zelensky visited and brought a battle flag to give to the U.S. Congress, so . . .
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  833. Gep Schroeder was personally enriched. I hadn’t heard anything about Merkel before this video.
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  834.  @JL-kf8mw  She doesn’t want to be served mental illness because she already ate. She’s full. Why is that hard to understand? Now, if we can just convince her to take her medications.
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  835. When I was a kid, my next door neighbors invited me to a powwow. I knew they were Native Americans, but had little idea of how important their culture was to them. They didn’t exactly hide it, but they were private about it. The morning of the powwow, they brought forth their powwow dress. I had never seen anything like it up close. And it was then that I remembered my friend’s older sister was always going bead work. She was now proudly wearing the elaborate product of her labors. That’s what I remember most clearly from that day—the beadwork on all their powwow clothes. The rest is a whirl. I think I was about 7 or 8.
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  836.  @MrGreg771  you got sand in your vatnik.
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  837. We can recognize the self-serving factors in France’s decision without taking away the moral motivations and the greater interest served by sending these planes to Ukraine.
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  838.  @fullm3taljacket  and I agree with your doctors that fetal alcohol syndrome is to blame for your inability to think.
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  839.  @NightStalkers-hx3dq  They acted on information without checking it, and then they acted unlawfully. Was the animal stolen or wasn’t it? If it was, it’s evidence in a criminal case. You do not return it to the owner until the case is resolved. If the answer is, “we’re not sure because there is a dispute over ownership”, you do not merely return it to the person claiming it was stolen. You hand the animal to the court, as Steve outlined. The Sheriff’s office did not act according to law in this case, and they own a share of the blame. Law enforcement does not judge matters of ownership. They do not judge enforceability of contracts. They do not get to award pet custody. Judges have the authority to do that an not the police. You get the point? Even if the assumption had proven to be correct, the Sheriff’s department acted contrary to law.
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  840.  @Jakob_DK  You’re thinking of a different band, Däs Bëëtles. They went on to found the Volkswagen company.
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  841. @UCj7FdTg_IvMG71pLnn3uQzg This is the first time I’ve seen a comment from an account literally 1 minute old.
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  842. It’s looking probable that the suspect was an anti-5G nutter and that was his motive for attacking ATT. I think that’s still terrorism, but I know it doesn’t meet some definitions because it’s not primarily political.
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  843. It’s kind of insulting to use that name. Call him by his correct name, The Perdue Wonderchicken.
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  844. You can rightfully decide if it’s a valid excuse, but I think most of us understand the historical basis for Germany’s early reluctance. And let’s be honest, the German defense forces have been a shitshow for over 20 years. Frankly, I’m surprised that Germany is turning around as quickly as it is.
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  845. Please tell me more about this Lowe-coin.
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  846.  @mntlblok  Tofu ain’t that great in compression, either.
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  847.  Savethe Ypepo  If you actually read 1984, which I doubt, you missed the whole point of it.
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  848. He visto uno video de Dr. John, doblado en español. It’s old, from 7 months ago. It came up when I was searching for videos en español on the topic of Vitamin D.
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  849. “It was a nice day. I wanted to go for a bike ride. So I rented a tricycle. This got me thinking about chariots and how I am a proud member of the Master Race.” 😂 Is this guy for real? Did anyone notice his backing music? 🤣 I love how his Nazi followers have brigaded this video’s comments. This video hits them where it hurts, right in their cracks. I mean, right in the cracks of their theories.
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  850. Do you mean appearances on behalf of themselves and to spout their opinions, or on behalf of clients, to get the clients’ stories out to the public? Because the latter type of appearance is perfectly kosher.
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  851. What’s amazing is that there was no overall commander before his appointment. No one was coordinating the Russian forces.
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  852.  @harryamos7869  Agreed, but we shouldn’t let the Kremlin define what is an escalation so easily. Declaring captured territory as “Russian” should be ignored as a trigger. That goes for Crimea and Donbas, too.
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  853. @JaceBass territory supposedly controlled by Russia, right? Russia doesn’t have the manpower to both occupy (control) territory it has gained and continue advancing towards its strategic objectives. Nor does it have sufficient quantities of troops to maintain a broad front. It’s constantly at risk of flanking maneuvers and surprise attacks in the rear. This is why Putin is resorting to criminal attacks on civilians. Terror is the only tactic he has left.
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  854. This James O’Brien is very compassionate to the caller.
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  855.  @MadamKsTarot  Did you feel fulfilled?
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  856. Neat idea. Combine it with AR and it gets even more interesting.
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  857.  @ghignoluv  The opinion polls taken BEFORE the invasion say that for the first time, more than 50% of Finns want to join NATO. I think that’s a huge change from last year when it was in the 40s. Those against are 26% and the remainder are undecided.
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  858. Not now, Aaron.
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  859. There might be reasons but also Ryan is a bit eccentric/flamboyant for a high profile corporate marketing position. He’s got a “star personality” that he shouldn’t suppress. It’s a strength in his other career, where he is the product he’s marketing.
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  860.  @rdklkje13  Bible scholarship (academic): Dan McClellan.
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  861.  @drsaint23  Next he will tell us that protesting the murder of civilians and other atrocities is virtue signaling.
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  862. It’s 2 May today. I do not see how Russia can achieve any political goals at this point. The original goals are unreachable. What intermediate goals are achievable? A land grab? The Ukrainians get a vote on that and Kyiv has made it clear that it will not trade land for peace. As of the last week and a half the west is arming Ukraine with offensive weapons at the same time that Russia is trying to reorganize its forces and grab up as much territory it can in Eastern Ukraine. Expect the Ukrainian counter offensive to occur when Russia has exhausted its own offensive capabilities. If the Ukrainians are successful, they will expel Russia sooner rather than later. Everyday, Ukraine’s hand at the negotiating table gets stronger and Russia’s hand gets weaker. The Russians might even lose Crimea, although some would say that is going too far. Anyway, this summer will see whether Ukraine can fight an offensive war and how well the Russian’s can defend their territorial gains. Russia cannot win. if the Ukrainians are successful, we will see Russia lose sooner rather than later. An attritional war against civilians is not going to work against Ukraine. I agree with Andes that the war is pointless for Russia. Putin has lost his gamble. The war is continuing based on its own moment and according to Russian domestic politics; Putin promised the Russians a victory, and the longer he prolongs the war, the longer he prolongs his own domestic power. It’s hard to imagine Putin clinging to power after Russia loses.
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  863.  @juslitor  I initially doubted reports of entire units refusing orders, but now I am not so sure.
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  864. Exactly this. She is without shame.
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  865.  @nunyobiznezd8496  I dont know if they’re “destroying the eco-system” or not. Probably not, or not to a degree that is significant. Mexicans seem to be pretty good at destroying their ecosystems without outside help. But that said, the Mexican developers are no more local than rich investment bankers from New York building vacation homes in Montana are locals. These guys are probably from Mexico City or some big city and they figured out an angle to sell overpriced lots to gullible new age gringos. Then they help arrange the construction of homes, and make a bundle by overcharging for that. They aren’t locals. They’re grifters, preying on fools with more dollars than sense, just like American grifters.
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  866. 2021 is a fake year. It’s going to be 2020 forever. This is the only way we can stop Biden from stealing the election. Patriots, be ready to stop all clocks before midnight, December 31st!
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  867.  @jorgejiminez-rk1uu  a bot doing bot stuff
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  868.  @downloadcenter5874  The short story contest is two channels over, bruh.
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  869. Bill Kristol. Billy Crystal is a comedian. Both of them are mahvahlous.
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  870. LazerPig fully eviscerated this Gonzalo guy. No argument, just a dissection.
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  871.  @drewstead316  I have a modest proposal.
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  872. Capitalism has been tuned to create growth, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be retuned or tweaked for other purposes. It’s more useful to think of Capitalism as an engine, not as an ideology or religion. As an engine, it has proven itself to be quite adaptable.
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  873. If you can’t afford an island, there’s Florida.
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  874. That’s why he’s dejected. He was expecting huge crowds. This crowd was even smaller than the one at his inauguration.
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  875.  @bayareaartist999  But what was the actual deal? The video says it was bad, but I’m missing the details. No fee checks out. Low interest rates does not. It depends on credit history and score. I don’t think it’s fair to blame losses on one product unless you can break down the losses. All we know for sure from this video is that Apple Card is probably partly at fault, but other products in their consumer banking division could have been responsible, too. I like WSM’s videos, but this video is much too light on details.
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  876. Hahaha, I was going to say, “You think that was a mace? This is a mace!” but my Crocodile Dundee impression is terrible.
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  877. It’s worse than senseless. It will keep you awake at night. “These people spilled their drinks all over the back seat! I can’t take this job anymore!” I am not intending to offend, but the EMTs and ER people I have known over the years all had very dark senses of humor.
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  878. I don’t know if we can determine the legal competence of the defense attorney here. What we do seem to be watching is their incompetency when it comes to choosing clients. I think this Pattis guy is doing the best he can with a client that has not cooperated.
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  879. Hang in there. We’re all getting thru this one day at a time. You must think of this as a collective accomplishment, like surviving a war. Our grandparents and great grandparents went thru worse. Be kind to yourself.
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  880.  @ellomirza  What do you mean by Black Africans? I don’t think that’s an identifier I’ve heard used to describe ancient Homo sapiens or any of the early humanoids. Your question is confusing because you’re asking something about a modern social classification as if it applied to early development or migration patterns. I’ll be frank. I don’t think you know enough about archaeology or biology to be able to ask a coherent intelligent question. I also think you’re not sincerely asking a question, but using a question to set up an assertion.
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  881. The number of never Trumper Republicans speaking at the convention is unprecedented, as far as I can remember. In 2008, Democrat Joe Lieberman endorsed his friend and fellow Senator John McCain and subsequently spoke at the RNC. And that’s all I can remember. It was nothing like this. You know, if the Dems stopped throwing their conservative members under the bus and made room in the tent for conservatives, you might attract some of these folks.
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  882.  @csi1392  TYPING IN ALL CAPS MAKES IT TRUE, COMRADE. TRUMP IS THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD. WE SHALL BUILD A TOURIST RESORT ON HIS GRAVE.
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  883. Lol, Q/MAGA. Try to cope.
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  884. That stink is actually your breath. May I introduce you to the toothbrush and toothpaste conspiracy? The government doesn’t want you to floss, either.
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  885. Haha, I posted the same thing. However, you apparently got the precise quote, while I paraphrased it.
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  886.  @kirotheavenger60  You just lost the argument suggesting it was a stug or hetzer. Anyone else see the issue with this claim? Let’s start with a question: how quickly can the turret of a stug or hetzer traverse. And of course it’s a trick question, as neither of those vehicles has a turret. (Nor would the vehicle be able to turn around to reorient its gun.) Maybe you should stick to games and leave history to the historians.
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  887. The specifics of the “new looser restrictions” were reported in the press, and interestingly don’t all match perfectly. “Unnamed Pentagon sources” are involved no doubt. And since then, a pentagon spokesman made a clarification that the lifting of restrictions were NOT limited to Kharkiv area of operations, and were not limited in the sorts of military targets allowed. Or rather he suggested that they weren’t disclosing the new limitations because makes more strategic sense to not clarify your tactical intentions. It’s kind of funny. They were issuing a clarification that was actually a de-clarification.
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  888.  @thryce82  I get what you’re saying, but political opinion shouldn’t matter in this day and age as long as you’re willing to keep your politics out of your job. So there’s irony involved when an anti-statist goes and works for the state. But in the cases of certain militant groups (neonazis and other white supremacist groups seeking to overthrow our constitutional order), it’s not ironic. Infiltration of law enforcement and the armed services is part of their plan, because the police and military are the biggest obstacle to these fascist seizing power. The military already admits that it has a problem with WSs and Nazis enlisting/infiltrating to recruit others to their cause. Police agencies are beginning to discover this is a problem in their ranks as well, worse than merely racist cops.
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  889. Yeah, the Jones act encompasses a lot of different aspects of maritime activities, not just Pete’s pet peeves. I think he makes a reasonable criticism of those provisions that no longer make sense and are hurting our ability to compete, but I hope this isn’t just a wedge issue to get rid of the act entirely.
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  890. “Do you expect me to talk?” “No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.” I’ve been thinking for quite a while that Putin runs Russia like it’s a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. franchise.
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  891.  @Patriot-of5ee  Can you name the various genders that you purport the Democratic Party believes in? Was it in their party platform? And if it is a core delusional of the Democratic Party, does it harm anyone? How does it affect you personally? Is this analogous to that time you got divorced because the gays wanted marriage equality?
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  892.  @leonlowenstadter9223  Agreed. Although we must grant that politicians can set trade policies that incentivize different forms of economic activity. But the truth is that there wasn’t a general tariff before Reagan that he removed. Under previous presidents, CONGRESS (not the president) enacted targeted tariffs and the Reagan administration and CONGRESS kept some and removed some. So the original claim is deeply flawed and not supported by historical facts. More generally, there is another issue as well: that trade policies and economic policies, once implemented, must be adhered to long term. We suffer from ideological inflexibility that prevents us from making tweaks or shifting our approach to meet current conditions. “Supply Side Economics” might have been be appropriate during the 80s, but didn’t address the economic conditions of the 90s. It’s like heating your house in the winter.
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  893. The official daily requirement might be too low to overcome the deficiency that seems all too common among people not getting sufficient vitamin D from winter sunlight.
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  894.  @Domesticated_Ape  If only there was some sort of economic coalition of countries in Europe of which the UK could be a member. 🤣
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  895.  @seanp9277  lol, you’re still trotting out “the West doesn’t understand Russian military thinking”? 😂 Where is the thinking? We are aware of Soviet offensive doctrines such as Deep Battle. It’s just that we are puzzled to see the doctrine applied so badly.
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  896. Ultra liberal Tip O’Neil and Arch conservative Ronald Reagan were friends. They certainly had their differences, but each one was a person of goodwill. That’s how they bridged the gap and came to solutions.
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  897.  @michaelswagson4457  This might be a future issue when we need to distinguish between civilian androids and battle androids, but using non military gear for military purposes is not a war crime. Camouflaging military equipment to blend in with its surroundings is not a war crime. What you’re thinking of is human soldiers posing as civilians, which is a war crime. If the drone operators are wearing the correct uniform, there is no problem. I think you can make an argument to change warcrime law because spoofing a transponder could lead to undesirable results, but we are talking about what the law is right now.
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  898.  @doomerbloomer6160  You need to cite the part of the regulations that specifically address equipment and then cite a case to show precedent. AFAIK, there is no specific law on military equipment camouflaged as civilian equipment, and no case law. I think arguments can be made that there SHOULD be warcrime laws regarding this. If you’re just offering your opinion about what is right and wrong, and giving your reasoning, then cool. I don’t think anyone would have a problem with that.
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  899.  @2adamast  What laws has the SEC made independently of Congress?
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  900.  @johnwatson1258 This actually happens in successful bailouts. The bailouts get collateralized with bonds. When the company recovers, the government sells the bonds on the open market or whatever, and the funds returned to the budget. You should sue the government for stealing your idea.
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  901.  @ellengran6814  The people you’re talking about have also perverted the meaning of the word “conservative”.
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  902. Did you even watch the video? He talked about ‘Ye.
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  903.  @rodpanhard  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  904.  @parnpichate  You’re using the “ends justifies the means” argument of tyrants and fascists. Tell us about how your ancestors came to the U.S., please, and dispel my suspicion that you’re a “I got mine first, eff everyone who comes after.”
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  905. Yes, it’s a two tier system: those that take a plea deal and those that take their chances.
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  906. @Cups The virus has no will or intention. You don’t understand how random genetic mutations work. You don’t understand probability. Please educate yourself so you can avoid spouting idiocies.
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  907. Well, the papers cited in this video show that there has been interest and research based on a virus that emerged about a year ago. There could have been more resources put into it, as the science behind Vitamin D is well established. We (meaning our medical/scientific community) understand the mechanisms by which Vitamin D functions as part of our metabolism. I think the slowness of promoting it or incorporating it are more due to bureaucratic inertia than grand conspiracy. And let’s be frank: researchers have been working on many possible therapies and prophylactics, with many dead ends. And there are unscrupulous leaders that have been fraudulently pushing the repurposing of some medicines, diverting resources away from more promising leads. You see this with the push for anti-parasite treatments with little to no applications as anti-viral medications, a push not backed by evidence, but with disinformation, distortion and outright lies.
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  908. They didn’t have a good back up plan. The pilot that was able to regain control of the plane should have picked up the other pilot and dropped him off at the spinning plane before it crashed. That’s what Bugs Bunny would have done.
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  909.  @perfectman3077  the two barbed pointy bits. An anchor looks like a double hook, right? At the ends of the hooks are the flukes.
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  910. And sadly, compared to your neighbors to the south, Canada is still handling the pandemic well.
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  911. “The Almighty Dollar” is an idiomatic expression.
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  912.  @devalapar7878  A clear eyed pacifist knows that pacifism must be defended. Aggressors and belligerents go after the weak. Strong defense deters aggression. Having lots of friends can deter aggression if you can pool defensive resources. I think there’s a long held misperception that “Cold Warriors” were bloodthirsty war-loving Hawks. I think that the truth is that they were both peace loving and realistic about how to keep the peace.
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  913.  @stevemaxwell5559  There should be a new Perun video today or tomorrow! See y’all there! 😀
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  914. Trump Fatigue Syndrome. We’re not deranged, we’re just exhausted by Trump and the prospect of four more years of him.
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  915. Correct , H2 has 2 protons. But a single Helium atom has two protons and 2 neutrons. (Afaik, Helium doesn’t form diatomic molecules at gaseous temps.) But what do we mean by larger and smaller? The mass? The physical width of the nuclei?
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  916.  @t.r.campbell6585  That is probably impossible. I’m not sure it’s desirable. What is not only possible but also necessary is people using politics to impose their religion on others. That’s one of the things “Christian” Nationalism represents.
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  917.  @autumnberend828  A frikkin’ casino, though? Bankruptcy isn’t a common business practice. It happens when a company is mismanaged or when unforeseen circumstances (for example, a spike in input cost, major changes in regulations, or natural disaster) arise. Trump mismanaged his casinos, over-leveraged them, and was unable to make interest payments. Do you know how hard it is for a casino to lose money?
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  918.  @zachrywd  what could be worse? Arriving at Disneyworld and finding out they’re closed that day?
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  919. Yes, the traditional commander’s vacation. Notable generals like Napoleon, Eisenhower, and Zhukov all went on Spring Break every year. Kinda sucks for this Russian general that all the cushy Black Sea alcohol rehabs have been closed since the start of the war.
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  920.  @stuartmorley6894  You can’t expect someone with a screen name like that to understand complicated topics.
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  921.  @garyfumeaux9226  reported as spam
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  922.  @Bubs0271  It’s the court governing trailer park crimes.
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  923.  @calvinrichards1663  You’ll have to explain exactly how a university supports a foreign country. They send a check? Maybe they buy all their pencils from Israel? I actually have a good idea of how a university can be said to support a country, but I am checking to see if you’re someone with low information.
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  924. Accents are weird things. I’m native born Californian, English is my first language, but I’ve grown up around Spanish my whole life. I like to joke that Spanglish is my first language, but it’s only a tiny bit true. I didn’t really become fluent in Spanish until after living in Mexico for a few years. So here’s the deal. I’ve got a gringo accent to my Spanish. I work at it, but I’ll probably always have it to some extent. It’s worse when I’m tired. But the funny thing is this: when I’ve been in Mexico for a while, immersed in Spanish, and I come back to L.A., I speak ENGLISH with a Mexican Spanish accent for at least a few days. I’m not trying to! And I’ll get words mixed up sometimes. Now my mother was born and raised in South Pasadena, California. He father was born and raised in Hawaii, the son of plantation workers who came to L.A. in the 1910s. My mother used to go visit her cousins on the Big Island, and they all spoke Hawaiinized English. Sort of like pidgin, but not really. They all can speak English perfectly if they need to. My mother would come back from her visits with this accent. It was pretty funny. And she could do it on command, but right after a trip it was unconscious. So I’m not saying that Hilaría isn’t nuts, but she has been fluent in Spanish from a young age and spent long periods immersed in Spanish speaking environments. We shouldn’t jump to conclusions about her accent.
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  925. They didn’t have to.
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  926. My speculation is that she advised folks to delete material evidence from their phones. It would be a different matter if she advised people to not take video or photos in the first place, but advising deletion after the fact is destruction of evidence and obstruction of an investigation.
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  927. Did you watch the video? The accounts where the money is, is FDIC insured, if the banks go bankrupt. The fintech “banking platforms” partner with real banks with FDIC insurance. But the “banking platforms” are not banks, so they do not qualify for FDIC. The money didn’t vanish, nor did the banks go bankrupt. The banking platform (Yotta) relied on another company to handle customer and bank transaction services (synapse). Synapse went bankrupt and shut down. After they shut down, there was apparently no way to access the customer information. People were told their money was being stored in FDIC insured accounts, and that part was true. Their money is still there in the accounts, but the records held by Synapse or Yotta are gone.
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  928.  @FallGuyManiac  They didn’t realize the full nature of their mistake at the were notified of it by the plaintiff’s lawyers. According to one account that I read, the defense attorneys didn’t send documents, per se. They sent a link to a file server that contained the data that was on the phone. The file server belonged to a previous attorney on the case. If this is true, it’s possible that Jones’ attorneys didn’t know what was on the server. If this is what happened, it would explain why Jones wasn’t warned.
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  929.  @phildoodler2199  <— TROLL & DISINFORMATION AGENT
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  930. I appreciate it. I want your analysis but sometimes I have an hour or more and sometimes I don’t. And no offense, but there are only two to whom I guarantee an hour: Perun and Tim Snyder’s Ukrainian history course at Yale. I promise you that if your presentations are 30 minutes or less, I will 100% watch ASAP. Longer than that, I might watch or I might keep putting it off. All that might sound like a back-handed compliment, so let me be clear: I value your thinking, your work, and your knowledge. I respect and appreciate you.
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  931. They held back. Going all the way: robot puppy
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  932. Apparently it was the townspeople that defeated the pay raises, not the elected leaders.
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  933. NATO never said that, and never had that intention. Stop justifying the slaughter of civilians.
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  934.  @stylecollective-qt9um  Honestly, I don’t think it’s worth saving or can be saved. The white supremacist cancer is inoperable. I was a Republican for 26 years. I was well aware of the racism that existed in the party and tried to fight it. I knew it went deep, but I had no idea how deep until Trump was elected. We conservatives can form another party, based on conservative and democratic principles. If we can elect congresspeople, they can caucus with the Democrats until the GOP is a distant memory.
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  935.  @ipetrik6390  Ricardo feels guilty about being sexually attracted to men.
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  936. Keep in mind this is a campaign ad for 2022, not an exhaustive list.
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  937. Great interview, Jonathan! I would love it if you could get Mark Galeotti back. Two months later and the military picture looks different. I wonder what Mark thinks. I wonder if he thinks the war situation has changed with the liberation of Ukraine or if it is fundamentally the same. I feel fortunate to have discovered your channel. There’s lots of experts here that I haven’t come across who I look forward to watching, and a few with whom I am familiar (probably how your channel entered my recommendation feed). For example, Mark is new to me while I’ve already seen a lot of Vlad Vexler and General Hodges. One area of curiosity is the blending of the Russian government with Russian organized crime. I’ve never made a deep study of this topic, but I’ve somehow managed to form a perception that I want to check. My perception is not so much based on portrayals of the Russian Mafiya in mainstream western popular culture (movies and such), but from the talk of Russian emigres, a few of Bruce Sterling’s short stories in the early 90s, Solzhenitsyn, and living among Armenian emigres in Los Angeles. I’m sure that my understanding is distorted and/or incomplete. My understanding is roughly this: Elements of the criminal underground were already being absorbed into the CHEKA during Lenin’s time. Criminals were useful as informants and enforcers. Later, as the political elite began demanding smuggled luxuries (jeans, jazz records, and whatnot), smuggling became important. These activities were overseen by the KGB, resulting in KGB officers becoming crime lords and crime lords becoming KGB over decades. Quite a lot of this activity occurred on the periphery of the Soviet Union, which brings in the Armenians (and Chechens?). This was the foundation of the the Kleptocracy and the Oligarchs when the Soviet Union fell. How far off the mark am I? Edit: I am just now watching the interview of Dr. Felshtinsky!
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  938.  @trnguy6137  How so? Maybe you’re referring to a very few high profile cases and basing your opinion on the outcomes of those cases? There are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of civil and criminal cases decided every year. Have you done any sort of analysis of all these cases to come to any conclusions of whether justice is being done or not done? I think that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Maybe you’ve formed an opinion based on very little evidence, maybe you’re just repeating B.S. you’ve been told on social media, maybe you’re just trolling. Whatever the case, you’re out of your depth, Donny.
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  939. It was the dog’s breakfast aspect that I loved. It was a a return to form in a way, sketches loosely tied together thematically and absurdly.
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  940. Trump’s lawyer isn’t violating the law, afaict. He would be if he failed to register. There are major security concerns and ethical conflict-of-interest concerns, but being a foreign agent isn’t illegal.
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  941.  @component9008  Almond farmers.
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  942. I think he recently read a biography of Mussolini. But seriously, I heard that his top general resigned and Lukanhesko faces a mutiny if he tries to send troops. They just won’t obey an order to go fight for Putin. I don’t know if this is just a rumor or if it’s been confirmed by independent sources.
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  943.  @ConvairDart106  We found out how ingrained racism still was/is. Better to know the truth. My mother, her parents, the family, spent WWII in an Arizona concentration camp. My aunt was born in that camp. I’ve encountered racism and I’ve seen it against black Americans, mexican American, and others. Despite all that, I was very surprised to see how extensive racism had remained over the last four years, when the racists stopped hiding it. But now we know it’s there in ways we didn’t before. Trump isn’t the first racist president, but he’s the first president since the Civil War to run as a racist with a racist platform. It’s important to remember that, and in the years to come, if we have friends that supported Trump, we need to ask them why they thought it was OK to support a racist. By the way, I’m a conservative. I’m an ex-Republican, because the racism in the GOP preceded Trump. He’s just the face of it now.
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  944. 1) How do you define “rampant migration patterns”? Your choice of words seems to suggest that immigrants make you feel uncomfortable. 2) Are you saying that immigration causes lower birth rates? Do you have any evidence of this? I might be reading too much into your comment, but you sound like one of those people who has a fear of being replaced by immigrants.
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  945. The beauty of this informative series is that it can be used by any politician, regardless of party.
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  946.  @Bigcrusha16  This will be much more like a Kherson Rout than a Kharkiv Rout. Just look at a map and you’ll see what I mean. 😊
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  947. Show some respect for clowns.
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  948. I’ll take $600 today over $2000 never.
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  949. It remains to be seen. I would caution against the oversimplified view that Mexico will become the industrial base of the U.S. What we have seen so far is more complicated. What has developed is an integrated cross border industrial base that has benefited all three NAFTA countries. I think the energy cap of which you speak might be a bargaining chip for the NAFTA III negotiations which will begin in a couple of years. Or it might be a concession given to domestic U.S. energy companies, to support prices. ¿Quien sabe? 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  950. 1) Polling hasn’t caught up to this story 2) There are a lot more racists than you thought there were in the U.S. This includes folks not actively racist, but who are sympathetic to racists and susceptible to racist propaganda.
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  951.  @lucaniouspetrenko9404  Incorrect, the dead were Russian contract killers and Russian soldiers who removed their insignia from their uniforms. The Azov Brigade espoused ultra-nationalism, not much different from what your dear Vladimir Puto preaches—the main difference being that it wasn’t expansionist. I have little sympathy for extremist ideologies of any type, but Ukraine was smart in how they handled Azov. They put it under military discipline, and then watered down the extremist ideologues by expanding the unit. The extremist politicians that were affiliated with Azov were voted out of office and their views generally discredited. Ukraine is more democratic today than it was 8 years ago. When you point your finger at Ukrainian naziism, you’re pointing three fingers back at your own extreme form of fascism—Putinism.
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  952. The real problem here isn’t the flaw, but the thin skinned governor trying to escape responsibility. Vulnerabilities exist. Sometimes they exist for years before being discovered. Back in 2011, many organizations were playing catch up. Some organizations didn’t have human resources specifically devoted to security or a security mindset. The correct response would be to accept responsibility and outline the steps taken to mitigate the mistake and steps being taken to prevent future vulnerabilities. Praise should have been given to the reporter and newspaper for holding the story until the flaw could be fixed. That could have been the end of the story. The governor might have taken a small hit for one day, but I doubt most voters would really understand the issue. The governor could even have parlayed the incident into a political positive: “we made a mistake, we took action, and by golly, we will not let this happen again! Hooray for us, being responsive to a crisis!”
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  953. Bernard, take a welding class. You can find a weekend class that will teach you the basics of stick welding. I think you’d enjoy the class. You’d come away with a better understanding of the manufacturing process. And you can ask your welding instructor about the box welds.
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  954.  @cstran3  I’ve taken ivermectin several times for its intended use. I’ve never seen actual worms. 🪱 Generally, the indication is seeing evidence of the worms in my stool. Worms shed their skin, and it shows up in the stool as tiny white segments, about as thick as a very thin thread. I can tell that it’s been effective when my stool is clear of the threads. I once messed with a epidemiologist online by asking him if it was safe to keep the worms for a while, until I lost 20 pounds. I called it the “worm diet”. He was shocked and very upset, and I had to apologize for pulling his leg. 😆
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  955.  @juno1597  I’d argue the opposite. China and the US (and the rest of the world) are equally dependent on TSMC, and if either or both are reliant, Taiwan is safe. It’s only if both China and the U.S. aren’t dependent that Taiwan is less safe.
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  956.  @ablemagawitch  In my teen years, we used to sneak onto The Universal Studios lot through a variety of ruses—generally by disguising ourselves as PAs. We never did anything that would get us into trouble (other than the initial trespass). We never got chased by security, for example. I later went to work on the crew side. Some set construction, but mostly grip dept.
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  957.  @tissuepaper9962  don’t forget constantly picking up the pool poop.
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  958.  @JinKee  I think the idea is that you’re flying low and fast, and that you’ll blow past any MANPADS before they react, while also avoiding the larger SAM radar. Anyway, this is a really bad way of doing CAS. It used to be the only way, really, until the development of precision guided munitions, which allows CAS from aircraft many miles away and very high up. Strafing runs are quickly becoming a thing of the past, and the “close” of Close Air Support is unrelated to the proximity of the aircraft to the fighting that it is supporting.
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  959. Can he be promoted any higher than he already is?
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  960.  @sweett2185  It’s better to get a book deal while out of prison than in prison. 😂
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  961. Yes, he should do a video on Trump’s tariffs. He should do it a month ago. Oh, wait. He did do a video on Trump’s tariffs a month ago, and you didn’t bother to look.
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  962. Very good overview of how Soviet politics really F’ed up the Soviet Union’s ability to respond to German aggression. More could be said about the political appointments of incompetent “loyal party members” to leadership positions, the effects of political komissars meddling with military decisions at all levels. You also touched on the problems of manufacturing and logistics, but much more could be said about this to, as there was a major purge of engineers in the Great Purge as well as earlier purges. Much of the prewar fulfillment of quotas was more or less fraudulent/inflated, and a lot of resources were drained off to the “secondary” economy (the black market).
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  963. It’s a Marxist economics term, although Adam Smith refers to “ye olde bagge of cockes” several times in Wealth of Nations.
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  964.  @johnjacobjinglehimerschmid3555  OK, I’m probably thinking of the lithography machines with the luxury package. You know, the leather upholstery, the deluxe clear coat, 4-zone climate control, and alpaca floor mats. 😉
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  965. His legal team is tranquilizing him to prevent outbursts and contempt of court charges.
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  966.  @tronalddump6620  I hear you. I found him entertaining at first, like 25 or 30 years ago. Not everyday, but a couple of times a week while driving. Eventually I couldn’t ignore his cynicism and intellectual dishonesty, both of which he put into the service of hate and of his personal ambition as he grew more and more successful. He tilled the soil that has led to Trumpism and a resurgence of White Nationalism (that is hopefully peaking). I still consider myself a conservative. I long ago decided that Limbaugh merely hid his selfishness behind a facade of conservatism.
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  967. Learn Spanish and visit Monterey, Queretaro, and Puebla. Optional: San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, and León. These aren’t tourist cities. They’re centers of economic development. Work your academic network (assuming you still have one) and make contacts in Mexican academia to get access. You have an opportunity to leverage your current specialty and expand your client base (or advance in your organization). I’m sure you’re already considering this. But if you’re not, give it some thought.
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  968. EVERY FUCKING TIME. You specifically mentioned peacetime spenders, but let’s not forget that during Bush’s wartime presidency, the GOP was giving out tax breaks to the wealthy like candy on Halloween. I remember Cheney and Rumsfeld both saying the war “would pay for itself”.
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  969.  @MJJFilms  We actually don’t know all the nations and leaders, because Pompeo is intercepting and blocking those calls and communications that are going to the State Department.
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  970.  @Belgarath1966  from one account, the attorney wasn’t even in possession of the phone/files. The attorney had a link to a server containing the files. The server was owned by one of the previous attorneys. It’s possible that the attorney did a cursory check of the files, saw material they had already produced, and didn’t really know what was in all the files. That would have been the mistake: Incorrectly assuming you knew what was on the server before sending the link.
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  971.  @HarryPujols  If he had said immigrants who came illegally, he could have shown a photo of Melanie.
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  972.  @primordialmeow7249  He does make good points, but he only uses the points to throw up obstacles. Where is the Toomey Proposal to get money and resources to the most desperately needy?
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  973. ⁠ @DogeickBateman  That is incorrect. The Nazi war industry was a fair target in WWII. Please go ahead and explain why you think it wasn’t.
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  974. ⁠ @nissimtrifonov5314 I’m going to use this reply to address both your comment and that of Dean Perkins. It’s simple. Revenge might be emotionally satisfying, but it is neither a sound military strategy nor is it moral. Specifically to Dean saying that I make my comment because I’m comfortable and away from danger, I think that Dean is also in a place of comfort and not currently threatened by war. I think the reason he makes his “argument”, is because I’m foreclosing on his revenge fantasies. Sorry, Dean. Doing the right thing often means doing something different from your emotional reaction. That’s why doing the right thing is sometimes harder than doing what comes naturally. The question here isn’t whether an action is understandable. The question is whether it is moral and ethical.
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  975. His beard looks like iron shavings held in place with magnets.
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  976. Do you know how Congressional representatives are elected? Do yourself a favor and get a good grounding in basic civics.
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  977. It’s good Pete is OK with that because the alternative is to be not OK with it while having no real solution to one’s dissatisfaction at present. People are working on it.
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  978.  @OilBarron84  STOP with your QAnon nonsense and disinformation.
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  979. The pandemic keeps getting scarier, largely because people are refusing to take in information that is scarier.
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  980. And also, aviation regulations. One important rule of aviation is that passengers must obey the orders of the pilot-in-charge and his or her flight crew. In the U.S., this is under Federal Aviation Regulations (F.A.R.), but it holds true for any country according to their own regulations.
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  981.  @juniorjames7076  It’s more of a CDMX problem. Any digital nomad who chooses to live on the border is a dummy. I don’t think the resort towns are worse than any other big resort town in the U.S., tbh. The horror stories I’ve heard regarding resorts has more to do with scammers or looking for recreational drugs or whatnot. As far as other parts of Mexico, avoid ostentation, get to know your neighbors, and learn to be situationally aware. Making 4x the salary is nobody’s business (and it’s not the people making a quarter of what you earn you have to worry about). Sure, there’s still going to be those that resent gringos, but they’re going to be mostly middle class and upper class brats.
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  982. It’s the most intentionally cruel. The incompetence and corruption of the administration’s and GOP’s response to the Pandemic is the absolutely most cruel thing they have done.
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  983.  @Korwin_Mikke23  <— Troll Usually an Antivaxxer, but this time seems intent on just stirring up general shit. Don’t engage with its bullshit.
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  984. I’m not sure, but I hope you are never in charge of anything.
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  985. She had damaged her own life previous to this. She just came off probation in October for trying to frame someone for blackmail (she falsely accused someone of blackmail and fabricated the evidence).
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  986. Or disguise it as something else. He should get ant tattoos on his cranium.
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  987. IF these are being sent to the front, maybe they are being provided to PMCs like Wagner.
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  988. One of my favorite movies is “Culito’s Way” with Ass Pachinko.
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  989. Thanks for the good news from back home. My fingers are crossed for your daughter, my friends and family, my city (L.A.) and state.
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  990. I wonder how the pandemic will change the demographics. On one hand, minorities suffer worse outcomes (probably due to healthcare disparities. On the other hand, white Trump supporters seem to go out of their way to catch and spread the covey amongst themselves.
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  991. I’m predicting that this fellow won’t be released on bail, due to his being a flight risk.
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  992. Is Canada considered a poor country or merely a pitiful country? 🥺 Just kidding my NAFTA brothers and sisters.
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  993.  @dapsolita  no, but it might be useful to see fascism as the political expression of narcissism, particularly the cult-of-personality component. Fascism has some elements beyond or orthogonal to the issue of narcissism.
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  994. It can be, but there’s a handful of basic principles that make it fairly straightforward most of the time.
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  995. Keep safe, don’t fall prey to the QAnon trolls. Continue watching Dr. John. He goes over mortality figures. Right now they look very low, like a 0.003% mortality rate. That’s three people in one hundred thousand. However, your concern is about the long term, so keep an eye on that number and see if it changes. Give yourself a window. Tell yourself, “In six months, I’m going to weigh all the current informational from credible sources, and either get vaccinated, or set a new window.” And mark it down on you calendar! Pencil it in, you might decide to get vaccinated sooner. 😄 Above all, take care of yourself! Follow the health safety protocols.
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  996.  @rewar5870  You’d be shocked to know that what you’re actually buying probably contains parts sourced in China, and that Chinese manufacturing quality is greatly improved. It’s not all cheap poorly built knock offs.
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  997.  @roqsteady5290  I agree. That doesn’t mean a push isn’t worthwhile if it gets them within easy artillery range of the coastal lines of communication. Yes, Russia still has other supply lines, but choking the coast constrains resupply. The Russians maintained supply lines in Kherson,right? But reducing supply by cutting the main ones while constantly harassing and interdicting the others were a major factor in the liberation of Kherson. If your artillery can fire 100 rounds a day, but you’re only getting 50 rounds, your artillery’s effectiveness has been reduced by 50% (more or less, other factors apply). The bottom line is that there is an argument to be made for a southern offensive, even if taking those big cities is out of reach.
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  998.  @tedg1609  lol, do you really think that there were zero homeless before the 1980s? There have always been homeless in California. However, there have been surges of homelessness that can be correlated with different events. The closing of state mental facilities was the first. Prop 13 maybe the second. The crack cocaine epidemic (and now meth and Fetanyl) created a surge. Importation of the homeless is also something that should be looked at. States have been exporting their problems to California for decades.
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  999. Where did you get that this former policeman is getting his legal fees paid for by taxpayers? I know that several of the insurrectionists have applied for public defenders, but have been turned down as they were not too poor to afford their own attorneys.
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  1000. I was thinking that, too, BUT what was behind the tank? That is unknown to us. Really, these guys needed to be in a different firing position to be effective. That was a waste of a $20,000 NLAW. However, if they can squander an NLAW like that, that means they aren’t in danger of running out, and that’s a good thing. My armchair judgement is: Territorial Defense Force—received valuable OTJ training, Russian Tankers—learned NOTHING.
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  1001. He lived out the rest of his days in Florida. Sounds about right.
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  1002. I think it’s likely that the governor just went off on his rant without consulting anyone with any expertise in the matter. The people that could have corrected him didn’t know a correction needed to made until after the damage was done. After that point, how much effort would YOU make for a politician with such a flawed moral character?
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  1003. Air corridors for civilian and military planes are used to avoid mishaps and friendly fire incidents—it’s one layer of safety that also includes transponders and IFF systems. I wonder if Ukraine has gained info on the air corridors around Engels Airbase and used them to hit the base. This could explain why they shot down their own military jet (if the SAM operators were told to ignore the corridors).
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  1004. Lol, no. But I know what you mean! John’s effort to educate the public is brilliant.
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  1005. The most basic remedy is to vote the governor out of office at the next election. No need for litigation or impeachment.
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  1006.  @andreaorlando7865  omg, the fart video! It’s Rudy’s last ditch attempt, and he’s not holding anything back! Surprised his co-counsel, too.
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  1007.  @gengatuberofficial7009  If he promised them a trip back to Russia, I bet a lot of the mobilized would dessert and join him.
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  1008. If you’re referring to the 18 minute gap in the tapes, I have some thoughts. Material on the rest of the tapes that Nixon turned over was damning enough to warrant both political impeachment/conviction, and criminal indictment/conviction. They had Nixon dead to rights. But a deal was made (or the fix was in, if you prefer). Nixon resigned without putting up a fuss and his successor (Ford) pardoned him, protecting him from criminal prosecution. So what does this have to do with the 18-minutes? I’d like to suggest some possibilities. First of all, it is quite possible that the 18-minutes contained national security information that was so sensitive that it not only had to be redacted, but the redaction also had to be concealed. Second, it’s possible that the 18-minutes contained non-criminal but embarrassing or scandalous material. Lastly, we should consider the possibility(and most unlikely one, but still a possibility) that the 18-minutes were erased accidentally. 😂 I don’t know if Nixon was a better criminal than Trump. He was certainly smarter—he made a deal and avoided criminal charges. At the time, most people thought it was a good deal all around. It would spare the country a traumatic trial if Nixon would just resign in disgrace, get the hell out of DC, and quietly hide in San Clemente. Trump could have made a deal in 2001, returning the documents and flipping on his January 6th co-conspirators. Hahahaha, who am I kidding? Trump is too dumb to ever make a deal that involved admitting he was wrong.
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  1009.  @davidvankainen6711  Why do you think tariffs will apply to services (waste disposal in this case) that Canadians pay U.S. companies to do? We don’t pay for the trash, we get paid for its disposal. It’s not really an industrial input or raw material leading to trade deficits. Seriously, your understanding of trade is deficient. Do you even know the difference between trade deficits and budget deficits? Do you know that reducing the trade deficit won’t reduce the budget deficit?
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  1010.  @tomasescalante2987 That bodes well for NATO if it’s supported by such high calibre academic institutions.
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  1011.  @95601  I get that India is for India, but it has made a bad bet on Russia. The aggression against Ukraine is speeding up Russia’s decline, but that decline has been apparent for quite awhile.
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  1012. Wrt signals intelligence from celular traffic, if you could discover the phone numbers of the relevant Russian commanders, you could have air defenses stand down so you could fly a couple of helicopters behind enemy lines to blow up some fuel tanks.
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  1013. Of course it bothers him. It’s just one more humiliation of his ego, and it’s a signal that his propaganda doesn’t work and he’s losing friends.
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  1014.  @aaronbaker2186  Russia has already lost its larger strategic aims wrt Europe, and every day this conflict drags on, it inflicts economic damage on itself. Germany’s dependence on Russian oil is a weapon Putin can only use once, and the temporary pain it causes is outweighed by the long term pain it inflicts on itself.
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  1015. Freezing to death is the only way for a Russian soldier to keep a stiff upper lip.
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  1016. 12:12 My junk 🍆 is harder than 1 on the Mohs Scale, but please don’t hit it with a hammer of steel or any other material. 😫
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  1017.  @karlhawkes  <—TROLL
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  1018. I registered “Tuna Casserole Monday” in the hopes that I could license it, but so far there’s been no interest. I think you really need alliteration, or it doesn’t work.
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  1019. They pinned down American carriers in the Central Pacific, which allowed operations in the Aleutian Islands to proceed unhindered. Midway is inconsequential. There isn’t even a good source of water there.
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  1020. Rudy is going to get his. We want swift justice, but let’s wait for Trump to lose his pardon power.
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  1021.  @MirelleLaRouge  he was responsible for all of them, was he? Or only some? Can you describe any details of the scandals for which he is responsible?
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  1022.  @jimluebke3869 I don’t think that’s his implication at all. Maybe you’re sensitive about economic conditions in your state? He is saying that we aren’t good at manufacturing because we don’t have the total package, from high end to low end and everything in between. He’s not making a judgement or prescribing that the cure is to keep your state poor. Ask yourself, if wages are low, why isn’t Mississippi an industrial powerhouse already? He goes on to say that Mexico is our manufacturing partner where we find the lower wage manufacturing that helps us stay competitive with China. He describes the trade between Texas and Mexico and how that state and that country benefit. He sort of leaves out the fact that Mexico and Texas also trade their manufactured good with the rest of the world. Mississippi has problems. But the causes of those problems is something other than “the liberals in Washington” or wherever. Nor is the cause of the problems “Capitalism”. If you really want your state to do better, you need to look for the causes. Once you identify them, you develop solutions. And you vote for politicians that understand the problems, their causes, and potential solutions. You’ve got complex problems. You shouldn’t trust easy answers that shift blame onto the left or the right or immigrants or whatever, although part of the problem might be entrenched politicians of both parties.
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  1023.  @timcotterill3952  It didn’t used to be like this. It might sound like a fairy tale, but once upon a time, the GOP was the party of ideas. And the truth is, some of those ideas worked. Some only worked up to a point, and some didn’t work at all. The party was guided by principles, but could use those principles to adapt to constantly changing conditions. (And I’ll admit, sometimes conservative principles were misapplied.) There was also a foundation that conservative Republicans shared with liberal Democrats, the bedrock of American democracy and respect for its institutions. If that sounds weird, it’s because the modern GOP is 180° from where it was. Contrary to what many believe, the cause wasn’t Trump. Trump is a cancer, but the GOP had become fertile ground for such a cancerous polyp long before Trump won the party nomination in 2016. The GOP began changing course (imho) when Newt Gingrich became ascendant. To be frank, Gingrich laid down a red carpet for fascism to enter the GOP.
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  1024. No, all they said is that they recovered a note that they believe was left by the perpetrator. They have not released any information about the contents. Listen carefully when you watch the video again.
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  1025. Nah. He could escape. He just would lose a lot of lucrative gigs. Maybe he’s hoping for a seat on SCOTUS somewhere down the line.
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  1026. I’m an American living in Mexico. Although soldiers are a common sight, AFVs are not, so this was highly informative for me. To be honest, I haven’t given the subject of the Mexican military much thought. I hope this video is successful so you will have motivation to do more videos on Mexico’s military. If you ever want to make a field trip, I’d be happy to help.
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  1027. Many of us carry the weed of racism in the gardens of our hearts. Maybe even most of us, if not all. If our hearts are like gardens, we must always be on the lookout for tiny weeds of hate trying to take root or sprouting from a hidden taproot. I think many people who claim to not be racist are afraid to fearlessly examine their own hearts. They are afraid to find out that they are not the good people they thought they were. You bravely looked within your heart and identified the spiritual weeds that were choking your soul. Let me tell you something about myself that I think you will understand. I’m not a good person. I’m TRYING to be a good person, each and every day. The point is not to become a saint, but to try to be better every day.
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  1028.  @borgazvoda7590  That the 8 million ethnic Russians in Ukraine hate Ukraine is another one of those faulty assumptions that you cling to despite evidence to the contrary. This minority 5th column didn’t rise up as promised. Even now, those most committed to separating from Ukraine in the Donbas are rethinking their positions.
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  1029. I’m dead. Tell the detectives it was Patrick.
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  1030.  @nocx4592  Weeks ago? No, more like months. Remember when they first got close? It was late summer, before the brilliant Kharkiv counter offensive. Wagner had taken Proposna, which was supposed to give it a terrain advantage as it began preparing to attack Bakhmut. It was put on hold in September, but apparently postponed to October and November. Then the troops being pulled out of Kherson were supposed to help. We are talking 4 or 5 months. Three at a minimum.
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  1031. She was thinking of when Trump hides in the bunker. Whenever the Trump people make outlandish claims, there’s a good chance that they’re accusing others of their own behavior, whether it’s hiding in the White House bunker like a coward or committing crimes.
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  1032. My granny used table salt instead of toothpaste when brushing her teeth. I don’t advise it, but it apparently worked for her.
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  1033.  @stcler100  I liked the boxer Mike Tyson’s formulation: Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
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  1034. @Max You’re *finally*, at long last, admitting that Trump lost the election? I guess that’s progress.
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  1035.  @UATU.  I got to give Pelosi some credit. She compromised several times. Mnuchin compromised. McConnell wouldn’t compromise, wouldn’t negotiate. While the House dropped their ask by about a billion, McConnell reduced his offer by 400 billion. These aren’t the acts of a tough negotiator. These are the acts of someone holding the American people hostage. In decades past, I think I’d have been suspicious of Pelosi just on principle. The last 4 years, hell, the last decade has gotten me to try and see it from their point of view. And the facts as I see them is that Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin were negotiating in good faith when McConnell torpedoed their efforts, saying he wouldn’t even put it up for a vote. (Then he tried to pass his own skinny bill, *and couldn’t even get enough Republican votes*.)
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  1036. It might be an occupational hazard for any autocrat clinging to power for more than two decades. The yes-men are all that are left after years of purging, banishing, and worse of anyone with independent views.
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  1037.  @williamholden3662  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  1038. Let’s not forget how this administration has threatened, pressured, and cajoled all schools to open WITHOUT a plan to safely do it. De Vos is another traitor that should be banned from the U.S. entirely.
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  1039. Every two years. How long until you’re the legal voting age?
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  1040. You watch Ryan McBeth.
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  1041. I think you might like the Spanish slang word for such a mess: desmadre — sort of like un-mothered.
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  1042.  @RAEJDER You have to explain logistics in simple relatable terms. The first mistake many explainers make is to use the word “logistics”. Here’s what I might say: Let’s say you and everyone in your family has bad diarrhea and you’re going through toilet paper at an incredible rate. Some kind rich person says he will donate a 5-year supply. However, the fleet of delivery trucks from the factory are too large to fit on your street and deliver it to your door. And even if they could reach your house, where are you going to store it? You need various solutions to store and move the toilet paper so it is ready to hand after you’ve taken a shit. (Now imagine there’s an enemy trying to destroy your toilet paper infrastructure.)
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  1043.  @daverok1113  <— TROLL
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  1044.  @tomjohnson4681  Tom, there are better ways for society to put food on the tables of families during an emergency than making them risk death or illness to themselves, their families, and their communities.
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  1045. The virus doesn’t care about you getting on with your life. It doesn’t care if you’re ignorant (nor does it care if you’re knowledgeable). It doesn’t care if you feel put upon. It doesn’t care if your behavioral pathology is rebellious and immature. It doesn’t care about your precious freedoms. It doesn’t care about your fears about secret government conspiracies. It doesn’t care about your hatred of capitalism or socialism. Viruses do not have will or intention or agency. They just are, and they will continue to do what they do, especially if you refuse to take mitigating action.
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  1046.  @sickandtiredofbeingsickand  Joey sniffs bicycle seats.
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  1047. @paul sroczynski So, congresspeople just pop over to the White House pharmacy to get their prescriptions filled? It’s fascinating all the interesting facts one can learn on the internet.
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  1048.  @jayking8476  the numbers are a little more complicated than that. In 2020, Trump received only 80% of votes from those Republican voters that supported him in 2016. The 2020 GOP get out the vote and registration campaigns were impressive. But they were outstripped by the far more impressive efforts of the Dems. Of that 20% drop off from his 2016 voters, I can’t help but wonder how many found encouragement from the various conservative anti-Trump campaigns, like the Lincoln project? In Georgia, where most of the credit goes to Stacy Abrams’ hard work and organizing, I think even a few percentage points from conservatives voting Democrat or abstaining made a difference. Love your blue heeler, btw.
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  1049. No, that’s a separate issue. That’s why everyone else hates him. “His closest confidantes and supposed supporters are out to get him” is the result of surrounding himself with grifters, crooks, and fellow sociopaths.
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  1050. Be thankful they didn’t use a Bonobo virus as the vehicle or you’d be craving Bonobo 🍑!
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  1051. Probably because they have evidence that the victims didn’t commit the crime, like they were at work at the time it took place or whatnot.
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  1052.  @drooplug  Wouldn’t you say that all these generals and commanders getting killed is a symptom of the top down structure? The Russian NCOs and junior officers aren’t trained in decision making or problem solving skills, nor would they be allowed to make decisions or show initiative when problems arise. So it’s all SNAFU until the general gets there to sort things out, and . . . bang or boom, another general bites the dust.
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  1053.  @daverok1113  <— Troll
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  1054. He doesn’t deserve a medal or a parade, but someone give Matt a cookie. He deserves a cookie at least, and not condemnation or ridicule for being human.
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  1055.  @mathbrown9099  The Vaccine doesn’t treat infection, it is supposed to prevent it. If your state’s death rate is going down, that’s great! But remember death rate data is a “trailing indicator”. It’s an indication that fewer people were getting sick 2-4 weeks ago. If the infestation rates are still going up, here is the danger: your medical infrastructure becomes saturated and then overwhelmed. When this happens, your medical workers are pushed beyond their capacity, quality of care can’t be maintained, and non-Covid medical needs, even urgent ones, don’t get as rapid a response as they would normally. An example of this latter case is someone having a stroke, and not being able to get proper care in time, because the hospital can’t move them to the head of the line. So they die, or have much more serious effects from the stroke. Remember at the beginning of the pandemic, when the talk was about “flattening the curve”? This is what they were talking about, but now it’s more like, “trying to hammer down the spikes”. The new variants are more infectious, meaning they spread more easily. We mustn’t get frightened, but we must not let down our guard. Even if the trends improve (as they have in your neck of the woods), we need to remain vigilant. Look what has happened in Southern California (my home state). The thought they had a handle on it and got too relaxed.
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  1056. Enemy tanks hate this one hack!
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  1057.  @lukebandolino882  Nah. Putin could end this war tomorrow by ceasing hostilities and withdrawing from Ukraine.
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  1058.  @LTVoyager They might not have something called a “Lifetime Ban”, but it’s at the FAA’s discretion whether to grant someone a license when they apply. They can turn Jacob down indefinitely, citing his criminal record and poor judgement if they need to show cause.
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  1059.  @youtubesucks-yx6kk Here’s the thing though: if he had met all those conditions, he’d still need FAA permission, because intentionally crashing your plans for the chuckles and clicks is still against FAR (Federal Aviation Regulations). He would have to request a waiver and part of the request has to include a valid reason for the FAA to grant it. The FAA does not consider publicity, marketing, or doing it for-the-shits-and-giggles to be valid reasons. Put another way, the FAA still regulates and has jurisdiction over the airspace. You can do what you want on your own property, just not in the airspace above your property.
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  1060.  @e_e8921  Possibly, but I have reason to believe that Ukraine is holding its tanks in reserve as the anti-tank strategy is working beautifully.
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  1061.  @immikeurnot  It’s so fewer innocent people aren’t gunned down. LAPD was notorious (and maybe still is) for shooting people with hairbrushes in their hands. A kid with an Airsoft in the wrong place at the wrong time could easily be given a long time out.
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  1062.  @alexandruraresdatcu  Especially if you read and post comments or make videos responding to other videos. I don’t know if it’s true social media for those that purely watch videos without any further interaction with the YouTube site. I don’t think YouTube should get a clean bill of health or a pass, even if it scores better than a dung heap like Xitter.
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  1063.  @MrGreg771  Did someone rain on your parade?
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  1064.  @AndrewMcleod7  It is, but for a presidential address it’s kind of fucked up. I wonder if this was CNN’s decision or Google’s.
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  1065.  @thebeef420  No, he didn’t. It’s not in any of the filings asking for the special master. So, no. That’s not the purpose of the special master. Trump HAS been making the claim in public, however. His statements have come to the attention of the special master, and the special master wants to know what Trump is talking about. What is the basis for Trump’s suspicions? Or is there no basis and is Trump making baseless claims outside of court? The special master wants to know.
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  1066. Kimchi!! There’s a Korean restaurant about an hour away from me that makes their own and will sell it to customers by the kilo (which will last me 2-4 weeks).
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  1067. I’m paying 3700 pesos/month is San Miguel de Allende. At current exchange that’s $177 U.S. What am I getting for this? 2 bedrooms, a sala, a decent sized bathroom, medium sized kitchen. There’s a small room off the sala that’s being used as a home office. The azotea (roof terrace) runs the length of flat, and there is a covered lavandería (laundry area). I’m a 15 minute walk from the centro histórico, in a neighborhood beginning to gentrify. I locked in the rent 8 1/2 years ago—the landlord has raised it 100 pesos each year after the the first year, which is quite reasonable. He pays for water, I pay for my own electricity and gas. When I moved here, the neighborhood was a bit rough, but I’ve lived in worse neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Los Ángeles. But as I said, it’s gentrifying. More rich people, both Mexicans and Gabachos are moving in. The wall of one bedroom faces a busy street, so noise is sometimes a problem. Across the street is a preparatoria, kitty corner is a public high school, a few doors up the street is a kindergarten, and two blocks down is a primary school and the neighborhood’s “commercial district”, i.e., the small grocery stores, produce stores, butchers, etc. My current monthly budget is around $900. I think I could get it down to $400-500 if I was really pressed and went minimalist. But I like my little luxuries, I like ordering things on Amazon, and I like helping friends in need (I’m currently paying for a neighborhood kid’s tuition at a private prep school). I lived in SF in the early 90s, near Lower Haight. Three bedroom, three roommates splitting $865/month rent. Dangerous neighborhood. I moved away in 93, visited in 95 and happened to see the current tenant leaving my old flat. So I asked him what he was paying: $2000/month. I can’t imagine how high the rent is now, 25 years later. Incidentally, I did previously rent what was basically a closet with an even smaller closet in the Castro. That was $300! Mind you, it was a beautiful closet in a beautifully restored Victorian. I bet it’s going for $1500 these days. Of course, you can spend a lot more in SMA, if you want a nicer and safer neighborhood closer to the historic center of town or in one of the wealthy neighborhoods. You can maintain a middle class gringo lifestyle if you’re willing to pay for it (and it will still be cheaper than the U.S.). There are plenty of Americans and Canadians here and they have their own social community. I know of people that don’t bother to learn Spanish! Personally, I’ve given all that up. Over the course of these 8 years I’ve firmly established myself in my community. If the shit hits the fan, they’ve got my back and I’ve got theirs.
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  1068.  @Alex-hu5eg  I speculate that this wasn’t meant to be serious. This is more like Cairo wanting attention from the EU and the U.S. Its possible that there is a faction that would sell arms to Russia, but the leadership wouldn’t allow a deal to go through—internal politics. I don’t doubt that Egypt has legitimate cause to seek Western attention because of the situation in Sudan. That speculation on my part isn’t too far fetched, but I’ll go further: Egypt talking to Russia about Russia’s military needs is providing specific military intelligence to the West.
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  1069.  @jimmiller5600  The original statement was about Congressional approval, not declaration. Congress did approve the Gulf War and OIF, they just did it without a formal declaration of war.
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  1070.  @sarahkragness7138  I really hate when anyone dehumanizes political adversaries, but I’ll make an exception for mtg.
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  1071. Soviets had home field advantage. In the current situation, the Russians don’t. Nor does the Russian army have the logistics, a sufficient number of trained soldiers, or morale on their side.
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  1072.  @o11o01  the story was specific enough to suggest that it did happen one time, and was shared to Ryan by one of his maintainer friends. Just one canopy out of however many cracked canopies over the course of the lifetime of a fighter type? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Maybe it’s bullshit, maybe it’s embellished, but it had the ring of truth.
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  1073. How long did you spend studying historical economics in Italy when you were there? It sounds like you had a fascinating time. Unfortunately, I didn’t quite understand the point you were making. Could you rephrase it?
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  1074.  @coop5329  He doesn’t need to resign to refuse an immoral order. He can just refuse it. When his department disciplines him, he seeks aid and defense from his union. The police unions are often willing to bend over backwards to support bad cops—maybe they can support good cops once in a while.
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  1075. He’s using his privilege and wealth for the common good. He’s devoting staff and money to build a case against these companies that have substituted algorithms for human oversight. Using his position, reputation, and industry contacts to directly contact the CEO would defeat the case he’s building against companies that have cut human intervention and aren’t protecting users from fraud. YouTube is the test case.
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  1076.  @johnwilliams6880  Jacob has a point, though. Texas has robust stand-your-ground laws. Watch the video again. The person in the robe is standing their ground, a short distance away. The other person is yelling loudly and angrily. If the person with the gun was yelling, it’s not as audible or as audible. The person who was shot begins walking toward the person with the gun. I’m not sure if the “just dropping me off from work” excuse will hold up from the person who was shot. There seems to be plenty of other places where he could have been dropped off. All I know is that we only saw part of the argument. The Ring footage might reveal more. We don’t know what criminal record the woman had (I think the shooter was a woman) or that the guy had. The woman might be the upstanding citizen here, while the guy has the criminal record. We don’t know anything about the previous confrontations, but there might be Ring video of that, too. I think I’d want to hear everything better on the video. You can’t really make out what the man is yelling and I can’t hear what the woman with the gun said at all. We do know that a judge AND the prosecutor didn’t feel the woman was a risk, and allowed her to bond out. I don’t think liberal or conservative had anything to do with it, but let us note that Texas is a conservative state. Chances are the judge is a Republican and was appointed by a Republican. Morally, I think it’s wrong to shoot someone in the course of an argument over a parking space. Legally, the woman with the gun probably has a strong defense. There is a lot we don’t know that will be investigated in full by the police. There might be a lot of evidence in her favor that causes the prosecutor to drop the case.
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  1077. Ooowee, that’s a whole other iceberg concealed under water. Just because they’re STATE legislatures doesn’t make them immune from federal corruption charges. Their wives might be the least of their worries.
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  1078.  @marpfel  I could see that. A passive aggressive following of orders. The commander says, “Don’t let anything through.” The SAM operators say, “Yes, boss.” I think there’s more to what happened at Engels, though, that might be related to how the Ukrainian drones got to Engles. Engles would have safe corridors around and to the runways for civilian and military aircraft. What if the corridors were compromised? SAM operators might be told to ignore the corridors.
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  1079.  @joy1ess  With a little Oceans thrown in. Good God, do you think that in 2040, after a dozen years in reclusive retirement, Tarantino might do movie on the Capitol Riot?
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  1080.  @ne0nmancer they were sailing across the Mediterranean Sea, which is not a lake. The Atlantic is many times its size, and orders of magnitude more difficult. But it’s a misunderstanding to say that Bronze Age craft were simple coastal vessels. That said, there is zero evidence that Bronze Age cultures from the Med. or Europe ever landed on American shores. It’s possible that they did, but if they did, they didn’t leave a trace or imprint. The Norse outpost did leave traces on the land, but apparently no imprint on the indigenous cultures. Significant contact leaves traces and imprints. Trade artifacts and records support the picture of significant interactions throughout the Old World. If any Mediterranean or European culture had significant contact with the New World, we’d see evidence of it.
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  1081. [moves hand hypnotically, wiggles fingers] But isn’t our time on earth just a time share when you come down to it? You need to open yourself to the limitless possibilities of an infinite universe where each of your lives is time you share with other infinite beings. I can help you open to these possibilities. We’ll start with opening your wallet chakra.
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  1082. There are two chains between supply and demand: smuggling north and laundering the profits. Guess where most of the cartel money laundering happens. (You win a donut if you said the U.S.) You need to break both chains, but if you have to pick one, go after the money. I’m not pro regulation most of the time, but we’re talking criminal enablers. And some politicians are fighting financial investigations, bank regulation, and serious penalties tooth and nail.
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  1083. He’s devoted his life to the study of air power. He’s a subject matter expert working for a think tank. I would not be surprised at all to hear him introduced as Dr. Bronk in the not distant future.
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  1084. But maybe we shouldn’t define it as a problem. It’s a social phenomenon we should understand. The problem is that there’s a lot of disinformation out there. How can we get the good information out there? To do that we have to understand the phenomenon, the social environment where disinformation is taking root. I’d both sides this, but I think the right is too far gone.
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  1085. I don’t think you understand Schrödinger’s cat at all. No doubt there is something to what you say, but the cat thought experiment is totally orthogonal to your point. It’s like applying Einstein’s theory of special relativity to explain why different people like different foods. It just doesn’t apply.
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  1086.  @dutchdna  Trump Can promote him telepathically.
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  1087. 🤣 That would be considered heresy in some places.
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  1088. Does belief in anti-5G conspiracy theories constitute an ideology? If so, maybe you’re right. I imagine we might find out Monday if the bomber sent a note or a recording about his intentions to the media. Possibly later, as the USPS is still struggling with a backlog.
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  1089.  @vancouverbarista I’m not so sure Ukraine wants to block the exit door completely. It is probably sufficient to keep damaging it and limiting cargo transportation across it, but it would be smart to allow panicked Russian soldiers a way to retreat on foot.
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  1090. The public seems least aware of petroleum polymer/plastics.
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  1091. Try to keep up. That’s the old Microsoft. These days it’s Google that messes up acquired companies.
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  1092. The situation could have been foreseen and prepared for, but it would have interfered with the narrative that Trump was doing a great job and that the pandemic was not that bad.
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  1093. Was it a bank or a savings & loan corporation (or other quasi-banking business)? I would doubt your story if it was a bank because the FDIC took over regulation of banking and deposit insurance in 1933, but did not regulate the savings & loan business. The main differences between the two for the average consumer was that a S&L offered higher interest rates, couldn’t offer checking accounts (until the 70s), and were a relatively riskier form of investment than a deposit in a bank savings account. A S&L could operate LIKE a savings bank but was outside the banking system. I’m not saying you’re lying, but your timeline makes no sense if it was a bank that failed. You’d have to be over 100 years old. If it was a S&L such as George Bailey’s financial institution in It’s a Wonderful Life, it would fit your timeline and your age.
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  1094. You misunderstand the nature of the situation. This is two former empires messing with each other in the vacuum left behind by another empire that is crumbling. Turkey is acting through its proxy against France to communicate “two can play at this game”.
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  1095. You’re forgetting about who will usher it in. The next one will be called “The Best Depression”.
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  1096. Thank you for this. I think Dr. Campbell has strayed into overly optimistic territory before it is justified. He might eventually be proved correct, but he’s jumping the gun based on the S.A. study that just came out—and hasn’t yet been peer reviewed. Anyway, this is no time to let our guard down.
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  1097.  @outdoormadness4449  I’m very glad to have found your and Jon’s comments here. I’m feeling exasperated by Dr. Campbell’s as yet unfounded optimism stated with such certainty. He’s being much less careful about qualifying his statements than he has over the last two years. I don’t think John reads the comment section, and doesn’t realize the harm he is doing, nor the support that conspiracy theory nutjobs find in his his statements, not to mention their decoding of his facial expressions when he discusses certain topics. (I’m surprised they haven’t yet begun to interpret “Winston” for secret messages. He’s the stuffed animal sometimes visible in the background.) Anyway, you two just provided me an island of sanity in the crazy comment section, so thank you.
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  1098.  @davidbryant3532  cope, MAGA
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  1099. They want to change the world through exciting and dramatic action, rather than put in the years of effort to achieve goals. They crave a cinematic experience that will impart meaning in their lives. Politics is boring but play-acting revolution is fun. That’s the most charitable interpretation.
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  1100.  @fishodeath  The translator wasn’t translating the body language and non-verbal discomfort being felt. That was clear to see from the majority of people interviewed.
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  1101. Predicting that Prigozhin would be assassinated was not exactly a minority opinion held only by a few visionaries.
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  1102. Full Juan Brown? Where’s the NTSB preliminary report? 😅 Every time Juan says “avoidable”, drink. Or maybe “aviate, navigate, communicate”
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  1103.  @frankmetcalfe9391  They will be here soon enough. The ivermectin pushers have been dealt some confounding news: The largest manufacturer of ivermectin worldwide, Merck, has a new study out that shows ivermectin has no efficacy as an antiviral. Merck has no antiviral candidate, nor a therapeutic. If they were going to lie for a profit motive, their study would have concluded the opposite, because they’d be sitting on an ivermectin goldmine. Antivax sites are abuzz with accusations that Merck’s study is somehow a fraudulent cash grab. They’re linking Merck’s search for a therapeutic candidate from smaller biomedical companies as proof, which would be illogical if Merck already had a viable treatment in ivermectin. Why would a company with a miracle cure be willing to wager hundreds of millions to develop newer untried treatments. In short, the antivaxxers have been set back in their heels and are struggling to come up with a counter narrative to push their agenda.
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  1104. That’s gotta smart. Oh wait, we’re talking about Trump. That’s gotta numb.
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  1105. The excavation of soil and the anchoring of the turbines interferes with the tribe’s right to exploit the mineral rights. Sorry, you lose.
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  1106. I think it’s currently in docked for repairs, so it’s not even towable for maneuvers.
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  1107. ”Give us what we want, or it’s CIVIL WAR.” What do you want? ”CIVIL WAR.”
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  1108. On YouTube, so many of those “just asking questions” refuse to watch the frikkin’ video.
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  1109.  @DaggothJr  Reagan’s excess spending was mostly on defense, which was desperately needed at the time. Historical context matters.
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  1110. He shouldn’t have given Mrs. Putin a foot massage.
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  1111.  @johnnyenglish583  I think there are two main ways to look at Russia’s economic stability. Short term war sustainment and long term health. And the catch for Russia is the longer it can sustain the war, the worse will be its long term prospects. The only reason a country switches to a war time economy is to outlast the adversary. In this case, they have to outlast Ukraine. As long as the west can supply Ukraine and as long as Ukraine is willing to fight, Russia won’t outlast them. And the west is nowhere near having to switch to a war time economy. A strategic build up of a country’s DIB is not a wartime economy. It’s actually an economy booster for a period.
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  1112. Twice to the head, twice to the body. The head shots can stun the arrestee, which helped them loosen the grip on the wheel. I’m not sure the reason for the body shots other than brute force compliance. None of his colleagues were punching the arrestee at that point, so maybe the blonde cop is the “designated hitter”, lol. It seemed a little extra, but the suspect was still struggling at that point. Whatever the case, it didn’t go past 4 (my count) or 6 (your count) blows. Nobody was murdered or severely injured during the arrest. If this is what it takes for cops not to kill suspects, I’m all for it. Mission accomplished.
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  1113. Thanks for this, Steve. I’m going to consult an attorney before I get into a game of slugabug or front hand/back hand. This vid also brought to mind the joke about the two gentleman who decided to settle a dispute with a ball kicking contest. The gentleman who kicked first immediately concedes the contest after delivering a mighty kick to the other gentleman’s junk. The version I heard was a hunter who killed a deer or goose or some such on the property of a farmer, and the farmer recovered the animal before the hunter can. The farmer then proposes the contest and goes first.
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  1114. Hate to break it to you, but if you want Shep Smith’s brand of conservative, straight shooter, investigate-and-report-the-facts journalism, it’s on CNBC.
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  1115. That guy started palling around with proRussian channels and podcasters a while back. It’s safe to assume he’s on the Russian payroll now, and trading in any integrity he had for a few $.
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  1116. I took a perverse pride in McConnell’s dirty political fighting skills. The way he finessed RBG’s seat was breathtaking. I understand why the Democrats hated him so much. He was effective. Much the same way that Republicans hate Nancy Pelosi because she was equally effective. Nancy will go down in history as a hero. McConnell will go down in history as a coward. Now it is up to us to do what Mitch failed to do: stop Trump. Casting your vote for Biden is not enough. You’ve got to get involved. Make sure voters get to the polls. Make sure people are registered. Work a phone bank or walk a precinct. Don’t take this election for granted. We’ve not only got to win, we got to win by a large margin.
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  1117. Your answer deserves a follow up question: why do robots need girlfriends?
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  1118. No limit. And there’s really no downside for McCarthy to continue. His reputation, his stature, and his ego are already damaged. If he drops out, it’s like he goes skulking off with his tail between his legs.
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  1119. More than not voting for him, they’re repudiating him. They have been for years.
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  1120. But against his defense, he convinced them to get on the plane with a ruse. He (or his people) is fraudulently luring people to travel to places they don’t want to go. They even gave these families a fake map.
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  1121. DeeeeSantis
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  1122. Abraham Zarate If that chapulín ate grasshoppers, that’d be cannibalism.
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  1123. Those ancient grudges are maintained, fomented, and manipulated by others for power. Some of those are local, others are 1,882 kilometers away.
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  1124. No.
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  1125. Well, Wehrmacht soldiers had to swear a loyalty oath to Hitler . . . Not to the country and certainly not to a constitution. That says a lot right there. And there are those in the U.S. that would put loyalty to a political leader over loyalty to the country.
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  1126. Hancock is your be all and end all, isn’t he? The fact is that this research has been going on for 30-40 years, was written about by Charles Mann for the non specialist audience in 2002 (magazine article) and in 2004 (nonfiction book entitled 1491). Hancock doesn’t own this, he didn’t do any of the work, and he’s not the first to write about it for a general audience. You think that recent discoveries are “proving Hancock right”, don’t you? All Hancock has done is spice up ongoing research with his conspiratorial bullshit.
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  1127. Let’s be honest. Cinco de Mayo is mostly celebrated by beverage companies. The big national holidays in Mexico are Independence Day and saint day of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
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  1128.  @mjr1093  That’s not true about structural issues. A building can have major structural issues that need to be addressed expediently that don’t require immediate evacuation. The point is not to wait until the building is at the point of collapse before addressing issues. I am certain that you know nothing about engineering. Nor does your argument about this being a cover for rent increases. If they owners want to raise the rent, they can simply raise the rent. There is no rent control in Colorado, so no need to use a repair loophole to remove tenants and raise the rent. The owner will actually lose all revenue from the building during the repair period by evicting everyone at once.
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  1129.  @andreaskarlsson5251  you need to ketchup
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  1130. Not as “chilling” as the current polar effect of climate change we might be experiencing currently! 😫 But seriously, preparations for the next pandemic should be accompanied by a deep evaluation of how our societies operate, the flexibility of the frameworks of our politics, and the management of resources. What do I mean by all of the above? I’m a conservative, and it’s clear in my mind that the conservative response to the pandemic has been insufficient at best, and counterproductive at worst. There is a time and place for an emphasis on individual liberty and free enterprise, but a global emergency is not it. (Not to mention that other structural weaknesses of the conservative program have been revealed by the pandemic that undermines the conservative stance.) What is required is more social cohesion, not less. More international cooperation, not nationalism. And though it pains me to say it, more liberal redistribution of resources to insure everyone can survive disruptions to the economy. This liberal spending has already required a near disastrous overextension of credit in my country. When the current emergency has passed, that borrowing needs to be repaid so that we can borrow again in the next emergency. (To be honest here, in my country, the more liberal of the two major parties has a better track record when it comes to deficits. I think this is more the case that the conservative party has actually gone off the rails and lost touch with the meaning of conservatism. Maybe liberals make better conservatives?) To me, the proper response to recurrent emergencies is, you lay by a reserve during fat years so that you can draw on it during lean years. You invest in the infrastructure you will need to call on during emergencies, instead of letting it whither in between emergencies.
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  1131. Cough cough Mitch
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  1132. Rather than STEM education, think of the benefits this stunt will have in encouraging young people to study Aviation Law. 😉
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  1133.  Peter Mortensen  You are the 🧙‍♂️ of OAZ
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  1134. Hahaha, you gotta be kidding.
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  1135. The stock market room could use one of those old timey stock tickers.
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  1136.  @princessmarlena1359  Yeah, I have zero interest in HOAs, Condos, or Townhouses. I retired to Mexico. People have asked me why I don’t buy a house here because they’re relatively cheap (even in this pricey tourist town). $200/month rent is why. Actually, it’s less than that, about $191.
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  1137.  @mihai2526  you use propaganda and tell them that the wooden shoes are skis.
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  1138. Hahahaja!
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  1139.  @TLTeo  not even for a few years. Most units served a year or less before being rotated. So you’re interfacing with community leaders that know you won’t be there next year. In those conditions, it’s impossible to build the trust necessary for successful counterinsurgency. Counterinsurgency is complicated and hard to do successfully. There is no one size fits all formula. COIN programs must be tailored to each country, or even regions within a country. And even if a really good plan is formulated, errors in execution of the plan can make success impossible. Contradictory policies are just a fact of life, but balancing them is particularly difficult. You can’t “win hearts and minds” without securing an area through force of arms, but force of arms undermines the winning of hearts and minds. A very-hard-to-win situation quickly devolves into a no-win situation if you can’t achieve and maintain that balance.
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  1140. He’s Irish.
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  1141. Your analysis was indeed interesting, but I think it was also unkind, especially in your conclusion. We, your fans, love your dry wit, but I felt a little uncomfortable with a few things you said that bordered on cruelty. With a little more empathy, this rather trivial matter could be an interesting entry into a discussion about identity, how it can be formed and unformed, self-image and presentation/persona, etc. Really, there are a hundred interesting paths this could have taken without devolving into a snark exercise. Oh, well. Better luck next time.
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  1142. It’s unfair to mock Ted Cruz. The ones who deserve the mockery are the jim-jims who keep re-electing him.
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  1143. They did it without major injury to anyone. I think blondie was a little too punchy, but he didn’t get carried away. Other than that, this was a textbook takedown of an uncooperative suspect resisting arrest. Everyone walked away, including the arrestee who walked over to the back seat of a police car.
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  1144.  @ColetteArteaga000  I can understand the two quick blows to the head to stun the suspect and get him to release the wheel. The two additional blows to the body once the suspect was on the ground. . . . . Eh, probably within guidelines, but seemed superfluous. Maybe it was necessary, but why not let one of your colleagues do it and not hog all the glory? Right? Is he the designated hitter or something?
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  1145. Not only did they forget that they were immigrants, some claim their supremacy as conquerors. Most of their ancestors came as immigrants, plopped down wherever they would benefit most from the previous conquests, and now their great-great-grandchildren take credit while denying any responsibility.
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  1146. It’s VERY difficult to pinpoint “lone wolf” actors that aren’t networking with likeminded people. It’s practically impossible without a lucky break (like the girlfriend who came forward a year ago).
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  1147.  @godschild6694  I’d be fine if he backed it up with educated opinion as to where Pete fell short. Pete made a 13 minute summary of the history of the area. There’s bound to be a lot of stuff left out. Also, Pete isn’t an expert on the area (he can’t be an expert on everything—he’s a very good generalist with broad knowledge), so he might be missing important detail or nuance. So I don’t expect Pete to be perfect. But like you, if someone who is an expert wants to criticize the presentation, I’d like some details about where Pete gets it wrong. This region of the world has a complicated political history that puts the Balkans/former Yugoslavia to shame. Like Tito did in Yugoslavia, the Soviets kept a lid on centuries of ethnic and religious strife. Before the Soviets, Armenia and Azerbaijan were under the thumb of the Ottoman Empire (the Turks). Armenia suffered greatly under the Turks (including the 20th Century’s first genocide), and I don’t think they ever recovered. The Soviets offered Armenians protection and some limited opportunities (including opportunities in the lucrative industry of state corruption under communism). The smartest, most entrepreneurial, most ambitious, and most educated Armenians have been fleeing the mother country for more than a century, forced out by the Turks first, and later escaping communist oppression. If I look at the successes and prosperity the Armenians of the diaspora have achieved in their adoptive countries, I wonder what could have been achieved in Armenia if they hadn’t been forced to leave. I suspect that the bot you responded to isn’t really a bot. It’s someone who is pro-Armenian, who grew up hearing the history from the Armenian perspective, and who isn’t ready to hear anything that challenges his world view. He really needs to hear different perspectives if he is to form a strategy for Armenia based on reality, but I don’t think he will because the Armenians are a proud people. But pride goeth before a fall.
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  1148. How about a top five candidates that would have been great if they had been elected. 😅 I nominate Bob Dole.
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  1149. Wow! Pete makes a very bold prediction when he says, “These countries (the German group) will cease to exist by 2050”. That’s one of the things I like about him: he’s not afraid to put it out there in stark terms. He’s thought provoking AF. But it’s the 3rd group I find interesting, the transient workers. He assumes that they won’t have children because they’re not working in their home countries. Is there data to back this up? I can think of examples where transient workers do have children in their country of origin, sending back money (remittances) to support them, and hopefully returning later with a big nest egg (or sometimes being deported with little to show for it). Yes, I’m thinking of Mexico and the U.S., although there are other examples.
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  1150. We’re still waiting on the Senate. They’ve been absent for the negotiations of a comprehensive relief bill since last Spring. When they tried to pass a “skinny bill”, McConnell didn’t have enough votes among his own (and then of course blamed the Democrats). I’ve come to realize something about McConnell. He has the power to say NO, but he doesn’t have the power to say YES. The Republican Senate Caucus is divided and disorganized and can’t agree on anything, so it’s safe politics to refuse solutions. It’s impossible for the Republicans to create solutions.
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  1151. It’s a helluva way to solve global warming, ain’t it?
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  1152.  @phildoodler2199  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  1153. You’re talking about targeted tariffs. Used judiciously, they are useful tools. But that isn’t the policy that Trump proposed.
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  1154. Not just that, but (in my non-expert opinion) the corrections officer made several mistakes. When the confrontation began and was in its verbal stages, the officer remained seated. He was in a vulnerable position without room to maneuver. Sure, great job eventually subduing the prisoner, but it never should have come to that.
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  1155.  @mjb.o  There are routes that cross the country from North to South and East to West. It’s just not as well integrated and as coordinated as RRs in the U.S. and Canada, but they’re working on it. What Pete said isn’t wrong, but he seems to have given the misperception that the RRs stop north of Mexico City. What Pete is actually saying is that Mexico needs to build out the rail infrastructure and modernize it.
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  1156.  @williamholden3662  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  1157. This is reality. Ideally he would be made to answer for his crimes. Maybe someday he will. But the main thing now is to stop his destruction of Ukraine without escalating the conflict.
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  1158.  @logandance4644  Part of the problem is that some of us armchair experts think we know what CAS means, but we really don’t. CAS means delivering boom boom CLOSE to where your side is on the ground fighting. It doesn’t mean flying close. PGMs mean that you can fly higher out of range of ground fire, and hit targets cleanly without killing your own guys. The whole idea of CAS needing to be low-and-slow is outdated. The titanium bathtub cockpit isn’t needed if you’re not making yourself vulnerable to ground fire. That said, the A-10s might become useful domestically if the seditionists finally do what they’ve been threatening to do.
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  1159. They told him he needed to unload his weapon. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  1160. OSINT is suggesting that Russia is stripping out recruit instructors to address its manpower problems. This is going to lead to either a bottleneck in training recruits, or throwing untrained recruits into the fray. It especially will pose problems if Putin calls for a general mobilization. 100 days experience or no, this video supports the claim that Russia still has problems coordinating infantry and tanks (and other systems, presumably). So even if you have seasoned tankers, they’re just not getting the support they need. And this might also go back to the manpower issue and force structure issues. If your IFV is at 66% strength, that could mean you have 3 dismounts to get out of the BMP and go clear buildings. Unless those dismounts are Rambo, Jason Bourne, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, pretty soon you’ll be left with two, or one, or zero. So maybe the 100+ day guys who put a priority on survival are stopping to have tea, or experiencing mechanical problems that are causing short delays, or going to the wrong rally point. You know, “accidentally on purpose”. Just saying.
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  1161.  @robertpatrick3350  He knew who to hire, as did Marshall.
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  1162.  @luisgalindo4530  but the generals do have a choice. They can refuse a criminal order, and bravely accept the consequences. They can resign, either quietly or publicly to show their opposition. Look what happened in Belarus that has kept the Belarusian military out of it. The top general/minister of defense resigned, and other generals threatened to resign. The Belarus president has allowed Putin to use his country, but not his soldiers because he faces mutiny.
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  1163.  @johnfrum2024  Calling them wankers is generous. A wanker is just someone that likes to be alone with their thoughts. I’m not sure what you call these people who spread antivax disinformation. They’re a societal cancer.
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  1164. Do you not think the high value targets inside Russia haven’t already been identified?
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  1165.  @marksadventurechannel8471  that makes you a decent person, doing the right thing when you’re wrong. That said, it’s better to just never be wrong. I thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I was mistaken.
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  1166. Mark is an old war gaming nerd! You love to see it. I’m not nearly as optimistic about the “Great Reforming” as Mark. But he’s spot on about the usefulness of the framework he’s demonstrating.
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  1167. I had an acquaintance who couch surfed for about a month in the winter. He was a good guy, didn’t make a mess, helped with chores and expenses. He even offered to kick in money for rent, but we turned him down. We were sad to see him go when he moved on to his next couch. His basic lifestyle at the time was to live indoors during the winter months and in his Lincoln Continental during Spring, Summer, and Fall. He worked at a temp agency and took weeks off to travel in Spring and Summer. I think it was a 70s Continental. I kinda admired his lifestyle choice and adaptations. I took note of his couch surfing practice of being more of an asset than a liability and not overstaying his welcome (we would have happily took him back the following winter). Later I was able to put his techniques into practice when I was temporarily in need of a couch.
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  1168. IF the GOP can rebuild itself into something its members could be proud of, it will take 8 or 10 or 20 years. I don’t think you realize how deeply rotten it is; the rot will not go willingly or easily. The first step is going to be the battle to get rid of not just the White Supremacists, but the white supremacist enablers. The ones that are OK with racism if it’s what the base wants. That’s the majority of the GOP leadership. The vast majority. It’s a battle worth having, though. These people need to be named and shamed. I hate to use this word, but they should be cancelled. That won’t happen without a fight between conservatives and the racist authoritarian right. In the end, it might be better for conservatives to form a new party, untainted by Trump flavored fascism. Or perhaps for a time we can form a right of center wing of the Democratic Party. (I know a lot of progressives and conservatives will call me crazy or worse for suggesting this, but it has a lot of things going for it.)
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  1169. No, you’re not. At best, you’re relying on bad sources for your medical news and information and you’re foolishly spreading disinformation. At worse, you’re knowingly part of this disinformation campaign that has probably already led people to their deaths.
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  1170.  @HighDefinitionVideo  I’m here for the drinking game. 🎉
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  1171.  @bigbird799  Do you know how the freshly mobilized Russian soldiers are trained? They put them on a train. There, fully trained. Then the train is sent to Ukraine, and those soldiers get killed within 12 days, on average.
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  1172. When Russia’s GRU and FSB outsources social media trolling to India, should we call the trolls Russian or Indian?
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  1173.  @activatekruger446  Dunning, is that you?
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  1174.  @heathermccall8015 AI generated photo. I bet she has six fingers on each hand.
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  1175.  @rickstevenson9585  Exactly. And if Pete seems forceful (and I think sometimes he overdoes it when he gets outside of his lane), it’s because so many refuse to believe in “4-2 = 2”. (I don’t know if if you were making a 1984 reference, but it certainly seems to fit.) Pete does sometimes go out on a limb in his conclusions (based on math and not merely wishful thinking), but I find it thrilling, like watching an acrobat do a death defying stunt. And I understand why he communicates without expressing doubts. He’s trying to push his signal through the noise of the authoritarian 2+2=5 crowd.
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  1176. I have an old college friend like this. Super bright first month of Freshman Year, became a serious dead head waste case by the time we graduated (as did I), spent 10 years bouncing around various neo-hippy communities, and then got his shit together went to law school. In many ways he’s still the same guy: The brilliant mind and the hippy. But he’s one hell of a defense attorney. He doesn’t sport the scraggly Jeff Lebowski look—he goes for a neat ponytail and (last time I saw him) was clean shaven.
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  1177. It might line the pockets of Merck, however, as they are the originator and still the largest manufacturer and distributor of Ivermectin. Currently, they have no competing therapeutic and their vaccine efforts were a bust. However, the conspiracy theorists don’t want to even think about this because it undermines their big pharma grand conspiracy and their beliefs (in some cases) that western medicine is evil.
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  1178. Try to contain your obsession.
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  1179.  @TheDeadlyefx  Maybe we have different notions of dystopia, but I think we are already in dystopian territory. That doesn’t mean it’s hopeless, though. If we have not descended too far into dystopia, there is a chance we can recover and return to normality. But if we are in it, that does not relieve us of our moral agency or the necessity that we fight for what is right. We are not excused from the challenges ahead because the world is going to hell.
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  1180. I hope your dad gets better and fully recuperates. How long ago did he get his second shot?
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  1181.  @oasis1282  <— Another Russian troll
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  1182. Different takes, but they’re not in disagreement. I saw Juan’s breakdown first. Mentour’s explanation goes into more detail, but Juan gave me the gist. One thing he said that remained in my mind was that sometimes experienced pilots get complacent, and that can lead to an error in judgement. I’m not a pilot, but this statement has broader applications beyond aviation!
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  1183.  @mariehelena2364 I’m hearing this Uniparty BS from extreme leftists, too.
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  1184.  @시박바개튜브  STOP SPAMMING. There are other channels that go on at great length with regards to unproven or partially proven cures and preventative measures. Go bother them.
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  1185. Digitally = counting on your fingers 😊 Bureaucracies in democratic states can be notoriously inefficient. Inefficiency and bureaucracy are practically synonymous. A bureaucracy in an authoritarian state is even worse because of factional competition for power under an authoritarian leader or junta: the leader sets up competing and redundant factions that vie for his favor and a slice of the pie. As bad as our government bureaucracies are in the West, they are nothing like the bureaucracies of dictatorships which are riddled with corruption. I used to despise big government. I’ve become resigned to it. I’ve come to see that the job of the conservative is to act as a check on big government, not to destroy it. We are the ones that must hold the bureaucracy’s feet to the fire and keep it honest. In my mind, the honest conservative program is not to shrink or destroy big government, but to slow down its expansion and create boundaries where it shouldn’t expand.
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  1186.  @Samanthax1221  <— TROLL
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  1187.  @Nobleheart111  What do they say about assumptions? They make an ass out of ump and tions?
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  1188. Pence was skiing in Vail, Colorado. Mnuchin spent Christmas at his vacation home in Cabo San Lucas. And Trump was golfing in Mar a Lago. Are they back in Washington DC yet? Are they meeting with Senators to press the case for $1400 more? Trump isn’t an emperor who can just dictate his wishes, not even to the GOP. He has to make the case to the Republican Senate. Unless his refusal to sign was just a political stunt to make everybody suffer. If that’s the case, he doesn’t need to do anything, and should just stay in Mar a Lago.
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  1189.  @mfisher1952  This has been an ongoing issue for the Russians, and now a bigger related problem is ripening. Basically, the NCO problem you mention is a matter of small unit cohesion, but in Bakhmut and Vuledar, we are seeing larger units destroyed. A unit that takes 20% causalities can be replenished and still fight effectively. A unit that takes 50% or more and then replenished with fresh troops cannot. Ukraine has been able to rotate units into and out of hot spots, preventing exhaustion and preserving unit cohesion. They’ve been very effective at preserving the reserve units to prevent breakthroughs. Where necessary, tactical withdrawals to prepared defenses (such as at Soledar) have been successful. Meanwhile, Russia is expending its most elite forces in Bahkmut. It’s been doing this from the beginning, but it’s now reached a new level. The VDV is spent. Wagner is spent. The Russian Marines are spent. Bakhmut still stands, but even if it falls, Ukraine is well positioned defensively to stave off further breakthroughs. Offensively, Russia is nearly a spent force. When the ground dries and the tanks arrive from the West, we will see how effective they are on the defense.
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  1190.  @HiwasseeRiver  U.S. farmers are paid more to grow more corn, which pushes prices up but has a negligible effect on actual world supply, unlike this war which is disrupting wheat production. If you’re saying that ethanol is a wasteful boondoggle, I agree with you. It does very little to address the issue of climate change. But it’s been going on for some time and isn’t suddenly causing grain shortages. It’s not relevant to the discussion.
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  1191. Reported for promoting terrorism.
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  1192.  @Hubtones1  Obama didn’t give Iran 150 billion dollars. That’s a lie. You either know it’s a lie, or you’re one of the gullible saps that listens to liars with total credulity because they also tell you those lies you need to feel good about yourself. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re merely a fool. You’re one of the weaklings that needs to be coddled, massaged, and reassured by your news sources. You’re so lacking in inner strength that you require a propaganda channel to tell you that you’re always right. Because you can never face being wrong, nor admit to being in error. Your mentality and moral development is that of a cranky spoiled child. You’re an infant, an imbecile. You have no business offering your opinion on anything because you live in a fantastic fascist candy land that panders to your delusion that you’re a good person.
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  1193.  @hermaeusmora2945  It’s not a secret. This is commonly discussed by actual subject matter experts. I don’t think NATO would even offer comment on how Ukraine might use the F-16s. That’s outside of their purview. I think you must have weird ideas about what NATO is or what it does.
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  1194.  Timothy White  Rick Wilson is on it, as he said in the podcast he does with Erica Jong-Fast. I’m sending the LP more money to help them do this.
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  1195.  @protorhinocerator142  and a Tr_ _ p Steak.
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  1196.  @kevinmulkey9774  I think the Soviet, I mean Russian, air defense weapons are tuned to ignore flocks of birds or smaller, so they don’t see these small Turkish drones coming (nor do they see the artillery spotter drones).
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  1197. You should specify more Americans—a lot of Vietnamese people died in the Vietnam conflict.
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  1198.  @williamg8269  Sadly, the dem challenger had some “personal issues” RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING CAMPAIGN. He had been doing really well up to that point, too. Fucking Democrats, I love you, you’re our greatest hope, but sometimes 🤦🏻
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  1199.  @jonathandnicholson  an unborn child is an unchild. There is no scientific basis to call an embryo or a fetus a child. Neither is there a Bibical basis. The Bible is contradictory and unclear on the matter. You have to pick and choose Bible passages and perform theological pretzel logic to speak with authority on the matter. That’s what we call dogma.
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  1200.  @DonQuixote1918  She’s a federal judge in Florida. The warrant was executed in Florida. Like it or not, but there is a basis to claim jurisdiction over the search. She’s not trying the case.
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  1201. So you’re saying only counties without problems have a right to sovereignty. Ok, Ivan.
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  1202.  @ExodentalCADAcademyofNorth  I don’t think it’s even true anymore that “Macs are better for video and graphics”. Perhaps in certain specific circumstances it’s preferable, but it hasn’t been true for the past ten years at least. There was a time, though, when you’d absolutely need a Mac for professional video. And you wouldn’t blink at paying $2-5k for it, because the other hardware (some of which was Mac specific) would cost $10-$50k.
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  1203.  @ThomasFlight  For how long have you been working on it? This might sound weird, but I want a BTS video. Not so much on the technical aspects of making the video but a BTS of your thought process and how you went about organizing those thoughts into a formal structure. Yeah, that sounds pretty weird. I’m not quite sure how one would make such a film. It’s basically asking for access to your stream of consciousness. I don’t think it’s really necessary, because the video gives us the distillate of your mental process. And if your stream of consciousness is anything like mine, it’s filled with mundanity. My interior dialogue is mostly pretty boring most of the time. It’s not just a weird request that I made, it’s unreasonable. But maybe the request itself will provide you with some entertainment, and [deity] willing, impinge on your narrative.
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  1204. So, I watched this video because I like almost every thing you do, and I appreciate that you are as rigorous as possible in your comparisons. But imo, tank vs tank matchups are almost always meaningless if you don’t look at the “strategic aspects” (that you enumerated as logistics and production, iirc). These strategic aspects trickle have a major impact on the tactical level. Tank vs tank comparisons are like comparing body parts isolated from the rest of the body. “If we ignore the rest of the body, who has the best toe?”
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  1205.  THE OBSERVATION SPECIALIST  OK Ivan
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  1206. Stay safe and stay warm. West Texas people are the best!
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  1207.  @gigabake  Language has lost all meaning for some people. In 2015 I was a conservative. Holding the same political positions, in 2016 I was a liberal according to some of these people. Now apparently I am a socialist. Yup, that’s me, a fiscally conservative, pro-capitalism, cultural Marxist socialist.
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  1208. I don’t use ATMs at night if I can help it.
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  1209. Copy machine was broken, so they had to transcribe the documents by hand. 😉
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  1210.  @lucaniouspetrenko9404  That’s some excellent research you’re doing if you think there are 2 million soldiers in the Azov Battalion. From your intellectual capacity, I think your parents locked you in a trunk for 8 hours every day and told you that you were going to school.
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  1211.  @miniprepper8284  Awesome. It was just me, and I felt lazy. I ordered a hamburger and fries. A place nearby does delivery by motorcycle, $5 minimum (and I tip the delivery person an extra $2-3). And it’s a really good burger!
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  1212. Y’all aren’t tired enough if you’ve got the energy to type in all caps.
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  1213. It has a mechanism that destructs the important parts without the need for explosives. The important parts are those that enable secure communications and possibly those that give fine grained surveillance capabilities (those components are probably less secret and less critical). Basically, the self-destruct mechanism just needs to fry the electronics.
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  1214.  @xpusostomos  At its most basic, you want to obscure or break up the outline of the vehicle, equipment, or emplacement. If your adversary is performing recon directly above you, they have a better chance of detecting you. But from further off, the tell tale signs are obscured. Of course, Russia also has the problem of tire tracks.
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  1215.  @michaelmackey754 The Los Angeles Kings are a hockey team.
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  1216. Look for the Yale Courses YouTube channel. Timothy Snyder is teaching a course on the history of Ukraine this semester and they’re putting the classes on line. Right now I think they’re up to the 11th lecture and I’m eagerly awaiting the next drop. The last lecture I saw had a guest lecturer who talked about the Maidan. Edit: 20th lecture
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  1217. McConnell also unwilling to compromise on a clean targeted stimulus. Why not a counter proposal with a lower cutoff?
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  1218.  @williamholden3662  <— Russian Troll
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  1219. What does your eating disorder have to do with Trump’s failures?
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  1220. Different interests but all have the same basic goals. I think everyone involved knows that the operation has to unfold in phases and that will dictate the priorities to a large degree. For example, It’s premature to start rebuilding the bridge. Even if it was given top priority, the channel must be cleared first anyway. The debris spans must be removed. The other thing that occurs to me is that it’s quite possible that these agencies have trained for multiagency cooperation under a variety of scenarios. If this is the case they already have established lines of communication as well as areas of responsibility. To change a structure already set up and operating merely because a single commander seems more efficient might actually be counterproductive. If there are infighting problems, then we can talk about appointing an overall commander rather than having an overall coordinator. I rather suspect that many people are just hung up on the word “commander”. They want one person with the power to push things through. But there is no evidence yet that anything needs to be pushed through.
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  1221.  @yv2362  With regard to slowing down the invading horde until help arrives: Has anyone tried the tactic of throwing down bottles of vodka and porno magazines, then retreating 100 meters? Jars of pickles with small openings might also work, as it’s hard to fire a rifle when your hand is stuck in a jar. This would probably halt a Russian advance for 24 hours.
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  1222. Can you imagine the behavior of the Covid deniers if the transmission vector wasn’t respiratory, but was flatulence? In the U.S., if COVID 19 was spread by farts, thousands of Trump Supporters would pull off their trousers and underwear and run around in public Donald Duck style. It would become a mark of political loyalty for them to gather together at rallies and smell each other’s farts, while the great man appeared on stage and let rip loudly. They would declare pants-wearers to be sheep and march on city halls to demand their right not to cover their asses.
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  1223.  @castelodomar846  “Don’t you know who I was in a past life?”
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  1224.  @meghanhenderson6682  I could see cocaine, but I could also see it as him getting high on himself. Possibly he has undiagnosed mania.
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  1225. I’m pretty sure Rab J and Chris are the same guy operating two accounts, and Buzz Buzzard might be a third. In any case, they play the same broken record and they repeat the same lies about Dr. Campbell. It’s not jealousy. This person or persons seek to discredit him.
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  1226.  @KingAgniKai  I wouldn’t go so far as to say Turkey is “trying to get something”. They have legitimate concerns about Finland and Sweden, and they have legitimate rights within the framework of NATO. It is actually a good thing that they object, imho. It demonstrates that NATO is not merely a tool of the U.S., that when NATO is unified, it is a unity of free nations each acting in their own best interest, not nations being coerced.
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  1227. 100%. If 2016 has taught us anything, it’s that voting is not enough, you have to make sure everyone around you goes to the polls and votes.
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  1228.  @rogerstarkey5390  thanks for the tip. I have seen Dr. Been’s name suggested. The problem is that the people suggesting him have been loons and trolls. You’ve earned a fair bit of my trust from your curmudgeonly anti-troll efforts, so I’ll take a look.
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  1229. ¡Bob Esponja! Now you’re talking!
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  1230. I might not be first, but I’m the most ancient.
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  1231. ⁠ @Nuinwing  It’s like the running joke in the TV show Community, where one of the characters (Britta) becomes associated with failure. Although I’ll admit an entire country adopting the joke of an entire country fucking up is much more impressive than a TV show’s ongoing gag. When I was a kid (in America), we told Polack jokes. We told lots of different racist/nationality jokes because America is the land of equality, but the Polacks were all associated with being dumb. “How many Polacks does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Three. One to climb up the ladder and two to turn the ladder.” But we never turned the word Polack or the name of the country into a verb or descriptor for being dumb or doing something dumb. I remember taking a Scandinavian vacation and hearing the same joke in Norway and Sweden, the only difference being that the nationalities were switched. In Sweden: Did you hear about the Swedish psychopath that escaped from the insane asylum? They eventually found him teaching school in Norway. And vice versa in Norway. National rivalry jokes are as old as the day is long. In the U.S. we also have regional and state rivalry jokes (including a lot of jokes about Texas). But the jokes haven’t entered the vocabulary like Russian jokes have entered the Finnish language. Bravo to the Finns. But the real credit goes to Russia for being so ryssiä. 😂
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  1232.  @2138Dude  Wait, are you saying that the bastion of truth Tucker Carlson wasn’t entirely forthcoming about his trip to Russia? I find that very hard to believe.
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  1233. Yeah, my choice too. I wish we had a better choice, but Biden is far above the other two.
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  1234.  @jacqdanieles  David Bell-end.
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  1235. It wouldn’t have to give up capital controls, it would just have to be totally transparent about what it is doing. And it would have to explain what it is doing and why. The U.S. Federal reserve does manipulate the dollar, mostly with interest rates, but it is totally transparent about what it is doing and what it plans to do. It lays out the strategy it plans to employ to meet certain pressures. I do not see China willing to reveal its inner financial workings. I don’t see the world trusting them if they were to announce plans to imitate the Fed’s transparency. There’s also the matter of China having two currencies, one for internal use that cannot be legally traded for external use Renminbi or foreign currencies. How does China equalize the two currencies? Then there is the matter that the Chinese government operates like a holding company. It is by far the largest domestic investor. Businesses worldwide aren’t just competing with Chinese businesses. They’re competing with the PRC, inc. The bottom line is that there is too little international trust in China for the renminbi to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. BRICS, schmicks. None of the other members trust China, let alone each other. The BRICS alternative currency has been talked about by the members for a dozen years, at least. It should be clear by now that the group’s ambitions far exceed their reach. (And how long before Russia is uninvited from the group?)😊
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  1236. Greetings from Mexico, William! One thing I’ve noticed is that the added mental burdens of coping with the pandemic has stripped away many facades and we are learning who people really are, including ourselves. When I see people acting out, it’s often an opportunity for self-examination, but it also illuminates how fucked up supposedly successful people are behind their self presentation. I know that taking joy in this isn’t positive, but it’s also a comfort to know that they have their own problems as do I. We often unrealistically compare ourselves to others (or at least I do), but seeing these social masks stripped away makes me feel, “I’m not doing so bad after all”.
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  1237.  @mintheman7  your price is off by an order of magnitude.
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  1238.  @danieldickson8591  Also, they don’t seem to be captured in the sense that they gave up after losing a battle or skirmish. They made their way to a safe place to voluntarily surrender or they voluntarily surrendered when they made contact. At least that’s the picture I get.
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  1239.  @steve57912  You have a very weak love of country or a primitive conception of nationalism if Rush Limbaugh made you feel proud to be an American.
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  1240. I think the problem was distinguishing a live round from a non-firable dummy round. Dummy rounds contain no powder, but they put a BB in the empty shell case to help identify them (you shake the round and can hear the BB rattle). Perhaps the 1st AD shook the entire pistol, heard the BBs rattle in two of the rounds and assumed the third round was also a dummy.
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  1241.  @Scott34750  The judge wasn’t even angry on behalf of the defense (not completely, anyway). He was angry at the piss poor job the prosecutor was doing as “The People’s” representative and as an officer of the court.
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  1242.  @davedammann741  I don’t know if you live in St. Petersburg, FLA or St. Petersburg, RUS, but a bot is a bot is a bot.
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  1243. The Russians are losing the disinformation war, and the Russian trolls know it. Look at these half-hearted attempts.
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  1244. How far back is “always”? Do you mean before the U.S. got involved with Salvador’s civil war, during the war, or after? How much of the narco trafficking was conducted by military or ex-military? What of the death squads? Do their victims count as homicides or casualties of war? I am not one of those “America is always wrong, bad, imperialist, etc.” types. But we need to recognize the part we have played in El Salvador and other parts of Central America especially back in the 70s y 80s.
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  1245.  @zesolodar  these weren’t people, they were companies that used the bank for operations, such as payroll. The scramble to get the money out was the scramble to make sure employees get paid on time, that the rent is paid, etc. This isn’t about the little guy getting screwed, or of rich people getting screwed.
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  1246. That’s how it seems, but it’s hard to say. The question is who will break first.
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  1247. That wasn’t my take away, but maybe I’m reading too much into it. My understanding is that the clay coloring technician (sorry, I forget his name) is highly talented and has an eye for color, which is crucial for a year and a half claymation production. Maybe it looks easy, but they did discuss the prime importance of having a consistent product for the modelers—which includes months of preparation before the clay even gets into the modelers’ hands. And the guy has 15 years experience. My overall impression is that the clay color technician was highly skilled and the work was painstaking to get right. Masters of their craft might not brag about their skills, but they have ways to communicate them to other craftspeople.
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  1248. Jajajaja, there’s plenty of weird irrational beliefs in Mexico already. A few gringos with their own weirdness aren’t going to hurt nobody. (And to a Mexican, a Canadian is pretty much a gringo.) Maybe you didn’t hear it, but when the pandemic started, the Mexican president AMLO suggested people could protect themselves with amulets. Magical Realism is alive and well at the highest echelons of government.
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  1249.  @renel7303  you won’t be surprised to learn that this channel gets a ton of trolls from (allegedly) both the right and the left. And when they don’t even watch the video, I suspect they’re paid by the post.
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  1250.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  Are you consciously lying to spread disinformation, or are you giving us an example of clinging to faulty assumptions?
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  1251.  @wojcikrc  lol, Steve asked us to avoid politics in the comments, and to stick to the topic, which is civil procedure and professional responsibility. Just couldn’t resist, could you? Perhaps you’d like to share your opinions about the Covid vaccine, the 2020 election, and the events of January 6th? Just kidding, please don’t.
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  1252. The UV lights are used to scan paper ballots of hidden 5G particles. 🤡
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  1253. He really hates Walmart.
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  1254. The ironic thing is that the target audience is challenged with walking and chewing gum at the same time.
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  1255.  @beltaxxe lol, no. This is aspirational marketing, for guys that want to be sexually active.
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  1256.  @daverok1113  <— TROLL
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  1257. If the virus was spread via farts, these idiots would insist they have the right to run about in public with their bottoms uncovered, Donald Duck style. They’d accuse properly clothed people of being sheep and believe that underwear was a government conspiracy to impose socialism.
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  1258.  @smayansapre5396  With margins this slim, conservatives against Trump made a difference. Look at how many Republican voters split their tickets. They voted against Trump.
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  1259.  @brandonleemartinez5297  Interesting comment! I’m a mixed Asian/Caucasian Los Angeleno. English is my first language, but I began hearing and learning Spanish from an early age (although it wasn’t until many years that I attained anything like fluency). And yes, from my youth I spoke “Spanglish”, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. What I did want to mention is that my accent is very fluid. My actual accent in Spanish is bad: no native speaker would mistake me for a native speaker. But here is the funny part: my English accent picks up Spanish inflections and intonations! This depends on with whom I have been spending time and with whom I’ve been speaking; it’s most noticeable when I’ve returned to the U.S. after a long period in Mexico. A little joke that you, a linguist might enjoy. Unhappy that I was neither a full gringo nor chino, nor could I be a pocho or paisano, I asked a Boricua friend from Nueva Yorque what she thought I was. “Oh, that’s easy,” me contestó, “You’re a Guanabí.” So may I suggest that Hilaria is the same, a Guanabí, and there is no shame in it.
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  1260.  @Seastallion  I imagine that instead of drivers, self driving trucks will need armed guards to protect the cargo from unemployed-workers-turned-hijackers. So I guess if you want job security, get advanced weapons training. 😅
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  1261.  @putrapratama-sq8hu  It was reported that the crew was Indian.
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  1262.  AA Kostic  Third world is Cold War political nomenclature meaning unaligned. Western democracies and their allies are First world, Communist Bloc countries are Second world. It has nothing to do with economic development. If you want to say “economically developing, say “developing nation”. If you want to say economically developed, say “developed”. If you want to say economically stagnant and poor, say “undeveloped”. The 1st/2nd/3rd world schema is obsolete. Besides which, it is not at all true that the Global South is aligned with Russia. Worldwide, there are five nations that openly support Russia (the usual suspects), 30 or so staying neutral, and almost 200 opposed Russia’s invasion.
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  1263. This young soldier has demonstrated that they have a way out: surrender. I think the West could do more to encourage Russian soldiers to surrender, like offer asylum and resettlement.
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  1264.  @William1w1  William, we agree in general and some particulars, but I think you are in error over some of your claims. We agree that wars are terrible events that cause the suffering of innocents. We agree that the U.S. has made calamitous mistakes that has caused the suffering of innocents (and I think we might further agree that we have failed to reckon and atone for many of them). Maybe you would agree that some of these mistakes were the result of ill intentions, while others were well intentioned (but often arrogant). But would you agree that people have the right to defend themselves and their homeland from aggression, as the Ukrainians have been doing for 8 years? Would you agree that there is a difference between a policy of terror against civilians, such as we are seeing the Putin Regime commit, and other criminal behaviors we often see in wars? The Putzi trolls have been bringing up the My Lai massacre, but the story is more complicated when one knows how the aftermath unfolded. There was a court martial! It resulted in only one conviction (Lt. Calley), and unfortunately acquitted his higher ups (who tried to cover up the crime). But the fact is that there was a trial (or more factually, trials) as we attempted to come to terms with our national guilt. The trolls also fail to mention that three soldiers were later recognized for trying to protect the Vietnamese civilians. One more thing wrt to My Lai. It was investigated by independent journalists, most notably Seymour Hersh who broke the story. My points here is that there are many in our country, in our government, and in our military that try to do the right thing. We have a free press that holds us accountable when it does its job. We are far from perfect, but we at least try. We struggle to live up to our ideals, but at least we have them. I don’t think the same could be said about Nazi Germany, Japan’s military dictatorship, other murderous tyrants, and now Russia. They use murder and destruction as part of a policy of terror. I think a criminal like Putin murders not just to maintain his power, but to express it. As you say, Ukraine is now. Russia must be stopped. The Russian propagandists (the Putzis) that try to cover up the crimes must be stopped. Thank you for reading this.
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  1265. Lithium Ion Batteries are an important part of our current infrastructure and lifestyles. I am satisfied that we will be able to supply that strategic need with domestic resources. I am less inclined to think that we will find an eleventh hour wonder technology that will stave off climate change or that we can muster the unity and will to do anything about it. The climate is going to hell, and the repercussions will be grave.
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  1266.  @TemplarOnHigh  He makes mistakes on occasion, admits them, and adjusts his pitch accordingly. What startles people is that Pete isn’t afraid of making bold statements and going out on a limb. I think of him as the stunt driver of geopolitics. He’s a bit of a daredevil. But he’s not irresponsible. He combs through the data to find the insights he passes on to us.
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  1267. I think he’s extemporaneous. There are three, maybe four types of presenters. There are those that work off note cards. There are those that script their presentation and either memorize the scripted speech or read it. And then there are those that know the subject matter to such a great depth that they can truly speak extemporaneously. Oh, and the fourth are the jackasses that spout off with very little or no expertise. They might work off a script, they might use notecards, or they might just say whatever 💩 pops into their mind.
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  1268. Yes, invasions happened, but your so called Vikings were just the second or third or fourth wave from the same source people. They weren’t racially or ethnically distinct, they were at best temporally distinct (maybe).
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  1269. @Albert Clarke You can safely ignore Rod. He’s an anti-science antivaxxer troll.
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  1270.  Lee Ellak  The U.S. didn’t invade Cuba, nor did it bomb Cuba. The U.S. blockaded Cuba from the Soviet ships bringing in missiles, and there was a standoff. Finally a deal was struck between Kruschev and Kennedy to not place missiles in Cuba and to not attack Cuba. Do you not see the difference? It’s a difference between day and night. Maybe you’re confused and think that the Bay of Pigs was a U.S. invasion. It was not, although it was supported financially by CIA “freelancers”. The Cuban nationals, counter-revolutionaries, were on their own and died on the beaches. The U.S. military offered no support whatsoever, neither naval, air, or soldiers. The military did not equip them. This misguided involvement and CIA failures in Vietnam led to a public reappraisal of the agency in the 70s, when Congress put a leash on its “extracurricular” activities.
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  1271. He is a child. A malevolent person with the mentality and moral development of a spoiled four year old.
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  1272.  @For891  Large twin engine turbo prop? That is not going to get you out of a flat spin. Your control surfaces, including the rudder, are not going to do anything to slow down the spin. They can’t overcome the rotational momentum.
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  1273.  @davidsirmons  Why did he shoot two people? Because he pulled the trigger at least twice before realizing he had shot someone. Did you know that even people who have been shot don’t always realize instantly that they’ve been shot? They don’t always immediately fall down before the second trigger pull. Plus, in this case you have an actor trained to imagine he’s looking at something else, not the crew in front of him. He’s not seeing them on purpose; his attention is on the imaginary scene.
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  1274. His logic is that he denies that Ukraine is an independent country. According to the Kremlin, Ukraine is Russia’s property. So this isn’t an invasion, it’s an internal matter.
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  1275. There’s plenty of dumbasses that have learned to wisely intone the old saw about “amateurs discuss tactics, professionals discuss logistics”, but still have no idea what logistics entail. Sure, we have all seen the results of bad logistics, but do people really understand the huge undertaking of providing sufficient supply logistics from the Eastern border to the front lines. Do they understand that Ukrainian maintenance companies and battalions are stretched thin maintaining the different vehicles being sent by various countries? There seems to be the assumption that you can flip a switch between good logistics and bad logistics with no understanding of the effort involved. You’re right. Its a videogame mentality.
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  1276.  @jenise2503  We should also note that as far as the GOP is concerned, campaign debt is whatever they say it is. This is effectively a slush fund that the Trumps can use to enrich themselves.
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  1277. China doesn’t make spare parts for Boeing or Airbus. They don’t even have a commercial aviation engine manufacturing capability.
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  1278.  @horrido666  I agree with your assessment of how many Neptunes were fired. The vehicle used for launch has four tubes. Now consider this: what if the Neptune differs from its predecessors by having a much lower skim height. It would run the risk of hitting a larger swell, but in this case, two got through.
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  1279.  @jalilbabi4161  The only thing Ukraine is “loosing” is a shitload of whoopass on the Red Army.
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  1280. I suspect that the helicopter pilot and/or company cooperated fully with investigators, which is why they weren’t named as co-conspirators or accessories. Anyway, I’m just glad Jacob is getting his just desserts. But what happened to the dime bag of his friend’s ashes? That continues to be a mystery. Perhaps he emptied it into the ashtray of the truck and forgot about it. Also Juan Brown’s first name is pronounced “wan” or (if you want to draw it out) “hoo-awn”. The Spanish J makes an “h” sound more or less (while the letter H is silent in Spanish). I hope that helps. It’s tempting to translate his last name to Moreno, but I think I would translate it to Morrón, which is chestnut brown like his hair. Juan Morrón has a ring to it. 😊
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  1281. Populist is always a derogatory term.
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  1282. But there is the practical effect in that Putin is now extremely travel constrained. There are a handful of countries where he isn’t at risk of arrest and extradition to The Hague. This limits his ability to conduct high level diplomacy and meet with other leaders.
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  1283.  @S3NTRY  You make it sound one sided. Do you think Baker freely offered such assurances to the Soviet Union without Gorbachev agreeing to stop Soviet aggression and meddling? And tell me, did Yeltsin or Putin honor the agreement? He hasn’t. Go ahead, keep taking things out of context to advance your false narrative.
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  1284. ⁠​⁠​⁠ @S3NTRY  With regard to your reply to Teddy, you’re the one taking statements out of context to advance your false narrative. You’re changing the subject by asking Teddy for an example of U.S. propaganda.
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  1285. Remember the Spartans!
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  1286.  @--Dani Well, we might chew over the reasoning, which seems to be the expense. But I think there is another reason, and that is the hidden carbon costs vs ff powered cars that are getting much better with mileage and emissions. If there were more subsidies, people would still be buying them. But governments might be realizing that they can’t ev their way to carbon emissions targets.
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  1287.  @rudra62  Don’t bother replying. Just report it as spam.
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  1288. He’s talked about that. The delays have a financial cost. The delays are about more than the additional shipping times for cargo. There are also delays in positioning ships to pick up cargos (not to mention getting containers to the right places.
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  1289. Good governance, Charlie Brown!
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  1290. Investigators usually question witnesses about the circumstances. Was there an argument, was there a history of disputes, were fighting words uttered by any of the participants? So if you and someone in a bar wanted to go outside and spar, you both would want to engage in some dialogue loudly and clearly in front of witnesses. “Hey friend, would you like to go outside and spar for a bit?” “Why certainly! I was hoping you’d ask. Are there any stakes?” “Winner buys the next round.” “Sounds good, friend.” Everyone in the bar hears this exchange of words, and you got yourself a defense.
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  1291. Merry Christmas, Patrick. And Merry Christmas to all my fellow Boylers. This was a nice intangible gift (as are all your other videos). I hope you’ll do a January video with 2024 predictions. Rap predictions not financial ones, of course. What little known rappers are you watching that might have breakthroughs this year? Who are the “value rappers” we should listen to? Things like that.
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  1292.  Zaydan Naufal  Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union. It’s important to remember that the Soviet Union was much larger than Russia, even if it was controlled from Moscow.
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  1293. Notice how there weren’t a lot of wild fires in California this summer? Space Force knocked out the Yiddish space lasers. Also, they spell martial law “marshal”. But seriously, guys and gals, there’s a couple of sci fi books I think y’all should read: V.A.L.I.S. and Radio Free Albemuth. Both by Philip K. Dick, who is one of the under appreciated writers of science fiction, despite being the most adapted sci-fi writer in Hollywood.
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  1294. You seem deeply in denial, perhaps delusional. Of course, it is useless to argue with you because you are not amenable to logic. The Russians did interfere in the 2016 election, and they did influence people. There is little doubt about this among those that investigating—the only argument and room for opinion is how much influence did the Russian operation have on the 2016 election. We can also debate what the Russian goals were. Was it to help Trump win or was it to foment division, or was it originally one and then morphed into the other? See, those are debates we can have if you could accept the basic facts on the ground. But you won’t because you’re enmeshed in system of fantasy thinking. Now, let’s address the question of collusion and Trump’s obeisance to Putin, a similar delusion among some Democrats, but not a majority. Again, the evidence doesn’t exist that Trump colluded with the Russians and was being directed by Putin. There are some facts that suggest it could have happened (Trump’s own words and the attempts by Rodger Stone), but no direct proof—despite extensive investigation. At best, we know Trump and his family have borrowed money from Russians and are predisposed to friendlier relations with Putin and Russia so as not to disrupt their business relations. But it doesn’t prove the wilder conspiracy theories put forth by a few delusional Democrats. If you are not delusional, by chance, but are merely trying to make what (you think) is the strongest case, you’re doing yourself and everyone else a disservice. Stick to the facts, be open to new facts, find a basis of agreement, and we can debate.
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  1295.  @nice3333333333  Your wife also told me that she thinks numerical superiority is important, and she doesn’t think she’s engaging with a significant amount of soldiers.
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  1296.  @michaeldrone520  That’s false. A single infected person not wearing a mask can be a threat to others.
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  1297.  @patrickfarrell6353 lol, I don’t know what other people’s motivations are but frankly I like a good train wreck, especially if there is exotic or cutting edge engineering involved. I don’t mourn the dead rich people here more than I mourn the death of any stranger, if mourn is the right word for the fraction of a second I give to these deaths or a million others.
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  1298.  @NotUnymous  Sure, they might have stockpiled supplies. But that is the point of the artillery attacks on warehouses, depots, and supply lines. Russian logistics weren’t very good to begin with, although they have improved. Dispersing the stockpiles might help protect them from artillery and careless smokers, but it also slows their distribution. Slow distribution helps prevent the Russians regaining the initiative. One of the biggest factors for successful assaults is keeping the initiative. If the Ukrainians can slow the Russian resupply, paralyze the command, and keep the field commanders guessing about which attacks are feints and which are real, they can maintain the initiative. If you study military history, attackers that lose initiative generally don’t succeed, even with superior numbers. The Normandy landings are a good example of this. The attack was extremely costly in terms of casualties and equipment, but the allied forces maintained the initiative, broke through the beach defenses, and disrupted lines of communication that prevented the German reserve force from reacting quickly. The Germans were unable to block the momentum of the attack, nor could they cut the supply lines to the beachhead. Operation Market Garden is a good example of losing momentum and losing initiative. The main body of attackers were slowed at several points. The light forces that took the bridges were not reinforced in time and the Germans were able to counterattack with surprising quickness. The main force had to divert forces to protect its flanks and supply lines. The attackers became the defenders, and were ultimately halted not far from their final objective.
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  1299. It’s ships escaping a sinking rat.
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  1300. @Boomstick McNugget CCP taintfroth on a Chinese agent? It doesn’t even bear mentioning. That said, CCP Taintfroth is the new name of my band, so thank you for that.
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  1301. @W王子 I stupidly wasted my time by answering you, but now I see you’re spamming the comments with your question. I deleted my answer because it’s obvious you’re just trying to start arguments.
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  1302. Clearly you’re unfamiliar with Beavis and Butthead.
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  1303. It’s a self-imposed economic collapse. The Kremlin could stop the bleeding immediately by withdrawing from Ukraine. The Kremlin is choosing economic instability and possible political instability. As far as “worse than Putin” goes, we already have that problem. The Putin of today is worse than the Putin of a dozen years ago. He’s worse than he was 4 years ago. He’s worse with every passing day. The bottom line is Russia’s economic stability is not as important as stopping their genocidal war in Ukraine. A stable Russia means nothing if they are destabilizing another country through war.
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  1304. For a Martin Luther King, Jr, a Nelson Mandela, or a Mahatma Gandhi to get any traction requires that the public be capable of feeling ashamed of their government.
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  1305. ARMOR PIERCER Theres a long history between Mexico and the Philippines that goes back to the days after Spain conquered the land they would call New Spain (and later called Mexico). Spanish navigators discovered transpacific routes to the Philippines from Acapulco and back (because of the direction of prevailing winds the routes to the Philippines and back were different. Spain was mining an extraordinary amount of silver in Mexico, and China had a silver shortage. Twice a year, the “Manilla Galleon” took silver to China and came back to Acapulco with silks and all manner of valuable trade goods. This trade route from almost 500 years ago was really the first time trade could be said to be global. Some of the first “Chinese” to come to the Americas were actually Filipino sailors that jumped ship!
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  1306. ⁠ @darthkek1953 So England got a double dose with a side of French, is what you’re saying.
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  1307. I find overuse of stock footage annoying—even for non-automation generated content.
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  1308. This is the editorial side of the paper, not the news side. You don’t know the difference between an article and an opinion? Smh
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  1309. Not if your name is Montgomery Brewster. I guess the question you’d need to answer is what are your highest priorities and your parameters. If minimizing your expenses was your highest priority, what would you be willing to give up in order to live in the cheapest place possible? You’d also want to avoid false economies. Living in a very cheap place with poor rule of law, you’d probably have additional expenses for security, as an example. It’s not quite as simple as avoiding the “most expensive places”.
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  1310.  @JTST1234  I think the U.S. was more interested in there being a balance of power between the two countries. I do not believe that the U.S. harbored an anti-Indian sentiment. U.S. support for Pakistan was never total, and was contingent on reciprocity and aligned interests (particularly wrt the Russians’ war in Afghanistan).
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  1311. Mike Scott Go ask your questions in a thread where someone gives a damn. The occupants of the White House and the GOP are suggesting that video games are to blame for these massacres, and your disjointed questions are irrelevant.
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  1312. Jenn smith Better deplorable than a NRA stooge or Russian troll, like yourself, Jenn/Mike
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  1313. Oh, come on. Give credit where credit is due. He’s good at skimming money off his own casinos, and measured by quantity, he’s the greatest liar this country has ever seen.
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  1314.  @battlebbot  Chris, I forget, are you the antivaxxer or the snake oil practitioner?
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  1315. Because EVERYTHING has become political to them, especially their petty grievances. Simple things become affronts to their bizarre concepts of liberty—which basically amounts to selfishness.
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  1316.  @u2beuser714  It would be much appreciated if you would watch the video before posting comments. You might be able to comment intelligently rather than appearing to be a simpleton.
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  1317.  @jeffrbake  It depends. Were they reporting to 911 what they thought they saw? If they didn’t see with their own eyes, did someone else tell them the perpetrator had a gun? Should we expect everyone to be able to identify a weapon in a fast moving situation? I agree though. Information from the 911 call(s) are going to shape police response. There should still be an investigation to determine the level of negligence of the officer, if any.
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  1318. And yet I herd people flock to him.
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  1319. “I’m not sad about the election, I was just chopping onions.”
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  1320.  @mandisaw  The lesson I got from the video wasn’t “Unions are to blame” nor that pensions are bad. The message I got was that both the unions and the manufacturers were shortsighted and share in responsibility for the near collapse of the U.S. auto industry. However, the rise of Toyota and Nissan was not as easy to foresee back then as it is in hindsight. It only took a decade for Japanese car companies to be firmly entrenched. Other factors beside sticker price were also factors. The U.S. suffered oil shocks around this time (the opec embargo), there were gas shortages, and gasoline prices skyrocketed. The Japanese cars were much more fuel efficient, which made them much more attractive to buyers. The 70s were really the end of an era, but the pension obligations didn’t go away.
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  1321.  @paulaitix77 Will you be able to accept it if he is found guilty of any of the 78 (and counting) charges he’s accused of? Or will you not believe it if it happens?
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  1322. It’s bitter medicine. The complete course of treatment is to find alternative energy sources, but once you are cured of Russian energy addiction, you’ll be free of it. Short term pain for long term health.
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  1323. My name is Giovanni Giorgio but everyone calls me Giorgio.
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  1324. The only people suggesting banning all weapons are NRA plants posing as liberals. They do this to gin up fear, leading to increased firearm sales. It’s a form of viral marketing. Why do you think there is an ammo shortage?
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  1325.  @Piersmoron  Did someone rain on your parade, David Bell-end?
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  1326. Alex Soto Not true, although it’s a rare thing. I’m friends with a self taught aerospace engineer who was on the Cassini mission at JPL. (He eventually did get a degree to advance in pay grade more quickly.)
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  1327. Russian generals have said as much, indicating that Moldova could be their next target. But is this a realistic goal? Their thrusts toward Odessa has failed. Two ships crucial to an amphibious assault on the Odessa coast have been sunk or severely damaged. The big supply push trying to get conventional offensive weaponry to Ukraine indicates that Ukraine is preparing a counter-offensive. I think in the meantime they will allow a costly Russian advance to further deplete Russian forces before the counterstroke.
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  1328.  @laurencesmith2199  The being a good leader part. This unnecessary aggression against Ukraine is not making Russia safer or stronger. It’s making Russia weaker and poorer.
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  1329. Which state Supreme Court justice made this argument?
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  1330. Let’s go a step further—your proof of vaccination is your voterID.
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  1331. Is your wargame an example of an intelligence misstep? Were they trying to determine Japanese naval capabilities in the exercise or was it serving a different purpose? Planners are the ones who analyze the “what if” questions. Intelligence analysts try to answer the “what is” questions.
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  1332. Maybe, maybe not. It sounds like you’re wish-casting. He never talks about his personal life. He either travels for business or for hiking and camping for recreation. He is bearish on staving off global warming (this video being an example of throwing a wet blanket on lithium optimism and electrification euphoria). I imagine that he spends as much time as possible in nature because he knows it’s not going to last. He wants to enjoy it while he can, before climate change alters the landscape of his Colorado mountains and his other favorite spots. Some people in these comments seem to think that Pete’s pessimism is due to his whoring himself out to the fossil fuel industry. This might be true, but given his other forecasting, I think he’s just pessimistic about our ability to reign in carbon emissions.
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  1333. The world.
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  1334. DAYBROK3 That would be garden variety callousness. I think it’s intentional cruelty, given this administration’s track record. They might think that damaging America as much as possible is a winning strategy, or it might be that they want to inflict as much pain as they can as they head for the exit (and blame it on the Democrats). Petty revenge is a big part of the Trumpist mentality, and petty revenge on a grand scale is glorious to the president and his ilk.
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  1335.  @doonewatts7155  Are you suggesting garlic and crosses should be part of the military aid packages being sent to Ukraine? 🧛‍♂️
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  1336.  @Hatbox948 Every four years. Thank you for your interest in the United States of America.
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  1337.  Freedom Matters  The reason I want to believe you’re a Russian troll is that I don’t want to believe you’re so traitorous and evil that you’d spread lies like this to kill your fellow Americans. I don’t want to believe that an American would risk the health and lives of their own family and themselves by politicizing an effin’ pandemic or merely because they want to “own the libs”.
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  1338.  @andrearoyd2942  there’s these toilet lids that fit on 5 gallon (20 l.) paint cans. Of course, you want to use an empty can, and line it with a plastic bag for earlier clean up. It’s a good alternative to public toilets if your campsite allows it. And it doesn’t involve digging!
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  1339. I’m way ahead of you. Imagine a future of trains with steering wheels. AI enables non-linear trains. We’re still working out the bugs on self-driving trains. My company is pivoting from Crypto-based trains, in which the more choochooCoin you buy, the sooner you arrive at your destination. While we’re still incorporating crypto into our product, we have recognized that AI and trains (and steering wheels) offer unlimited upside. Literally unlimited upside. Our AI powered crypto trains will not be limited to two dimensions but will be able to operate three-dimensionally in our patented and trademarked “air tunnels”. We are tentatively exploring a deal with Space-X to create space tunnels. Crypto Space Trains (with steering wheels) traveling in space tunnels offer humanity possibilities only limited by the speed of light and the bounds of the universe. We’re talking infinite returns on your investment.
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  1340. I’m just going to speculate, but he was angry that people like them were taking jerbs away from people like him.
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  1341.  @skarr7985 Condolences are for the survivors, not for the dead. There was tragic loss of five lives here, but in the cruel calculus of tragedies, five deaths are not particularly notable. One might even consider it trivial. The only thing really noteworthy was that the victims were engaged in a high risk recreational activity—the risks of which they were aware. I think I will reserve my pity for those individuals that are taking satisfaction in the deaths because the dead were among the wealthy. I pity them because they have degraded themselves as humans. They’ve lost some of their connection with humanity.
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  1342.  @torrencec5337 the problem is no one knows the true value of a yuan because of the China bank’s lack of transparency. The U.S. Federal Reserve is very open about money supply and interest rates ahead of time. China is very secretive about the moves that its reserve bank makes. If you think BRICS as a group is going to create a replacement reserve currency, what are waiting for? They’ve created a reserve bank that has issued bonds. Why no currency like they promised?
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  1343. I wouldn’t say “collapsed”. I’d say, “tried to relocated closer to the water”.
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  1344. Even if there was absolute proof that unicorns didn’t exist, that doesn’t disprove the existence of unicorn farts.
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  1345. I hope you feel better, soon. If it helps, you’re getting vaccinated does more than protect you. You’re helping to protect your community. You deserve praise for being a community guardian! 😄
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  1346.  bowser  I’m a bit worried about your uncontrollable compulsion to signify and magnify your manhood. I don’t mean to shame you publicly, but it’s clear to everyone reading your comments that you’ve got deep seated fears about your manhood. When the election results are undeniable, and you’ve staked so much of your sense of self around Trump, what are you going to do? Actually, I think you know already that Biden is going to be the next President. That is why you’re lashing out. I want you to write down this number: 800-273-8255. It’s for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. If you feel an urge to hurt yourself or hurt others, I want you to call that number and talk to someone.
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  1347. I wish Saudi Arabia and India could join force to deal with the Iranian threat. I do not agree that Iranian belligerence is based on their conflict with Israel. I think Israel is their pretext. An Indo-Saudi led coalition could accomplish things that a U.S coalition could not. It could keep Iranian warships in port.
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  1348.  @afcgeo882  I’ve never heard that the Rangers were largely dismayed by the uniform change. It has always sounded like people looking for something to be outraged about, with others stoking the outrage because of politics. Fwiw, I remember hearing political pundits criticize BDUs as garrison uniform when it came out because it “looked sloppy” and that wearing such “pajamas” would destroy discipline and morale.
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  1349. Did I get here too early for trolls blaming President Biden?
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  1350.  @orlock20  Yes. And the corruption of the military was a natural and inevitable outgrowth of the massive corruption permeating the Russian state and society. Which raises the question, if the society was not corrupt and therefore the military was not corrupt (and presumably strong), would the invasion of Ukraine have even been implemented? I’m suggesting that if Russian society, state, and military were healthy, and the military was capable of winning a war in Ukraine, they would not have invaded in the first place.
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  1351. Reported for promoting terrorism
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  1352.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  Harley might make more money on clothing, accessories, and licensing. It’s been a “lifestyle” company for a couple of decades.
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  1353.  @johnwattdotca  There was a lost comedy opportunity there. Ossoff could have held up his hand and said, “Wait!” while walking around the empty podium looking for the “lost” Pedue, finally getting on his hands and knees with a magnifying glass. He could have explained, “I was told my opponent’s sense of decency would be here in his place, but it must have shrunk more than we thought.”
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  1354.  @XxILiveForYouXx  <— TROLL The U.S. State Department is reporting that they’ve uncovered a Russian Intelligence disinformation campaign to discredit vaccines. Trolls like this guy are either being fed disinformation from Russian Troll farms or is actively working for/with Russian Intelligence agencies. If you’ve wondered why all these antivaxxers have come out of the woodwork and are plaguing medical information channels like Dr. Campbell’s YouTube channel, now you know. It’s part of the agenda to hurt and destabilize the U.S. and other countries.
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  1355. Ah, Pete. You’re making an amateur mistake. India wasn’t pro-Soviet. India was pro-India and avoided aligning itself with either side. The rookie mistake is the knee jerk thinking of “If you’re not for me, you’re against me.” India was literally the original “Third World country” when the First, Second, Third Worlds referred to Western Democracies, Communist Bloc, and Non-Aligned nations. The schema described the geopolitics, not the economic development. It was the policy of India (and other nations) to avoid entanglements with either side and go there own way, looking out for their own interests. They could lean one way or the other according to circumstances of the moment. It’s really disappointing when Pete gets political history so wrong. This is basic Cold War history.
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  1356.  @Smokedouttasian  Trashing a shop in this manner qualifies as looting. If he took something off the shelf and put it back, it wouldn’t be looting. But he’s taking things that aren’t his, and then destroying them. The first act is stealing, the second act is the destruction. In a different context this might be considered simple (and ugly) vandalism. But this is a military context and military rules and standards apply.
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  1357. This is exactly what my armchair plans to do, as well. 😅 But to be serious for a moment, I think the same principles used in the Kherson/Kharkiv dual offensive apply. One careful thrust that draws and fixes Russian forces, and a second opportunistic thrust elsewhere.
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  1358. Do whatever you want, Ivan.
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  1359. Because space fairytales > reality.
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  1360. That’s a good question. Unfortunately, there are a lot of unanswered questions with regard to the helicopter company. We don’t even know for a fact that the wreckage was removed from the crash site. I know people have done fly overs, looking for the wreckage, but not finding it from the air isn’t proof that it was removed. Proof would require finding the crash site on foot and verifying that the wreckage was not present. Even if we can determine for certain that it was removed, we don’t know who had it removed nor do we know who has possession of the wreck. It could be sitting in a small warehouse rented for the investigation as we speak. We just don’t know.
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  1361. Is “fame addiction” a fancy phrase for a childish demand for attention? Because that seems to be a common thread in these people: they are psychologically and morally at the level of a misbehaving four year old, and they have an infantile craving for attention.
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  1362. I’ve used a toaster oven as a space heater in a pinch. I don’t remember the wattage, but I do know that it took the edge off the cold.
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  1363.  @OptimiSkeptic  You seem like an intelligent person, so I’m going to ask you to reconsider your use of “Third World/First World”. The terminology has nothing to do with whether a country is industrialized or not. The schema is from Cold War politics in which the First World was the Western Democracies, the Second World was the Communist bloc and countries aligned with the Soviets and/or Chinese communists. The Third World was those nations that did not wish to take sides in the Cold War, whether or not those countries were democratic. The First/Second/Third world descriptors are so obsolete that many people don’t even know that the Second World was part of it or what it was! The sentences in question are about the Rule of Law. Why not just lead with that? Some countries follow the rule of law, some do not. I think you’ll find that those that do not tend to be authoritarian countries. Economic development or geopolitical alignment aren’t germane. Anyway, thanks if you read this far. I hope you’ll consider my request in the future when you want to use “Third World” or “First World” as shorthand. Sometimes slang hits perfectly, other times it muddies our thinking. The misuse of First, Third World is one of the latter.
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  1364.  @Robby4291  I disagree, Peter. There is almost nothing left of the GOP that isn’t firmly in the grip of the authoritarian and racist Trumpers. Republican voters? The majority of the rank-and-file support Trump, some (the base) fanatically so. Which is not to say that there isn’t a minority of Republicans that don’t support Trump and that don’t support the party that maintains his ownership of the party. But that minority needs to do what many of us have already done. Leave the GOP. Cut their association with what is now a white supremacist authoritarian party. I’m sorry to say this, but it’s true. The probability we can save the party are 0.0001% slim. Far better that we form a new party and let the non racist pro American democracy conservatives consciously join it. The cancer went too deep. The GOP is the cancer.
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  1365.  @crosslink1493  Let’s say that Australian business was going to set up the manufacturing and processing infrastructure to process ore into steel, and then sell that steel to the world. Could they compete with the Chinese steel industry, which could get its ore from elsewhere? Remember that the Chinese government owns and/or subsidizes its steel production and is willing to sell at a loss to kill competition. This, more than anything else, has killed heavy industry in the U.S. Is there reason to think that Australia can do better?
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  1366. It means that if Putin came to the U.S., the U.S. wouldn’t be required to arrest him and extradite him to The Hague. But it doesn’t mean the U.S. can’t or won’t.
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  1367. Here’s the thing about hypotheticals used as counter examples: they must be at least remotely plausible. When the U.S. threatens to invade Mexico after first annexing Baja California, and after it it foments an insurgency in Tamaulipas and invades Mexico up to Monterrey in support of this fake insurgency, we can talk about your absurd hypothetical.
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  1368. Yeah, that’d be nice. Sadly, what you typed only applies to Polk County. In many other counties, the criminal element is running amok. Leon County is a good example. Did you know there is a criminal gang operating openly out of 700 N. Adams Street in Tallahassee?
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  1369. How are they going to build a Mulberry without Andy Griffith and Don Knotts? Wait one. I was just informed (by my Aunt Bea) that I’m thinking of Mayberry.
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  1370. Yes, and doubly so for antivaxxers.
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  1371. Perhaps “by chance” is a better term than by accident. I enjoy this form of speculation. It’s both evidence and imagination based. Stephan is pretty clear that he is engaging in speculation, but it’s not baseless. My speculation is that there was something in the psychology/sociology of each species that increased the probability of social integration and personal relations between dogs and man.
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  1372. Do you think it’s ethical to lie about your age like that, Jo? You look about 50! 😉😍
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  1373.  @baumer2504  Walking up on her. The shooter’s name is Nikki. Looks like a slender woman in the video. Both men began approaching her. I can’t tell if the woman was raising her voice, but the man was yelling and looked upset. His body language was aggressive.
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  1374. I’m not shocked. I’m not even shocked by the disinformation being spread to reinforce Trump’s lies. I realize Trump intends to punish everyone for the thing he refuses to admit: that he lost the election. This is the start of the biggest tantrum the world has ever seen.
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  1375. I missed the part where he was called an eyewitness. You do realize that not all witnesses are eyewitnesses?
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  1376.  @daverok1113  <— TROLL
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  1377. Especially if the crew was out of imminent danger and safe in the lifeboats. If the Spanish Coastguard S & E vessels were underway and on their way, it would make sense to wait for them, even if the Spanish Coastguard hadn’t issued the order.
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  1378. You know that anyone can announce they’re police, right. There isn’t a special voice the police use to announce themselves that no one else can use.
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  1379.  @silvercomic I think he was illustrating a point specifically about fabric.
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  1380.  @sharperimage5976  Agreed. This is not the start of a civil war, but it’s intolerable and deplorable. Turns out Hillary Clinton was right for once in her life.
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  1381.  @mitchhoule7721  Let me clear up your confusion. Jojo isn’t an American, has never lived in America, and gets paid in rubles or yuan to post comments on social media.
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  1382.  @robertjanez7467  Ukrainians only have to outlast the Russians. Russians are already at the greatest extent across most of Ukraine. They have to occupy the territory they’ve conquered, which takes up most of their forces. It’s when they try to advance that they lose the territory they just conquered. This is happening in the East and the South of Ukraine. The Russian Army has become spread too thin.
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  1383. @Albert Clarke There is no mechanism by which an anti parasitical neurotoxin can affect viruses. Ivermectin attacks the nervous systems of parasites such as worms and lice. Viruses do not have nervous systems.
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  1384.  @Dennis0824  That’s why he mentioned insurgency wars. The coalition won the Iraq War the Afghan War. It just failed to secure the peace. Counterinsurgency is a very different type of war than a war of attrition.
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  1385. Yes, and people who understand that the pandemic is real and deadly serious also have the freedom to ostracize the unvaccinated, to refuse you service if you refuse to wear a mask, to not employ you, and to use our own freedom of speech to shame you into compliance with common sense health measure. Agreed? Antivaxxers seem to think freedom only applies to them.
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  1386. It’s not that complicated. You shouldn’t need Katie Porter to understand what happened here. Banks are allowed to only keep 10% reserves of deposited funds. The rest is put into loans and investments. When interest rates are extremely low, as they have been for the last 20 years, a bank can’t make a profit from making loans. So they invest the money. A lot of those investments are in companies that are benefitting from the low interest rate environment. When interest rates go up substantially, a fair amount of those companies fail. There are some basic tweaks that might protect against this problem, such as raising the reserve minimum and putting limits in place as to what type and how many investments a bank can make. You have to strike a balance between banks taking in too much risk and taking on too little. Clearly this bank took on too much, and that indicates a problem.
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  1387. I missed it if you mentioned it, but what’s the cargo capacity (for example, for humanitarian supplies) with the TSCA package? Thanks for this video. I bet you’re snagging some recruits with these stories about the varied tasks performed by the military. When I was a young person, I really had no idea of all the things the Army, Navy, Airforce, and Marines do.
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  1388.  @oulibemusic1257  I didn’t share the other anecdote, which is a shameful story. It happened when I was younger than I was in the first anecdote. This was back when I was in my early twenties and a macho shit. I had a girlfriend that loved me more than I loved her. The short version is that she got pregnant, wanted to have a baby with me, and I used all the manipulative tricks of the emotional bully to convince her to abort. I nagged her to get an abortion. I feel ashamed for how I treated her, but I think I’m glad that she had the abortion. Neither one of us would have been good parents. But I think the worst thing is that I didn’t want her to have agency. I wanted her to not make the decision, but to follow my decision. I was hard on her because I didn’t want to take any chances. I don’t know if we can draw any generalizations from my experience. But I think it demonstrates a pitfall of trying to center questions of reproductive rights around men, even a little bit. Yes, we are involved. But we have our own agendas and those agendas don’t always line up with women’s rights.
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  1389.  @davidlipman8093  I’m Hello, son of Greetings.
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  1390. I missed the part where he said he was getting it early. Didn’t he wait his turn?
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  1391. I respect the servicemen and their non-response to the jackass, but let’s be real about the threat the jackass represents. He wasn’t terrorizing anyone. That’s hyperbole. He wasn’t a threat. Maybe we can talk about how his racist and homophobic attitudes REPRESENT a threat to all of us, because the jackass isn’t alone in his beliefs, but he wasn’t a threat that required a response. These soldiers are trained to respond to real threats. Serious threats. They might have served in Iraq or Afghanistan, where they put their lives on the line on a daily basis. Some jerk in a shopping mall is like a pile of smelly 💩 you want to walk away from, not get entangled with. Now I’ve sometimes gotten heated when I’ve felt insulted. I’m sure many of you have as well. But this jerk was so ridiculous, I don’t think the soldiers took him seriously. They treated him as the village idiot who had wandered away from his village. And I think they gave him the bigger insult by ignoring him and walking away. We can’t always walk away from Nazis, especially when they pose a threat to our society and way of life. But in many cases ignoring a Nazi individual is the best tactic. Our servicemen and women are in Poland for a reason. They are a deterrent to a real Nazi (Putin) that threatens democracy. Our forces in Poland, Romania, and the Baltic States are NATO’s teeth. Without them and their cohorts in the Polish armed forces, NATO would be a paper tiger.
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  1392.  @Seth9809  of the convoy ambush videos I’ve seen, the first one (that we probably all saw first) was a large group of armored vehicles entering a town. It looked like many had pulled over and were idling or parked. To be frank, it looked like how a multi-car road trip would pull into a truck stop so everyone could stretch their legs, use the restrooms, and grab snacks and coffee. If there was a security perimeter, it wasn’t obvious. Then the shelling starts, and it also looks like there might be an ATGM or two coming in from the side. A handful of vehicles were destroyed, and the rest didi-ed the fuck out of there the way they came. And they maintained spacing. Maybe not 100 or 50 meter spacing, but close to 50 m. The other three or four that I can remember visually showed the Russian AFVs much better spaced and turrets pointed in different directions. They maintained space. I think in the first week, the Russians were very sloppy, possibly because they didn’t expect resistance and hadn’t yet encountered it. Remember, in the first week, the Russians advanced rapidly in many areas because the defense hadn’t yet organized to contest the advance. After 4 months, even if green troops are being poured in, I think the Russians have at least the basics squared away.
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  1393. You can’t just grab ships passing through your territory willy nilly. What you can do is inspect them. And if that inspection takes weeks or months or even longer, so be it. If there is a backlog of ships anchored and waiting for inspections, it’s not a blockade. It’s very typical of shadow fleet ships to stick to friendly ports that will only do superficial inspections (or none at all). Think of this as like the cop pulling you over for some mechanical violation. If there is a cop discovered even more violations, making your car unsafe to operate, he could impound it. The Eagle S has over 30 mechanical or safety violations. This might be fairly normal for the shadow fleet. So Finland and the other Baltic nations would be fully justified in devoting a lot of attention to inspecting these ships. This is how you do a blockade without doing a blockade. It’s all legally justifiable. One could argue that it’s necessary because malfunctioning ships represent an environmental hazard and a danger to other ships. 😊
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  1394.  @robertalaverdov8147  Nah, he’s one of those artistic slacker Austrians. If he seems organized, it’s from experience not national inclination.
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  1395. The choice facing Russia is how badly they are going to lose. If they leave Ukraine now, some sanctions will be lifted. Their economy will recover eventually. If the Russians don’t leave, their economy will be destroyed beyond recovery. The longer they stay, the more damage to their economy. I don’t know if Putin will be able to remain in power in any case. Between the Russian people and his criminal cronies (the oligarchs), he’s lost his base of political support. His criminal cronies want to remove him. I’m sure Putin is physically protected from assassination , so they will be very careful about taking a shot at him. But I suspect they are already conspiring against him.
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  1396.  @Monalex89  Imagine if California became mexicanized! They’d change all the place names, streets, towns . . . Oh, wait. 🤪 (By ethnic/nationality population, L.A. is the second biggest Mexican city!) But seriously, we should take into account the very interesting cultural blending phenomenon on both sides of the frontera. I don’t believe it will lead to any changes in political boundaries, but the cultural diffusion and economic cooperation (an important thing neglected in the video) does bind both sides of the border region together. The truth is, neither the U.S. nor Mexico has any designs on each other’s political territory. This is mostly the fever dream of racists in the U.S. that have “reconquista” sand in their cracks or those that are white supremacists/imperialists and who believe that all problems can be solved with political violence (which they call “imposing order”). Partitioning any part of Mexico would destabilize the U.S. and the partitioned parts would be ungovernable. The reverse is too absurd to contemplate. Neither Americans of Mexican ancestry nor recent immigrants have any desire to stop being Americans (or residents of America), nor could Mexico hope to govern any of the U.S. states. (Governing independent-minded states like Sonora is already a challenge, no? Imagine the politicians in CDMX trying to govern Arizona!) Mexico is a big place, a huge and varied country, so I cannot make generalizations. I can say that the Bajío region, where I live, is distinctly different from the frontera, but even here there is a good deal of cultural diffusion that seeps into our lives. American style consumerism has taken hold, and certain American holidays are growing in popularity, such as Halloween and Cinco de Mayo (Yes, I’m joking about 5deMayo, but only partially). It’s also worth pointing out the influence (in both directions) of youth culture. La cultura pandilla is most certainly an import from the U.S., specifically from Southern California. With regard to Mexican influence on the U.S. beyond the border, it might be worthwhile to consult the writings of Gustavo Arellano, the “Orange County Octavio Paz”. (lol, I think he’d get a kick out that comparison, while humbling denying it.) He wrote a book with the thesis that México’s invasion of the U.S. is fait acompli, irreversible, terminado, thanks to the soft power of the soft taco. Call the process “Taco Diplomacy”. The truth is, both countries could accommodate a more open border without either side risking loss of sovereignty. DF will continue to pursue its own agenda while continuing to cooperate with both the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. (now that adults are back in charge) will pursue both cooperation and meddling, as it always has. Mexico has a century of experience responding to “gringo imperialism”, and knows how to extract concessions.
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  1397.  @aurorathekitty7854  That political realignment will never happen, unless there is a very unlikely breakdown of the U.S. political order. I will agree that the Frontera (as exemplified by your El Paso/Juárez) is not like anything in Pennsylvania, but you might be shocked at how far the Mexican diaspora has reached into the U.S.—there are major enclaves in many of the cities in the South, but also in the Midwest. Take Chicago as an example—the Mexican community has been there for decades. This shit fascinates me, btw. I think we (both Americans and Mexicans) benefit from the cultural transfusions and economic cooperation.
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  1398. What is in it in its entirety? Have you read the entire act?
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  1399. Not all Russian Criminals are in prison. In fact, many were already in the Russian armed forces prior to the invasion. So recruiting imprisoned criminals won’t make much difference.
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  1400. Apparently you are unfamiliar with the movie genre of Westerns which often feature gunslinger characters that perform quick draws of weapons and begin firing as soon as the gun clears the holster and the business end is pointed anywhere near the target. The issue discussed here is that the firearm was loaded with live rounds (real bullets), and secondarily, that the firearm wasn’t disabled from firing live rounds in the first place.
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  1401.  @flavortown289  People like Carl would be surprised at how many ordinary people, some with liberal politics, others more towards the center, are gun owners. The difference between them and people like him is that they don’t advertise that they’re gun owners. They don’t go out of their way to imply it. They don’t brag about it. They don’t base their self esteem or their identities as being gun owners. They don’t pathologically build their lives around firearms. If people like Carl think they have an edge on ordinary people whose political views differs from theirs, and they think they can bully those people with firearms, they’re in for a big surprise.
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  1402.  @christinemeleg4535  too lazy to even learn THEIR OWN history.
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  1403.  @b52-hnukesr69  You also want to ignore the grift and make this about politics?
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  1404. Bottom line, it doesn’t matter which country the app is from or tied to. We need new consumer safeguards wrt privacy, security, and data collection in the U.S. I think this is, or should be, a separate issue. As far as China goes, we need a much more coherent and muscular approach if we’re going to coexist with them. Trump’s China policies have lacked coherence, even if they projected strength.
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  1405.  @kasperwittrup1288  You’re correct in all but one thing. These are territorial waters. International law still provides for free passage for “innocent” commercial shipping. But international law also permits nations to conduct law enforcement activities in their territorial waters, such as inspections. Finland and Estonia each have the right to inspect each and every ship passing through its waters. I think the pilot requirement some are suggesting is a non-starter. But inspections, especially of “suspicious” ships, could put a real kink in Russian economic activity in St. Petersburg. It’s not a blockade, since Finland and Estonia would allow inspected ships to continue their voyages. With regards as to the type of inspections, the Finish (and Estonian, Swedish, Danish, Latvian, and Lithuanian) coastguard wouldn’t only be looking for criminal activity. They should also be equipment inspections to insure that the the inspected ships are seaworthy, mechanically sound, and safe for crew members. Such inspections can take quite a long time . . .
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  1406. Probably both this and the self-dealing.
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  1407. But won’t someone tell me how to say “patio” in Spanish?
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  1408. Let’s give the LAPD their due. Bottom line: No bystanders were shot by the responding officers. Hopefully this represents much needed policy changes and we can look forward to more police responses that don’t injure or kill innocent bystanders.
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  1409. Oso cuadroso.
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  1410. The Russian response was reticulous.
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  1411. MHV: Speaking of skills Me: Fuck Skill Share! I can’t beli— MHV: Lets have a look at the OODA loop. Me: I feel like I dodged a bullet!
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  1412.  @scottvelez3154  the latter. It’s tragic af that so many of us, taking all possible precautions, are suffering from the idiots, but the silver lining is that the idiots are removing themselves voluntarily at a faster rate.
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  1413. Please, you’re overstating what will happen to these victims, changing the narrative so that you’re the victim. And in your narrative, the brown people are still a threat, despite your “not all” qualification. Did the Japanese Americans cruelly and unjustly imprisoned in concentration camps by the U.S. government become terrorists? No, not even just a few. How many Black Americans that suffered under slavery became terrorists after the Civil War? I seem to remember it was Southern whites that engaged in terrorism after they became the losers. Isn’t it enough that these children are suffering horrible trauma and will go through life with this damage, done in our name? Let’s talk instead about how we will rectify this crime, how we will render justice on the criminals, and how we will help the victims. We start with removing the criminal-in-chief this Tuesday. I’m sorry to be critical of your comment, but speaking as the child of a victim of government institutional racism, I can’t let your comment pass unchallenged. Don’t recast yourself as a victim, even a potential one, when the REAL victims are still being intentionally and cruelly hurt.
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  1414. Nice try, Putzi.
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  1415.  @mikepalmer1971  no, it’s not.
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  1416.  @jennyanydots2389  The freedom to have an Icee. Damn, the machine’s broke again.
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  1417. I want there to be a Port Chubby.
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  1418. If he doesn’t show up to his meeting with the probation officer, he’ll be arrested and have to appear before Marchan—who will then take that into account during sentencing. It would show a total disregard for the New York criminal justice system. Some people are suggesting that Trump might not serve jail time. Missing his P.O. appointment would close that possibility.
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  1419.  @someguyfromarcticfreezer6854  Because Putin has banned the Russian people from using Facebook and other social media, almost all Russians still posting on any social media are trolls from the GRU troll farms, getting paid (in worthless rubles) in this Russian disinformation campaign. The greatest threat to Putin at the moment is losing control of his own country. What these trolls of Russian disinformation need to realize is that their identities will be revealed and they will be held to account by the free world. The same goes for those operating outside the Soviet Union, I mean Russia. Right now, the Russian people are being cut off from the internet by their own government. Soon, they will be cut off from the internet completely by the West, tired of the disinformation, wary of cyber attacks, and eager to impose more economic damage on the Oligarchs. It’s up to the Russian people to resist Putin’s kleptocracy. The Ruble is worth less than toilet paper. The Russian Trolls are effectively working for free. They, like everyone else in Russia, will face shortages of consumer goods and food. The ruble will be worth even less on the black markets, while the oligarchs and their underlings hoard hard currency—dollars, euros, and gold. How ironic that dollars and euros will soon become the Russian people’s medium of exchange. They’ll be paying a dollar for a potato due to food shortages and they will have Putin to thank for it.
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  1420. Did you run out of cope? Better get that prescription refilled.
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  1421.  @Bayard1503  How much trade trans-Sahara was there between Europe and Africa before the “Age of Discovery”? How much trade with Eurasia was there across the Sahara? How does that trade compare with ocean trade that bypass the Sahara? I think you’ll find that the great majority of trade and cultural exchange was via ocean and coasts because it’s easier to sail vs cross a huge expanse of desert.
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  1422.  @JohnSmith-bg4hu  What will happen (is already happening, in case you didn’t notice) is that for every 20 of you, 19 will get laid off, because automation can handle 95% of your job. So if you’re lucky and/or you outcompete the 19 other coworkers, you’ll keep your job. Basically, to whatever degree you can work from home you’ll be redundant in that job. The history of work is filled with unemployed irreplaceable workers. You didn’t ask anyone’s advice, but I’ll give it anyway. Learn a trade having to do with home repair as your plan B. If I’m wrong, at least you’ll have a useful hobby. Good luck in our brave new world!😅
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  1423. Underrated
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  1424.  @RyanMcBethProgramming  The thing I really hate is blow drying the shotgun after bathing it in the tub.
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  1425. I am very curious about the weld penetration the Germans were achieving (or failing to achieve). And I further wonder if this was caused by material shortages (as you suggest), skilled worker shortages, or welding technology lagging plate thickness. If box joints were supposed to improve structural integrity, why not go further and use dovetails? 😂
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  1426. And His prayer mail box is full.
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  1427. Fascinating. I can’t help but wonder if a new agreement will demilitarize the Black Sea, given that Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, and it’s no longer a matter of what concessions it will squeeze out of Ukraine.
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  1428.  @christopherg2347  That’s the most important thing. But even if there is nothing for which they arrest you, you can still complain and get the cop into trouble. You can literally make a federal case about an officer engaging in prohibited behavior.
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  1429.  @darbywing2  He might also be charged with lying to police, if he reported his shots fired as being fired upon. This was in the video. Guilty until proven innocent, but. Here’s the but: his defense will have to prove that the robber was already dead when he came back and shot him again, if there isn’t already absolutely clear proof of it.
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  1430.  @Mr72Dolphins  My first boss was an Estonian. What a son-of-a-bitch! Mr. Eleri, I still hate you a little bit. But I still respect you. I listened well to your stories about life under Russian communism. I still remember the horrors you described, and I remember your good qualities as well—your intelligence, your work ethic, and your deep love for freedom. You were a patriot of two countries, and you must still be a patriot if you’re still alive.
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  1431. We probably should have figured it out when they proclaimed they were “pro-life” as they murdered people.
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  1432. And Perun’s previous Sunday’s video on the Russian economy.
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  1433. It’s good that they’re looking, but it’s a shame they couldn’t make the determination more quickly.
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  1434.  @MrTimbeatty But you don’t need human passengers to develop new vehicles. You can use crash test dummies to uncover the majority of problems.
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  1435.  @easternsun167  No, they didn’t say that it never happened. Don’t lie about what they said. Wait for them to testify under oath.
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  1436. The 2nd Amendment isn’t just a right, it’s our responsibility. Gun carrying should be mandatory for everyone over the age of 12, but I wouldn’t stop at guns. Each of us just be required to carry a tactical nuke with us. This would lead to a polite and respectful society and most importantly: mental health, psychological counseling, and anger management would finally get the attention they deserve. We would be forced as a nation to find mature and peaceful methods of conflict resolution, lest someone “blows up” in anger. Also, “Good Guy with a Nuke” sounds kinda cool.
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  1437.  @mattt5006  Hello, how’s St. Petersburg?
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  1438. I don’t know how much of the bomblet is fragmentation material and how much is explosive, but they’re about the volume of a hand grenade. They might even be using some type of non-metal fragments, which makes X-rays hard to read. The main thing is that these drones cannot carry much weight. The bomblet is probably near the maximum for effective search and targeting at a certain height.
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  1439. Pete just did a video on the WGA and SAG strikes. About the best I can say is that he means well, but he missed the main points by a mile, going off on a tangential issue (AI) as if it’s the most important one. It’s almost as if he shows us he doesn’t know about a thing when he opines about that thing without knowing about it. 😅 I don’t mind Pete going out on a limb. He’s the stuntman of geopolitical punditry and I like that. But if you recommend his channel to people, it’s a little bit embarrassing when he shows his ass.
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  1440.  @DaZeroHero  Yeah, the sports exception starts about 2:45. Context and circumstances matter here. Did the conduct take place at a boxing gym or martial arts studio? Did the consenting individuals have a history of participating in martial arts? If yes, this would support the defense. If no, it could be part of rebutting the consent defense. Other circumstantial factors could come from other witnesses: did the participants have an argument before the fight? Was there a history of antagonism between participants? Another factor that investigators would look at is the seriousness of the bodily injuries. They might look at the conduct of the fight in terms of norms of sport. Was one participant of a purported boxing match kicking the other while he was on the ground? Is there indication that one or more participants go too far? (There have been successful prosecutions of MMA fighters for assault.)
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  1441. Kherson is a pretty obvious target for a counteroffensive (Ukraine announced it was!), but it could be a feint to draw and pin Russian forces while the thrust comes elsewhere. Izum, southeast of Kharkiv seems like a possibility. The two rules of thumb is 1) strategic target (like a city with major road, rail, and water crossings), and 2) attack weakness not strength. Think of it as a chess game, although chess is vastly simpler.
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  1442. Not in the legal sense. He might go out strapped every night. The premeditation is in following the victim from the store to rob/murder him and his friends.
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  1443. Exactly correct. I’ve read different opinions from people familiar with the guideline point system that suggest he’ll get less than 24 months. One opinion was that he would not get any prison time, but house arrest and supervised release. I’m not one of those that thinks he should do 20 years. If 2 years is the upper limit, he should do 2 years. That sounds like a reasonable and proportional punishment. What troubles me are those Trevor supporters who think obstruction of justice is no big deal. Their main argument is “nobody was hurt, so no real crime was committed”. The thing about obstruction is that it hurts everyone when the rule of law is circumvented. I don’t know why that is so hard for some people to understand.
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  1444. I can account for the discrepancy between 879 and 878. The clerk assigned the responsibility of counting forgot to count himself.
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  1445. They’re not targeting the farmers, they’re targeting the farm. If you’re working in the building that day, it sucks to be you. The blurry line is between international networks of activists and state sponsored farms. Or what about offshore contractors? If I were red teaming Ryan, there’s some pretty obvious responses. 1) Work from home 2) put your troll farm/active measures facility in a third country 3) put it in the target country Number 1 changes the math of collateral and unwanted damage. It introduces a lot more potential for blowback. Number 2 presents a diplomatic problem. If Russia puts its troll farms in China or India, the diplomatic consequences outweigh the intended result. And what if Russia is not operating the troll farms but is contracting the work to a third party? Number 3 presents a different set of problems. Maybe Russia contracts with a viral marketing firm operating out of Florida. There no way you can target them kinetically, and you’d have trouble shutting them down legally. Depending on how stacked the Supreme Court remains, you probably won’t be able to shut them down. Trolling and misinformation can still be considered protected speech. As far as targeting individuals (which Ryan is not talking about), I have a solution. It’s called “rendition”. In this scenario, Team Ryan kidnaps the individual, spirits them to Guantanamo, and a tribunal decides their guilt or innocence. 😂
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  1446.  @craigplatel813  During that time I knew a guy in high school that joined the Marines and was forced out in basic. He was a social misfit, had a gun fetish, and was an intolerable weirdo in a place where we tolerated weirdos. He was always talking about enlisting in the Marine Corps throughout high school. Anyway, he was basically PTed until he quit. I think there were some extracurricular beatings involved, too. He got out on a medical discharge thanks to some outside help (either someone with connections or a lawyer depending on who tells the story). And that’s the last I heard of him.
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  1447. I think you’re wrong—this was the only way to promote it (or at least it was the lesser of bad options). Despite people’s opinions of Morgan, they will be drawn to the drama, either to see “Trump defend himself and take the awful Piers down a peg”, or to see “Trump run away when confronted by the TRUUUUTH”. Both groups will watch the same thing and come away with different conclusions. It helps that their conclusions are pre-formed. Keep in mind that the liberals will embrace a conservative that has “accepted the facts” by their lights. For those in the middle that are not loyal to either political faction, well, we have a morbid curiosity about train wrecks.
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  1448. You should use one of your older troll accounts. This one is too fresh.
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  1449. Nah. It wasn’t actually a tank, it was a IFV or APC. Those don’t carry ERA. Half the reactive armor on actual tanks doesn’t work anyway. Some clever procurement officers filled the boxes with cardboard, sold the ERA to India, and bought themselves property in London.
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  1450. The world situation is desperate. . . as usual. 😊
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  1451. Good on the lot of you in this thread! I got clean and sober on July 24, 1993, and strictly maintained it until December 19th of 2019. I tell you this both as a warning and as reassurance—even someone with long term sobriety can slip, but also a slip is not the end of the world nor an excuse to plunge into the old madness (the current madness is quite sufficient, thank you). Keep doing whatever you’re doing!
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  1452. *bated breath sorry, I can’t help myself. Ignore it you wish. No criticism was implied.
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  1453.  Oliver Pong  I just checked (I wasn’t sure), but it was from the 1984 campaign against Mondale. Liberal pundits criticized it for being light on substance, but it helped Reagan to a landslide victory, and the phrase “Morning in America” is embedded in America’s political consciousness.
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  1454. @Nicholas Parker You’re not a “real” American. Stop lying. You’re family is ashamed of you.
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  1455. The 30-year fixed rate hit 18% in early 1980s, and decreased to about 7% by the year 2000. Inflation peaked about the same time at 14%. At the time you got your first mortgage, inflation was at 2.75%. I don’t think we can say what is normal interest or normal inflation over the long term. At best we can say there has been a downward trend. Incidentally, one of the charts I just looked at noted that Paul Volcker was named Fed Chairman in 1979 and embarked on an anti-inflation campaign. I think I’ll have a look at what he did that began easing inflation, although I don’t think it will be directly applicable to our current situation. I’m going to take Peter’s claim about what the Fed is trying to do vis-a-vis international markets with a grain of salt, and take current Fed Chairman Jay Powell at his word. (His latest press briefing was yesterday—PBS Newshour has the full brief.) He is primarily attempting to avert persistent inflation. A secondary target is a soft landing for this weird recession we are in (and there’s your anomaly, because the job market is strong, etc.), but he expressed doubt that the Fed could land the economy softly. Maybe that is what Peter was talking about because when the U.S. is in a recession, the rest of the world feels it. Personally, I’m really glad I paid down my high interest credit card debt over the past six months. I plan to be pretty frugal this holiday season and avoid accumulating more debt. Good luck to y’all in the storm we are entering. I hope we see smooth sailing before too long.
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  1456. Already being done.
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  1457. @Not cilé You should not assume that the bomber(s) are truly concerned about human lives, just because there was a warning. Whoever did this has a callous indifference to life. If they actually cared about others, they would not have set off a bomb like this in the first place. It’s hard to say what their motives were for broadcasting a warning because it could be a number of different rationalizations or delusions, from clinging to an idea that they’re good people that don’t intend to hurt anyone to wanting to counteract “bad publicity”. It’s an elaborate but hollow ruse they’re playing at, whatever their reasons.
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  1458. Gravity conspiring with Fog and Mountainous Terrain. Maybe Mechanical Failure had a hand in it too, but even aircraft in perfect working order crash in these conditions. Finally, I have an alternative theory. Diddy did it.
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  1459. Canada has to protect its borders too. 😉
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  1460.  @ycplum7062  That’s the upshot. Unionized workers with an agreement with an employer to rehire based on seniority has nothing to do with what Russia is up to, trying to conceal its level of unemployment. It’s a false equivalence and/or downright ignorance about what the word “count” means.
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  1461. Plug for Suchomimus right here. He does short and to the point Ukraine War videos, often with geolocations. He’s very straight to the point and there’s not a lot of fluff. AND he’s taken an interest in bridges. He’s posted quite a few videos of the attacks on the Dnipro bridges that serve the Kherson area, not to mention the Ingulets River, that bisects the Russian controlled right bank. Edit: also worth pointing out that Russia did send at least one train pulling a short string of cars across the bridge on the second set of tracks. Probably a one time thing for propaganda effect. Maybe a test.
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  1462.  @melissa_L  I’ve come to the conclusion that the antivaxxers’ motivations are unimportant and not worth the time to figure out. In all cases, they are at best recklessly indifferent to harming and killing people. That’s the bottom line. They might claim to want to save people from harm, but if they were actually concerned, then they might have done the research to conclude that the antivax movement is a fraud. Some have malevolent motives—such as Denise, who believes worldwide mass deaths will help the cause of White Supremacy.
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  1463. I decide to form a company. You are my first investor and buy 1% of the company for a million dollars. Voila, the company is valued at $100 million. Don’t feel like a sucker, though. Here comes someone willing to buy half your stake for 20 million.
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  1464. YOU ARE A LIAR. You are spreading false information. You are IGNORING the evidence that doesn’t support your claim. You are lying about medical and governmental opinion. Governments that originally approved ivermectin approval are rescinding that approval. THERE IS NO KNOWN MECHANISM BY WHICH AN ANTI PARASITE NEUROTOXIN MAGICALLY WORKS AS AN ANTIVIRAL, EVEN AT DANGEROUS DOSES THAT ANTIVAXERS SUGGEST. Stop lying to advance your antivax agenda.
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  1465.  @aliceanneacts6164  Nothing like this. The only significant time was Joe Lieberman endorsing McCain and speaking at the RNC. But Lieberman wasn’t sounding the alarm that Obama was a threat to democracy, he just didn’t think Obama had the qualifications while McCain did.
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  1466.  @MrDLRu  Explain the logic? We don’t know whether or not casings were found, so that’s not a sound assumption. Better evidence would be someone with eyes on the RV hearing shots but not seeing anyone, but even that isn’t 100%. Our problem with our speculations is we lack details. I believe the authorities are going to keep a lid on the investigation and keep a lot of details hidden, because a lot of loonies are going to be calling in tips or even making false confessions. The investigators will use details to filter out the nut cases and fake tips.
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  1467. It’s a mob—we’d do well to remember that we might all be susceptible to the strange psychological influence of a mob, and to take care we do not succumb. Yes, there is something wrong with these people that led them to be there that day and led them to join this particular rioting mob, but be on guard against your own worst human instincts, and don’t think “I could never do that”.
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  1468. Not true! He got the hell out of the Capitol into a safe location, and made some calls when the pizza didn’t show up, and then some more calls when the National Guard didn’t show up. He’s got sterves of neel.
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  1469. The bottom line is that neither side is exhausted. That said, I would point out that the level of exhaustion on one side required for the other side to win is not equal in a war of conquest. It’s possible that the aggressor will lose the will to fight long before their material capabilities are exhausted through attrition.
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  1470. I’ve never played, but I attribute much ignorance to such games. Tank duels were incredibly rare. A tank without logistical support is sculpture. Without infantry support, it will soon be sculpture.
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  1471. Why does blackmail always have to be the explanation? Maybe Graham was just a piece of shit the entire time.
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  1472.  @thomasherrin6798  it’s a geopolitical question, not a question of blame. The root of the question is the deeper question of how involved should the U.S. be in Europe vs retreat into isolationism. The apartment building is an analogy, and I would look at it a different way: the U.S. is the apartment building next door to the European apartment building, which is on fire. Do we (the U.S.) help our neighbors put out the fire? Do we catch and punish the arsonist? I don’t think we want the fire to spread to our building. We want to punish the arsonist to discourage other would be arsonists.
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  1473.  @stuartgray5877  I have a friend that worked at JPL, although not on this mission. Do you know Dave Doody? He’s retired now. One of his hobbies is astronomy and he sometimes takes his telescope to Old Town Pasadena to give people a look at planets or whatever. “Public Outreach”. He also taught classes on spacecraft design at Art Center.
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  1474. They log every call from constituents. They log every piece of snail mail from constituents. That’s one of the duties of a senator’s staff. If the call wasn’t logged, it didn’t happen.
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  1475.  @Jeff-by9de  Senate staffer: Did you call 911? Caller: I don’t mean they’re eating my cat right this second. But I’ve noticed how they eye my cat, with slavering jaws and their tongues hanging out. Staffer: Uh, can you describe these Haitians? Caller: They’re furry. They walk around on four legs and they have tails. Staffer: Those aren’t Haitians. Those are dogs. Haitians are humans, don’t have tails, and walk around on two legs. Caller: I think these were Haitian Shepards. They’ve also been chasing the geese and barking late at night.
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  1476. Nah. Thats not a good reason for a judge to exercise his courtroom powers. “Making an example” of a defense witness to impress Trump is really bad judicial practice. I like my rule of law to actually be rule of law.
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  1477.  @jennapuhl596  The Plan-icane and the Plan-demic have a lot in common. Both are created by the government using 5G networks and magnets, technology developed from investigations of wrecked alien spacecraft at Area 51. The purpose of both is to instill fear and create the conditions of a government takeover. The National Guard is already poised to invade Louisiana. Some of us rational people are not afraid of the government, aren’t fooled by their attempts to clear us off our land, and are capable of protecting ourselves—[CRASH]— Oh, my God, a piano just crashed through the roof. Those goddamn liberals are dropping pianos on us.
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  1478.  @karlhawkes  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  1479.  @OmegaOfApostasy  stop spamming the comments. You’re a tiresome spambot.
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  1480. Happy Anniversary!! You’ve built a reputation is the number one naval historian on YouTube. It is now time you throw that reputation away by weighing in on the T-14 controversy. Haha, just kidding! 🤡 Keep up the excellence! 🍻
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  1481. No to the first part of your suggestion. Yes to the second part—which is what a newspaper should be doing as a matter of course. Litigation is long, expensive, and takes more work than penning a few incisive editorials. If successful, what result might be achieved? Monetary damages less than the cost of litigation? Vindication? Vindication in the court of public opinion is better payback.
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  1482.  @ZER0ZER0SE7EN  You’re mostly right, except for involving U.S. soldiers. The potential downsides of that far outweigh any potential upsides. With regard to Putin being cornered, I think he’s already in a corner with his domestic partners. I’m referring to the oligarchs that form the kleptocracy that gives Putin his political power within Russia. This is where the sanctions will have the most effect. Putin has not been able to deliver relief to his cronies from previous sanctions, and was already under pressure. I think his true motivation for invading Ukraine was to placate his kleptocratic partners—the “historic imperative” is all a smokescreen for economic interest. It’s sort of like a criminal gang under a boss. He won’t stay in power unless he can provide them with opportunities for crime. If outside forces are limiting those opportunities, he’d better find new opportunities for plunder. If Putin can take Ukraine, he’s giving his underlings new opportunities to steal. Come to think of it, it’s exactly like a criminal gang under a boss.
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  1483. I don’t know if staffers realize this, but last one out is a rotten egg. If you don’t resign after the electoral college meets, you’re a traitor to the country, no question.
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  1484. Some of his political analysis is cutting and devastatingly funny. I used to excuse his racism as being something of the times in which he wrote, but eventually the evidence against him was too much. He’s someone I might still enjoy reading, but I find it harder to cite or quote him without feeling queasy. Still, it’s hard not love, “Democracy is the idea that the common people should get what they want, good and hard.”
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  1485.  @lani6647  to protest this, I am going to call Pizza by the name Pia until Russia leaves Ukraine.
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  1486. You can tell he’s stone cold by his rosy cheeks.
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  1487.  @zentamm  “incognito”, meaning your various alternative troll accounts. FOAD, troll.
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  1488.  @Alaninbroomfield  OK, Ivan.
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  1489. Maybe stop meeting up with other criminals and engaging in criminal conspiracies.
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  1490. He didn’t have a social media footprint. If the FBI is working off info on his home computer (including browser and search history), they have to assume that they’re seeing only what he wanted them to see. Imo, anyway. He seemed to practice a certain level of operational security that kept him under the radar, but he failed to compartmentalize. I’m specifically referring to his girlfriend telling police he was making bombs in 2019. That’s just bad opsec. Live and learn, I guess. Er, wait.
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  1491. Let’s be clear about what “forcefully” means. They violently attacked Mexican diplomats on the embassy grounds. That’s an attack on Mexico.
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  1492. With less loss of life.
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  1493.  @SoloRenegade  No, it hasn’t.
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  1494.  @odw1n307  WHATS THAT YOU SAY? SPEAK UP SONNY IM A BIT HARD OF HEARING.
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  1495. So you’re against self-defense and stand-your-ground laws?
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  1496. I kept waiting for Wolf to flinch from all those birds flying at him.
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  1497.  @williamjacobs  William, I dare say, are the balloons getting bigger the further we go in? Or are we getting smaller?
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  1498.  @OldMajor Tell us when you’ve found a new source of outrage. Your current source has gotten really boring.
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  1499.  @hectorruiz6070  <— Putin Stooge You realize that Trump’s puppet master was and still is a communist. The only difference now is the communist have a different disguise, a disguise you seem happy to wear. Trump is a would be Castro, a Chavez, a Maduro. And you’re helping him.
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  1500.  @cdani9972  You make a good point. Cippollone took the oath to uphold the Constitution, and part of that duty is to protect the principle of Executive Privilege. Even if a court has ruled that there is probable cause to pierce that shield, a WhiteHouse Counsel’s duty is to maintain as much of that privilege as he can on any matters outside the investigation. The committee investigators will have to ask very specific questions with regard to matters directly involving Trump, counsel he gave Trump, and things that Trump asked or told him. They probably can’t ask, for example, for him to go through any particular day and what he did and who did he talk to on that day. They’ll have to ask specifically, “Did you have a meeting with so-and-so?” So I don’t think this is a fishing expedition. I think the committee has a good idea of what questions to ask, and how to ask them. I don’t think he’s a hostile witness, just a witness that isn’t free to volunteer information or answer certain questions. He is constitutionally constrained. In fact, I think the committee has been trying to portray him sympathetically (so as not to alienate him?). Here is what I think we will get: More on the day of January 6th and the part he played in keeping Trump from going to the Capitol. More on the pardons and his interactions with Kushner. Interactions with Mark Meadows. The attempt to replace Rosen with a new AG. (I’m not sure how much info he can divulge on Meadows and Kushner, given his constitutional constraints.)
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  1501. Is it possible that as a result of Trevor’s stunt, the FAA will crack down on unauthorized exterior camera mounts on certified planes? Or is this risk being exaggerated?
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  1502. Yes, but how do you get Russia to surrender unconditionally? I don’t think it’s possible while Russia has nuclear weapons. When Germany surrendered unconditionally, Berlin was already overrun. Japan surrendered because the two atomic bombs demonstrated that they could be annihilated. What actual leverage do you think could be applied to force Russia’s unconditional surrender. I agree that unconditional surrender by Russia is desirable, but it’s not a realistic goal.
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  1503.  @colty7764  <— Antivax Troll spreading lies
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  1504. Let’s not forget. Trump couldn’t force Rudy to change. Rudy had to be ready to change. He had to WANT to change. This is Therapy 101. 😉
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  1505.  @Latnman101  lol, no. The U.S. isn’t forcing Mexico to look elsewhere. While I think AMLO is misguided in this particular instance, it’s common for Mexico and the U.S. to disagree over foreign policy. Mexico takes pride in not being under the political thumb of the U.S., and takes great pride in being independent (all the while, both countries are deeply interdependent). AMLO is a populist, and he takes this disagreement farther than other Mexican politicians because he desperately needs to pump up his popularity. But it is delusional to think AMLO will make common cause with the Chinese or Russians when Mexico and the U.S. are so interdependent and economically and socially intertwined. I think disinviting Nicaragua is a mistake, though.
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  1506. Maybe send this suggestion directly to the Ukrainian armed forces, instead of posting it on a video? Email it to the Ukrainian embassy.
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  1507. There’s a 12 Angry Men joke buried in here somewhere.
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  1508. JK Rowling hates this video.
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  1509.  @OceanFrontVilla3  YOU ARE A LIAR. The information you presenting is wildly inaccurate by orders of magnitude. STOP PUSHING DISINFORMATION and LIES. I do not debate or engage liars, I tag them.
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  1510.  @bonsummers2657  You’re victim blaming and arguing with facts not in evidence. You’re speculating that the victim would have lived if he meekly surrendered to violent men pursuing him with ill intent. There is not a shred of evidence that these men would have spared his life, and much evidence that they intended to use deadly force, as they did.
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  1511. Corrected? Did you get some last minute evidence? 😂 j/k, I saw the raw footage you posted accidentally. 😊
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  1512.  @layli6545  He’s not just a spokesman, he’s the Sheriff of Polk County. While I don’t think he takes pleasure in catching criminals in law enforcement, he pursues them with a fierceness for dishonoring the profession. You might think he’s grandstanding for political ambition, but you’d think wrong. He’s turned down many opportunities to run for higher office.
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  1513. This still doesn’t solve the butthair crisis in China.
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  1514. Russia will be forced to leave sooner or later. Current events suggest it will be sooner.
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  1515.  M J  OK Ivan.
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  1516.  @garyfumeaux9226  stop spamming . Reported as spam.
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  1517. Keep working on Milo. I was a cat person until I met the right dog. The bonding was nearly instant.
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  1518.  @thisnameisnotfake517  A unit suffering attrition can still manage defensive operation even when it is incapable of offensive operations. Think of the allied troops in the German’s Ardennes counter-offensive. They were units sent to a “quiet” part of the front to recuperate and refit. They held on defensively but wouldn’t have been capable of counterattacking after the German attack reached its culmination. That required the nearly full strength 3rd Army.
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  1519. This is a meeting of the OAS. Cuba is not a member. It has attended the summit in previous years *at the invitation of the hosting country*. Venezuela and Nicaragua probably should be invited, although Venezuela’s government is basically a criminal cartel hostile to its neighbors and the U.S. There is a strong case to disinvite Venezuela for their hostility and for their game playing with the OAS itself. Unless I am missing something in current events, I’m not sure what the basis is for excluding Nicaragua. That seems like going too far.
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  1520. Blame that liberal Governor in Texas, along with that socialist Attorney General.
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  1521. What the hell? Omygod! This is going to be good.
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  1522. What are Alt Ancient History people trying to hide? Why are they so defensive and protective of their Alt Ancient History orthodoxy? It’s quite simple: they have a stranglehold on TV shows that they don’t want to share with legitimate science based ancient history, archaeology, and genetics. And if they opened themselves up to the innovations and new discoveries of science-based research and empirical evidence, they might lose their grift . . , . I mean tabloid funding. If you want to tear down Big Pseudoscience’s veil, follow the money.
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  1523.  Francesca Di'Frapolli  Emperor Zero
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  1524.  @dafrasier1  <— lying troll spammer
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  1525.  @jimareeno  I’m guessing it’s from the first draft of his historical novel. That is not information that would make it into the public any time soon. I’m not saying he’s wrong. I’m just saying that you’re not going to get a credible source.
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  1526. It’s a problem, but I suspect it’s a problem with many airports around the world. LAX is the example I am familiar with. In fact, the way that I usually travel to L.A. is to fly to Tijuana International (TJX), use the Cross Border Express walkway from the airport to the U.S., and then use a shuttle from there either to the San Diego Amtrak station or directly to downtown L.A. From DTLA, I can take the metro to stations nearby various friends’ houses, sparing them the headache of picking me up from LAX or downtown. It takes longer, but it’s almost stress free. The stress levels getting into or out of LAX are more than I want to deal with. The Amtrak train from San Diego to L.A. is nice and relaxing, with an ocean view for much of the way. Another advantage of Tijuana’s Cross Border Express is that customs and immigration is much smoother.
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  1527. Straw man or cowardly lion?
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  1528. Next time, for shits and giggles, you should jump out of your chair. Since it’s just a sim, you can use a pillow case or umbrella instead of a parachute.
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  1529. Kinzinger has been pretty consistently a critic of the President and of his own party. Did you not catch the bit about politicians asking our young people to sacrifice their lives for democracy, but being afraid of losing their jobs by fighting a tyrant at home?
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  1530. I don’t know what will happen or how it will all go down, but it would be a beautiful sight if there was a task force style mass arrest of all these coconspirators.
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  1531. You’re smelling your own armpits. Why would the U.S. involve itself. In what way could it?
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  1532. So, I have a question about the Senate. Can Republican Senators join the Democratic Caucus (just as independents do) to take give Democrats the majority and Schumer the leadership? Yes, this would damage their careers in the Republican Party. It might be effectively a suicide mission. But is it theoretically possible?
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  1533.  @okpunk8176  MAGA affiliated? That’s 30-50% of the population, unfortunately.
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  1534. Transitioning into what? A cross between a dried out wineskin and a sheaf of blighted wheat?
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  1535. I definitely got a tourist vibe from this team. Or half-hearted cosplay, which fits the anime soundtrack.
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  1536.  @DerangedAussieMan  If you get too drunk to drive, that bar within 10 miles of your home is walking distance. Better get an early start!
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  1537. It’s antique technology. Ancient, even. The new moistness is WITC, aka Water in the Cloud.
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  1538. Part of Russia’s frustration is that they’ve been unable to draw Ukraine out into a big set piece battle, possibly a decisive one. Without a strong NCO cadre, without what we might think of as the NCO-mindset, small units have been unable to adjust to the home team’s game. If your smaller units are being cut down, if your comms and logistics are continually disrupted, you’ll frequently find yourself back footed. Something I’ve been wondering since the start of this war is: are the leaderships of all Russian military branches on the same page? Were they all 100% behind the adventure? I can imagine a scenario where the head of the Air Force or the head of the Navy thought the whole idea was dumb, poorly planned, and wanted as little to do with it as possible. I can imagine the AF not wanting to fully commit, especially as it has other more important duties. Out of all the branches, it makes sense for them not to send their best.
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  1539.  @Lobos222  Fundamentalism: I have the right to do whatever I want to do, and you have the right to do whatever I want you to do.
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  1540.  @nathitshabalala5414  Wait, who “allowed” Russia to be embarrassed? Is this more deflection of responsibility that we’ve come to associate with Russia? Russia is embarrassing itself, for invading Ukraine, for its ongoing conduct during this war, and for its self-inflicted failures.
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  1541. Nope, it goes back much much further. On can point to the book “Chariots of the Gods” (1968), for example. But one of the original bullshit artists who mentioned Atlantis is cited in this very video: Plato, who wrote it in The Republic, approx. 375 BCE. Possibly it is older than that, as Plato claims his source material was from his teacher, the well known grifter and corrupter of youth Socrates.
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  1542. Let them get paid. All those paychecks add up and drain Trump’s campaign coffers.
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  1543.  @jakeaurod  This is good and creative thinking. “Drone carriers” don’t even need to be fully submersible, and they don’t need to be huge. They can even be broken down into tasks, with one type of UNV for launch and another for recover/retrieval/reprovisioning. Something the size of 4-8 shipping containers strapped together and equipped with a launch catapult could avoid detection by staying low on the surface or submersed at shallow depth. Quadcopter drone carriers could be even smaller, but (afaik) they have reduced range. It’s not that such vessels are impossible to detect visually or difficult to destroy once detected. The idea is to compel the adversary to expend considerable resources sending out patrols to discover these drone “carrier groups” and determine whether they are military assets or containers lost at sea (quite common and somewhat of a shipping hazard.)
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  1544.  @DAndyLord  The feint wouldn’t have been convincing if they hadn’t sent their best troops to be slaughtered. Mission accomplished!
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  1545.  @BR-it2qe  It doesn’t matter. It’s not illegal to act contrary to the national interest as long as you’re not committing a crime in doing so. We are not currently at war with Russia in any formal sense.
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  1546.  @chirpywiggins5796  I don’t think Ukraine or the West has a problem with time. Putin is the one who is running out of time, although he could continue his criminal aggression for weeks, maybe even months if he can get more troops, supplies and equipment to his forces in Ukraine. But even if this stretches on for years, Putin cannot win. Putin’s Army has to take and hold Ukraine. He’ll never pacify it. The Ukrainians can keep fighting until Putin’s Army leaves, which he will have to do, be it this week, next month, or next year. And while he is physically destroying Ukrainian cities, he’s also economically destroying his own country for years to come.
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  1547. For sure. The little guy rang the big guy’s bell.
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  1548.  @M8Stealth  You sure about that? The phenomenon you’re observing is more a feature of developed nations. It’s also a matter of culture (attitudes about birth control, for example). Pick a Catholic country transitioning from an agrarian economy to an industrial one and you will find that family formation starts relatively young.
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  1549.  @utubefuku7132  You’re pretty clear eyed for a libertarian. 😉 I’m an old school conservative and I’ve never thought that the libs were socialist. Thanks for your perspective! Although I think Trump was terribly destructive in a variety of ways, he also relied on teams of experts and technocrats to run the economy. The leanings of the teams of different administrations might change, but they mostly stand in the same place. The bureaucratic continuity is even stronger than political continuity when administrations change.
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  1550.  @gigabake  If you ask someone to back up their claims with facts or evidence, you’re suppressing them. Apparently. These people will be wrong about 10,000 things, but if their unsupported claims prove to be correct one time, they feel vindicated.
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  1551. The source of that story has since been discredited.
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  1552. 1) Each and every NATO member has this veto power. If you know anything about NATO, you’ll know that the members aren’t all in lockstep with the U.S., and that decisions aren’t pushed through based on U.S. whims. A lot of consultation, debate, and diplomacy goes into formulating NATO policy. Seriously, do some deeper reading about NATO if you are truly interested in it. 2) Libya doesn’t have a nuclear deterrent. Nor did Yugoslavia. Russia does have a deterrent, so why would it need to fear aggression?
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  1553. They seem to suffering real economic hardship. They can’t even afford to buy a change of clothes and have to suit up in their military gear.
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  1554. The “audience” skews heavily towards antivax trolls that organize on outside websites and come here as a group to spread disinformation, sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and insult Dr. Campbell. If you subtract these pieces of shit and the delusional idiots, I don’t think you can make that sort of assumption about Dr. Campbell’s sincere audience. It seems to me that if you cut through the noise and ignorance in the comments, you’ll find people interested in learning the facts and the current consensus, such as they are. John is a more in-depth source than the news media in his areas of expertise. The only recommendation he’s made beyond the standard protocols, afaik, is Vitamin D (and zinc?). He’s talked about research into other therapies, but has never recommended anything else. This isn’t a channel where the “self managing” can find alternative medicine “hacks” (even as there are quite a few hacks promoting nonsense in the comments). If you are here to understand how to care for your family, it’s quite simple: mask, hygiene, distancing, air circulation/fresh air, and get fully vaccinated as soon as you can. How many times must this basic message be repeated for your supposedly rational self managing audience members to understand? The thing about mandates is no one wants them, but many understand that they are becoming necessary to avoid worse. I don’t want a Nanny State, but it’s become clear that there are many people (ostensibly adults) misbehaving like children and throwing tantrums or worse. When people’s behavior, either individually or in groups, harms society, that society must react by setting limits on those individuals and groups. Often social norms and peer pressure are sufficient, but when they’re not and the moral infants escalate their anti-social behavior, we as a society will escalate harm prevention measures. Even a small c conservative such as myself understands this. I also understand that there are certain anti-democratic types who hope to create unrest. Traditionally these types have been on the left, but it seems that the extreme reactionary right has picked up some tricks from Marx, Lenin, and Mao.
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  1555.  @taralamalam1321  Trump’s campaign is so broke they can’t afford to pay for TV ads. They’ve resorted to having interns and Russian trolls posting links to campaign commercials. Bigly sad.
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  1556. I’m questioning the idea that a super long convoy stuck on the road is standard operational procedure.
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  1557.  @hohenzollern6025  You’re ignoring some key facts. The set of “jobs only humans can do” is shrinking. Perhaps economic growth has masked this fact, but what happens if the global economy enters a long period of shrinkage? With regard to finding technicians to operate the means of production, the socialists would say, “there are always people willing to work for altruistic motives” (or perhaps for the fun of it). The capitalists might say some people will be willing to work for more than the UBI if there is still a profit motive. And a cynic might say, in either case, there are plenty of people who will seek power, advantage and ways to manipulate the system for their benefit, and they will take over whichever system you put in place. Just like always. The real question is not “Are humans 100% replaceable?” The questions are do we need to restructure society? How should we do it? Also, Hard AI is probably impossible, so you needn’t worry about skynet or your Abominable intelligence war. What we call AI is a tool, a human prosthetic.
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  1558.  @spud7823  <— TROLL
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  1559. I got news for you: Congress will get paid no matter what. The foreign aid amounts to a few billion out of 900 billion, way less than 1%. Is that bad? Sure. But not bad enough to to torpedo the bill and start from scratch, imho. If all the pork in this bill was instead added to the stimulus payments, you’d see a $25 increase. I’d rather have the $600 now than $625 never (or $2000 or whatever).
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  1560. Funny thing is, IF it was uninsured and IF there was no claim, that is circumstantial evidence of intent to crash.
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  1561. There is one scenario I can think of where team Trump has evidence of hacking but cannot show it. They hacked the machines to win, and someone came along and switched them back. For an illustration of what this would look like, see the poker on the train scene from the movie The Sting.
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  1562.  @COIcultist  🤷🏻‍♀️ Unfortunate that there has to be a trade off, but vaccinations are more important.
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  1563. Damn. For a moment I thought the headline said “obit” not orbit.
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  1564. It’s unusual for such a lengthy delay. But there was one trial that ended in a mistrial. You have to restart the clock. The delays might be the fault of the prosecution, and not the judge, so your criticism of the judicial system (judicial system is the system of courts and judges) might be misplaced. While judges have a certain amount of discretion, they also have to follow rules. When they depart from those rules, they open up the possibility of having their decisions overturned. What was the basis of the mistrial and who called it and why? What I’m saying is that if you want to change things, you really need to understand the nature of the problem. Your reaction of outrage is understandable; justice delayed is justice denied, as the saying goes. If you are looking for more than just an outlet of your displeasure, look deeper into how this could happen, by what process was the accused able to delay the trial?
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  1565. Yeah, you’d need to change upholster to tailor in the translation. This is the challenge of jokes based on word play.
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  1566. What bothered you about Bolton? His hawkishness? His oversized ego? For all his faults, he was an institutionalist. Some of his extreme-ness was a pose, imho.
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  1567.  @AdverseOpinion  right. You have to give them the opportunity to call “time out”, according to the rules of war on some fantasy planet in an alternate reality. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you have to give the enemy the opportunity to surrender in the middle of a fight? The Russian soldiers had the opportunity when the tanks entered the field. They could have thrown down their weapons and walked out with their hands up and a white flag. Once the firefight starts, all bets are off. You hunker down, try to merge with the mud at the bottom of the trench, and hope you survive long enough to surrender. Let me repeat that. There’s no “time outs” in the middle of a firefight.
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  1568.  @sdr24  We might not like it, but Turkey is within its rights. Turkey’s objections are actually important to the strength of NATO to the long term health of the organization. If nothing else, it proves to the world that its member nations are independent democracies.
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  1569. Ralston is the go to guy for Nevada.
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  1570.  @beastlyshotzful  You mean attorney’s fees. There’s different ways these can be awarded. They can be assessed punitively by a judge if the defense acted in some way that deserves a penalty. But they can also be awarded by a jury, especially if they are included in the plaintiff’s demand.
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  1571. It’s possible. Such things have happened often enough. But it would be nice if you had actual evidence before you make an accusation.
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  1572. How does one “volunteer for the draft”? One is either drafted (and has no say) or enlists (which is voluntary).
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  1573. lol, you already voted for Putin, you Ivan bot. 🤖
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  1574. Well, you certainly learned a lot about self-congratulations. Give yourself a lot of credit for that—you’re ace-ing it.
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  1575.  @jattnijjerable  The virus is transmitted in micro droplets from respiration, and it’s those micro droplets that are caught by masks. Think of the micro droplets as vehicles, and the masks as bollards. The viruses can’t exit their vehicles if they can’t reach their destination (your respiratory system).
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  1576. I think it’s more Mickey than goofy.
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  1577.  @pfcrow  An amphibious attack on Odessa would be a colossal mistake. However, Russia is fully capable of making such mistakes. The invasion was just such a mistake, after all. I have no idea of actual probability, but let’s say it’s 50/50 that the Russian Military is that stupid. I don’t think they will get all of the Donbas region. Perhaps the areas that were already controlled by separatists. But these are all open questions.
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  1578. Something like that. The U.S. dismantled the Iraqi government, and wouldn’t let any Baathists serve in the new government, regardless of their commitment to the Ba’ath party. It was a ham fisted approach.
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  1579. Meta is going to disrupt the private prison industry. It just needs to engineer a VR helmet that is unremovable by the prisoner.
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  1580. Or if he has tongue cancer.
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  1581.  @SinclairSound  Everyone can be in the top 1%.
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  1582.  @hieronymusbutts7349  How? With a whole lot of hand waving, that’s how.
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  1583.  @coderentity2079  <—Putzi
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  1584. Look up Santa Ana Winds. Southern California is famous for them. However, this particular wind event was out of the ordinary, coming in January and with unbelievable intensity.
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  1585.  @Maria_Erias  If you haven’t seen Perun’s video “All Bling, No Basics”, you should. But you don’t have to, as you’ve put the gist of his video into a single comment. Anyway, his channel is definitely worth checking out.
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  1586.  @thomasclementz8149  lol, calling someone “sheeple” says more about you than it does about them.
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  1587.  @srenclausen8534  They move around.
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  1588.  Scott Robinson  What a fake patriot you are, wrapping yourself in the flag. Maybe someday you’ll respect the colors rather than use them to project your personal brand.
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  1589.  @Piquliar  “Cancel Culture” is a right wing invention, and it has been practicing it for years. Centrists and the left-of-center practice consequences and responsibility for one’s words and deeds. It’s not at all surprising that the right wing only gives lip service to their slogan, “The Party of Personal Responsibility”.
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  1590.  @fullm3taljacket  “trained” = put onto trains, if we are talking about mobilized Russian soldiers.
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  1591. Crete was actually a success, albeit a costly one. But it was mostly a success because of the incompetence of the British commander. The VDV failure at Hostemel airport and Kyiv is more like operation Market-Garden, except worse.
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  1592.  @embracethesuck1041  So, “nobody told me”. Was your MOS being a mushroom? You know what being a mushroom is like, right? They feed you a lot of shit and keep you in the dark.
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  1593. Which is one reason why one of the guidelines is to follow workplace guidance—your workplace will most likely not implement discriminatory guidelines if management wants to avoid lawsuits. If you’re worried about antivaxxers being shunned by other members of their communities, that’s not discrimination from a legal standpoint. That’s just common sense.
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  1594.  @IceColdProfessional  in a turn you can’t see under your plane, which is why you normally have separation between different elements of the show (i.e., you put different formations flying at different altitudes and on different tracks). It’s all choreographed. The air boss began improvising away from the choreographed plan, not correcting the pilots to conform to the plan. To say he was incompetent is an understatement. He was reckless.
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  1595. Fwiw, parts of Ukraine were part of Lithuania long long ago. Polish culture (and Roman Catholicism) also had a big influence on the eastern oblasts. That’s one of the fascinating things about Ukraine: it has always been a place where different cultures have met and rubbed off on each other. The ancient Greeks and the early Vikings met in Crimea and the southern Ukrainian coast, setting up trading posts and farming the fertile soil. It’s this historical multiculturalism that makes Ukraine different from the “princes of Muscovy”, both past and present. Moscow’s greatest outside influence was the Golden Horde, which beat the shit out of the princes and burned Moscow down twice. At that point the Muscovite warlords, I mean princes, became tax collectors and tributaries for their Mongol overlords. I don’t think it’s an exaggerating to say they were pimps, and the culture extolled by Putin in his ahistorical ravings, is basically a pimp culture.
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  1596.  @georgedunkelberg5004 HEY IS THIS A CASE OF LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION? THERES AN UPPERCASE LETTER SHORTAGE GOING ON, BUDDY.
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  1597. The wording avoids “perpetuity”. That’s why there’s all the verbiage about the last legal heir of the current English monarch. Making a contract “in perpetuity” can sometimes be used to invalidate a contract, so they phrase it in a way that means “for a helluva long time”.
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  1598.  @yes1958  The word you want isn’t Chicano, it’s pocho. A pocho is a Mexican-American that has become so assimilated that he has lost his cultural roots and doesn’t know how to speak español. Querétaro is the fastest growing city in the Western Hemisphere. León is turning into a sprawling metropolis. Lots of industry has been built in the last 20 years and continues to be built. Monterrey is equally impressive, especially in the automotive industry. (I’m more familiar with the Bajio, though. I’ve never really checked Monterrey out. Maybe next time I head up to Texas I’ll explore it a little.) Most gringos are ignorant of what’s going on in Mexico other than the tales of cartel violence. They don’t understand how varied Mexico is—it’s all one big lump to them, filled with scary people.
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  1599. I think that the Trump administration wants to kill Americans to punish them for the “betrayal” they will inflict on Trump this November. Trump knows he’s going to lose, and this is is parting shot.
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  1600. That’s completely wrong. The goal was to destroy the US fleet, not to convince the U.S. that the cost of war was too high or to send oil. The reason to destroy the Pacific Fleet was buy time for the Japanese. Yamamoto figured that it would set the U.S. back six months, and by that time the Japanese could accomplish their goals in the Southeast Asia and South Pacific. After six months, the U.S. would be able to rebuild its fleet.
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  1601.  @strat5764  During an inside-the-pipe inspection, a careless Gazprom employee triggered an explosion by tossing a cigarette butt on a loose pile of gas.
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  1602. I’m not a big fan of subscription software, but I don’t think it’s right to prohibit companies from using a subscription model.
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  1603. I’ve always given Bernie credit for endorsing Clinton after she won the nomination. I think his policies would have been bad, but nowhere near as bad as Trump’s were and will be if he’s re-elected. (That’s if we can agree that Trump has any policies. A slogan, Make America Golf Again, isn’t a policy. Revenge on his enemies isn’t a policy.) I wasn’t especially happy with having to vote for Clinton, but I did it. And I might have needed to think it over more, but I’d have voted for Bernie over Trump.
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  1604.  @nyfinest487  He spanks it to fantasy BRICS currency.
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  1605.  @xpusostomos  I don’t know if they caused any derailments, but there is a group or groups in Belarus that, in the first weeks of the war, have been messing with the rail system to delay Russian shipments. Messing about with track signals, switching trains from their planned routes, all sorts of shenanigans to cause friction and slow down. It’s suspected that the people who were doing this are rail employees that understood the best ways to disrupt Russian supply trains.
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  1606. Do you blame Gascon for this, too? This guy will not be out on probation. You’re high on drugs.
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  1607. They heard it, all right. They heard it coming and crossed the street.
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  1608. Israel has a huge opportunity here to promote peace, but not so much under Netanyahu. Settling the Golan Heights is counterproductive for peace. I believe in Israel’s right to exist and its right to defend itself. I do not believe that Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza, BUT the IDF under Netanyahu has been committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. If the Israelis want peace, they have to get rid of Netanyahu. I’m not at all saying that Israel needs a liberal or socialist government, but Netanyahu has to go if Israel wants to move forward. Without peace, Iran cannot be contained. Netanyahu is Iran’s best friend once you move past the short term.
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  1609.  @ROCCOCYCLES Trump literally takes quotes from Hitler’s writings and speeches, and you didn’t notice? Or you noticed and you approve?
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  1610. The point is that the pier will relieve the bottlenecks and allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza. Once it’s set up, the U.S. doesn’t have to operate it. That responsibility can be handed off to someone else. If the Gazans destroy it, that’s on them.
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  1611. Maybe you haven’t heard of the new proposed legislation: “Don’t say gun.”
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  1612. Russian propagandists are really at a loss on how to respond.
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  1613. At least bitching about the current crop of turnips in Congress has some entertainment value. I haven’t read his book, but I’m ready to go easier on Boehner. He lost his speakership due to teabaggers and know nothings. But the collective GOP insanity has its roots in the 90s and Newt Gingrich, Hypocrite #0.
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  1614. It was my driving bible. 80s and 90s, I picked up spare cash doing messenger and delivery work. My first after school job in high school was delivering alcohol for a liquor store. Then I did messenger work for attorneys in when I was in college. After college I worked as a PA. Thomas Bros. Maps were accurate. Give me an address and I could find it 99% of the time.
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  1615.  @waynesmith7746  It might be worth noting that U.S. soldiers’ morale didn’t nose dive from the start. It was degraded over time until the Tet offensive, at which point it took a big hit (as did U.S. public opinion). Russian morale was not high to begin with at the start of the invasion of Ukraine and has been crumbling ever since.
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  1616.  @gilyashar  This smells like the first phase of a Ferrenghi marketing campaign. Resistance is useless . . . against our unbeatable low prices!
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  1617.  @sacjusticeforyou  Your standards for “expertise” must be pretty low. This is what makes you prey to the various predatory grifters and snake oil salesmen that make up the antivax world. You’ve got to develop the ability to distinguish between genuine scientific disagreement and the chasm between genuine science and pseudoscientific quackery.
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  1618.  @christopherkidwell9817 That’s false. The fact that writing in a name on the ballot makes your vote insignificant (you are throwing away your vote) is not the same as an election worker or official literally throwing your ballot away. You’re confusing metaphorical language with literal language. Or perhaps you’re just making stuff up, which is worse.
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  1619. We are talking about two things: criminals being tried and criminals being punished. The ICC can try accused criminals in abstentia, but of course it cannot force extradition of convicted criminals to face justice and punishment. As far as a top level leaders being tried, convicted, and punished for war crimes, this can happen when total victory is achieved, in the sense that a country would be occupied and surrender unconditionally. This also might happen if there is a change in leadership and it is desirable or convenient to the new leadership to give up the old leadership. But even in the case of a country losing or being forced to cease its war activities, there is no formal mechanism to force a war criminal to face justice. I am thinking of U.S. National Security Advisor Dr. Henry Kissinger in this case, who ordered specific operations in Cambodia that were almost certainly war crimes. It’s notable that the U.S. did in fact prosecute and convict a low level officer for the My Lai atrocity. Unsurprisingly, the officer’s superiors were never charged despite evidence that they were also culpable. It seems like a symbolic gesture (although I’m sure it wasn’t symbolic to the officer in question, Lt. William Calley.) The international community was never in a position to force war crimes trials on the U.S. And given that this was during the Cold War and the U.S. was the main supporter of NATO, it wasn’t politically possible. It is entirely possible that Russia will sacrifice some lower level officers and soldiers in a peace deal, but I think it’s unlikely Putin or any high level Russian leaders will ever be convicted and punished, regardless of moral correctness. And I’m sorry to say that Putin has a letter-of-the-law defense for the bombing of civilian infrastructure, despite our opinion. It’s probably a moot point anyway.
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  1620. I’m in SMA. Not going back to L.A. until I can get vaccinated here. Stay safe and well. Que tenga un día bonito.
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  1621.  @UnsolicitedContext  “Stories from Space” tells us what he is most frightened of: women.
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  1622. That’s right. He was already participating in a felony with the murderer and his father. That’s enough participation to qualify him as guilty as well. What a fsck up! I guess he thought he was being helpful? What a thing! Something to think about if you hang out with violent racists. Maybe you shouldn’t if you don’t want to get caught up in their crimes.
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  1623. I think it’s a form of business speak, and much of business speak is designed to protect oneself. “I’m sorry that you missed the deadline and lost an opportunity, but I reached out to you and didn’t hear back” is much better for avoiding responsibility than, “I contacted you” which implies two way communication, that we actually talked and I fully explained the situation to you, which I obviously didn’t. 😄 Put another way: • I reached out to you. I did what what I was supposed to do. You failed to respond. • I tried to contact you. My job was to contact you, but I failed.
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  1624. I think the point is that now there is no way he will travel to SA or any other signatory of the Rome treaty. Excepting a handful of countries, his ability to conduct diplomacy face to face with other world leaders, is severely curtailed. It might even have an affect on his status as leader within the Kremlin, but I doubt that.
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  1625.  @cindyhurzeler3885  It was an attempt to prank the “libs” in Martha’s Vineyard (I have no idea if they’re liberals or conservatives there, I suspect it’s a mix), to humiliate them and make them look like idiots. Desantis didn’t see the Venezuelan asylum seeking families as human beings to be victimized. They were merely props for his prank. He didn’t even think he was victimizing them, since they aren’t people to him. What Desantis didn’t count on is that the intended victims were decent people that would show kindness to weary strangers in need of aid. And it’s eye opening how MAGA people don’t get this. So many are exulting in the prank as if it didn’t backfire on them.
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  1626. The composition of the security council is fixed in the UN Charter, the founding document. This would be like changing the U.S. Constitution to prevent Donald Trump from being President. You might like the idea,but you’d unleash unwanted and unforeseen consequences. But I agree, Russia should not be on the UNSC.
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  1627.  @theredboneking  <— Troll and Disinformation Agent
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  1628. There wasn’t an order to stand down. Instead, a few days before the attack, the Secretary of the Army ordered that any deployment of the Quick Reaction Force (QRF) had to be approved by him personally—and this is what led to the delay. Furthermore, he also ordered that those Guardsmen already deployed to assist Metro police couldn’t be redeployed from their assigned locations elsewhere in DC, without his personal authorization. (This hampering of the QRF is utterly bizarre and at odds with the detachment being able to react quickly.) Miller will have to answer for this apparent dereliction of duty, as well as answer other questions about the actions of his deputies.
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  1629.  @michaelrunnels7660  he’s the John Wick of neckties.
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  1630. Screw that. This is a job for the hashtag zombies.
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  1631. I’m sorry but we’re going to have to dock your pay for that one.
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  1632. Clearly those people didn’t have a lot of potential energy.
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  1633.  @regulator18E  I must have told tracey a billion times to stop with the hyperbole.
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  1634. Texas can erect whatever fences or walls it wants on state lands or by agreement with owners of private lands. It can even use eminently domain to acquire land. Texas has never been prevented from doing so. But it cannot interfere with the flow of the Rio Grande or otherwise interfere with its course. This is by treaty, and states have no authority to violate, change, or enter into treaties. Texas would need to build its border fence set back a certain distance from the river. So your question should be why doesn’t Texas build a wall or fence? Not why isn’t it allowed?. It is already allowed. Texas cannot make up its own immigration laws. This was determined by the Supreme Court in Chy Lung v. Freeman, 92 U.S. 275 (1876). It has been reaffirmed and cited by the Supreme Court as recently as 2012. So, no, your other idea is a non-starter. The Governor of Texas is engaging in a publicity stunt that will eventually be shut down by the Supreme Court.
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  1635. They understand it, they just don’t care.
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  1636. A key grip wrote the script.
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  1637.  @sivarohitk8154  His parents were born in East Africa. Confused? It all becomes clear when you learn he was born in Southampton. He’s an Englishman. But it really shouldn’t have become a matter of confusion. Over the centuries, plenty of Englishmen were born in colonies and former colonies.
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  1638. They will be. This sort of activity has to be permitted and planned. The potential crowd must be estimated to determine how many cops must be hired and if street closures will be necessary to accommodate the crowd. I understand this person has a following in the hundreds of thousands or millions. If the authorities want to discourage this sort of behavior, they should prosecute him criminally and file civil charges for any damage or injury that resulted.
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  1639. Respectively disagree, Dana. If a candidate were a drag queen, it wouldn’t rule out my voting for them. OTOH, I still wouldn’t vote for Trump if he came out as a crossdresser.
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  1640. We have to pay Rick Wilson 1¢ everytime we say shit trumpet.
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  1641. The instruments were not receiving power and not sending data to the data recorders.
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  1642.  @lluewhyn  A tangent to your tangent: there’s this thing in Hollywood called the C-47. It’s a simple clothespin, and is quite useful for clipping two things together temporarily. It’s considered an expendable. But why not just call it a clothespin? A clever and dishonest production manager started putting the renamed item as a line item in the production budget. And he greatly inflated the price. And then he formed a side company that would sell “C-47s” at these inflated prices to the production. Imagine buying a thing for 5¢ and then charging much more. Multiply by a thousand for each production you’re budgeting.
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  1643. Also, you might feel it before you hear it. Or not hear it, if you know what I mean.
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  1644. @W王子 You’re spamming the comments with this question, probably trying to start arguments.
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  1645.  @gregorylyon1004 found the guy who didn’t watch the entire video.
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  1646.  @alanholck7995 Did you watch the entire video?
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  1647.  @andyjackson3414  Iran is controlled by a coalition of faction. The treatment of hostages will be determined by who has them.
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  1648. Really, Canada should be at the top of the list. But most importantly, these three allies trained the Ukrainian military to train itself. And now I bet the Ukrainian NCOs could return the favor and impart some experience, strength, and hope to our forces.
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  1649. Atsa spicy meatball.
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  1650. If by chance the reporters read this: great team coverage and great use of social media. You guys and your team are doing a great job and you’ve hit upon a great format.
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  1651.  @tortoiseshell6666 You are bad at math.
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  1652. Socks and skivvies and a t-shirt to start. Good trekking socks also help with foot comfort if you have to spend time standing around on cement floors.
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  1653. Gawwwwd damn! What an indictment! Lincoln Project, you’re bringing Americans together to fight a common threat to our shared values. Whether one is liberal or conservative, we are TRULY bound together against the fascism and racism embodied by Trump and the Trump GOP. United we will prevail against this menace.
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  1654.  @Withnail1969 Aluminum dissipates heat more quickly and cools more rapidly. Copper holds heat longer than aluminum (which is why some prefer copper clad pans over aluminum ones). When was the last time you saw a copper heat sink?
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  1655.  @abraxaszee8953  Yes. Think of being full of yourself—we all get this once in a while, and we learn to get down from it. But now imagine someone who can’t get down, who keeps feeding that ego until it collapses like a black whole. He’s trying so hard to prevent that collapse, of course he thinks he’s the greatest lawyer in the world, and of course he’s going to represent himself. I have no doubt that he has a very intelligent mind, but smart people are not excluded from the Dunning–Krueger effect.
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  1656.  @normsimpson2342  The media doesn’t install politicians, despite what the conspiracy theorists tell you. It’s up to the voters to elect politicians willing to change state and county building regulations to protect the homebuyer. Unfortunately, we live in a political environment where consumer protection is “communism”. If dishonest politicians are the problem, it’s ultimately the voters’ responsibility. Extremist conservatism is winning out over common sense conservatism due to party politics.
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  1657. ⁠ @mortenovergaard7397 Airframes age out. The metal and joints become fatigued, lose their strength, and in some cases must be retired before they suffer a catastrophic failure. So even with excellent maintenance, eventually they must be replaced with the same model, an improved model, or something completely different. Denmark and the Netherlands are replacing their fleet with F-35s, so they’ve been retiring some planes even before they’ve reached maximum hours on their service life. It doesn’t make economic sense to maintain them so you put them in mothballs.
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  1658.  @garrettcphillips  All good points. Also G - Why use real firearms at all when there are very accurate non-firing replicas available. Muzzle flash can be added as a special effect in post. Recoil can be simulated by the actor (that sort of thing is supposed to be part of their job).
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  1659.  @JoeBlow-wr5em How many bots do you operate?
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  1660.  @Whatshisname346  Our baby boy is growing up and becoming a brand. He’s becoming a media personality and as such he’s got to wear tailored suits, live in the right neighborhood, and drive the right car to fit in. If it makes you feel any better, he’s probably leasing the Tesla. (God knows it’s one of the worse purchases you can make in terms of depreciation.) I think I’ve been watching Ryan since shortly after 02-2022. It’s nice to see one of the good guys launch a successful career. Or to put it GenX hipster terns, I was a fan when Ryan was still cool, before he sold out. 😂 (No, I don’t think he’s sold out.)
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  1661.  @Jennifermcintyre That story was discredited/recanted by the dockworker who reported it. I think it was CNN who did the interview. They couldn’t get additional confirmation.
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  1662. There’s a difference between saying, “I am willing to be martyred” and “I want to be martyred”. The first tells us that the person is willing to suffer deprivation, injury or death to advance their cause. The second tells us that the person is actively seeking death to advance their cause. Given the course of events, it’s pretty clear that the radical activists attacked the comandos to provoke a reaction in which they might be killed. It’s not Ryan missing the nuance of a word, it’s the speakers of the word using it in an unambiguous way.
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  1663. I went to an open mic night and some older dude got up and read a 10-minute speech about homeopathy. At first I wasn’t sure to what to make of it. Was this going to be some kind of Norm MacDonald shaggy dog story? Was this conceptual art? I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the punchline or story twist. But no. It was just his story of his experiences with homeopathy, how it cured him of something, and the “science” behind it. I was fascinated. I had to talk to this fellow. He seemed well spoken and educated. I was dying to know how, HOW, how a molecule or particle could imprint itself on water, and how water could have memory. Never mind how this imprinting and memory had any curative powers. I just wanted to understand what he thought the underlying mechanisms were. First of all, his credentials: he was a computer scientist. Well, actually more of a computer engineer. Well actually, he was a computer programmer who self-styled himself as an engineer and (why not?) a scientist. And the man had very little understanding of basic chemistry. I didn’t seek to humiliate him (and he didn’t seem humiliated when he walked away). I merely asked him questions about water molecules. Near as I can tell, he had a very idiosyncratic understanding of the Bohr model, and he used “quantum physics” to explain how a non-water molecule could impart a “memory” on a water molecule’s electron cloud. I said, “So you’re using homeopathy to program water at the subatomic level”, and he clapped me on the shoulder and said, “Now you’re getting it!” It was at this point that a friend (my ride to the open mic as it happens) called for me, and I was able to extricate myself from a lengthy water programming lesson. Not all pseudoscientists are grifters, unless they’re just grifting themselves. This guy wasn’t trying to make money, he just wanted someone to listen to his ideas that were based on his lack of scientific understanding. I got the feeling he was a lonely guy who had hit upon an idea that he couldn’t let go of, but since he hadn’t really grasped chemistry or physics, he didn’t know how test his ideas (other than mixing infinitesimal amounts of things with water and seeing if they worked.)
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  1664. About the same time there was revolutionary activity in TJ, but it got put down pretty quickly. But this whole “Plan de San Diego” thing is sketchy at best. Not one of its signers were notable leaders of the factions in the Mexican Revolution. None of them the men, arms, or money to even begin to carry it out. It might have been written by bandit revolutionaries, but they were without a base. Most importantly in the context of the Mexican Revolution, the plan was never promulgated anywhere, on either side of the border. A plan in this context isn’t secret. It’s a statement issued openly to rally support. It’s similar to our Declaration of Independence. A plan in this sense wouldn’t be secret. I think this was a poorly researched, written, and presented video.
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  1665.  @AlphaAurora  Not Baltimore.
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  1666. How do you populate people with units?
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  1667.  @juresichj  I don’t hate canned tamales. I wouldn’t eat them if fresh tamales were available (luckily they are abundant where I live), but if there was no other way to get tamales . . .
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  1668. I’m somehow not surprised you have a lot of homeless vets in Russia. And now you’re getting a lot of homeless orphans.
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  1669.  @ThatOpalGuy  It’s an important part (a subsystem if you will) of the most intricate global system the world has ever seen. It was an important part of earlier versions of the global system, such as when the galleons plied the Pacific and Atlantic, trading silk for silver.
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  1670.  @SylviaRustyFae  You realize that a disciplinary action against the defense attorney doesn’t have to be done on the spot? Indeed, it would be wiser to wait for the trial to conclude before entertaining such an action—then there would be no argument that it was prejudicial to the client.
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  1671.  @erosgritti5171  Yes, and those people lived in those regions for thousands of years without central heating. Do you think that they’ve lost that ability in only a few generations? Some Scandinavians are literally physically adapted to the climate. Or don’t you believe in evolution?
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  1672. Mexico is a big country and there are definitely high risk areas (especially the border cities). That said, much of the country is as safe as their U.S. equivalents. Mexico City has its neighborhoods you’d want to avoid, same as New York, Chicago, or L.A. Incidentally, I’ve given up using “third world/first world”. They’re Cold War era geopolitical descriptors that really aren’t applicable. They were used to describe political alignments, not economic conditions. Anyway, I’ve learned to use the more accurate and more neutral “developed/developing/undeveloped” descriptors and I hope you’ll consider using it, too.
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  1673. Lol, right? I thought it was spelled Bolsonarillo, but then I remembered they speak Portuguese, not Spanish. Anyone speak Portuguese? Does Bolsonaro translate to “bagman” or “bagger”?
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  1674. You go, kids. If adult society is going to go nuts, it’s up to you to be the sane ones.
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  1675.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  1676.  @rodneyoneil-kb1xk  but at the end of the day you’re still a bot.
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  1677. Stop squeaking and the dog will let you alone.
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  1678.  @MyMomSaysImKeen  So would you say that when you’re doing King Tut related searches, you’re getting buried in false results?
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  1679.  @OkurkaBinLadin  Cope
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  1680.  @samoak123  You’ve just revealed how little you know. I suggest you search YouTube using “Tim Conway Harvey Corman Dentist” as your keywords. You might learn something about the skill and experience required to perform injections.
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  1681. THANK YOU!!! Finally an explanation of the scientific mechanism(s) at work. I’ve been very skeptical about how it was supposed to work, as most people pushing it seem to be antivaxxers that don’t have an ounce of knowledge or understanding. Of course I’d like a more in-depth explanation, but you’ve given me a good starting point (given the limitations of YouTube comments).
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  1682.  @aliendroneservices6621  THAT IS FALSE. There is no danger at these dosages. I’m not sure at which point, if any, vitamin D3 becomes harmful, but these dosages mentioned are perfectly safe. STOP LYING.
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  1683. Sheriff’s deputies and police officers know what they signed up for. When they come into work each day, they know that there is the possibility that they will have to do some paper work. It’s part of the job, don’t glorify them for it. They’re trained to do paperwork. Oh, you meant they have to deal with the emotional effects of shooting someone dead. Well, you have a point. I was thinking about all the forms they have to fill out after shooting someone.
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  1684. In your hypothetical, your neighbor is disputing your right to live and your ability to protect yourself. If a mugger tries to rob you, he is disputing your ownership of whatever money or valuables he wants to take with you. The mugger is disputing your ability to protect yourself and your valuables. In both of these cases, the dispute has two components. The aggressors are disputing your rights (right to live or right of ownership), and they are disputing your ability to protect your rights. Now it might be that your neighbor is just insane and kills you due to some hallucination or delusion or for the thrill of it. That might not be a dispute.
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  1685.  @ВасяКирьянов-г3ж  Clausewitz wasn’t recommending that you destroy your own army, like Russia has been doing. He was saying you’re supposed to destroy the other guy’s war making capability.
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  1686. How is their strategic position excellent? They haven’t made significant gains since the first week of March—unless you want to count taking out the steel plant at Mariupol a significant gain. What do you mean that their approach to war is “very specific”? That seems like a meaningless phrase. Do you mean the Russian military doctrine of envelopment? When are we going to start seeing it? Much like the Nazis at Kursk, the Russians have allowed their adversaries plenty of time to prepare defenses in depth. And like the Soviet Union, the Ukrainians have used that time to build the defenses. Neither the Russians nor the Nazis managed to break through. Look up Operation Citadel.
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  1687.  @lukeoliver6488  Hahahaha, I had not heard that one before.
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  1688. This is misleading, as they give out ivermectin to treat parasites. Show me where the Indian government claims ivermectin is an antiviral.
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  1689. An orchestra conductor that doesn’t follow the musical score is a failure, but his failure won’t lead to death and destruction. A symphony’s performance or an air show is no place for improvising. The air master failed to follow the choreography.
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  1690. Please stay safe and take care! I hate cold. My apartment is drafty, and when it gets very cold it is miserable. I finally got a propane heater which has been helping this winter. I avoided using the electric heater because of cost. I’ve been doubling up with my masks. I wear a KN95 and a surgical mask over that. It seems to provide a better seal while also being more comfortable, which surprised me. I expected it would be uncomfortable.
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  1691. Dr. John Campbell is an excellent explainer with decades of experience as a registered nurse and as a professor at a nursing college, training other nurses. He’s a qualified expert and interpreter of medical science to us laypeople. He’s not an MD, nor does he claim to be. He legitimately uses the title doctor because he holds a PhD. I just thought you should be clear on that so you’re not disappointed later.
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  1692. Ten times the value is not a reasonable ask. Presumably, having just packed their belongings, the couple knows what they lost. It’s perfectly valid to make a list after the fact if they didn’t create an inventory at the time they packed. If there are very expensive big ticket items, they’ll need more documentation to establish worth. You can include inconvenience in the ask, but if you want a settlement you’d best keep it reasonable.
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  1693. No, he’s a conservative with libertarian tendencies. He’s pro-Democracy. It’s the Republican Party as a whole that has moved away from conservatism into fascism and populism.
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  1694. Peter Zeihan is very good, especially for tying the economics into the larger issues. There are others that are very good in other aspects of geopolitics and regional politics. What I like about Peter is that he’s a “generalist/specialist”. He knows how to synthesize and analyze large sets of data, and then distill it for a lay audience. He has an impressive breadth of general knowledge, some specialized areas, and he knows how to drill down in more detail.
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  1695. Will Atwood Actually, it’s a safe assumption, judging by how the U.S. and many of its citizens treat their neighbors.
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  1696.  @Norcalchoom  My landlord got it in the spring, and is still bed bound because of respiratory issues. (Eight other people on my street have died, three of them young people.) I’m not sure what he plans to do as I have not seen him in months. Maybe I’ll ask his son (who has been collecting the rent). By the way, Tom is an antivaxxer troll. Consult your physician, as always, but don’t debate or engage with lying trolls.
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  1697.  @dhoffnun  They have two talking points. 1) it’s edited, and 2) gas prices. They’re utterly brain dead. Trolling quality is way down.
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  1698. “Cold gun” means unloaded completely. “Hot gun” means loaded with blanks. “Homicidally negligent armorer” means a gun loaded with live rounds on set.
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  1699.  @maxmeier532  He said nothing about earning money. He said he wanted to “keep” his wealth, not increase it. Whether his attitude is “correct” or not is beside the point.
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  1700. Mike Scott What? Your opening sentence is a non sequitur, and your next sentence isn’t relevant, and I think you’re some sort of nutcase repeating a set of lobbyist talking points. I hope you’re getting paid, because otherwise you’re just a useful idiot for the NRA.
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  1701. Jenn smith My mind is blown! 🤯 Also, I’m a gun loving Walmart shopper, so stop derailing the conversation with your fake liberal agenda.
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  1702. Jenn smith Why are you talking to your own sock puppet?
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  1703. Hopefully they’re gonna go after the sponsors as well as the pilots.
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  1704. In the social media world, it’s all about bots bringing weird political agendas into the comments. Mr. “Boatman”.
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  1705.  @joejackson9295  Dude, did you just mix up NATO and the UN?
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  1706.  @fksons4161  Big Lebowski jokes aside, you’re absolutely right. Opponents might be lulled by his hippie look, but this is the type that fights for each client as if it’s an important social cause (and probably uses his paying clients’ fees to support pro bono work on legitimate social justice cases). To underestimate this man as a slacker is a terrible mistake. The fact that his client is pleading guilty and cooperating should tell us that the government has a pretty damning case against the client, and that the client has damning information on “an elected official”. Fritz whatever-his-name-is will be determined that this “elected official”, whoever that might be, pays the price instead of his client. (It’s likely Gaetz, but let’s remember that Greenberg provided call girls and drugs to a whole contingent of Florida Republicans. It could be one of them under investigation.)
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  1707.  @equallawandorder5393  What’s wrong with you? Do you have to turn everything into politics? You must be a real joy to be around.
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  1708. Lol, something he could have done himself BEFORE he signed on the dotted line. However, no homes are perfectly square, and you wouldn’t want to use a T-square, which won’t fit into some corners. (However, there are now phone apps that can check walls and corners for right angles.) I think it’s a no brainer to spend $2.99 on an app before making a $350k purchase.
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  1709.  @forfun5238  Based on and copy of are two different concepts. We don’t really know a lot about Neptune’s capabilities, but I think it’s a pretty good guess that it was skimming the surface a lot closer than expected—in the 2-3 m. range rather than at 5 m. This would explain why two missiles reached the ship even though the launch vehicle has 4 tubes. All four were launched, but two hit a swell. The Russian defenses offered a seam or crack that could be exploited by weapons with unanticipated capabilities. That’s what I think anyway.
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  1710.  @greggarsenault4457  I showed up at just before 7 and the line was already over a kilometer. No shade, and on the side of a dusty road. I got my second shot in a San Antonio CVS, no wait whatsoever.
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  1711.  @redplanet7573  Listen to Cheney’s full opening statement. And watch the next public hearing live.
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  1712. There was a shit ton that was glossed over in this lazy and poorly researched video.
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  1713.  @kxmode  The Coronavirus Pandemic in the U.S. was preceded by an epidemic of mass psychosis brought on by bouts of political rhetoric. I’m not sure if the trolls that plague these comments are garden variety conspiracy nutters or servants of a darker agenda, but they represent a real threat to our health and safety.
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  1714. I don’t prefer him over others, but I do prefer respecting the majority that elected him. I hate this abuse of the recall process by a minority of anti-democracy extremists and grifting opportunists. If the California GOP can produce a non-MAGA moderate candidate, I’d be more inclined to vote for that person IN A REGULAR ELECTION.
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  1715. Even lighter off road vehicles get stuck in mud or sand all the time. Then they need to be pulled out. It would be a delusion to think the same doesn’t apply to the Archer. Maybe you can’t put them in the same category, but I don’t think the difference is as great as you assume.
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  1716. You might be right. But range shooting is a helluva lot different than firing at a suspect in a moving car while maintaining awareness of bystanders (or other police) behind the target. Also, in general, police would rather bring in a live suspect. Less paperwork.
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  1717.  @IRISHSALTMINER61  it must be so hard to cope with Arnold Schwarzenegger doing all that shilling for the globe.
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  1718.  @curioussand1339  It’s more than being mindful about antagonizing other NATO countries. Ukraine’s case for joining is the strongest it’s ever been. But it’s not a slam dunk and even after this war ends, however it ends, it’s a lengthy process to become a member of NATO. Finland and Sweden will be accepted rapidly because they have been preparing for the possibility of membership for decades. The idea that NATO has schemed for Ukraine to join is another one of Putin’s false justifications. He might even believe it, but it would still be false.
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  1719.  @Thea-gj2or  How about we play a game where you are a responsible player and don’t steal other people’s ports?
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  1720.  @Breadstar90  You are a liar. Stop spreading disinformation. Your lies put people at greater risk.
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  1721. Before I realized he wasn’t going to answer, the word “EVERYTHING!!” came to my mind like a shout.
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  1722. We just don’t know, unless you have other more detailed information. Normal procedure would be to just quietly relieve ineffective generals, and put other generals in their place whose abilities and stance are more in line with military objectives. Calling generals out as traitors is a pretty big deal and indicates there is more going on.
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  1723. It is sort of a war, with some people seemingly joining the virus and helping its spread. Some are delusional idiots, but I fear there are many who know better, but are intentionally spreading disinformation for some evil intention.
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  1724.  @MsLaylaB  The name of his high school team? The Bone Spurs.
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  1725. Hindsight is 20/20. Given the facts available and the political context at the time, NATO leadership’s decisions on aid to Ukraine made sense at the time. The West was giving military aid during the period in question. When we look at the history leading to the current moment, we must remember that political leaders respond to the crises of the moment, not crises beyond the horizon.
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  1726. There’s also the issue that when the hospitals in regions suffering outbreaks are overwhelmed, quality and timeliness of medical care suffers. Someone suffering a catastrophic injury that might otherwise be saved doesn’t make it to the hospital in time, or makes it to the ER, but doesn’t get immediate care.
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  1727.  @Princip666  So you’re saying that Ukraine violated a neutral zone, sort of like Russia attacked Kyiv from neutral Belarus (and continues to attack Ukraine from Belarus)? Maybe you should sue Ukraine in court.
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  1728. He’s a well known golf cheat. There’s dozens of articles from people he’s played with that report his antics on the links.
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  1729.  @george2113 What were the interest rates on toy train loans back then? 😉
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  1730. Neither side has full control of the skies, although Ukraine has done a pretty good job of suppressing air defense. Both sides are able to fly sorties, apparently. This is an improvement for Ukraine. Previously, the Russians had a bit more elbow room to operate. With regard to autumn rains and winter snow, mud sucks. Literally. As someone else said, cold frozen conditions favor whomever has better logistics (and shorter supply lines). Knowledge of local terrain is also helpful.
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  1731.  @ahmataevo That’s not the issue here.
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  1732.  @hippopotamus6765  more likely it’s the same old troll, new account.
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  1733. It has a negative flavor, but isn’t always bad. For example, you could describe your exercise program as a physical fitness regime. I think the word is of French origin.
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  1734. As of today, the Pfizer vaccine has full FDA approval and is no longer considered to be under emergency authorization. Other vaccines should also be getting approvals in the coming days. Of course, the anti-vaxxers will move the goalposts, hmmmm-ing all the way. “Hmmmm, isn’t it strange that the FDA approved an experimental vaccine?” “Hmmmm, isn’t it strange that the FDA approved the vaccine after the governor forbade school districts from mandating vaccinations?” “Hmmmm, follow the money.”
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  1735. “Herd Immunity” is the GOP code word for genocide.
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  1736. It’s that famous GOP projection. Whenever they point a finger, three fingers point back at them.
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  1737.  @craiganderson4993  A brawl. A multi-participant fist fight. Check the Radiohead song “Punch up at a Wedding”.
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  1738. Russia is backing Maduro? How exactly, other than to offer sympathy and moral support? I’m sure Putin’s thoughts and prayers are a great comfort to the Chavistas.
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  1739.  @willywonka4340  just a finger, not the whole hand.
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  1740.  @nelsonormsby2739 As a conservative, that aspect is what made the break-in all the more galling. Nixon didn’t need dirty tricks to win. But he had a dirty tricks team assembled and set them to work. My grandmother loved Nixon, and he broke her heart as his crimes and the crimes done on his behalf were revealed. He would have gone down in US history as the most crooked president if not for Donald Trump.
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  1741. I don’t think his employer will allow that.
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  1742.  @Dutcheh  Yuh, he bought it a month or so before the crash and hadn’t bothered to change the vehicle registration. I mean, why would anyone go to the trouble or pay the fee if they planned on crashing it for a video?
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  1743. Our family dog was one of two imperfect pups in a show dog litter.
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  1744.  @numberboxgamer  it’s a wartime practice for the most part. Also, the military’s standards have been quite variable over time.
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  1745.  @beibei93  It’s not. But reversing population decline is a tricky thing.
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  1746. He shouldn’t be trusted with any motor powered vehicle, and I have doubts he can safely ride a bike on public roads.
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  1747.  @kentparker3245  How many jobs were lost to China due to NAFTA? Idiot!
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  1748. He sounds more like a game show announcer.
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  1749. We would need to hire hundreds of thousands of border patrol agents and spend billions on creating a defense in depth infrastructure to satisfy the demands of the anti-immigrant faction who want to hermetically seal the border. Double those numbers if we also seal the border with Canada. In the process we would also risk changing the character of our country into a police state.
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  1750. I think he’s offed himself.
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  1751.    Yes, Guy Fawkes did it first, but keep in mind that back then the English Parliament only had 3G communication networks, so it’s really not the same at all.
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  1752.  @anonymouse14  Liability, yes. Criminal charges, probably not. U-haul has a good mens rea defense here, and any prosecutor would think three times and then opt not to prosecute. Mens rea is intention, and it would be quite easy for the defense to prove that no one at Uhaul intended to steal. For a civil case to recover monetary damages, it’s equally clear cut that Uhaul is liable, since their negligence led to the loss of the client’s property. Any jury would award damages. Unless Uhaul is very stupid (always possible with big corporations), they would want to settle this quickly and not argue about a reasonable ask (between full value and 150% or perhaps 200% of value, depending on how high). There might be several rounds of offer/counteroffer. Probably the couple would want to settle this sooner rather than wait for the matter to come to trial. But if they are willing to wait, they might get a bigger payoff at trial. If it was me, I’d start negotiations with the company before retaining an attorney. I’d have my minimum acceptable offer in mind based on value of the lost possessions and the inconvenience of replacement. A lot of times you can get a fair settlement quicker if you DON’T retain an attorney, and you won’t be on the hook for the attorney’s contingency. Once you hire attorneys, the company won’t talk to you and everything is done between your attorney and theirs. If I was offered anything like 150% of fair value, I’d be satisfied. Less than 125%, I’d probably seek legal assistance. That said, if one is too angry and emotional, it might be better to hire an attorney from the get go, and let them handle the case.
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  1753. @AriaBellacini I’ve been repeating this in various comments. What else are you doing besides voting? Voting is barely the bare minimum we need to do to defeat Trump. Please, turn your enthusiasm into action, and preferably action offline. Volunteer for the Harris/Walz campaign. Register voters and help voters check that their registrations are up to date. The work we do now will have long term effects beyond the election, when the magas cry “stolen election” once again. Let’s turn our enthusiasm into motivation. That’s what wins elections. Fighting maga bots and trolls might be entertaining, but it’s not the real work a participatory democracy requires. Let’s be a real grassroots. Everything I am telling you applies to me as well.
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  1754. I bet you’ve never had to cope this hard in your life. Hold on. It’s going to get worse.
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  1755. KGO has been hitting the misappropriation of public funds angle on this story. Airfare, hotel, meals, and the “investigating” officers were paid overtime. The county supes are asking questions, so this ain’t over.
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  1756.  @daverok1113  <— TROLL
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  1757. It’s a bad point for misunderstanding. The tendency towards less virulence might take decades or centuries to unfold. It’s better to think of there being an upper limit or ceiling to virulence. A virus that kills its host too quickly won’t be able to replicate and be transmitted for very long, and will burn itself out. However, a virus with a high rate of transmissibility has a higher virulence ceiling. With high transmissibility, there isn’t as much selective pressure on virulence.
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  1758. From Shropshire you say? They were originally named the Bunburies, and their early performances were Wilde.
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  1759. Sheriff Grady Judd has a very dry sense of humor. When they caught a bunch of pedophiles in a sting, he said something like “and now we get to the pastor. There’s always a pastor.”
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  1760. loopson1 Dewalt assembles most of their products in Mexico and some in the U.S. However, that’s still oversimplifying it. Components come from Asia, some components actually do get manufactured in the U.S. or Mexico, they get put together into subsystems in one country, back to the other . . . Etc. So a Dewalt that is hecho en Mexico might be partly assembled in Texas and vice versa. It might sound crazy, but it makes economic sense if you consider the border region as a single economic zone.
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  1761. You can’t get sick leave? Maybe you need to do some collective bargaining with your employer, but nobody, not even Mitch McConnell, is stopping you from doing that.
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  1762.  @battlebbot  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  1763.  @rodpanhard  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  1764.  @RfnSandard  Because it would be considered high risk for not a great reward. If there are lower risk investments and opportunities, companies will go with those. Russia lost a shit ton of direct foreign investment and that is not going to be returning. The basic problem is that the cost of doing business in Russia is too high and will be for a considerable time.
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  1765. A very concise and more general formulation is “Man plans and God laughs”.
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  1766.  @victorialaux2912  Thank you for trying to explain. I still don’t understand how the cause would be assigned to dementia.
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  1767. You can have my beer when you can pry it from my, hold up a second, uuuhump, 🤢🤮 [passes out].
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  1768.  @fabianmckenna8197  “I, uh, I got it from a surgical mask. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket. It’s a good thing I didn’t give it to my wife, Morgan Fairchild.”
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  1769.  @juanzingarello4005  1) China isn’t the only source. 2) It’s not clear if EVs really reduce carbon emissions. They shift them.
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  1770.  @libertyman3729  You were in Khe San? Cool story, bro.
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  1771. How about and try having a decade first, and see how it goes? Maybe but together a few decades before you start proclaiming a century.
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  1772.  @optimusprime4443  Don’t bring up 2016, or the snowflakes will start whining how we didn’t immediately bow down and worship their unAmerican Idol. They seem to not know that EVERY President faces disgruntled people whose candidate lost. Dems were unhappy about Regan, George HW Bush, and Bush. Republicans were unhappy about Clinton and Obama. All of these presidents sought to unite us after their elections, while maintaining the wisdom that they couldn’t please everyone all the time. But the Trumper snowflakes are still bent out of shape that we didn’t all rush out to kiss the ass of the most divisive President we’ve seen in decades. (There’s been no one as divisive in my lifetime, anyway.) FWIW, I voted for Reagan, George HW, Dole, George W, Obama, and I held my nose and voted for Hillary. And hell yes, I voted for Biden.
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  1773. Suicide is illegal. Show us what a rebellious outlaw you are.
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  1774.  @DefileOdds  we were all on melt down doses of acid, and one of us got arrested, resisted arrest, and was carted off. The cops told us where he’d be so we could tell his mom. Apparently they took him to a psych ward. He was out the following Monday, apparently none the worse for wear. But he never told us what happened and would get violently angry if pressed.
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  1775.  @dmrr7739  Thank you. The ruling sounds more like that of a crackpot than a partisan, tbh, because its fundamental flaws are egregiously basic.
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  1776.  @améliehester6996  You’re very naive. They’re dressing up as armadillos and sneaking through your yard.
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  1777. When Russia retreated from Kyiv, the sent those forces East to prepare for a new offensive. This is that offensive.
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  1778. The district attorney? Police departments don’t make prosecution decisions.
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  1779.  @arentube8123  Yes, this video is so credible that no attorney has offered it as evidence in a court over the past month.
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  1780.  @missdemeanor3524  Project Veritas has a solid reputation for inventing hoaxes and manipulating video.
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  1781. The imminent threat is open to interpretation. Would your mind change if the shooter was a woman? The shooter’s name is Nikki. The truth is, there’s a lot we don’t know about the circumstances. But based on what we can see in the video, this woman’s legal justification seems stronger than that of Kyle Rittenhouse. Judging the body language and who is yelling the loudest, the woman appears calm and the burly dude with tattoos on his neck seems overly angry about being asked to move his car. If you think Rittenhouse was justified, it’s hard to see why you wouldn’t think this woman wasn’t also justified. But again, more evidence will come out from the police investigation. I think with young Mr. Rittenhouse, the jury got it right, even though there was evidence that he went out there looking for trouble and that he technically had illegal possession of his rifle. With regard to the judge and the bond, odds are the judge was appointed by a conservative governor. We’re talking about Texas. Also if the prosecutor felt strongly that the woman was a risk, he might have convinced the judge not to grant a bond. In matters of risk, judges are more likely to side with the prosecutor. The probability here is that the woman has a clean record while the shooting victim has a criminal record. Honestly, if you are an advocate for Stand Your Ground laws, it’s surprising that you’d rush to judgement against this woman.
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  1782. Wagner is facing Bakhmutcy.
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  1783. They actually do know where they are for the most part.
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  1784.  @battlebbot  <— TROLL Do not engage, that’s what he wants.
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  1785.  @LuvBorderCollies  On the whole, I agree, although the reality is not so clear cut. Yes, it was a blunder that led to great tragedy for both the U.S. and especially Vietnam. So here are two factors that muddy the waters, that I know of. Ho Chi Minh was educated in Paris, were he became a communist. This wasn’t a secret, even if the Viet Minh tended to downplay it—the V.M. identified as a nationalist organization, not a communist cause. It was a coalition independence movement. Second factor is the short period of British control before the French could return in force. The British were very short handed, and were also tasked with guarding Japanese POWs waiting to be repatriated to Japan. So the British armed the Japanese POWs and set them to work against their former allies, the Viet Minh. That was the betrayal that preceded the Haiphong Incident. But on the whole, we (the U.S.) fell short of our own ideals, we lost opportunities to help new allies achieve their independence, and thereby suffered and caused others to suffer.
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  1786.  @jeffsmith6760  Visibly tired, but not exhausted. They’re powering through the work of reloading and preparing for the next mission. It’s funny, but I picked out the commander right away. He was the one without mud all over his uniform. I want to send them cigarettes.
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  1787. It was in the video. Leaders quickly migrated to new comms channels/platforms.
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  1788.  @laurenjones9064  I’ve heard it said that Trump’s hardcore supporters love him because he gives them permission to be their worst selves. Everything I’ve seen, heard, or read supports this idea. A leader who lacks self-control releases them from the normal bounds of decency.
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  1789.  @johnkeith8072  C’mon. Is EVERYONE being blackmailed? Can’t you give people enough credit to be pieces of shit on their own, without making it into blackmail or a conspiracy?
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  1790. Spain was also conquered by North African Muslims for centuries during the Middle Ages, so the question of whiteness in Spain is a door we can open. What does your whiteness mean if your white ancestors were intermixing with your non-white North African ancestors, and you are the final product?
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  1791. I’m shocked that a race murderer would lie about it.
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  1792.  @williamhodgden8970  <— Homeschooled
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  1793.  @freeradical8440  looked like bullet holes. That doesn’t mean that they’re related to the homicide, but that should be be too hard for investigators to figure out. My speculation is that the boyfriend will or has committed suicide and they’ll find his body next.
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  1794.  @badger_ninja8681  I guess you didn’t even watch the video. You’re more of a mushroom than a badger. You thrive in the dark and you’re happy when people feed you shit.
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  1795. Most of it was. The Amazon River Basin is immense. The evidence points to arboriculture being the dominant method of food production, not agriculture. And the agriculture that was practiced was not tilled earth row-crops.
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  1796.  @Jean42ette  <— TROLL
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  1797. The only person in Congress that was shocked by McCarthy’s ouster was McCarthy.
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  1798.  @wd1501  <Liar
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  1799. The main difference between now and 2016 is we’ve had four years of Trump and we don’t want four more.
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  1800.  @JamesKerLindsay  He’s confusing the Contras of Salvador (anti-revolutionary, anti-communist) with the Sandinistas of Nicaragua (revolutionary, communist). Major face palm. It was the CIA that was using Panama (and to a lesser extent Costa Rica) as a base to support brutal anti-communist dictators in Central America. The Soviets used Cuba as their staging area to smuggle weapons, and they used Cuban agents to subvert what were originally nationalist movements. I think we should also keep in mind the Cold War Context. The U.S. wasn’t just effing around for the sake of effing around. The policies might have been bad, but there was a serious reason for them.
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  1801.  @thechancellor3715  You understand the Russian soul.
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  1802. @Mr.B Uh, no. Not quite. Please educate yourself on court procedure and rules of evidence before spreading any more misinformation. Understand what it means if a judge allows or disallows evidence. Understand and respect the process, rather than repeating crap you’re being fed by professional disinformation sources.
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  1803.  @AbuHajarAlBugatti  That’s incorrect. Mexican immigration to its Northern neighbors is net 0.
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  1804.  @zackzaney5563  It’s not a matter of looking for stuff to copy, it’s to look for weaknesses to exploit.
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  1805. Physics has YOU!
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  1806. These asylum seekers from Venezuela were going through the legal process. So your bizarre and incorrect ideas about colonization do not apply.
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  1807. You can’t replace what you didn’t have in the first place. It’s like buying a radiator hose for an air cooled engine.
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  1808. They’re morally and psychologically under developed, with the mentality of 4-year olds. The reason these assholes get so easily radicalized and pulled into conspiracy theory movements is that the have infantile mentalities. Many are otherwise functional adults*, with successful businesses and careers—which doesn’t mean their character defects were hidden, by the way. Very young children are still being taught right and wrong. And for whatever reason (maybe bad parenting, maybe they’re just born that way), some kids never learn this lesson, or learn the wrong lesson. And these assholes and criminals are the result. *While this phenomenon isn’t exclusively baby boomers, there certainly seem to be a lot of the so called “me generation” in the group that attacked the Capitol.
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  1809. @Code Man Judging from the arrests, a majority of these people were successful in their careers or businesses. Some came from wealthy families, some with connections to the powerful. They’re mostly college educated. Yet they were radicalized just as sure as a jihadi bomber is radicalized by ISIS. These are not people suffering from evictions and forced to live on the street, close to starvation. These are not people that worry about police brutality or that (previous to January 6th) they’ll be treated unfairly by the justice system. This was not a revolution of the downtrodden, it was a violent TANTRUM by spoiled children inhabiting adult bodies. If the attack on the Capitol revealed one fact, it’s that this is not about the “economic anxiety” of the working class.
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  1810.  @BubblesTheCat1  it’s possible, maybe likely, that they’re confederates. Also possible that the despicable troll is an alt account belonging to Rab. This is how trolls operate.
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  1811. Uh, yes we do, unless you’re ignoring pre-Colombian structures.
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  1812. The diplomatic solution could be initiated by an immediate cessation of hostilities by Russian forces, and their hasty exit from Ukraine. Until those conditions are met, what is there to discuss? Putin won’t get better terms—the longer this goes on, the worse is his bargaining position. Sooner or later, there will be a cessation of hostilities, either Russia voluntarily laying down arms or Ukraine forcing Russia to do it. The question of when this happens is something that the Russian people must negotiate with their fuhrer Vladimir Putin.
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  1813.  @JonPais  However, there is an interesting statistic. Of those registered Republicans that voted for Trump in 2016, 8% did nothing in 2020. That’s not enough to save the GOP, but it does mean that a significant fraction were able to leave the cult. I think this signifies that 8% or more can be persuaded to stop supporting the party that Trump controls (and will continue to control for the foreseeable future). This fraction won’t win primaries, but can tip the balance in general elections. And that is the purpose of the Lincoln Project, to target and persuade those Republican voters who are coming to their senses.
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  1814.  @SanDiegoHarry1  FWIW, I left the GOP in 2006, after 24 years as a Republican. And I mostly agree with you. But as a practical matter (winning elections), shouldn’t we, the AntiTrump Pro Democracy (ATPD) conservatives be allowed to persuade any Trump voters that can be brought to their senses? Demonize the cult, but not demonize those that we can bring out of the cult, those that can be deprogrammed. I get that you’re bitter. I’m bitter! And we know that many in the GOP are far too indoctrinated, are in effect far too mentally ill, to leave the cult. But don’t you have hope for some? Aren’t there a few Republicans you know that you once thought were reasonable? Maybe they aren’t too far gone. Maybe they are persuadable. Maybe those few can become a trickle, and that trickle can aid you in turning the Southern California map blue.
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  1815.  @kishoreannavajjhala9432  Terribly sorry to hear about the Texas Congressman who passed due to COVID.
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  1816. You saw Perun’s Sunday video?
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  1817. So Germany might as well go all in with Ukraine because it’s not getting gas from Russia.
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  1818.  @yvonnetomenga5726  To be clear, Russia has seized planes owned by multinational companies headquartered in Ireland, not from Ireland itself. The companies that insure the aircraft owned by these aircraft leasing companies are dragging their feet, so I imagine it will get settled in court to no one’s satisfaction, and it will be more than a few decades before anyone will lease an aircraft to Russia. Even airlines will carefully weigh the risks of reopening routes to service Russia, and there will be lease clauses to prevent some carriers from flying leased planes to Russian airports. Aviation is a global business, and the Kremlin just killed Russian aviation on February 24th of this year. It cannot bootstrap its domestic aircraft industry to supply needed parts to build, repair, or service its own aviation needs. Are there any strategically key economic sectors that aren’t going to crater? I guess fast food will survive, but I’m not sure how key it is to a modern economy.
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  1819. And people who have never examined their own attitudes or thoughts for racism, who get defensive if you even hint they might be racist, will not understand the racist nature of your exchange with that passenger. They’ve been breathing the air of white supremacy for so long that they almost always excuse it, minimize it, or invent a “reasonable” explanation.
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  1820. Insisting on the truth is a direct attack on Trumpism.
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  1821. I’d say that there are more than a few Texan Republican leaders that are eager to repeat history.
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  1822.  @mirror452  Tankie
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  1823.  Tom Copper  no, just some of the gun owners. Trump supporters don’t hold a monopoly on gun ownership. 1) You might be surprised at the number of liberals that own firearms because they don’t brag about it. 2) Not all gun owners are fanatical Trump supporters.
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  1824.  OK  <— TROLL
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  1825.  @andrewlilley3660  <— TROLL
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  1826. I think calling it a “fortress” is overstating it. All three countries have resources, but I do think that more economic cooperation and more trade will be a necessity. I wouldn’t look for any sort of political unification, however (and I know you weren’t suggesting that). The main stumbling block is the xenophobic 21st century “know nothings”.
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  1827. I joined a stream of some lefty guy who was bitterly disappointed by Kamala’s pick. One of the things that he felt should have disqualified Walz (or at least given pause) was that Walz had a DUI back in 1995. The midwesterners in the chat found this hilarious. They found a 30 year old DUI to be almost a prerequisite for political office. It was one more thing about Walz that made him “one of the guys”. I will say this about Shapiro. He swallowed his disappointment and went right into campaigning for Harris/Walz without hesitation.
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  1828.  @jabezhane  It is the Russians that are choosing death, both for themselves and for Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. Support for Ukraine military is meant to minimize Ukrainian deaths while also disincentivizing Russian aggression and degrading Russian capabilities to inflict death as aggressors. Support of Ukraine is part of a big-picture policy of deterrence of Russian aggression (not to mention a demonstration to China of our determination). I don’t think you really believe in anything, neither your “peace agenda” nor your anti-capitalist agenda. You’re a nihilist. Your professing peace is hot air, you will never argue in good faith, you will always move the goalposts and you will always twist the truth.
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  1829.  @ChristopherRainey-o3i This has been happening in Russia for centuries. And you think this will be the last time?
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  1830. These untrained conscripts are being sent out to be slaughtered so that the more experienced soldiers can find the Ukrainian positions. It’s a cruel tactic, and I don’t know how the generals could tell them the truth about this without facing mutiny. “We are sending you to certain death for the glory of Putin” doesn’t sound like a morale improver.
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  1831. If he told you, he’d have to vaccinate you.
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  1832. Then I guess it’s a pretty good thing President Zelensky is an actor and many of his closest advisors are producers and other television colleagues. He was the absolutely best person to be in his position when Russia attacked.
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  1833.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  1834.  @SmotritelMayaka29  Russia is populated by 200 ethnicities, but it it ruled by “ethnic Russians” in the Kremlin. For now, anyway. It’s more and more likely that Russia will return to vassal status and be ruled by Han Chinese in Beijing.
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  1835. Alternative idea: offer a bounty to surrendering Russian soldiers: two weeks vacation in Disney World, Fla.
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  1836. No, not everyone wants a dragon to slay, nor is everyone looking for excuses. Many just want equal treatment, basic respect, and human dignity. They want the freedom to live unmolested by unfounded prejudice. Sadly, equality feels like oppression to the privileged. Some only care about their own freedom, and think nothing of abridging the freedom of others. To address specifically the defensiveness of built-in white supremacy, I’ve seen this on both the left and the right. It’s not just the right wing that tries to subordinate non-whites.
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  1837.  @scubamaz1 trollolololo
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  1838.  @lisalisa4182 lol, right? Betty shouldn’t be angry at the U.S. Justice system, she should be angry at whoever taught her English.
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  1839. I don’t care what the Republicans would have done if this was Joe. I hope this is nothing serious and that McConnell recovers quickly, and can serve out his term. If he cannot, I hope he gets proper care and retires gracefully. I’m seeing a lot of ugly age-ism in these comments (and shit tons of similarly ugly and worse comments about Biden in other videos). I sort of thought that liberals and progressives held themselves to a higher standard. I’m sure that many do, but they’re not in evidence here.
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  1840. Where do electrical service providers offer bulk discounts? And during what hours? Every electric utility I’ve encountered had substantial discounts for low consumer consumption, a normal rate, and a pretty steep climb if you crossed a certain threshold. Currently I’m paying about $20/month for electricity. All my lighting is LED. I use gas for heating water and climate control (another $20/month max for three months a year, otherwise about $10/month). I run a 40 gallon compressor a couple of hours a day. OK, I’ll tell the truth. The compressor belongs to my friend, who does shade-tree autobody work in the street in front of my house, and keeps his equipment and supplies inside the front door stairwell. Our deal is that he pays the electrical bill (but I still receive the bill). So I’m actually paying $0/month for electrical. Where do you live where the utility has overbuilt, has too much capacity, and can’t sell the excess to other markets?
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  1841. Are you pro-tiger?
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  1842.  @TakingOff  Here’s some questions I would ask if you get a second bite at the aviation lawyer apple: What sort of false statements might Trevor have made in a case like this? Would his initial report of the crash to the FAA constitute a false statement? Would the FAA allow him to amend his report if he omitted any facts? What might happen if the FAA allowed him to remove the plane from the crash site based on false statements about the crash? I think that the issue of false statements to a federal agency is the more serious threat to Jacob. Losing your ppl and paying civil fines is nothing compared to prison.
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  1843. You don’t seem to understand any uses of humor.
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  1844. Of course you would, Ivan.
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  1845.  @zolacnomiko  Selective breeding for barking is not something I’ve ever thought about.
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  1846.  @ninatrabona4629  That is a bizarre idea, but I give you points for creativity. What is exactly the basis for your idea of taxing pornography? Is this a sin tax, that allows for certain behaviors but penalizes it financially? Or is the rationale that there are hidden externalities that must be paid? How would pornography be taxed? By the pixel? Or by the wank? I find the idea of a wank tax immensely entertaining. Even saying it makes me laugh. “Wank Tax”. 😂
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  1847.  @LaFonteCheVi  The fundamental problem of “general AI” isn’t the hardware (which might be a limitation as well, if you can solve the fundamental problem). The fundamental problem is that we do not know what intelligence is or how it arises from the biochemical processes of the nervous system. Intelligence is a black box and it might be impossible to reverse engineer it. Turing recognized this issue and came up with the concept of the Turing Test, which incorporates the unknown/unknowable black box aspect of the problem—while also opening a philosophical can of worms.
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  1848. Stop trolling. You are a super spreader of disinformation.
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  1849. My understanding is that these cages were originally holding areas where detainees temporarily stayed for less than a day before they were transported to other facilities. They were never intended to be prisons for children. I seem to remember that Trump and before Qanon, the conspiracy loving RWNJs were screaming about “FEMA camps”. They have been strangely silent when Trump built actual concentration camps for kids. (This is in addition to the cages. The Trump Administration constructed actual concentration camps.) “Never again” is a hollow promise unless there are legal consequences for these criminal acts for Trump and the members of his administration that implemented this cruel plan. The American government did this to Japanese Americans (my family, including my mother, aunt, grandparents, and many cousins). After WWII, we said “Never Again” to that heinous and unconstitutional imprisonment. It looks like we need another round of Nuremberg trials after Trump goes down to crushing defeat.
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  1850. NG that can’t be sold is burned as waste in the U.S. We have more than we can use. And you want to build a pipeline to bring Canadian gas onto our market? 😂 Yeah, I don’t think the problem here is with your PM.
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  1851.  @LestatTravesty  <— Troll Are you knowingly or unknowingly working to further the agenda of Russia’s vaccine disinformation campaign? The State Department just announced they’ve uncovered a network of Antivaxxers linked to Russian intelligence agencies, pushing an agenda to damage and destabilize the U.S. and its allies.
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  1852. The irascible John Bolton, complaining the price on his head was too low. 😄
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  1853.  @Realist369 Without state-of-the-art infrared opticals and targeting systems, any tanks Russia produces are tin can death traps. Russia has lost access to the technology to make modern tanks or upgrade older models to modern standards.
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  1854.  @benjaminlynch9958  Add to that the cost of acquiring the equipment to make the equipment. Did you see what has happened to the ruble. This project’s funding was reduced to 1% almost overnight. Putin has crippled Russia.
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  1855.  @Look_What_You_Did  Briefly: Moderation sucked, discovery sucked, the bots sucked, and on and on. The point is that the suckage increased 100-fold under Musk. To clarify, I mean suck in the bad way, as in sucking diseased green donkey dicks, and not in the good way beloved by most men and the people who suck them.
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  1856. That would be making the same mistake that Russia made, having too many fronts. Belarus will take care of itself. The government barely has support of the military. Lukashenko’s regime is on a knife edge.
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  1857.  @EngineeredChannel  We don’t know for sure, but I 100% think you’re correct. They must have hit some exceptional conditions that the de-icing equipment couldn’t handle. I just saw this in the Blanco Lirio channel, and that’s what Juan Brown thinks. We’ll know more when they read the data off the flight controllers. It’s terribly disappointing but not surprising to see the racist comments against “3rd World” pilots.
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  1858. I knew a drone operator that jumped out of his chair at the first sign of a low battery. True story.
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  1859.  @medexamtoolscom  Putin got a majority of votes AFTER he murdered his political opponents. It’s not hard to win after you’ve cleared the field. Would you say a futbol team won if they murdered the other team before the match?
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  1860.  @SpheraculGames  If Russia thinks it is safe from strategic nukes if it “only” uses tactical nukes, we might finally test the condition and capabilities of Russia’s nuclear deterrent. Given the shoddy condition of Russia’s armed forces, how many Russian ICBMs do you think are operational? Don’t rely on your assumptions about the West’s response to the use of tactical nukes. Your assumptions might be faulty.
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  1861. He’s a thirty year old kid with rich parents that have enabled him and bailed him out at every turn. From the “spiritual” language that he sometimes uses, I’m pretty sure he’s been in a drug rehab and/or spent time in Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous or some other 12-step organization. He has poor judgement, poor impulse control, and even though he can make a plan and execute it, he doesn’t really think things through or consider consequences. I’d say there’s a high probability that he will kill himself doing something stupid. He’s basically the type who would try to set a world record playing Russian Roulette.
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  1862. I’m also old. One thing I’ve learned over the past 8 years is that voting isn’t really enough, we have to engage with democracy and we have to work to protect our democratic institutions. We’ve been on autopilot for far too long. If you’re feeling exuberance and enthusiasm, put that energy to good use.
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  1863.  @justinhogue9861 That’s the most surprising aspect of the assassination. This is something terrorists do to highlight their cause to the world. This is something a mafia boss might do to a rival. Was Prigozhin a serious challenger to Putin’s dominance? He was more of a disobedient subordinate, imo. That Putin assassinated him in such a theatrical manner says more about Putin’s fragile ego and sense of insecurity than anything else.
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  1864. Mechanical bird.
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  1865.  @welcomb  They have means of self-defense. But Ukraine has demonstrated that it’s not a perfect defense.
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  1866. That’s basically what the North American automotive industry has already done. The expensive models are made in the U.S., and the lower cost models are made in Mexico. However, all the components and subassemblies are made on both sides of the border and shipped back and forth as needed. So your high end made-in-USA SUV contains components made in Mexico, and your economy car hecho-en-Mexico has components built in the U.S. Incidentally, Mexico is increasing becoming a supplier of precision parts for the aerospace industry.
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  1867. Here for the Deathstar joke.
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  1868. How can I monetize my ignorance?
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  1869.  @qmulus1  Sealion much?
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  1870.  @bestplans9051  Romney voted to convict and marched with BLM. Good luck trying to get him voted out of Utah.
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  1871.  @paladro we needed a parking lot more than he needed that tree.
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  1872. Probably not, as he is a conservative voice—a conservatism increasingly rare among those that claim to be conservatives. That said, I think there are people in the administration and in the Democratic Party that are aware of him and that share his values of liberal democracy. There was a time not long ago when the right was not so extremist and authoritarian, and conservatives and liberals were not too far apart. We might accuse the Democrats of a similar move to the left, but mainstream progressivism hasn’t shown the authoritarian tendencies of the far left. I am an anti-authoritarian and anti-racist conservative, but this will seem absurd to those who only know our current definition of “conservative”.
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  1873.  @SiliconCurtain  A couple of lovable scamps. 😊
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  1874.  @billberg1264  An impossible return to the past is more reactionary than conservative. Even Burke didn’t advocate for a return to the past, he wanted preservation of what was good in traditions and institutions to avoid the bloody chaos he saw in the French Revolution. I think Burke would be horrified if he saw populist “conservatism”. What populist “conservatism” is selling is a nostalgia for a past that never really was. The consequences of the past are the present. They are promising a return to something unchanging, because freezing the perfect moment in time is the only way to avoid future consequences. And all of that is an absurd impossibility.
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  1875. An interesting point about civil commercial aviation: a pilot is only qualified on one model at a time. To switch models, you need months of retraining and qualification. And once you are qualified on a different model, it takes retraining to switch back. The idea that a fighter pilot can be combat effective on a different plane (even of the same airframe if the cockpit layout is different) with only a few weeks training is ridiculous. And even if you integrate same airframe planes from different countries (which does help in the support end), the idea that you can easily integrate completely different platforms/airframes is the pinnacle of stupidity (I’m looking at you, A10 fanboys).
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  1876. Very common to not have signal in the mountains. However, you make an interesting point about conserving battery—for when he DID find some signal. I would not be surprised if he had cached water and a first aid kit near where he planned to land.
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  1877.  @slaphappyduplenty2436  If he was pro-Russian he’d be asking for a pros-thesis.
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  1878. The Rise and Fall of Putzi Russia
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  1879. @Liza's Mentor I’m surprised Vietnam abstained, given its history with China. However, Vietnam also invaded Cambodia to take out Pol Pot. I guess they like to keep their options open. 😉
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  1880. We knew how they were going to vote, but it’s still amusing to see Afghanistan voting in favor of the resolution. (And of course they would, because of their experience with Russian invasions.)
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  1881. Truss wasn’t the first woman PM. Do you not know who Margaret Thatcher was?
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  1882. Fewer people are willing to admit they’re Republicans these days, Omar. More are leaving the party or voting Biden despite their party affiliation. Trump was right. We’re tired of all his “winning”.
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  1883. It would be best if he admitted it as he was passing the third floor but before he reaches the second floor.
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  1884.  @TheSimba86  They didn’t. They began demanding a leasing agreement to permit the work back in 2013. Sorry, you lose.
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  1885. “It’s still early innings” 🤣 Sorry, just wondered what it felt like to say something that stupid.
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  1886. 2023: woke cartels
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  1887. I guess we figure that Republicans like Toomey have been fucking with Trump this long, not saying shit when Trump incites his fanatical followers, it’s their own lookout. It’s nothing new, other than it’s now being directed at leaders of Trump’s own party. To be honest, I’m surprised Trump didn’t go harder and get more specific. I’d have expected something more along the lines of “GET TOOMEY!”
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  1888. If you can’t afford the time, don’t do the crime. This is the result of choices that they made, such as choosing to participate in a coup. I know you MAGAs aren’t big on personal responsibility and accountable, but this is what it looks like when a criminal realizes that no amount of expensive lawyering is going to help them if they kept their mouths shut. They took it to the brink, but they finally accepted responsibility for their actions. It’s only Giuliani that’s facing bankruptcy, but that has more to do with 1) his own prolificacy, and 2) getting stiffed by Donald. I’m a conservative, and I’d like to have the GOP back if you’re done with it. We need more like Brad Raffensberg and fewer like the current craven crew of circus clowns.
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  1889. Are you talking about Doge-BRICS or BRICS-coin? How about we conduct trade in a physical currency, like Lego. Your BRICS currency has been in the talk about it stage for over a dozen years, and there been no progress. Why do you think there will be a surprise unveiling at the next summit? You know, this isn’t like iPhones. You don’t promote an alternative trading/reserve currency with a surprise announcement.
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  1890. LFP Animations This is exactly correct. There was no “blackmail”. Lindsey Graham is gay? So what. Nobody should harbor the belief that the GOP base cares a whit about morals or values. No, this is about putting greed and ambition for power over all else.
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  1891.  @KirkFickert  what are the chances that the Chechen people rise up against Kadyrov while the Russians are week?
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  1892. He and is brother Thomas also were the original creators of Photoshop!
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  1893. It’s too much to hope that he emulate Navalny in his final seconds.
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  1894. There’s no “secret evidence”. The evidence is all on video, we’ve all seen it, and it’s damning. The lawyers excused themselves because they did not want to perpetuate the lie that the election was stolen from Trump. They offered the best legal strategy: to argue that there’s no constitutional basis to impeach a former president. Many GOP senators had already signaled they were on board with this strategy. This doesn’t signal anything nefarious. It signals Trump’s own stupidity.
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  1895.  @ColonelFredPuntridge  Luttig 100%. Bolton, yeah, maybe too much, but I don’t think of him as a first tier FP conservative. He was second or third tier and got lucky. Bolton is an interesting guy. As a second tier FP adviser, he was a careerist street fighter (which is how he pulled himself up through the FP jungle). He had extreme views that he used to garner attention—he was a good counterbalance. I find it interesting that became a little more moderate and more adult when he was elevated to the top tier. At the end of the day I’ll ding him 25% for being too damn self-interested and self-promoting, so he gets a 75%. What about Kasich? He was often billed as a moderate but I’d still call him a conservative where it matters. A supposed “moderate conservative” can pull the country more to the right, whereas a hardcore conservative will divide the country. Edit: What about Romney? 100% conservative, 100% honorable. Discarded by the GOP because he couldn’t unseat Obama. He’d be the perfect antidote to Trump fever if only the GOP was willing to admit it was sick. If the pro-Trump delusions in this thread are any indication, the GOP is happy in its fever dream. 😢
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  1896. Because he’s devoted the time to gain subject matter expertise. He funds and manages those with even greater expertise to solve the problems of infectious diseases. Or put in simpler terms, he knows what he’s talking about.
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  1897. It’s in the top 10 destinations during a zombie apocalypse.
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  1898.  @TheArklyte Easy navigation point!
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  1899. Where does this guy think he is, Florida?
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  1900.  @phildoodler2199  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  1901. But he’s not going to travel outside Russia very much. 😂 He is now effectively blocked from most of the world.
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  1902. Titicaca is a Quechua word meaning lead rock, and has nothing to do with either titties or caca. Sadly.
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  1903. He’s gained expertise by educating himself. That’s why he should be listened to. Y’all are taking your anti-intelectualism Anti-elitism too far. Your opinion is not “just as good” as expert opinion, especially when that opinion is widely held by experts. You’re being idiotic at best. Can you not for once out aside your politics?
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  1904. I think it means we carry on as we’ve been doing, and make sure our doctor sees this video or is aware of the study, should we catch the virus and need to be hospitalized.
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  1905. OK, bot. This isn’t the media’s fault. This the fault of political extremists going beyond any definition of peaceful.
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  1906. It was caught on camera. The most damning footage came from one of the defendants, Bryan, who had the presence of mind to record the murder on his phone. The poor fool helped them murder Arberry unwittingly, not knowing they had murder in their hearts.
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  1907. How many wheels does a miscarriage of justice have?
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  1908. I’m not sure how you reach that conclusion.
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  1909.  @wgowshipping I thought you were going to say boxers. 😂
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  1910.  @scottshawn70  The most insidious aspect of YouTube moderation is the non-transparency. They refuse to provide explicit guidelines to creators with the explanation that explicit guidelines will allow people to “game the system”. Hidden rules that aren’t applied evenly is basically arbitrary in its total effect.
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  1911. ⁠ @captainalex157  This comment addresses the original comment and some of your reply. Jim Baker, U.S. Secretary of State under Reagan, made an agreement with Gorbachev, an exchange of assurances. The U.S. wouldn’t support nations on Russia’s border joining NATO, but neither would the USSR use violence and aggression to put down their independence. The agreement wasn’t one-sided, it was mutually beneficial. (And let’s note that while Baker didn’t represent NATO in these talks, the U.S. could veto or delay admittance into NATO, as can any NATO member.) Yeltsin and later Putin broke this agreement, first in 1994. As a result, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland were admitted in 1999. The Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania were added in 2004, again as a result of Russian aggression against an independence movement. What you call provocation is the response to Russian provocation. Look at the historical context. Also, fifteen nations, not twenty, have become NATO members since the fall of the Soviet Union, Finland being the last of the fifteen, but others applying or signaling their desire to join.
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  1912.  @HamRadio200  Look up the actual case, “bro”. The victim received serious burns from boiling hot coffee. The truth of the case has been distorted by those who want to make product liability cases look ridiculous, and you fell for it.
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  1913. The Old Testament says, “An eye for an eye.” I’ve always thought that meant proportionality. Israel has a right to defend itself, but their response to the Hamas attack has crossed the line of proortionality. It’s hard to say exactly where that line is, but it’s obvious that the IDF has gone far beyond it. At the same time, the Israeli government didn’t arbitrarily choose to attack the urban areas of Gaza. Hamas chose this battleground because they knew there would be a lot of civilian death and suffering. And we know Iran put them up to it. Both Hamas and Iran share responsibility for the deaths of Palestinian civilians along with Israel. The point is that Hamas is intentionally killing its own people for propaganda reasons. That is closer to genocide than what Israel is doing. If the student protestors were not ignorant of this, they would protest both Hamas and Israel. And they’re in college where they have the resources to study the conflict and the history of Israel’s conflict with its neighbors.
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  1914. Thanks for reporting recent experiences. I live in a tourist town in Mexico and there is little public testing. If omicron isn’t already present, I suspect it will get here sooner rather than later due to visitors. I’ve seen an uptick in mask wearing, for what it’s worth, although on the streets I’ve seen many not wearing masks. (I strongly suspect these are visitors from the U.S. who have “political motivations” to flout local regulations and guidelines. It’s the start of the winter tourist season, as many snowbirds flee the U.S. for the relatively milder climes of Mexico.) I suspect Japan is faring better because the culture there is more aligned with social cooperation or social ethics. The idea of everyone pulling together when facing a crisis is accepted. It’s considered to be mature, adult behavior. Contrast this with behavior we’ve seen in the U.S. among large swathes of the population that seem to suffer from cognitive and moral disabilities. Let’s hope omicron symptoms are less severe, as your experience suggests.
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  1915. Hang in there Mike! I’m a Californian, watching in horror from abroad. The politics, the frikkin’ *politics*, behind the spread of this pandemic in California is utterly insane. I had no idea that seemingly ordinary people would become so irresponsible, selfish, and delusional. If it wasn’t for the politics, perhaps people would be sensible about temporary restrictions. If guidelines were followed, the sooner we could recover. Four years ago, I realized that many Republicans were drifting away from conservatism into authoritarianism. Until this pandemic, I hadn’t realized they had run headlong into mass psychosis.
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  1916.  @XenusMyHomeboy  Allow me to translate: También hay efectos de largo plazo, güey. And then a bunch of galimatías because her thoughts were racing faster than she could type.
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  1917.  @SalvatoriusMyspace  Oye, loca! Te llamas Carencita, no?
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  1918.  @Will-xk4nm  Two and a half out of three ain’t bad. 1) reserve currency: yes, 2) balances: sort of, but they don’t add up to zero. The point is that you don’t want to them to diverge wildly, 3) the bargain: resounding yes! How we approach balances (2) is something we can and should address politically, meaning intelligent debate before an audience with a basic understanding of the economics involved. We can easily run deficits indefinitely, the question is how high? (How high at any given moment, since global economic conditions constantly change.) What are the theoretical limits and how close do we want to approach those limits? There are conservative and liberal tendencies to reach practical/contingent answers, and in a democracy we should be able to reach a compromise. Unfortunately, the (so-called) conservatives have lost the thread. Our formerly conservative party has forsaken an intelligent approach and devolved into an uneducated and lazy populism.
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  1919.  @chaddolly  You’re suffering from DTs so badly it’s a miracle that you can type.
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  1920. The Colorado State Supreme Court has ruled that rent control is unconstitutional, and the legislature has not been able to pass any rent control laws that would supersede the ruling. Therefore, the property owners do NOT need to use a loophole to raise rents. Therefore your argument has no basis. If repairs weren’t necessary and the owners wanted to raise the rent, they could just raise the rent. They don’t need justification.
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  1921.  @oscardelapena7376  It’s a very big business and like any business, it needs banking services. The weakest link that would devastate the cartels ability to operate would be to go after their enablers in the U.S. banking system. Currently we rely on banks to report suspicious transactions rather than to allow proactive investigations. There is no incentive for top management to clean house because they don’t face criminal penalties (and can always blame it on lower level managers when those managers get caught). Anyone serious about combatting the cartels knows that they can be suffocated by cutting off their money supply. Graham knows this, but he isn’t interested in solving problems. He’s interested in pandering to his base of know-nothings that love aggressive poses.
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  1922. What makes this stock stink should be a thing.
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  1923. If the Supreme Court decides in Trumps favor, there will be a lot more weight to the idea of Supreme Court reform, including adding more justices to the bench.
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  1924. Seriously, he was one of the few reasons to watch Fox when he was on that network. He raises the credibility of any organization for whom he works.
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  1925.  @freddyodonohoe2644  Pray to God, the Virgen, and your good ole St. Pat! 😄 I’m not a praying man myself, but I’ll join you! 🙏
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  1926.  @charonstyxferryman  “Life was easier when we were told what to think. Putin has brought those days back.” And Putin didn’t even need red hats with the slogan “Make Russia Soviet Again”.
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  1927. Probably longer than that. I think closer to 20 years, although it was on a much smaller scale back then.
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  1928. WielkaKasza the term is “Tankie” for people who defend Stalin until their dying breath. If there was justice in the world, that last breath would come in G.U.L.A.G.
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  1929. They’ve been criticizing Trump for the last four years, five including the 2016 election. Where have you been? Also, consider the audience they’re trying to reach: fellow conservatives that have fallen under the spell of fascism. That might be why you’re hearing from Bill Cohen for the first time. If he was addressing you, he’d be preaching to the choir.
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  1930.  @teilanittv  Good point. But you know there’s a good crowd of lawyer-haters here that won’t have any of it. They’ll damn half of any group of professionals for being subpar, and damn the other half for being elitist. Their underlying issue is that they hate expertise.
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  1931.  @Ellexis  Nah. That’s messed up if you think rape should be part of anyone’s punishment.
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  1932. That’s not fair. The shark didn’t attack Atlantis. Atlantis sank after it jumped the shark.
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  1933.  @slippingsnake They are supposedly arriving this summer. Granted we don’t know the specific day, but sometime between now and the middle of September, they will be in Ukraine. Russia will have to commit its air force—its main conventional strategic reserve vis-a-vis the West (not to mention the long term threats from the East). I don’t think we’ve seen the Russian Air Force throw all its weight on Ukraine, mostly because it has to maintain a credible deterrence against the West. Ukraine has been able to attrit those forces the Russians have committed so far. If the Russian air force doesn’t commit, and the F-16s prove to be decisive, we should expect Russia to escalate in other ways, possibly using tactical nukes or chemical weapons on the battlefield.
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  1934. Might have just been an accident in the editing, but the bomber losing its wing is a four engine B-24 Liberator, not a B-25 Mitchell mentioned in the narration. Thanks for a great history video.
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  1935. Is that still a concept taken seriously?
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  1936.  @zuster6962  In this job market, he can probably find a gig in less than two days. As far as that other stuff, I think you’re judging not by results but by conformity to your norms. He didn’t disclose his situation regarding family, etc., so you’re assuming. If you don’t know what the results are, it’s silly to compare them to your current results or your expectations. We GenXers know that stability is just one part of the equation. It is often overrated. It is often too narrowly defined to mean only financial stability. There is more than one way to live a happy life. I hope your life continues along a smooth trajectory of happiness, but remember that if your circumstances change drastically, you are infinitely adaptable and can find happiness in different forms.
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  1937. I just watched Fury Road again. I can’t help but think of these “QAnon soldiers” as being like the half-life war boys. “I live. I die. I live again.”
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  1938.  @snowflakehunter  It’s the height of political tomfoolery to mix the two issues. And let’s be real clear about why the immigration issue has reached this point. It’s a great campaign issue for Republicans. Why would they want it to be solved?
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  1939. I think you might have it backwards. The law itself specifically mentions “parading” for purposes of insult and ridicule of the POWs as the banned behavior. The letter of the law is the strict interpretation. A broader interpretation would fall under “spirit of the law”, and is a more contentious and subjective area. The strict interpretation, as I understand it, would allow these interviews of POWs, even for propaganda purposes, so long as the POWs aren’t being insulted or ridiculed. I might be the one who has it backwards, but this is my understanding of letter of the law vs. spirit of the law.
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  1940.  @jacqdanieles  It’s useless arguing with these trolls. Use the reporting function and report them for promoting terrorism or misinformation. Ivan is clearly supporting terrorism. Others peddle disinformation.
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  1941. How can you tell if China is outpacing anyone? They don’t report figures when the figures might be inconvenient, and it’s difficult to confirm the accuracy of the figures that they do report.
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  1942.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  1943. I’m glad to hear it. McConnell is like the Republican Nancy Pelosi. Dems hate him as much as Republicans hate Nancy. Both of them are great Americans. Devious Americans, but great Americans nonetheless. 😂
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  1944. The exchange didn’t occur before the jury, so this won’t impact the jury. And really, the jury’s opinion of the penalty won’t be formed until both sides rest and the jury retires for deliberation.
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  1945. There are too many adults with the psychological development of a toddler. We have laws because not everyone acts like responsible adults. Adults make rules to regulate the behavior of children, and the same thing should apply for childish adults when people’s health or life is at stake. Toddlers don’t know any better, but adults should understand that this is an emergency that requires acting together. “I don’t wanna” and throwing a tantrum doesn’t cut it. I have this feeling that if the virus was passed on by exposure to fecal matter, some of these idiots would insist on their right to shit on the sidewalks and wipe their soiled hands on doorknobs. If the virus spread via farts, they’d be running around pantsless with their private bits on public display, and gathering in enclosed spaces to smell each other’s farts just to prove a political point.
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  1946.  Say-Palyanytsya I don’t think it’s comparable. At best it’s a pale comparison. My father grew up during the depression. When we were little, he would finish anything left over on our plate. Even dining out at someone else’s house or at a restaurant, which embarrassed my mom to no end. He couldn’t help it. He would sheepishly joke about starving children in China. 😅 Speaking of dining out, he frequently would under order for himself, knowing he’d be raiding our plates at the end of the meal. He is in his 90s now and he still won’t order fries with a burger, expecting someone else to share their fries. 😂 Yes, I learned long ago to order the large fries. But anyway, he and his family sometimes went hungry. He was probably underfed at times. But all of this pales in comparison to the genocidal famine that Joe Stalin and the Kremlin inflicted on the people of Ukraine, a famine that the Soviet Union hid from the world during and after. I can’t even imagine the level of trauma the survivors experienced.
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  1947.  @eigna8914  It literally will come out of their pockets. They’re Trump’s gravy train. 😂
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  1948. The city and state government has a cause of action, but unless there is violence against members of the Haitian community based on the smears, there isn’t a cause of action nor is there a plaintiff. If there is violence, God forbid, the victims of that violence have a case. The problem here is that broadly smearing an ethnic group is protected speech. Inciting violence is not protected speech, but unless there is violence, you can’t call these smears inciting violence. There is a remedy available to the people of Ohio, though. It’s called the ballot box.
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  1949.  @aenorist2431  Interesting point. I also suspect that sometimes when “U.S. Intelligence” is getting credit, they’re protecting Ukrainian sources. This would be very important for human intelligence.
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  1950. History Gaming Verified Its a Nazi apologist, I imagine, hoping to unify white people against the non-white hordes. The lie these white supremacists want to perpetuate is that Hitler was forced to fight Britain and France against his will, when he really wanted to unite with them to fight the Slavs and the Asians. If the British were really “war mongering”, i.e., had Churchill been PM during the stages leading up to the invasion of Poland, I doubt Hitler would have had the ball (singular) to enter the Sudetenland.
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  1951. Riceball01 The push into France was ongoing, but the full operation hadn’t started yet. Germany had a foothold in France, having flanked the Maginot line, but hadn’t penetrated deeply. Case Red wasn’t initiated until early June. The Dunkirk evacuations happened in late May. France did not surrender until 22 June, a little more than two weeks after Case Red kicked off.
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  1952. This was a residential area. People were living there when it was attacked. People were murdered trying to flee. People that hid and took shelter were murdered. You must think that war is license for any and all brutality.
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  1953.  @TomBaldwin2483  Why are you responding to a Kremlin troll?
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  1954. NATO has been very clear that it will enter the war directly if Russia uses tactical nukes. Furthermore, Russia is well aware that using tactical nukes further unifies the West, not to mention the rest of the world which does not recognize the annexation as legal. I think there are still rational people in the Russian military. They understand that the consequences of using tactical nukes outweigh the benefits of a revenge strike with tactical nukes. Besides, how many Ukrainian soldiers are actually occupying the city itself? A few thousand? I agree that Russia might act irrationally and use such a weapon, but it’s low probability.
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  1955.  @nathan_486  Same here. I voted for Reagan in my first presidential election, in 1984. Apparently you and I were RINOS all along.
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  1956. ⁠ @Dino-god69  law enforcement and prosecutors should be obsessed with catching crooks.
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  1957.  @MikkelGrumBovin  <— Troll
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  1958. What strike? A handful of crew members quitting does not constitute a strike. Nor did they quit over lack of safety protocols. They quit over working conditions—some of which do affect crew safety, such as provisions for local lodging. There are opposing sides to this: the crew members who quit claim that they had an agreement for the lodging, the producers claim there was no agreement. There is another issue with your wording. There wasn’t a “lack of safety protocols”. There was a lack of following them or laxness of enforcing them. The two people with responsibility to follow and enforce were the A.D. and the armorer—and possibly the property master, who should have backed up the armorer if the A.D. was interfering with the armorer doing her job. But main the point is this: you’re incorrect about the facts of the case and it’s unclear if you understand standard operational procedure of a set. However, YOU ARE CORRECT that this tragic accident occurred because of deviation from S.O.P. that is there for a reason.
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  1959. No injuries? That woman’s face looks all mashed up, like it was hit with a skillet.
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  1960.  @davidradtke160  well, there was that time he helped the Republican Guard—quite decent of him if your were an Iraqi soldier. And I’m sure Al Capone is smiling down on him from heaven (or smiling up from hell). But seriously, Geraldo Rivera is an opportunistic ambitious exhibitionist and sensationalist, but he somehow still has some moral/ethical fibre at his core. It might not be well developed, but it’s there. It’s how he understands right from wrong and is able to distinguish the truth from lies, when the chips are down. When it comes to our 245 year national experiment in Democracy, he gets that we’ve moved beyond “entertainment by controversy”. This is why he’s not a total P.o.S. But what’s more interesting and chilling is how Dan Bongo is repeating the Nazi trope of the “Stab in the Back”, the lie that helped bring Hitler to power. It should be very clear by now that the comparison of the GOP with the Nazi Party is not hyperbole nor is it a superficial comparison. The GOP has embraced (and updated) both Nazi ideology and Nazi propaganda techniques.
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  1961. There’s a Vietnam era sick joke about how the war could have been ended. 1) Put all the friendlies (non-communists) on boats and ships in the South China Sea 2) Bomb the country until all the communists are dead and not a tree is left standing 3) Sink all the boats and ships
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  1962. It’s an ambiguous term representing different proposals and different policies that address the issues. We can debate the proposals to try and find a solution. The left is not trying to confiscate all firearms, and we should stop saying they are. We can ignore the few progressive firebrands that take that extreme position because it’s not going to happen.
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  1963.  @rogerstarkey5390  Psst. Hey, man, can I score some D? Not here, bro. I think that guys a cop. 😉
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  1964.  @justanscv  the subscription analogy isn’t bad. It’s not perfect, but it’s not bad. Libertarians (and I was one in my youth) don’t understand or don’t want to admit that value is generated by more than their hard work or clever ideas, that it takes a healthy society to provide the environment for healthy capitalism. Unfortunately, the long term health of the society gets tossed in favor of short term gains and we gets something like we see today, a vampiric, predatory capitalism.
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  1965.  @altrag  Boehner never worked for Trump. He was ousted from congressional leadership by the wave of teabaggers who thought he was too soft on Obama. Boehner deserves some credit for attempting to hold back the rwnj tide, too little and too late though it might have been.
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  1966. No, it’s really not BS.
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  1967.  @andrewharrison8436  around 2010 in Los Angeles there was a shortage of affordable rentals. So the city (or maybe the county) loosened restrictions on residential property, allowing owners to rent their garages or sheds to people desperate for housing. It didn’t solve the homeless crisis but it might have kept some people in a rough patch weather it. But the point is that the local government was quite flexible when it came to providing inadequate housing. I don’t know what happened to all those temporary units. I imagine some were eventually converted into up-to-code living space. In terms of adequacy, one doesn’t have to rent every single floor or even entire floors. Rent the first 10 floors on a 100 store building? The argument against this is that the rents wouldn’t offset the interest payments. And that’s where the government bail out comes in. If Uncle Sam is going to protect rich people from their own bad decisions, why not also throw a bone to renters?
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  1968.  @battlebbot  Widespread ivermectin worldwide use for parasites, no evidence that this use has anything to do with Covid numbers. You are fraudulently linking one thing with another thing to spread your dangerous antivax agenda.
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  1969.  @jimgraham6722  Have you tried it on dogs? Are you a dog owner? Please administer ivermectin to your dogs, but please research ivermectin’s effect on dogs before you do so. I don’t want to suggest you KILL your dogs or anything.
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  1970. It doesn’t matter much, because the 11th circuit decision is around the corner. It won’t buy Team Trump much time. They want to delay by months. They’re getting delays of days.
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  1971. Was there specific evidence that tipped the police to dig in the serial killer’s yard? You mean other than the fact that he was a serial killer?
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  1972. Hey, can’t hurt. Could help. Relatively inexpensive and easy to make a habit of it.
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  1973. Is that supposed to be Dimberly Guiltyfoil? I don’t think there are caps capsy enough to capture her tone, but . . . THE BEST. IS YET. TO COME!!!!!11one!!!eleven!!1
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  1974.  @jesan733 he smiles because he lacks morals. He’s an abject failure as a human being and his moral development has been arrested. He probably sees the war as a game, and he’s trash talking to “support his team”. I don’t want to speculate on what sort of trauma or terrible experience has led him to this wretched existence, but clearly it was ugly. That doesn’t excuse him, like everyone else he is a moral agent, and he is choosing immorality.
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  1975. I knew an Israeli immigrant to L.A. who owned a sweat shop next to the place I worked. Good God, he was a prime A-hole. Brooklyn Jews are all amateurs in comparison. Anyway, he spoke excellent Spanish. And despite him being such a schmuck, a real putz, his workers apparently loved him. I never heard them grumble or complain.
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  1976. I wonder when we will see an unmanned UAV carrier.
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  1977. Mike Steele was a good role model for non-white people to get involved in Republican politics for a long time. In 2012, I really thought the moment had come when we would have to pull out the virulent weed of racism and make our conservative garden more inclusive. There are a hell of a lot of people of color who vote Democrat but who hold conservative values. Sadly, it was not to be. The GOP found another way by overtly appealing to racists and other assorted crazies. They took the quick fix to power with Trump rather than doing the hard work. The damage they’ve done to conservatism is incalculable, but even worse is the damage they’ve done to their souls. They’re damned.
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  1978. At the end of the day, at least a goldbug or tulip speculator had some gold or tulips to show for their bad investments. What will your cryptocurrency maven have when the market plummets? A crypt?
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  1979. @Poul Gin You wish. Putin has pissed Xi off with this stupid and useless aggression. Russia has become that friend that China doesn’t want to be seen with in public, because Russia’s actions embarrass all her friends. Putin’s aggression has had the effect of putting a focus on China and her territorial ambitions. Why would Xi want that? He doesn’t. He wants to continue building the Chinese economy while slowly and surely extending China’s influence and territory.
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  1980. @Aaron Duncan Why would letting suckers give Trump their $600 cause civil war? You’ve got civil war on the brain. Is this your response every time you lose? “Muh high school football team was cheated out of victory! Civil war!”
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  1981. Could you please tell me the dosages you are taking? This is an open question I hope everyone will answer, especially if you’ve had testing done on your before and after you began taking D3 supplements. Thanks!
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  1982.  @andybord4421  He licks bicycle seats. When you park your bike, take the seat with you or he’ll get his slobber all over it.
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  1983. It might even have worked if everyone had followed the guidance rigorously. Too many did not, and the top national leadership at the time (in the U.S.) was lying to the public about the severity of Coronavirus.
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  1984. That’s not actually true, although I wondered about that myself. A chambered blank looks like a chambered live round. You’d have to pop the mag and clear the round to tell the difference—which is what you’re thinking. Basic gun safety says to always assume a firearm is loaded. Ideally, before you hand it over to someone else, you should look (and perhaps clear the weapon), and the person receiving it should do the same. I’m with you on that. But this was a movie set. The actor is supposed to be getting into character and maintaining that, not pausing to do a safety check before every take. Even if the actor pulls back on the slide for a quick visual check, he or she won’t be able to distinguish whether it’s a live round or a blank. Same deal with the Assistant Director. There are safety protocols that weren’t followed on this set. We can agree with that. But they’re not what we would call basic weapons safety. And the most basic question is, why were real weapons being used as props. Replica props can be used, recoil can be simulated by the actor, and the muzzle flash added as a special effect later. Second question is why wasn’t the armorer/weaponsmith on set where she should have been? It was her job to check each weapon as it was handed to the actor or the AD.
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  1985. He ith thourrounded by rathtses, but Donald ith a Big Mouth.
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  1986. He also said it was the same people running the Russian government that ran the Soviet government.
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  1987. I used to say, “Taylor Swift is this generation’s Joni Mitchell” just to mess with boomers, but now I’m not so sure I wasn’t right.
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  1988.  @Patrick_Ross  I had an “exchange of ideas” with a Covid denier today about elderly mortality. I had to explain to her that even if her disinformation about elderly mortality rates during the pandemic and normal mortality rates was true, she was an uncaring crappy person for equating a natural death with the slow suffering of dying on a ventilator, isolated from one’s family.
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  1989.  @snapcutter9596  Sail it to Kaliningrad and make it into a theme park. Russia is going to need new forms of income. It’s such a Mickey Mouse country, it should have its own fake Disneyland.
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  1990. The headline doesn’t match the subject matter.
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  1991. What do you know about commercial aviation brakes that makes you think it’s easy to replicate?
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  1992. A big component to Russian disinformation is to flood the zone with untruth, partial truth, distortions, and once in a while some actual truth. The strategy is to paralyze the target (you and me) with too many opinions and “facts” so that we don’t know what to think. We lose track of which facts are true and which are false. That’s the most important thing to remember about Russian propaganda. They’re not trying to get us to believe a lie, they’re trying to make us doubt the existence of facts. They’re not trying to spin facts in a positive light. They’re trying to create an information environment where there is no truth.
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  1993. He should be remembered for his great leadership. But we should also remember that he imprisoned American citizens because of their ethnicity.
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  1994. Soaking wet.
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  1995. Your comment is sub zero.
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  1996. You would draw on a guy putting a gun in your face while you’re in a confined space in an awkward position? I’m going to take a wild guess that you’ve never handled firearms outside of a video game. Here’s a hint: your green bar will drop rapidly if you try that maneuver in real life.
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  1997.  @williewonka6694  “Money is the root of all evil”. I say that not to moralize, but to point out the obvious: we should attack the root of the problem, which is the flow of profits, the laundering and the flow of money. Whether it’s the cash businesses or the illegitimate investing in legitimate businesses, it can be tracked. Even money transfers on the dark web can be tracked. Take away their money and the cartels (or any other corrupt criminal enterprise) have less power. Then interdiction has a better chance of succeeding.
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  1998. The Russian air force follows Pete around, trying to interfere with the audio quality of his videos.
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  1999.  @johnmetermaid  well actually the album version is 4 minutes and 19 seconds
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  2000. The Germans understood from the outset that they couldn’t win a war of attrition, which was the whole impetus behind developing the combined arms doctrine later called Blitzkreig. At the time of its adoption, it won out against other more infantry focused doctrines. Where Blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union fell short was not merely due to production. IMHO, the biggest initial factor was the vast distances the German offensive needed to cover to meet strategic goals. During the initial months of Case Blau, the Nazis enjoyed operational successes but failed strategically. The Soviets succeeded strategically by DELAYING the Nazis while suffering many early tactical defeats. This bought time to MOVE production east and ramp it up. Kursk wasn’t so much a turning point as it was the German’s last offensive opportunity, but IMO, the die was cast during the first year.
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  2001. I’m really disappointed that none of the top notch journalists at Tenant Media are covering the Martial Law/National Guard/Donald Trump thing. By the way, did they change their name? I can’t find the Tenant Media channel anywhere on YouTube.
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  2002.  @brenthandley5591  the bond payment goes to investors. This wasn’t any national government loaning Russia the money. This was Russia borrowing money from investors. And the result will be that Russia’s credit worthiness will be close to North Korea’s.
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  2003.  @Tommeadowcroft  Even if true, it doesn’t address the hundreds of workers that were replaced. The people arguing that automation won’t replace 100% of workers are missing the point. The fact that his dad was the last irreplaceable employee ignores all the rest, and the fact that the plant lay idle for a year raises questions about surplus capacity. If the company could let the plant stay idle for a year, does that indicate increased efficiency at other plants it had automated? The real issue is does automation decrease demand? And that issue raises a host of other issues, from the practical to the philosophical.
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  2004.  @RustyStringz  They kept you on, but did they keep everyone on. If they did keep all your fellow machinists, did they have to hire replacements as workers retired, or did they just increase your workload? Was the company able to expand while hiring fewer workers and/or less skilled workers? Anyway, I think the real question is quite different than “are humans completely replaceable?” That question is missing the point. The real issue is “does automation decrease demand, and what happens if it does?”
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  2005.  @danielgregory3295  One major difference, though. The Bush administration offered full support to the incoming Obama administration, and Bush’s legislative team and the transition team started working early together to get recovery legislation teed up. So yes, Obama cleaned up the mess, but he didn’t have to fight the previous administration to do it.
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  2006.  @deriznohappehquite  Not anymore. 😉
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  2007. A prop is ANYTHING an actor touches or interacts with, regardless of functionality. Laypersons unfamiliar with theater or cinema often don’t know this. Thus a real gun, a real phone, a real coffee cup, or whatever, is a PROP. However, you are correct that a “prop gun” is not a real gun as it cannot fire projectiles.
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  2008. You’ve read this report? What is its title, so I can go look it up.
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  2009. When you first come into Mexico and get your tourist permiso, request 180 days—the maximum. Keep track of your exit date, and don’t make the mistake of thinking it’s 6 months! You’re supposed to surrender the permiso as you leave, but I’m not sure how strict they are about this, especially if you’re flying.
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  2010.  @rick15666  What are you jetting at?
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  2011.  @razrv3lc  Yup. Look up Redstone. Huntsville is a good candidate location. Except for this anti-women’s rights b.s. the Alabama Christian Right is foisting on everyone else, it might be an ideal location.
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  2012.  @JadeBow1  Emphasis on well rounded 🍑
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  2013.  @realitycheck2051  Because he defended himself? The shooter followed conservative stand-your-ground shooting doctrine.
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  2014.  @strnglhld  That’s how Loon Lake got the Republican nomination. It was Republican transplants from California.
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  2015. You must be thinking of the Kingdom of Galicia. Moscow was a tiny unimportant part of the Kingdom, as you suggest. If Putin wants to follow historical precedent, he should surrender his country unconditionally to Ukraine and let the Ukrainian people decide the fate of Russia.
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  2016.  @henrylicious  The EU’s predecessor, the EEC (European Economic Co-operation) was the tool that unified Europe as a trade coalition. If the EU’s main utility is fostering trade, the EEC or something like it would suffice.
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  2017.  @skankhunt3624  Their dear leader suggested he could murder someone in broad daylight, in front of witnesses, and not be held accountable.
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  2018. Sure, maybe. Easier explanation is an idiotic brainwashed Republican electorate.
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  2019. My neighbors don’t even know that their estufa has a horno underneath. It’s just a storage space. I’ve also seen full size “cabinet” stoves for sale that completely lack baking capability. There’s just a door.
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  2020.  @ThePeacePlant  The type has been around a lot longer than the pandemic, with beliefs in weird conspiracies, distrust of government, new age spiritual beliefs, etc. and they’ve been retiring to Mexico for decades. The pandemic brought together weirdo lefties with weirdo righties. Even the ones that aren’t crazy conspiracy theorists tend to form their own communities rather than blend in. They have their own social and cultural activities, and try to recreate some American (or Canadian) vision of paradise: a bigger house than they could afford back where they are from, servants, being catered to because they have money. They’re baby boomers attending Mexican summer camp.
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  2021.  @chloesmithwalker7565  A cult requires a charismatic leader. 😂 You’ll be hard pressed to find someone like that in these groups.
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  2022.  @JohnRodriguesPhotographer  Economic issues? Like component shortages? I’m thinking specifically of modern CPUs used to build Electronic Warfare systems. Apparently Russia’s own chip making capabilities are, at best, 70 nm processes. That’s 2004 technology. Contrast with 5 nm current technology and 3nm manufacturing processes being developed independently by Samsung and TSMC (projected to be commercially available in 2023). Russia’s future war making capabilities are being technologically crippled by sanctions.
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  2023. If you want to take Ivermectin or other non-virus related medication as treatment for Covid or to prevent it, you should first consult a doctor, preferably a psychiatrist.
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  2024.  @madselmvig1457  You make it sound hopeless for Russia. They will survive . . . . as a Chinese vassal. I think they’ve been trying to buy tanks back from India, too, but Modi wants to be paid in dollars.
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  2025. It’s a slippery slope, isn’t it. Requiring health certificates during an emergency? Next thing you know they’ll require licenses for driving a car and some form of identification to cash checks. I bet they will require proof that I’m a qualified doctor/lawyer/dentist/plumber, which will throw a bureaucratic wrench into my law firm that offers medical, dentistry, and emergency plumbing services. This is creeping socialism meant to extinguish the entrepreneurial spirit of those without the time or inclination to study and qualify for their professions. Let’s face it. The “sheep” would trade security for the freedom to do what ever the fuck they want. Also, my 2 amendment rights allow me to own and use nuclear weapons, so y’all think twice before downvoting me or responding negatively to my absurd and idiotic comment.
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  2026.  @alfredthegreat9543  Why do you waste your time on people incapable of being reasonable adults? These are irrational, mentally deranged children. You won’t convince them. They’re not so much interested in winning arguments as they are drowning out information with a flood of noise. Interacting with them gives them more opportunity to produce noise.
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  2027.  @caniconcananas7687  Don’t forget there are also Polish names for many places, plus some names made up by the Habsburgs.
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  2028. But this isn’t actually true.
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  2029. Not just “leader”. Messiah.
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  2030. Putin has nearly reached the limit on his war credit card. He must be thinking, Just one more charge!
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  2031. LOL, it’s not that difficult to translate. “If we formally enact a ban, it will look bad. Some people (the dick waggers) will be happy, but others will be angry. Then we’ll have to lift the ban anyway when the contracts are fulfilled, and the formerly happy assholes will be angry, the angry people will still be angry, and we’ll look like incompetent assholes (again).” So they’re using the ban as a threat to make sure the contracts are fulfilled. It’s really easy to understand once you become sufficiently jaded. The assholes will appreciate the use of a veiled threat, the non-assholes will be relived that the ban wasn’t enacted.
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  2032.  @jimgarofalo5479  Thank you for mentioning the effect of cold on batteries. I think people greatly oversimplify right-of-repair issues. I have a problem when “right of repair” interferes with my right to buy the best product that fulfills my wants and needs. I have a problem if the “right of repair” interferes with a manufacturer trying to supply me with what I want.
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  2033.  @TheBandit7613  So, should we provide HS with the resources to do these background checks, or continue creating bottlenecks by underfunding those who interview and investigate asylum seekers?
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  2034. I just had a quick look at Wikipedia on the Starstreak MANPAD. Roughly the same range as the Stinger (7km) but higher altitude effectiveness (5km) which is about 1km better than the Stinger. That 1 km could be important for limiting Russia’s close air support (CAS) capabilities, which was already weak and uncoordinated. I expect that Russia will either forgo CAS or suffer more red on red casualties (aka friendly fire). Now for some total speculation: It might be that NATO is not disclosing all the weapons it is sending into Ukraine. It’s possible that MiGs (including the Polish MiGs) are being sent in as quickly as they can be reconfigured for Ukrainian pilots. I think Zelensky’s constant requests and complaints about this is part of keeping the transfer a secret. (To be honest, that is very speculative on my part. I’m not sure I fully believe it.) If it’s true, however, Poland’s snafu over announcing the transfer of 30 planes makes more sense—that too was part of the subterfuge.
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  2035.  @FiZc  Are you suggesting that if I supplement my vitamin D3 intake that either my liver or my dermis will atrophy?
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  2036. With regard to these VD dosages you’re suggesting, is it the same for gonorrhea as it is for syphilis? Does it matter how I administer it?
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  2037. A Russian drives up to an old woman on a bicycle and shoots her. He says to her corpse, “What did you expect? It’s a war zone.”
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  2038.  @mrwolf750  Long term, yes. Or at least that’s been the case in the U.S. since WWII. Real Estate, the stock market, etc suffer crises and then recover. Some unlucky people get hurt along the way. However, there are no guarantees this pattern will continue indefinitely. One thing seems very likely: China is taking a walloping in many economic sectors, and it will get worse. If this encourages them to play by the rules, great, but I don’t wish an economic collapse on them that would create regional political instability.
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  2039. Yeah, I couldn’t help but laugh. What city is it named after? The only Matamoros I am aware of is in Mexico, opposite Brownsville.
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  2040. Dont riffle our feathers.
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  2041.  @sheldonjanzen3483  Artur isn’t Ukrainian. You’re not the brightest guy, are you?
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  2042. It amazes me that your country has two conservative parties, Tory and Labour.
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  2043.  @dayalasingh5853  Also, in the 90s, according to Chomsky, it’s not ethnic cleansing is NATO is trying to stop it from happening. He’s 100% tankie, a sophist, and I don’t respect his political opinions. I respect Bernie Sanders. I’m not keen on his policies, but he is sincere. It will be a sad day when he leaves the national stage.
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  2044.  @julianalfaro1063  I have never heard a Mexican identify him or herself with a hyphen like we do in the U.S. with markers like Mexican-American, Jewish-American, Japanese-American, etc. I know Mexicans with German heritage. They would never call themselves German-Mexican. I am not criticizing this American practice. There are historical reasons for it (primarily a white dominated society that put us into racially identified groups to deny our “American-ness”). And apparently those historical reasons haven’t gone away.
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  2045. You got that mixed up in your first sentence, I think.
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  2046.  @BigHenFor  I agree. We in the West probably eat a great deal more animal protein than we need (or is healthy in some cases), but a strict vegan diet seems mostly suitable for those that can afford all sorts of supplements and workarounds. I generally limit my meat intake to a couple of meals a week, mostly on environmental grounds although I have an old friend who is an ethical vegan who I suppose has also influenced me. I don’t mind his fanaticism, however, as it involves taking me out to a vegan restaurant when I’m in town. I say he’s an “ethical vegan”, because it’s an outgrowth of his work against animal cruelty. Most of my protein intake comes from . . . beans. Beans, rice, and tortillas, with pickled chiles on the side. I’ve become accustomed to jalapeños, they’re mild enough to me that I eat two or three without feeling “overheated”.
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  2047.  @MrJaspett  What an elegant solution! We just need a really tall ventilation duct for the ice making factory.
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  2048. Are you sure about that?
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  2049. Bingo!
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  2050. Is there any indication that B, I, C, or S are actually ready to back China? I think each of those countries plus each of the expansion countries will pursue their own interests. That said, I think the developing economies can, will, and should push for reforms. This will lead to an easing of U.S./Western hegemony but not its fall.
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  2051.  @jarls5890  I can’t speak about military pilots, but iPads are extensively used in the way you described by commercial and private pilots. I bet you’ll find an iPad in each and every jet airliner’s cockpit if you could check.
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  2052. I agree completely. The Russians’ goals are unachievable and they are scrambling to find more modest ones to justify the war. It’s a war in search of a reason, following its own momentum. The only reason Putin continues is because defeat undermines him domestically. He will cling to power with great difficulty after Russian defeat, and he will be greatly diminished if he manages to stay in power.
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  2053.  @404-Error-Not-Found  “The best part”? Your thinking process is messed up if you think anything about this tragedy was “best”.
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  2054.  @stephenhodgson3506  Some of TLP founders are saying the GOP can’t be saved and needs to be burned to the ground.
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  2055. @boronium koronium “You want a toe? Because I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, dude. You don’t want to know about it, believe me.” This video is Walter Sobchak’s toe.
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  2056. JAUKUS isn’t much better.
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  2057. It’s 100% true. Those were his boxes. However, the documents inside the boxes were not his.
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  2058.  @tomjohnson4681  ANTIVAX TROLL Do not feed the trolls.
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  2059.  @ericwolf9664  My cat’s sandbox runs Android.
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  2060.  @edi9892 It’s still a provocative act. It’s not isolated from other recent provocative acts by Russia. Attacking a non-combatant ship of a neutral country in international waters is escalatory. For whatever reason, Russia seems to be begging for another European country to retaliate, even at the cost of its further isolation. I think it’s an act of desperation. If the war in Ukraine was going well for Russia, they would simply continue grinding away at Ukraine. Hitting a non-combatant ship in international waters is a risky gamble to shake things up at a time when Russia supposedly doesn’t need to take huge risks. If the war in Ukraine is indeed going well for Russia, there must be another reason for the attack. The only other reason I can think of is regime security—the Putin regime is not as domestically safe as it wants to be. NATO retaliation would help the regime shore up internal support.
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  2061. The problem is that anti-science dummie parents are also deciding for other children (and teachers and support staff). If you as a parent don’t want your children to wear masks or receive the vaccine, you are free to homeschool them. You are also free to create your own private schools with likeminded parents. What you shouldn’t be free to do is threaten the health and lives of others merely to exercise your right to be an idiot.
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  2062. Did the emergency happen while the pilot was making a pitcher of old fashioneds?
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  2063. He worked at the airport as a fueler. Likely he had access to the plane and it’s possible he was familiar with it.
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  2064. Are we assuming that the highly paid contractors MUST be American companies? AFAIK, the current VP is not a former chairman of Halliburton, so the pentagon is free to hire whomever they want.
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  2065. A blue wave is temporary. What I think you want is a blue tide.
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  2066.  @firingallcylinders2949  The only thing keeping Putin safe from arrest and still in charge of S.P.E.C.T.R.E is the damn nukes.
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  2067. Phil They were tough horses, but still delicious if properly marinated.
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  2068.  @caveman4598  A ship should be able to use any pronoun a ship wants. I don’t care what biological sex the ship was when it’s keel was laid down, a ship has the right to choose its own gender. Also, Spanish speaking navies should use barcx when talking about warships.
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  2069.  @kaylamarie8309  I wouldn’t do it. Your yearly registration will go up and you’ll have to pay more on toll roads. But maybe the benefits of being a member of the federation will make the extra expenses worth it.
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  2070.  @ELCLAVE300  sort of like the air gun version of a grenade launcher?
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  2071. So Trump applied for a bond at thirty different banks, but thirty different banks turned him down because they don’t trust or they disagree with the valuation of the collateral. They think he’s still grossly inflating the worth of his properties. 😂
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  2072. Soviet Cold War doctrine was never about achieving air supremacy. They expected to go toe to toe with NATO, and they never hoped to achieve such a victory against NATO’s airforces. The only place they put an emphasis on control of the air was in Soviet airspace. The Russian Air Force never reinvented itself. Pilots have adapted their tactics due to modern MANPADSes, but the doctrine governing how they use air power hasn’t changed.
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  2073. They’ve been subpoenaed, they’re not “targets of a subpoena”. Whether or not they are targets of a criminal investigation depends on what they did and whether they cooperate with investigators. I hope for their own sake that they cooperate. To be clear, Clarke, Westbrook, Giuliani, Navarro, etc. are all in deep trouble. One of them should also cooperate and spill the beans on their co-conspirators. You know what they say, “Snitches get lighter criminal penalties and can often avoid jail time.”
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  2074. That’s pretty awesome! I’m looking forward to the Bollywood adaptation of the Malaysian Vikingdom.
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  2075. You need to specify which law it breaks if you want to claim it is illegal, Ivan. Russia is targeting these types of cluster munitions against Ukrainian civilians from day one of this conflict. I consider that to be immoral to the point of criminality. If used against soldiers, that’s fair game. There’s a valid use of a weapon, and an invalid use when you target civilians. Ukraine could potentially commit war crimes against Russian civilians with these weapons. We can judge that if it comes up. But we know that Russia has already been committing many war crimes on civilians since 24 February, 2022, from firing artillery and missiles on apartment buildings and shopping centers, to torture, rape, and murder of civilians in Russian occupied areas, mass kidnapping of children, firing on refugees trying to escape from battle areas, and soon.
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  2076. Yes, and the proof is that “all prophecy” has come to pass at least twice recently. Remember when the world ended in 2000? How about 2012?
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  2077. If he was mortified, he’d resign, go home, and sprinkle salt and pepper on a barrel. He doesn’t show a single symptom of shame.
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  2078.  @itsmorphed6416  It’s good for what it is: a start. The problem is that simplistic thinkers believe it’s the final word. They don’t want to engage with the material. I agree it doesn’t go deep, but I didn’t expect it would. I’m disappointed that there are a few gaps that should have been explained better and more directly (for example, what is whiteness, exactly?) Ryan touches on the question without really engaging it directly, imho. Scott (the OP) calls Ryan’s gloss “the unvarnished facts”. I don’t think Ryan would claim that. It’s Ryan’s best approximation, his current understanding. But Scott thinks a 20 minute video is the final word. Something tells me Scott is seeing what he wants to see and hearing what he wants to hear. He wasn’t intellectually curious to begin with.
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  2079. No, we are not. We may be in the not too distant future, but we are not in a depression.
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  2080. Sarcasm
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  2081. @Stuart Aaron VHS tape.
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  2082. It’s a tracked vehicle. There are no tires to be filled with air under pressure, so no air pressure to measure. 😜 Oooooh, did you mean atmospheric pressure? That was covered.
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  2083. You should learn to spell the word “sneer”.
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  2084.  @spud7823  <—TROLL
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  2085.  @jannisarie  My landlord got sick with Covid in May of 2020. He survived, but is still experiencing a range of symptoms, including shortness of breath. So he can be on his feet for varying lengths of time, but gets out of breath and has to sit down or lie down. He has been living with one of his sons where he can be better cared for. I miss seeing him in his front garden as I walked by and stopping in for a chat. But all of this to say that some symptoms come and go and might not be readily apparent from brief observations.
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  2086.  @walteryoung3056  Are you Republican?
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  2087.  @pk7ghalm23  Yes, but the people trying to replace the senile leader (I assume you mean Trump) are just as bad.
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  2088. A politburo is infinitely more desirable than a single dictator who has crushed all possible dissent and differing opinions. Compared to Xi’s authoritarian rule that quashes all debate, Vietnam is relatively a democracy because it allows different opinions, albeit within a very narrow range. A politburo atop a democracy gets things done via compromise among political factions and consensus development. As crazy as this might sound to our democratic ears, the internal factions work as a system of checks and balances. If any faction becomes too powerful, the other factions will work together to undermine and limit that power. A second reason that a politburo rule by committee is preferable to a Xi-style dictatorship is that you have more eyes looking at problems and challenges. There’s a better chance that the leadership has a grasp on the reality of a situation, whether the situation is internal or geopolitical. Lower level bureaucrats and functionaries can’t fudge the data (to keep the dictator happy) to the same degree as has happened in the PRC since Xi has consolidated absolute power. They can’t just tell the leader what he wants to hear because there is no single leader. Lastly, it should be pointed out that Mexico was a single party dictatorship for over seventy years (from the early 1920s to the middle 90s) and we were fine with that. The Party of Institutional Revolution (or however you want to translate PRI) was nominally a socialist democracy with all the corruption and fraudulent elections you’d expect, but political power was never permanently concentrated in the hands of one man. Mexico had a dictatorship with term limits. Every six years the PRI would select the next presidente behind closed doors (and he would go on to fraudulently win the presidential election). Without getting too heavily into Mexican political history (and I am far from an expert), the point is that the U.S. was fine with a corrupt socialist “democracy” on our southern border. The two countries cooperated. At times we had disagreements, but the relationship worked. There is no reason that a similar relationship with Vietnam couldn’t work.
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  2089. I get that. But what if they’re lied to by their commanders? What if they’re told, “There’s a platoon of Ukrainian soldiers in that building, trying to set an ambush. Blow the building up.” It’s not always clear cut.
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  2090.  @FuburLuck  you are most likely correct, but it’s fun to take the video at face value and examine how crappy the training must be.
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  2091.  @TrendyStone  I think it’s possible that we’ll see a replication of cross border auto manufacturing with the mid level and high level silicon, and iPhone manufacturing. Certain regions in Mexico are already into high tech and/or light industrial. I’m more familiar with Querétaro, but you’ve also got León, Puebla, Guadalajara. Querétaro is a center for aerospace suppliers/subcontractors.
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  2092. “Mom, I’m heartbroken. Gabby left me.” Oh, my God. I’m calling the police! Use your intelligence (and you’re obviously intelligent). We don’t know what Brian told his parents. Whatever he did tell them will come out, either voluntarily or at the trial, when they can be compelled to testify, whether or not that testimony is used against their son. Unlike spousal privilege, there is no parental privilege by which they can decline to testify.
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  2093.  @dinocub1  do you know the joke about the two campers attacked by a bear? One put on his hiking boots, and other cried, “Are you crazy, you can’t outrun a bear!” He replied, “I don’t have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun you.” It’s quite similar when your criminal conspiracy is under investigation by a Federal agency. The main difference is you run towards the bear. Whoever gets to the bear first will get the best plea deal.
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  2094. You’re ignoring the post Soviet history of U.S. MIC reduction which went on unabated for ten years and has never quite regained its cold war influence since the GWOT began in earnest. The MIC has been scaled back to such an extent that a few ambitious dictatorships have found the encouragement to challenge the political order. And our industrial base had shrunk to the point that the rogue nations’ challenges have become plausible. Our military might not be up to the challenge if we don’t rebuild. I’m not going to debate the validity on Eisenhower’s warning at the time he made it. But I will say that it is irrelevant to our current historical context.
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  2095.  @traceehoughton  I’m not sure about all the things you wrote (I’m not sure I understand what you wrote), but I support your conclusion. This has all been a temper tantrum by a man-infant who is not getting his way wrt the election.
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  2096. Or at least the last six years.
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  2097. An addict wouldn’t accidentally leave his drugs somewhere. Having an addiction isn’t like you having eczema.
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  2098.  @kdawg2472  “Most of us real gun owners” lol, you have no idea what you’re talking about and you are projecting your opinion onto others based on having one thing in common: gun ownership. Perhaps you threw in the word “real” to discount the majority of gun owners whose opinion is different than yours, but it doesn’t save you from being laughably wrong.
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  2099. Try to be more optimistic about Trump’s lifespan vs Bragg’s case’s longevity. 😉
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  2100.  @wouterke9871  How did the Jones Act result in the U.S. losing its international ship building role? What provisions in the Jones Act made it unprofitable for U.S. ship builders to build ships for international trade?
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  2101.  @jballaviator  There’s so much money already invested in carriers and they’re still useful for many types of missions. I want to mention the “sunk cost fallacy”, but I’m worried about phrasing. 😂
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  2102. I mean, I could see just saying, “I’m in a hurry, can you give me a dozen donuts that you pick out for me?” The way he ordered was just weird. It was “political”, like he had plausible deniability if someone was unhappy with the donut choices. “Some of these, some of those, whatever makes sense”. Makes sense in terms of what? What is JD NANCE’s donut policy? But I wouldn’t combine any of it with the awkward small talk he engaged in. That was the weirdest of all. If JD MANCE showed up at my donut store (if I worked at a donut store), and he asked me “how long have you been working here” in that voice, I’d reply, “How long have you been a weirdo?”
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  2103.  @enoughrope1638  If he fought on the side of a declared enemy with whom we were in an active declared war, he’d have problems. That’s not the current situation, so 🤷🏻‍♀️. But his current course of action could (and might have already) lead to his passport being revoked. That would cause problems and headaches when/if he tried to return. But there is no general law against an American acting contrary to our “national interests”.
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  2104.  @als1023  I’m very glad that you give proper credit to Ukraine’s own intelligence services. Many assume that it’s all due to help from the Western intelligence agencies, but they forget that Ukraine’s intelligence services are the descendants of the KGB, and not incompetent at spycraft.
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  2105. Caspian Blue I don’t know what difference it makes (these trolls always have a dozen or more finger puppets), but I blocked his ass.
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  2106. It does seem very Geraldo-ish, but I imagine it was broadcast/posted well after it could affect the tactical situation. If the Russians are just down the road, they already have a rough idea.
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  2107. Do you think that the Golan Heights could be returned to Syria with neutral UN peacekeepers as a buffer?
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  2108. How long were you imprisoned for putting forward the lab leak theory? Which government agencies were tapping your phones, harassing you on the street, and issuing veiled threats towards your family? Were crowds of paid protestors outside your house every night? I assume one or more of these things happened to you, because suppression of ideas is a serious matter. Or perhaps maybe you mean someone online hurt your feelings by calling you a conspiracy nut? In addition, I hope you see the difference between jumping to a conclusion without evidence and coming to a conclusion based on investigation and evidence. They might both reach the same conclusion, but that doesn’t validate the former. Alex Jones hasn’t been proven right. He’s not even as accurate as a broken clock.
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  2109. It’s good to have the values and principles of Western Democracies. Those are good ideals we should cling to. Diplomatic engagement is a tool to help promote and maintain our values and principles. It’s not an ideal in itself and perhaps that is the problem; it’s a mischaracterized as an ideal. Perhaps Germany has become very comfortable and successful using it as a tool, but it is not the only tool available to a nation state, and that is another problem. It’s sort of like the hammer problem that is used to criticize the hawks. Not every diplomatic issue is resolvable through friendly diplomatic engagement. Europe has a rabid dog in the neighborhood, attacking one of the neighbors. You don’t diplomatically engage with the dog, you help your neighbor get free of the dog.
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  2110.  @robert4you  it’s useless to debate a troll. Just tag her as I have done, and report any links as spam. I suspect she has a White Supremacist agenda, deduced from her trolling ticks, if motivations mean anything.
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  2111. What are you on about?
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  2112.  @Heartrose7  The autoloading tanks have a storage carousel directly underneath the turret. An ATGM hitting the top of the turret send the jet of molten metal right into the carousel. The T-62 has some handy storage in the turret, but the bulk of the ammunition is stored in boxes on the floor. Pretty much directly under the turret. I don’t know if this is wet storage, or if wet storage is even a thing anymore, but shells on the floor, whether in a carousel or in boxes, are pretty effective “Popov Mechanisms”. This clever feature propels the turret upwards 20-50 meters above the tank, allowing the tank commander to get better view of surrounding threats. The original design of the Popov Mechanism is credited to Dr. Ivanna Popov. Russian tank designers are currently working on an Unmanned Flying Turret (UFT) that could reach low earth orbit, but turrets in field tests have only achieved maximum heights of 75-100 meters.
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  2113.  @schmoonkie  Can you imagine how pissed Putin’s backers are right now? Putin promised them Trump would lift the sanctions.
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  2114. If I’m understanding all of this correctly, most Noem’s family got the message, but the dog and goat did not. That was foolhardy on the part of the dog and the goat. Did they not realize the price of crossing Christi Noemi?
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  2115.  @newpursuit1  They might have standing and a cause of action for the resulting bomb threats. There are some elements to the case that indicate that Vance is trying to incite violence. That doesn’t mean the city would win, it just means that the case wouldn’t get thrown out immediately.
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  2116.  @secondact7151  NY Post is such a bastion of responsible, unbiased reporting. 🙄
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  2117. Also keep in mind that Peter tends to oversimplify. He works in broad strokes. Sometimes he leans towards exaggeration to make a point.
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  2118. The Taliban has a lot of motivations to cooperate. It’s not so much that they’re worried about re-invasion as they’re worried about ongoing destabilization. They’re now in charge (more or less) of their country. They have their own extremists problems that will challenge them for power (Sunni radicals). I’m reminded of Vietnam and Nicaragua, two countries were Communist/Nationalist movements won but that didn’t turn into the threats that we thought they would. Vietnam actually fought Communist China a few years after Vietnam was reunified. In Nicaragua, elections took place and a conservative government was elected (they’ve since gone back to a socialist government). I don’t think the Taliban and the U.S. are going to be best buddies anytime soon, but there is no reason why we can’t come to a diplomatic understanding.
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  2119. I’m smoking cigarettes. Nicotine is a natural, organic insecticide, so it’s only common sense that it would discourage the virus, which is magnitudes of scale smaller than insects, if I take smaller puffs.
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  2120.  @WillIngram08  They’re mostly harmless most of the time. For a small fee, I could teach you to approach them safely and then milk their wallet chakra.
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  2121.  @fairdinkum977  average trumptards, or as I like to call them, Fa.
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  2122.  @chobers5659  I mistakenly thought “oi” was an Australian thing, until I heard the Canadian National Anthem “Oi, Canada”. 🤡
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  2123. Right? How about all those steel and manufacturing jobs Trump was supposed to bring back? Never happened. The fact is, the Obama administration’s unemployment numbers in its last three years were slightly better than Trump’s were in Trump’s first three years.
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  2124.  @msw337  I’m in a similar situation. I was supposed to return to Los Angeles in September. I’m just hanging tight. At least the cost of food and basic necessities is still low here and I still have income.
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  2125. There were some unsourced allegations made over last summer, but I figured it was the Trump Team trying to undermine the Lincoln Project. But when the NYT reported it as they did, and the Lincoln Project immediately denounced the abuser, you know it’s not a rumor.
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  2126. You think I’m educational? Educational how? Like a scholar? Do I inform you?
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  2127. <— Russian Disinformation. Remember folks, Russian intelligence agencies, their proxies, and their conservative stooges, are not just trying to sabotage the election. They’re trying to convince you of all manner of nonsense, and they pose as both the left and the right in their attempts to stir up bullshit. They thrive on deep state conspiracy theories.
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  2128.  @Doctor.T.46  Washing your hands leads to communism, didn’t you know?
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  2129.  @Zlee533  I’d be super interested in seeing an interview of whoever was his flight instructor. They’d hopefully get asked if gliding approaches/emergency landings were part of the training, or if they trained him to jump from the plane at the first sign of a problem. Was strapping fire extinguishers to his legs part of the training? Questions like that. I also want to see who he hires to defend him when he has his FAA hearing and/or if any county/state/federal criminal charges are brought against him. I suspect he’s got a rich mommy and daddy. Poor or middle class kids generally don’t become Olympic snowboarders. That’s a sport for the well-off.
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  2130. My great grandmother died in 1919 of the Spanish Flu, leaving the oldest daughter (my grandmother) to raise her four sisters. My great grandparents had immigrated to the U.S. from Japan in 1900, bringing my infant grandmother. My great grandfather, a foolish man to begin with (according to my grandmother), took to drink and disappeared from the picture. I can’t help but wonder if I would even exist without these struggles and tragedy my family faced.
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  2131. Textbook pit maneuver after a patient pursuit. Very orderly arrest—these sheriffs deputies have trained for this and it shows.
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  2132.  @butwhytharum  What’s your definition of robbery? If you misplace something in your home, is that robbery? Perhaps you stashed a $100 bill somewhere and you can’t remember where you put it. Is that robbery? Let’s say that when you stashed the money, you wrote a note to yourself. Now for some reason you can’t find the note. If that is robbery, at which point was the robbery triggered? When you lost the note, when you realized you lost the note, or when you decided you needed to retrieve the money? Or at some other point?
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  2133.  @valpanig  You’re just reinforcing his bulimia, and encouraging his taco binge/purge cycle. It’s OK for him to eat a sensible amount of tacos—no more than 4 per meal.
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  2134. How would Poland respond to an attack from Russia? Would it merely seek to defend its borders or might it seek to destroy those military elements involved in the attack?
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  2135. Maybe it would be better for you to support the claim first, and then Peter can address it.
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  2136. I believe the painkiller advice was reversed, as the data wasn’t supporting the theory. If it’s been 4 weeks, please avail yourself of OTC pain relief and consult your doctor if needed.
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  2137. The mechanism is in place. Assuming you’re elegible, you receive it in the form of a tax rebate, sort of like when you get a tax refund. With any luck, the $600 will start showing up in your bank account at the end of the week or early next week. The additional money will be delivered the same way, if the Senate passes the additional funding.
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  2138.  @karlhawkes  <— TROLL
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  2139. The Love at First Sight sketch is some of the best physical comedy I’ve seen in a long time. I laughed so hard I peed my pants a little bit.
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  2140. You cannot make peace by catering to the insane.
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  2141. The January 6th Investigation is not a criminal investigation. The January 6th Committee is not the DOJ, nor is it a grand jury. It’s a congressional fact finding investigation—and apparently well run with great discipline. Criminal investigations are different, and there is a both sides in that witnesses, targets, and suspects have rights and can hire attorneys to defend those rights. However, investigators and prosecutors need to establish that a crime occurred before it even gets to that point. It is not rare that criminal allegations don’t pan out and it can’t be determined that a crime was committed.
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  2142.  @PrincessHarmonyMoonlight  Bananas? Does that translate into Platanoso in Spanish? 😄 That’s a Spanglish joke. If you really wanted a similar word to “bananas” as in crazy, you might use “chiflado”
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  2143. This might sound weird to say about a master sergeant, but he brings a softness to the ticket. He’s maybe had his own hard edges worn down a bit. He’s like a boot that’s already been broken in.
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  2144.  @patti6178  a title for this thread could be “When clown fans complain the trial is a circus.” If this was a twilight zone episode, Jones would have woken up today with clown makeup tattooed on his face.
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  2145. It is a toy, more or less, but it can be repurposed to drop those small anti-person bomblets. This will be a major part of warfare going forward. Drones are cheap as hell. These little bomblet dropping missions are proofs-of-concept. Imagine a swarm of 50 or a 100 swarming over a trench moments before a hasty attack on a position you just identified. Maybe artillery support is unavailable, or maybe you don’t want the artillery to tip off the enemy. You could have drone mines that would position themselves minutes or moments before the enemy gets there, triggered remotely.
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  2146.  @noahsuess2806  But can Trump simply withdraw his request for the special master? He would need to petition the court to do so. And such a petition would invite a response from the DOJ, who might want to keep the special master a while longer. Wouldn’t Trump need to state that he doesn’t contest the status and government ownership of the documents in petitioning the court to withdraw its claims? Keeping the special master and continuing with the claim offers Trump very little wriggle room, but (imo) it’s more wiggle room than he’d get if he withdraws his claim. Withdrawing is immediate game over. Continuing is a slender thread, but a thread nonetheless. He might still find a way to muddy the waters. A comet might hit earth. His pal Putin might start WWIII.
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  2147. Remember kids, there’s always money in the banana stand.
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  2148. And the Euro and the Yen have remained secondary reserve currencies. They’re just traded at volumes of magnitude lower than the dollar. If either currency ever became the main reserve currency, it really wouldn’t much matter because the central banks of both currencies are transparent when they act, just like the Fed.
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  2149. ⁠ @watcherofwatchers  When this happened to you and you took the manufacturer to court, did you make an additional demand for these other costs (in terms of time and emotional pain and suffering) that you bore? Hopefully you were able to document them to provide the jury with evidence. The court system cannot really make you whole. It can only make a rough approximation. It cannot give you your time back and it can’t make you unsuffer whatever frustration you felt. Hopefully you had realistic expectations when you embarked on your lawsuit.
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  2150. Amazed that Ronda got 2nd place. It really says a lot about the degradation of the voter base.
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  2151. ⁠​⁠ @joelv4495  Heavy crew weapons, specifically M-2, could handle drones. They could certainly be crew operated, but one would hope you’d have some kind of radar to detect where to look. Misiles not so much. Hopefully you have a DD nearby to handle the misiles. .50 cals are the cost effective solution. They can be stowed and secured in port. They have plenty of mounting options that don’t need extensive retrofitting. Crew of 2 per weapon. Good enough against drones. Outside of the Bar el mendeb or the coast of Iran, where do you expect to encounter ballistic misiles?
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  2152. Try to watch the video before posting ignorant comments.
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  2153. It depends on the brand of the phone. If you want to preserve your individuality and freedom, use an iPhone. If you want to become a robot of the deep state, use an Android. 😉 Look, I’m not going to confirm or deny that I was at the freedom convoy. I just wanted to highlight the fact that we are literally all brains in a jar being fed a simulation. Or more specifically, I am a brain in a jar, and all y’all are the simulation. I’m soooooo lonely. 😆
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  2154.  @christopherrivera1673  Barr hasn’t claimed to have seen any fraud. “Actual” evidence means credible evidence. Those affidavits were rejected by the court as not being credible due to lack of corroboration and/or being irrelevant to the claims. And this is after the lawyers supposedly vetted the affidavits and removed the most outlandish ones. The lawyers were given the benefit of the doubt and admonished for being careless. The video making the rounds has not been corroborated by any credible eyewitnesses nor any other evidence. The video has suddenly made its appearance at a non-judicial forum, leading us to question why it hasn’t been entered as evidence in a court over the past month.
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  2155. Saaaaaal Mercaaaaaaaaagliano! Thanks for all you do to bring us this analysis.
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  2156. OK, Ivan
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  2157. Other than that, did you experience any other side effects?
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  2158.  @bcuniverse_ Property return, but not property inventory.
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  2159.  @wboyle9721  Dave Chapelle (American comedian) has a funny bit about being told to keep his chin up. 😄
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  2160. If they needed the tanks for their mission, they’d find a way to make the logistics work. But they don’t, so the whole supply chain thing becomes a superfluous distraction from the mission. It’s not that logistics for tanks are too onerous or difficult, it’s that Marines don’t need tanks. And as Ryan mentioned, it’s the missions that make the Marines special. Obviously, amphibious landing is an important one, but the Marines have also been redefining themselves as a “Contact Force” for reconnaissance and screening. As a contact force that you put forward to determine where the enemy is while preventing the enemy from knowing the disposition of your forces. This evolution of doctrine doesn’t involve much that is radically new in practical terms. It’s probing defenses and setting ambushes. It’s forward observation—the Marines are not giving up their artillery. OK, maybe F.O. operations are changing with each squad getting a drone operator.
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  2161. LE can track money flows going through banks. And they have the authority to do it. OSINT doesn’t. However, it is exceedingly like finding a needle in a haystack if you don’t have predetermined target. Then there is cryptocurrency exchanges which is like searching for a needle in a haystack in the dark. The real problem, though, is this: unless the government has reason to suspect you’ve committed a crime, it doesn’t have the right to rummage through your financial records. If it has reason to suspect you, it can subpoena the bank or get a court order. What it can’t do is go fishing through everyone’s banking records. (Banks are required to report suspicious activity, however.) Anyway, your financial records are private. LE has limitations on its access. OSINT investigators wouldn’t have any access because the records aren’t public.
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  2162.  @nanmoi8566  On the other hand, if the virus was spread by flatulence, these people would demand their “constitutional” right to not wear pants. They would make up bogus medical reasons why they can’t wear pants. You’d see “pants deniers” running around town like they’re Donald Duck, but with their junk flapping in the wind. They’d gather at fart rallies after eating platters of beans and broccoli. Should I describe the church services in this hypothetical? What if the virus was spread by fecal matter? No, better not go there. I’ll leave it to everyone’s imagination what these sociopaths would do.
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  2163. This leads me to the question, “Why are there no cattle herding video games?”.
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  2164. AMLO is playacting for a domestic audience, the Mexican left. It’s political kabuki. The interesting question (if you’re interested in Mexican politics) is why he has the need to do this? Is his power within his own party weakening as they look beyond his presidency?
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  2165. Demand a refund from your English instructor.
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  2166. In this thread: the brave patriots fighting the lizard people conspiracy reveal themselves. I am curious as to how many are long time fans and subscribers, and how many have shown up to put their delusions on display.
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  2167. I’m loving this new show! I just wish I wasn’t getting so many golf equipment ads on Bulwark videos. I’m not a golfer. Is this a plot to Make America Golf Again?
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  2168. Pricing of petroleum is set in the international market. If global supply is cut, prices go up. If demand is high, prices go up. The U.S. has plenty of petroleum and refining capacity, but unless you 1) create a separate controlled domestic market, OR 2) increase global supply by exporting enough to compensate for undersupply, your(our) gas and diesel prices are going to reflect the global market and remain high. The problem with 2) is it will take investment to export more petroleum, and it’s very difficult to determine when prices will reach a new equilibrium. That makes the investments in increased export capacity very risky. The problem with 1) is obvious, I hope.
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  2169.  @stevenhyatt7962  Surely it’s not your simple explanation, but rather some elaborate conspiracy theory in which pharmaceutical companies are bribing architects.
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  2170. I hope Kamala Harris spells out what she’s talking about a little more, because it’s not clear what her proposed solution is. You don’t know for certain that she doesn’t mean government fixing prices, or prosecuting collusion by businesses that are fixing prices artificially high, or something else. I hope she isn’t talking about price caps, but I don’t know. I’m also suspicious with the “$25,000 for down payments”. She hasn’t spelled out how it’s going to work, but it just seems like a bad idea in general. But I’ll tell you what. I’m still voting for her, and if she doesn’t go into detail until after she’s inaugurated, I’m still voting for her. If she does go into detail, and I don’t like the details, I’m still voting for her. I’m pretty sure I’m not going to like her policies, but, you got it, I’m still voting for her. We can wrangle over the policies once she’s in office. I do think it’s a good thing that she is broadly staking out her policies, though. That gives me confidence that she’s upfront and not a weasel.
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  2171. It’s more likely that a small squadron or two could provide air defense for the cities. As more roll in, their roles will be expanded and they’ll go SAM hunting. I also wouldn’t put it past the Ukrainians to set some traps for Russian aircraft.
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  2172.  @512TheWolf512  🤷🏻‍♀️ I don’t know, was it? Operation Market-Garden was extremely costly in terms of men and resources. Success needed total success—securing the bridge at Arnhem. It cost the Allies months in terms of opportunity costs. Intelligence mistakes contributed to its failure. Indeed, the gamble probably wouldn’t have been taken if the British had done proper intelligence. There were also equipment and comms failures. In some ways, Market-Garden was a worse disaster. It was an own goal that delayed the inevitable, Germany’s loss in WWII. The Hostemel failure was an own goal that has hastened the inevitable, Russia’s eventual and utter loss in Ukraine.
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  2173. There’s been a lot of recent sightings of “N” tanks, but the public will be relieved to know that these are just Z tanks knocked over on their sides.
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  2174.  @samsonsoturian6013  When they fought in WWII?
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  2175.  @jimjamauto  I live in San Miguel de Allende, which perhaps you visited on your trip. About 12 years ago the arrested some cartel big shots at a seafood restaurant. Celeya is the nearest big city, and there’s a lot of crime there, but I don’t think it’s controlled by any of the cartels. Taxed, maybe. I’d be more worried about walking the streets of my home town Los Angeles, to be honest. Probably the most common crime is tourists being mugged or robbed after midnight while they’re walking home from the bar.
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  2176. This research into possible Amazon River Basin civilizations has been going on for 30 or 40 years. They’ve been doing LIDAR studies for quite a while. The thing is, the ARB is frikin huge and much of it is very remote, so it took some time to find these great mounds.
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  2177. So Pete’s enthusiasm isn’t really about meeting sailors?
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  2178. They made a decision to not hear the case because the plaintiffs had not standing to bring the case. That’s a ruling based on civil procedure and the law, not on the facts of the case. But it’s still a ruling.
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  2179. Check out Stephen Kotkin’s most recent appearances for a similar but different perspective. You might not agree with everything he says, but he’s got a great mind and good eye.
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  2180. God protect you, your familia and Ukraine. Viva Ukraine. Vivan los Ukraniaenses!
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  2181. “Our defense is focused on something that isn’t being alleged.”
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  2182.  @DogeickBateman He probably thinks that when firemen respond to a fire, they are occupiers.
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  2183.  @TheJcrandazzo  Yup. The handbook is titled Mein Kamph.
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  2184.  @primaryrage  Call it what it is, the Russian shitzkrieg.
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  2185.  @brutusjudas5842  Western armies are still governed by rules, as Sylvia says. These rules might be different from civilian laws, but they can’t be overruled by an arbitrary military or civilian power. Military rule based discipline is the backbone of a strong military in a democracy.
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  2186.  @brutusjudas5842  No, I didn’t make your point, I argued the opposite of your point. I take it that English isn’t your native language? Let me put my point forward once again: militaries in democracies are rule based and exercise of power is not arbitrary. A court martial might be different from civilian criminal courts, but they are bound by the same principles of justice as the civil society that they protect. If the Ukrainian government is democratic, there will be no show trials in a kangaroo court, nor will there be a secret trial with a predetermined result. There will be a court martial with evidence presented and questioned. There will be the opportunity for the defense to present counter-evidence. Wartime doesn’t change this, even if the government has emergency powers. I guess we will see how much of a democracy Ukraine really is, but rule of law is a foundation of military discipline. Without military discipline, you get a sh¡t-show like we see in Russia.
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  2187.  @mousiebrown1747  Just stop. Save your conspiracy bullshit for your political channels and stop polluting this medical information channel.
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  2188. Russia STILL hasn’t been able to encircle the city.
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  2189. I think they’re used to his behavior. They’ve been enabling him for all his life.
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  2190. That’s not what most of the Republicans are actually saying. They are claiming they will use more oversight, because they always like to claim the Democrats are profligate spenders. The support for Ukraine has been bipartisan. It’s the only thing that Dem and GOP Congress people can agree on. The small handful of extremists will make a lot of noise, but aren’t going to change the overall support for Ukraine.
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  2191. @Ikreisrond Historically, the main problem with implementation of Communism in the real world is that it requires a dictatorship. Those dictatorships have very bad records of human rights abuses and they have a nasty habit of becoming worse, not better. There are issues beyond that main one, such as inefficiencies of a top down command economy and a tendency towards corruption. Communism has this unfortunate tendency towards kleptocracy. An overall criticism of Communism is that it fails to account for the worse side of Human Nature, and requires morally and ethically perfect humans to be successful. I’m not saying democratic capitalism is perfect, but it offers advantages over Communism, if we use it as a tool for the advancement of society and not as a religion . (Not coincidentally, this is how we can beat the People’s Republic of China, if we stop worshipping capitalism as an inviolate religion. It’s worth pointing out a parallel between the GOP and Communists: both turn economic theories into religion, and use that quasi-religion to attack their political enemies. We clearly see this in Republican attacks on the Democratic Party with the accusations that it is a socialist party. This parallel is not a coincidence; recall Steve Bannon’s proclamation that he is a Leninist. He wasn’t speaking in jest.
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  2192. Because her challengers were even bigger losers and loose cannons.
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  2193.  @tylerschmidt2394  You mean Russian resources and Chinese manufacturing aren’t right across from each other on the border? Shock! 😊
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  2194.  @donnamckenzie8539  <— TROLL
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  2195. I think your #2 and #3 go together, perhaps under the heading of “rule-of-law vs autocratic rule”. Autocratic rulers by their very nature don’t promote business friendly environments because business needs base level of predictability that you just don’t get with a dictator arbitrarily bending the rules to suit their contingencies or their ambitions. Before we start patting ourselves on the back, I’m seeing troubling symptoms of this is the U.S., where politicians in certain states formerly considered friendly to business are willing to arbitrarily exercise power to punish companies daring to oppose their social agenda. Specifically Florida: Desantis going after Disney. It doesn’t just hurt Disney, it hurts the business environment.
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  2196. There is a proper name for the patented technology you so casually refer to as a “jack in the box”. It’s called the Popov Turret Mechanism.
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  2197. ⁠​⁠​⁠ @marvinegreen  Hey, Marvin. I was just a kid at the time of the Vietnam War. Maybe I was more aware of it than some at the time. I remember that the older brother of my best friend was in high school ROTC, and he was very informed of events, and would tell us about the conflict, including the tactics being used. His father was Korean War vet, and his grandfather was a code talker in WWII. A couple of the family’s older cousins had served or were serving tours in VN. (Just as an aside, you won’t find Americans more patriotic and more willing to lay their lives on the line than Navajos.) Anyway, the older brother was quite hawkish, up until the time he graduated. I think his family members with war experience had been trying to break through his idealism to tell him the realities of war. And now that it was going to be his turn soon, they finally got through to him. He didn’t become anti-war, but his ardor cooled. Anyway, he enlisted and went through officer training and was sent to Germany. By that time we were drawing down. It was the period of Vietnamization, Nixon’s policy of turning more and more of the war to the South Vietnamese. I also remember my father, a liberal and active Democrat. Despite being a Democrat, he always said, “Respect the President”. (This was pre-Watergate). He was a veteran of WWII, and he also said, “Whether you agree with the policies of the government, we support the troops.” To be clear, he was firmly a liberal but he was not a dirty hippy. He was a fierce centrist liberal Democrat. But he gradually became anti-war as the conflict dragged on. As I grew older and went to college, I studied the Vietnam War more in depth. I try to keep my childhood memories in a separate category from what I later learned, and not let it color my opinion. And here it is. Our leaders didn’t truly understand the nature of the war we were fighting. They thought it was one thing, but really it was another. They understood the nature of the Cold War, but they didn’t understand Vietnam. Sure, they understood that it was an insurgency, but they didn’t fully understand the nature of that insurgency at a fundamental level. They didn’t understand Vietnam and its history. They didn’t understand that the North Vietnamese communists could be fiercely communist, but with an independent streak a mile wide. The bottom line is that if your policies are based on a false appraisal of the nature of the war your military strategy will not succeed. With regard to the current conflict in Ukraine, the obvious parallels are obvious. The less obvious parallel is that Russia doesn’t understand the nature of the war they are fighting. They don’t understand who they are fighting. They don’t understand at a fundamental level the nature of Ukrainian resistance, nationalism, and independence. The Russian leadership really believes its own propaganda and ideology. They don’t get why their domino theory of NATO expansion is flawed. They don’t understand that Ukraine’s primary motivation is its independence and survival as an independent nation. If they did, they would withdraw. Because they don’t, their strategies will always be flawed and insufficient. Now we come to the thing you don’t understand. Why is “NATO North” more enthusiastically supporting Ukraine than is “NATO South”? Why are they more enthusiastic members of NATO? One reason might be that they have joined NATO more recently. But I think the strongest reason is how much they suffered under the Soviets. Thanks for reading my overly long spiel.
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  2198.  @casperwallace9685  China needs Russia, but China doesn’t need Putin. China is going to extract a great cost from Russia for any aid they give Putin, but at the same time they cannot give Putin the full support he needs without suffering economic fall out. My guess: they’ll continue to buy Russian oil for now, at below market prices, but this won’t be enough to sustain Putin’s adventure. China will profit greatly from Putin’s desperation while avoiding being dragged into the conflict. They might involve themselves in arranging for Putin’s replacement but only because they want a replacement that is friendly to China.
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  2199.  @robertg8565  The important distinction is whether the pilot was ordered to down the drone or if he was acting on his own initiative.
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  2200.  @camojoe83  I think you’re missing the point if you expect gratitude. We do some things because they’re the right thing to do. Not everything has to be a transaction.
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  2201.  @Samanthax1221  <— TROLL
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  2202. Great interview!
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  2203. Agreed. While it had some good points, it was already a cess pool in many ways. Elohmuh turned it into an overflowing cesspool. (At least that’s what I’ve been told. I left in the Jack Dorsey 2.0 days. But I do miss dril.)
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  2204.  @michaeldrone520  Go find a mask free store. If there aren’t any, that’s called a market opportunity: open your own mask free store and fulfill all that anti mask demand. Or don’t you believe in free enterprise?
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  2205.  @cmrdek  look carefully to make sure the channel name isn’t spoofed.
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  2206.  @breft3416 that reminds me. Your mom is late on her payment again.
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  2207. I don’t think it’s some big government conspiracy. An official government agency is a bureaucracy, and even in an emergency there is a certain amount of inertia. Those pushing a big pharma conspiracy are going well beyond known facts: we know that the major pharmaceutical companies engage in shady marketing, but there is no proof whatsoever that Fauci and those working with him have ever received any “incentives”. Also, it’s not like vitamin supplements isn’t a big business, either. They avoid making direct extravagant claims (although they pay others to suggest benefits of their supplements), and they don’t pay for major gold standard testing that might disprove their supplements hinted-at efficacy. Also, make of this what you will: over the past couple of years, the “wellness community”, those practitioners and adherents of alternative medicine, have merged with Q Anon. The basis seems to be an irrational hatred and distrust of the government. There are rational reasons to not always put our complete faith in the government, but this cult is a rabbit hole of delusion.
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  2208.  @cathjj840 Good historical reminder. I sometimes argue with my fellow conservatives that trade unions are a healthy part of a democratic capitalist system.
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  2209. Eh, it started before that, first with the iMac and later with the iPod. 🖥️ 📱 By the time the iPhone came out, it was a well established practice.
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  2210. I think you mean, if a defense attorney can convince a jury. But then he’d need to prove that the robber was dead beyond doubt to back that claim. The prosecution can merely show that there is no way to determine that for sure. They don’t need to prove the robber was still alive. Even if the robber was going to die shortly from his wounds, that would still be murder.
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  2211. Weaver admitted guilt.
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  2212. Stalin needed Trotsky as a scapegoat. Trump has . . . George Bush? 😆
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  2213. MattCellaneous Part of the perception problem is the History Channel and other low quality sources consider tanks outside of their contexts—tanks hardly ever operated alone, but were a part of a platoon of tanks and operated in a combined arms tactical environment. Another dimension they don’t focus on much is the supply chain and logistics. Five or ten reasonably armored and gunned tanks that are also mechanically reliable and easy to maintain (including parts availability) are better than one tank with excellent armor and the best gun that spends 33% or more of its time in the maintenance shed waiting for parts.
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  2214. Now you’re just trolling.
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  2215. Lol, it was what they call a “Cold Open” in the TV world.
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  2216. This series reminds me of “It’s a Wonderful Life”, but American is George Bailey.
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  2217.  @Ifinishedyoutube  Is Turkey breaking the sanctions or staying within the letter of the law? Specifically in what areas of business? What would be the consequences for Turkey if Russia experiences a total breakdown or falls into the hands of an even worse tyrant?
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  2218. It’s the archaic script. Check out divination bones (and turtle shells) for more funky pictographic interest. These guys couldn’t wipe their bottoms without checking with the ancestors first.
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  2219.  @danyyboye The bridge will take longer but that’s more of a local issue. My sense is that the deep channel will be open for business in 4-6 weeks. They’ve already opened a route for shallow draft vessels. Pete is correct. In the grand scheme, this isn’t a huge problem.
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  2220.  @Doctor.T.46  Does it matter if a troll is knowingly spreading disinformation or if they’re doing it out of ignorance? In either case, they’re working to harm others. Giving them the benefit of the doubt is irrelevant and encourages them. Call them out as trolls, but avoid wasting too much time engaging with them. They’re not interested in facts or honest debate, not even the ignorant ones.
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  2221.  Rachel Madcow  Thanks Ivan. We’re so glad you and so many of your fellow Russians are taking the time to create new YouTube accounts to comment on racism in America. I know times are tough all over, but is this really the best job you could get?
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  2222.  @dtfuller1969  The next butthead who complains that the train engineer didn’t even try to stop, I’m going to respond, “Yeah, and he didn’t even try to swerve!”
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  2223. I’m pretty sure he will. He just wants to give Desantis an off-ramp before this winds up in court. I don’t think Desantis is smart enough to take the off-ramp. Iger wants to be seen as being forced to defend Disney.
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  2224. It was quickly occupied because it was thrown to the Nazi wolf. That was Russian strategy in the first year of the Nazi invasion into the USSR. When Russians brag about their war dead, they should be reminded of how many were Ukrainians. They should be reminded that the high civilian casualties were in part because Stalin and the Red Army abandoned them.
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  2225.  @hm3drake99  Nooooo! I want term limits on your representative, not mine!!
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  2226. The missile shooter is saying “Who’s your daddy?”
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  2227.  @pfcrow  You’re seriously clever. I’ve been thinking the same thing. The entire Polish snafu, the U.S. refusal, and Zelensky’s requests and complaints could be an elaborate and effective smoke screen.
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  2228.  @curlew-3592  It’s a troll.
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  2229. The U.S. State Department as officially accused Russian Intelligence agencies of engaging in a vaccine disinformation campaign, leveraging the Antivaxxer and QAnon movements. The state department has pinpointed 4 news sites being used to propagate disinformation. The goal is to damage and degrade western democracies, particularly the U.S. and her allies. They want to cause instability and delay economic recovery. I’m not saying that ALL of the trolls plaguing this channel are on the Kremlin payroll, but I am saying that their efforts are being supported by a foreign adversary that is unconcerned by causing deaths if it advances their agenda. I’m sure some trolls have their own agendas, although some of that overlaps the Russian agenda (and is just as despicable).
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  2230. The crazy thing is that’s a real possibility, among others.
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  2231. It’s definitely not definite. The FAR violations are administrative, not criminal. He won’t face prison time for those. The other charges you mentioned are not as easy to cleanly prosecute and to result in a prison sentence. I suspect that Trevor (or his mom and dad) can afford good lawyers who can minimize any consequences he might have to face.
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  2232. Which system? Our society is a system of systems. Can you pinpoint where it’s going wrong? When you say people, do you mean everyone or a subset (for example, politicians)? I see capitalism as a social technology. It’s a method or framework for creating value and for distributing goods and services. This is why it can be integrated into a variety of political systems. We go wrong when we think that there is an ideal capitalism end sate if we strictly adhere to laissez-faire capitalism. This is religion and/or ideology. If you accept my premise that capitalism is a technology, you might ask how does it fulfill its role as a value generator and distributor of goods/services? Put another way, what is it? It’s an engine. Engines do work. More questions arise: How can it be harnessed? Who should benefit from the work that it does? In a democracy, we can answer these questions and determine how to make it work for the benefit of the greatest number while rewarding those individuals who take risks. In this motor analogy, we can tweak the engine to suit our purpose. If society is some sort of car or motor vehicle, is it a race car? A bus? Or is it a luxury sedan? Does it have safety features to protect the passengers? Now we’re talking about the design of the vehicle itself. In a democracy, we get to answer these questions. We get to negotiate between differences of opinion on the purpose and design of both the vehicle and the motor and all the other vehicle stuff (seating, drive train, steering, suspension, safety features, etc.). In non democracies, we do not. The design is imposed on us to benefit a very few.
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  2233.  @mt-mg7tt  accusing people of virtue signaling is “deplorable signaling”. It’s how pieces of shit recognize one another.
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  2234. What are “ambulance-chasing criminals”? I think you might be mangling an idiomatic phrase (ambulance-chasing) that doesn’t have anything to do with crime.
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  2235.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  2236.  @spud7823  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  2237. Why are we focused on nation states? Are we forgetting about SPECTRE?
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  2238. Kino-netic.
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  2239. It depends on how deep you are excavating. How deep do you need to remove dirt to build a basement? The company needed to excavate deep holes to install piles capable of anchoring the turbines. This infringes in the rights holder to exercise their rights in the future. Worse, they used the material excavated to construct the foundations. That’s the part that qualifies as mining. The worst case scenario for a home builder is requesting and paying for a permit to excavate a basement. The company refused to do this. They basically told the rights holder to go to hell.
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  2240.  @TK-mf5in  They follow Arizonan politics very closely in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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  2241. They don’t have to be a colony, they just have to give up their goal of being the boss of all their neighbors. They could engage in all the trade they want, not sacrifice an iota of sovereignty or security. They only have to stop threatening everyone else and get along with a rules-based order. That’s the damndest thing about all this, but it’s important to understand where they’re coming from. They cling to the fantasy that they deserve to be a superpower.
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  2242.  @michaeldrone520  False. The non-mask wearer was asked to leave and when he didn’t, he was trespassing. It’s legal for a business to physically remove a trespasser.
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  2243. The amount of waste cooking oil isn’t sufficient to satisfy diesel needs. I’m glad that hobbyists and tinkerers are visiting fast food restaurants to recycle their waste oil, but this isn’t a viable solution at anything beyond the individual hobbyist scale. Algae-based diesel is the most promising biofuel. It’s manufacture can scale down as well as up (meaning individuals can create it—the process itself isn’t extremely exotic). But all that said, we need to be moving away from combustion fuels as much as possible. Biofuels are a stopgap, not a replacement.
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  2244.  @carlothernandez1346  <—ANTIVAXXER TROLL
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  2245.  @diegestive4167  <—TROLL
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  2246.  @jmoney228  <—TROLL
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  2247.  @mjwilliamsb2676  Don’t feed the trolls (Denise and others in this thread).
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  2248.  @Andy-df5fj  <—Putzi troll
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  2249. ⁠​⁠ @rusolinio121  You didn’t make a point. You misapplied a legal concept, and you not only didn’t get the legal term right, you misspelled it. Do yourself and all of us a favor: stop offering legal opinions from a place of deep ignorance. You’re embarrassing yourself.
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  2250. My favorite knot is the chasiu bao-line. Wink
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  2251. If NATO wanted to keep it a secret, they wouldn’t make an announcement. Putting Patriot missiles on the border with Ukraine is a move, a message. When they start shooting down Russian ballistic missiles over Ukraine, that will be a further message.
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  2252. Thank you. There’s also the factor that these fires moved so fast that by the time you got all these saltwater pumps and hoses set up, most of the damage had been done. If we are talking about what should have been done with the benefit of hindsight, what might have solved the water pressure problem is redundant water storage. Im sure you’ve heard about the reservoir that was down for maintenance? I’m not blaming anyone for that. These things happen. The scheduling of repairs was only a bad decision in retrospect because Santa Ana wind events of this intensity in January are an anomaly. But if there had been two reservoirs, you can take one off line for maintenance and the other one keeps you covered. The problem is that before such a disaster, no one wants to pay for infrastructure that might ameliorate damage. It’s only after the house burns down that the homeowner is willing to pay more property tax to support such projects. (At least for a few years, until they rebuild and forget, and then they scream bloody murder about tax assessments.) But I’m not convinced that lack of water pressure was a key factor here in the spread of the fires. The anomalous wind event blew this fire up too quickly. It was going to burn until it hit the Pacific Ocean, as it did. There really was no way to get sufficient assets in place even if they had a plan to pump seawater.
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  2253. Hahajajahahajajaja. Yeah, if they the BRICS agreed, they could make Lego blocks the new currency tomorrow. I got news for you. No one can wish a currency into existence.
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  2254. It took quite a toll on his having access to a hair/makeup/stylist and a lighting crew.
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  2255. Former [ugh], former [duh, hee hee], join former grifting president on stage to make growls, mumbles and high pitched squeaks.
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  2256. I think the legal term for uncovering and taking hidden or transferred assets is “disgorgement”.
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  2257. 1:46 Why am I not surprised that JD Vance is pushing Russian disinformation?
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  2258. Nah, man. The dude just wanted to hug the cop. He’s lucky that the cop only wanted to hug him back. I think the resisting arrest charge is B.S., though. There should be a charge called “being arrested while on MDMA and trying to hug”. 😅
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  2259. I think it’s Santa Monica, a small city within L.A. County and considered part of L.A.
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  2260.  @e.o.9094  This. It’s a glass half empty/full (or 1/3 vs 2/3). Amongst Republicans, 33% hold Trump responsible for the Capitol riots. There is some evidence this bleeding of support is continuing. I hope the evidence is correct and representative of reality, for the sake of the brainwashed, but even losing 33% does not bode well for the GOP.
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  2261. That would add $25 to your direct payment, at best. The pork in this bill is a few billion. Adding an additional $1400 is going to cost $200-300 billion or more to the price tag. Personally, I’d rather have $600 now than $2000 never. If Congress can’t amend the bill to include the extra $1400 TODAY, Trump should just sign the bill.
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  2262. My sister lives in Escondido!
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  2263. Talk to the GOP majority Supreme Court about loan forgiveness. It’s apparently unconstitutional.
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  2264. What you call Trump Derangement Syndrome is actually Trump Exhaustion Syndrome.
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  2265. Republican Party? More like the Donner Party!
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  2266.  @williamstamper442  All dictators have very high ratings. Dictatorships are the most popular form of government in the world, didn’t you know?
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  2267. Disbarment is a pretty heavy penalty if it was unintentional, but certainly the lawyer who submitted the fraudulent document should be sanctioned.
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  2268.  @MeanGeneSanDiego  he’s a 🍉 🍎 🍌 🎂
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  2269. One lane is open. The train wreckage was removed, but I’ve seen no evidence of the rail lines in use. A replacement span has been built in Krasnodar and is making its way to the bridge.
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  2270. Lol, no they weren’t. Why would ATT be checking voting machines. 🙄 You’re reasoning back from a conclusion, and you’re using make believe to support the conclusion.
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  2271. Some people change for the better, so e change for the worst. His early political reporting was scathing and it was top notch. But the evidence that he was or became a toxic pos becomes insurmountable. I’ve got a collected volume of his writing on the shelf. Maybe someday I’ll pick up up to enjoy his wit, but the idea of it makes me queasy.
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  2272. Honestly, I don’t know a lot about Ossoff, and nothing impressive about him jumps out at me. But Perdue must be removed and punished, and if Ossoff is going to be the club that we use to beat on Perdue, then so be it. I’ll send money for the run off.
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  2273. The issue was the 1) NATO avionics/communications suite and 2) cockpit layout. It took time to remove the NATO kit and replace it with kit that can smoothly integrate into the Ukrainian Airforce. Cockpit layout is surprisingly important—pilots train many hours on a plane to hardwire the locations of dials, gauges, readouts, and various controls. A pilot might be able to fly an unfamiliar layout, but until they’ve mastered a new layout they are at reduced combat effectiveness. Remember, fractions of a second count. You don’t want to be scanning for your altimeter when a missile has you on lock. So Poland either had to reconfigure the cockpit to resemble a Ukrainian MiG-29 or they had to train Ukrainian pilots on their configuration. I do not know which solution Poland used. If I am correct, the Polish Migs can be put into immediate use once they arrive in Ukraine.
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  2274. He was referring to foreign workers’ visa conditions and requirements, not labor laws that apply to German citizens.
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  2275.  @NeedMorePlebs He will have trouble suing the individual officer because police officers are covered from liability by “qualified immunity” during their work hours. The officer’s employer might also be protected unless it can be shown that their policies or their training is negligent. Judges regularly dismiss civil suits because of qualified immunity. It’s not a slam dunk case, despite this video clearly showing criminal behavior by the officer handling the K9. Look up qualified immunity if the law isn’t clear to you. It’s being challenged, sometimes successfully. The idea behind the law isn’t bad: without it, Law officers and their agencies could be overburdened with frivolous lawsuits. Obviously the problem is there are abusive cops and agencies that are shielded from consequences.
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  2276. Pu-#2? That sounds redundant.
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  2277.  @joseluciocorrea1866  Exactly. If we are going to compare this to the Cuban Missile Crisis, NATO, Zelensky, and Putin would have negotiated a compromise, as Kruschev and Kennedy did.
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  2278.  @ericmartin5720  it was their best in the theatre. Russian plans for an amphibious assault near Odessa have been complicated,as they can no longer provide very good air defenses for landing craft (not to mention they’re down one of their landing vessels). Such an assault would have been very important as a flanking maneuver if the Russians mounted a serious land offensive towards Odessa (think Anzio for a parallel with WWII). Without the flanking maneuver, the Russians face two or three defensible lines.
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  2279. Ukrainian special forces sent teams to loosen bolts on the Russian ships, but when they got onboard, the bolts were already loose. Plan B was to scatter packs of cigarettes near crew quarters.
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  2280. He should be in a boy band. 😍 🤮
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  2281. Your “simple” lesson is complicated by the fact that actors are inhabiting imaginary characters, and the character might have the intention to kill another imaginary character. And this is why there are supposed to be so many layers of safety. You’re 100% correct about about live rounds and crew behind the camera. Casing fragments (they’re not always cardboard and wax) can injure and potentially kill. At a minimum, the camera operator and the focus puller should be wearing ballistic vests and visored helmets with blank rounds if the weapon is pointed at the camera.
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  2282. Oooh! Interesting thought!
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  2283.  @erictaylor5462  There is a way to master bated breath. Breath through the nose!
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  2284.  @robertcartwright8165  You’ve entered a nest of QAnon conspiracy nuts, Robert. Don’t expect any truth from them. Their entire cult is based on lies.
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  2285. Restrictions don’t work IF people aren’t following them and local authorities refuse to enforce them. A county with very good compliance is at the mercy of neighboring counties with poor compliance and enforcement. The virus does not respect the county line between Los Angeles and Orange County, for example. The political situation in the U.S. is insane, and California is no exception. Many Republican leaning counties (including the aforementioned Orange County) are refusing to enforce statewide or state mandated restrictions. Meanwhile, a significant amount of the populace of these counties openly flout health guidelines as a political statement. There is a lot of social pressure to ignore guidelines, whether mandated or not. There is an embrace of disinformation regarding the virus and its effects. People are in willful denial. This isn’t so much a problem of doctors neglecting early treatment as it is of a secondary epidemic of mass psychosis. Let’s call it the Covfefe Pandemic.
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  2286. The First Amendment does not protect your speech on YouTube. YouTube is not a government website or service. YouTube is privately owned by Alphabet, a holding company that is also privately owned by its shareholders.
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  2287.  @tomjohnson4681  <— TROLL
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  2288.  @tirlan  He has combat experience with the 25th Mechanized Keyboard Combat Brigade. Although they’ve been beaten badly over the past three months, this unit has served with distinction across the battlefields of the Internet. 😉 Unfortunately, the Russians have no match for Ukrainian memes.
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  2289. The existence of a HOA is not going to be hidden. It’s not going to be sprung like a trap on an unsuspecting homebuyer.
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  2290. I’m fine with either Haley or Biden.
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  2291.  @sirobin171  Neither is Egypt. It’s just a fucked up situation all around.
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  2292.  @HighBoss  let us not forget that Ukraine has its own intelligence service and its own intelligence gathering capabilities. Thus the U.S. could inform their Ukrainian counterparts, “Moskva heading your way at such and such a heading and speed”, and Ukraine could take it from there. It’s a matter of knowing where to look, and the U.S. could provide that information without providing targeting data. It’s completely within Ukraine’s capabilities to have drones in the right place at the right time to precisely determine where a target is. With regard to targeting meetings of generals, Gerasimov might have a secure phone, but does everyone attending the meeting? I’m not even thinking of the other generals, but of their entourages, down to drivers and orderlies. If the Ukrainians were tracking IMEIs of officers’ drivers’ phones, they could just wait for them to all show up at the same place. The name of the game here isn’t decryption, it’s metadata. The Ukrainians don’t need U.S. help for that if the Russians are using Ukrainian cel systems. But they would certainly find it helpful if the U.S. reported that Gerasimov was heading into Ukraine for a big meeting. Amd just a reminder in general: there are some people from whom you might need to ask for help, but for various reasons, you want to ask sparingly. Among those reasons is to minimize your debt and obligation to those sorts of people. (I think the idea of being beholden to a U.S. intelligence agency sucks.)
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  2293. Required
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  2294. Why? Would either of the later surprise you? A teacher and a pastor soliciting prostitutes is surprising and titillating.
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  2295.  @nathanielhellerstein5871  Melissa Kraken
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  2296.  @WestCoasting206  Wilson was recently on the Al Franken podcast (recorded just before the attack on the Capitol), and I was struck by his response to some of Franken’s questions. Franken was taking him to task for his history as a GOP operative (in that biting but humorous style he has*). There were some very uncomfortable moments. I could almost feel Rick Wilson squirming before answering. I can well believe that Wilson is wrestling with these very questions about his culpability from his reactions. There wasn’t any chest beating mea culpas per se. There was some admitting of fault. Some making of excuses. But the uncomfortable pauses spoke volumes to me—it was someone thinking, not jumping to his own defense. So as you hold people accountable (as you should), watch for those that are going through the process of holding themselves accountable. They’re the good ones. *Franken’s wit is devasting. He wields his rapier sarcasm like an artist. I think Rick was hoping for a let’s-hate-the-GOP love fest, but Franken wasn’t having it until he made him answer those difficult questions.
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  2297.  @thorman1742  That sad failure of a manufactured scandal fell apart last Friday. Try to keep up. The Wall Street Journal rejected it after a day of trying to verify it. The investigating reporter on NY Post story wouldn’t put his name on it. Giuliani’s ratfucking fingerprints are all over this. You all look like a bunch of incompetence idiots. As a clownshow, you’re not even entertaining.
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  2298. For what strategic purpose?
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  2299. Except for the anomalous years of 2016-2020 and at some points during the 60s, non-violent protests and non-violent civil disobedience are part of our national fabric.
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  2300. Having failed to overthrow the U.S. on January 6th, and being too frightened to show up for their Inauguration Day “storm”, the Qanon trolls are out in force on YouTube, spreading lies and disinformation. They’re organized and use multiple accounts. Remember always that they wish you ill.
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  2301.  @finnmcginn9931 South Boston/Boston Harbor. Very Irish part of town.
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  2302. You’re being overly optimistic. It’s a wounded animal, making it even more dangerous. This is not the moment to pat ourselves on the back and call it a day.
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  2303. Peewee Putin: I meant to do that!
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  2304. He was out of contact for a while. Maybe he ran out and had to walk to a gas station with a gas can.
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  2305.  @fraukatze3856  It’s any sort of Authoritarian Government clinging to illusionary legitimacy. The only difference I see between Putin’s dictatorship and the U.S.S.R. is that they’ve dispensed with the window dressing of Communist ideology. The Communist Party was a criminal gang then, and the descendants of those gangsters control Russia today.
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  2306.  @ceilconstante640  Yup. I’m personally sick of them, but they bring money to the local economy. Some are OK, but too many are like children. Carencitas. There were a lot of Canadians in the video. If you ever want to see a hilarious reaction, call a Canadian in Mexico a gringo.
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  2307.  @molemanchem4385  I spit my screen into my beverage!
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  2308. Why, because he supports economic relief?
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  2309.  @thatguyrich9822 It’s your standard 1911. Technically it’s semi-auto, but one of the things it’s called is 45 automatic.
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  2310. Words are the man’s stock in trade. He’s also numerate. Of course it was intentional. Don’t be obtuse!
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  2311.  @a.brekkan4965  Why are you asking me, Ivan? Ask your bosses at RT.
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  2312. People survive that ride in the summertime by riding at night. 😉 Or at least riding for a few hours in the early morning. Once it gets past 100° or so, you don’t want to be on a motorcycle for any significant time.
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  2313.  @mcullet2  Is it? I’m quite hopeful that we’ve made a course correction based on the 2018 and 2020 elections. We are not done of course. The anti-democracy forces won’t go away on their own. But the very thing the rank-and-file GOP fascists claim we’ve lost—power of the people—is exactly what is powering our democratic counter revolution. If we honest conservatives and honest liberals keep doing what we’re doing as Americans fighting for democracy, we will win. But make no mistake, it will be a fight.
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  2314. They’re getting paid to manufacture the vaccine AFTER ivermectin proved to be ineffective against viruses. They would gain much greater profits if ivermectin was effective as a preventative or therapeutic treatment.
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  2315. Nick is a sharp cookie. I’ve come to love Reason much more over the past six years. They’re not just setting an example of what being a conservative really means (and not the alt right authoritarianism that claims to be conservative), but when they engage with liberal thinkers like this, they set an example of what American Virtue is. As more and more of the right has fallen into a fascist delusion, it is heartening that we still have a few good people carrying the torch of conservatism.
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  2316.  @SO-ud6ro  cope, Ivan
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  2317. Takes longer to develop, with more trial and error, blind alleys.
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  2318.  @politics4816  it’s because non-specialist physicians don’t want to go out on a limb until a treatment is examined by an expert like Dr. Lawrie, who has the competence (not to mention the authority) to tie together the bits and bobs of data coming in from ad hoc clinical “studies”. Studies in quotes, because more often than not, they’re being done in desperate circumstances with varying amounts of scientific rigor. Look at where the studies are being done, and you’ll see the worst pandemic hotspots, overwhelmed hospitals, and shortages of things like oxygen. Keep in mind that while this has been going on, there’s probably ten or more other treatments also being extolled by quacks. If you’re wondering why it’s taken so long, it’s because it’s taken a certain amount of time for the signal of ivermectin to rise above the noise of quackery and pseudoscience. Let’s be clear about what Dr. Lawrie is saying. She’s saying it’s 1) Probably safe, and 2) Probably effective. Highly probable, if you like. She is saying that this meets the level she requires for “pandemic license” to prescribe ivermectin. In addition to this, she mentions the hypothetical mechanisms by which ivermectin is effective, and supplies the data that seems to back up the hypotheses. The overall message is that while more study is necessary to understand exactly what is going on, there is enough data to proceed widely with treatment, even in non-desperate situations. I was very skeptical about ivermectin, but Dr. Lawrie and her work is removing doubt. I’ll be overjoyed if my skepticism is proven wrong. I do not think I was wrong to be skeptical, however, given the amount of ignorance and disinformation surrounding the promotion of ivermectin (a lot of noise, little signal).
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  2319. TLP has eschewed the idea of themselves setting up a conservative alternative. They say they are devoting themselves to promoting principles of American democracy and civic virtue. I’m good with that. Eventually we will have a viable conservative party, but we must destroy the fascist threat first.
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  2320.  @mousiebrown1747  I bet the wouldn’t land as often if the airplanes themselves had to be tested with anal swabs. I’m not sure where the anus is located on an airplane, but I’ve been told to look for the guy not covering his nose with his mask.
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  2321. I would love to see a George W. endorsement of Harris. Maybe Michele Obama could swing it.
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  2322. Do you mean the developers? Yeah, they’re making a killing selling these tiny lots for 10x what they’re worth, and then the new owners overpay for the house construction. Catering to rich gringos is good business. The big difference here is that they’re tailoring the development to the new age weirdo crowd. There are other gated communities throughout Mexico tailored to the more uptight baby boomer yuppies.
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  2323.  @nonyabizness.original  Ha! I think that we learned that, boring or not, we have to get involved/stay involved with politics. I’ll settle for “politics that doesn’t cause heartburn”.
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  2324. Sort of. You’re describing Burkean conservatism. Burke saw the radical excesses of the French Revolution (which led to a belligerent authoritarian dictatorship). He wasn’t against reform, he was troubled by radical reform. Taking a step back isn’t by itself reactionary or radical. Sometimes a seemingly good idea doesn’t work in practice, so you return to a more traditional way of doing things. Or you find a new way to use a good tradition. But I think you were pointing out that Burkean conservatism is a good counterbalance to exuberant liberals. I couldn’t agree with you more. Viva Burke!
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  2325. It’s in their best interest if they want to control their own party and not let the guy who got voted out of office rule them. The same guy that lost them their majority in the Senate. McConnell knows this. He knows that if Trump continues to rule the GOP, he will be Donald Trump’s creature utterly.
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  2326.  @panner11  lol, I didn’t start any drama. I didn’t make wild claims about electrical circuits and FTL information transfer. I’m not upset, I find Veritasum to be an object of ridicule. You seem to be upset by my ridicule. You couldn’t let it go for some reason. Are you harboring romantic feelings for him? In that case, I will stand down because you won’t let this besmirching of honor pass and I fear the lengths you will go for revenge. I’m genuinely quaking here.
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  2327.  @panner11  Cry harder. You “called me out” by nearly having a fainting spell.
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  2328.  @CallioNyx  As they say When better judgement gets in the way: Merlot and cabernet.
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  2329.  @daverok1113  <— TROLL
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  2330. Yeah, even the position of the person shooting video is unsafe. It’s a low probability that a cooked off round would hit him, but it’s still a possibility. I wonder if this will be another “careless smoking accident” or if it’s saboteurs.
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  2331.  @Ryan83728 to be fair, they should use a strainer first. Anything caught by the strainer is too big to be human remains of this accident.
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  2332. I’m very glad to hear you’re doing well! Please stay safe!
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  2333.  @Farsight453  Lobbying is a matter of public record. Super PACs are not.
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  2334. Most of it is on Federal land. Trump could rake all he wanted, nobody is stopping him. Meanwhile, we need leadership to fight climate change—if it’s not too late.
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  2335.  @SK-cm5mt  Are you Chinese, Russian, or Iranian. In any case, you should study American politics more before you comment. I shudder to think that you might be American and this ignorant. PS: congratulations on your two month YouTube anniversary, troll. 🎂
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  2336. Calling Trump Hitler-like is a compliment among his base.
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  2337.  @BishopWalters12  Yup, another non-native English speaker. You gave yourself away with your non-idiomatic construction. You’re not from the U.S., so GFY, DIAF, and cry while the Ruble crashes.
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  2338. Regardless, he might be able to convince millions of evangelicals and other cult members that worship him as a messiah.
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  2339. Yes, I think you’re correct. This is a lot of handy wavy denial of physics and the current state of engineering. It doesn’t matter how much motivation the airlines have to go electric if it’s technologically impossible. Unless we’re talking about lighter-than-air aircraft, such as blimps, but that is a lot slower mode of travel.
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  2340. Plunging the economy into a recession to own the libs.
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  2341. Well, at least the Russian Troll Farms are staying busy in the comments here. Nobody cares what they say, least of all them.
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  2342.  @resourcedragon  The world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of ivermectin recently completed a major study on it, the largest so far. The conclusion: no efficacy. The manufacturer is Merck, which has a lot of antivaxxers calling foul. “Big Pharma!” But Merck has no successful vaccines, no vaccine candidates and no therapeutics for Covid-19 with which they could make more money. If there was any positive effect, Merck would not only have reported it, they’d be marketing the hell out of ivermectin. It would be a cash cow.
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  2343. Greater efficiency is not deflationary. People are actually spending more dollars than previously for computing power because computing power became cheaper—it has become almost a consumer commodity. Technology creates new demand.
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  2344. Will Atwood Where in the U.S. is the monument dedicated to the Aztec Eagles? Or, there’s not one. I guess that proves you wrong.
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  2345. What other outcome was Trump and his inner circle expecting? Were they really hoping Cyberninjas would commit easily discoverable fraud on Trump’s behalf? The true reason the Republicans are pulling these shenanigans is because it’s terrific for fundraising. They’re putting their greed ahead of our democracy.
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  2346. Pirro is named in the new suit, Sean and Tucker are not.
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  2347.  @Daniel-f1m2e  You’re doing God’s work with your colleagues, draining a small amount of Russian resources from Putin’s war effort. Every bit counts in sapping Russia economically. Your unconvincing posts are just the sort of activity that strengthens the West. And to think you’re getting paid for such shoddy work! It’s really quite brilliant. In effect you’re acting as a double agent for the West.
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  2348.  @mikeallen8226  he can declassify you with his mind.
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  2349. I disagree. He’s lawyered up and he’s listening to his lawyer. The proof is that he did shut up completely as soon as the FAA announced their investigation into the crash. I’m not saying it’s easy for a loud mouthed self-aggrandizing attention seeking twerp to shut up, but he has very serious potential charges hanging over him. I suspect Trevor is a rich kid, and I don’t think this is the first time he’s had to hire a defense attorney. His lifestyle screams “I’m from a wealthy family that gives me money but very little love and attention”. Another of his videos claims he was arrested for illegally riding freight trains. I also think he’s been to rehab and/or a 12-step program. I base this opinion on his talk of being protected by his “higher power”, which is AA terminology. It might be interesting to see if Trevor has had any DUIs and if he got a diversion rehab. For the record, I hope you’re right that he does start representing himself pro se in the court of public opinion.
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  2350.  @barbaragriffin869  I’m sure you know this, but she wants to shift blame and attention away from a certain political party in the U.S.
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  2351.  @herefortheluls2267  Apparently adults are not allowed to debate issues that make Republican politicians uncomfortable. Discussing legislation is “inappropriate”. Punishment will be extracted from anyone who dissents from the Florida GOP. I don’t think this will hurt Disney’s existing business much. It will hurt taxpayers in Orange County. It might hurt any plans Disney has for growth and expansion, but guess what? That also hurts the people in the state. One thing that is striking is Republicans saying things like “Disney kicked the hornets’ nest. One would hope that elected politicians are not insects, but thoughtful leaders that give careful consideration and debate to how the state moves forward. Retaliating against businesses that dissent from your politics and for political expedience does strike me as the behavior of an aggressive insect, and not thoughtful leadership. It’s not a formula that will promote business growth in Florida.
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  2352. Did you know you can wear the same sweatpants four days in a row if you put them on backwards on day two, and turn them inside out on day three? Day four is inside out and backwards. You can tell the suspect was on his fourth day by the doo doo stains on his crotch.
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  2353.  @wojcikrc  I thought people like you liked to do your own research. Why are you asking someone else to do your work? Do you lack a sense of personal responsibility? Minh didn’t make an extraordinary claim. The default judgement and the reasons for it are well known to anyone following the case, even at a superficial level.
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  2354. The Russian military has certainly kept their operational improvements a secret, unlike their war crimes. What is the nature of these secret improvements? Will we finally see new tanks and aircraft? New strategy? Are the Russians creating a clone army? The Russians are in a pickle. What sort of pickle? I don’t know, maybe a gherkin. Please continue sharing your MoD fanfic with us, Ivan.
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  2355.  @krisenger4410  You are horrible! Come sit by me at lunch.
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  2356. Hamberder, fries, shake. I count only three courses.
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  2357. You want to make a real dent? IRS, Treasury Department, and other financial crime agencies (including the FBI). It’s our financial system that makes the illicit money flows work.
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  2358. ⁠​⁠ @Lucas-hb1uq  The hostility between Cuba and the U.S. wasn’t one sided during the Cold War, nor was our policy unjustified. However, the U.S. could have and should have shifted its policy when the Cold War ended, over 30 years ago. I’m not at all sure where your “70 years” comes from, though. Are you just ignorantly making up numbers because you are unaware that Castro came to power in 1959?
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  2359. I don’t have Trump derangement syndrome. I have Trump fatigue syndrome.
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  2360. You realize they’re coming after the 1st amendment, too. First they will start regulating and policing certain words, like “ironic” or “literally”. Soon, they are going to force us to use pronounce we don’t want, such as then, which, or whom. Pretty soon we won’t be able to shout theater in a crowded firehouse.
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  2361. Same, from am ex-Republican, still a conservative.
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  2362. I laughed so hard the first time watching that I felt high midway through. I was euphoric walking out of the theater.
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  2363.  @CharlesAnsman  Brazil’s political issues and the way they are impacting the Pandemic is quite similar to what was happening in the U.S. If you haven’t read it, there’s an article in the Washington Post about the human caused pandemic tragedy in Manaus. Here in Mexico, the government handling is bad, the President doesn’t wear a mask, and the laxity or strictness of protocols and lockdown enforcement is highly variable. I had to go out briefly today and in a very short time, I saw three gringo tourists going maskless. Today has been a really bad day for me, so I didn’t say anything—I was worried I wouldn’t hold back if they argued with me. It’s upsetting even recalling it right now.
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  2364. It’s despicable to exploit people with Down’s syndrome by asking them political questions at a Trump rally.
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  2365.  @daverok1113  <—TROLL
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  2366. “Take whatever you want, just don’t touch my TV!” 😂 I feel seen.
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  2367.  @nian60  You don’t know much about NATO. Honestly, you don’t. You make it sound so simple, and it is very far from simple. You use the example of Turkey and Hungary to argue that “anyone can join”. Turkey was the second nation to join after NATO’s founding. They joined in 1952 (early in the Cold War). After Hungary joined in 1999 (along with Poland and the Czech Republic), NATO members approved more stringent requirements and codified a lengthy process to apply for membership. You might ask why Finland and Sweden are being fast tracked. The reason why is that both countries have prepared for joining for decades. They’ve always kept the option open, and very little needs to be done to conform to NATO requirements. (And despite this, Sweden still has to overcome the objections of Turkey.) Ukraine has also taken preparatory steps over the past 8 years, but it still has a ways to go, plus it needs the approval of all NATO members. Ukraine might eventually join, but it’s not a certainty. After the war with Russia is over, they might decide that full fledged membership is unnecessary.
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  2368. “Local residents expressed gratitude that it wasn’t their RV. Back to you in the studio, Kay.”
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  2369. Roy Botty
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  2370. ⁠ @marcbahn5487  You’re using the word genocide incorrectly and you have no evidence that the Gazan civilian deaths were deliberate. I wish Israel would call a ceasefire. I also wish Hamas would release the hostages. I wish Israel would do more to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. But I’m not using inaccurate inflammatory words like you are. Nor am I ignoring that Hamas is equally responsible for the civilian deaths. If you sincerely want to save civilian lives, go back to your college campus demonstration camp and protest against both Hamas and Israel.
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  2371. I also agree, but it sort of felt like picking on the kid with head lice and smells like pee. 😅
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  2372. Ronnie Baker Reagan struggled with his homophobia personally. His son was gay. He really didn’t need to broadcast his homophobia because homophobia was still the national norm at the time. Wrt the Racism, he did throw out dog whistles on occasion, but active hate wasn’t part of his program. It was the casual racism that is still unconsciously embedded in many Americans, even those with good intentions.
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  2373.  @goodness_graciousme  Except this will be solved. We, the public can only speculate because very few details are being released, but the FBI, ATF, and the locals already have collected a lot of evidence—most of which they won’t release until they have a suspect in custody. Or suspects. This could have been done by a single individual, but it could have been a small group that didn’t blab online beforehand.
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  2374. I doubt Pyongyang will allow a return, let alone a refund. It’s kind of crazy that a country can sell its citizens.
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  2375.  @richardbarry220  😢 So sorry for your terrible loss, Ivan. Also was sorry to hear about your boss’s boss. Parkinson’s Disease is terrible.
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  2376. How are they back pedaling?
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  2377.  @mikemclaurin2889  It has to do with the merging of QAnon and the Antivaxxer movement, and it’s colored by Trump’s politicization of the Pandemic and the necessary health and safety measures, which he has opposed anda out which he has lied. The tissue of lies from the Antivaxxer/QAnon trolls is knit into the fabric of the Trump movement. I can’t speak for other conservatives (but I know I’m not alone in this). I’m sick of the lies and divisiveness from the “conservative movement”, the damaging lies that put so much in peril: our health, our democracy, our society, and our economy. I’m sick of the infantile/delusional people that believe and spread these lies, and I have even more loathing for those that knowingly push pandemic disinformation. If you should understand this already. If you don’t, you might be somehow insulated from other sane people.
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  2378.  @grandayatollah5655  Support couldn’t reach them because planning was so bad—last minute and based on faulty intelligence about the resistance they would encounter. Battalion and company commanders weren’t even briefed until 24 hours (or less) before the invasion. The second wave never got there, either shot down or turned back. The third wave, which would have included heavier supporting elements, never left. Then the relief column stalled—again, due to poor planning and preparation. The lack of support is only a part of it. The failure of the VDV is the failure of the men that foolishly sent them to be slaughtered, men who believe their own wacky propaganda, who value loyalty over competence, and don’t question their field intelligence too much when it confirms their biases (the propaganda shaping intelligence reports).
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  2379. This is hilarious. I’m sorry, Elaine. You need to either move or find a way to profit from this.
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  2380. The namesake of this project had a famous quote ”You can fool all of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Trump is not fooling the majority of Americans.
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  2381. Well, at least another Ted Cruz presidential run is off the table—I think even MAGA Republicans will use this opportunity to jettison Cruz—or they should if they had more than a single brain cell dying of loneliness.
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  2382. Two separate thoughts come to mind. One is that there are billionaires who recognize the absurdity of the taxes they pay, and are favor of increasing taxes for their level of wealth. I recall Warren Buffet pointing out that he pays less in taxes than his Secretary. The second is that ANYONE who has become rich from the tech sector did so because of early government support during the Cold War. All the early startups received funding, contracts, and research grants, and these strategic subsidies continued for several succeeding generations of startups. We’re talking about the development of integrated circuits, shrinking transistors, telecommunication networks (including the internet), all on the government dime in whole or in part. Besides the pre-existing infrastructure Musk needs for his current businesses, his entire fortune (mostly from eBay) wouldn’t have been possible without government supporting the early tech startups during the Cold War (and indeed up to this day, although to a lesser extent). Like many other leaders in business and politics, Musk demonstrates a selfish childishness that seems only interested in taking while denying any responsibility to give. People like him want to suck all the milk from society’s teat, leaving none for the rest of society. Any value he has as an engineer or innovative mind is diminished by his narcissistic impulses.
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  2383. Honestly, she’s already humiliated herself. I’m 100% fine with her being marginalized.
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  2384. Elections have consequences. So do criminal acts.
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  2385.  @skankhunt3624  He’s bragging. . . about his breath.
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  2386. I think of Ukraine in 2025 as Ukraine in 2025. I’m trying to understand the war on its own terms rather than searching for WWI or WWII comparisons that ultimately aren’t of any utility. Overly facile comparisons don’t help our ability to understand, they diminish our ability by distracting us from the reality.
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  2387. They haven’t started already? I thought Loeffler was pushing the fraud angle before Election Day.
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  2388.  @jogman262  And Newsmaxx would report that the NY Jets are having a terrific season.
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  2389. Alejandro <— TROLL
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  2390. He lives in Springfield, Ohio.
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  2391.  @Geordiegirl36  It’s a pity that his mother, the OB/GYN, and/or the midwife allowed him to draw breath. Sadly, it’s impossible to detect a sociopath at birth.
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  2392. [More Russians in this thread than the annual Moscow Potato Fair] Yup. When it became totally clear America wasn’t going to re-elect him, he decided he would punish us. After the election, there will be no stimulus until Biden takes office. I actually wonder if Trump is going to openly propose to the American people, “I get elected, you get your stimulus.” Although there was good news today about Stephen Miller.
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  2393.  @TroyStafford69  The Syrians are Pashtun? If true, that’s certainly big news that’s not getting out there. Have you been able to inform experts that have studied the region of this startling development?
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  2394. Because in the U.S. we use a constitutional system of laws that guarantee certain rights to the accused.
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  2395. I’ve never seen that show, but it’s kind of weird to me that “taking the fifth” has become normalized. Maybe it’s the zeitgeist, maybe it’s having just watched taped depositions of Trump cronies like Michael Flynn invoking their Fifth Amendment rights not to self-incriminate when asked the most basic questions, like about the peaceful transition of power between presidents. (I found it bizarre that he refused to answer such a no-brained question that boils down to, “do you believe in the basic principles of America”.) But politics aside, it seems bizarre to me that “taking the fifth”, with all its criminal implications, has become a stand in for “none of your business”. What does this mean? On one hand, it suggests that we have a right to delve into the personal matters of other people, that they have no right to privacy. That’s troubling. More troubling is that criminality has become normalized as a behavior, that it’s a private matter and OK as long as the criminal isn’t caught. Or maybe I’m reading too much into this.
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  2396.  @taharka3897  The great majority of the deaths in Iraq was Sunni vs Shiite violence, much of which was supported by Iran.
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  2397.  @CRMcGee2  The statute of limitations applies to charging. Once you are charged, it’s not like hide and seek where you’re free if you manage to stay hidden for a set period of time. If you go on the run, you can also be charged and tried in abstentia.
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  2398. The Culture War is a misnomer, although it is indeed a war. It is an attack on democratic values by those that wish to hold dictatorial power over others. It is still a political fight, although we have seen violent skirmishes initiated by the extremes. The would be dictatorship has carefully prepared the battleground, but we still have the superior tools of democracy to fight their authoritarian ambitions. “Culture War” conceals their true nature. It’s only in part that they want to impose their culture on us all. They really want to impose their will on us. We can defeat them, but the sooner the better. The longer we dally, the harder it will be.
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  2399.  @Kingzombiemyanmar  you’re missing an article there, Ivan. Just like Ryan pointed out in the video. Did you mean “the president”, “a president”, or something else? I’d say that 99% of Americans of at least school age know who the President is. Nice try, Ivan. I applaud your helping the Ukraine war effort and NATO by continuing to draw a salary for such slipshod work.
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  2400.  @siris615 They are unable to take personal responsibility for their lives. They’re modern Republicans. Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize the modern GOP crybaby party.
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  2401.  @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394  in fewer words, “My ignorance is equal to expert opinion”. The GOP has become a frikkin’ cargo cult/death cult. I say that as a conservative and ex-Republican.
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  2402. It takes a codger to catch a codger.
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  2403.  @jeffbenton6183 I suspect that he’s one of those who is wants to burn it all down.
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  2404.  @diegestive4167  <—TROLL
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  2405.  @tomjohnson4681  <—TROLL
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  2406.  @tomjohnson4681  <— TROLL Do not engage with these trolls in any way, other than to tag them as I have. Engaging with them is both a waste of your time and gives them an opening to lie and spread further disinformation. They are not here to debate, but to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt. They want to harm you, not help you.
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  2407. A term lasts two years. If the people of a congressional district want to elect the same person over and over, they have that right. They also can limit their congressperson to a single term by voting for a different candidate. That’s term limits as envisaged in the constitution. What you want is neither constitutional nor democratic. Worse, it’s lazy.
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  2408.  @bootsneak  The Democratic Party has (or had) a tradition of being a big tent, a coalition of liberals, conservatives, and progressives. I understand what you meant about “the left” becoming more moderate, but I’m not sure if that’s the right way to put it or think about it.
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  2409.  @jennymulinaro6036  I don’t think 20’ would have made a difference with a live round.
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  2410. I don’t think he mispronounced Guiana, as he thinks. Guiana was a French colony. The name in French (spelled either gui or guy is prounounced “gee”. So Gee Ana is correct.
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  2411. don’t you mean DWW (driving while Wisconsin)?
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  2412.  @DulceN  A funny thing happened to me recently. Someone who was apparently well used to trolling and berating folks online forgot he wasn’t online, and wanted to have a debate about whether the coronavirus was real or just the regular flu. He was quite surprised that I wasn’t interested in his “civilized debate”. I got him to put on his mask, and then gave him a thorough telling off. So I suppose one of the things I’ve learned is the pandemic-denying trolls’ talking points, and I can recognize them right quickly when someone in real life starts repeating them.
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  2413. McConnell complaining about Bernie Sanders: “That man did not even have the common decency to give me a reach around!”
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  2414. Interesting. I assumed they were lenses and not reflectors. Some of them looked like fresnel lens, as used on many studio lights for focusing a beam (and changing from flood to spot, depending on distance of source to lens). Thanks for clearing up the terminology.
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  2415.  @jessicaribot2288  It is, except for the Pandemic is about as bad here as up there. I got here about March and it’s not (IMO) safe to travel back. I’m just hunkered down until I get vaccinated.
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  2416. Thanks Mike! Even with good ventilation, it sure can get toasty up on the catwalks or crawling around the grid. I used to manage a couple of small sound stages. Unfortunately, our AC was too loud (although quiet by normal standards), so there was a box with an on/off button and another switch to ring the all quiet bell and trigger the red light outside. I’m “baffled” by how you experts manage to get 0 noise ventilation and/or AC. 😉
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  2417. On Nicaragua, for sure I agree with you. Cuba isn’t even a member of the OAS. When the OAS extended an invitation to rejoin, Cuba refused it. Non-members are invited at the host country’s discretion (and yes, Cuba has been invited before). I’m not crystal clear on how Venezuela can be disinvited as last I heard, they were a member of the OAS and should be invited. However, they’ve quit and rejoined and screwed around. The government is a criminal cartel. Not only are they undemocratic and corrupt, they are a threat to their neighbors. Like Cuba, they murder and imprison opposition leaders. I’d call Venezuela a gray area.
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  2418. My take away about the issues the paper was trying to address was not so much about career outcomes, but community health outcomes. Surely there is more to be done to improve those outcomes, whether we are talking about race, ethnicity, or economic class, or other demographic categories. For example, one of the biggest “healthcare deserts” is in rural white areas among low income folks. Measures to improve underserved ethnic communities should also help these underserved communities. The issues the paper is purportedly addressing are real, but I don’t believe the proposed solutions are realistic. (I haven’t read the paper, so I’m going on what is being reported here.) But just because the paper is wrong on that count doesn’t mean it shouldn’t have been published if it fosters discussion and debate.
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  2419. @Desktopia He is knowingly spreading disinformation. He’s either delusional or he’s actively working for more death and suffering.
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  2420.  @categories5066  wrong. This is a misinterpretation of the Geneva Conventions. But you already knew that, Putzi troll.
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  2421. I’m looking forward to an accounting of the captured equipment. There are reports that very little was destroyed as the Russians left, and they haven’t been able to to move tanks and heavy equipment across the river for the last month and a half. However, I’m sure many heavy appliances were successfully evacuated.
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  2422.  @exsappermadman25055  He’s smoking Qanonibis, the most powerful drug on the planet.
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  2423.  @_josephbogdan_  See, the shield dude made a simple statement, and you’re trying to persuade him that he’s wrong. But your argument is totally orthogonal to his point (and not even factual). Here’s a fact: Conservative Cuban Americans, which probably make up the majority of Cuban American voters, have a profound and abiding hatred of communism and anything that smacks of it. Here’s another fact: These same conservative Cuban Americans, especially the older ones, have a historical distrust of the Democratic Party going back to President Kennedy. I’ll let you do your own historical research if you’re interested in why this is.
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  2424. Vietnam has resisted incursions from powerful nations for many centuries, in fact.
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  2425. The FAA did not rule or make a final disposition of the case. The FAA letter is an emergency revocation to stop Jacob from flying immediately, as he is a danger to the public.
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  2426. The Ruby Mar has joined the Red Sea. I wonder if the Red Sea was the inspiration for the ship’s name.
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  2427. There won’t be anyone left to answer the phone by this weekend. Perfect opportunity to prank call him.
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  2428.  @phildoodler2199  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2429.  @RabJ208  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2430. You do not understand how the cross-border automotive industry works. Everything that can be shifted to Mexico already has been shifted to Mexico. Suppliers are on both sides of the border, and they manufacture subcomponents and components on both sides of the border that each get assembled in their respective countries (mostly high end vehicles in the U.S., mostly economy vehicles in Mexico). There is still an import tax to bring a Mexican assembled car into the U.S. and a U.S. assembled car into Mexico. If you’re a UAW member, you ought to educate yourself further on how NAFTA 2.0 works. NAFTA 3.0 negotiations begin in 2026 (with NAFTA 2.0 being in force until 2030 iirc).
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  2431.  @SeruraRenge11  if it wasn’t for the anti-immigrant policies and anti-Mexican rhetoric, the political and social values of most Mexicans fit hand-in-glove with traditional U.S. conservative values.
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  2432. Great news. Now I won’t have to symbolically boycott.
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  2433. He was just wild about saffron.
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  2434. This riot wasn’t about that. The riot was caused by one person feeding the delusions of a company of fascist thugs and setting them on this path of destruction.
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  2435.  @ritaterres  There are a lot of trolls spreading disinformation.
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  2436.  @gregparrott  imagine for a second trying to imagine what the OP suggested you imagined, and taking it seriously enough to try and figure it out.
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  2437. The question any nation faces in supplying arms is can they spare the equipment that might be crucial to their own self defense? In this case, should Sweden strip itself of its air defenses to help Ukraine defeat Russia? I’m not sure how France enters into Sweden’s decision making. Where did you read that France has veto power over current Swedish military disposition? Sweden exports the Gripen to other countries. Perhaps France has more sway over their military decisions and that is what you are referring to?
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  2438. ⁠ @bccsivxx-xxivvii The 1980s and 90s? People still remembered the embargoes of the 70s and worried about it. Gasoline prices didn’t return to pre-embargo levels, so we still complained about the high cost. Prices went up anytime OPEC cut production. We had the first war with Iraq over Kuwait, and many anti war protesters chanted “No blood for oil”. It’s very likely that he heard adults talking about these issues that were not really resolved. He saw stories on the news. Why are you so suspicious?
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  2439. Just once I want a stone mason to tell an “Ancient Alien” theorist, “No, copper can’t cut granite. But my penis can. It’s harder than steel right now.”
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  2440.  @GlobalAdventurer  Yes, as an anti-parasite treatment. It’s available as a low dosage over-the-counter treatment for intestinal worms. I’ve taken it. Its use as an antiviral is a desperation move, “experimental” at best. The treatment’s mechanism as an an anti-parasitical is well established. It’s a neurotoxin that attacks the nervous system of lice and intestinal worms. The effective dose is quite low, thus it is deemed safe. But there is no known mechanism by which ivermectin would have an effect on a virus. Viruses don’t have nervous systems.
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  2441.  @wimseffelaar8950  for Chris, the need for agreement is so all consuming, he makes alternate accounts to he can post as other people who agree with him. He’d make a great white supremacist. Maybe he already is, and promotes antivax as a way to mass murder non-whites. There’s name calling, and then there is calling a thing what it is. Chris is a troll.
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  2442.  @S3NTRY  You should address his main point which is not that you are trolling with a false narrative, but that you’ve neglected the important fact that Russia did not honor its side of the bargain made between Baker and Gorby. And your whole position is that the U.S. would unilaterally offer the Soviet Union assurances without getting assurances in return. This is nonsense and ignores the very nature of diplomacy. In exchange for Baker’s assurances, Gorbachev agreed that the USSR would not use military force against those that wished to have independence. This agreement Yeltsin broke in 1994 (and that wasn’t the last time Russia broke the agreement). NATO didn’t accept new members until 1999. If you don’t want to be labeled as a troll, you’ve got to stop repeating troll talking points, stop dishonestly taking statements out of historical context, and stop buying into the narrative of Russia being the eternal victim. Your whole story falls apart with less than ten minutes if research. Do better.
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  2443. STOP TROLLING. Take your bullshit and disinformation to a political channel.
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  2444.  @PaulBrown-uj5le  Report James Hayden for spam. He pastes the exact same comment with the exact same links over and over. Perhaps YouTube will do something about it.
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  2445. If we are assuming he was very methodical, you have a good point. However, even methodical people make mistakes.
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  2446. Or it’s a body double.
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  2447. You’ve made a simple error, comrade. The chocolate ration was increased from 20 grams to 10 grams. Report to the ministry of love for remedial math.
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  2448. Somewhere John Boehner is sipping his bourbon and grinning harder than a Cheshire Cat.
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  2449. I’m not a lawyer. I think it’s pretty clear that he lawyered up relatively quickly. It’s hard to imagine why a blowhard like Trevor would suddenly clam up unless he was taking legal advice. If I was plotting a legal strategy, the biggest potential threat would be the criminal charge of making false statements to the FAA. As Lawyer Greg pointed out, potential consequences are up to 5 years in prison and up to $250,000 fine. So I’d want my client to come clean to the FAA immediately by amending the report and taking my lumps from an administrative judge—revocation of the PPL and fines for FAR violations. That done, perhaps there would be no false statement charges. If there are, you try to plead those down to avoid or minimize prison and minimize the financial penalties. Trevor might be able to avoid prison by pleading guilty by reason of idiocy while his advocate is also pushing hard on “no harm, no foul”.
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  2450. Video can be fabricated. There are various ways that it can be corroborated. Faith in James O’keefe is not one of those ways. In fact, if the source of the video is Project Veritas or a Rodger Stone backed group, that will tend to discredit the video.
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  2451. Hamas militants chose the battleground. Do you have an alternative proposal for taking down the Hamas organization without the IDF going into Gaza? War is terrible, and 100 times more terrible when it is waged in densely populated areas. But how else do you propose that Israel deal with this threat? Doing nothing isn’t an option. About all the IDF can do is the slow process of going house by house searching for militants and not targeting civilians. Civilians will still suffer and still die because they are in a war zone. As I mentioned, Hamas chose Gaza to be the war zone with less than zero concern for the Gaza Palestinians. It might be hard to believe, but they want Palestinians to die because it helps their publicity.
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  2452. Martin Mull would make an amazing mayor.
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  2453. Are they named in the lawsuits?
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  2454. Nah. All he wants is the freedom to go home, provide for his family, and be left alone by the Kremlin. He doesn’t want a medal. But why would you want to give him one? His two main objections is that they’re not being properly equipped and the pay is bad. If this company gets the arms and equipment they want and the pay they want, are they then going to go into battle and murder Ukrainians?
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  2455.  @LRRPFco52  The most laughable aspect of the concept itself is that “BRICS” represents a unified bloc or a coherent alignment of interests.
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  2456.  @TheGeorgeous  This has been the case in Mexico. Insufficient testing is for political purposes to mask the government’s weak response. (It should be noted that the current party in charge of the government heavily criticized a previous government for their “overzealous response” to a previous public health crisis.) At least there has been some vaccine roll out if you don’t mind waiting all day in a line that stretches for several kilometers (and hope there is enough if you’re at the back of the line).
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  2457. Agreed. (You might want to do a quick edit. You used “never” twice, which is a confusing double negative in English.)
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  2458. Maybe they’re shady, maybe they’re not, but the reason fintech banks can’t get FDIC is because they’re not banks, which they all say in the fine print, if at all.
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  2459. It’s mostly dentists and accountants that buy Harleys. I think doctors and lawyers not so much.
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  2460. For the most part I don’t respond to trolls like Chris after I’ve tagged them. I don’t have anything more to say on that.
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  2461. He destroyed the 5G network that was controlling his mind. The irony is that it was a 4G network that told him to do it.
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  2462.  @jobellecollie7139  If you’re hearing impaired, that’s gotta be tough. I’m sorry you’re going through that struggle in addition to what everyone else is going through.
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  2463. This is the problem of taking shortcuts and getting away with it. You start to think the protocols are unnecessary because “nothing bad happened the last 9 times”. Then the shortcut becomes the new normal, and more expedient short cuts are taken, and all is well until someone gets hurt or killed. Apparently the armorer was not on set at all. The take should have been held until she arrived and checked everything, so ultimately this is the AD’s responsibility, but there is the question of why live rounds were anywhere near the location AT ALL. There are questions about why even a blank-loaded prop gun was discharged in the direction of crew members without further precautions. And lastly, there’s the question of why real weapons were used at all, when highly accurate replicas are available (or can be fabricated). Recoil can be simulated by actors and muzzle flash can be added as a special effect in post production. Part of the problem is the nature of many low budget productions. Schedules are too ambitious, shortcuts are taken to stay within budget and on schedule. Equipment might be broken, but is still functional enough to use (until a malfunction injures someone). Inexperienced crew gets hired. Days go too long to stay on unrealistic schedules—when this becomes normal and not the exception, the crew is exhausted and doesn’t function as well, leading to more delays and slow downs. Wrt to crew experience, OJT is part of learning a craft. The experienced crew members train the less experienced on the job. The problem is when the inexperienced people outnumber the experienced people. It takes twice as long to do the job. This compounds the problem of overly ambitious schedules.
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  2464. Word to your motha
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  2465. I suspect you’re biased, Andrew.
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  2466. This is actually kind of mind blowing.
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  2467.  @pedrorequio5515  Good point, it’s not so simple. Furthermore, Turkey would have to invoke Article 5 before NATO could act. But I think you’re slightly off about the need for a vote (or more specifically, what they’d vote on) if Turkey invoked Article 5. Responses to most acts of war and related contingencies have already been voted. If Russia decided to bomb Turkish ports, for example, there would be a rapid response. There might already be contingency plans in place if Russian aircraft or warships fired on the grain ships. Or there might not. I have a greater worry that Russia will try to sabotage one of the ships or lay mines in order to generate confusion and evade blame (and Putin would blame the UK’s Royal Navy again).
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  2468.  @pedrorequio5515  The point WhatIsDis was making (I think) is that Turkey could decide not to invoke Article 5, and attempt to handle Russian belligerence on their own before consulting with the alliance.
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  2469. TEMU is an anagram for MUTE. If that’s not weird enough for you, it’s also M TEU.
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  2470. Some speculation: I’m wondering if Redfield didn’t have access to 5-eyes signals intelligence. Unlikely that 5-👁 agencies can tap internal phone calls in Communist China, but they might have ways of detecting volume: if there was a flurry of communication activity between different organizations in Wuhan in October, it would suggest some event had taken place. This isn’t proof, nor would intelligence organizations want to disclose their capabilities by presenting such data as circumstantial evidence. But one wonders how and why Redfield would form such strong opinions. A second circumstantial indicator would be a sudden drop off in communications, both internally and with external contacts/collaborators. This is the opposite scenario from the above, but in each case there’s a unmissable change in volume from normal communication. 5-Eyes are the intelligence agencies of UK, U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. They share signals intelligence (and probably human intelligence on a very limited basis), and they also collaborate from time to time with other allies, such as France, Germany, Israel, (maybe) Saudi Arabia. In the U.S., the lead agency would be the NSA. I don’t want to generate paranoia here about surveillance states, so let me explain a bit about how the NSA performs it’s work: they’re prevented from using broad warrantless phone taps by the U.S. Constitution, so they rely on metadata. Metadata can be collection and analysis of communication volumes. It can be who is talking to who, but not the content of those communications. It can be discovering who is using encrypted communication (again, without knowing the content). In the U.S., the NSA has made it clear that they don’t support the FBI’s attempts to make encryption illegal. This is because the NSA can tell a great deal from the metadata. They can discover covert networks and covert activity without violating the civil rights of U.S. citizens. The Tinfoil Hat Brigade will suggest I’m naive, that of course the NSA spies on U.S. citizens, that there is a grand conspiracy, etc. I’d say it’s not happening because it’s not in the organization’s best long term interest. Conspiracies and coverups get exposed sooner or later, and this hurts the standing (and funding) of the organization and brings attention to the organization. While each of the Five Eyes countries have different laws concerning civil rights, they generally operate under the most restrictive rules for mutual protection. The last thing they want is too much attention, scrutiny, and potential embarrassment. In addition to these concerns, there’s also the problem of the sheer volume of data if the NSA was taping everyone’s phones. There just isn’t enough computing power to comb thru everyone’s conversations, looking for signals among the vast amount of noise. Similarly, there isn’t enough computing power to try and decrypt all the encrypted communications, even if they have that capability, which is uncertain. But as I said, these agencies are able to fulfill their missions by combing through and analyzing metadata. It’s for this reason that I think these agencies discovered anomalous activity (either a sharp rise or sharp drop) in Wuhan in late autumn and early winter in Wuhan in 2019. It wouldn’t be conclusive evidence, but it would be enough for Redfield to form a “strong opinion”. This is all speculation on my part. I’m not an expert on intelligence and espionage, but I’ve got an “interested layman’s” education on the subject. I’m more interested in explanations based what is public knowledge, rather than paranoia and conspiracy theories (or too many spy movies).
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  2471.  @Carahan  Key Party
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  2472. He FINALLY did what any normal Republican leader would do. Here’s hoping his adulthood continues.
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  2473. The last four years have made it clear that most self-proclaimed Christians in the U.S. are not followers of Christ, they’re members of a club.
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  2474. When one makes a dumb guess and one is wrong, they’re just dumb. When one makes a dumb guess that turns out right, they’re lucky but still dumb.
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  2475. Why resort to an elaborate explanation when there is a less elaborate explanation that better explains the problem? “Cover-Your-Ass” mentality is extremely common among bureaucrats. The CYA mentality tends strongly towards playing it safe, erring on the side of caution, and being overly conservative.
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  2476. False. The non-mask wearer was asked to leave and when he didn’t, he was trespassing. It’s legal for a business to physically remove a trespasser.
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  2477. Yes, I’m thinking it’s a feint. But until or unless there is a commitment of troops and equipment, Ukraine has options. They might decide that Kherson is ripe and that the losses they face are acceptable. They might feint at Kherson, feint elsewhere, and then commit to Kherson. It’s a bit like a chess game, but we don’t know what pieces are on the board or where they are.
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  2478. Electing Jim Jordan to be Speaker would be like the Donner Party electing Hannibal Lecter.
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  2479.  @zorkmid1083  I don’t think that is true. That was the fear when Lopez Obrador was elected and it didn’t come to pass. I don’t like MORENA, but it’s still much different than Chavismo.
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  2480.  @JorgeMartinez-bw7nl  Two continents. Just saying.
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  2481.  @Matt-c7d  He will try to put a stop to Democracy, which the OP objects to.
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  2482. @W王子 I answered your question in another comment, but now I see you’re just spamming.
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  2483.  @joycesweatman965  Sweatman is also one of the world’s top astrologists. He simply knows everything there is to know about zodiacs and horoscopes and anything else in the exciting field of astrological science.
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  2484.  @malcolmbliss777  Some on the left are arguing that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist, that it’s a European colony imposed in the “indigenous” Palestinians. It’s based on pure ignorance of Jewish history. Maybe the anti-semites are noisier so I notice them more. Israel has a right to exist. The Palestinians have a right to their own state, regardless of indigeneity or lack of it. (I realize the two state solution is a total fantasy at this point.) If you are a Jew, why do you misuse the word genocide?
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  2485.  @adithya1791  That is incorrect. These chips are designed by Apple based on ARM64 architecture and use the ARM instruction set. These are the first generation of Apple Silicon designed for general purpose laptops/desktops. ARM did not design these Chips. ARM provided the reference. The cores are not ARM cores. Apple licenses the architecture not ARM cores. Your second comment is also incorrect. These are not ARM SOCs. The M1 has an Apple designed SOC. Are you in the habit of speaking authoritatively about areas in which you are ignorant?
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  2486. Peter is excellent when he stays in his area of expertise. He’s a mixed bag when he gets out of his lane. Just a heads up because he’s not always right. He shouldn’t be your sole source. That said, he’s an important part of a balanced breakfast and understanding geopolitics.
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  2487. Rishi Sunak came by his wealth honestly. He married into it. 😉
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  2488. Is there more than a minute?
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  2489. Who is more manipulative of their currency while being least transparent? Brazil or China? The U.S. Federal Reserve does stuff like raise and lower interest rates and it controls the money supply. But they’re transparent and they announce moves ahead of time.
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  2490. Amazon stock process was up $1.50 when the it was announced that the WaPo would not endorse a candidate. Cowardice can be very profitable.
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  2491.  @tracewallace23  The Secret Service Agents themselves didn’t even talk to the press. It was a “source close to the agents”. The two agents have not responded to questions from the press.
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  2492. The testimony about the ex President’s behavior wasn’t completely shocking because we already had an idea about his lack of decorum, his temper, and overweening egoism. However, what we didn’t know about was his lack of self control, his inability to control his urges and regulate his behavior. Before the testimony, I might have thought that “spoiled petulant child” was true figuratively. His behavior and thinking has always been like a misbehaving child of four years of age. It was his motivating spirit. But it IS a little shocking to learn it was literally true, that his tantrums were literally tantrums and not just yelling at his subordinates. If it was just yelling and slamming doors, that would be one thing. Not acceptable, but within the realm of a misbehaving ADULT. But the dish throwing, the grabbing at the steering wheel while someone was driving is different. It’s the behavior someone with less self control than a toddler that needs a nap. No wonder the Pentagon’s Chief of Staff called the various commanders wrt to the nukes and delaying possible orders to attack other countries. When I heard about that, I thought, “that sounds like a little much, possibly erring on the side of caution”.
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  2493. Not everybody makes this distinction, but it’s important to distinguish between right-to-repair and ease-of-upgrades. Add-ons that can negatively affect the original equipment could void the warranty in some cases and I have nothing wrong with that. However, it’s a different matter they are unrelated to a warrantied repair.
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  2494. No, especially since Taiwan was never a part of the PRC.
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  2495.  @illdrumatik391  They were psychologically predisposed to the brainwashing by infantile personalities. Trump always told them what they wanted to hear about themselves, was approving of their lack of empathy, constantly reinforced their view that they were victims (and this is where racism enters into it, if it wasn’t already there).
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  2496. That’s the whole idea behind the stimulus. It’s also why targeted stimulus makes more sense, because those above a certain income level save it or invest it (normally a wise policy) and take the money out of circulation. The point is to keep the money moving, keeping businesses open and people employed. I think the only argument I’d make with what you’d say is that it doesn’t “move up”, so much as it moves all over. Think of a dry sponge rather than a drinking straw.
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  2497.  @latentsea  research capillary action
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  2498.  @jillian7636  Apparently the townspeople approved her raise, but refused everyone else? Is this one of those towns where the citizens “hate big government” and think they can get the benefits of town services without paying for them?
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  2499.  @easternwoods4378  That depends on if there are jobs in this small town. Maine is kind of like the Mississippi of New England.
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  2500. Independent investigation is certainly called for, but don’t be shocked if the result is similar. The cop didn’t intend to ignite the gasoline, he was incredibly stupid and negligent. If anyone dies, I could see it moving up to a felony.
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  2501.  @kamadotanjiro3118  Good point, but it’s actually better than that because the manufacturing growth is not all on the Mexican side of the border. NAFTA and NAFTA II have promoted cross-border manufacturing where subcomponents are built on both sides of the border, and then assembled for domestic consumption and/or export where it makes most sense. But there’s a reason that Caterpillar and other companies have moved major operations to Mexico, and that has to do with skilled worker shortages. In Caterpillar’s example, it’s a shortage of welders in the U.S. There are two bottlenecks here: vocational training and an immigration policy that prevents skilled blue collar workers from working in the U.S. I sometimes think I’m the only conservative left that sees the benefits of NAFTA, a more liberal immigration policy, and some form of training subsidies.
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  2502. Not to mention unprotected rounds under the turret for the auto loader aka the Popov Mechanism.
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  2503. I actually do feel sad for the gente. A government that would act this lawlessly to persecute the political opposition will never step down or allow democratic elections. This is the new Leninism.
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  2504. Waking up is political poison to the GOP. I know this is difficult to believe, but there was a time when the GOP fought hard to keep our defense well funded. Nowadays they’re more concerned with attacking the military over culture war issues.
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  2505.  @zibbitybibbitybop  If a tool can make a worker 50% more productive, a company can hire two workers instead of three. On the scale of individuals, those workers who can best leverage a new technology will have a leg up on their fellow workers, and companies who can best leverage it will have a leg up on the competition. Put another way, if your company has 10 programmers working on legacy code, and AI technology makes each of those workers 10% more productive, the company might lay off one of you. On the other hand, it might not if it can utilize the gains to grow.
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  2506.  @alpejohnson491  I can’t imagine the tank deploying completely alone, without any infantry whatsoever to watch the approaches. Normally, you’d have at least a pair of tanks with one performing overwatch on the other. Any tankers want to correct me if I’m wrong? The idea of a lone tank just seems like something out of a video game or Hollywood.
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  2507.  @jetserb better than the nuggets of poop you feed upon.
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  2508.  @khernandez7903  There will be a critical examination of how the law applies to the case, and as Steve outlined in the video, the case will fall apart on summary judgement.
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  2509.  @Thejbirdy  And all 100 of us are subscribed to this channel. 😉 LOL. The truth is, there are millions, perhaps even five million nationwide, that didn’t support Trump. Of those registered Republicans that voted for Trump in 2016, 8% were not willing to vote for him again in 2020. Sadly, 8% sounds like there were too many that did support Trump. But 8% can win or lose elections.
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  2510. You have to put a quarter in the slot before pressing the button. Two quarters if you have a copilot.
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  2511. LOL, look, I’m happy Biden is President, but he’s not exactly something new. 😂 I get it, the Trump Presidency felt like a decade. Having a decent person as president feels like change. WRT to Georgia, Georgian voters made history in electing their state’s first Black American Senator. The voters did this.
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  2512. How, exactly? What aspect of mass deportation is like trimming inefficiency? What part of mass deportation is like cutting bad debt? Your analogy is really bad.
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  2513. The Trumpist Trolls are getting more desperate. They had their shot at insurrection and they’re going down.
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  2514. Is it true that they leave oil stains?
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  2515. If people just got more exercise and better diets, they wouldn’t need hospitalization after being involved in car accidents. The body has natural immunities and healing powers against traumatic injuries. People in comas would recover more quickly if they would just release their anger and think positive thoughts. The above is a joke, and I’m sad that I have to spell that out. Alaska Anybody following what’s happening in Alaska? It’s also having a big surge in cases that is overwhelming its hospital system, despite a comparatively high vaccination rate. It’s not totally clear why, but some things stand out. Alaska is the biggest state, but with low population density, with many far flung communities served by a “spoke and hub” hospital infrastructure. Local clinics are the first line of medical care, and in normal times, they send critical patients to hospitals in the big cities that have the capacity and capability to treat critical injuries and diseases. So one of the problems being suffered in Alaska is that the city hospitals don’t have open beds for those needing critical care that are currently in the clinics. And the clinics are not equipped to handle so many patients in need of critical care. The nearest states are experiencing their own surges and do not have open beds to receive these patients. However, that doesn’t explain the surge of cases to begin with despite the vaccination rate. Perhaps the political environment might help explain. The governor will not impose any sort of health protocol mandates, including masks (and vaccines, obviously) or instituting temporary lockdowns because he feels that “freedom” is more important than community health. Local officials are following suit; some going further. A recently elected mayor of a big city ran on an anti-mask and vaccine platform, and he has pledged to never support mandates. Besides the politics, I think there might be a mistaken notion about the effective herd protection given by certain vaccination rates. If 85% vaccination rates achieve herd immunity, and your state has achieved 50% vaccination, that doesn’t mean that you will have 50% fewer infections. This is especially true if people are not masking and not following other safety protocols.
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  2516.  @pirjolindqvist7819  No, he isn’t. That was a fake account reporting that. If the comment hasn’t already been removed, check the account age: less than one day.
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  2517.  @jaxxoceans3866  The U.S. is a big country, and response has been uneven and inconsistent. Right now, California and Arizona are the worst off, with Los Angeles county having the highest rates of transmission, hospitalization, and death in the country. The death rate of Latinos in California has increased 1000%. And an antivax protest just closed down a vaccine super site at Dodger Stadium, a sports arena in L.A.!
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  2518. @Crawled Out Of Plato's Cave What opinion? If the dislike is applied with a few minutes, they’re not disagreeing with any opinion expressed in the video.
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  2519.  @mac_mcleod  Even in cases where a YouTube vid gets an extreme amount of dislikes (what the kids call a ratio), keep in mind that the trolls both organize off site and use automation/puppet accounts to attack the popularity of videos.
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  2520.  @rijamor  Please ask your doctor for a psychiatric referral.
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  2521. Possibly, but Trump is malevolent enough on his own to do this without taking advice. He thrives on chaos and doesn’t need anyone to teach him how to cause it. Ultimately, the President has surrounded himself with sycophants that support him in his whims of the day.
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  2522. I missed the “threat”, but if you mean using the State of the Union as a bully pulpit to call out the failures of the legislature, that’s part of the checks and balances.
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  2523. That’s Señora Sheinbaum to you. 😊
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  2524.  @SanctusBacchus  Putzi
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  2525. The report didn’t say, but he was apparently under surveillance prior to the carjacking according to the report. I suspect that the white pickup truck was stolen, but regular car theft or carjacking is unknown. I’m just guessing, though, but there was some reason he was being followed.
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  2526. No. Yes, I will vote, but voting is not enough. We have to campaign. We have to help others vote. Voting alone is not going to give Biden the overwhelming majority we need to minimize post-election violence from MAGA’s most fanatical nutcases. Giving Biden a landslide will slam the lid on the GOP trashcan.
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  2527. Everybody says they were fire extinguishers, but I think they were colostomy thermoses. Because he’s overflowing with shit. But why use a thermos? He wants to keep his shit close to body temperature. Doesn’t everyone? 🤭
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  2528. It’s better to overestimate than underestimate—within limitations. The point of the estimates is to create a model, and the more accurate the model, the better that you can create defense policies and determine your optimal spend.
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  2529. He started revealing his nuttiness in the late 90s and by the middle 2000s it was on full display.
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  2530. Length isn’t the end all and be all. Girth is also important.
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  2531. Why?
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  2532.  @tommitchell4570  Perhaps. Or perhaps he’ll get a room at the laughing academy. If they have cuckoo’s nests in Mississippi, this guy definitely flew over one.
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  2533. I suppose “the west” might seem to be centered elsewhere, but in this context it’s not a geographic location. It’s not centered in Europe or the U.S. In the geopolitical context or the political philosophy context, “the west” is a political framework incorporating Rule of Law, democratic representation, and democratic consent of the governed. Which is not to say that you should be in lockstep with your government or your government should be in lockstep with its allies. I’m in agreement with you about being thoroughly sick and tired of left/right politics. In my country (U.S.A.) it has transformed into the sort of hooliganism you see with extreme sports fanatics.
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  2534.  @dertythegrower That’s just tempting fate.
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  2535. I think it might work when used as a last line of defense, not the only line. It would probably be more viable to protect the energy infrastructure (refineries and tank farms and whatnot) deeper in Russian territory, where the Ukrainians have surprised everyone by getting through. I gave barrage balloons a some thought when Russia began using the Iranian drones to target the Ukrainian power grid. Another strategy would be to create gargantuan cope cages around critical infrastructure. Three or four towers (or more if you want redundancy, and wire mesh could stop a drone. A counter strategy would be to send one drone to blow a hole in the mesh and another to fly through the hole, but that would be hard to manage. Perhaps you send 5 “wire cutting” drones for each drone tasked with destroying the target? In the first year, when Ukraine was taking a beating from the Shahed drones, I came up with some crazy ideas that are probably impractical. Nets stretched between helicopters to catch the drones was one. Anti-drone drones armed with tennis rackets was another.
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  2536.  @DeCasoU1  <— TROLL
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  2537.  @devalapar7878 Both the Democratic Party and the GOP are coalition parties. The trick has always been to hold the coalitions together long enough to get something accomplished. Pelosi and McConnell were each masters of party discipline within their respective caucus/conference. That was the basis of their power and why each was so hated by the other side. (Both Pelosi and McConnell were masters of the legislative process as well, making them effective and reviled by their respective opponents.) Hakim Jeffries seems to have the same level skills as Pelosi. Speaker otH Johnson not so much. McConnell has been kneecapped by Trump, but was on his way out anyway. Schumer isn’t bad at his job but he could never hold a candle to Mitch. What does all this mean? It means that if Trump is elected, the democrats better make damn sure that they control at least one chamber of congress. Similarly, if Biden wins, the GOP really needs to control one or both chambers. Also, the GOP conference in the House of Representatives needs to change its rules to limit the outsized power of MTG and her ilk or they’ll suffer down the line. Biden isn’t a progressive, he’s a traditional liberal. But he can be dragged to tilt toward the progressives if the progressives show up to vote. Last thing I’ll say: both the student protestors and the MAGA right are children when it comes to National Security and Geopolitics. Biden is not a child. Nikki Haley is not a child. I’m voting for Biden, but I’d definitely vote for Haley in 2028.
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  2538. Ketchup on pizza.
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  2539. Wow, what are the chances that Putin has his own Rudy Giuliani!?
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  2540.  @williamj.crofts41  dude an anti-maga Russian bot is still a bot. Geddowdaheah
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  2541.  @mushypeasplease8872  Don’t expect anything valid. He and Denise are disinformation agents, antivaxxers, and lying trolls. It’s likely that they are working together or are the same person with multiple accounts.
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  2542.  @eileenfuentes6975  Trump and the Republicans have said that the issues with the border can wait until next year, so I guess it’s not a pressing crisis after all.
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  2543. Confidentially, Sid Hudgens would be proud.
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  2544.  @andrewharrison8436  Compared to Tory Conservatives and Labor Conservatives, the choice is clear. Vote Lettuce. Vote Garden Party.
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  2545. Game of Clown Cars
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  2546. Putzi
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  2547.  @humourless682  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2548.  @druadhlus7693  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2549.  @fvgerr  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2550.  @phildoodler2199  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2551.  @RabJ208  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2552. Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps (after throwing away your boots).
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  2553.  @netizen_m3919  I think this is on the nose. Even emails can be subpoenaed (and I seem to remember a bit of a brouhaha over a certain Secretary of State doing an end run by using a private email server). In certain cases, official phone calls (for example, between the President and another world leader) get officially recorded, but any phone call can be recorded on either end. (Which doesn’t even get into clandestine intercepts.) Additionally, top officials memorialize conversations—they take notes during and just after conversations with the President and other top officials to keep a record of the conversations. Comey’s last conversation with Trump is an example. Most of this stuff is protected by executive privilege, depending on the nature of the conversation. Under extraordinary circumstances, congressional subpoenas can pierce this privilege. Also, executive privilege doesn’t protect the information from succeeding presidents or their administrations. If communications provide documentation of presidential crimes, there’s a good chance they’ll come to light, sooner or later. A President and his team can adapt to these conditions in two ways (or two and a half, as I’ll explain). One is to keep everything above board and avoid even the appearance of impropriety. One point five is “legal findings”, in which the White House Counsel formulates a legal justification for certain actions. And two is the President and his advisers can behave like the mob, like a criminal organization evading the keeping of records of their crimes or trying to hide such records. Both Bush and Obama engaged in 1.5 type dealings—we can debate the ethics and morals of this method another time. I think Trump has a type 2 mindset, and everyone inside knew it. Some would make recordings and keep their own records to cover their asses or even to document malfeasance.
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  2554.  @JoseFernandez-wu8pj  Mafia kindergarten, you mean. It sounds absurdly childish unless you can read the implicit threat in the words. Then it’s absurdly childish and chillingly sinister at the same time. Have you seen that twilight zone episode? “If you don’t do what I want, I’ll wish you into the cornfield.”
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  2555. “Ma’am, this is the Wendy’s drive-thru. . .”
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  2556. Aceroadholder Also (and I guess it wasn’t covered in the manual), the team-carrying slicks might themselves make a few false insertions before and after, further confusing observers. This would be in addition to false insertions mentioned in the video. Another thing not covered in the video regarding extractions: the extra body space could be (and was) used for prisoners snatched. Recon missions could be very opportunistic in their intelligence gathering.
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  2557. For some reason YouTube is throwing this old videos into my recommendations as if I’ve never seen them. People who credit the Russian winter or the mud with the German failure in Barbarossa are also suffering from an intelligence failure.
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  2558.  @theduke5484  his post rises to the level of reportable misinformation.
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  2559.  @oneeyedking7465  almost all those videos are fake, and I’ll tell you why. The Republicans already had observers at those sites. Random Republicans can’t just show up and demand entrance. Observers are preapproved by their respective parties, and lists with their names are sent to the counting centers. There has been ONE case that I know of where someone who should have been permitted entrance wasn’t, and that was quickly rectified by the court. It’s not proof of fraud. The second case of which I am aware is an observer wanted to move closer to poll workers. When they weren’t allowed to do so, they sued in court (and caused a delay in counting). All this so the observer could watch from six feet rather than ten feet.
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  2560. @teflontelefon Opening businesses now, in the middle of this winter surge, is NOT sustainable, unless you hope for hundreds of thousands of more deaths before enough people are evacuated. Not all businesses are closed, btw. But even if all were reopened, people don’t have enough money to spend at those businesses.
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  2561. There is evidence that the majority of their food production was arboricultural supplemented by agriculture, so they wouldn’t starve if soil depletion occurred. But how likely is it to have occurred with access to river silt? A second factor would limit possible soil depletion: the predominant agriculture in the Americas involved planting corn, squash, and beans together as companion crops on mounds. (1 cornstalk per mound, bean plants using the corn as a trellis, and squash plants keeping you soil from drying out. The bean plants would fix nitrogen in the soil.) Look up “three sisters” or “tres hermanas” in Wikipedia for a brief overview of this agricultural technique.
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  2562. I applaud your maintaining safe distances from trucks, regardless of your motive. Honestly, respecting the size and mass of trucks, their blind spots, and the longer stopping distances makes the world a better place in a concrete way. That said, this free-dumb convoy was populated by a small and dim witted subset of truckers that are having trouble finding work during a period of low unemployment. That should tell us all we need to know, regardless of who or what they blame for their troubles. These are the non-hacker adult babies unable to make adjustments to all the bullshit life throws at them, so they come up with fake grievances (that many of them sincerely believe). But if they want to drive around, park, and have a camp out before driving off again the next morning, let ‘em. Call it a Loserpalooza, but if they’re enjoying themselves and not getting up to anything no good, there’s no real harm. And I applaud them for having the sense not to drive into the Capitol. To be honest, what’s going on in Ukraine puts their dumb bullshit in perspective and highlights how childish they are. I’m not even in the mood to laugh at them. At best they will be a question in the 2045 edition of Trivial Pursuit.
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  2563. She’s making bank. My tamal vendor sells me tamales for 10 pesos each. That’s about 50¢. Her name is Conchita. Her sister sells bolillos and pan dulce. Their kids ring my doorbell or they shout up to my window (or I hear them down on the street when they reach the corner).
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  2564. There’s a lot of YouTube channels talking a lot of ship, but Sal really knows his ship.
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  2565. Despite the Covid deniers claims, the U.S. lockdowns (plural) have been inconsistent, unevenly enforced, and incomplete. State lockdowns rely on local authorities for enforcement, and in some places (California for example), county law enforcement agencies are refusing to enforce health mandates. In other states (notably Texas), the state government has prevented local governments from enacting and enforcing regulations that are tougher than state mandates. There is also the issue of political pressure being put on state and county health officials. Health officials have resigned because of death threats. And keep in mind that states do not and cannot limit travel to and from other states. It would require the Federal government to authorize that. The upshot here is that you shouldn’t use the U.S. as a country where lockdowns didn’t work. Lockdowns were never comprehensively implemented in the U.S., and that’s a large part of why so many have died and so many have been infected.
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  2566. The turrets were made in Ukraine, but they were designed by the famous Russian engineer Ivanna Popov.
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  2567. I wonder what all the factors are that will determine where we are likely to see investment and expansion. What sort of manufacturing is going on in your city? How easily can the workforce expand? How educated is the workforce? How friendly is the state government to business? Is your city a desirable location for people looking to relocate for work?
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  2568.  @Tigerhearty  <—LYING TROLL
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  2569.  @artruisjoew5473  I’ll do you one better, that wouldn’t even involve putting American pilots in harms way. A volunteer wing of drones, leased or purchased from the U.S. and operated remotely by private contractors in the U.S. or Europe. (Not my idea, btw. Ryan Macbeth came up with the idea.)
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  2570. PS: European explorers didn’t explore the Amazon in the 1300s or the 1400s. Can you guess why they didn’t? Here’s a hint: 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
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  2571.  @jamescron9538  FOX NEWS NUMBAH ONE! CNN NUMBAH TEN. I REAL AMERICAN, NOT VIETNAMESE SUBCONTRACTOR WORKING FOR RUSSIAN INTERNET AGENCY. Sorry, Charlie.
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  2572. I believe he’s never read mien kamph. He’s not a reader. Audiobook.
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  2573. I’m going to say one thing and then explain why Trump and his administration are the exception. We have a proud tradition in the U.S. of peaceful transition of power when one party leaves the White House and the rival party assumes the presidency. This includes the tradition of the succeeding President not going after the previous president as a political enemy. The Obama administration didn’t persecute Bush. Bush didn’t go after Clinton, and Clinton didn’t go after Bush Sr. Trump violated this tradition, making all sorts of false claims about the Obama administration and ordering the supposedly neutral Department of Justice to investigate. When those investigations revealed nothing, Trump persisted in claiming Obama engaged in criminal acts (without specifying or providing any evidence whatsoever). On top of this, Trump and his henchmen have engaged in egregious corruption and violations of the law *that we know about*, with much more suspected, but not yet proven, because Trump has violated common practice of transparency. So the question is, should we return to precedent or should the Trump administration be held accountable for its corruption, its criminal acts, and its breaking of legal and political norms? The answer is that Trump and his minions have acted so egregiously, with such malice, and have done so much damage that they MUST be held accountable. To not hold them accountable is to encourage criminality. We must prosecute the most powerful who abuse that power as warning to other crooks. Only then, after these criminals and grifters have been made to face consequences, can we return to the precedent of peaceful transition. It’s a delusion to think Trump will peacefully hand over the presidency anyway. I suggest a concurrent investigation that would include criminal investigations and a public truth commission to root out both criminal actors and those that might be shielded from the law, but who directed unlawful acts. We generally can’t retroactively criminalize acts done legally, even if those acts were done with malice and intent to damage the country. But we can hold them up to the light of truth and the moral scorn of public opinion. Meanwhile, those that actually broke the law must feel the full weight of the Justice system.
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  2574.  @miniprepper8284  part of it, for sure. There’s multiple factors at work.
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  2575. ⁠ @sailinghaldis  After Peri awkwardly asked Mary to go on a date, Mary thought peripatetic.
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  2576. This is relevant to the video? How exactly? Or are you spamming all COVID videos with anti-government messages? If you’ve got something to say, make your own videos.
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  2577.    You are a liar spreading disinformation about the worst pandemic this country has seen. You’re not a frontline health worker reporting what you’re seeing, you’re a propagandist working for god knows who. Your disinformation will potentially cause real harm, and if there is a sliver of decency in you, you’ll feel ashamed and quit your propagandist job.
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  2578. He’ll see that from a mile away. It’s gotta be something extra sneaky, like Melania suffocating him while he sleeps.
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  2579.  @joscallinet6260  No, no, no! A pedal file is when you’re cataloging all possible components of a bicycle and all their variations, and you archive all pedal related documents into the pedal file.
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  2580.  @rjyeezy76  the latest “objection” that I’ve heard is “I don’t want to put a diaper on my face”, and I’m waiting for the real life opportunity to say, “Maybe you should, with all the diarrhea that comes out of your mouth.”
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  2581. Everything I learned about Civics, I learned from computer games, particularly Sid Meier’s Civilization. Democracy and Republic are two different technologies on the Tech Tree! 😆
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  2582. GenX? 50/50 that it was a roommate rather than a family member. Source: I’m also GenX.
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  2583. In putting this in every comment recognizing Pat Finnerty: They need to do “What makes this stock stink”.
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  2584.  @michaelrunnels7660  You understand the spiral. It goes both ways (down and up or contracting or expanding, however you care to think of it). Pete’s demographic trend analysis predicts we are experiencing long term contraction. Automation is not going to solve the problem. It will make it worse, if anything. The commenters arguing that humans will never be replaced 100% are missing the important point entirely. To them I want to say, “Imagine a factory with one worker and one dog. The dog is there to guard the machines and make sure the worker does his job. The worker is there to keep the dog feeding machine operating.” But the real issue is supply and demand and what happens to growth when consumer demand drops because there are fewer workers with money to spend. Where is the tipping point? (have we passed it?), where is the point of equilibrium? (Is there one?). Keep going and you might arrive at the philosophical questions.
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  2585.  @YvonneWilson312  I suspect Nat is an accomplice puppet account with the purpose of prompting “conversation” among the other trolls.
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  2586.  @captainalex157  100% of Phil’s comments are his comment above. 99% chance his real name is Ivan.
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  2587. She can find out what happened to all those missing dogs in Ohio, right?
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  2588. There are no missiles in Mexico or Canada because the U.S. isn’t threatening to invade either country. Second, no NATO member that borders Russia has nuclear weapons on its soil. This is a false equivalence and an absurd hypothetical. You can’t just make up nonsense to justify Russian aggression. I gotta add that your comment contains many falsities that should be addressed, too many than I have time for. Maybe someone else can take up the slack.
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  2589. He’s confessed, dummy.
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  2590.  @Lobos222  Forbes is an anagram for Sorbet, with a broken t.
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  2591. It seemed stilted. 😋
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  2592.  @tomjohnson4681  <—Troll and KNOWN DISINFORMATION AGENT
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  2593.  @robertchaplin The usual reason is bad loans and investments beyond the institution’s ability to absorb losses. It can even happen that the bad loans or investments aren’t bad long term, but a market downturn causes the bank to have insufficient funds for daily operation. The SVB failure was due in large part to a short term investment in a relatively safe long term investment, T-Bonds. Short term, they were underwater and would have to liquidate at a loss to have sufficient cash on hand to operate. This in turn caused depositors to withdraw their funds en masse (a run on the bank) which compounded the liquidity crisis. The bank had insufficient cash on hand to see it through changing market conditions.
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  2594. Apparently, he pulled the mask down just to eat.
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  2595.  @HighSpeedNoDrag  Stop lying.
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  2596. It’s a private company. He owns the majority of it, and there are a handful of investors that also have a minority stake (originally about $7 billion). I do wonder if the minority investors are looking for an exit, which makes me wonder if Elon is intentionally trying to drive down the company’s valuation so he can buy them out. Note that this speculation of mine really doesn’t make business sense, although it reminds me vaguely of The Hudsucker Proxy, a movie about a company’s leadership intentionally tanking the company’s stock price so they can buy up shares cheaply. It’s one of the Coen Brothers’ lesser known films.
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  2597. OK, up until now I haven’t wondered who was behind each spot, because they’re all great in their own way. But I have to know, WHO’S IDEA WAS THIS AND WHO WROTE IT? This was genius.
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  2598. Low budget often means non-union. I highly doubt this production was under IATSE auspices.
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  2599.  @AreeyaKKC  I think the most FAA can do is suspend or revoke his pilot license. He crashed in Los Padres National Forest. I wonder which jurisdictions will go after him. You’ve got County, State, or Federal because it’s a National Forest administered by the Department of the Interior. Any or all of the above could pursue a criminal investigation. Incidentally, I know someone named Chalupa. She got her nickname because she is always barging in. And that’s all I will say a boat that.
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  2600.  @kimoandrews5802  Incel is something that the people who identify as incels call themselves. It’s a ridiculous term that exaggerates their “plight” of not getting laid. It gives them a delicious sense of victimization. Masturbation is sex (hopefully with someone you love), so unless they are abstaining from masturbation, they are not celibate. If they are abstaining from masturbation, it is voluntary, unless they have had all their appendages torn from their bodies or gotten their penises caught in farm machinery. So an incel is not involuntary celibacy. It’s one of the dumbest self-identity names one could apply to oneself. And if you are called an incel while not identifying as one, you’re not merely being called sexless or unlovable. You’re being called a dummy.
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  2601. WRT to the Russian poor not being able to manage their money, I think there is another factor motivating spending: Inflation. It’s better to spend your rubles now if they’re going to be worth 83% a year from now (or whatever the rate is).
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  2602. If governments dismiss it, it will be because they’re lumping it in with all the quack cures you listed.
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  2603.  @ralphwasson3812  You really don’t get it. Trump and the GOP are hemorrhaging support because of this riot and Trump’s role in directing it towards the Capitol. I never thought we’d get to a point where Trump would go too far for his supporters, but I should never have underestimated his capacity for self destruction. All you have left is a fraction that is buried too deep beneath their delusions, so deep that they resort to violence for a fraudulent cause. How many of these “Trump Soldiers” do you think there are? 100,000? 50,000? 10,000? Lol.
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  2604. Monrovia is pretty down to earth if you’re satisfied with the bear necessities.
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  2605.  @Alec_____  That’s incorrect. Some countries’ embassies have soldiers to guard the diplomats.
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  2606. The libs told him not to press the self-destruct button. There’s no way he could resist.
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  2607.  @brandtcannon  clothing absorbs heat and will retain it for a short period, so it could be a hat. And this guy seemed like a hot head.
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  2608. The one fly in the ointment regarding Russian mobilization and “stealth mobilization” is that Russia is now facing 40% unemployment. With so many unemployed workers, we might see many workers enticed by enlistment offers.
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  2609. Here is another fact: the Red Cross was promised access to Mariupol by Moscow, but the local commander wont let them in. He’s been delaying the Red Cross’s humanitarian mission. It occurred to me that he’s busy trying to clean up the evidence of a chemical attack. He’s probably feeding corpses into the mobile crematoriums as fast as they can burn. What sort of army of sick monsters has mobile crematoriums, anyway? That sounds like something the Nazis did. That’s why I call the Putin Nazis, Putzis.
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  2610. The problem is that Patrick uses data, and the data is biased against mass deportation. If you ignore the data, anything is possible.
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  2611. Thank you for this interesting bocadito of history. If I may offer something in return, the past tense of beat is beat, not beatED. Just another one of those crazy irregular verbs in English. 😝 Espero que haya ayudadote.
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  2612.  @mjwilliamsb2676  That’s just math. Or maths, as you like to call it. It’s a predictable and predicted result. The real danger is that mutations could outpace vaccine development, given a large enough population of infected people.
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  2613.  @wboyle5899  my dear William, you are really too kind to worthless pieces of shit like Karl that actively want to harm us. They are not “sincere but misinformed”, but actively at war with us. “Karl” probably isn’t a real person, but a mask, one of many disguising some horrible person who isn’t merely uncaring and inconsiderate of others, but who hopes to spread deadly disinformation.
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  2614. DONT FEED THE TROLLS Paul Stewart is trolling the comments.
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  2615.  @karlhawkes  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2616.  @fungalmasterpiece4114  Yup. To Joe’s credit, he said forcefully, not forcibly. We can use our votes and our speech forcefully. Those who advocate violence to forcibly impose change are a threat to both society, democracy, and individual liberties.
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  2617.  @voltdgt2529  I guess it’s true, the Trump Campaign is out of money.
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  2618. RFKJr spells big trouble for Jill Stein and Coronel West.
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  2619. There’s plenty of skilled labor available, we just have to let them in.
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  2620. Trumpier than Trump?
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  2621. Tanks can come up within 2000 m of the front, shoot smoke rounds to help the soldiers exfil, drop smoke around the tank, and leave.
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  2622. At least the gun was aimed over the line.
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  2623.  @isotopek261  It’s quite worrying, because if not this mutation, then some other one down the line, IF we don’t halt the spread. With so many deniers, minimizers, and conspiracy theorists running around, there is a chance that the virus will outpace our response. If the virus was spread via flatulence, I’m 100% convinced that many of these delusional people would be going out in public without pants or underwear to make a political statement, accusing the government of infringing on their right to go naked below the waist. Oh, the tyranny of pants!
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  2624. You’d be fine if you just avoid the border areas, aka La Frontera. Fly in to your destination. Check the state department website for travel advisories. That’s where Peter got his map. Visit, enjoy yourself, and don’t do stupid things. Be a smart tourist, just like you would visiting NYC or Miami or wherever.
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  2625. Even the majority of Russian ultranationalists and extremists don’t want to go and fight in Ukraine. They’d prefer that other Russians go fight.
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  2626. In the 70s there was a wave of Lebanese Armenians to Pasadena, Glendale, and Burbank. We started seeing more and more Armenians from Armenia in the 1980s (especially in Glendale, where I am from).
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  2627.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  Benny Hill relied on visual and physical comedy, which “translates” much more easily. I’m not aware of any French comedy beyond Jacque Tati/Monsieur Hurlot, which is also physical and visual. Mr. Bean is visual comedy. Buster Keaton, visual. Monty Python has been translated internationally, but not all of their material works in other languages. Again, the visual and physical humor is what works best. Edit: I realize now that you were just setting up your joke about Rammstein.
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  2628. And I have to wonder how much his negligence in French Indochina exacerbated the French-Vietnamese conflict . . . which eventually leads us to the worst post-WWII U.S. general, Westmoreland.
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  2629. The Put-Huns
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  2630. I’m sure he had more water, a first aid kit, food, and any other supplies cached near where he planned to crash the plane. He had flown the same route less than a week previous in his other plane, and no doubt had scouted on foot.
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  2631. Planning a crime and going through with it are criminal acts. The police don’t need for you to complete the act to arrest and charge you.
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  2632.  @bruxi78230  not that much in banks, but in money market funds that earn a better return than zero for the part they want to keep liquid-ish, and bonds with a big spread in maturities. Or so I remember hearing during an earnings call a few years back. When they’re anticipating a purchase, the sell the money market funds and dump some of the money from maturing bonds into the acquisition/capital fund.
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  2633. Recruit: “But Sarge, you told me to sweep the barracks.” Sergeant: “I meant with a broom, not a loaded magazine!” 😂
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  2634.  @xxdomixx1085  Stalin was Lenin’s henchman before Lenin’s death. Stalin extended Leninism, but his murderous policies were not at odds with Leninism. Stalin was already in control at the time of Lenin’s death. He was a continuation of Leninism, not a divergence from it.
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  2635. Peter is being a little idiotic. He’s suggesting that if your business needs $5 million cash kept in the bank for your operations, you should keep it with 20 different banks (to stay within the $250,000 FDIC limit).
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  2636. Basically.
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  2637. When rates started going up, I tightened my belt and started paying down my CC debt. I owe a little over $500 now, and should get it down to zero in a two more months.
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  2638. If you don’t think the targets are already identified, you have very low confidence in the capabilities of U.S. reconnaissance.
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  2639. Yakety Sax
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  2640. “Shout out to all the homies in Shanghai! You gotta chill, bros. Be cool or act like a fool, know what I mean? Who else? Oh, hell no, we got Shenzen in the how-owse! What up, dog! How you illin’? Keep stackin’ those benjamins. Uh, I mean keep stackin’ those Maos, right up to the ceiling. Y’all put your hands in the air for Shenzen! Make some noise!”
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  2641.  @johnrodriguez5277  Reminds me of the Movie Three Kings, except in this case, the protagonists were murdering rapist pieces of 💩 and none of them look like George Clooney, Ice Cube, or Mark Wahlberg. That one guy could be Spike Jonez, though.
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  2642.  @importantjohn  The lizard people are in league with the eco-turrurists.
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  2643. He would support you if you had the green.
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  2644. Yes and no. China does have long term designs on Taiwan, but Taiwan is better defended and has stronger commitments from its allies. China will take its time. That said, I bet Xi is pissed at Putin, because the invasion draws comparisons to China’s desire to swallow Taiwan. It strengthens the resolve of Taiwan’s partners. Putin has made Xi’s job harder.
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  2645.  @andrewmcalister3462  I’m not sure that alone would be effective. What is also needed is a much more stringent inspection regime of all commercial vessels transiting Finish and Estonian waters that are going to or coming from St. Petersburg. Sadly and coincidentally 😉, these black fleet tankers and cargo ships might be delayed weeks by inspections, strangling trade activity. It wouldn’t be a blockade (which is an act of war and to be avoided), but it would be almost as effective as a blockade (without war and within the limits of internationally recognized law enforcement activities).
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  2646.  @qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5  How? Militarily? A military blockade is an act of war. However, ship inspections in territorial waters is not war-like. It’s law enforcement. If Finish and Estonian coast guards conducted heavy inspections, it might have a similar effect as a blockade, but it wouldn’t be a blockade. It would be completely legal in international law.
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  2647.  @jeff__w  Uh, we always called it “Suicide Bridge”. It’s a long way down to the Arroyo.
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  2648. Ma Cro There were two likely causes for the ridiculous quality control. 1. The soviet purge of engineers in the 1930s (many were shot and many more sent to perish in Siberian slave labor camps). 2. Corruption, where high ranking party members skimmed materials (to be sold on the black market) and substituted inferior materials or fake materials. Is it safe to speculate that the state organs got more serious about the corruption sometime in 1942? I don’t want to guess, but I bet one could learn a lot by examining Minister of Internal Affairs Lavrentiy Beria’s lists.
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  2649. That’s really interesting. If the soldiers are being paid more to buy their own equipment, you could say there was a bottom up procurement process that let the soldiers themselves determine what gear to prioritize. No, it’s not perfect. I’m sure we’d rather see every Ukrainian soldier get every bit of kit he or she needs. But given the limitations, it’s not a terrible situation.
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  2650. Just leave Twitter, if you don’t like it.
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  2651. No, they are not. Next topic.
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  2652.  @a.c.slater573  <—Putzi troll
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  2653. Your wife’s family and every other Polish family taking in refugees are kick ass.
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  2654. The favoritism was a very recent thing as he had only very recently been transferred to her jail for court appearances.
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  2655. Ray Hardman We’ve all seen a New Hope. There were 13 Swordfish and 17 other small ships.
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  2656.  @Mouse_007  practice.
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  2657. Agreed. Or your high tech can be inapplicable to the fight you have chosen. Russia devoted a lot of their military budget for the development of flashy prestige weapon systems that are not of much use in this invasion. The hypersonic missile? It’s not five times better than a conventional missile, it just gets to the target five times faster. This is not going to make a difference in Ukraine (although it could make a difference in other types of conflict). I think in Syria, Russia didn’t need discipline or a real doctrine: the “doctrine” seems to have been to exterminate the civilian population. The opposition was already divided into rival groups before the Russians arrived. There was already a dictator in place.
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  2658.  @unholyroller11  Agreed. The main difference here is one side has open societies with free and independent journalism. Independent press can fact check claims made by Ukraine and either debunk or confirm claims (or report them as unconfirmed). There’s a built in check on propaganda and a more or less open flow of information. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good. Russia has no free and independent press. There are no independent journalists roaming behind the Russian lines checking Russian claims. Putin controls the media, and journalists reporting facts risk prison or, as has happened before, death. Whatever independent media that existed a month ago has been banned and criminalized. So, yes, there is propaganda on both sides, but only one side has a corrective mechanism to check the truthfulness of the propaganda.
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  2659. Of course there’s no bond. He’s a flight risk.
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  2660. A weak currency is not a corollary of a weak economy. Currency weakness is good for exporting your manufactured goods to countries with a stronger currency. A weaker currency can spur economic growth.
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  2661.  @Surfer-727  You’re welcome! I should have also noted that the principle of “too much of a good thing can be bad” also applies here. Ideally the weak dollar eventually gives way to a stronger dollar for a while, and then back to a weaker dollar. Monetary policy (again, ideally) has the goal of nudging it in one direction or another before it gets too weak or too strong, while maintaining stability. And world conditions have a way of interfering with a healthy economy.
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  2662. The land was leased from private owners. The private owners didn’t own the mineral rights. So you can’t blame the tribe for that.
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  2663.  @Shadow25720  Task and Purpose means well and tries to be unbiased. I will give him that. But his analysis very unsophisticated. He lacks experience in analysis and doesn’t really know what he is talking about outside of the tacticool arena. And even in the realm of tactics, his knowledge is very limited.
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  2664.  @joelrivard5598  You apparently didn’t understand the claims that were made for the vaccines. A layman making claims on Facebook aren’t the same as medical professionals making more conservative claims.
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  2665. Even if it goes against a broader interpretation of the Geneva Convention, it pales in comparison with not just the indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas, but the intentional targeting to which the Russians have admitted they’re doing (case in point being the maternity hospital). There’s rule breaking and then there’s out and out crimes against humanity.
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  2666.  @furiousapplesack  There’s a really bad historical precedent for that. Hitler pressed conquered people into his armies or to work as slave labor in his factories. That’s why you had Eastern Europeans fighting for the Nazis in Normandy. It’s a bad look and feeds Putin’s narrative that Ukrainians are Neo-Nazis. On the other hand, treat the POWs well and they might volunteer to be interviewed (as I think is going on here). I have an even better idea. The U.S. is sending $14 billion in aid. Allocate a few million dollars and send these POWs on an all expense paid vacation to Disney World. Then interview them about their treatment as POWs—I bet there will be a stampede of surrendering Russian conscripts.
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  2667. The FBI needs to release Dog the Bounty Hunter’s laptop.
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  2668.  @beepboop204 Distinguishing characteristics that can help you identify which is which in the field is a tank goes tankity-tank, and a SPG goes propelity-pel.
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  2669. “We were stabbed in the back by Willy Wonka!”
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  2670. If Crimea is under siege, it makes the Russian colonization of it economically untenable. Heck, it was most likely a drain on the Russian economy before February 24th. None of Russia’s aggression makes sense from a rational standpoint, however. They have to have Crimea because they feel emasculated without it? Because they want it, and they get whatever they want? Because they need a warm water port? (They have other warm water ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.) But back to the water. A shortage of water increases the defensive burden of keeping Crimea. It doesn’t mean Russia will be forced to leave, it means they have to truck drinking water in.
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  2671.  @GraytechOne  And when they were notified that the needed an accommodation from the tribe’s mineral trust, they told the tribe to take a hike.
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  2672. There’s been a authoritarian movement in our country for decades. Up until 2016 (maybe earlier*) they were contained and marginalized by Conservative and Moderate Republicans. MacGregor might or might not be taking money from Russia, but his aim is power for his group and himself—an important position, perhaps a cabinet post. He desperately wants to be relevant and he seeks to be close to power and have a little power himself. There are others in or from the military like him. Michael Flynn and his brother (who is still an active service general officer) for example. Thankfully, they are few. Now that fascists have infiltrated and taken hold of the GOP, I hope liberals can finally see the difference between conservatives and actual fascism. People on the left who branded all conservatives as fascists didn’t cause this (it’s our own damn fault), but they certainly didn’t help. *They really started getting a toehold in 2008.
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  2673. Oh, is that who it was? I thought a new party was launched, similar to the Greens. The Garden Party.
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  2674. That’s lying, not “presenting false evidence”. If the investigating officer here told a court that there was a videotape showing Michael robbing the store, that testimony would be false evidence and perjury (which would obviously be discovered when the prosecution failed to produce the video). If the investigator told the judge there was video tape in order to get a search warrant, that would be false evidence and perjurious. If the investigator tells a lie to a suspect to get a reaction, that’s one thing. This investigator went beyond that when continued to lie when he didn’t get the reaction he had hoped, and piled lies upon lies. This wasn’t an interrogation, it was psychological torture inflicted on an innocent man because the investigator wanted a quick win based on no evidence, merely a confession.
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  2675. Interesting. I suppose you could then collect unemployment until you found work as a general in another army.
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  2676. To secure mass quantities of capital.
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  2677. They’re getting shot at and shelled when they leave. USSR, I mean, Russia has agreed to cease fire corridors, but as soon as there are people fleeing in the corridor the Russians break the cease fire and start killing them. Russia can’t win against the Ukraine defense forces, so they’re going to punish Ukraine by murdering the civilians and destroying the cities. The Russians can no longer claim that it’s inadvertent or that they’re softening up military targets before assaulting them, because they’re shooting missiles and bombarding cities not even on any of their routes of advance. They’re trying to terrorize Ukraine and break its will to resist. And if they can’t do that, they’ll destroy the entire country as much as they can.
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  2678. They’ve been purging “dissident” conservatives for a while now, even prior to Trump’s election. The rabid seditionists are the heart and soul of the Trump GOP. They remain loyal to Trump, which is all that matters. There are a handful of dissident Republicans that have managed to stay in office. The good news is that 30% of Republicans think Trump is responsible for the attack on the Capitol. That said, I don’t think two GOPs are viable. The only path the Trump GOP has is violence.
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  2679.  @tonys8243  Use a straw or some other type of tube. It might help to suspend the drink over your head and use a flexible tube. Do not cut a hole in your mask and insert the tube. (Maybe that would work with a rubber grommet that exactly matched the tube. Hmmm.) As you can see, I’ve given this much too much thought.
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  2680. And yet here you are.
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  2681. There isn’t any established anti-viral pathway. The types of parasites that ivermectin kills are tiny animals with nervous systems. Ivermectin is a neurotoxin and it attacks the nervous system of these tiny critters. That’s its mechanism (or pathway, if you prefer). There’s a lot superficial speculation, but NO in-depth science to even discuss. The “in-depth” discussions that I have seen here and there are completely within the realm of pseudoscience.
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  2682. You seem to be infected with the swine flu.
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  2683. Valentines Day on Sunday, Feb 14, President’s Day (bank holiday) on the 15th, making it a 3 day weekend. Also, my fortyseventeenth birthday is coming up.
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  2684.  @jacksmith-vs4ct  The A10’s days are done thanks to the current generation of precision guided bombs in the U.S. arsenal. The Russians have precision guided weapons also, but these are only being used on civilian targets.
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  2685.  @DerivativeOfJungbluth  Goddamn it! 😡 You jerks are going to make me look up Dyson Sphere, aren’t you? 🤬
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  2686.  @chitorunya  [Help me out here. Are we doing a comedy bit, or are you serious? I was just trying to be funny with a dumbass statement. I wasn’t trying to troll people.]
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  2687.  @bmouch1018  About Dyson Spheres or about how to be funny? 😫😛
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  2688.  @bmouch1018  [by the way, I love your positivity. 👍]
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  2689.  @WhatIsSanity  We are cosmic brothers!
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  2690.  @Jona7Fer  Can you recommend a church that has a Dyson Sphere? I have faith in the Lord and all that, but we’re talking about a supernova here.
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  2691. We have the second amendment so that her husband or father can protect her. (JUST KIDDING!) I’m sure she will be OK. She is now a witness for the committee and will be a Federal Witness and the FBI takes those duties seriously.
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  2692. MUH EGGS
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  2693. Of course you don’t want to lose independence. You want to be more like Texas if you ever become a state. 😊
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  2694. How much of your aquifer is fed from the Himalayas? You might not be shoveling snow, but snow might have a big impact on your life.
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  2695.  @charleslindsey6789  It’s a new hypothesis that explains the wide range of symptoms of Covid that “seems” to be a better explanation than the cytokine storm hypothesis, which doesn’t explain all the reported symptoms. A Bradykinnin Storm is a rapid and overwhelming release of Bradykinnins into the blood stream. I’m just starting to look for information on bradykinnins, so don’t as me about what they are. 😄
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  2696. Bricsium. That’s it. That’s the ticket. New improved Bricsium, now with 20% more blockchain.
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  2697.  @wgowshipping Just be glad you’re not a Sovereign Citizen. Those guys get extremely confused about admiralty law.
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  2698.  @РоманКоваль-л5я  What do you call a guy whose father was a Chechen and mother was British? Cechenglish!
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  2699.  @sistahfreedom4883  I sympathize with your sentiment, but the community doesn’t have legal standing or a cause of action against Trump or JD Vance. That might change if individuals in the community become victims to violence incited by Trump, Vance, and others (in which case, the individual victims have standing and cause), but let us pray it doesn’t come to that. Unless or until there is violence perpetrated against Haitians because of Trump’s and Vance’s smears, what they are saying is protected political speech. There is a remedy for their hateful speech and encouragement of racism: voting. Deny Trump a second term and vote Vance and other racists out of office. This next election is crucial to preserving our Democracy and our freedoms.
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  2700. How long have you been a clone?
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  2701.  @MonsieurDean  I question your delineation of the Bajio. Seeing how far off the mark you are in that, I wonder how much else you got wrong. Hijole!
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  2702.  @WALTERBROADDUS  cheaper than all you can eat shrimp? Or do you mean not cheaper for the Red Lobster?
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  2703. Of course there are, but note that Pete himself says he doesn’t know what Chinese collapse will look like, because the scale is unprecedented. When Pete makes these predictions, he’s looking at what the data is telling him about trends. When he gets into hard-to-predict territory and the unknown, he favors the worse case scenario as his best guess. He is pretty bold with his predictions in general, but when there is uncertainty he says so. When there is more certainty on something, he gets specific—like his prediction that the collapse will begin by 2030 or earlier is specific. (And part of my enjoyment of Pete’s presentations is that he is willing to go out on a limb.) Anyway, Pete’s strength and expertise, is demographic/economic analysis (let’s call it population, industrial and energy, and food inputs to an economy). He’s less strong in other aspects of geopolitics (imho) but is conversant in those aspects. Watch this video again (it’s worth it and not too long) and watch carefully for his specific claims and for his uncertainty. Pete often sounds over confident (and it’s true that he sometimes gets out of his specific lane), but he’s pretty clear about where he is certain and where he is uncertain. And let me throw something out there. What if contraction of the global economy and the economic collapse of major countries IS the optimistic best case scenario?😮
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  2704.  @nickfries4317  This reminds me of the movie Unforgiven. I’m just paraphrasing here, but I think Clint Eastwood said something like, “You take a man’s parking space, you better arm yourself.”
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  2705. Same way it works in the U.S.
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  2706. It’s a good idea to investigate and to have a watchdog agency. The redevelopment board might be completely honest, but it’s better to check.
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  2707.  @Frank-Thoresen  The strategy used in recent times by the Grand Duchy of Fenwick has been security by obscurity. Computer experts say it shouldn’t work, but few people have even heard of the Grand Duchy of Fenwick, and among those that have, most think that it’s a fictional country. I don’t think the U.S. State Department even has a Grand Duchy of Fenwick desk anymore.
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  2708. Unfortunately, even the equipment captured intact needs weeks of overhaul and maintenance before it’s usable. Might be better to just sell the parts on eBay.
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  2709.  @brycekleinschmidt438  It was the man squaring up and approaching the woman (the shooter was a woman, I think) after yelling at her and waving his arms around, that might justify the shooting. The excuse for parking in her parking spot was that they were just dropping the guy off. You don’t even need to park if you’re just dropping someone off. You don’t even need to enter the parking lot. You can just pull over to the curb and let the guy out. I think this was handled wrong by all involved. But there are too many unknowns before we can start assuming anyone is guilty of a crime.
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  2710. Ukraine needs local numerical superiority of 3:1. That’s the basic rule of thumb for attackers vs defenders. 4:1 is better, etc. I think Ukraine has the numbers. They’ve been training hundreds of thousands soldiers for five or six months now, and the bulk of those soldiers haven’t shown up on the battlefield. They’ve spent the last two weeks shaping the battlefield, making it difficult for Russia to reinforce and resupply Kherson. Ukraine isn’t guaranteed success, but their chances are pretty good. It will be costly, though. Let’s have no illusions about that. A lot of soldiers on both sides are going to die.
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  2711. Maybe you can give him yoga lessons.
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  2712.  @captiannemo1587  Sal is our lighthouse.
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  2713. I heard of this guy. He’s called “Goat the Bounty Hunter”, although his friends call him Cabron.
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  2714. John says that he’s taking 4000 IU/day, and that if you want to go higher, check with your doctor. I’m taking 2000 UI/day, but I live in a more southern part of the world and have better access to sunlight.
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  2715. It’s not straight, it kind of bends to left.
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  2716.  @lesalbro8880  It’s probably similar to how some white Americans assert that non-white Americans aren’t “real Americans”.
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  2717.  @EoaOcampo  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2718.  @karlhawkes  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2719.  @diceblue6817  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2720.  @essanjay8604  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  2721.  @brianbbrianbrian You could also mention that land was promised to both Arab Palestinians and Jewish Palestinians alike for their help in defeating the Ottoman Empire. Unfortunately, the same land was promised to both groups. We could probably begin an academic debate over whether decolonization-done-badly is decolonization at all, or if we should call it a post-colonial shitshow. What I’ve discovered over the years is that EVERYTHING in the region is complicated and Byzantine, nothing is clear cut, and no side can claim moral or ethical purity. The more one tries to unravel the history in an objective way, the more one wants to bang their head against the wall. Nevertheless, we must still grapple with that history and the legacy of colonialism. We are adult men and women, not moral infants like those that storm military transports on the U.S. West Coast with false cries of genocide, or those that equate all Palestinians with Hamas and hope for an actual genocide.
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  2722. Clearly, the Russians reserve their most advanced guided missiles and cruise missiles for purely civilian targets, such as shopping malls and theaters.
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  2723. They went from circle jerk to circular firing squad in less than a month.
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  2724. Nah, but yeah, maybe. The U.S. is in the process of rebuilding its own capacity. If we want to accelerate that, it would be better to utilize shipyards of our closest neighbors, and encourage their expansion. That doesn’t mean we can’t buy components and trade technology. We can learn from each other. I dare say we have been learning from one another over the past 60-70 years in a variety of areas.
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  2725.  @HelamanGile  You’re not crazy for wondering this. I’ll stick with the simpler explanation, but your conjecture is plausible and I wouldn’t discount it completely. I imagine the investigators haven’t discounted it either, and are following leads just in case.
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  2726. All of those or just preparing for a new offensive. Or just digging in for an occupation while resupplying for an offensive after the ground firms up.
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  2727. I’d put in a bridge but I can’t find the chorus.
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  2728.  @smileygladhands  How expensive is it to ship in bulk via airplanes?
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  2729.  @billchepil5933  I imagine it’s changed a great deal in the past fifty years. And I imagine it will change more over the next fifty. Maybe this is self-evident, but Peter’s predictions (or anyone else’s) don’t and can’t take into account climate change. We just don’t know what long term changes we might see in Africa or anywhere else. This makes model formulation exceedingly difficult.
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  2730. Make America Golf Again! Where are our great leaders, men like Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino, men who golfed, men who weren’t afraid of walking around and hitting balls with sticks?
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  2731.  @ribriot4884 I thought Texas was a strong 2A state, and now you’re telling me you can’t constitutionally carry cluster munitions?
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  2732. His wife corrected him.
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  2733. A lot of the commenters didn’t watch the video, don’t understand the law, and prefer to base their opinions on “common sense” bereft of facts and logic. I really don’t know why they watch law related channels. Perhaps it’s a way of fueling their need to feel outraged.
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  2734. Where did it all start? That time he stole a couple of parking validation stamps was the start of his slide down that slippery slope.
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  2735. Is Dearie trying to get Trump on the record on all the bizarre stuff he’s been saying in public but pointedly not stating in court?
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  2736. The amount of energy going into China is quite small. There just isn’t infrastructure, and it will take 10 years and many billions of dollars to build any such infrastructure. China is buying future deliveries at a great discount. I don’t think the amounts they’re buying are anything more than a temporary thin lifeline while also being long term leverage over the Kremlin. What have you heard about manufacturing agreements between Russia and China? Do you mean component smuggling?
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  2737. It’s only a matter of time before the U.S. invades itself.
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  2738.  @misterrea861  or not on point, as it were. 😉
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  2739.  @mghegotagun  So don’t falsify documents and commit fraud in New York. Why is that hard to understand? And when you’re being sued for fraudulently inflating the value of your property, don’t say, “everybody does it”, that’s an admission of guilt.
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  2740.  @bcluett1697  Given that the advertisements often contain more graphically violent imagery than the videos in question, the argument that YouTube is catering to advertisers’ sensibilities is unsupportable. YouTube also still sells ads for demonetized videos, which also undermines that argument. The evidence shows that YouTube is arbitrarily imposing its standards merely to cheat creators of commissions. YouTube doesn’t have the right to engage in unfair business practices despite the right of a company to make a profit.
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  2741.  @MattyB7  Nah. This kid can repent of this horrendous crime at any moment (maybe he already did), and he’ll go to tje ever loving arms of Jesus. Christianity doesn’t prevent these sorts of crimes. One can even argue that Christianity encourages mass murderers, because they know Christ will wash away their sins if they repent at the last moment.
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  2742.  @BrandyHeng007 Sure, Mister Whatabout Ruskibot.
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  2743.  @chriscorbart  Darnell had a good question and you had a good answer. Thank you to your both.
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  2744.  @Fast_Ultralight  Your current government is also a coalition, no? You’re doing pretty good, given all the negotiations and deal making that has to go on between the parties, even internally within each party. It’s not ideal, but it’s democracy in action.
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  2745.  @chrisschultz8598 Correct spelling, but Columbus wasn’t razed. Not even close. We should endeavor towards both correct spelling and correct definitions, don’t you think?
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  2746.  @SirAntoniousBlock  the Soviet Union was “disolved”? Or rebranded? Personally I think they should have gone with NEW-SSR.
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  2747.  @robertmoir5695  If they can be safely relocated far from human habitation, there is no need to destroy them, but I understand your impulse. It’s a natural reaction.
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  2748. Same.
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  2749.  @Wildflower0705  you could wear this mask over the required one, no? The layered look is quite fashionable.
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  2750. You expect it to be handed to you on a platter? Democracy is something we have to work at, and we must remember that.
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  2751. We’re more familiar with the term “clusterfuck”, which expresses the same idea. It’s also commonly used outside the military context, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it has a military origin.
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  2752. Are your teachers not unionized?
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  2753. Shells just bounce off of it. 😫 Is Russia in competition with Roadrunner cartoon’s Acme Company?
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  2754.  @savannah505  You apparently are operating with a faulty understanding of the word “investigate”. It does not mean ordering law enforcement agencies under your control to dig up dirt on your political opponents. I’m awaiting your “the other side does it” deflection. Actually, I won’t. I’m tired of countering lies and distortions with the truth.
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  2755. Still, it could have been a lot worse. The restitution seems like the worst part of it, but that’s probably based on statute and the judge’s hands are tied. The reporting didn’t mention if she’d get time served credit on her probation.
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  2756. Interesting fact is that the Soviet and now Russian “professional” officer corps are probably more focused than any other military on breaking down all the factors into numbers to determine best strategies. The problem that they have been encountering is that they don’t have accurate numbers or anything close to an accurate picture, and they’re being tasked by leaders that are even less in possession of the facts.
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  2757. AMLO is a dunce, but Nicaragua should have been invited.
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  2758. It’s nuts. “Breaking the streak” by an insignificant amount on a single statistic does not reverse a trend. It’s truly irrational exuberance. It also ignores every other trend related to this pandemic: daily record breaking numbers on infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. And he can’t help but get a dig in at emergency measures that have a “negative” effect. He’s a lunatic cheerleader enthusiastic that fewer yards were lost on the last play.
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  2759. You are making an intelligent argument. Perhaps I shouldn’t be shocked that you are not mixing up the omnibus spending bill with the relief bill. Not shocked, pleasantly surprised. What I would like to see is a simple explanation of each line item in the spending bill. The explanation should include the name of the congressperson sponsoring it (or a note that it’s part of the President’s budget request). There might be very good reasons for some or all of the foreign aid, but we just don’t know. So I’d support your moratorium, at least UNTIL we get reasonable explanations in clear language for each budget line item.
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  2760. Do you not understand the numbering system at use?
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  2761. What does Pete do that is different from you? It’s easy to blame others for not recognizing your genius (and it might even be true), but if you’ve been having trouble getting your ideas across, take a hard look at what Pete actually does and how he does it, and then compare it to your own efforts. First thing is that Pete puts in a lot of work, studying and analyzing the data, and then picking out what he thinks are the important trends. Second thing is what you call his eloquence. Some of this might be a natural gift, but I’ll bet money that he has a lot of practice. However, I think much of his eloquence comes from the work mentioned above. Because he’s extensively thinking and analyzing the material, he’s boiling down the complicated into the simplified. A third part is his charisma. Maybe you have that. I don’t. 😅 Pete’s charisma is a major reason why he reaches a large audience. I think you and I are thinking about much smaller audiences. And the hard truth is that Pete puts in a lot of work to be able to condense his ideas into 5-10 minute videos, work that I’m just not going to do. Anyway, the upshot is this: 1) It’s not just you, 2) respect Pete’s expertise, 3) give yourself some credit for however much work you put into grasping the material, 4) understand that not everyone can take in your ideas, but that doesn’t make them dumb. You can get better but it’s a waste of time to disparage yourself or your audience if they don’t get it. Anyway, I hope that helps!
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  2762. To be fair, I don’t think the State Department was issuing visas to Chinese and Russian citizens to attend the rally. A lot of people wanted to go, but weren’t allowed into the country.
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  2763. Unstick yourself from the false analogy. It’s a bad hypothetical. Here’s the thing about hypotheticals used as counter examples: they must be at least remotely plausible. When the U.S. threatens to invade Mexico after first annexing Baja California, and after it it foments an insurgency in Tamaulipas and invades Mexico up to Monterrey in support of this fake insurgency, we can talk about your absurd hypothetical.
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  2764.  @tooltalk  What happened with solar panels was especially egregious because Chinese companies basically stole U.S. companies IP. And we’re supposed to let it go because China “has a different concept of IP”. I don’t often criticize the trade policies of Bush or Obama, but thanks Obama. Thanks, GW Bush.
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  2765. Antivax protestors shut down Los Angeles’ largest vaccinated site at Dodger Stadium. Publicity materials told protestors to leave their MAGA hats, shirts, and other paraphernalia at home. They were told to leave their flags at home, but to bring “informational signs” to educate the public (the folks lined up for miles in their cars). I don’t have a clear picture of how they shut it down. Reports are just coming in.
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  2766. I happen to know Carl, Randal’s father. Not only is he dishonest, but his mental level is just above that of a rock. A brain damaged rock that has been hiding under another rock. Carl’s son, Randal, is equally dumb and dishonest.
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  2767.  @fridgehorse  without more information and definitive proof, I think it’s a “might help, won’t hurt” action one can take. It’s not purely wishful thinking, as Vitamin D is well known to boost the immune system, and Vit D deficiencies are also a well known problem in many many countries, especially during Winter. I also think we can talk about it without getting bogged down in conspiracy theories.
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  2768.  @kiraalialeeonfairythegreenone  These are all very good points, but I think he meant “baby chickens”. At least that’s how I read it.
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  2769.  @matthewmanzi9504  You must be wrong. The TV news has stories every night about how terrible the economy is. Do you even watch Newsmax or Fox? 😉
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  2770. For-profit colleges or traditional private colleges?
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  2771. This doesn’t apply in a democracy, since we are the government and hold power over the government. The majority rules and there are safeguards to protect the rights of those not in the majority (and the rights of everyone). If you fear the government, or want it to fear you, maybe something is wrong with you.
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  2772. Sitting around and engaging in idle speculation with your friends is not science. To make it science, one thing you do is conduct experiments and/or collect observations, and compare the evidence with your hypothesis. If you didn’t do the science, science hasn’t “caught up to you”. Science confirmed your idle speculation, as it often does because people engage in so much idle speculation.
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  2773. If this is ever adapted, and I hope I’m wrong, but it’s going to be ultra-violent pornography and that will be a shame. If you like UV Porn, good for you, enjoy the hell out of favorite flavor. I might or might not join you. But don’t support this being adapted to live action or animated. It will trivialize a great novel and that will be a shame. Instead of waiting for an adaptation, reread the trilogy. If you haven’t read the two books that precede Blood Meridian, read them.
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  2774.  @NeuroScientician  Mines don’t care either, I imagine. In either case, more hull integrity could lead to higher turret launches! 😉
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  2775. Easy defense: Thank goodness you found it! I’ve been looking for this everywhere! What, you’ve never lost your shit?
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  2776. I’m going to bawl, too, if I ever get married. But not out of happiness, I’ll cry because most of my friends are married or were married and I know what’s in store.
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  2777. STOP TROLLING If it’s not your intent to troll. Ask yourself if you’re really adding anything to the conversation, or just saying something to say something.
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  2778. South America is not a country. It does not have a single government to “allow” anything. Your limited capacity to take in basic information is on display.
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  2779. Sun Tzu also said, “Do the obvious when the obvious is needed. Don’t always be such a clever smartass. If the enemy bends over and grabs his ankles, go ahead an put it up his butt. Also read what Napoleon will say a thousands of year in the future.” Sun Tzu also said, “The greatest weapon is trite advice given with the imprimatur of some ancient wise guy.”
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  2780. STOP LYING
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  2781.  @steveskouson9620  Machined or just smoothed/polished (either mechanically or by hand)? Cast iron’s structure doesn’t lend itself to milling, which is what I think of when you say machining. Compared to other materials, such as steel, cast iron is actually porous. This gives cast iron its unique cooking properties: it takes longer to heat than stainless steel, for example, but retains heat longer.
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  2782. @Timmy I suppose that fact that you can provide no evidence that evidence is being suppressed is further evidence of a conspiracy to hide evidence. But have you considered Time Travelers? Time Travelers could go back in time to scrub evidence from the geological record before it becomes part of the geological record. They could get up to all sorts of shenanigans in the current age to hide their existence while casting suspicion on contemporary government conspiracies. I find the Time Traveller much more convincing and much more elegant that the logical twists you need to do to entertain your conspiracy theories. However, if you don’t mind tying yourself in knots, you must admit that my theory is at least equally plausible, reasonable, and as scientifically testable as yours. One day, though, the time travelers are going to slip up and create a timeline where they don’t exist. On that day we can feel safer but we won’t know that we can feel safe, since there will be no evidence that they don’t exist. Thus, they probably already don’t exist and we can be at ease. See? The problem takes care of itself.
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  2783. Please no. As Sal Mercogliano (of What’s Going on with Shipping) has pointed out numerous times, Peter does not have a strong grasp on the Jones Act. You should take your question to someone with expertise (like Sal). Pete is not an expert on everything, even if he has a bug about some of the Jones Act provisions.
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  2784.  @ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869  Do you follow the shoe sect or the gourd sect?
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  2785. Lol, it looks like an album cover from the 60s or 70s. 😂
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  2786. They’re keeping their AF reserves to defend Russia. They can’t spare more for this optional offensive. Same with reserve ground forces and equipment. This is Putin’s wad, and he’s shot it. Unfortunately for him, it’s blowing back into his face 💨
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  2787. One Five Five Geofencing
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  2788. It’s a spectrum. On one end you have insufficient/ineffective. On the other you have dropping nukes on civilian targets that have little or no strategic value. It’s actually very difficult to pinpoint “proportionate” on that line. It’s better to err in the side of too much than too little. Doing too little also leads to perpetual war. Israel’s biggest mistake has been ignoring or even hampering humanitarian aid for civilians. If Israel can evacuate Rafah and provide the refugees with the necessary medical and food aid, they can be as disproportionate as they want going after Hamas.
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  2789. Larry Randall Brock, Junior is now on the terrorist no fly list 😆 Oof, that’s gotta sting. Not as much as his prison sentence, but a pilot on the no fly list leaves him without a trade. Maybe he can become a video game ace when he gets out of prison.
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  2790.  @Jarsia  or to count
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  2791. Increase your Thorazine dosage.
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  2792. His telegram channel is viewable on the website. You don’t need to use the app to just view it.
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  2793. You need to look up the definition of “oxymoron”. Covid-19 is as much an oxymoron as it is a palindrome.
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  2794. Interesting. I suppose you could do real world pressure testing of the design and materials with uncrewed vessels being sent down to the appropriate depths. And really, you’d want to test at greater depths than the location of the Titanic to try and determine your point of failure. But that leads me to a weird question. Could you build a test model at 4x scale (for example, for a 10 cubic meter container, you build a 40 cubic meter container) for testing at lower pressures to derive the desired data?
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  2795. Maybe Elon Musk can buy it.
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  2796. Why imagine it. Watch the video and see it.
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  2797. To paraphrase a line from the movie Chinatown, “It’s Florida, Jake.” There’s crime everywhere in the U.S. If it seems more prevalent in Polk County, it’s because Grady Judd takes transparency and building community trust seriously—even if it makes his department look bad (last week’s arrest of one of his deputies, for example). Also, it’s Florida. 😄
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  2798.  Ben Dover  The good old S/M defense? To win, you’d probably have to show a history of engaging in the hobby of S/M. Let’s look at a case of suspected domestic abuse. It’s not unheard of for the victim of the abuse to defend the abuser—there are laws on the books that allow prosecution anyway although such cases can be very difficult to win if the witness doesn’t cooperate. There are also going to be situations where the victim has been intimidated into claiming there was consent in an ordinary assault. This could apply to the domestic abuse and the S/M situation, too. I don’t know for a fact, but I think one factor would be the level of injury. Visible marks, cuts, and scrapes would be one level. Broken bones, fractures, and the like would be a more serious level. I think that in some situations, prosecutors would bring charges against the top for S/M activities if they resulted in serious bodily injuries, such as fractured or broken bones, even if the bottom claimed consent. They would be looking at circumstantial evidence as well as victim/witness testimony. Investigators might ask the neighbors if there was a history of domestic fighting. There might be hospital records from previous incidents.
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  2799. It sure does. I’m at risk of anaphylactic shock. I’ll still get vaccinated, but it’s a worry. I’m nowhere near the top of the list, so it’s not as much as a worry right now, and it’s not like there is no treatment for anaphylaxis. The data is reassuring, but the individual stories help make it personal. Maybe that’s confirmation bias? 😄 Anyway, I’m hearing many stories of successful vaccinations. So far no one who has died from a vaccination has seen fit to comment about it. 😆 (The seriously bad reactions reported are always third hand (or further degree of separation), or a dubious video promoted by antivaxxers.)
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  2800.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  2801.  @manddca  ISPs send out firmware updates and they don’t usually notify you of it. Sometimes these updates reset the wifi password to the original password (which appears on the modem). This presents a security risk on consumer grade modems. Ryan didn’t explain this in detail—it’s a small risk but it is real. With regards to American waste, I think it’s great that it makes you feel better about yourself. Your self-righteousness is a beautiful flower that enriches your existence. It helps you avoid looking at your own shitty behavior.
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  2802. The early results were near 50/50, and there’s been nothing new that contradict those findings. ☹️ Unfortunate for me personally, as my host country is using it and I’m not about to risk air travel to get back to the U.S. until there is a lot more improvement there.
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  2803.  @adamrak7560  anal decompression would explain the rectal bleeding.
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  2804.  @Hybris51129  The trend goes back to 2000 at least. Rumsfeld was hired as sec def to “streamline” the military, and this is what we were doing up to 9/11 and after. Remember “you go to war with the army you have, not with the army you want”? The war was also supposed to pay for itself. Cheney said that. The trillions spent in Iraq and Afghanistan is money that could have gone into the regular defense budget. And lest you think I’m picking on George Bush, Obama continued Bush’s policies. And don’t get me started on the” can you throw me a big military parade with tanks and shit” President.
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  2805. You see that, too? Russia, wanting to be a great power will instead become a Chinese client *because China is comfortable with Russian corruption and can work with it*.
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  2806. Not quite. After the U.S. left, the South Vietnamese government continued to receive military supplies from the U.S. It is this equipment that fell into the hands of the VPA, not abandoned U.S. equipment.
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  2807. The restrictions are necessary because people of ALL ages won’t voluntarily practice safety precautions. I don’t think that it’s specifically young people that inclined to immaturity, but that they are more inclined to social activities. However, there are actuarial statistics that support the notion that the young are more reckless: take note of car insurance rates that seemingly penalize the young for merely being young. The truth is that younger drivers are riskier than older ones. This last summer and early fall, college campuses were hot spots. But anyway, I don’t think we should fight. If we are unhappy about the restrictions, we shouldn’t blame the restrictions themselves, but the selfish ninnies OF ALL AGES that make them necessary.
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  2808. Same in Los Angeles. In supermarket parking lots in the Mexican neighborhoods, people sell tamales y atole from the back of their cars. Of course, now that I’m in Mexico, I know tamaleros. My friend Conchita will shout up to my window or have one of her kids ring the doorbell when she passes my apartment. I generally like rajas con queso or verde con pollo, but I once had an incredible tamal of pollo, championes, and queso. The best tamal I’ve ever eaten. What’s your favorite?
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  2809. Trump said it on a dare for $5.
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  2810. This is why it’s called “prepping”. The idea is to prepare ahead of time for likely situations. That said, there are other ways to bend copper tube. This is just an easy method you can use while you still have electricity (and your huge freezer. Wait, you don’t have a huge freezer? Where do you store your game? No, I’m not talking about MtG.)
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  2811.  @jamessimms415  Last I heard, he worked for a tailor as a pin cushion.
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  2812. So sorry to hear you’re unable to use Google.
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  2813. $1 million worth of UNVs vs. a single ship worth $10-500 million. We’re only beginning to see the applications for aerial and naval drones, especially in combination roles. Autonomous semi-submersible UAV launchers (basically stealth drone aircraft carriers) could get drones within range of Kerch Bridge.
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  2814. Russia has found that the most effective propaganda is confusing contradictory messages that make people doubt the facts. The problem is that this cloud of confusion affects the Russian military and political leadership just as much as the populace.
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  2815. Saludos from Mexico!
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  2816. You’ve been on YouTube for two weeks, and you think people are talking about you? Is this schizophrenic paranoia or delusions of grandeur?
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  2817. Point.
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  2818.  @ivansytsev2581  Yes, Naval and amphibious capabilities, PLUS air superiority. For this type of operation you need control of the air, perhaps supremacy of the air.
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  2819. You’re afraid of a majority cream color?
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  2820. Mearshimer uses the outlandish example of Mexico because the obvious real world example doesn’t support his claim. Cuba was closely aligned with the USSR, and the U.S. did not invade it. We can get into other misconceptions you might have about the U.S. and Cuba, but the bottom line is that the U.S. has lived peacefully with an unfriendly neighbor for over 60 years. We didn’t bomb it. We didn’t bombard it from naval batteries. The Marines didn’t invade it, nor did paratroopers land at the Havana airport. Mearshimer is full of crap. Putin might have mentioned to Clinton (a lame duck President in his last six months of office) the idea of Russia joining NATO, but he NEVER asked NATO to join. If he had any real desire to do so, why didn’t he ask George W. Bush? If you like distorted and revisionist history, you’ll love John Mearsheimer.
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  2821.  @Mr..Malice  He’s run out of his liquid coping mechanism and the liquor stores are closed. Like any other Putzi, he’s beginning to feel desperate. He knows he might get called up soon to go die face down in the Ukrainians mud.
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  2822.  @kimnovack  “Dirty Dems and Rogue Republicans”. lol, you mean patriotic Americans?
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  2823. Pete isn’t my go-to guy for military analysis. He might have a better conceptual grasp of logistics and how it’s done, but he shouldn’t pretend to understand strategy with the confidence he exhibits. Crimea is the most defensible and will be the most difficult nut to crack.
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  2824.  @ninjabearpress2574  I agree he should have. BUT show me the criminal code that requires this. Such a law wouldn’t survive a 2nd amendment challenge. Baldwin might be liable for a civil claim (where the victims, their families, or their estates sue for damages), but he didn’t violate any criminal laws. So, there’s a good chance he will pay part of a civil claim if he is named in it (in addition to other responsible parties, including the insurer of the production). In fact, I bet he will settle and avoid trial if it comes to this. I think the worst thing he will suffer is the knowledge that he accidentally killed a friend and colleague, and that he could have easily prevented the accident. He’s going to carry that the rest of his life, and that moral guilt is worse than any damages he has to pay.
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  2825. Did you read the description? Sound out the words.
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  2826.  @alidabotes6264  Very few are going to survive. They aren’t meant to come back. NK is selling these soldiers to Russia as commodities, as raw material. Russia is expected to use them up and ask for more.
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  2827. He’s quoting “old Chinese sayings”, not so much Mao’s Little Red Book. The speech sounded more like a box of fortune cookies.
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  2828.  @-nobodycares-1457  Are you talking about the guy in the truck? Because he became a criminal when he came back for seconds.
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  2829. Technically and thermodynamically, heat is just a form of energy. Technically, for the purpose of making calculations, heat energy is the same as kinetic energy. You’re trying to apply our everyday non-technical understanding to a scientific problem.
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  2830. Alec Baldwin’s actions on that day led to the accidental death of his coworker. I have no doubt about it. Whether his actions amounted to negligent manslaughter was a question I hoped a jury would decide. But the actions of the Special Prosecutor and her investigators (including the crime scene technician Poppel) are an attack on the principles of fairness, of impartial justice. The conduct of the Special Prosecutor was an attack on us all, and the only repair for that attack was a dismissal of the case. It is unfortunate that Baldwin’s guilt or innocence is unresolved, but the judge’s decision was just. It was necessary, or we don’t have a constitutional system of criminal justice.
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  2831. Why do you find it necessary to bring politics into everything?
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  2832. Congratulations on reaching and surpassing 100,000. 🍻
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  2833.  @GNP3WP3W  oh, ye of little faith. Know you not that Trump turned 5 loaves into 5 rent controlled apartments? A miracle, I tell you!
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  2834. He destroyed the 5G network that was controlling his mind. The irony is that it was a 4G network that told him to do it.
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  2835. You’re making the mistake of conflating Russian speakers with ethnic Russians. To whatever degree that Ukrainian Russian speakers felt sympathetic to Russia, that support has been evaporating over the last six months. Even Separatists in the Donbas are rethinking their loyalty to Russia as they realize they will have even less independence as a Russian colony, and they see the brutality of the Russian military.
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  2836. Did you see this channel’s name?
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  2837. Then vote in elections, at a minimum. Stop listening to the idiots that tell you that you live in a tyranny.
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  2838. In a world of deep fakes, Ryan bucks the trend and makes an add with a shallow fake. And we are all better for it.
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  2839.  @cowardhackers4485  Something I’ve noticed about the behavior of conspiracy nutters, they will use anything to buttress their illogical beliefs. They latch onto keywords, so my silly joke about cell phone mind control triggers a response as surely as a ringing bell makes Pavlov’s dogs salivate.
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  2840. It can’t factor into the calculation because it’s a total unknown at this point. But let’s be clear—strong AI ain’t going to happen, so it’s not going to be symbiotic. AI is going to be “prosthetic” just like every other tool humanity as developed. Also, to further clarify, weak AI can’t be improved into strong AI, no more than you can imbue a hammer with a soul. We might develop very very good weak AI, but that doesn’t surmount the hurdle of consciousness.
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  2841. It’s not fair, but the virus is not fair. Do you think you can hang in there for a month or two before you get your vaccination? Granted, it might be better to maintain a total lockdown until all have been vaccinated.
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  2842. Giving college lectures in a haunted house is a genius idea!
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  2843. To hell with that, I’ll just say appetizer or can of peas.
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  2844.  @Theire1  My mom was born in 1940. When she used to bemoan high prices, she talked about the movie ticket costing 10¢, the popcorn and candy was 10¢, and the soft drink was 5¢. Your dad’s story is sad and funny at the same time.
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  2845.  @michaeldrone520  Go breathe somewhere else, like a Trump rally.
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  2846. I think it was an autocomplete error that Dr. Campbell overlooked. When he was discussing the case, he said “IMMUNOCOMPROMISED”.
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  2847. The cruise industry DID shut down!
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  2848. Los deplorables
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  2849.  @bbcpfghs  poor lighting, no makeup/hair. It means he’s following pandemic protocols, no? He didn’t sound tired, but he looks older.
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  2850.  @noir1923  Who, the U.S.? The U.S. uses these air defense systems to test its own weapons under development, so it’s not like they’re just laying around in storage. If the U.S. is sending the systems to Ukraine, it’s because it thinks that Ukraine self-defense is more important than our own weapon development.
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  2851.  @rodshoaf  On what legal basis could you compel him to pay back travel expenses or the builder’s legal costs? If you are going to require someone to do something, there has to be a foundation in the law.
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  2852. Was it two guys with a third on the stretcher getting attacked? Or was it a group of soldiers, among whom were the two stretcher bearers and the injured soldier? There was the one video of a casevac where a few other soldiers jump in the unmarked vehicle to grab a ride, and that 100% makes the vehicle fair game. It turned the casevac from an evacuation into troop movement.
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  2853. I enjoyed the presentation very much and I learned a lot. Thank you. I enjoyed the chat to until the climate change trolls all showed up.
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  2854.  @HomeFromFarAway  You are correct to a degree, but socialism is literally the incorporation of multiple corporations into the government, which then operates as a single all powerful corporation. If capitalism is bad because of the tendency of corporations to grab power, socialism is worse.
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  2855.  @wyseln  You’re not talking about government, you’re talking about cooperative enterprises.
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  2856. The surprise twist that will surprise no one: Putin also pays Trump a bounty for every American soldier killed.
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  2857.  @tomjohnson4681  If there was any doubt that you are human garbage, you’ve removed it with your cruel response.
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  2858. The Kremlin uses the economically poor Central Asia republics as cannon fodder farms by keeping them poor. As the men of the ‘stans die in Ukraine, Putin will send in more ethnic Russians to replace them in their own countries in order to colonize them. Economic development and exploitation of resources will be for Russia and Russian colonists, not for those native to the Central Asia ‘stans.
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  2859. “Sir, this is a Wendy’s and I’m not a screenwriter.”
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  2860. 7:41 The map looks so festive!
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  2861.  @davianoinglesias5030  Agreed, but I think you left out overweening bureaucracies. And those obstacles you mentioned are not at all easy to overcome. It’s easier to identify them broadly as you have done. But the work must be done, even if it’s done imperfectly, even if there are setbacks. There is always a lot of resistance from entrenched interests that benefit from the corruption, misappropriation, and mis prioritization. And these interests are always eager to deflect blame onto the U.S. and the dollar. Still, there are developing nations that are doing the hard work and liberalizing their economies while addressing the issues. Progress can seem slow but progress is being made. The truth is, most of the anti-dollar sentiment is geopolitical not financial. Certain countries are feeling discouraged and constrained from attacking their neighbors militarily for fear of sanctions, and those that do anyway are suffering from the sanctions and providing an object lesson. The benefit to the U.S. might not be financial, but having the reserve currency is a sort of immunity for doing all kinds of heinous shit. The sanctions tool cannot be successfully applied to the U.S. As an American, I think this is unfortunate. Policymakers would have to think twice and then a third and forth time before embarking on a reckless course of action (as the U.S. does from time to time). The rest of the world will have to find some other way of keeping U.S. foreign policy honest. I don’t think financial pressures will do it, not even getting cut off from oil.
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  2862. Those would be state charges. I wish Lawyer Greg had gotten into that, but I don’t think he practices in California and probably was hesitant to comment on an area outside his expertise. Instead he got sidetracked by the question about civil claims.
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  2863.  @logicalconceptofficial  The U.N. has many different missions, but its main mission is as a diplomatic forum. People who are disappointed that “nothing substantive gets done” fail to understand this.
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  2864. A lot of armchair generals have learned to say the word logistics, but few know what it means. It’s just a word they invoke to sidestep their ignorance.
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  2865. What genocide? Do you even know what the word means? War crimes and crimes against humanity by the IDF and Israel’s government? That seems to be the case. But it’s hyperbolic rhetoric to call it genocide.
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  2866. OCD much? Hahaha, I noticed it, too. It was hypnotic.
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  2867. The homeowners need to install security bears, uh, bars on the windows.
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  2868. It’s not clear what depth limitations, but they exceeded the volume and they put the excavated material to use as construction material (such as breaking rocks into gravel to help make concrete). Turning your foundation holes into an impromptu quarry fits the legal definition of mining.
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  2869. NATO wasn’t installing offensive weapons in Cuba. It wasn’t even installing offensive weapons in the new NATO member states in the Baltic countries. Putin has stated his reasons: he wants Ukraine. He wants to reconstitute the old borders of the Soviet Union. There really is no analogy with Cuba here.
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  2870.  @Cooplander  There hasn’t even been a strike, either by IATSE or by the workers on this production. A handful of workers quitting is NOT a strike. IATSE leadership is waiting for member ratification or rejection of the negotiated contract, and that contract negotiation was not directly related to the workers quitting—their reason for quitting was unfulfilled promises of lodging/breach of an agreement they claim they had with the producers. (I tend to believe them, but who knows?) I think it’s important that we don’t obfuscate or confuse different issues here. And I repeat, there was no strike on the production of Rust, nor has IATSE declared a strike (yet).
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  2871.  @tracyhaverstick5672  There was no strike and there hasn’t been a strike. If you’re referring to the production, some workers quit in what was a dispute over lodging—one side arguing it was promised, the other side arguing it wasn’t. Quitting is not a strike. If you’re referring to the union IATSE, there still hasn’t been a strike. Membership voted in favor of a strike authorization to help them in contract negotiations. Those negotiations have been completed, and now membership must vote to ratify or reject the new contract.
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  2872. IF Biden was removed or died, there is absolutely no way Trump can be reinstated. The idea that he can is a dangerous anti-American fantasy, and it’s scary that as many as 30% of Republicans are thinking this way. Fascists.
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  2873. There’s really too many enthralled Republican voters, not to mention the opportunistic or cowardly politicians that enable Trump for their own craven purposes. The GOP’s time as a party representing decent people has passed, and the sooner decent people realize this and leave it, the better for them and the better for America. It can be hard to let go, and there are a few bravely trying to take back their party, but I fear it’s past saving. Let’s say they’re successful for the sake of argument. What have you got? How do you pull people back from their support of white supremacy/nationalism when the bright line has been crossed? Let’s say you manage to get the racists and those comfortable with supporting racists to leave the GOP. What then? The GOP will be a rump party, with a fraction of its power nationally. I think it’s far better for conservatives to register without any party affiliation, or, if their region would support it, back “moderate conservative” Democrat candidates. It might be the only way to wrest control of government (including state and local) from the fascists. Perhaps at some point it will be possible for conservatives to form a new political party, but this is no easy thing to organize. Again, you’re looking at doing it on the regional, state, and local levels.
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  2874.  @Johnston212  It’s true, and it goes back decades. The virulent strain of racism has been present since the 1960s “Southern Strategy”. The take-no-prisoners, War on Democrats goes back to Newt Gingrich in the 90s. These two tendencies won out over decency, equality, and freedom, and eventually democracy itself, preparing the way for the Cult of Trump.
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  2875.  @seancidy6008  I hate to drag out the well worn cliche, but you should know by now the maxim “Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake. The Ukrainians clearly did have a plan, which was to fall back to more defensible position and punish Russian forces for taking the less defensible ground. Defense is always reactive. The question is whether your reaction is any good.
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  2876. He wants Trump to be the bigger man, but what is he willing to do about it? He could start by sending buckets of KFC to the President three times a day, maybe hamberders as well.
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  2877.  @joeyharper4976  If he avoids punishment, it will be because a jury has acquitted him.
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  2878. Russia has access to the same OSINT that Peter does. Plus their own. The great thing about Russian disinformation and propaganda is that it infects the thinking of Russian leaders to the point where they will think Peter is spreading disinformation and/or propaganda. (And who knows, maybe he is. But I’ll continue taking him at face value unless something comes to light that would indicate he’s untrustworthy.) So I don’t worry too much about independent analysts tipping off the adversary in this case. Russia’s ability to collect and analyze objective facts is fubar and (sound familiar?) they did it to themselves.
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  2879.  @brentwalker3300  I think it took living abroad (it’s been ten years now) for me to realize that conservatism doesn’t have all the answers, and that we should be open to solutions from any direction when it comes to our most challenging problems. Looking in from the outside helped me open my eyes to the hyperpartisan nature of our current politics—a hyperpartisanship fostered by my formerly beloved GOP. (To be honest, I saw this as far back as 2006 when I left the GOP.) I truly never expected that the GOP itself would become one of our nation’s biggest problems, and I wonder if I would really see it if I hadn’t removed myself from local politics. I never saw business-as-usual liberal knee jerk politics as an existential threat (and I never mischaracterized liberals as socialists). Liberals are not, and have never been, a threat to the country, but the racism, authoritarianism, and populism that now passes as conservatism is.
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  2880.  @ColHunterGathers  Also, if he had been fighting wind, he’d have made a big deal about to make the risk seem greater and himself more heroic. I can’t wait for Trevor’s videos on being the subject of an FAA investigation, on being prosecuted for a crime, etc.
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  2881. You: Hey, I got an idea! What if we pre-sight our tubes on the cover and concealment furthest away from the tank? Me: Dude, you’re TRPing.
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  2882.  @minutemansam1214  Libertarians deny that Somalia is libertarian because they don’t get to start out as warlords.
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  2883. That’s a great metric you’ve set for yourself. I’m sure your parents are very proud.
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  2884. I agree to a certain extent, but they really are getting more than a slap on the wrist. Both Chesebro and Powell are felons, guilty of crimes in Georgia. Felons cannot vote, cannot own firearms, and cannot practice law. They cannot profit from their crimes by writing books. No one on the right will hire them, so they’ve destroyed their careers. (Perhaps they can get work as paralegals, but who would hire them?) Have you ever heard the folksy advice about fleeing a bear? You don’t have to be able to run faster than the bear. You only have to run faster than your friends. It’s similar with a RICO investigation, except the safe strategy is to run TOWARDS the bear to save yourself.
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  2885.  @michaeldrone520  That is false. You’re spreading medical misinformation. Are you ignorant or malicious?
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  2886. EWU or uwu?
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  2887. I had a friend who was an accountant, and he said his most important skill was the ability to keep a straight face and avoid outbursts like, “YOU WHAT??!!”
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  2888.  @davefarmery8180  Yes, I doubt the veracity of this video. If it’s recent, its pre invasion, during the “exercises”/build up. It’s still funny, tho.
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  2889.  @stephen8996  A soldier that might have lived another 50 years but instead died for an unworthy cause, has thrown away 50 years of life. He has truly wasted his own life.
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  2890. But he’s not suggesting or recommending it. That’s just your interpretation of what he’s saying because you are intellectually capable of adding 2 and 2 and reading between the lines. Don’t blame Mark if someone implements this thought experiment and brings down the Russian economy.
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  2891.  @ladavis1959  Why even bring that peanut into this?
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  2892.  @andrewharrison8436  I just want a place to crash, man. The sofa in the common room is fine by me.
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  2893.  @petef1273  I’d also add that the basic mechanisms for how D3 operates in the human body are already understood. Indeed, D3 is a part of our bodies’ functioning. It’s the insufficiency of Vitamin D that makes us MORE vulnerable to COVID-19 and other maladies. Contrast this with Ivermectin, an effective anti-parasite neurotoxin normally used at low doses. THERE IS NO KNOWN MECHANISMS BY WHICH IT WORKS AS AN ANTIVIRAL. High dosage studies are NOT showing convincingly the purported results that ANTIVAXXERS are claiming. Many of these studies are NOT controlling for other factors, making them less than gold standard. While low dosages have proven to be safe and effective for the treatment of parasites, the high dosages used in those studies that might indicate potential efficacy are also showing evidence that they are dangerous, possibly leading to depression, suicide, and god knows what else (we are talking about a neurotoxin, after all). Furthermore, ANTIVAXXERS are misleadingly playing with numbers, fraudulently linking low dosage widespread use for parasites with Covid statistics, without controlling for other factors. The statistical numbers they are using are questionable due to testing and reporting issues. In some cases these Antivaxxers are fabricating numbers entirely. These antivaxxers have demonstrated time after time a basic dishonesty. They use propaganda techniques, such as using fake accounts to create the impression that more people support their claims. They fraudulently try to support their claims by linking to studies that say the opposite of what they claim. They fabricate statistics or make unsupported cause/effect linkages between numbers. Finally, when all else fails, they bring forth their conspiracy theories. DO NOT BELIEVE ANTIVAXXERS.
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  2894.  @susanjones3342  Ivermectin has no proven antiviral properties. It’s use as an anti parasite at low dosages is known, but there is absolutely no known mechanism for how it could be an antiviral. Saying that it has antiviral properties is DISINFORMATION. You are repeating a lie, either intentionally or unintentionally.
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  2895. YouTube is the wrong place to look for help. Maybe try a temp agency.
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  2896.  @johmyh14  Thank you for saying it. There are all sorts of quacks out there, some of them chiropractors. Many legitimate chiropractors work with orthopedic surgeons, so I don’t dismiss the field entirely. Generally, these are chiropractors that subordinate their knowledge and experience to established medicine. They don’t make extraordinary claims they can’t support. (Generally, they don’t make claims at all, they just perform their work according to the doctor’s instructions). From my experience, after being referred to an orthopedic specialist by a neurologist, the orthopedist sent me to a chiropractor for 6 visits, and then three months of physical therapist. He had a list of recommended PTs and Chiropractors in my town, and said that if I wanted someone else, to check with him first. He said he was not receiving referral fees from anyone. A telltale sign is if a chiropractor bills himself or herself as the equivalent of a medical doctor.
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  2897. Did you get the feeling that this was the first occurrence of a protocol violation on that production? I got the impression that this wasn’t the first time, nor the first crew meeting on the topic of Covid protocol compliance. If you read between the lines, it sounds like people had tried to argue their case previously, or that they had avoided consequences by apologizing.
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  2898.  @fredbloggs5902  How long should I soak in a fortified milk bath to get full benefits?
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  2899. The Trump denials aren’t credible because he commissioned Project 2024. It’s not unusual for think tanks to offer their policy recommendations and even to lobby for their agendas towards candidates and presidents (and their cabinets) that are sympathetic. What is different this time is that their candidate is an empty vessel wrt policy. All he cares about is his personal power, his personal security, personal loyalty to him, and retribution against his opponents. Project 2025 comprehensively fills Trump’s vacuousness while also catering to his own priorities of power and revenge. It’s a roadmap to dictatorship. Let’s also be clear about understanding Trump’s denials and disavowals. The creators of Project 2025 aren’t on the outside trying to get in. They aren’t trying to win favor with Trump in furtherance of their goals of a Christian Nationalist dictatorship. They already surrounded Trump. He told them to create this plan, which he did. Trump has not thrown the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, or the creators of the plan under any buses. He’s done the politically expedient thing of pretending to be unfamiliar with it, but he hasn’t distanced himself from the plan’s authors. How could he? They make up his staff.
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  2900. They had freakin’ snow in Santa Barbara!
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  2901.  @hardanalljr.3138  The theme is caring. If you care, make the minimal effort to use the English language correctly.
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  2902.  @kutter_ttl6786  No, he didn’t identify the group other than that they were violent masked men who attacked his soldiers. A different group of masked men won’t also be asked to leave. They’ve been warned and there won’t be a second warning for other groups.
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  2903. That explains the bruises all over your face.
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  2904.  @Simboiss  I don’t think I understand your comment about America or I’m pretending not to understand. Are you mad that colonialists have appropriated the name of a colonialist? Do you feel like anyone’s cultural heritage is being infringed upon? Are you defending “Latin Culture”? Did you know it’s kind of stupid and belittling to cram all the different cultures contained in Latin America into the container of Latin Culture? (Unless you’re talking about ancient Romans, I suppose.) Try this: call someone from any country in Latin America an American. Introduce them to others as an American. Do this repeatedly until they tell you to stop. Even the name “Latin America” is a little odd. It describes a geographic area based on colonial languages. Most citizens of the various countries that make up Latin America don’t identify as Latin American. They identify as being from their country of origin (or their parents country of origin, and so on). Unless you or your ancestors are from one of these countries, maybe stop talking about it. It’s a really stupid point that falls apart when you examine it. Besides which, it’s a lame example of “American arrogance”. There is a chingo of much more egregious examples than “they stole the name America from the rest of the (Latin) Americans. And if you are from a Latin American country, I’m on to you. But seriously. Just stop. It just makes your politics look juvenile to anyone that knows better or who has learned better.
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  2905.  @doreencloutier1066 It’s more of a keep ‘em busy argument. If Trump is in court, he’s not conspiring with others to overthrow the government.
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  2906.  @davidmahoney4678  I’m glad to hear you survived and will hopefully continue to recuperate. My landlord got it in April. Elderly, but in great health for his age. He survived it, but is still very weak and tires easily. After he was released from the hospital, he went to recover in his son’s house and is still there. This is a man who used to come personally to pick up the rent and see how his tenants were doing. I’d invite him in and we’d chat over refreshments for a half hour or so. He’s a retired teacher of high school mathematics, very active socially, and very much mentally active. He’s taken up guitar in the nine years I’ve known him. He paints as a hobby (terrible paintings, but don’t tell him I said it!). When my stairs needed repair, he showed up with bags of cement, sand, and gravel and did the repair himself. I could tell he just wanted to get his hands dirty! He’s just a marvelous person, and I really hope he makes a full recovery soon.
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  2907.  @NickDixon  Yes, ivermectin is a neurotoxin that operates on the nervous systems of certain parasites. It does have wide application in humans across the world where such parasites are prevalent. While it’s possible that it has an unknown mechanism that works against COVID-19, so far the evidence is sketchy. It should be clear, however, that it’s only the deluded that think it’s a miracle cure being suppressed by the pharmaceutical industry. (And who do they think makes ivermectin? The pharmaceutical industry! Do they think if grows on trees?)
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  2908.  M Long  That’s incorrect, but was true with the original House legislation. The truth is Mnuchin has forced Pelosi to remove some but not all of these extra provisions and has forced Pelosi to cut the price tag. Both Pelosi and Mnuchin have been negotiated in good faith, but the Senate has been absent from the negotiations. And here is why: The Republicans in the Senate are divided and McConnell hasn’t been able to unite them behind any single proposal. They couldn’t even pass their own “Skinny Bill” because some GOP Senators thought it was too much and others thought it was too little. McConnell refuses to work with Democratic Senators to push anything through. Until McConnell is willing to work with the other party, his only power is to say NO. And apparently he’s happy with that state of affairs because it keeps him in power.
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  2909. Yes. They are refusing to certify their results because they believe cheating occurred elsewhere, thus depriving their own citizens of their voting rights—and potentially hurting GOP candidates just to (somehow) spite the Dems. I bet the Dems are secretly loving this. These are people almost out of ideas, so they’re using dumb ideas.
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  2910.  @tashathayer6427  A foreign agent in this context isn’t a spy. It’s a lobbyist for a foreign country. They’re required by law to register as a foreign agent for country X (or multiple countries if they represent more than one). It appears that this woman didn’t register and attempted to conceal that Russia was her employer. She isn’t being charged with spying, she’s being charged with “lobbying without a license”.
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  2911. Why would the cartels want to interfere with the movement of goods? Set aside the horrific violent crime aspects for a moment and ask yourself, “What is it that drug cartels do?”. One of the answers is that they move product from point A to point B. It would not be in their interests to interfere with cross border trade because their business IS cross border trade.
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  2912.  Sweger Shanna  The Capitol rioters did have a just cause. “Just cause they’re nuts”
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  2913.  @timsmith894  by any chance, was your vaccination station located at a Salsa dance studio?
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  2914.  @fungalmasterpiece4114  Not really. They should tell us what definition they use for terrorist acts. Some might argue that a delusional anti-5G conspiracy theory doesn’t rise to the level of a political ideology, and therefore this doesn’t qualify as a terrorist act. If the anti-5G motive holds true, I don’t think his political leanings are particularly relevant to the case. This opinion subject to change as more information is revealed.
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  2915. Sadly, they were already this way before the pandemic. Like toddlers in adult bodies.
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  2916.  @튜브개십  Your highly questionable and unproven suggestion has nothing to do with the topic. You post this in EVERY thread. You are a spammer/scammer, and I’m reporting this as spam, as should everyone else reading this.
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  2917. You might not care about King Charles’ prostate, but King Charles’ prostate cares about you. Wait a minute, I’m receiving an update. Apparently King Charles’ prostate doesn’t care about you. We now go to our panel to discuss this.
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  2918. That was terrible, but still not as bad as supporting Putin’s bounties on our troops.
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  2919.  jo shmo  Hey, Ivan. Do you get paid for each comment or by the hour?
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  2920. It’s really not, but OK. It’s irrelevant to a finding of guilt or evidence. You want to find justification that is apparently not there. Presumably the investigation found evidence that the brothers didn’t commit the crime. Maybe they were at work. Maybe it’s proven that they were far away, with witnesses. What you seem to want to do is blame the victims.
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  2921. WILT: The army is the gayest but least joyful.
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  2922. Sponges aside, there is also the thing called hard pan, a non absorbent layer in some areas.
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  2923.  @arnavrawat9864  It leaves open the possibility that a technologically advanced ancient civ used some other form of carbon, such as diamonds. This might explain the relative rarity of diamonds . 😉 (and no, I’m not being serious).
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  2924.  @kuuipopakalolo8723  I’m going to be slightly disappointed if he doesn’t try to pardon himself. It would be both interesting and funny to see the courts shred that into tiny bits when he attempted to use it. Looks like he won’t even try.
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  2925. That could be interpreted as admitting your baseline was pretty low to begin with. 😆 Pete has pretty good deep knowledge in a couple of specific areas and a decent generalist grasp in those areas outside his specialties. But be aware that sometimes he oversimplifies (it can’t be helped due to the short video format), and once in a while when he gets out of his lane, he talks out of his ass. That might be putting it too strongly. Maybe it’s better to say he goes out on a limb. If you are using Pete to increase your world knowledge, I suggest you use him as a starting point and not merely rely on his insights.
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  2926.  @Fabian-Wenzel  I see your point, but that was a really long time ago. More recently but also long ago: in 1979, the PRC tried to invade Vietnam and had their asses handed to them. So which is it? Or maybe neither. Maybe it’s difficult to tell how good a military is today from their past glories or defeats. But the best military in the world still hasn’t answered the question, “if you win the war, how do you win the peace?”
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  2927. Galeotti makes some hard-to-refute arguments. There’s a lot we don’t know but I think Galeotti has hit the salient points with his analysis. On Prigozhin, surely he knew that he was under a daily reprieve from Putin, and that the big boss could have him snuffed any time and anywhere. What difference would it make to Prigozhin if he was assassinated in a car, on a train, or while traveling in a jet? (A lot of people are misapplying corporate practices of executives that might avoid “putting all their eggs in one basket”. Corporate executive leadership is answerable to stockholders who don’t want their company’s management to be wiped out in one blow. Prigozhin was only answerable to Putin, but more importantly he was not very concerned about the fate of his company if he died. Wagner served Prigozhin, not the other way around. It’s not the sort business you can really pass on to your heirs. So what did Prigozhin care if his closest lieutenants were taken out with him?) Putin might have ordered the assassination in a fit of pique. But it’s possible that other criminal underbosses (aka oligarchs) were jockeying to take away Prigozhin’s Africa operation. They must be very unhappy with current circumstances, and were seeking a form of recompense for their losses. Prigozhin was making moves to prevent the vultures from descending on him, which is why he was on that plane.
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  2928. Those office staffers log all constituent calls and letters, so it’s a matter of someone making a FOIA request to see the call logs. There is no such thing as “senator-constituent privilege”.
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  2929. How does it profit you to spread lies and disinformation?
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  2930. Manchurian Candidate.
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  2931. What did he predict that already came true?
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  2932.  Denise Skinner  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  2933.  @msvulcanspock You prefer Michael Steele over the Bulwark, so you unsubscribed from the Bullwark? Or do you just post “I unsubscribed” on anti-Trump channels?
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  2934. What are your thoughts on the brainworm that crawled into your ear and is currently making your thinking increasingly deranged?
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  2935. Such a thing is much needed, but I am afraid it would devolve into MAGA Congress-fluencers yelling at Sal to score political points and get on TV.
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  2936. Who was sacked, silenced, or threatened? In what ways were they silenced? What was the nature of the threats they received? If you’re going to make claims like this, you need to supply names and specific details. Otherwise you’re promoting disinformation and conspiracy theories.
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  2937.  @DoctorAustin  Bullseye. Uh, I mean, correct!
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  2938. Trump wouldn’t have done it. Bush? Yes. Romney? Yes. McCain would have visited within the first month, taking a division with him as his personal body guard. But Trump? Nope.
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  2939. Silly Rabbit, BRICS are for kids.
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  2940. Who are these analysts of whom you speak?
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  2941. There are already term limits. It’s called voting. You and the people in your congressional district get to determine the term limits on your particular congressperson. Have you tried this yet? Do you know the name of your representative? When was the last time you communicated with her or him? Many Americans complain about accountability, but few seem willing to do the work to make politicians accountable. It’s as if you don’t want to be held accountable for your own elected officials! Is it too much work?
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  2942.  @muddywater4505  This will help him get ahead as he enters Republican politics. I think he’s angling for a school board appointment in Florida.
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  2943. There’s a ceiling to the mutation towards virulence that Dr. Campbell mentioned, although he said something like “over time, viruses become less virulent because a mutation that is too virulent kills the host.” I don’t think Dr. Campbell explained this well nor clearly. The basic idea is correct—the virus won’t replicate and spread as effectively if it kills its host too quickly. However, natural selection for a milder virus over the course of time can be a very vey long time. Given the size of human population (Billions), a virus with the right mix of deadly or grievous virulence and transmissibility has quite a way to go before it burns itself out by killing its hosts. The line towards a milder virus is not a straight line, and it could take decades or centuries to sort itself out. Maybe even millennia.
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  2944. Way too elaborate to be a diversion from something else.
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  2945. Size matters.
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  2946. The coach is struggling to understand how his athlete became radicalized, hoping that he can prevent radicalization in other athletes he coaches or will coach. If you don’t think that people can learn from each other or be positive influences on others, or take in that positive influence, I don’t know what to tell you. A person’s character doesn’t get set in stone when they turn 18 unless there is something very wrong with them. As far as whether the athlete is really a “good person underneath it all”, he will have plenty of time to demonstrate that. If he’s very lucky, people in this life like this coach will deprogram him from whatever delusions he latched onto while being part of that cult. I think you and I agree that there should be consequences for crimes, and the Capitol Hill rioters must face those consequences. Many of these criminals are irredeemable. If redemption is possible for any, that’s on them to put in the work and seek mental help. But there are millions of Americans that didn’t participate in these crimes, but would have. Or they sympathize with the delusional cause. They are members of a cult. So I’m sort of with the coach on this one. We must understand and figure out a way to bring these people out of the cult before they get involved in something as heinous and stupid as the Capitol Riot.
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  2947.  @jonathanbowen3640  It seems inevitable now, given 21st Century American politics and conspiracy mania. The silver lining is that the problem of over-capacity hospitals is temporary. The Antivaxxers will eliminate themselves as a problem. This might sound cold-hearted, but it’s the reality.
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  2948. @sushi4life In-and-Out does do advertising, mostly radio. It’s a smart strategy, as a major part of their business is drive through, and people who listen to radio tend to do it while in their cars. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a TV advertisement for In-and-Out. I’m not saying they don’t exist, but if they do, the company isn’t spending much on ad buys.
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  2949.  @willrobinson9767  Nice try, Putzi.
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  2950. Systematic is Putin’s weasel word, not Ukraine’s.
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  2951. I don’t think the original commenter nor a number of succeeding commenters understood anything. Obviously, they are not interested in understanding but only interested in political attacks, muddying issues, and dispensing disinformation. I do not think the border crisis was manufactured, but it has been evident that the crisis is being maintained as a campaign issue by one political party that doesn’t doesn’t have much else going for it policy-wise.
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  2952. Dr. Grande in an undisclosed location. 😬
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  2953. Yes he is. And to quote a legal expert in another comment, “He won’t be released on bail because he’s a flight risk.”
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  2954.  @1chumley1 so you’re saying that his NCO was in on it with Biden?
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  2955.  @Sun-ei4gi  “clock [his] watch”? You stop it right this minute.
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  2956. I’m so glad you are staying safe.
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  2957. I’m filling out my application to be a Beaver Inspector right away.
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  2958. It’s like there is a nation of narcissists that have been living among us. They want what they want, and they really don’t care if anyone else has to die to get it.
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  2959. That’s billable hours, too. If a lawyer working for a firm has a 15 minute conversation on the phone with regard to the case, they’ll generally round up to an hour. Some of the hours are real hours, but some will be padded.
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  2960. It’s being handled by the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board. Don’t expect answers to your many questions any time soon.
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  2961. The basic airframe design is 40 years old, but the aircraft being sent to Ukraine are not. You’re thinking about how the Russian Air Force works, trying to squeeze extra life out of airframes by limiting pilot training time. These F-16s have much later production dates and include actual upgrades (not taping a consumer GPS to the cockpit display).😂
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  2962. Forrest Santos. Run, Forrest, run! Run for Congress!
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  2963.  @mikehunt3596  Enjoying your shiny new troll account, Khunt?
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  2964.  @rickwagner- yup. It’s based on the Lunar Calendar. Just like Passover.
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  2965. Now that it’s been confirmed by a video game player, I guess I believe it.
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  2966.  @gorkyd7912  Didn’t he get deployed for the withdrawal, for like two weeks? I’m sure he was deeply emotionally invested in the mission.
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  2967. I want one, too. Realistically, in about ten years I’ll get the Vision SE. 💸💔
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  2968. 2:30 Trolling Norway. I mean TRAWLING Norway. 😅
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  2969. It’s going to be such a burn when Stephen Miller is REPLACED by Nick Fuentes. 😂
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  2970. Crazy Ivan’s Used Tank Lot. Locations all over the former Soviet Union. You didn’t hear it from me.
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  2971. I’m an ex-Republican. I’m registered independent. While I foresee myself voting for Democratic candidates for as long as the GOP is in the hands of criminals, I don’t think I can bear to register as a Dem. I do think there is a room for a moderate (or moderately conservative) faction in the Democratic Party—there has been in the past. So we’ll see.
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  2972. I think we need to taco bout your pun addiction.
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  2973. OK Ivan
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  2974. Do you read the suspect his rights before or after he signs the release?
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  2975. It’s a handful of racists, each with multiple accounts, who might or might not post from troll farms in St. Petersburg.
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  2976. Wait, wait, I know this one! There’s the ballot hat, the soap hat, the ammo hat, the ice hat, and the heart shaped hat, to be used in that order. Ok, now I’m going to watch the video.
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  2977. Clever Ivan
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  2978.  @kc-gl9wv  says the bot who cares enough to post “nobody cares”.
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  2979. Actually, the video suggests the earth is helmet shaped.
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  2980. Blame it on the liberal governor of Texas, Greg Abbott.
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  2981. I suspect this “March on Moscow” is because the MoD has attacked Wagner forces and attempted to assassinate Prigozhyn. MoD had enough of him. Prigozhin’s only hope is to challenge the MoD while prevailing upon Putin for mercy. The Wagner convoy or convoys only make sense if they’re being attacked. They can still be attacked while on the move, but their chances to defend themselves are better and they might draw more Russian mobiks to join the mutiny. But here’s thing. We don’t know if Putin is alright. This might be the MoD or other Kremlin factions performing a coup, and neutralizing Putin’s biggest ally and personal friend. If this is an internal coup within the Kremlin, they’d want to keep Putin as a figurehead if they can. It might be that Putin is sick or incapacitated, so he might go along with his own removal from power if he gets to maintain the appearance he is in charge. I’m thinking Prigozhyn is Putin’s Luca Brasi, and I expect that soon we will hear that Prigozhyn sleeps with the fishes.
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  2982. Very true about margins. I’m a motorcycle rider, which some consider to be a lapse in judgement itself. A biker needs to avoid piling on more lapses and running out of road. I used to live not far from some beautiful winding canyon roads, and almost every weekend, some squid failed to make a curve. The worst aftermath I saw was some kid that leaned over the centerline into oncoming traffic. There were worse fatalities, but the rider ended up at the bottom of a cliff, so I can’t claim to have witnessed anything beyond S&R preparing to rappel.
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  2983. I think it’s awesome that people with learning disabilities like you are watching Pete’s videos. Don’t give up trying to understand the world with your limited intellectual capacity!
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  2984.  @deborahhebblethwaite1865  Vaccination campaign is actually a thing. There were OAZ vaccinations over four days this past weekend, held at various locations throughout town, for 60 and over. I haven’t yet heard how many were vaccinated in this town of ~200,000, but it’s heartening to see something being done.
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  2985. For military arsenals, procurement, and ongoing development, you need to watch Perun. He drops videos every Sunday morning, usually on these topics and related ones. We shouldn’t encourage Pete to go outside his areas of expertise, imho.
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  2986. They weren’t abandoned. They’re free to travel back to Canada by some other means.
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  2987.  @marky147  You strike me as a Road Scholar type. Educated on the streets. 😄
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  2988. ¡Viva Ucrania!
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  2989. The whole “experiment on the population” train of thinking ignores the fact that those who refuse the vaccine are also part of the experiment. The refusers are the control group. 😆
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  2990. If the Taliban’s rebranding is to be believed, it’s Taliban 2.0. Who knows, it might even be true. After 20 years, they’ve had to change and adapt. Now they’re ostensibly in charge.
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  2991. You’ll have to be more specific. Are you talking about the bill that already passed? The supplemental bill? The defense bill that was vetoed? Your broke ass car that needs a brake job?
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  2992.  @satanicmicrochipv5656  All that siphoning of money from the defense budget is coming back to bite Putin on the ass. I’m sure the U.S. has corruption in its defense procurement, but not like in Russia, where there are empty warehouses that were supposed to be filled with spare parts. Then there’s the problems of morale and discipline. The convoys aren’t stalled because of lack of fuel. They’re stalled because of lack of radiator fluid. Russian radiator fluid contains alcohol. The troops are hitting the coolant and that’s why the vehicles aren’t moving. That’s a discipline problem (as well as a logistics one—getting the radiators filled and trucks moving before the fluid disappears again). I feel bad about laughing, but Russia is so fucked. Even if they do manage a victory over Ukrainian defense forces, they haven’t won. All that does is start the next stage of the conflict.
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  2993.  @checkout5871  Wrong. It’s the other way around. Russia belongs to Ukraine. If Putin wants reunification based on geography and history, he should surrender unconditionally and let Kyiv govern Russia.
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  2994.  @bmanfitz  apparently the dots and crosses were sold as military surplus to enrich some oligarch. It was only after the war was launched that it was discovered that there was a shortage of dots and crosses.
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  2995.  @Boorshey_offical  LOL, Putin is a spokesman for the people of Afghanistan? You’re off your rocker, buddy. You’re not playing cards with a full deck. A baby chicken is trying to peck itself free from your skull. You wrote walking instructions on the bottom of your shoes and you wonder why you keep falling onto your face.
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  2996. The U.S. isn’t involved in this, but I suspect it will support Mexico in the diplomatic fight.
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  2997. He’s not suggesting a new router, he’s talking about your ISP-provided modem with wifi router capabilities, ie, 99% of modems in use.
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  2998. When did Will Forte get elected to the Texas House of Representatives? 0:27
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  2999. The way I understood it is he likes crunchy shell tacos. 😂 and while I think we Americans have learned that soft tacos are the predominate form, crunchy fried tacos (called tacos dorados) are pretty common in Mexico. The best ones are made with raw tortillas, freshly pressed and fried in a comal.
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  3000. “Statue head” is called a bust.
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  3001. I finally looked at the Panama Canal on a map app after hearing Sal mention it so many times. It just never before occurred to me to do so. The reclamation tanks (small reservoirs) are visible on the new lane, just like Sal said. You can make out the containers on the ships crossing the lake. I’m an avid map reader, and learning about shipping from Sal has been a great reason to look at more maps. Thanks, Sal.
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  3002. Six feet underground.
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  3003.  @stc3145  different figures get thrown around, but only a small percentage were killed by coalition forces. Most of the violence post “mission accomplished” was sectarian violence, i.e., Iraqis killing each other. If one argued that the U.S. still has some responsibility for those deaths, there could be an honest debate. But the claim that U.S. soldiers murdered 150,000 or a million Iraqis is a complete lie. I think the invasion was a mistake, and the way the Bush administration tried to create democracy in Iraq was an even bigger mistake. But accuracy is important. (And I would also say that Bush did evil things with the best of intentions, but that might be irrelevant.)
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  3004.  @JohnRodriguesPhotographer  that’s not entirely true. Many important upgrades can be accomplished without dry docking, particularly EW and weapon guidance systems. Some armaments can be added to the superstructure without needing a dry dock. We’re not talking about upgrading engines or installing a new turret.
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  3005.  @lachlanbell8390  That doesn’t contradict the fact that the “Moscow” was the best ship they had in the Black Sea, deemed worthy of being the flagship of the Black Sea fleet. This puts any amphibious assault on Odessa the Russians have planned at a major disadvantage, as they no longer have very good air defense capability for their landing craft. Without an amphibious assault (or the threat of it), a land offensive against Odessa will face increased difficulty. I could be wrong, but I think this effectively ends Russia’s threat to Odessa. The sinking of the “Moscow” also opens the possibility that Russia’s Black Sea corridor can be cut up. It’s not necessarily a strong possibility, but it now exists as a threat.
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  3006.  @johnhopkins3961  I think you’re right, but even if the don’t want these more progressive policies, they still want a solution. Maybe a solution can be found that is somewhere between M4A and current dysfunction? Just a thought. Maybe there is a workable solution between Green New Deal and burying our heads in the sand? Would be nice. One of the strengths of a democratic capitalist system is that we can take useful components from policies with which we don’t agree generally. We don’t have to be ideologically brittle. Most people have both liberal and conservative values and we should accept that, rather than try to eradicate one side or the other of ourselves.
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  3007. Carolina * Ember —Your problem is that the extreme right wing considers the moderate center to be left wing.
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  3008.  @joel6513 If the suburbs you mention are still part of Houston’s tax base, you’re doing OK. Problems can arise when those suburbs incorporate into their own political entities, cutting into Houston’s tax base. Then Houston’s schools, infrastructure, and services suffer.
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  3009.  @SeiyaSoiya-un4jj Russian bot.
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  3010. The double standard sucks, but the fact is that there is good reason to tread carefully with an ex-president running for office. These criminal prosecutions against a former president are unprecedented. No, it shouldn’t matter in an ideal world. But it does matter. M
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  3011.  @alcoholic402  I had really hoped there wouldn’t be. I thought Russia would limit itself to occupying the break away provinces—I had no idea Putin was this mad or desperate. I imagined we were seeing a repeat of Germany’s invasion of the Sudetenland, instead we are seeing a repeat of the invasion of Poland.
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  3012. What NATO military interventions contributed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? What were the specific provocations by the U.S. or NATO that weren’t responses to Russian aggression? The U.S. assured Gorbachev that it wouldn’t expand eastward IF the Soviet Union didn’t use aggression and violence to put down independence movements in its former sphere of influence. Yeltsin broke his end of the deal in 1994, and there was no new NATO members until 1999. Who provoked who? Perhaps the greatest provocation by the U.S. was hurting Russian feelings about no longer being an influential superpower with global reach.
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  3013. She was already on the ticket that won the Primaries.
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  3014. The funny thing is that Nixon would despise Donald Trump and the MAGAs.
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  3015. They didn’t even have to vote FOR Johnson. They merely voted not to vacate. Actually, I think they voted to not vote on vacating. Parliamentary rules FTW
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  3016. The only (purely theoretical) downside for me is that I wouldn’t feel right playing with it at those pricing levels. 😬
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  3017. No, it’s what happens when you don’t cooperate. Here’s an idea: don’t do traitorous and seditious stuff in the first place and you won’t even get charged. It’s this new concept called “don’t be a criminal”. You should try it.
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  3018.  @terrysullivan1992  Use of tactical nukes by Russia actually fortifies the Western alliance, whereas Russia wants to weaken the unity of the West, decrease cooperation, and drive wedges between the Western democracies. (I use “West” as an institutional democracy descriptor, not geographical.) Russia doesn’t want to face additional sanctions, nor does it want direct military confrontation with NATO forces, whether in Ukraine or other places of our choosing. Or at least we hope that Russia wants to avoid these consequences. So let us consider the tactical benefits of using tactical nukes. If used offensively, tactical nukes help with breakthroughs. If used defensively, tactical nukes are good for destroying troop concentrations. Tactical nukes are good against infrastructure targets. But in none of these cases will a tactical nuke deliver a knock out blow. So let us hope that Russia maintains some operational rationality, no matter how psycho its internal politics get, because there is no rational reason for Russia to use a tactical nuke.
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  3019.  @pacifist9805  It doesn’t hurt to hear a variety of opinions. 4 out of 5 dentists agree.
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  3020. This might be premature, but I wonder if the Donetsk separatists are open to direct negotiations. I suspect they are growing tired of their Russian overlords sending their men on suicide missions.
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  3021.  @zealman79  Brad: What?
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  3022. Water uphill from it.
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  3023. Acting like infants.
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  3024.  @GeorgeOhYesPlease  Pete also keeps mentioning Bretton Woods. That’s a Beatles song, right? 😂
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  3025. I’m pretty sure (99.9999%) that Trump is just trying to get people to talk about him. Same with his talk about buying Greenland. There are no plans to do either one. Sadly, it works. Trump is the President-Elect and we can’t ignore his words, even if we know it’s just a lot of talk. Nor can we forget the effect his words have on the world stage. We’ve elected a world class a-hole with a limited capacity to control his impulses to say whatever comes into his head, and who is incapable of telling the truth, because eggs were too expensive.
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  3026. I also suspect this, but it’s probably been very low volume. The U.S. complaining about it is to keep it low volume. If it was large amounts of military aid, the U.S. would have been making these criticisms/warnings earlier.
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  3027. I was going to tell my friend Zed about this. But he’d use it as an excuse to be noughty.
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  3028. This is a different topic that has nothing to do with the January 6th Committee hearings. You’re trying to deflect the conversation with your BS “Men’s Rights” comparisons with divorce.
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  3029. The supply lines into Kherson were constrained but not cut. Supplies were still being moved in, but at a reduced rate. Additionally, supply depots on the left bank and on Crimea were destroyed. So of course reducing supply into Crimea had an effect.
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  3030. The shooter was a woman. I don’t know what was said because in the video she didn’t seem to be raising her voice. Or the guy that got shot was yelling to loud to hear her. Her body language wasn’t threatening. Another thing to note: right before she fired, BOTH guys were approaching her.
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  3031.  @orcmansoso9970 He learned it the 4th time he was in 5th grade.
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  3032. Probably never.
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  3033. Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most Confederate politicians were not tried for their crimes. Section 3 of the 14th amendment does not require a conviction.
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  3034. Not really. There were mutual assurances between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, between Baker and Gorby. The USSR would cease aggression and allow former Soviet Bloc countries to gain independence if that’s what they wanted, and in return NATO wouldn’t take advantage of this to expand NATO. Yeltsin and Putin did not honor this agreement, rendering it moot. That’s somewhat of an oversimplification, though. Baker didn’t speak for NATO. What he promised is that the U.S. wouldn’t push NATO to expand. (The triggering event here being German reunification.) Even if the rest of NATO wanted to, the U.S. wouldn’t support it. NATO didn’t expand until 1999, after Russia violated the agreement in the first Chechen war and continued to violate it in our current century.
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  3035. And this little builder went “weee, weee, weeee!” all the way home. No, wait, that was piggies. The piggy that built high rise condos out of straw . . . and the Lord did huff and puff unto . . . Well, you get the point. It’s been a while since I read the Bible, but I’m pretty sure this is all in there.
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  3036. You never heard of it because it’s a trivial detail that represented nothing of importance at the time. It got blown up afterwards to provide an excuse for racial violence, and when that violence was swept under the carpet so was the “Plan de San Diego”. This was a lazy video.
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  3037. There’s a shit ton of legit charities, some of which buy vehicles and drones for the Ukrainian military. NAFO is a good starting point, but it’s not the only one. They’re not tax deductible, but that shouldn’t stop you if you really want to help.
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  3038.  Trump WonBig  Lying troll.
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  3039.  @effexon  Keep in mind that Intel was doing its own research and development, not espionage. I’m impressed with their spy network.
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  3040. This is a lie. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Miley’s sworn testimony is the exact opposite of your claim. Sec Def Chris Miller’s testimony contradicts your claim. In fact, Trump had JUST fired SecDef Esper and replaced him with Chris Miller. On January 3rd, Trump ordered Miller to make sure the demonstrators would be PROTECTED. On January 4th, Miller made the unusual order that the National Guard QRF (Quick Reaction Force) couldn’t be deployed without orders going through the chain of command, i.e., through him. Nor could they deploy with riot gear. They couldn’t even respond to any emergency carrying weapons, per his orders. He authorized a small force of NG that were assigned to directing traffic in the DC area, with orders that they couldn’t be redeployed without his permission. I don’t think this is a case of your being misinformed, because this information is publicly available, and the source is Miller himself. This is a case of you lying, of intentionally trying to deceive people with disinformation.
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  3041. Just stop with the politics. I can’t tell which side you’re on, but I don’t really care. Just stop. Save it for the political news channels you watch. You’re not adding anything.
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  3042. They can try to prove entrapment, but encouragement of a plot isn’t a strong basis for such a defense. His Facebook posts don’t seem to violate FBI policy. Can you imagine an anti-espionage case being undermined because one of the agents saying he hated spies?
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  3043. Are you also hurt by legal immigration? Or does legal immigration have zero affect on you economically?
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  3044. Nikki is really getting under the golflers’ skin. She’s a breath of fresh air for this conservative leaning independent, ex-Republican.
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  3045. Not to mention all the third order effects on the local economy that will provide more goods and services to the workers (and like you said, keeping them fed 😋 , but you probably weren’t thinking of that kind of feeding).
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  3046. Elon Musk: an idiot savant that has had some outstanding luck that made him incredibly wealthy rather than just “ordinarily wealthy”. Aside from being lucky, his other main talent seems to be “having big ideas and finding the right people to execute those ideas.” He is lauded for being an engineering genius, but does little if any engineering. His two biggest liabilities are some form of Asperger’s syndrome or autism (on the spectrum, as they say), and believing the hype about himself without self-awareness. He probably does think he can save Twitter, as he believes that every problem can be solved with engineering and that he’s the man for it because he’s the world’s greatest engineering genius. Twitter: It’s never turned a profit. In 2021 it lost $221 Million (an improvement over the nearly $4 Billion it lost over the preceding three years). Elon Musk might hasten Twitter’s demise, but if it has not managed a profit in its 16 years of operation, its demise seems inevitable. If Twitter serves an important public utility, it should probably be owned and operated by a non-profit NGO. Maybe Jack Sparrow, sorry, I mean Jack Dorsey, should round up some benevolent billionaires and recreate Twitter as a non-profit.
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  3047.  @Ландро  and you’re on 200 cc.s of cope/3xday
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  3048. The recent big news should have settled the matter. The largest study to date found no evidence that ivermectin had ANY efficacy against the Coronavirus. This makes sense as there is no mechanism by which it could. Ivermectin is a neurotoxin that works against parasitical critters (such as worms and lice) with nervous systems. Viruses do not have nervous systems.
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  3049. Two good guys with guns and a misunderstanding?
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  3050.  @beebuzz959  yes, the larger question is if this was politically motivated or was it a garden variety home invasion or burglary.
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  3051.  @gregfoster1106  You’re mistaking incredulity for anger. But is anger really out of place? You’d be angry is someone handed you a stinking load of crap and told you it was shoe polish. Mostly, we’re all really tired of you conspiracy nuts of various flavors. If you clearly labeled your ideas as speculative fiction, no one would have a problem.
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  3052. Hahaha, I was expecting him to!
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  3053.  @jasonlarsen4945  If he or she did, they’re owed a refund.
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  3054. It’s still a tourist destination domestically.
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  3055.  @AZ-697  Genetics stands on the shoulders of Darwin. How do you reconcile the work of Newton with Special Relativity? With quantum mechanics? (Newton believed in Alchemy by the way.)
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  3056. Not quite. Watch the video. There is a chart John uses to illustrate the cycle by which Vitamin D3 is processed by the liver and kidneys into a hormone. This hormone can be biochemically classified as a steroid hormone, but it’s not in the same class as testosterone. Part of the problem here is we are using terminologies from different branches of science. Hormones have a medical definition. Steroids have a biochemical definition.
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  3057.  @ralphskielarrakov1597  Yes, GO AWAY.
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  3058. What’s really weird is that he flew these Venezuelan asylum seekers FROM SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS to Martha’s Vineyard. He had a team meet them as they left their initial asylum processing in San Antonio, and using a ruse, tricked them into boarding a plane that arrived at a different destination than these people were told. They were given a fake brochure for a non-existent aid organization in MV—when the families walked to the address on the brochure, it was an empty parking lot. I don’t think the Venezuelans were the intended victims of this cruel prank. They were merely props to Desantis. The intended victims were the “libs” living on Martha’s Vineyard. Desantis thought this prank would humiliate the people of MV and make them the butt of jokes. I think the people of MV ruined the joke with kindness to weary strangers.
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  3059. No, I think it’s just you that has changed their mind or perhaps has suddenly realized people care about this stuff.
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  3060. Neoliberalism was an appropriate response to the economic conditions of the 70s. It’s continuation was “too much of a good thing”. I think of capitalism as a tool, not merely as a structure. It’s a set of social technologies that act as a motor. As with any motor, it is used to “do work”, and should be adjusted to do that work accordingly. It must be tuned, adjusted, and regulated to do that work effectively. The idea of “pure capitalism” is a motor that doesn’t do any real work. It’s like a model of a motor, almost an abstraction. There is no “Pure Capitalism” outside of the world of ideas. It’s never existed in the real world. If you think I’m moving toward a car analogy, you’re correct. If capitalism is a motor, its purpose is moving society forward. Society is the vehicle. In a representational democratic society, the members of that society determine who drives. More importantly, they decide on the goals and the route to reach those goals. There’s a lot of good comparisons with this car analogy. To determine how you tune and tweak the engine, you must decide on the purpose of the vehicle. Should it be a bus or a sports car? What safety features are included so people don’t fall off or are injured in a crash? What level of maintenance is necessary to keep the vehicle running? Also, you don’t want a crazy or incompetent driver who will drive off a cliff. 😅 Capitalism-as-ideology turns the marketplace into a religion. (Perhaps this is a tendency of any ideology.) Capitalism-as-ideology cannot adjust to changing road conditions. When the road curves, it forces the vehicle to drive off the road (perhaps off that aforementioned cliff). Capitalism-as-engine and society-as-vehicle are pretty good analogies, but they’re not perfect. Like any tool, capitalism can be weaponized. The analogy doesn’t address social hierarchies in a meaningful way. It doesn’t account for the imperfections of democracy or how democracies can be perverted by hierarchy. It doesn’t address other forms of societal organization outside of economic organization. But it’s a useful way to think about capitalism.
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  3061. Unfortunately, these dumb people will get other people killed with their ignorant carelessness.
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  3062. Putzi, you’re having a panic attack.
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  3063. I’ve been thinking along similar lines. There is also the possibility of a multi front counteroffensive. However, the main counter-argument is that it seems unlikely that Ukraine would begin its main counteroffensive too close to winter. I could also imagine feinting at Kherson, feinting at Izyum, then fully committing to attacking the Russians at Kherson. Despite all this speculation, I think we are already seeing the start of the counteroffensive in Kherson. Ukraine has done a lot of preparation and shaping of the battlefield (including suppression of air defenses), and is bringing out its Air Force. Which is not to say that Ukrainian forces in other parts of the country won’t take opportunities as they find them while Russia shifts resources to the south west.
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  3064. Ryan Grider You’re pretty touchy for a guy that needs to go into a lengthy explanation. Next time, maybe use a better analogy so you don’t have to write hundreds of words that no one is going to read. Pro-tip: cut back on your adderal.
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  3065. Follow the money. And then go after the enablers, the stewards and launderers of criminal enterprise money flows. Once you’ve interrupted the money flows, these international criminal enterprises are much weaker. Interdiction and normal law enforcement stands a chance of working.
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  3066.  @hater9117  That is my understanding. It’s a monthly subscription deal, where the separatists get a six pack each month to replace the ones they’ve had to throw out or were unable to recover from the battlefield. Originally the tanks were disguised as juice packs, but the juicer never worked properly after it extracted about half the juice from a tank. At that point they dispensed with the subterfuge and the President of the juice start up was sent to GULAG. The last thing he was told before he disappeared into the black hole of Russia’s penal system was, “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it again.”
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  3067.  @voster77hh  Thanks for your various comments, sharing your thinking and/or knowledge. My thinking is that older gen. tanks (not specifically the Leopards) would be used as gap fillers to slow a Russian advance. Which is funny, because that was the original plan for the Leopards at Fulda Gap. Such fillers are not meant to hold, but to provide time for a reaction force to arrive (as I think you already know). The ideal gaps are areas north of Kyiv and the still contested areas north of Kharkiv.
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  3068. He always comes unglued about the popular vote. Perhaps she isn’t playing this as they would, but I think she’s still going to play the angle.
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  3069. You need to find better ways to cope, Putzi.
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  3070. Ivermectin is in wide usage in Brazil for its intended purpose—an anti parasitical medication used to treat intestinal worms and other critters. There is no scientifically established reason to take it for Covid, although research is being done. And one would be insane to think it’s an alternative to a vaccine. However, it’s harmless to humans at normal dosages—I dare say even at double dosages, as is sometimes recommending for severe intestinal infestation. It’s sold over the counter in many countries. If one were to take a normal dosage once every six months, it wouldn’t hurt and might help. Consult your physician as always.
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  3071. Cope harder, QAnon.
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  3072. This isn’t a bail out.
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  3073.  @animalntelligence3170  you say the plastic island is a bad thing, but that’s because it hasn’t been colonized yet. Floating trash islands offer important advantages over regular islands. Most notably, they are immune to sea level rise, which threatens many inhabited islands today.
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  3074. The Mr. heater doesn’t use gasoline. It uses whatever is in those little green gas canisters or it can use propane with an adapter to connect to the tank. The tanks are the type what you’d use for a patio grill or an RV (caravan if you’re English.). A gasoline fueled heater is likely to create carbon monoxide. You don’t want carbon monoxide indoors. If it doesn’t kill you, it might cause brain damage. Yikes! Anyway, I operate my Mr. Heater with 3’ clearance on all sides and a little more in front. It’s nowhere near anything that can catch fire.
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  3075. “Ripe and fertile” could also apply to a male, although as a male my thought went towards those words being female characteristics. These Republicans weirdos are big on the Bible, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some line in the Bible that says @ripe and fertile” or some variation. But anyway Ryan. You’re non-political. I believe you when you say that. But you’re weighing in on a political issue, and this video is going to appear biased to some. Ironically, it’s not: you’re correcting a falsity but I don’t think this paints a flattering picture of Republicans. I hope you’re thinking about public perceptions of you, and how to handle that. You might sum up the video: neither left nor right are smelling like roses after you apply the truth and try to untangle their agendas. The one guy in New Hampshire is just gross. The twitter guy is a liar. And there are uncritical dummies refusing to accept facts even when the facts are pointed out. Just my 2¢
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  3076. A witness for the prosecution, by the sound of it.
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  3077. It’s also unclear to me if the PLA hardliners have been brought under discipline or to what degree.
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  3078.  @sifu64  China’s crash is going to potentially have tsunami effects, not just ripples. One of the questions is will it be a soft crash from which they can recover or (worst case scenario) a very hard crash throwing the country into chaos. Or something in between. Ultimately, it’s mostly up to the CCP how it will play out. But world economic conditions and U.S. policy will also play a role in determining the outcome. The chaos that Trump is generating might give China’s government a short respite, but medium and long term it’s not going to help China or the U.S. or anyone else.
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  3079.  K L  You’d rather be a Petri dish for the virus. Good luck with that.
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  3080. I don’t think that retaliation for future attacks will be a reflexive lashing out. It’s going to be surgical and well planned. The officer warned the men-in-black-masks to leave. I might be reading to much into this, but I see the following implications: 1) They’re literally being warned to get out of town. KFOR is going to take a proactive approach. 2) (this reading is a little bit sketchier) The men-in-black-masks are outside agitators. They’re not being warned to go back to their homes, they’re being warned to go back to where they came from. So I think you’re correct. This escalation of a political dispute to violence is suspect. It’s got all the hallmarks of an FSB agitprop operation, and it comes at an interesting time.
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  3081. People lugging around their water will be a thing of the past if I can get financing for my “Water in the Cloud” startup.
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  3082.  @brianlewy1235  Mostly he just pokes fun at Millenials, but after he’s disarmed his audience of boomers, he talks about them in more positive terms. If he ever does go deeply into questions about U.S. education, I hope it’s related to workforce preparation. Otherwise he’s likely to get too far out of his lane.
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  3083. You’re an expectorant?
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  3084. Sure, and a helicopter gunship is perfectly adequate for that. As is artillery.
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  3085. To clarify, he can’t hold any leadership roles if he’s indicted, but he will still be a Congressman.
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  3086. Species interaction guiding evolution goes back even further. Example: mitochondria.
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  3087.  @muuuuuud  When I heard about how the ruble had crashed, I thought, “At least they won’t have any toilet paper shortages”. But it turns out that because of sanctions, their debit cards don’t work at the ATM, so they have to wait in long line to go into bank for toilet paper money. It’s real terrible—many Russians are pooping in their pants while waiting hours in line and unable to clean their butts. The best option now for ordinary Russian citizens is to withdraw all their rubles now while they can to insure they have a stockpile of toilet paper.
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  3088. That’s not the point. The larger point is that most of Hollywood is in shut down, and productions are looking towards the M:I production as a model to restart production (and get people back to work). Tom’s vast wealth isn’t enough to support every worker in the film industry.
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  3089. Brasilia is north of Argentina?
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  3090. The Nu-SSR.
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  3091. The dude is trying to launch his own political career. The first question they ask you is, “can you scam people out of money by playing the victim and blaming the libruls?”. And this guy can just pull out his phone and show the video.
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  3092.  @sioward2753  Even better, thanks to post production costs coming way down, you can do this using a green screen to get the timing exactly right. Film the actor against a green screen, shooting blanks. Later, your second unit films the background with the squib practical effects timed to the first sequence. This is probably the cheaper and more efficient method than trying to time it live.
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  3093. Ditto, but this was still a very satisfying video short.
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  3094.  @kevinbarry71  This is a good point. I’ve imagined a humorous scenario. The lawyer describes the problem. The client freaks out, but the lawyer reassures him, “All I have to do is object, and the evidence will have to be excluded.” Then, later, “no objections, your honor”. 😄 The lawyer never told the client whether or not he would object, only that he could. I don’t think it happened like that, but it’s funny to think it might have.
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  3095. You didn’t specify in which war you served after being drafted. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the last time we fought with conscription the Vietnam war? That ended up leading to a lot of social unrest—and it also led to the all volunteer Army after the conflict was over. Perhaps that is the point of conscription: administrations will be a lot more hesitant to send in the troops to fight foreign wars, or risk losing the next election. Or (and, really), our elected representatives and officials will be less willing to engage our military in long “democracy building” occupations. That’s the thing about Iraq and Afghanistan: we won those wars but lost the peace. I cannot tell you if that was due to bad planning for the post-war period. And to be fair, our occupation of Iraq was not a total loss. It’s a mixed bag. “We fight them over there instead of fighting them over here” wasn’t a hollow platitude. Our military destroyed Isis. Anyway, I’m getting off point. I’m not necessarily against conscription for the right reasons. What is your argument for conscription? “Whipping American youth into shape” isn’t a good reason for conscription. It’s a laudable idea, but that should not be the basis of conscription.
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  3096. They didn’t try to pass it, they did pass it. The amount of the direct stimulus was negotiated. Senate leadership wanted $0. House of Representatives wanted $1200. What’s halfway between $0 and $1200? I’ll tell you what. I’d much rather have $600 in the bank than $0 in the bank and $2000 of should’ves. Now it’s up to the GOP to either make good on Trump’s demand or fail the country at a crucial time. Apparently, Trump has decided to punish his fellow Republicans in the Senate for not staying with him in the fight to stay in the White House. Or perhaps some other reason.
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  3097.  @idahocorrupt6595  I can’t take your figures seriously (enough to check them) if you can’t make up your mind whether the corona virus is a hoax or real.
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  3098. It’s not the deep cold that will slow the offensive. The deep cold will freeze the ground, making it firmer for assaults with tracked vehicles. The current concern is the early winter rains, which will generate a lot of mud. Mud will halt an advance faster than cold and snow will.
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  3099.  @eddiegesch6299  He and Habba were prevented from making campaign speeches and verbally attacking employees of the court. This didn’t prevent him and his lawyer from mounting a credible defense. The exculpatory evidence the Trump team presented wasn’t convincing, and Trump’s own words were used against him.
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  3100. Heck, even rat hunting videos.
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  3101.  @shadowbanned636  hurting my fee fees is emotional violence, you brute. 😉
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  3102. If you want to do like the military, buy your kid three phones. One to use, the other being repaired, and the third in reserve.
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  3103.  arlekino1263 Russia might be able to throw more bodies into battle, but I think they’ll reach the last able-bodied man before Ukraine does (if they haven’t already). Tell me, does the Russian training of raw recruits include a one month rehab for alcoholics?
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  3104.  @gitargr8  Including a substantial number of U.S. citizens who take advantage of the lower cost of living and commute back and forth daily.
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  3105. I don’t think you understand the logic behind assistance for the airlines. It’s because few people are flying that there is a danger they will go out of business. If they go out of business, it will be massively damaging to the economy: a national air travel network is a basic requirement of a modern economy. If the airline industry fails, the economy as a whole will take much longer to recover, if it can recover.
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  3106. Don’t make the error that Pete is unbiased just because he is unvarnished and sincere in presenting his views. Im not saying he has an agenda—that’s too strong a word. But he does have a viewpoint that is not purely objective. It’s a viewpoint that is in alignment with his major clients. I’m not saying that he caters to his clients views (he’s not a yes-man), but I would say that they wouldn’t be his clients if there wasn’t a sympathetic basis. Pete isn’t objective, but he is most certainly an honest broker of ideas and he makes the effort to base his ideas in reality. This is why he is excellent, even when he makes errors. I don’t think we can really ask for more.
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  3107. Is there a version of this video translated into calm?
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  3108.  @SuperCaliforniaBarbi  A multinational bank’s subsidiary might be licensed in New York, as you say, but they will have other subsidiaries that can loan him the money. But he’ll still have to put up the collateral for those loans. I suspect that many U.S. banks (and subsidiary banks) are incorporated in Delaware, not New York.
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  3109.  @stovedmatt5514  It’s ambiguous at best, and even if it was a white flag, it doesn’t mean a buttoned up tank commander can see it through the smoke. Even from our better view from above, it looks like a piece of white fabric stuck on a tree branch. It’s too bad, but you don’t always get to surrender in the middle of a fight. You don’t get to call time out while someone is shooting at you. If you didn’t take the opportunity immediately after the shooting started, you’re just going to have to hold onto your ass until after and hope you survive long enough to surrender. The smartest thing a Russian soldier can do is surrender at the first opportunity. It’s patriotic, too, as he’ll be able to help his country after it loses to Ukraine. Right now, the Russian soldier is throwing away his own life while helping Putin throw away the well being of Russia. Speaking of “the Russian soldier” what was the deal with the lone soldier returning to the trench? Was he a one man OP or just out taking a crap? Or is a soldier taking a crap considered to be a one man OP? Fart twice, really loudly, if you see them coming.
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  3110. They do for training purposes because they get folded into the U.S. military when there is armed conflict. That’s why they’re designated [Name of State] NATIONAL guard.
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  3111.  @Itsjustme-Justme  🤷🏻‍♀️ Who knows? I’ll just take your word for it, because your guess is as good as mine, maybe better. My point is that in Russian society 1) there is the possibility that anyone who dies has been assassinated, and 2) no one (or very few) in that society knows what is true anymore.
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  3112.  @Itsjustme-Justme  I think the unresolvable paranoia really comes to the fore when we try to speculate “who was behind it”.
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  3113.  @Itsjustme-Justme  those are strong possibilities, but to get really paranoid, I like to blame much larger forces: it was the globalists or it was the anti-globalists. Or it was the globalists and anti-globalist working together against . . . Aliens? Time travelers? Lovecraftian horrors?
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  3114. Those are possibilities, but I think it was he just wanted to have them, like a spoiled child unwilling to put down a toy.
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  3115.  @gdutfulkbhh7537  Russia cannot sustain naval and air operations from Crimean bases, but Ukraine doesn’t have the resources to take it back. Crimea is very much in play, but possession of it still favors Russia. To be clear, Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea is illegal, but among all its claims, it is the most historically plausible. Crimea hasn’t traditionally been part of Ukraine. Russia’s claim has more historical basis. But to be clear, Russia’s historical claim is based on brutal subjugation of Crimea. An ideal and just solution would be a return of Crimea to the Crimeans, including repatriation of Crimeans forced out of their homeland. Such a solution has 0% chance of coming about.
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  3116. The nervous grins was because it’s shameful that they must tell a lie to explain the yellow suits. I don’t think most Russians will miss the symbolism.
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  3117. You should demand a refund from whomever taught you English, Ivan.
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  3118. The virus isn’t fair either. We’re can we sign a petition to make the virus more equitable?
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  3119.  @nom_chompsky  Israel never claimed sovereignty over Gaza. It never installed a government nor a permanent military occupation. No country wants to own Gaza because Gaza is apparently ungovernable, even by the Gazans themselves. Do you think Hamas was at any point the government of Gaza? If a country is owned by whomever controls it, that means Hamas owned the territory of Gaza. So, who owned Hamas? The people of Gaza? The religious fundamentalists in Tehran? See, the issue is that you’re throwing around the term “own” without specifying what you mean by it. You’re playing a word game. Or maybe you meant “pwn”. And right now the IDF is pwning Hamas.
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  3120. Opfor has a specific use and a specific context. You can’t just throw in “Opfor” anytime the words opposing and forces meet. Don’t be a Shed. 😉 I tell you this not to embarrass you, but so that you can avoid future embarrassment.
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  3121. You’re going to be roommates with him? 😅
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  3122. Yes, he should consider immigrating to Mexico to give his daughters a better life.
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  3123. @Jack Burton I don’t think it’s silly, it’s just not cut and dried. There are no requirements to be an actor; anyone can be one without training or qualifications. That said, it’s incumbent for the people in charge to make sure actors (or any worker) has the skills to do their job safely. If a scene calls for an actor on a horse, you want to be sure the actor knows how to ride a horse. Failing this is begging for accidents to occur. As I mentioned above, that goes for workers—those in charge of hiring the workers must insure that their workers have the skills and competency to do their jobs safely. If this is too great a burden, they should hire UNION workers. The various locals do have training programs to ensure their member workers understand safety and the safety rules that govern the set. It’s these low budget productions that want to save a penny by not hiring union that create these problems—and it’s no surprise that the same productions are sloppy and unsafe in other ways.
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  3124.  @kennethferland5579  Agreed. At some point I imagine Russia will rebase many of those ships to the Caspian Sea.
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  3125. Sounds almost right, but it’s missing this: the Joker has the delusional belief that he’s Batman.
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  3126. Don’t worry, they’ll muddle through somehow. 😉 I think the rise in interest rates will provide some of the encouragement you wish for. Personally, I’ve cut way back on discretionary spending and paid down a lot of my high interest debt, finding lots of ways to economize. To be honest, I’d become undisciplined but I’m changing that. I count myself fortunate that I started taking this seriously 6 months ago; I don’t feel blindsided.
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  3127. Do you know who says “Uniparty”? Unitards, that’s who.
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  3128. The vidjayo suggested he was an anti-5G nutter, and thus the attack on ATT. I was joking/speculating about this last night, so I’m not shocked. It’s plausible. There’s pretty much a conspiracy theory out there to fit every warped mind.
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  3129. It’s not going to happen. The cofounders of the Lincoln Project have said as much. Almost all have renounced the GOP and registered as independent; I think it’s down to one stubborn soul who remains a Republican (Michael Steele), who refuses to let the fascists redefine the Republican Party—a quixotic endeavor, but I have to respect him. As far as a multiple party system, I’m not saying it can’t be done, but it’s much easier to say it than to do it. Who will organize these parties? Around whom will these parties rally? Personally, the solution I will follow is to support Democratic candidates against Republican ones until the GOP is a smoking pile of rubble. I plan to stay registered independent, but that is subject to change if a conservative faction of the Democratic Party reconstitutes itself. If you believe all Democrats are liberals and all liberals are evil, you’ve been lied to. If you equate social safety nets with socialism, you’re ignorant. If you don’t believe conservatives, liberals, and progressives can’t find common ground to forge solutions to the problems we face, you’re trapped in an ideology, not faithful to your principles.
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  3130.  @fractalelf7760 What is your time frame and what factors do you think will cause this fragmentation?
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  3131. Plot twist: your grandfather was Romanian.
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  3132. Yeah, I thought it was cloth, but in any case it’s hung up in the tree. If someone is waving it, they’re not visible from the drone, and completely invisible from a buttoned down tank whose shots are kicking up a lot of smoke and dust. I’m pretty sure those Russian soldiers in the trench wanted to surrender, but that was not an opportune time. The right time is when the tanks first enter the field, after you were warned that tanks were coming by the guy out taking a crap or having a smoke or jerk. Anyway, who the eff is going to stand up and wave a flag while a tank is shooting you at point blank range? Those Russian boys were too busy seeing who could press themselves deeper into the mud at the bottom of the trench.
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  3133.  Christian Xander James  Report him for hate speech/violence. We all know what he’s suggesting.
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  3134.  @PanM8  “He just took us higher”. That’s all you really cared about, Trump addict. Getting high.
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  3135.  @DDKaraokeOutlaw  An attention seeking edge-lord without any actual convictions?
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  3136.  @philjordan1749  You’re being quite generous to the antivaxxers. They’re overwhelmingly prone to lying and spreading disinformation. They are trolls. I’m no longer curious about their agenda, I know all I need to know: that these people are a threat to me personally and to society.
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  3137. She was the supervisor of the employee who allowed her to break policy. If you’re expecting criminal charges, you’ll be disappointed.
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  3138. So you’re saying that Russia has totally forgotten it has a nuclear deterrent to invasion of its territory?
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  3139. To be honest, I hope the Dems take Georgia in any case. I registered as a Republican in 1982, and I am done with the GOP. The only major party fighting for the principles of American democracy is the Democrat Party.
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  3140. They come, they work a while, then they go home.
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  3141.  @AndRei-yc3ti  Did you happen to watch any news reports from February 24th to March 15th?
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  3142. In this thread: a cryptocurrency nut enamored of conspiracy theories has a conversation with himself using two of his finger puppet accounts. Surprise twist: he agrees with everything he is saying.
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  3143.  @aldofromsf  When? Eventually they will be forced out of Ukraine. But when and at what cost?
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  3144. I am. I’m a conservative. Helping Ukraine is important because Putin must be stopped. We can’t hide from the world.
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  3145. Why are you not getting all the information you would like? There are two main reasons. 1) The information has not been determined or confirmed by the investigation, 2) The information has been determined and confirmed but the NTSB hasnt decided to release it. Ask Sal all the questions you want. I don’t think he can give you the answers you want. He can tell us possible answers, but he cannot inform us about what he doesn’t know. On the other hand, he can provide us with decades of learning and experience that he has gained from working in shipping, studying shipping, and teaching at the university level. Don’t be unreasonable in your expectations. Sal is generously providing us with a great service.
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  3146.  @FunHog69  It’s really kind of nuts. By land, sea, and air, the Russian military is committing suicide. If they can so easily throw away their forces, their fear of NATO is a big lie. If there was a sensible person left in the Kremlin, they would have withdrawn from Ukraine in the first week and Putin would have retired to one of his palaces.
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  3147.  Carrie See  Why do you think we care what a Russian citizen does? Do whatever the hell you want in your own country, stop meddling in the affairs of ours.
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  3148.  @Fred-on6gc  Bob Dole was the fucking bomb. I’m not a rabid Clinton hater (either of them), but Dole would have made a much better president.
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  3149.  @JustinWallis-oe2cf  You say “we”. You were there, or you sat smugly on your couch, nodding approvingly as democracy was attacked?
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  3150.  @8gomerpyle22  But the Afghanistan government was sheltering the mastermind, Bin Laden, and wouldn’t give him up.
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  3151. Congratulations! It’s both funny and perfectly understandable that you would worry after not having ill effects other than a sore arm. I hope that you, Mr. Wood, and your cat, continue to do well.
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  3152. If Elon keeps loaning it money, it could be on its death bed for quite a while.
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  3153.  @cm-pr2ys  Imagine . . . Imagining is easy. What you are imagining is not a feasible plan. It’s a fantasy.
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  3154.  @Eric-bf5ky  he has three brain cells, but they work in shifts.
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  3155. Did you think that blind people don’t use phone apps?
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  3156. GTO here. My landlord got it last spring. He is still very weak and mostly bedridden. Several other conocidos died in early summer. Last month, the family that owns the tienda around the corner from me got it. 4 people in that family died. As soon as I heard this news, I’ve basically cut off all face to face social connection with everyone save my ahijada who is my helper, and runs errands for me. Even there, I know it’s a risk. I’ve gone outside twice in the last month to the store or farmacia. After the family with the tienda got sick, I haven’t heard of anyone else in our street, but I’m taking it for granted that people in the neighborhood got infected in the store and have infected their families, etc. I’ve heard nothing about vacunas, and who is getting them, nor of testing. I check the GTO website, but it’s the same.
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  3157.  @jamesguitar7384  Mexico has the money. The country is not poor, just most of the people are poor. The public health system did quite well in responding to SARS. The issue seems to be political will, as the president is out-to-lunch (early on he suggested wearing of charms offered protection). The political situation isn’t as bad as in the U.S., where half the population is delusional, but if there is a National effort in Mexico, I haven’t seen it. Much like the U.S., states and municipalities are left to their own devices wrt enacting and enforcing health regulations. I know of five people in my street that have died.
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  3158.  @glendekoker3682  Cope, Ivan
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  3159.  @steffenjespersen247  That’s the top bullet point. (Oh, I made a pun.)But it could also prevent your firearm from being used against you or from your gun being stolen and used by criminals against others.
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  3160. A simple varnish looks great. If you’re going to use them specifically for green screen work, you might paint them, but otherwise paint is a bad idea. It’s going to look like hell rather quickly and you’ll spend more time repainting the boxes than using them.
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  3161. FBI investigates. DOJ prosecutes based on that evidence. DOJ has a standing order not to prosecute sitting presidents. The question is this: will his Mar a Lago alibi hold up or will he need to waste a pardon on himself? I’m pretty sure what I just wrote is laughable bullshit, but it makes more sense than your comment.
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  3162.  @cail171 What is his talent, exactly? Poor judgement and difficulty controlling his impulses is a talent? Or do you mean his skills as a snowboarder when he was a kid? In that case, I suppose he could be a snowboard instructor during the winter season. At least he’d be a productive member of society when there was snow. However, maybe his main talent is “serving as an object lesson”. He seems to be doing that just fine.
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  3163.  TrenTacos  Ask your doctor for a psychiatric referral.
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  3164.  @pattygould8240  This is true. So long as they are willing to pay for goods and services, they’re a net benefit. Personally, I think they’re fools being taken for a ride. Half of them won’t last more than a few years when their reality doesn’t measure up to their fantasy. This is quite common with the expats that retire to Mexico.
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  3165. The lend-lease legislation recently passed in the U.S. is intended to bridge any gaps in the future. The funny thing is that the aid packages that the U.S. Congress has been approving make lend-lease redundant for the time being, but if there is a dip in enthusiasm, lend-lease will take up the slack. But the fact of the matter is that there is no cheaper way to degrade Russia’s military than to send Ukraine the means to do it. Whether it takes a year for Ukraine to achieve peace or longer is up to Putin, really. So long as he’s willing to throw his forces into the Ukrainian meat grinder, the West is happy to oblige.
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  3166. They’re blithely driving around like this because they think this is territory that they control. This is not near a “hot zone”, unless you want to consider all of “Russian controlled” territory a hot zone. When the Russian forces advance, they leave behind an area that they cannot secure, so Ukrainian units can move in behind them and wait for a moment such as this. This is one reason the Russians have bogged down and their advance is crawling. They cannot secure their flanks. They cannot secure their rear areas. They don’t have enough soldiers in Ukraine and they can’t spare reserves needed in other parts of Russia.
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  3167.  @phildoodler2199  <— Neo Nazi antivaxxer Troll
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  3168.  @ibnu9969  You must be referring to the Russian separatists deserting from the Russian army. Some of them aren’t even separatists, just young men forced to serve the Russians. They’re throwing down the antique WWI rifles they were given and going home. The separatist Ukrainians have seen what a disaster Russia has been for them. It’s likely they will rejoin their countrymen in the fight against Russia if they are promised amnesty.
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  3169. That is likely to happen.
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  3170.  @philhand5830  Nope, actually charged with murder if a death occurs during the commission of a crime. So if you and a partner kill someone, and the victim manages to kill your partner, you’ll get tagged with both murders.
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  3171.  @kellyberry4173  Denise is a problem that will take care of itself, assuming she’s not one of those secretly-vaccinated-antivaxxers intentionally trying to get people to die.
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  3172. I think this might become clearer when the warrant and receipt of property is unsealed. The DOJ has been negotiating to get documents returned. Safe speculation (but speculation nonetheless) is that they are classified documents improperly transported to Mar-a-GoGo and improperly retained at that address. It’s quite possible that the DOJ declines to prosecute for moving and keeping the documents. Improper or unlawful acts sometimes don’t rise to the level of criminality. I remember some years ago that a Secretary of State was improperly keeping official emails on a private server. After an investigation, the determination was that it was improper but not criminal. No harm, no foul. We should keep this in mind because this search of Trump’s residence might not yield any criminal prosecutions. While I personally think Trump has engaged in criminal acts, we must for the time being presume him innocent. He’s not above the law, but he’s not below the law, either. He has the same right to due process that anyone has in the U.S.A. Edit: out of fairness, I want to point out that it is only when Trump moves his mouth and sounds come out of it that he lies. Other sounds emitting from his body are not lies, nor are the associated smells. It’s theoretically possible that if Trump stopped making sounds with his mouth he would not be lying, but it’s hard to create conditions where this would be possible.
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  3173.  @edwardrichardson5567  the bird strike engine might have still been functioning and providing thrust when they shut down the other engine. Remember, we see the puff of smoke indicating compression stall, but no obvious indication that the engine suffered catastrophic damage. It might have suffered some damage leading to reduced performance and this could have increased pilot panic (why is there something wrong with our (supposedly good) right engine?”). It was this panic that led the pilots to cut short their go-around and immediately land from the wrong direction. If they hadn’t panicked, they could have used a complete go-around to correctly diagnose the problem and/or complete their emergency landing check lists.
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  3174. I think you’re talking about digging rather than dredging. Work on the blocked channel will probably be complete before you’re finished digging a second one. That’s just my non-expert opinion. My channel digging experience is limited to sandcastle construction.
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  3175. Problem is fan noise. You’d need to position the projector far away from the screen (and viewers).
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  3176.  @Emkei2010  <— TROLL How much is Putin paying you, Ivan?
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  3177.  @rufusreloaded1043  he’s a troll, and a pro-Russian one at that. In other posts, he extols the great freedoms in Stalin’s Russia. I mean Putin’s Russia.
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  3178. Sure, but let him undermine Trump right now.
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  3179. lol, Ivan
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  3180.  @gamebreaker60  well, you know, some people can’t just accept natural phenomena. They have to assign extra significance and supernatural action. A rational believer can appreciate the hand of a creator in natural phenomena, because they aren’t constantly seeking extraordinary proof of that creator’s existence. Hmmm, it’s almost as if the most superstitious among us have the weakest faith.
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  3181.  @thomassteiner744  You pay for your gas in rubles, so why do you keep using dollar amounts?
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  3182. Impeachment doesn’t work that way. Congress can’t impeach its own members, only officials in the executive or judicial branches.
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  3183. What about the guy who was so lazy he didn’t use internet search engines to satisfy his curiosity. Instead, he’d just post his questions in comments, hoping someone would answer him. It’s a true story. The guy did it again 7 hours ago.
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  3184.  @jcbjcb2  One for the road, several while you’re driving, and a belt or two in the parking lot to tide you over until you’re in your office with its well stocked liquor cabinet.
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  3185.  @daledelatte9607  Also dictatorships are historically challenged with passing unpleasant news of reverse and failure up the chain of command. It’s possible that Putin still doesn’t know how badly his invasion is going. He’s not merely buying his own B.S., he’s fully invested in t. He believes his own propaganda. Bearers of bad news tend to get killed, disappeared, or thrown in prison.
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  3186.  @bt9124  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  3187.  @phildoodler2199  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  3188.  @thebrowns5337  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  3189. When did they switch from three days? My college roommate took the bar three times in the 90s. He was so down on himself after failing the second time. I’ve never seen him like that before or since. But he got over it, spent months reviewing and prepping, and got it done. He’s still practicing as public defender, and I guess he’s coming up on retirement.
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  3190. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Cuban Spanish spoken so slowly. Everyone else in Latin America knows what I mean. Great ad, TLP. When you split off from the party, you took with you all the insight into the different blocs of Latino voters. The Trump GOP has no one that really understands non-white ethnic groups.
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  3191.  @maxb4074  How else do you suppose it would be accomplished? I’m not at all saying it’s a serious threat, but it’s absolutely an implied threat. I think there are two things going in here. Primarily Trump is playing domestic politics, trying to stay on the “front page” of the news and to keep his nutcase base of support happy with bellicose rhetoric. The second thing Trump is trying to accomplish with his aggressive talk is posturing in advance of negotiations. This sometimes can work, but the problem is if someone calls your bluff.
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  3192.  @toocutepuppies6535  Maybe they got house boat insurance. Did you think of that, smart guy?
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  3193. Gracias from 🇲🇽
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  3194.  @kellyberry4173  you’re a breath of sanity.
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  3195.  @RussCR5187  “Cake or Death” ~~Eddie Izard
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  3196. It’s Molly’s job to control the dogs on Rick and Molly’s podcast. I don’t know how she does it remotely, but it seems to work.
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  3197. Thank for saving me from years of study. It’s just that simple. And being so simple, it’s equally simple to solve.
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  3198. Maybe he was asked directly and answered honestly? Have you done this before? “Yes.” How many times? “Ten times in the last year.” Maybe this is the hidden bizarre behavior: that the attorney told the truth and admitted guilt for his disgusting “prank”. What kind of people are we if we consider honesty to be unusual? Do you really believe that honesty negatively impacts a lawyer’s ability to represent clients?
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  3199. Turning you into a wifi hub with nanobots, obviously.
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  3200. We are all hungry for the facts, but some of you are starving to death.
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  3201.  @shadowboxer6473  <— TROLL
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  3202.  @markusmaximus6636  Fearful? It’s you that is a fearful liar. I don’t know how someone like you lives with yourself.
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  3203. SmithN' Wesson Maybe watch the video, which contradicts your unsupported statement.
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  3204. What if they went rogue?
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  3205. What they failed to mention is that he was working as a school teacher in Tampa when they caught up with him.
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  3206.  @panchopistola8298  Lol, For a minute I thought you were being sarcastic, but judging from your other comments, I see you’re just drunk.
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  3207. If your information sources are telling you this, you’re taking in disinformation. Find new sources of information immediately (such as this channel).
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  3208. That fine print! 😆
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  3209.  @captaindestruction9332  And the Chinese Ambassador to the UN said that it wasn’t going to send military aid, although he did denounce the threats made to cajole the Chinese into observing sanctions.
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  3210.  @MasterFeidn  Check his channel. He believes in chem trails.
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  3211.  @themadrapper101  You’re a weak baby if it’s that big a hardship for you to wear a surgical mask.
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  3212. If it’s taking 2-3 weeks, it’s going by ship anyway. This action announced by the CBP doesn’t affect you. EU law does. The CBP is shutting down on tariff cheating by Chinese companies that took advantage of de minimus enforcement: air freight is cheaper than ship freight + tariffs. If companies are paying full tariff for air freight, air freight is no longer the cheaper option.
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  3213. This isn’t a political channel. Please take your geopolitics elsewhere.
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  3214. Gary Quarty Why do you feel the need to make things up out of whole cloth? Just because the Liar-in-Chief dies it doesn’t mean you have to.
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  3215. You’d want to ask your physician about this.
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  3216. You want a strip club to offer curbside service?
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  3217. You were impognated?
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  3218.  @tomitiustritus6672  I think you are correct. Even if the threat from Belarusian forces is low (Belarus military seems disinclined to join Putin’s adventure and has made that very clear to Belarusian leadership), the flanks must still be protected. Furthermore, UKR could use these to equip Quick Reaction Forces in strategically important rear areas in case Russia wants to throw away more air assault and Spesnaz forces.
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  3219.  @darkiee69  It’s not an APC, it’s an IFV. IFV doctrine is different from that used for APCs. In essence, an Infantry Fighting Vehicle is used like a light tank to support the infantry it carries. In some ways it is like an APC, in other ways it’s like a tank (albeit a very light one). APC doctrine is to safely move soldiers to wherever they’re needed. IFV doctrine is to move them there and help them fight.
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  3220. You’re thinking of a different dimension, Amazon Prime.
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  3221.  @baronknownot780  I love the work of Tolkien, disliked them Bakshi adaptation, I loved the Jackson LOTR movies, but was very meh on the Hobbit movies, which were sort of entertaining taken on their own but quite lame within the context of the entire mythos that Tolkien had created. Rings of Power bored me nearly to death halfway through episode 3. That’s why I hate it. It took material I loved and made it boring. A lot of people will complain about the Galadriel character being unsympathetically singleminded, a murder hobo, or whatever. But Galadriel is just a symptom. The real problem is the writing is crap, and the reason that the writing is crap is that the show runners don’t really know how to tell a story. They think they have a formula, but all they’ve managed to create (in me, at least) is boredom. I could go on in great detail about their storytelling failures, but I won’t. My bottom line is I don’t want to waste my valuable time being bored if I can help it. Two and a half episodes is enough time to capture my imagination or involve me emotionally with the characters. The hobbit-ish people’s subplot almost got me to entertainment town, but couldn’t overcome the wearying crap of the rest of the show.
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  3222. My sympathies. My siblings and I currently have a situation going on with evil stepmother and dad suffering dementia.
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  3223. He’s the Republican governor of a Blue State. The problem is that if he runs and wins, that’s one less senator in the Dem caucus. I guess the question is if he can win the primary.
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  3224. Easter eggs are trans.
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  3225. I’m pro-vaccine, but your doubts are understandable. Just having doubts is not crazy. It comes down to doing your own risk/benefit analysis and weighing new data (from reliable sources) as it comes in. No need to make a hasty decision. Depending on how distribution is handled in your area, you might not need to decide quickly (or it’s a moot point) because data from real world use will be coming in as you wait for your turn. Meanwhile, continue to be safe and follow the health protocols as strictly as you can. Good luck!
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  3226. ⁠​⁠ @TheRealRusDaddy  Nah. It’s to be avoided. Wake up before dawn and ride for three hours or so, then find shelter or shade until after dark. Riding at those temps is not just fine, even if you’ve got a neck cooler.
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  3227. If the Army had developed a heavy tank and named it the Yamato, it would have gotten built. 😄 But seriously, the decision to attack the U.S. came quite late. The Japanese might have felt that war was inevitable, but it was far off in the future until the oil embargo and shipping embargo undermined the war in China. The infrastructure to manufacture and supply medium and heavy tanks wasn’t developed because up until the attack on Pearl Harbor, it wasn’t necessary.
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  3228. You might want to check your spelling again.
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  3229.  @atikameg73  like the phrase “perfect storm”, “Ideal Situation” is a figure of speech. Let me put forth a formula of sorts, and see what you think. We base our decisions on our ideals and principles, to meet the situation we face. The situation includes both our position and an appraisal of the person or party whom we face. If our appraisal of our position or of the other side is inaccurate, that is going to lead to criticisms of misplaced ideals (or in some cases of abandoned ideals, if one’s misestimation is in the opposite direction). I agree one must have clear eyed pragmatism, but what does that mean? Clear eyed is having the realistic estimation of ourselves and the other party. It means knowing where the lines are or where to draw the line. I don’t think it is idealism that obscures the truth or clouds one judgement. I think it is wishful thinking that does that. Also, I’m not sure we can just blame Scholz and his idealism for Germany’s predicament. A good deal can be laid on Schroeder and Merkel, and I wouldn’t say they were acting idealistically. They were acting expediently. At the time they might have thought they were acting pragmatically.
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  3230.  Denise Skinner  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  3231. In other words you’re just trawling us.
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  3232. But did he pay the tickets to get the snow boot removed from the snow wheel?
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  3233. Leave the gun. Take the Kotkin.
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  3234. That’s a lame excuse. You can do two things at once. I bet your honey won’t even notice the difference.
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  3235. Captain Nemo, his grandson Hagbard Celine, and their minion Markoff Chaney got them all and hid them.
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  3236. Advanced amateurs sometimes talk about logistics. However, its a word they throw into discussions, intoning “amateurs talk about tactics*, professionals talk about logistics”, as if it is sufficient to merely invoke the word. To talk about logistics in a serious way is to get into the weeds. Logistics are a logistical nightmare, either in actuality or potentially. It keeps logistics people up at night. The best run systems are one crisis away from breakdown, always. *Amateurs talk about tactics, moronic videogame players masturbate to equipment capabilities.
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  3237.  @MarshallSweet  it’s true, the Democrats have a plan to make Trump look bad. Step 1) Get out of his way. Step 2) ??? Step 3) profit!!1! Trump doesn’t need any help looking bad. He’s doing it all on his own. You’re doing a fine job of helping him, though.
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  3238. Let’s hope that the Belarusian President continues to accept his bribes NOT to enter the war. In a system that corrupt, it’s not difficult to offer him millions of dollars to hold back his military. It’s quite cost effective. Russia isn’t really in a position to make counter offers.
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  3239.  @SSN515  I think the politically correct nomenclature is FOBBIT.
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  3240. It’s not about what you know, but what you can prove.
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  3241. One child out of a hundred meeting an avoidable death is totally acceptable. /s
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  3242. Something like that. Putin promised the plum of Ukraine’s resources to his fellow Oligarchs to retain their support. They’re at the end of their patience with Putin because they’ve been hurt by previous sanctions against them (see Magnititsky Act). With the even greater sanctions being leveled, and with more to come, Putin absolutely has to take over Ukraine or his partners will dump him. He’s not going to concede. Negotiations are a delaying tactic and an attempt to divide Ukraine’s supporters. He makes nuclear threats because he is cornered and he fears his own criminal organization most of all.
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  3243.  @unwashedbrain5790  Ask your doctor Rashid for a psychiatric referral.
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  3244.  @fsengsec  I don’t think I’ve seen you comment before, but thanks! The antivaxxers have absolute trash minds and trash sources of info. Worse, they have absolute trash personal morals and lack intellectual honesty. Guys like Chris and the other poster that was deleted absolutely lie and they do so knowingly. They use multiple accounts to troll the useful channels of information. I can no longer give them the benefit of the doubt that they are sincere but misguided. I’ve seen a number of them slip up, like the Ivan who yesterday claimed that the corona virus was disappearing on its own, and the numbers would drop significantly BEFORE THE SUPER BOWL. Yeah, that sporting event that happened a few weeks ago. As I said, posted yesterday. I don’t really care if someone actively working to injure me and my community is from North America or is a foreign national. But it’s funny when their masks slip.
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  3245. It’s gotta be severe icing. The plane has features to counteract normal icing, but if they encountered exceptional moisture at that elevation and didn’t get out of it immediately, there was nothing to be done.
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  3246. Yes. The problem is that Putin does not allow humanitarian aid to reach the areas where it is needed, nor does he allow the people in need of humanitarian aid to leave and go to areas they could receive it. He has targeted and bombarded refugees attempting to flee combat areas.
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  3247. Me, as Walter Sonchak: Shut the fuck up, daffy. You’re out of your depth. You: I am the walrus.
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  3248.  @C.Ulater-s6l  Don’t feed the troll, ignore it.
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  3249. I think you got more right than you got wrong, but your POV is definitely “second world”, showing a “kremlinesque” bias. The political leaders in DF have proven adept at dealing with U.S. soft power, maintaining sovereignty and extracting concessions. They’ve even gotten the U.S. to blink (see the Cienfuegos affair for a recent example). The “military threat” is non-existent, more a figment in the fevered minds of conservatives who think military force is the answer to everything. The truth is, a partition of Mexican states by the U.S. would be much more trouble than its worth. Likewise (and even more absurd) is the idea that Mexico might partition any part of the U.S. via “reconquista”. This fear is common to the same delusional minds that believe they can impose order on sovereign nations via military force. The fact is that a sovereign Mexico that is enmeshed culturally and economically with the U.S. is better for both the U.S., and for Mexico. Now that adults are back in charge of the U.S. foreign policy, I expect to see an increase in economic cooperation. Something that needs to be strongly emphasized is the nature of the Mexican diaspora into the U.S.: it quickly becomes American and woven into the fabric of American society, despite our famous racism. Even amongst economic immigrants that plan on returning to their ranchos in Mexico, there is a sense of participation in our country’s culture, even as they spread Mexican cultural influence by way of Taco Diplomacy (soft power from soft tacos). I think you made another error by mischaracterizing the plateau region, much of which is not “arid” desert, but is rich arable farmland that receives rain from late spring to late autumn. If it lacks forests and woodlands, it’s due to the mining of the colonial period. Mineral extraction in that period required a lot of wood for mine building and for fuel. With regard to water, there are water table issues, but it might interest you to know that SAPASMA takes truckloads of water from the bajío region to CDMX. Also, while the area (particularly Guanajuato) is the “cradle of independence”, it’s also quite a conservative place. Not only has it been a PAN (the conservative party) stronghold, it’s was the center of the counter-revolutionary Cristero rebellion in the 1930s. In many ways, Mexico already serves as a gateway to Latin America. (Literally, in the case of Americans who wish to travel to Cuba!) I suppose with the right moves, it could strengthen this role. It was quite ambitious and admirable to take on this complex subject in a short video. As I said, I detect a vestigial Soviet bloc bias that I think slants your understanding of Mexico and Mexico’s relations with the U.S., but it’s more like the tint of your glasses than gross distortions of the optics. Your overall point is correct: Mexico maintains its sovereignty and independence from the U.S. while maintaining strong relations as a partner and close neighbor.
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  3250.  @alanmulcahy7749  I’ll continue with my D-3 regimen. It’s not likely to hurt, even if it doesn’t help with Covid.
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  3251. We can’t have both potato chips and microchips? I didn’t know that. That’s something to think about. Also, the replacement of engineers with accountants is a troubling development. Do accountants even know how to do structural design or operate trains? (I’m a little confused about what type of engineers you meant.) I must say, your words have inspired me to be very angry at accountants. You’ve confirmed my irrational hatred of mathematics in general. If god meant is to count higher than 21, he would have done something but I forget what it was. I’m going to leave some death threats on the voicemail of several CPAs right now.
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  3252. @boronium koronium A weak post from a 1-week old account.
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  3253.  @ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869 Tell us the asylum laws that are being broken, please.
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  3254. After the two weeks of building up the immunity, so two and a half months? 10% of those will still not have complete immunity after the first shot, but half of those will gain it after the second.
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  3255. Look at Kotkin, who also puts Ukraine into a larger context. Avoid Mearsheimer and his ilk. And run away from Putin apologists from both the left and the right. Another good one is Dan Snyder, especially if you want a cultural and historical perspective.
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  3256. It’s similar but different, in my experience. I’m not hallucinating voices, but I am experiencing my own internal dialogue, which is telling me negative things (maybe not as extreme as the videos, but similar). My social anxiety seems to spring from negative ideas I have about myself that I imagine are becoming externalized, if that makes any sense. I’m not thinking that people see me as a bad person, but that if I go out, people will see me that way.
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  3257. Reading between the lines, another unfounded assumption made by the Russians is, “Europeans like to be blackmailed. In fact, Europeans like to be blackmailed so much, they will cave in to Russian demands rather than explore options that will free them from Russian pressure points.” It’s worth noting here that the EU has already committed to reducing its use of gas and oil because of global warming. All Russia is really doing is speeding up the timeline. Long term, Russia is amputating a source of income that it cannot make up through trade with other partners. It will take a decade to create the pipelines to sell petroleum based resources to India and China. Meanwhile, they are also reducing their reliance on fossil fuels. In this and in many other sectors of the global economy, Russia is engaging in a solo one-legged ass kicking contest. With every kick, they hit their own buttocks and then fall to the ground. Russia is beating Russia to a bloody pulp.
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  3258. So other than the terrible burden on health care workers and stress to the medical system, sounds like a net benefit.
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  3259.  @kernalbert4939  C’mon, man. Can’t you see this is a classic case of “her word against I invoke my 5th amendment rights against self-incrimination”. How can you be so certain in a case of she said, he took the fifth? 😉
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  3260.  @sakils2  It’s a battalion? It’s probably more like 500-1000. And the majority are not ideological. UKR did a smart thing by putting Azov under military discipline and weeding out the extremists. Once they controlled Azov, they could channel the nationalism into something positive. Azov might have started as an extremist paramilitary group, but that’s been washed out of it.
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  3261. What did you eat?
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  3262. 11:32 “Sí pero no” está bien mexicano. 😂 Edit: Outstanding video, Sam. Thank you so much for making it and posting it.
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  3263. How about you antivaxxers stop trolling?
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  3264.  @picogang  Yale is one of a group of universities called the Ivy League. I just had a quick peek at the Wikipedia page to refresh my memory before I responded to your comment, but I’ll just recommend that you have a look yourself. Yale, along with fellow Ivy League universities Harvard and Princeton are in the top five universities. I’m not sure which other two universities are in the top five, but if I was to guess, it’s Stanford and MIT. Anyway, have a glance at the article. I think you’ll find it interesting.
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  3265. There is a thieves’ logic to his criminal statements. You just deny the existence of a sovereign country, claim the territory is yours, and then you’re not invading. It’s an internal security matter, not an act of aggressive war.
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  3266.  @jocelynstuff1947  there is a California variant already. Not coincidentally, San Diego California is the home of Scripps Institute, where they’ve been doing medical research on genetic testing of infectious disease, and were able to pivot their research early. Those researchers within the CDC were petitioning the higher ups for more genetic testing since the start, but the emphasis from the very top was for less testing, not more. Thus there wasn’t the funding or cutting of red tape to make sure this was done on a nationwide scale, even if the expertise and equipment was available (both were). The red tape mentioned above has to do with privacy requirements. The Scripps people had to overcome considerable hurdles to get permission to begin genetic screening from already collected test samples.
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  3267. Woah, weren’t these guys on the old Saturday Night Live? Fred Armisen and Bobby Moynihan?
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  3268. There was a mention of a 23 million ruble investment. That’s worth about $230,000 dollars today.
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  3269.  Markus Frames  OK, Ivan. Same to you and your Putin, but doubled.
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  3270. They used the materials to make the concrete, which saved them the cost of buying the materials off site and shipping them to the site. Reducing the cost of the project means more profits. This is not materially different than if they sold the building materials they extracted.
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  3271. So far Russia has not been able to expand the southern region either North or West. They have been unable to connect the eastern region with the southern region, even after 4 weeks. The big question is how much of the territory that the Russians have taken is under actual control. The various flank attacks and deep raids into Russian held territory indicates that Russia is not in control and that their front is very porous. I would not pay much attention to opinion polls in totalitarian countries. A wrong response to a survey question could lead to imprisonment.
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  3272. Renminbi renmin = people, bi = money
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  3273. Yeah, I think it’s ridiculous to talk about “moral hazard” in the context of depositors. We might as well be talking about the moral hazard of getting out of bed in the morning. Covering the depositors maintains the business environment. And it’s not like the bank assets are worthless. The issue is that they’re illiquid. Peter is getting out of his lane and it shows. Unfortunately there was a demand that he address the “crisis”. Apparently many subscribers are financial collapse porn devotees.
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  3274. Even easier than you might suppose. This was a poll of “Trump voters”. The close results in several battleground states and exit polls demonstrate that a small but growing number of Republicans are sick of Trump and don’t like the GOP being remade in his image. Over 10% of GOP Trump voters in 2016 didn’t vote for Trump. That was last November. How much more “ordinary Republican voter” support has he lost since then? I’d say a lot.
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  3275. Mouthwash falls under “Can’t hurt, might help”. Not so with Ivermectin. Large scale double blind testing is the gold standard, and while ivermectin might or might not be “promising”, there isn’t sufficient proof. Nor is there a medically known mechanism for WHY it might be effective. Mouthwash, vitamin D, and certain other supplements are harmless. There is no risk in using them as directed.
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  3276. It’s not that big a deal. You just go to the downstream lost and found. If no body has turned in your battalion, you put up flyers and check at the dog pound. The reason these Russian soldiers bunch up like that is they’re told that there are 2 kilo sacks of sugar on the other side, so they line up it just like in Soviet days.
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  3277. You’re thinking of the titanium fragmentation bombs, which are different than cluster munitions.
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  3278. @Bingobanana4789 Dude, you’re going by when the sites were discovered, not when they were built.
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  3279. As many as it takes to get rid of them, banish them from public life, and ostracize them from decent people. And where appropriate, prosecute them.
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  3280. He was quite clear in his explanation of what affect this initial deliver of F-16s will have. If you do not have the knowledge to understand what he is talking about, that’s on you. Seek elsewhere for your entertainment pudding.
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  3281. Anyone remember when Motorola and IBM were cpu manufacturers? (Ironically, they developed and sold RISC architecture silicon.) Giants like Intel can fall.
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  3282. From your lips to God’s ears.
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  3283. Matt Gaetz, reading Chinese propaganda into the congressional record.
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  3284.  @ButterfatFarms  You realize that popcorn was invented by the Aztecs? (Probably not the Aztecs, but their mesoAmerican ancestors).
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  3285.  @smartknucklehead6283  Hello, brand new account. What are you doing here, trying to establish bona fides?
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  3286. In that case they should follow the better-safe-than-sorry rule.
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  3287.  @mattm8870  They hired the dude precisely because he could give them more profitable garbage. And it was probably a perk negotiated by Hancock to keep his son employed, because any dunce can make garbage documentaries. It takes no special skills, nothing you couldn’t pick up in a week. They were going to have to hire someone to do it, might as well be the idiot’s son. So it isn’t the son getting his dad’s tripe on cable or streamers. It’s the dad shifting some of his ill gotten gains to his son in the form of salary.
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  3288. Because people below might not want burning debris falling on them.
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  3289. Not until next year at the earliest. What we might see is the beginning of some give and take, if we’re lucky. The dems would be in a position to make a few demands if they keep Johnson in place, but they shouldn’t expect him to give away the store. It’s a slim chance, but the two parties have an opportunity here re-learn negotiation and compromise. I really think it’s Johnson who has to make the first move, though. I’m not sure he has the backbone.
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  3290. Gonzalo Lira, aka Coach Red Pill, recently overdosed on red pills. Rest in poop.
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  3291.  @BambiKilla-cg5gk  probably the worse they will suffer is being charged 40 pesos for a taco.
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  3292.  @simon-ec5kv  You feel threatened by anyone with two brain cells, as they unfairly have twice as much as you do.
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  3293. I’ve seen some video clips about Hunt, and the comments cracked me up. A huge amount of trolls had keyed of the name Hunt and were ranting about Hunter Biden and his infamous laptop. 😆
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  3294.  @thedausthed  Jack uses ESA (emotional support armor). I keep encouraging him to put some reactive armor under his helmet. 🤯
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  3295.  @dimviesel  His statement is reasonable. It’s certainly not inflammatory or extreme.
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  3296.  @GoodCHO  This is disinformation put forward by people unfamiliar with how to use a toothbrush and toothpaste. There is a reason they think their masks are septic—their breath smells like shit. 😆
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  3297.  @JazzTechie  There are better engineered masks with replaceable filters, but they are expensive in comparison with surgical and KN-95 masks. Industrial design for medical devices (which includes PPE) is not a quick process. I’d be very interested in what Apple designed for its employees and whether that has passed any approval processes.
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  3298. I think you mean the Moderna vaccine, not the moderate vaccine. At least I hope so! That would really be terrible if the pandemic had gotten that politicized! 😫 Anyway, thanks for keeping us informed. I hope you and your family continue to do well.
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  3299. When hasn’t he?
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  3300. My goddaughter sometimes yells back, “ahorita!” when I call her, to which I respond, “Ya merito?” 😂
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  3301. Putin has basically threatened Europe with nuclear war if they try to intervene in Russian aggression.
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  3302. The guy had suffered some personal loss aggravated by a domestic crisis. His father died and then his wife divorced him. I don’t think it’s anything like a psychotic break, but he was in mental and notional crisis. It doesn’t excuse him—thousands of people go through crises everyday and don’t steal airplanes and threaten to harm people. But his crisis wasn’t anything so trivial as not passing his private pilot exam. I hope he will get help while he is serving his time, maybe even spend some time in a psych ward before serving his time in prison.
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  3303.  @alexandersims1613  I don’t know if I agree with your solutions, but you made an important point. The economy is a machine. More specifically, it is an engine. You are proposing making adjustments to the engine. When we have this common framework, that the economy is an engine, we have a basis for debating policy, i.e., how to make adjustments, improvements, and tweaks to the engine. We also have a framework for a more fundamental debate: to what purpose are we using the engine? Are we moving ourselves forward with the engine? Or do only a tiny percentage of us get a luxury ride while the rest of us must walk? Capitalism is a social technology (an engine) that propels this vehicle we call society. Once we decide the purpose of the vehicle (should it carry the bulk of us or only a chosen few? Do we care if people get left behind? Do we want a race car, a luxury sedan, or a bus?), we can then make the adjustments to the engine that would best serve our purpose. And now we can have our economic policy debate, and we can base our arguments on historical fact and experimental data rather than emotion and quasi-religious dogma (capitalism is NOT a religion), etc. We can debate where we are going and how to get there. Anyway, I think you’ve found a good mode of thinking, a conceptual model that most people can understand. It’s a good analogy. The economy IS a machine, and machines are tools that we use to do work. Machines should serve us. Anyone who suggests we should serve the machine, who is turning capitalism into a religion, is trying to create a dogma to conceal their real intentions.
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  3304. It was en route. Did you think Nashville’s bomb squad was at the station on standby in the dawn hours of Christmas Day?
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  3305.  @captainhakob814  That’s not how court cases work. If your best witnesses fail, you don’t get to bring in 100s of poorer quality witnesses. Go sit in a courtroom every day for a month. You’ll see that a lot of pretrail work is attorneys and the court hashing out which witnesses will be called. An unethical attorney could prolong a trial indefinitely if he or she was allowed to call an endless list of witnesses.
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  3306. An issue with sending Challengers or Abrams is that they require months of retraining of tank crews to use the equipment. This was also a problem with the Polish MiGs. They would need to be reconfigured to Ukrainian configuration or the pilots would need to be retrained on Polish systems. The shoulder fired ATGMs and MANPADS benefit is that soldiers could be trained to use them relatively quickly. That said, we might not see a big Russian push until after the wet season in Ukraine. As we’ve heard, the spring thaw is ongoing, and mud makes offensive operations more difficult. There might be time to introduce these unfamiliar-to-Ukraine systems and get the soldiers trained in time for a Russian offensive. However, Russian military has not shown itself to be strategically adept, so an attack could come at any time, even when conditions are terrible.
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  3307. It’s also confidence building for the vaccine “hesitant”.
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  3308.  @daverok1113  <— TROLL
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  3309. I’m all for “clinging to our guns”, but those that cling to their ignorance are idiots, and some of them are belligerent and even violent idiots.
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  3310.  @cockus123  You’re right. He should have said “locura”. We need to stop connecting the moon to insanity. Its not fair to the moon.
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  3311.  @JG-vh6oy  Thank you.
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  3312. And San Antonio just to the east. There’s not enough qualified medical staff—if there was, they could create more ICU space.
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  3313. Welcome to your new 80 sq. ft condo with built in sink and toilet. And say hi to your roommate.
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  3314.  @danger3_255  When we want your opinion, we’ll ask RT.
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  3315. The people of Martha’s Vineyard demonstrated that they have good moral values and helped out these strangers in need, despite Desantis shipping them in without a word of warning. Desantis just wants to show the MAGA voter that he can be cruel for cruelty’s sake. That’s what the MAGA voter wants, cruelty to others. These asylum seekers weren’t even in his state. They were in Texas.
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  3316.  @lorentzianmanifold718  I want to point out that you’re putting out opinion about NATO as fact, and your opinion is not supported by the facts—in fact, your opinion is in line with official Kremlin propaganda. NATO is not seeking to expand, and membership requirements are quite high. Ukraine has actually been turned down for membership. NATO is a defensive alliance and does not take on defensive obligations haphazardly. Even Sweden and Finland will have to go through a lengthy process if they decide to apply. And the propaganda that Russia applied to join NATO is pure falsehood. Russia never seriously considered doing so and never made the diplomatic steps to start the process of joining. If you truly care about truth, take the time to educate yourself
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  3317.  @NorthForkFisherman  It’s not easy to tell when they’re ignorant about American geography because they’re not Americans or because they are Americans.
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  3318.  @yarpenzigrin1893 If you don’t have a preferred pronoun, I’m just going to call you she/her, girlie.
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  3319. Putzi
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  3320. Agreed. Ironically, Russia is doing this to itself. It is in fact solving the problem of Russian aggression by engaging in it and rallying the West. Putin is expending Russia on Ukraine and it will not easily recover from this strategic blunder.
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  3321.  @brokenmanbrokenman5222  I think they have very little room for love when their hearts are so filled with hate. We (and they) say that they love trump, but really their sick adoration and blind devotion is very far from love.
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  3322. Who benefits from the chaos (both real and perceived)?
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  3323.  @karenwhite4141  Before you’ve died of COVID, it’s more than likely you’ve spread it to others. Not so if you die from the vaccine. So the Christian thing to do is take the vaccine and trust in God.
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  3324.  @jm2453 It turns out you don’t even need a navy to defeat the Russian Navy.
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  3325. Yup. It was just explained to me by a so-called Christian Patriot is “what the Bible really says is take care of your family first”. I told him that I was saddened to learn of his inability to take care of his family, as that must be the reason he couldn’t even spare a charitable thought for the unfortunate.
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  3326.  @DaveSchultzXXL  <—Troll farmhand
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  3327.  @robertpalin5878  How does it read? Because it’s already illegal to export such weapons unless the buyer is the government of Mexico. Did the Trump administration agree to crack down on the gun smuggling networks in the U.S.? That would make more sense than merely creating new law that is already covered by existing law. It’s sort of like saying, “As President I am going to ban littering”, which is meaningless as there are already anti-littering laws on the books. However, if the President was promising to take active measures against littering, that would mean something (assuming he followed through on it). If he is taking active measures, it could be either good or bad for legal gun owners. Good: it could decrease the overall demand for firearms in the U.S., which could lead to lower prices for gun buyers. Bad: depending on the active measures, in could lead to creeping infringement of our 2A rights.
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  3328. He and his brother Thomas created Photoshop. Frikkin’ Adobe Photoshop. No lie, look it up!
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  3329. I’m surprised this hasn’t turned into an Abbot and Costello skit.
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  3330. ⁠ @simonjusticier333  Did naval battleships fail? How about non-naval battleships? Did they fail as well? No battleships are in the area of operations, nor have any battleships been spotted around here for decades. The vessels we’ve seen include cruisers, destroyers, and an aircraft carrier. I think the French have been operating a frigate, but go ahead and count that as a cruiser. They haven’t failed. They’ve done their jobs brilliantly. However, Houthi weapons will occasionally get through. This bulk carrier was out there freelancing without protection (or insurance as far as anyone knows).
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  3331.  @NickGrumpy  This is not unlike quitting motorcycles because of helmet laws.
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  3332. It’s not civil war nor revolution. It’s a violent insurrection that won’t amount to anything other than further discrediting Trump and the Trump movement. American democracy will prevail over these lawless fascists.
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  3333.  @harrycollins3248  And they’re not going to get it, no more than the lesser dirtbag looters in Portland caused a civil war.
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  3334. I give props to the clerk for another reason. He defended himself but went no farther. Once he saw his assailant escaping, he let him escape instead of running after him. That’s pure self defense, and not a particle more. He even had an opportunity shot as the assailant was running to the door, but he held off. That takes self-control.
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  3335. Lloyd Knighten I rather liked the one that looked like a floating slum. Fantastic camouflage, doncha think?
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  3336. And deep water submersibles are not in the subsafe submarine classes of vessels, either. Subsafe doesn’t apply to submersibles. If your point is that there is a safety framework that could be adapted to deep water crewed submersibles, ok. Good point. If your point is that SUBSAFE already applies to this class of submersibles, you are wrong.
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  3337. I hope this is a sign that the state that gave us John McCain, Barry Goldwater, and Jeff Flake, is returning to sanity.
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  3338.  @LesGu47  I think D’s point is that she is a young woman, and he’s a sexist piece of sh¡t.
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  3339.  @jassonsw  I thought Boris was pretty clear that the Xmas holidays were cancelled?
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  3340. It’s not illegal to physically remove a belligerent person who refuses to comply with store policy. It’s common at many businesses that serve alcohol.
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  3341. Ex-Republicans. AFAIK, the cofounders have changed their voting registration and political affiliations to independent, save one hold out.
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  3342. The UK has plans to abandon the British Isles and move to Canada? The NA in NAFTA stands for North America, not North Atlantic. Maybe you should have looked that up before Brexit. The only way the UK can join NAFTA is if it became a subject state of either Canada, Mexico, or the U.S.
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  3343. You just don’t have enough to offer. That said, I would not be surprised if Ukraine eventually purchases a squadron or two of Gripen. It makes a versatile option for any country sharing a border with Russia. You might eventually see 200 F-16s and 30 to 50 Gripen as their main aerial weapons platforms. I’m talking about the time after hostilities cease. Ukraine isn’t going to instantly join NATO. There will be a period of unknown length when Ukraine and Russia will rearm—or try to—for a possible round 2. A strong capable Airforce that included the versatility of Gripen is a good deterrent against round 2.
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  3344.  @caroltopalian593  It’s a bit cruel hearted of me, but I sometimes wish that people like Jeff would just get on with it instead of talking about how they don’t fear death. Perhaps we could solve global warming if they’d stop bragging and follow through. I’m not saying they should commit suicide but maybe they could include their risk taking to include Do-It-Yourself fireworks manufacturing, skydiving with homemade parachutes, and taking weekend courses in amateur lion taming.
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  3345. Every 12v tacticool accessory.
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  3346. What’s second prize? A two week vacation in Cleveland?
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  3347.  @mollie3244  Last I heard, the Trump slush fund was up to $180 million. It could be up to $200 million by now.
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  3348.  @theselector69  Just to be 100% clear, Dr. Campbell has never claimed to be a physician. He’s a professor of nursing (as well as a nurse). He has given 30 years to training nurses. He does know what he is talking about, corrects himself on those rare occasions he makes an error, and has never mislead anyone about the nature of his honorific. There are many shitty people that try to discredit Dr. Campbell, accusing him of lying or pretending to be a doctor when he’s done no such thing.
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  3349. That needs explanation for those of us that don’t understand the cultural differences.
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  3350.  @CollectiveDefence  Yes. GOSPLAN was originally (1921) constituted as an advisory board to plan Lenin’s implementation of the New Economic Policy (NEP) which was more or less a set of liberal market based reforms. As a side note, this was a bone of contention between Trotsky and Stalin, with Trotsky representing more radical views contrary to Leninism. Stalin continued Lenin’s economic policies until 1928, when he broke from Lenin’s NEP and, under GOSPLAN’s interventions, began the collectivization of Soviet agriculture, industry, and the beginning of forced labor as an economic prop. Under Stalin, GOSPLAN created the infamous 5-Year Plan and its quota system. You might already be aware of the resulting deaths from GOSPLAN’s collectivization efforts, including the notorious Holodomor Ukraine, but not limited to it. You might also be aware of GOSPLAN’s reliance on GULAG to meet the Five Year Plan quotas, a reliance that led to ever greater repressions under Stalin to feed more bodies into the forced labor system. This is my concern about the rumor that GOSPLAN is being reactivated as Russia moves to a “militarized” economy. It goes hand and hand with the formation of a totalitarian society from an authoritarian one.
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  3351. Surprisingly insightful comments crammed into a small time segment.
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  3352. The dollar losing primacy as a reserve currency is so far off as to be meaningless in terms of economic policy formulation and planning.
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  3353. It’s multiple factors, including your suggestion that it’s disgust with McConnell and the Senate Majority. Don’t discount that Loeffler and Perdue were weak candidates, and that the state Dems put in a massive grassroots effort over the past year to even get to a close election. What gives your suggestion legs is that both sides framed this as being about control of the Senate.
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  3354.  @thomasdragosr.841  Humongous airbags.
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  3355.  @jeffm5271  <— ANTIVAXXER TROLL It’s not a cure. It helps prevent the more grave outcomes. The only people claiming it’s a cure are either delusional antivaxxers, or genocidal eugenicists posing as antivaxxers to push their depopulation agenda. Which are you? Insane or malevolently insane?
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  3356. About the kindest thing you can say about the ordinary people of Russia is that they’re craven cowards. I might not hate those people, but I pity and despise them. They never outgrew the Soviet mentality when they had the chance.
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  3357. Are you suggesting that ignoring a problem doesn’t make it go away? What, are you completely sane?!
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  3358.  @andrewtaylor940  You have it 100% right. Trevor Jacob currently only faces an administrative investigation and hearing before the FAA. It’s already clear that there are a number of things on which they can cite him, but other than fines and losing his license, there’s not much they can do. There is a possibility that the National Forest Service can begin their own investigation concurrent to the FAA investigation. I highly doubt the NTSB will conduct their own investigation as others have suggested above. It’s really too minor, and the possible causes of the crash are not complicated (either he faked the engine failure or he had engine failure to which he responded with incompetence). Edit: A few more details (so maybe you’re not at 100%) #1. As of yet, there is no evidence that Trevor Jacob hired the helicopter or even that the copter moved the crash remains. #2. The incident took place in close proximity to the wildlife preserve, but it doesn’t look like the crash occurred inside its boundaries. However, because of the endangered species being protected (California Condor), the airspace is also tightly regulated—and the airspace is likely more extensive than the preserve’s boundaries. Someone needs to check an aviation map! #3. I could be wrong, but I think National Forests and the Forest Service are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture.
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  3359.  @bh-zj4yt  I agree with you, too. At this point, it’s hard to imagine the Ukrainian people caving into this. We wish this conflict can be over quickly, but the truth is that, 8 months in, it’s probably early days. We in the West that support and assist Ukraine must recognize that the war could go on for more than a year or two, and strengthen our commitment to help.
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  3360. Did you say crowdfunding or krautfunding?
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  3361.  @davidjacobs8558  yes, you could, but that doesn’t provide a deterrent effect. It doesn’t actually do anything but kill a bunch of people while assuring your own destruction.
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  3362. That and the fake moon landing sketch are the greatest comedy those two ever did, and they have done a lot of great work. “That would be one thing if we were fighting people marching under the banner of a rat’s anus, but we’re not.” Or “Pirates are fun!”
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  3363.  @jarcadipane2849  You are uniformed. There is no new BRICS currency and there won’t be. (Also, South Africa would be upset that you are relegating it to an apostrophe S. 🤨) Your argument is like arguing that unicorns or dragons will become the dominant species on the planet earth. Neither dragons nor unicorns exist. They are as mythical as your BRICS currency.
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  3364. YouTube became a quasi-government ever since you volunteered to be a citizen of Googlandia. Or Facebookistan. Or whatever online “society” you please. You made the choice to live there. Take responsibility for you decisions. If you don’t like it, you’re free to leave. If you want an online democracy, I suggest you create your own with likeminded individuals or find one that already exists.
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  3365. This is where you’re wrong. It’s not a certainty even if it’s probable. White liberals might manifest racism differently in most cases, but they are not immune to it. Sometimes they slip up and say overtly racist things.
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  3366. WA is also the chemical symbol for water. J/k
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  3367. Are you saying that the issue is trivial compared to guns and school shootings?
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  3368. He didn’t actually say that, though. Nor can you prove that it is the case.
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  3369.  @gageshippy2256  Money to safeguard schools is really a state matter, and is unrelated to support for Ukraine. If you have some idea for improving safety at your local schools, contact your state representative and other state officials. The Feds and Congress are limited in what they can do—tighten up gun purchasing regulations and increase funding for mental health are about all they can do. The states can also do those two things.
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  3370. Much as I like to criticize his laziness, you make a good point.
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  3371. Depends on the altitude and attitude of the plane. Too low and parachutes don’t have time to deploy.
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  3372.  @cillerbeez5892  You honestly don’t know what you’re talking about.
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  3373. You’re not getting it right.
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  3374. 😂 This is really the funniest of many funny comments.
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  3375. Anti Inflamtory drugs are out, even after, because they might interfere with your bodies immune response to the vaccine (which is the whole point of the vaccine). Talk to your doctor of course. But I’d hold off taking anything for the vaccine after effects if possible, unless you’re having a severe reaction or dangerously high fever. Talk to your doctor before your vaccination.
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  3376. The most telling pretext of Putin’s criminal invasion is the lie that his military entered Ukraine to root out Naziism. The lie is revealed in how the Russian military is going about this “rooting out”—by murdering civilians, by destroying every house and building indiscriminately, by targeting fleeing refugees with bombardments. Apparently every Ukrainian citizen is a Nazi. Every brick in every building is a Nazi brick.
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  3377.  @susanpick2382  You’ve hit the matter on the head—HOW is Ivermectin instrumental in the human body, HOW does it interact with the immune system or “with the virus itself”? If there is a mechanism by which it functions as an antiviral, it hasn’t been scientifically established. Ivermectin is an established treatment for parasites. The mechanism is well understood: it’s a neurotoxin that attacks the nervous system of tiny critters such as lice and intestinal worms and lice. It’s a proven medication for parasites, administered around the world. However, this mechanism has NO application as an anti-viral. Viruses do not have nervous systems. If the efficacious antiviral mechanism can be explained by science, ivermectin is worth further study. Otherwise, it’s a waste of time and resources—resources and time better spent elsewhere.
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  3378.  @JorgeMartinez-bw7nl  Nicaragua maybe, but I don’t see how we can have any constructive dealings with Venezuela and Cuba while their current regimes are in power. I’m sure people will bring up the People’s Republic of China as a hostile dictatorship that we still do business with. The might have a point, but a counterpoint is that the PRC is not a member of either ASEAN or SEATO. I think AMLO is a populist imbecil, but I get that Mexico’s foreign policy regularly diverges from U.S. fp. Mexican politicians have to be seen as not beholden to the U.S., and national pride demands at least the perception of independence from the colossus to the north. (And the truth is, the U.S. does not dominate Mexico politically, despite the great interdependence of the two countries.) AMLO takes it too far, but that’s how pinche populists do.
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  3379. Because of the starbursts. The chewy candy.
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  3380. A bit harder each year for the past 20 (depending on where you live).
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  3381. Silver bullet? That seems to be a mighty tall claim. Glad to hear it’s working for you.
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  3382. 13:05 “Liberation Operation”
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  3383. That’s why you want to ask for a print out of the warranty service history. That should indicate whether the car is a lemon, regardless of whether or not it was a lemon law buy back. Steve mentions this.
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  3384. The Ukrainian defense forces seem to be doing well fighting the Russians, but the war would be over much sooner if Ukraine had a ROK division helping out. ROK are badasses. I hate to glorify war, but if you have to fight a war, you want ROK military by your side.
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  3385.  @BrandyTexas214  Broken Record Brandy. In other matters, if you only realized that despite his tough rhetoric, Trump has helped China consolidate its regional hegemony as he has abandoned our allies in the region. It’s been Australia and New Zealand that have been doing their best to hold together the Pacific coalition. You’ve been so mesmerized by Trump’s words, you don’t seem to realize that TRUMP LOST HONG KONG.
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  3386. Is he prolapsing? No, he’s Michael Gapen.
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  3387.  @tinto278  Weirdo.
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  3388.  @deliciousful  The charter plane company owner gets the money. He’s most likely a big donor, so some of that money makes it back to the politicians that hired him.
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  3389.  @tombaron2388 Relax, the same person posted the original comment and the reply. It’s bots playing the troll game.
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  3390. Plan to rendezvous with Moskva is underway!
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  3391.  @nicholasguantai6726  lol, I was going to say, if he didn’t have a silver spoon when he was born, he married one!
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  3392. So, you’re bearing the cost because you’re a bank customer. And you’re a tax payer. And I suppose you also drive an automobile. Why aren’t you upset that you bearing the cost as an automobile owner? Because it’s not relevant, no more relevant than your being a tax payer. If you don’t think it’s worth it as a bank customer, if you feel unfairly put upon, stop using banks. Or just, you know, keep complaining about irrelevant stuff.
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  3393.  @victorzvyagintsev1325  Uh, Ukraine was/is a manufacturer of Soviet style armaments before the invasion, including tanks. Look up T-84.
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  3394. What’s a boarderline?
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  3395.  @MikkelGrumBovin  <— Troll
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  3396. What was better? For what? For fun transportation, I prefer a motorcycle. For evading snooping code breakers, also a motorcycle.
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  3397. I heard one commentator (who is pro Ukraine) say something like the following, “At this time, what is the motivation for Putin to leave? Why wouldn’t he keep his forces in Ukraine for as long as possible, in the hopes that he’ll get something out of it.” Its very frustrating to hear this, but it is true. What does Putin have to lose? He doesn’t value human life. He’s got nukes, so the loss of equipment isn’t a large issue. Plus he has lots more obsolete equipment rusting in storage, for internal suppression.
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  3398.  @RabJ208  <— TROLL
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  3399.  @JarJar_1855  And it’s not as if France doesn’t have a long tradition of anti-Semitism. During the Holocaust, more French Jews were killed than German Jews. In reality, race of the arsonist doesn’t matter. This is how France had always been and why many French Jews fled to Israel over the past 200 years.
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  3400.  @zhongxina2614  Putin isn’t doing this single handedly. He’s not even in Ukraine, he’s in a comfortable office, ordering the murder of thousands of people. He has a whole lot of people to do the murdering.
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  3401. “Hey, do you guys want to call a time out so you can figure things out? We’ll give you five minutes to talk it out amongst yourselves.”
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  3402.  @JorgeMartinez-bw7nl  to be fair, AMLO is a socialist goose. He squawks like a socialist, but is closer to being a trump-like populist (and that’s why they get along so well). I do think AMLO’s ambition is to return Mexico to single party rule under Morena, but fat chance. Remember that way back in the day he was PRI. He jumped ship to PRD so he could be in charge of something. He would like to re-nationalize the petroleum industry, but he won’t. I doubt he could. The reason I say AMLO is trump-like is that he’s made a lot of populist promises but hasn’t delivered. He made great promises about reforming Mexico’s educational system, especially at the university level. Those promises are largely unfulfilled. He dropped the ball wrt trade unions on NAFTA II. His anti-corruption campaign was aimed at political enemies. Indeed, it looks like he was primarily interested in monopolizing corruption rather than fight it. Like I said, he talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk. He had an opportunity to address COVID as a national issue that required a whole-of-society government response, but was instead quite cavalier about the pandemic. Most of the response was left up to the states. Personally, I tend towards financial conservatism (I voted for Reagan the first time I voted), but if someone is elected as a progressive, I want to see progress. Do what you said you would do. 😉 Mexico would have been better off with either the PAN (Anaya) or PRI (Meade) candidates as President (Just like the U.S. would have been better off under Clinton, as much as I detested her).
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  3403.  @miniskunk  That’s incorrect. Your knowledge of the law is incomplete if not entirely lacking.
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  3404.  @Jehty_  “No harm, no foul” is shorthand for “our deviation from standard safety regulations didn’t cause a catastrophe, this time”. It’s a very poor mentality to have for dangerous activities in which you want to limit risk. The regulations are there to limit risk. Lazy and/or reckless minds take shortcuts that normalize dangerous behavior. They intentionally decrease their margins of error for the thrill of it, even if this increases the risk to the public. And that’s the bottom line. These pilots increased the risk to the public after being expressly told not to. It doesn’t matter that no one was hurt this time, because someone may get hurt next time.
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  3405.  Pichael Thomson  It is amazing, but let’s not forget that Russia’s most important propaganda asset is Tucker Carlson with all his MAGA followers.
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  3406.  @Zelp789  sure, sure, but I’m pretty sure he won’t be on any ballots in Russia.
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  3407. Good for you! I worked for a used bookstore (not in the U.S.) While I was on vacation, the owner cut wages and I wasn’t informed. I worked for a week at the lower rate without knowing it. On the next payday, I was an amount $30 short and that was when I was informed of the pay cut. When I said this was a breach of our agreement, she said “take it or leave it”. Fortunately, the bookstore let employees take home books as a perk. I informed the owner that I just wouldn’t return the books. She looked up the list of the books I had borrowed and wanted to negotiate (instead of promptly paying me the money owed). I declined her offer to open negotiations and kept the books. 😂 It’s not as good as your story. But I’d rather teach others expensive lessons than have to learn expensive lessons.
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  3408.  @kucanusa3750  Are you also an outsider to the concept of human rights? I’m sorry that sounds harsh. I understand what you are saying and I sympathize with your reaction. But do you think that due process should be a universal right or only for people in the U.S.? Also, locking people in a cage without food or light is by itself cruel and unusual punishment, but it is even worse if you’re doing it so they kill each other. There is also a historical backdrop to this story, the civil war of the 70s and 80s, in which the government performed extrajudicial killings of dissidents, journalists, and priests. The military was sent out to the countryside where they murdered entire villages on the pretext that they were rebels. (And for additional background, the U.S. was providing arms and training to the Salvadoran military at this time.) I don’t think that the narco gangs are freedom fighters, and I don’t equate drug trafficking with communism (although both are bad). So it’s not an exact comparison. But do you see how the brutal excesses of one war might be repeated in this war against drug traffickers? Without sufficient human rights being enforced, legal rights we enjoy in the U.S., such excesses are almost guaranteed. Ultimately your initial reaction is emotional. It’s understandable why someone would feel that way. But I hope that given time to reflect, perhaps with new information, you’ll temper your emotions with a more compressive sense of Justice for All. Now, I think you can make an effective counter argument if you wish, because the problem doesn’t have clear cut solutions. Go for it if you’d like, but if you don’t have time or inclination, I understand. I don’t claim to be 100% right with my position.
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  3409.  @phantomcreamer  How are you framing the debate? Do you think that what happens in El Salvador has no geopolitical context? WRT to what I sound like to you, I’m not part of the “blame America for everything” brigade. But the fact remains that we screw up and those screw ups come back to haunt us. Aren’t we supposed to clean up our messes?
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  3410. Well, absent any knowledge of the conditions that caused Russia to illegally invade Ukraine, can you tell me what conditions would end it? Seems to me that Russia could end the war today by leaving. Ukraine doesn’t have that option—where is it going to go?
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  3411. More like shitzkrieg.
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  3412.  @kr6bejuut  Blitzkrieg really doesn’t work without a viable overall strategy. Hitler couldn’t hold on to his blitzkrieg gains because his grand strategy was irrational. Putin is doing great damage to Russia and won’t hold on to any gains he makes in Ukraine because his strategy is flawed. Putin is no more rational than Hitler was. It’s not surprising that he repeats the same justifications for aggression that the Nazis used in 1938-1941. Ukraine will recover from Putin’s criminal acts a lot faster than Russia will.
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  3413.  @clovisdacruz6078  If the blitzkrieg was actually successful, you’d be typing in German. Blitzkrieg is a tactic against brittle static front line defenses. It cannot win if the over strategies are flawed or the national policy is irrational. It won’t succeed even tactically against a defense in depth. Take a look at the battle of Kursk for a good early example of defense in depth beating the blitzkrieg. The Nazis made early gains using their breakthrough tactics, but they couldn’t hold those gains. I think you realize and would agree that Putin the Pimp will not be able to hold any temporary gains he makes in Ukraine.
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  3414. Kay Sawn
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  3415. I don’t know about you, but I don’t base my ethics and principles on what people think about me or if people are watching me. I try to do the right thing whether I’m alone or not. For example, I don’t steal even if no one is watching. I try to act ethically and morally for reasons other than social benefit. If everyone labeled me a thief, I wouldn’t use that as a justification to steal. That’s the reasoning of a child that hasn’t developed morals beyond “getting caught is bad”.
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  3416.  AA Kostic  She didn’t say that. Stop being obtuse. She is saying that Ukraine’s military should be a rule based one that requires such evidence to be presented in a court martial, and that the defense be allowed to question that evidence and provide counter evidence. “During wartime” doesn’t change that. It is during wartime that it is most important.
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  3417. Did you skip school on the day they covered adverbs?
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  3418. “I don’t care what happens” is an understatement. I fear that Trump’s real attitude is to punish us all on his way out. The scariest question is how far will he go and how far can he go before others intervene?
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  3419. Only this time, the GOP is Trump’s Whig Party.
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  3420.  @painboy66  Where else are boomers supposed to keep their passwords?
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  3421.  @black12212  Not true. They can leave. They don’t have to stay in America. Let them go found their Shangri-La far from decent human society.
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  3422. Serial Entrepreneur = multiple convictions for committing business
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  3423. @Ikreisrond Thank you for reading my rather long comment. I understand your objection, but it’s not based on any real world practice of Revolutionary Communism. The idea of a factory controlled by its workers, electing its own management, is interesting. It could be put into practice within a capitalist system (and has been from time to time, afaik). Maybe the problem is that I’m using too narrow a definition of Communism. I mean Marx-Leninist Communism and it’s derivatives. I’m aware there are other philosophical branches with which I am less familiar (although I did read News from Nowhere, by William Morris (of the pre-Raphaelites). So before we go further, are we speaking of Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist Communism or something else?
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  3424. I’m building a portfolio of dividend-paying companies that are funny.
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  3425.  @bsouthmama3010  How do you judge that? Maybe honestly is of great value in his family, so the punishment was tailored to reinforce that. I could see how it might seem disproportionate to you if you don’t value honesty very highly.
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  3426. That’s like $25 in U.S. dollars, no?
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  3427. Why do you need a “prospective” on a train wreck? Are you thinking of investing in it? Pete looks at data sets. A single train wreck is not a data set for our purposes here.
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  3428.  @arrogusss2905  That’s absolute bullshit. I’m not going to bother asking for your source, because there is no credible source. You’re either careless or a liar. I won’t respond to your comment any further, but I will be paying attention to your posting history. If you are merely careless, please don’t spread disinformation and please don’t try to use “common sense” without expertise in virology. Just read a few posts. I’m relieved you’re not intentionally lying and are merely being careless. The “cause” of the mutations is the sheer volume of people infected + time. As the volume increases, there are more viruses reproducing and therefore more opportunity for mutations to develop. It has absolutely nothing to do with vaccinations.
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  3429.  @daverok1113  STOP SPREADING DISINFORMATION. Your lies put others at risk.
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  3430. Water in the Cloud.
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  3431.  @dr.burtgummerfan439  Don’t let anyone call you a shill for the Huntsville Chamber of Commerce! 😂 But your point may become moot if Alabama continues down the path of this militant MAGA Christian Nationalism. The state will lose all the positive benefits of conservatism that attract talent. Let’s hope and pray we see some sane conservatives regain power in the Alabama GOP.
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  3432. ⁠ @Rubicola174  I bet he didn’t crap for the next two days, either.
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  3433. Say the towns name, Voznesensk! VOZNESENSK!! 🇺🇦 🎉
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  3434. There is a single old pipeline that can deliver to China, but not at high volume. It will take a decade at least to build new pipelines, and most of the funding will come from China if Chinese investors are willing to risk their capital. It’s more or less the same situation with India and other parts of Southern Central Asia—more, really, given the engineering challenges. Meanwhile, India and China will reduce their reliance on fossil fuels to combat global warming.
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  3435. I understand and agree with your feelings, but unfortunate it’s not quite that simple. Incompetence in representing a client generally isn’t remedied by disbarment. And that’s what you and I saw in this video, piss poor lawyering (and to be fair to these Trump legal team stooges, they weren’t being paid to do what they thought was best. They were executing the legal “strategy” directed by Giuliani). So here are the remedies— First of all, the judge can impose sanctions on the individual attorneys, although it’s not entirely clear from the video on what basis (other than wasting his time). Note that they did answer his questions truthfully. He can impose sanctions on the client, making them pay all court costs. With regard to the state bar, you could file a complaint (and I am sure there will be complaints). I’m going to speculate here that the state bar is not going to give very much weight to complaints filed by you or me. We have less standing; we’re less affected than, say, the voters of Arizona. But let’s say that someone with better standing complains about these attorneys and the bar investigates. It’s doubtful they will be punished if this is the only frivolous law suit they’ve every filed. I’m fact, it’s doubtful unless there is a clear pattern of filing and arguing frivolous suits that is revealed in the investigation. If there is a clear pattern, they won’t be disbarred. They might face a suspension of their license to practice law for some period of time. With regard to their competence, they can argue that they were following the wishes of the client’s top legal advisors, the ones running the case. They can argue that the voiced their concerns, but were ordered to proceed anyway. These lawyers are scum, but that’s not illegal by itself.
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  3436. It’s a possibility, but I think it’s unlikely because Russia has been moving forces from the east to reinforce the south.
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  3437. It’s up to the Puerto Ricans. They have had unsuccessful referendums in the past.
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  3438.  @resourcedragon  Agreed. If one wants to invest in the stock market, one is better off buying into an index fund.
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  3439. He’s a great and underrated journalist. I’ll tell you what though. I remember him when he was young and brash, and kind of a jerk. There was a little foofarah where he was caught on camera having a melt down over a parking space or some such idiotic thing. Not a career killer, but it was an embarrassment. And he came on TV the next day and apologized for being a dick. I like it when people do something stupid, apologize, and learn from their mistakes. It gives me hope for myself.
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  3440. Like original Spanish New Mexican, when Mexico was still New Spain?
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  3441. She said it led to increases in incidence of Parkinson’s, unless I missed the part where she mentioned Alzheimer’s. My great grandmother died of the Spanish Flu in 1919, leaving behind 5 daughters and an alcoholic husband. My grandmother was the eldest and kept the family together (eventually kicking her father out). She went to university so she could get a better job, and then she put her sisters through school. Counterfactuals are a trip. If great grandmother had survived and recovered, would I even have been born?
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  3442.  @mikedeslauriers578  He’s the worst student the Moscow Language Institute ever had.
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  3443. Do they usually play such rocking beats during an interrogation?
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  3444. That’s an orc camp.
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  3445. You didn’t see the punchline. Fuentes is going to REPLACE Miller. 😜
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  3446. The gold fringe on my badge denotes that I carry the authority of the Admiralty, which supersedes your Articles.
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  3447. Uh, no. Your approach has a lot to do with it. Without a stable approach (within speed and trajectory envelope) there could be tragic consequences. Anyway, I bet the second FTC taught the new inexperienced pilot was how to do a go-around, the first thing being how to not stall the plane (as you say, speed is super important). I have no experience, but I watch a lot of Blanco Lirio videos. 😄
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  3448.  @robertflanagan1364  The original luddites were a secret organization. If only these trolls would maintain secrecy by not spouting their nonsense high and low, twenty four hours a day.
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  3449. I’m assuming the false negative was a result from the rapid test. Did those with symptoms also take the test that doesn’t have quick results at the time of the rapid test, or did they get the rapid test both times. If my assumption is incorrect or if you don’t know, let me know. I’m sheltering in place in Mexico, not at all eager to risk either the travel or returning to Los Angeles, one of the worst hotspots in the country. Hotels are offering the rapid test to tourists returning to the states (and a company selling fake negative results has been uncovered) so I’m worried about this testing when I do think it’s safe to return.
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  3450. I think that flexibility is a major principle guiding Ukrainian war planning. Superior logistics and a modern command structure support and enable flexible planning. It is beyond merely adapting more quickly than the Russians: Ukraine’s military can actually force the Russian forces to make the tactical moves that Ukraine wants, by applying pressure in one place or increasing activity in another.
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  3451. The virus just magically appeared simultaneously around the world, eh?
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  3452. I’m quite certain that many other law enforcement agencies across the country work just as diligently. The big difference is that Sheriff Grady Judd is devoted to public education and transparency. He doesn’t just give lip service to community relations, he spearheads it. When he reports the results of investigations (which he does on a regular basis), he includes various messages to the community to be aware of similar crimes. It’s corny, but he is constantly exhorting and appealing to members of the community to do what’s right. It’s also noteworthy that he includes exculpatory evidence. For example, in this case he mentions several times that one of the suspects didn’t personally profit, but participated in the crime as a favor to someone for whom she felt sorry. Who does that in this day and age? Law enforcement officials utterly devoted to fairness and justice, that’s who. We must continue to press for police reform in many communities, but we should also be proud of our LE agencies for all the things they do right. As you suggest, Polk County should be ESPECIALLY proud of the PCSO and Sheriff Grady Judd. His department is a model for law enforcement.
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  3453.  @hkchan1339  The crates of ammunition half filled with rocks so they’d weigh the same when moved around warehouses.
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  3454. Ivan or Natasha or whatever your real name is. Whoever or whatever taught you English failed you miserably. If you paid for Duolingo or Rosetta Stone, you should demand a refund.
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  3455. I think it’s important to remember that Pauly’s parents, Sammy and Mitzi, opened The Comedy Store to get away from Pauly when he was four years old, a recurring pattern in his life.
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  3456.  @jet100a  Not to mention they chased him down in their cars, and got out of their cars with guns drawn. The victim was at no point a threat to these men, while they acted in a threatening manner from the start. They didn’t follow him from a safe distance in their cars, they hunted him down. There are no self defense arguments the killers can make, as they initiated and escalated the incident. What are they going to say? “While I was assaulting the man, I felt threatened”? These scum are cold blooded killers.
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  3457. The evidence that is publicly available is circumstantial at best. We’re truly in the realm of speculation (which can be informed speculation or not, as the case might be). I’m not dismissing the lab leak theory, but neither am I embracing it. At best I can speculate as to WHY Redfield holds his “strong opinion” (in his words). I don’t find either the intentional release theory or the frozen fish origin theories convincing.
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  3458. The convoys have suffered from raids behind the lines but there is less video being taken to document it because of the situation.
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  3459. Lol, no. No charter jet company operating in Cancun is willing to take the GROUP. Each one of them can book a flight on a regular commercial airline as individuals. If they insist on sticking together as a group, they can charter buses to the U.S. border, cross, and charter buses again to take them to Canada. I don’t know of any cruise lines that depart from Cancun and go all the way to Canada. Although, come to think of it . . . They could charter a ship.
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  3460. I don’t want to say dems are equally bad as Trumpers, but take note—they need to be held to the same standards.
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  3461.  @MM-fb9fi  Thanks for sharing your feelings. When you’re done feeling your fearful feelings, maybe you can join us in thinking.
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  3462.  @hendrikdependrik1891  And yet, despite the weakness of some members, NATO as a whole is 17 times Russia in military capability/boots on the ground. And that’s the purpose of NATO alliance, to protect each other through pooled resources and cooperation. It’s why membership isn’t open, but on a carefully considered case by case basis (despite Russian claims). At its foundation, NATO is there to defend its members, deter aggression, and foster stability. So far, it seems to be working.
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  3463. So what I’m hearing is that your mind has a latke to like.
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  3464. It’s mid trial. The jury has been seated and already heard two days of prosecution witness testimony. The defendant would need to show good cause to appoint another attorney. Even if the defendant was hiring a new attorney on his own dime, the judge might not allow it. Otherwise, a defendant could interrupt a trial every day by changing counsel.
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  3465. You’ve distorted a single fact into a lie. Congratulations. The direct payments are 9% of the bill. Other parts of the bill have to do with directly fighting the pandemic or recovering from the economic fallout.
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  3466. Germany has its own natural gas or do you mean gasoline refineries? Because when Peter talks about German industry’s reliance on gas as a feedstock, he’s not talking about gasoline, nor is he even talking about natural gas being used to generate energy. German industry uses natural gas as a raw material in manufacturing. Cheap Russian gas enabled this. So what do you mean by gas plant?
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  3467. People like this HAVE BEEN ruining it for the rest of us.
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  3468.  @luisvelez5695  Can we stop using his human name and call him Pennystupid?
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  3469. “An Airport Too Far” aka Operation Commie-Junkyard
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  3470. Cope harder.
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  3471. No lies detected. Bibi is really in a class of his own, as tempting as it is to make comparisons.
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  3472. Graham has been so far up Trump’s ass, I’m surprised he has the room to turn around.
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  3473. Tick Tock is the term used to describe a timeline. This happened (Tick), then that happened (Tock). It has nothing to do with the app.
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  3474. That’s going to depend on local and state consumer protections and building regulations. For example, the NEC (national electrical code) is more of a set of guidelines, periodically updated. It’s up to county and state governments to implement these guidelines. The federal government doesn’t have jurisdiction over local building regulations. Ultimately, it’s up to the voters. Unfortunately, we live in a time where government regulation and consumer protections are equated with communism, and voters are swayed by emotional extremist arguments. Conservative politicians that look out for the little guy are smeared as RINOs. Your point can also be applied to the buyers, who are making these purchases without doing their homework. I don’t know about you, but I’d want to be an educated buyer if hundreds of thousands of dollars are on the line. I can hear people saying, “But how is the consumer supposed to know? I’m not a lawyer, how am I to decipher the legalese in the contract or warranty?”. If you’re spending that sort of money, you damn well better educate yourself, from building codes to the basics of contract law. Or hire a competent inspector and competent lawyer.
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  3475. Stop advertising bitcoin.
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  3476.  @juju1896  At least he’s not a bot complaining that it wasn’t covered. 😂 Or worse, complaining about taxpayers footing the bill.
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  3477.  @yo2trader539  That’s more ballistic missiles and jet launched cruise missiles. For regular artillery, they have a range of 10-12 miles, so what you’re saying is possible, but is too far away for most of the battleground.
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  3478. Edax Have you seen Kelly’s Heroes? The Shermans are so weak they shoot paint rounds rather than AP.
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  3479. Lol, you mean if they held fast to their political convictions. 😂 Of course, that might have led to criminal convictions.
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  3480. One of Pete’s glaring deficiencies is history, especially pre-colonial history. But I think his point his that the geography of Europe leant itself to several centuries of increasingly bitter land wars that culminated in WWI and WWII, whereas S.E. Asia’s geography would tend to work against the same level of conflict. I think that’s his point, and I don’t think it’s wrong. He might even say that the European conflict gave rise to the development of colonialism, as rival European nations sought advantage over one another to survive. Imagine that you’re England, and it’s important that you have a strong navy to defend your “moat”. As you industrialized, you discover that this navy is also pretty useful for exploiting far away countries for their resources. France, Spain/Portugal, and Holland also had navies, so they were doing the same. (And you could argue that European nationalism developed hand in hand with colonization.) The kingdoms of S.E. Asia might have developed into colonial nation states if they were engaged in competition at the same level of violence and had the same urgent need for resources.
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  3481. Fly in, take the bus out. 😂
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  3482. Kotkin should be given a major league contract.
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  3483.  @MrAlen6e  Nah, the developers will take care of all that and overcharge them for everything, from the permits to hiring a maestro and workers to build the house.
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  3484.  @jpoeng Yes, Bloodlands by Tim Snyder. Another good historian of the Soviet Union is Steven Kotkin. Both of these distinguished scholars have a number of their speaking engagement on YouTube. For anyone that wants to get in depth on Ukrainian history going back to ancient times to the present, Yale University has put Snyder’s History of Ukraine course lectures here on YouTube. I think it’s about 10-12 hours and includes a couple of guest lecturers speaking in their areas of expertise. After watching the lectures, anyone will be prepared to counter Russian propaganda and disinformation about the History of Ukraine and Russia and other countries in the region.
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  3485. No he’s Mark Andreessen. The guy who invented the graphical web browser while he was a computer science student. It was called Mosaic and became Netscape. Tim Bernie’s-Lee is only half the story and usually gets all the credit.
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  3486. What would you do if you were in the backseat when the driver decided to run? That would be so fucked up.
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  3487. Alexander Seven The agreement was that Poland would have democratic elections after the war, and thus reconstitute its government. The Soviets then fixed the elections. Churchill was up in arms about this (iirc, was already out of power), but Truman let it pass.
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  3488. Butthead, is that you? It’s me, Beavis.
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  3489. And I just realized that you’re Q.
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  3490. I don’t think it works like that.
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  3491. Nah, they were just glad to see you,
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  3492. Can any of us claim to have never lost our shit?
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  3493. There’s been a merge between QAnon and the “wellness” movement, those practitioners of quack cures, anti-vaxxers, spiritual con artists, and their gullible victims. The antivaxxers in this protest were told by organizers to leave their MAGA hats and Trump flags at home.
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  3494. Keep up. We’re now treating sports like they’re politics. Did you miss the hilarious right-wing commentary before, during, and after the “woke” Super Bowl, which has become a deep state plot. You couldn’t make this up.
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  3495. Do you invite non-white minorities to your KKK parties?
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  3496. And podcasters. I hear that’s going to be big.
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  3497. That’s not really the key question. The important factor is that the distribution of supplies is disrupted. They don’t have to be cut off completely, nor do they have to be destroyed completely. This isn’t a situation where the Russians will hold out until the last bullet. Disrupting logistics means that the right supplies don’t get sent in time to be useful in sufficient quantities to make a difference. Disrupting command and control means that reserve units don’t get sent to the right place or in time to make a difference, or, ideally, they don’t get sent at all because command is uncertain which are the real assaults and which are diversionary. The key question is, “can the counter offensive maintain initiative and operational tempo?”, and they have a variety of tools do so. Interdicting supply is one of those tools.
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  3498. I think he has it, but given his constant lying, this is a real possibility. He can use this as an excuse not to debate and he has an excuse when he loses the election.
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  3499. Did they pay you in clams? 😊 I don’t think you’ll get an answer from Dole, but it’s worth a shot! Good luck!
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  3500. I agree. His end was tragic, not inspirational. I will admit, it is amazing he survived for as long as he did. The margins for error outside of society (in the wild) can be razor thin. He didn’t know the flora in his environment, made a bad guess, and died miserably.
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  3501. Flat earth summer camp! 😂😂 I’m ☠️.
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  3502. Yeah, this pretrial hearing stuff doesn’t always require the defendant to be present. It’s not a big deal, but it is noteworthy.
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  3503. That is an interesting point. I think that the Russian Air Force has not fully committed to the Special Military Operation because it’s responsible for the defense of all of Russia’s airspace. They’ve been throwing in dribs and drabs of aircraft directly into Ukraine. Will this change when the F-16s arrive? Will they commit more interceptors? Your point about air defense is well taken.
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  3504.  @elizabethrobinson7148  Direct deposit will be just fine, thank you. You know, if the Senate had been willing to start negotiations last May, there would have been plenty of time to target relief payments to the most needy. Or to develop programs to stop foreclosures and evictions without bankrupting landlords or hurting banks. Or to coordinate food relief with relief for food growers. Unemployment could have been temporarily relieved by a nationwide test and trace system (that would have kept the lockdowns shorter if we gained an upper hand on the pandemic). So many things could have been done in late spring/early summer that could have avoided our current situation.
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  3505.  @margaretjohnson6259  easy to say when you have your own thermos.
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  3506. Im not trying to kink-shame, but I’m beginning to think that I’ve stumbled across one man’s very weird sexual fetish built up around aspiration. With that in mind, he might not be able to LAST five seconds.
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  3507. If you’re a citizen of the U.S., you owe it to yourself to get a basic education in civics. This might sound dumb, but start with Schoolhouse Rock videos, specifically the ones about government.
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  3508.  @billbeckman2480  a Winnie the Pooh horror movie? Meh, I’m fine with the Winnie the Pooh war movie mash up, Apocalypse Pooh. (It a real thing and it’s on YouTube.)
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  3509. It would behoove you to not bring up advanced ancient cow culture.
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  3510.  @jasonwells8528 They don’t keep their law licenses. They are now convicted felons by their own admissions. Their legal costs would have been paid if they kept their mouths shut, but there was little chance that they would win their cases (Chesebro had a slightly better case, but still a long shot). The main thing is that each will avoid prison if they adhere to the conditions of their plea deals. They have lost the right to vote. They’ve lost their right to own firearms. I doubt that they will ever find work at the level of renumeration they had previously achieved. Frankly, considering all the wild MAGAs out there, I’m surprised they didn’t request the Witness Protection Program.
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  3511. Not only is it a sound opinion, I appreciate the conservative and liberal Justices coming together in agreement. It sets a good example. I know that they won’t agree on everything but they’re showing Americans that they can find common ground.
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  3512. To be fair, how many had their fingers crossed? 🤞
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  3513. More granular than that. This is going on at the school district level, and even blue states with liberal Democrat majorities have “red” school districts.
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  3514. He sort of is, but not out of imitation. It’s because Trump was dressing up liberal foreign policy and trade policy as conservative. You want to talk about trans? There’s your trans.
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  3515. No disagreement from me. However, unless the Supreme Court changes its mind, it’s going to take an amendment to the Constitution—and very likely amendments to each state legislature.
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  3516. Repeating Russian lies isn’t treason in the legal sense.
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  3517. Ivermectin has no mechanism as an antiviral. It’s a neurotoxin used to treat parasites. It attacks and destroys the primitive nervous systems worms and lice. If it was an effective therapeutic, what is the mechanism? The largest manufacturer and distributor of ivermectin is Merck. If ivermectin had any efficacy, Merck would stand to make billions of dollars. Merck just conducted the largest study so far on ivermectin. The study shows ivermectin has no efficacy in treating the virus. Merck’s own antivirus candidate failed miserably, and Merck is searching for other candidates from smaller bio-medical companies to acquire—a big financial risk to take if they were sitting on a goldmine. Oh, and the Merck study also shows that high dosages of ivermectin are unsafe. There is a therapeutic threshold in its treatment of parasites that shouldn’t be exceeded. So, no scientific mechanism for how ivermectin might work as an antiviral. The company that stands to gain the most is reporting that their medication has no efficacy as an antiviral after conducting a comprehensive study (and is dangerous at higher levels). It seems clear that ivermectin has no medical role to play as a therapeutic or a prophylactic. Yet antivaxxers continue to push it as an alternative to vaccines, while stirring up fear, uncertainty, and doubt about vaccines. Do you realize that continuation of your disinformation posts is harmful to the health of others, that you might be contributing to the unnecessary deaths of others?. I urge you in the name of decency to stop.
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  3518. Southampton, actually. His parents were born in East Africa. His family have been British subjects for generations.
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  3519.  @RonJohn63  The other half of the story isn’t being told because 1) Russia can’t release any information that would reveal to its citizens the scope of the war, 2) Russia has banned a free and independent press inside its countries. Reporters, even foreign ones working for the foreign press, are subject to arrest if they contradict the official government line. There are journalists all over Ukraine right now, in areas that Russia doesn’t control. They often have to dodge Russian soldiers who shoot at them—identifying yourself as a member of the press apparently doesn’t protect you with the Russians.
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  3520. I always ask if the server prefers cash over my adding it the total and paying with my CC. In many cases they don’t care, and in some cases they get their night’s tips paid in cash before they go home. I used to wait tables when I was in college. I always kicked down 10-20% to the busboy assigned to my tables. I often had the same guy and he was attentive to customers. A good busboy does more than clear dishes.
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  3521.  @WELSHISPOWER1  Iran, too, is known to have their own “Active Measures” group. I’m not sure if there are any other states with the resources to run these campaigns and conceal their involvement. In any event, domestic trolls organize, use the same techniques, and many have similar goals. White supremacists want to stir up vaccine distrust in communities of color. Certain radical environmentalists want to decimate human population. The extreme right (fascist) wants to discredit the government and destabilize the U.S. so they can have another opportunity to overthrow the country. And some, I’m sure, are just frightened children unable to face their fears, clinging to conspiracy theories that give them an ego boost and feel more in control, somehow. Many of these have been retreating from reality and into make-believe for years.
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  3522. You’re assuming that the Chinese authorities are competent. The evidence is that they are not. What evidence has publicly come to light is that the provincial authorities were trying to cover up the epidemic from the higher authorities. The CCP and the different levels of government are a giant cluster f_ _k. This doesn’t make them less dangerous. If anything it makes them more dangerous because they might act less rationally (minor case in point, the spy balloon).
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  3523. It would take you 2 minutes at most to navigate your web browser to the NATO website and locate the NATO charter. The question isn’t ignored, it’s just so easy to answer that you could have found out in the time it took me to type this reply. It’s easier to do than the boot emptying instructions printed on the bottom of your boots.
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  3524.  @The_Red_Pill__  You’ve been Red Pillowed.
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  3525.  @ginnyjollykidd  That’s a camp thing. You don’t want to bring puzzle pieces with you into combat.
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  3526. The British people elect their representatives to parliament and the representatives choose who will lead parliament. The King asks or orders the head minister of parliament to lead the government. It’s a Constitutional Monarchy. Why, did you think it was a direct democracy?
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  3527. You’re going to stick your money under your mattress? Where do you live?
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  3528. By right of might, which has no place in the modern world.
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  3529. What’s the U.K. equipment? MoH is the highest civilian award. Does the queen present it?
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  3530.  @nicholas_scott  You’re right. There wasn’t even a World Wide Web before 1991 or 1992. Few people even had internet access, nor were the majority of computers networked. It borders on ignorance to judge by current standards. The main issue here isn’t the incompetence of the website developers. It’s the moral character and intelligence of the governor. The website flaw was corrected, but you can’t fix stupid—although you can vote the stupid person out of office.
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  3531.  @binkersbonkers244  I know of no city that promised what you are saying they did. How are you defining “sanctuary city”?
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  3532. You’re assuming the tank really was alone. I find that unlikely.
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  3533. Whatever works.
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  3534. Why wouldn’t you take that at face value?
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  3535. It’s S.O.P.
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  3536. Pray for them a little less. I don’t hate Russia or the Russians, but I am horrified by them. They have enabled this and except for a small amount of Russians openly protesting, they continue to enable this. Maybe when enough of their children come back in body bags or as cripples, they will be horrified, too. Maybe pray for that, that Russian citizens discover the horror of war and come back from the brink.
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  3537. Reducing meat (mostly pork and beef) consumption to one or two meals a week would have a wide and deep positive impact. There are a wide variety of alternative protein sources. I’m not placing a lot of hope on vat grown beef because I don’t think it can compete economically with industrial scale beef and pork exploitation. The problem is a cultural one. Don’t get me wrong. I love an occasional ribeye, t-bone, or sirloin. I love good burgers and I can’t imagine a life without tacos. But I can and have been limiting my meat consumption to two or three days a week, some weeks only one or two meals. I don’t think this is extreme, nor is it too much to ask others to do likewise. Give it a try. Work your way down by eliminating meat consumption by one day a week for a while, and then another.
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  3538. The antivaxxers keep repeating that “it hasn’t been tested” as a scare tactic. Your foolish acquaintance seems to believe this lie. The truth is that all the vaccines have been tested expeditiously, and testing is ongoing. To those that say they won’t take the virus because they refuse to be guinea pigs: too late, you already are. You’ve just opted to be in the control group.
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  3539. Watch the entire video.
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  3540. Nope. He’s a respected defense analyst with expertise in air power. He’s pro Ukraine, but he doesn’t let his sympathies interfere with his duty to provide the facts.
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  3541. Trump isn’t running for any office in 2022 so the “quiet period” rule to avoid affecting elections doesn’t apply. Investigations don’t shut down around election times merely because the target of the investigation is a member of that party.
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  3542. STOP LYING, go back under your QAnon rock.
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  3543.  @manomancan  Marshall Plan
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  3544. I’ve read that vaccinated people may gather in small groups, but it wasn’t clear (or I don’t remember) if this was after a single jab or after both. Is this what you’re talking about? Are there other relaxations of the rules for vaccination?
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  3545.  @Samanthax1221  <—TROLL Do not engage with trolls, especially “concern trolls”. Tag them and move on.
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  3546.  @exigy.  In this case it wasn’t building permits that the company failed to secure. It was permission (permits) from the tribe’s mineral council that the company failed or refused to acquire.
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  3547.  @killuazoldyck5553  1st Guards in Moscow stays in Moscow to protect Putin. They’re not going anywhere. Similar with other well equipped elite units: they’re pinned down on the border with Poland. Many other less capable units are unavailable because they’re garrison forces to prevent uprisings in other parts of the Russian Federation. The Russian military has to be huge because they are the enforcers of an authoritarian police state.
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  3548. A very sick mangy tiger that has broken claws and suffered from stomach ulcers. On its sides you can make out some stitching where red stars were attached to its fur.
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  3549. Is anyone surprised that this coward would hide when millions are waiting in food lines for hours? Perhaps it’s better for all concerned if Trump occupies his time with golf and Twitter, rather than causing greater damage.
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  3550. This is very discouraging.
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  3551. This comment is very disrespectful to the Mother of Modern Russian Tank Design, Dr. Ivanna Popov.
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  3552.  @Coop1250 3 indicts so far, this year, but it’s actually a total of 78 charges for all of these criminal indictments. There’s also at least one civil suit for fraud ongoing (with the trial set for early next year). Not that Trump’s legal problems really have anything to do with this jackpot. But still, 78 charges so far with more on the way! 😂
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  3553.  @robschannel4512 It’s the DA that will make that determination if a crime occurred and whether to prosecute. I’m pretty certain there’s a basis for a criminal prosecution here.
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  3554. Maybe. I was thinking the commonality was Reagan & Thatcher.
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  3555.  @NoWayOut55  ole Max is running on a distant memory of fumes.
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  3556. Why do you say that? Is it for reasons other than “OS ideology”?
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  3557. I found this surprising. Perhaps Dr. John was never an ER nurse? My impression was that ER staff have seen the bloody and often fatal results of motorcycle accidents to the point where they’d give up motorcycle riding. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a rider. I ride very defensively, but I’ve also done some stupid shit. I’ve also seen the results of people doing stupid shit and running out of margin (mountain roads).
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  3558. The Pat Finnerty clips were even better.
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  3559. As they say while waiting at the factory to take delivery, BTR late than never.
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  3560. You’ll have to watch Steve’s other videos on the story to understand the ins and outs of the case.
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  3561. It’s OK to secure your weapon in a gun safe if you keep a smaller firearm in your boot to give you time to open the safe. But seriously, it’s time for fingerprint IDs on handguns. My ankle’s getting chafed and bruised.
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  3562. Combined arms is part of a balanced breakfast.
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  3563.  @badmaw7073  It wasn’t a big threat. And when there was a serious incident (Pancho Villa’s raid on Columbus over an arms deal gone bad), he sent in Pershing.
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  3564. Putzi
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  3565. @R E Yeah, I don’t know much about Texas crazies, but the vast majority of Texans I’ve met during my travels in the western and southern parts of that state have been warm open hearted people. I’ve met a few Texans outside of Texas, and some were good decent people, and a few were assholes.
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  3566. They fight for Ukraine, but they fight for liberty and democracy against a tyrant.
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  3567. Better yet, have the White House doctor visit him and set up a morphine drip.
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  3568.  @notsogreen  The silver lining is the Antivaxxer/antimaskers won’t be among us very much longer.
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  3569. Cheney’s opening statement is a road map.
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  3570. A little vinegar and hot water helps strip off seasoning so you can restart the process. Don’t let it soak too long or you’ll start getting rust.
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  3571. Lindy’s bias isn’t an issue for me. My problem is that I don’t like people yelling military history at me.
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  3572.  Adam Efimoff  You can find out if your vote was counted, but how you voted stays a secret. If they didn’t have this measure in place, people could vote multiple times.
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  3573.  @steved7961  Putin was a mid level KGB colonel in East Germany during the late Cold War period. He wasn’t “lowly”, nor was he in charge of all operations. And he did have a boss or bosses to whom he reported. I don’t know if it’s true that the Patriarch was one of these bosses, but it’s “interesting if true”. You are correct that “handler” is the wrong word to describe Putin’s direct superior. I think it’s fair to assume that one of Putin’s bosses was his patron, a mentor that was guiding Putin’s climb through the ranks.
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  3574.  @jmoney228  No, that’s not a genuine question, and if you had an autoimmune disease, you wouldn’t need to ask it. You don’t have a legitimate medical reason to avoid the vaccine, but you do what you want wrt your own medical care. Your question is rhetorical and intended to support the antivaxxer agenda, which is a deadly one. The role of this account is to keep the antivaxxer conversation with other accounts you use to spread disinformation.
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  3575. Just thank the whomever that you’re not a brand fanatic.
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  3576. You’re maybe referring to ivermectin? Apparently there is anecdotal evidence and a few “light” studies trying to collect data from a string of anecdotes, but no major studies. I think the main reason it’s not being studied is that proponents can’t really explain by what mechanism is it supposed to work. Scientists are not going to waste time on something they think is a dead end, when there isn’t a scientific and medical reason why it should work. I think it’s a desperation measure. It’s been employed on an emergency basis in countries getting hit really hard that don’t have a lot of options. Despite what the proponents say (mostly antivaxxers, do give you an idea of their respect for science) the data coming out of Brazil is sketchy. We have vaccines, and soon they will be available to more people. Horse dewormer might be a “viable” option for antivaxxers, but so is small, non-fatal doses of arsenic, taken 3x a day. That’s a joke, btw. Don’t take arsenic.
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  3577. Yes, but we don’t have RFKJ brain worms in our gut biomes. At least not yet.
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  3578. That’s not the United States that is banning books. It’s local school districts that are removing the books from curriculums. It’s shitty, but it’s nowhere near as terrible as the murder of children by Russia’s military.
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  3579.  @billweberx  a friend of mine got a degree in computer engineering from one of the top west coast schools. He learned arc welding in one of his lower division courses. He’s never had to use his (low level) welding skills professionally. Probably the point of the exercise was applied problem solving, but the point is he learned a mechanical process not normally associated with software engineering (but with applications if he had gone into developing software for welding robots, I suppose).
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  3580. Nah, not George Orwell. Philip K. Dick. Don’t tag every dystopian idea as Orwellian. It demonstrates that you don’t understand Orwell
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  3581.  @danielch6662  Somwhat you’re saying is I can untwist my underpants and stop clutching my pearls? Good to know! 😅
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  3582. Even better would be to cut off the tops with oxyacetylene torches. 😄
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  3583.  @mumblecake251  I wasn’t sure where you were going with that, but I think you hit the nail on the head. A sentence of 18 to 24 months is proportional to the crime. Although they need to lock him up as soon as possible because he is a flight risk. 😉
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  3584. Pelosi dropped their ask by a trillion in late summer, McConnel’s response was to drop his demand from 900 billion to 500 billion, AND THEN COULDN’T GET IT PASSED in the Senate, even though he had a majority. (You can’t blame Senate Democrats for blocking the “skinny bill” if the Senate Republicans are in disarray.) So at this point in the negotiations (just over a month ago) , the Democrats and the Treasury Secretary negotiate a deal of 1.8 trillion. To sum up, the Dems have dropped their ask from 2.9 trillion to 2.2 trillion to 1.8 trillion, and cut out their questionable demands not directly related to COVID relief. McConnell’s response has been to offer even less, the very opposite of compromise and negotiation. Currently, a bipartisan Senate group has negotiated a compromise of 900 billion. Pelosi is amenable. McConnell is dismissing it, but has no workable alternative to show us. To be honest, I don’t think McConnell has enough buy in from his own party, so he’s stalling. And the Democrats are being blamed? In what hyperpartisan bizarro world are the freaking Democrats to blame for obstructing a deal? Let’s be honest here. The Republican Congressional leadership is obstructing Covid relief.
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  3585. I’ve never heard about the second one. I think every pueblo and rancho that has water, even an arroyo seco, has its own la llorona. 😆
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  3586. John is taking 4000 IU/day, last I heard. I’ve been taking 2,000 and I’m thinking about increasing the dosage. However, I live in a much more southern clime. John has suggested that before you go past 4,000 IU, ask your doctor about it. So definitely it’s not too much. It might be too little, but it’s in the right ball park. Follow your practitioner’s advice, but ask him if increasing the dose another 1 or 2 thousand IU would be safe.
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  3587. How do you account for the Maricopa County’s GOP led Board of Supervisors opposing this idiotic recount? I would not take exception to the argument that the GOP is now controlled by rightwing nutjobs, nor can I argue against the idea that this is the result of the GOP welcoming these extremists into their midsts. I can’t argue that the GOP never contained the toxic seed that has grown this poisonous plant. But it didn’t used to be only about fascist extremism.
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  3588.  @mjwilliamsb2676  He sent it and the results are promised in 10 days. Today is day 9. This was in the video. I shouldn’t be surprised if it is late coming back from the lab, however, things being how they are. And then there’s that notoriously lazy culture of the brits. Everything is always “mañana” or “I have to take a siesta, wake me up for the fiesta”. I might have my parts of the globe confused, so don’t quote me on this.
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  3589.  @emjayay  Are we going to get sidetracked into book reviews? The point is that the book was intended to be educational. However, I highly doubt that it would keep that classification under a maga theocracy. These a-holes are quite clear that they are anti-knowledge because knowledge is an obstacle to their political power. Especially sexual knowledge, whether from an imperfect book written over a half century ago or a current anatomy textbook. Our ignorance is their power. OK, the book review: in retrospect, the book might seem quaint or even harmfully regressive, but it was at the forefront of the trend of open discussions about sexuality. While some of the information is incorrect and the tone might be regressive by today’s standards, it was a breakthrough in our current openness about sexuality. You must consider its context before ripping it to shreds as not up to our contemporary standards.
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  3590.  @gregducati999  lol, no, you’re not more “free in general” in Mexico. You’re more able to be free of consequences if you have money. Its the same in the U.S., its just that the dollar goes farther in Mexico—middle class boomers are wealthy by Mexican standards. These new age boomers are buying freedom from consequences that they couldn’t afford in the U.S. or Canada.
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  3591.  @nefarious67  What a wet blanket you are. What did you do to defeat Trump? Did you give up your career? How much time did you invest each day? The Lincoln Project literally cut themselves off from the GOP (the main client for many of them). They’ve spent hours organizing and creating anti-Trump and anti-Trump enabler material. They’ve raised millions of dollars and spent on TV airtime. And at the moment we all want to be celebrating, you drag your miserable nay-saying self in here to spread the gloom. Save it for your blog.
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  3592. Ehhhh, more like it’s starting feel like auditions for a Broadway musical based on the French Revolution.
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  3593.  @supernugget98 😂
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  3594.  @guydreamr  He has no source, although Pete is wrong that there was an air raid. The air raid warning sirens go off when Russia puts a lot of planes in the air, which reportedly they did. The “staged air raid” is disinformation to discredit Biden and Ukraine.
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  3595.  @kittymervine6115  He has a promising career in politics.
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  3596. YOU want to put his kids in danger, YOU can feed and clothe them, goddamit!
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  3597. Lol, heck no!
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  3598.  @MrJdsenior Compliment his on his excellent copypasta.
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  3599.  @george2113  Mud is totally unknown in Poland. While the Russians have over one hundred different words for mud (much like the Inuit having many words for snow), the Poles actually have a negative number of words for mud. It is not possible to put the word “wet” adjacent to the word “dirt” in Polish. It’s grammatically nonsensical and will break your computer, much like dividing by zero. At what point did you realize I am full of shit? First sentence? The second?
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  3600.  @jjgreek1  I also use an anti fog wipe to clean the lenses. It helps somewhat, but not completely. It’s just fucked, but that’s how it is until/unless the more close fitting masks with replaceable filters come down in price. In the work I used to do, the fogging would be a real issue and it would be worth it to buy one of those more elaborate and expensive masks.
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  3601. I’ve tried both kn95 as the outside layer and the surgical mask as outside layer. Surgical mask over kn 95 works better. I’m also using anti fog lens cleaning wipes, which helps a bit. Yes, there’s still fog, but it dissipates more quickly.
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  3602. What does that have to do with the taxpayer? This sounds like an antisemitic talking point.
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  3603. Why not both? I can also imagine a third significant reason for creating earthen mounds: ritual 🤭
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  3604.  @jayfelsberg1931  But they are not in the Black Sea. Russia’s Black Sea fleet is a limited resource, and it’s being slowly sent to the bottom of the sea.
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  3605. They’re very lucky they weren’t named as accessories or co-conspirators. Same deal with his friend.
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  3606. Check out how Steven Seagal has financed his movies. Originally it was one of the Mafia families (at which point he became a cooperating witness for the FBI). Now he’s pals with Putin. 🤔
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  3607. No, it’s not the same. A chatbot is part of the Air Canada website, and that is why Air Canada is liable.
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  3608.  @ultramagapurebloodpride8294 It is worth mentioning if the police agency (either of them in this case) has shown a pattern of discrimination or abuse.
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  3609. Why are you concerned about American school children, Ivan?
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  3610. He “wanted” one, but never presented concrete proposals beyond his border wall. Pelosi didn’t fight it as there was never any legislation sent to the house from the White House. This is why “infrastructure week” became a running joke among lib comics and late night tv hosts. The fact of the matter is that Trump spoke about infrastructure in generalities, but never created a detailed plan. If he ordered deputies to create such a plan, he never read it. It was politically expedient to act like there was a plan, but actually creating a plan was too much work for a guy mostly focused on feeling important.
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  3611.  @Serai3  You’re not interacting with the brightest people. Steve Lehto is great. Not all his subscribers are, though.
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  3612. Public Enemy
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  3613.  @zxb995511  I’d throw in Crimea, too. Ukraine might not give up until Russia has been expelled completely. Zelensky has said Ukraine was willing to return to 2014 boundaries—and maybe he would if Russia ceased hostilities immediately and began withdrawing to those borders.
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  3614. Do you even know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was? Do you know how it was resolved? Here is the shortest version that maintains accuracy: the U.S. put nuclear missiles in Turkey. In retaliation, the Soviet Union began putting nuclear missiles in Cuba. After a very dangerous stand off, the Soviets removed the missiles from Cuba and the U.S. removed the missiles from Turkey. As far as engaging in weird hypotheticals, you’re already ignorant of Mexico’s relationship with the U.S. You seem to be ignorant of the fact that Mexico is not a compliant ally of the U.S. and never has been. Just the same, your hypothetical is absurd and useless when you already have a perfectly good example which you yourself mentioned. Cuba. Cuba is a very close neighbor of the U.S., slightly more than 100 miles from Florida. Despite Cuba becoming a communist country and aligning with the Soviet Union, the U.S. never invaded Cuba. It never attacked Cuba. The last military action the U.S. saw in Cuba was the Spanish American War, in which U.S. forces fought WITH Cuba against Spain for Cuban independence. The U.S. has had very unfriendly relations with Cuba since Fidel Castro deposed Bautista in 1959 (actually more like since 1960, when Fidel fully embraced the USSR as its patron), but they’ve been peaceful. So there you have it. The U.S. has had an enemy on its doorstep for over 60 years now and has never invaded it. If you want to bring up the Bay of Pigs, make sure you mentioned who actually invaded. Answer: Cubans, not the U.S. military.
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  3615. You should get prison time for making dumb comments.
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  3616. Because Venezuelan-Americans (the Venezuelan community) are your fellow Americans?
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  3617. Where might he flee? Mar-a-Lago? Nah. Putin would last no more than a week on Trump’s couch. Tucker Carlson’s guest bedroom. That’s my final answer. This would make a pretty good sitcom. Putin at Tucker’s with visits to Trump when Tuck and Poot have a tiff.
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  3618. Hangzhou is pronounced (more or less) hong chow or hong jow. Similar to the -tch sound in watch.
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  3619.  @acemanifester1401  It’s what they do to law breakers in Western Democracies.
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  3620.  @annoyedaussie3942  and it’s a national plan. Unlike the U.S., where states are free to ignore official medical guidelines.
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  3621. NATO hasn’t placed nuclear missile bases in any of the NATO member states that joined after the Soviet Union fell . Actually, if you don’t count the 1990 German reunification as admitting a new member, Spain was the last new member added in 1982, and nuclear missiles weren’t based in Spain. So the best response to the argument is that it is based on falsity.
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  3622. Vectors are the means of transmission, not a part of the virus. An “airborne vector” means that the virus can be transmitted by air. A sexually transmitted disease uses sexual intercourse as a vector.
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  3623.  @introvert6696  Yes, they did. Many Japanese soldiers and military leaders were punished, but Japan has yet to atone for all its crimes against Korea and China.
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  3624.  @lucasjames1307  They really didn’t have training or guns. These small towns and villages were in the path towards Kiev and fell to the Russians in the first days.
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  3625. And now they will have to pay the Cat Astro Fee.
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  3626. Ron Duh is playing with himself.
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  3627.  @AlexSmith-gr4hp  But who determines if a day is sunny or not? Government meteorologists. Atmospheric scientists. Experts!
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  3628. What’s the big deal? I make bomblets every day. Usually I make them in the morning after I’ve had my coffee. My bomblets are very accurate, but that’s not saying much since I’m sitting on the target. Granted, the drone fly higher and the bomblets drop further. And they use explosives to put the victims into a world of shit. But my bomblets can deny the enemy access to the bathroom. In fact, it’s possible my bomblets are illegal under the Geneva Convention.
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  3629. What Desantis didn’t count on was Bob Iger coming back. Iger will pull down his pants and spank his butt. You don’t eff with Iger.
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  3630. The study was of patients already admitted to hospital for Covid, therefore it’s a therapeutic treatment for COVID, to prevent the infection from becoming severe or leading to death.
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  3631. I think they were being background aware and trying to pick their shots. Normal procedure with a clear shot is to just unload on the suspect.
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  3632. Texas is known for its anti-2nd amendment gun laws, its liberal governor, its progressive Attorney General. The statehouse is controlled by democrats, and Democrat Senator Ted Cruz isn’t much help in Washington. Is it any wonder this violence happens in Texas? Maybe if Texans loosened up their stringent gun laws, stopped confiscating guns, and stopped messing with themselves, these kind of crimes wouldn’t happen. I’m trying thoughts and prayers like other good conservatives, but like all of them, my thoughts die in solitude and my prayers go to God’s voice mail.
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  3633. Securely?
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  3634. Even with excellent maintenance, airframes have a limited life. You have to replace them either with a similar model or with something new. As your country prepared to replace them with something new, it didn’t make sense to keep the older planes maintained. Indeed, some might have been well past their service life. I wonder if the Military Industrial Complex will someday operate on a subscription model. 😅
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  3635.  @rachellooby8286  you’re being pugged. Lab is short for Labrador retriever, a breed of dog. Don’t let Phil terrierize you with his bad pugs or he’ll never stop hounding you.
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  3636. Congrats on the one month anniversary of your YouTube account. 🎂
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  3637. 80% or more of the products I buy are hecho en Mexico. That might be due to the increased trade with Mexico, but really it’s probably due to my having moved to Mexico. 🤭 But some facts about trade between Mexico and the U.S.: Our economy is already deeply entwined with Mexico’s economy, especially in sectors like the automotive industry, plastics, and aerospace. NAFTA has allowed suppliers (to the car manufacturers) to pass subcomponents to be passed across the border multiple times. A sub-sub component is built in one country, shipped to the other, assembled with another sub sub component sourced in that country to create a sub component, shipped back, and assembled into a component that then gets assembled into a car. The back and forth is quite intricate in some cases. The efficiency here has a lot to do with labor costs, and this impacts the where different class of vehicles are finally assembled. Mexico builds a lot of economy cars (mostly for its domestic markets), while the high end is dominated by U.S. manufacturing, with a mix in the mid priced cars. (Have any of you seen the Toyota Tsuri? It’s a popular economy car down here. Every taxi seems to be a Tsuri, because it’s low cost but reliable. But the point is, when you buy an American made car, a substantial number of its parts where manufactured in Mexico. The converse holds true for cars built in Mexico. They all use parts manufactured in the U.S. Mexico has developed a vocational education system that we should be emulating, a post-secondary that combines college with specialized vocational training. The basis is the credential, the Licencia degree awarded after three years of post-secondary education. (The next level is Maestría, roughly equivalent to getting a Master’s degree.) The Licencia education combines basic college level instruction (such as STEM if you were going into manufacturing) and instruction on practical applications. So a student wanting to go into plastics would learn basic chemistry, organic chem, physics, advanced organic chem focused on polymers, and then they would learn how the basic science is used in the manufacturing process. This provides manufacturers with workers capable of not just supervising assembly lines, but of understanding the line and the line’s purpose. Frankly, we should be sending our young people to Mexico for training if we can’t get our educational shit together. Anyway, that’s one of the bees in my bonnet. 1) Our economies are deeply linked and both countries benefit. 2) College education and vocational training in the U.S. is screwed up and 2A) we would benefit from learning how Mexico is rapidly training a competent workforce if only we could get over false pride.
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  3638.  @eddieyeoh4098  Please be specific. What percentage of Mexican manufacturing is Chinese and what is your source for the information?
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  3639.  @numairbaig8158  it’s even worse than that: they were lied to about where they were going.
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  3640. 12 hours, which is an unheard of rate of intensification in the East Pacific.
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  3641.  @The_Christ_Angel  My dude, The Lord Jesus has a few thousand different YouTube channels. Are you saying that only three of them belong to the true Son of God? How are we to tell which are the real channels, and which are the snares of Q?
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  3642. Yay! I was hoping this would be out soon.
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  3643.  @jerrycann9072  Conclussion: the vaccine contains tiny nanochips that allow reptile people to track your movements, activities, internet activity as easily as a cellphone can.
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  3644. Of course there are.
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  3645.  @SacClass650 If that was stopping the attack, it sure explains a lot about why Russia is the way it is.
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  3646.  @reagan445  “Housing Restrictions” is mostly a zoning issue.
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  3647. It’s why you originally signed up for YouTube, 13 years ago. Any day now, I’m sure. 😄
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  3648. Is that a problem? You go to the mineral council and ask for an excavation permit for your planned construction. They tell you how much and you pay it. You don’t tell them to go to hell and build anyway. Or if you’re unaware of the requirement, you pay up when they inform you. It seems like normal construction business processes are throwing you for a loop.
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  3649. Unfortunately, you’re not going to get an unconditional surrender from Russia, with or without Putin. The negotiations will follow the contours of the battle. If Ukraine is able to expel Russia from Donbas, then the breakaway provinces will be off the table for Russia. If Ukraine is unable to completely dislodge the Russians, those provinces will become a point of negotiation. (Fwiw, I’m confident that Ukraine will be able to expel the Russians.) On the other hand, retaking Crimea is probably beyond Ukraine’s capabilities, although I’d love to be proven wrong. I think Ukraine has the potential to expel Russia from every part of Ukraine BUT Crimea. The point is, Ukraine won’t be able to impose everything it wants or should get. I wish it were otherwise.
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  3650.  @colincampbell767  I think the support companies and battalions are already stretched to the limit performing the miracle of maintaining all the different vehicles sent by various countries. You cant just throw a complicated new platform like a tank into the mix. You cant just pull out repair crews for training when they are operating 24 hours a day to maintain the vehicles already in use. I honestly don’t think you can train a diesel mechanic on all the tank subsystems in a month.
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  3651. Part of Russia’s active measures and propaganda is to push the story that Western resolve is weakening. Partly this is for their own internal propaganda purposes.
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  3652. I wish it was just a matter of voting, but it’s campaigning and getting out the vote that will make the difference. Mobilize!
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  3653. It’s too bad there was no audio. I wanted to hear what 20 tanks in reverse, all going “beep-beep-beep” sounded like. Make that 19 tanks. Wait, 18. No, 17.
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  3654. It also means work starts immediately instead of when the liability knots are untangled. Yes, it’s facilitating. You’re correct. But how? The answer is it’s guaranteeing the salvage companies that they’ll get paid.
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  3655.  @Erin-Thor  I’ve always believed that many Democratic politicians were, if not criminal, ethically challenged. They were not above lying when it suited them. After the past four years, they cannot hold a candle to the venality, criminality, and dishonesty of the GOP. Dems seem like choirboys (or girls) in comparison. Dems might spin the truth or lie to save their skins, but Republicans lie as a matter of course, as naturally as they breath. It’s almost as if their whole purpose and agenda is to lie—lying shamelessly is the point of having political power. So, yeah. This conservative voter will take a flawed Democratic Party over a fascist GOP. Even if one believes both parties are equally corrupt, there is an important difference. The GOP is anti-Democracy, not just anti-Democratic Party. For all its warts and defects, the Democratic Party still supports American Democracy. I’m not going to register as a Democrat. But I cannot vote for a GOP candidate so long as the National Leadership is trying to tear down democracy.
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  3656.  @herisuryadi6885  Thanks. I actually had to think about that for a second to remember where the Eastern Pacific is. 😆 🧠 💨
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  3657.  @angelsoto1475  now you’re just making up shit. I’m with Mexico. No need to drag the U.S. into this. That’s a feeble tactic.
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  3658.  @DeansLists  Actually, the foreign aid provisions were in Trump’s budget request. TRUMP was FOR the spending before he was against it. This is why members of both houses were taken by surprise when Trump refused to sign the combined omnibus and relief bills. Also, many people seem to be very bad at math. If the foreign aid was converted into pandemic relief, it would add less than $50 to each direct stimulus payment (the most generous conversion being almost $50, more conservative conversions amounting to $15-20).
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  3659. @Invalid Characters I lose more and more faith in our education system.
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  3660.  @BadCatMadCat  I’m sorry to hear that you fail at providing the basics for your own family. I’m assuming that’s the case because you did not provide your own address as an example. Or maybe you identify as a Christian, but don’t hold any charity in your heart. You’re one of those that pray on the street corner. Well, here’s your reward: you get to tell yourself your saved, and maybe a few people will believe it. But you’re not saved. Far from it.
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  3661. Have you tried mouthwash? 😄 It should make mask wearing less unbearable! The worst part is my glasses fog up. Once or twice my mask got overly moist from the afternoon humidity. This is why I carry spare masks. As I was typing this, I received a package. It contained urethane frame inserts that go inside the surgical mask. They seem to provide a better seal while also providing a little more breathing space around the nose and mouth. (There were also various doodads for better securing the mask elastic behind my head.)
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  3662. Or it could be that the military can’t spare any more reserves without leaving the border unguarded and unrest in the provinces suppressed.
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  3663. Not so much clicks, but for politics. Domestic Terrorism-lite to elect a cretin.
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  3664. @user-bf3pc2qd9s I propose a new insult: go deepfake yourself.
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  3665. The manager that did a favor for her employ? It’s not the motivation that was the crime, but the favor itself that was a criminal act.
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  3666. I was called “one of those” last week, and I really had to practice some anger management. The elderly idiot also assumed I was a liberal “kool aid drinker”, and thought we were having some sort of public political debate.
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  3667. This is great news that there is a plan to roll out rapid testing nationwide, but meanwhile, there are still massive delays on current testing. We also know that the rapid tests have a 15% false negative rate, so aren’t a replacement for full tests (which aren’t perfect either). Why does the administration continue to fight against testing asymptotic people? And let’s say the administration actually implements this plan successfully? Testing is only 50% of the solution. What is the plan for contact tracing? Testing lets us know where the hotspots are emerging, contact tracing helps us control the spread in those hotspots. I’m very concerned about the economy, but the economy is not going to recover until the pandemic is under control. Right now it’s worsening and the actions of the president and the GOP are prolonging the pandemic.
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  3668.  @EnterGalacticRecords  Yes, you can buy your own jet and do whatever, uh, oh wait. FAA regulations.
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  3669. 26:44 Thunderfoot. The ‘footster, making copies. Bringing the thunder! Bringing the foot! Thunderfootarama!
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  3670.  @mohammedriadh4990  So it’s merely a land grab?
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  3671.  @AnEmerald  He liked the title President of the United States, but wasn’t interested in doing the job.
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  3672.  @김헨리-d2p hey, he can do it sarcastically if he wants. The important thing is that he leaves.
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  3673. Your yogurt has a culture problem.
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  3674.  @justanamerican9450  Bingo. Democracy takes work. Our democratic institutions protect us if we protect our democratic institutions. Fascism is a shortcut for the lazy, those slothful in mind and spirit.
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  3675. Noise cancellation and no wind.
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  3676. I’m imagining an alternative reality version of It’s a Wonderful Life, where the Jimmy Stewart character sells out to Old Man Potter and develops a taste for the lifestyle of the ultra rich and a thirst for power. “It’s a Terrible Life”.
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  3677.  @TGoff-fz7yh Powell really had no case and zero chance of winning. Chesebro did have a legitimate defense to use but it was far from a slam dunk. He lost the last set of evidentiary motions that would have helped him. He didn’t have a good chance of prevailing, but he had a chance. Chesebro decided not to roll the dice and to finally accept responsibility like a mature adult. I think it’s the first wise decision he has made in a while.
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  3678.  @carolinebaxter186  6 dogs and 6 cats? She wouldn’t happen to be traveling to or from St. Ives, would she?
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  3679. How come none of you sheep will address the issue of the bio lab down the street from me? It’s where doctors send blood samples for testing. It’s about four blocks away and, get this, they’re allowed to operate out in the open.
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  3680. You first. Let us know how it works out for you.
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  3681. What’s he building in there? Tom Waits https://youtu.be/04qPdGNA_KM
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  3682. It might be a terminal. Otherwise I would guess it’s running CP/M.
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  3683.  @KingKenTM  “This is Bill, anyone got a 20 on Sam?” “Rodger that, Bill. Sam is 10-100.” Some codes are pretty common for people that use radios (walkie-talkies) in their line of work. Do you copy? 😄
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  3684.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD Coach Shun was famous for favoring tight ends.
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  3685. For decades the GOP kept the Lyndon LaRouches, David Dukes, and worse out of the party. But they didn’t keep a leash on the power hungry bad actor politicians like Newt Gingrich or Pat Buchanon. And it was politicians in the mold of Gingrich that began to take hold of the GOP because they were delivering votes by engineering the basest emotions. Then came 9/11, which gave many permission to unleash their inner racists (as long as the racism was directed at Arabs, until we elected a black President. The GOP set up a committee to do a postmortem and figure out a way forward. The committee concluded that the GOP should root out the racism so they could appeal to a wider variety of people, not just whites. The GOP took their report and wiped its collective ass with it. I hit what I think of as most of the major stepping stones, but let’s not forget that the GOP has a history of using race based fear to activate and motivate their base when it looked like an election might be close, and let’s not forget that Fox News was established in 1996. Nor should we forget that in 1992 we elected the biggest shit heel to the presidency, who would have gone down as the worst until we elected Trump. (And I pinched my nose and voted for his wife in 2016.)
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  3686.  @gasaxe6056  Good riddance.
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  3687. And you will be the control group in our little experiment.
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  3688. January tornados are totally normal. RIP 6 dead people.
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  3689.  @trekkienzl2862  It’s the thief crying foul when you put a stronger lock on your door. In Putin-logic, preparing your defense is an act of aggression and attacking is an act of defense. I think the reason these Russian Trolls keep working is because (using Putin-logic) getting paid in worthless rubles will make them rich.
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  3690.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  Good point. The pugnacious doubling down on his error is not something you can ignore.
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  3691. This above all else explains Trump supporters. If the scales still haven’t fallen from your eyes it’s because you’re happy being that worse self and have no desire to be a better person.
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  3692.  @saschacyrus3605  Do you mean a single ball bearing was loaded in the wrong direction, or do you mean the bearing assembly? Because I’m trying to visualize a ball bearing having a correct direction or even a side, and I’m getting nothing. Maybe you can check my math and see where I’m going wrong. Ok, I’m imagining a metal sphere. I flip it upside down and rotate it 180° on the z-axis. I can’t tell the difference between this orientation and the original orientation.
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  3693. They had boats. This is in the Amazon River Basin.
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  3694. No, the experts have been pretty spot on, making corrections when new data comes in. It’s the Republican politicians that for the most part have been wrong, ignorant, or in the case of the President, intentionally misleading.
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  3695. So sorry to hear this. I’m very worried about my family and friends in Los Angeles. The last I heard was that 1 person in 8 is infected. It just blows my mind how cavalier OC, IE, and SB counties have been about this.
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  3696. dOlli3cOutur3 I’m glad that worked out for you despite being subject to unfair accusations. However, don’t rely on your store’s security guards. If your store is part of a chain, they might have a corporate team or outside investigators install cameras without the store security knowing.
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  3697. I think you misunderstand the underlying thesis here. What would you say it is?
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  3698. Five years would be within the range of what I would call proportional, although 18 to 24 months is acceptable to me. That said, I hope you’re not advocating for rape as part of punishment. That would be pretty messed up. Maybe you’re suggesting that Trevor Jacob is a closeted gay and would have a relationship while in prison. I don’t know if he’s really gay, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
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  3699.  @kenadams3385  You sound like the hard working guy that needs to be reminded that you can’t work if you’re injured. This one time, put your health and safety ahead of your demanding schedule. This is the advice you would give to a brother or a friend. Give it to yourself and then follow it! 😄
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  3700. The supply lines in Western Ukraine are still open. It will be exceedingly difficult and costly for the Russian army to interdict these lines, possibly impossible. The Ukrainians have what is basically a “Ho Chi Minh” trail like the Vietnamese used. Shall we call it the “Zelensky Trail”? Putin and the Russian Generals thought they could invade Ukraine on the cheap, but it’s turning quite costly. They cannot commit all their reserves to the fight or they are defenseless in other sectors outside Ukraine. They have to maintain control within Russia, which is becoming harder precisely because this war is unpopular.
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  3701. He should be arrested. He’s a flight risk. His properties might be deeply leveraged, so the judge would need to be careful about letting him post bail. No bail until his finances are completely disclosed.
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  3702. Gnarly. I’ve been in genuine 110°+ once in my life with no shade and it nearly killed me. I’m in GTO., and it’s been unusually chilly over night and in the mornings. The afternoons have been mild. This isn’t extreme weather, but it’s very odd for July and August. Usually the afternoons can get quite warm just before the rain starts. Not so much lately. But at least we’re getting the rain. We’ve suffered drought conditions on and off the 10 years I’ve been here. Saludos, Ronaldo. Stay cool and hydrated!
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  3703. Saludos de Mexico!
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  3704. Reunification has always been PRC policy. The policy was modified in the 80s to be “peaceful reunification”, but the truth was that until recently, the PRC lacked the capability. Until Xi, that is. He’s been building the capability to use force and continues to build it. (The PLA is not there yet.) In the technology sphere, selling SOCs to Chinese companies slows down their homegrown tech development. Why put billions of yuan into R&D if it’s more cost effective to just buy the product? And what R&D the PRC has supported has turned out to be a bust, probably to do with the inherent corruption of totalitarian government. To restate: selling the product to PRC manufacturers disincentivized PRC research for a time.
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  3705. I like their sailor moon outfits.
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  3706. It depends on the tribe’s and the mineral council’s motivations. If it’s purely about the money, the tribe might contract with another company to operate the wind farm. If they really don’t want the wind farm there, the wind farm company will have posted a removal bond as part of the building process.
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  3707.  @TheRockerProjectx3  Maybe not RICO statutes specifically, but definitely conspiracy charges.
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  3708. Lol, no, you’re thinking of the fat slob drug addict that was mayor of some city in Canada. Rob something. No, this is Chris Christie, the most powerful criminal overlord in Mos Eisely.
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  3709. I wonder what the FAA people will think when they review these videos and see he is taking the whole matter as a big joke.
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  3710. Points to the ticketing officer. Points to the department for applying proper punishment. I hesitate to award points to the driver for behaving as he should during the stop, but I’ll give him points for reporting his traffic infraction to his superior and taking the punishment. All in all, it’s sad commentary on policing in general in this country that police acting ethically is notable enough to make a video about it. Good going for this department and these individuals involved, but the context is that policing is in a sorry state.
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  3711. Sorry to hear that. Good luck on the second vaccination. 🤞
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  3712.  @anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180  they found human tissue, and they don’t mean Kleenex. Take a bit of raw hamburger meat and throw it as hard as you can at a brick wall. That’s what they found.
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  3713. I’ve got two theories. 1) He’s being tranquilized by the defense to prevent him from courtroom outbursts. 2) Just like the rest of us, Trump is suffering from Trump Fatigue Syndrome (TFS). The whole proceeding is about him, his favorite subject. He’s getting tons of attention. He thrives on this crap. But he’s falling asleep. Apparently even Trump has had his fill of Trump.
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  3714.  @nicmart  You’re assuming that each judge has perfect knowledge of all judicial activity in his or her state going back for several years. I think that is assuming way too much.
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  3715.  Bulls Eye  It will stop in January, as you know. I’m get how far off that seems to you. I feel the same way. I’m considering the following actions to make that time pass more quickly: 1) short term cryogenic storage, 2) induced coma, 3) taking up an interesting hobby like heroin addiction. Best of luck and best wishes to you and yours this holiday season.
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  3716.  @deadacrats6281  the John Wick movies are essentially Kung Fu, but with guns instead of kung.
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  3717. Fine. The first thing we should discuss is normative stacking and if we should even base stacking on some sort of statistical norm. The fact is that we are a multicultural society, and many families from diverse backgrounds cannot easily fit on a 3’ x 4’ pallet rectangular. Going forward we must not only recognize alternate stacking paradigms, but make provisions to support other methods of stacking. Did you know that the Inuit have nine different ways to stack their families? My mind was blown when I heard this.
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  3718.  @janicehotchkiss3786  It is actually in use as a human medicine throughout the world, but at pretty low doses and only for its intended purpose: as an anti parasite medicine. It works as a neurotoxin, attacking the nervous systems of certain types of intestinal worms and lice. If one has such an infestation, it could be considered a comorbidity. Treatment for those with these intestinal parasites is no more than once every six months. People experimenting with high dosages on a daily basis are acting foolishly, on the order of ingesting bleach. Perhaps they should ingest a good drain cleaner instead, and not stress hospital capacity.
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  3719. They didn’t prevent WWII, but they might have delayed it a bit. The truth is that the Allies weren’t in a position of military strength to impose anything on Germany. They sought delay at the very least. They didn’t have a basis to suspect that Hitler was as ruthlessly ambitious and risk-taking as he turned out to be. The true nature of the Nazi threat hadn’t revealed itself. And the negotiations bought time for the U.K. to build up its Air Force, and the invasion of Czechoslovakia added further impetus to the rapid expansion. The actual history is more complicated than “Chamberlain was criminally stupid and naive.” Let us remember that an alliance is only as strong as its capabilities. Those capabilities had not kept paced in the years between the two World Wars.
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  3720.  @merlincrohn294  Some of these people need to study basic economics. They don’t understand how markets work at all.
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  3721. Weekend at Sokolov’s
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  3722. The court will follow the law, not prejudicially favor the police officer. Luckily, the law favors the police officer. State law makes the HOA regulation null and void, and this case will get tossed before it ever comes before a jury. The police officer might even be able to recover her legal costs. One thing I’d try if I was her defense lawyer (I’m not a lawyer): I’d ask the plaintiff (HOA) for their witness list and see who is willing to testify or sign an affidavit, BEFORE I asked the judge for a dismissal. I think that would be very eye opening for the community.
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  3723.  @stephenmckay5911  A binding contract that conflicts with state law is null and non-binding, at least in those clauses that are in conflict.
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  3724. Why would you come to this YouTube channel of all places and tell lies about is and isn’t taught?
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  3725.  @RaccooniusIII He’s not talking about FAR, he’s talking about Federal Criminal codes and how sentences are determined. There’s a point system involved that determines the sentence of the convicted criminal. The min-max sentences are the limits, but a variety of factors, such as priors, can enhance the sentence upwards (but generally not past the upper limit). Similarly, there are factors (such as a first time offense) that can subtract points. All that said, it doesn’t quite apply to the plea bargain. The agreement is under 24 months but over 18 months. If a sentence is under 24 months, it’s unappealable. Jacob cannot try to get his sentence overturned for a lighter one. If the judge approves the deal (and they do in most cases), it will be the at the judges discretion how much prison to impose, between 18 months and 24 months.
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  3726. A friend of mine reported that getting Santorum under your fingernails smells really gross. I didn’t want to know that and neither did you. But now you know.
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  3727. I don’t think Canada or Mexico has asked for assistance, unfortunately. If anything, the U.S. has been actively hindering the Mexican pandemic response by sending tourists, but México’s government has been complicit in that because it needs tourism dollars. Those people willing to travel to Covid hotspots for a vacation are not the types to follow health and safety protocols. Every time I go out, over half the gringos are maskless. This flouts local regulations, but the tourists don’t care about anyone or anything beyond the pleasure of the moment. It’s pretty damn amazing that these self proclaimed conservatives (as most of them are) never learned about self-control and delayed gratification. They seem to be oblivious to a health crisis that doesn’t affect them directly.
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  3728. I deduce that you normally do a 5-10 minute workout. Hopefully you took breaks during this video! Pete excels when he stays in his lane, as he did here. I think he went out on a limb a little bit at the end when he made his political predictions. I’m just saying we’re in political chaos and it’s only going to get more chaotic. That chaos is not going to end with the 2024 election, but it’s hard to predict how bad it might get (and Pete refused to speculate on what will happen after the election). Politics in the U.S. are extremely volatile at the moment.
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  3729.  @joex24b  I think the first step to becoming a “reform conservative” is recognizing that capitalism isn’t a religion. It’s a way of structuring the economic system of a society to create value. I like to think of it as an engine, which would make society the vehicle. In a democracy, we get to decide about the vehicle: who it should carry, what safety features it has, where we want it to take us, etc. Another thing that has modified my thinking is recognizing that the open, transparent, and free market is an abstract ideal. The level playing field is an ideal. It’s something we are moving towards and it’s worth moving towards, even if perfection is unattainable. This doesn’t mean we should tilt it in the other way, but it does mean nudging it and reassessing to see if it needs more nudging or less. You said something important. Flexibility is key. We will not be flexible if we cling to political dogmas. Example: Supply side economics was a useful tweak under certain circumstances. But it should never have become an article of faith for conservatives because under other economic conditions it is too much of a good thing. In different economic conditions, temporarily increasing government spending might get us out of a hole. If we let go of our dogmas, we will find that we have the same goals and want the same things, we just have different approaches to reach those goals. We can negotiate a viable path based on our shared values and respect for our different values. Knocking down our dearly held dogmas is the real challenge in our current political climate of division and tribalism.
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  3730. Optics. It would look(to some) like quid pro quo, or a circlejerk. Better if a future President Harris gave Obama the MoH.
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  3731. Well, you’re right of course. We really shouldn’t be comparing European countries with violence and riot prone countries like France. I’m betting that Dr. Campbell is not aware of the fascist right wing movements in many countries outside of the U.S. or his own. No doubt the Netherlander rioters were inspired by the seditionist insurrection we recently saw in the U.S. and QAnon conspiracy theories—the mental virus has spread across the world and no doubt is mutating locally.
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  3732. She’s not saying anything about it because that’s not what’s happening. It’s in your vivid imagination and in your credulous support of a fraudster.
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  3733. I’ve seen this in Mexico, pre-pandemic. I’ve been handing out boxes of masks to families in need in my neighborhood. They have no “political qualms” about wearing masks, but cost can be an issue. The way I look at it, I’m protecting myself.
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  3734.  @kellidinit3725  Her decision was a weird unjustified mash without sound legal reasoning. Sure, staying in her lane would have spared her the professional humiliation. But she could also have provided a more coherent argument for her determination (which might have clarified her thinking in the process). Seriously, the determination she made seems like she made her decision (or was told it), and then said, “I’ll make up a pile of legal mumbo jumbo to justify it. No one will notice.” So, maybe “her lane” is traffic court judge.
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  3735. I think you’re making a valid point. As far as politics and policy goes, the government is pretty weak when it comes to money laundering. We could have more muscular laws governing banking, penalties, and providing the budget to hire investigators. Cutting out demand is just one prong of the strategy. Interdicting the profits is just as important.
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  3736.  @lonnywilcox445  Buy that wood (or do the salvage) asap. Put the wood into storage (with ventilation; there’s a ton of videos on how to store and/or season wood). No room? Make room. Old wood of this sort is a limited resource and it’s in demand. If it’s old growth redwood, it could be very valuable (i.e. profitable). Do your due diligence, of course, like you would for any investment. But that’s the point. You might have just stumbled across a neat little investment opportunity. There is a market for reclaimed redwood.
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  3737. I ❤ Bill Kristol. I used to like him. He was our leading light in the “Intellectual Right” (yes, children, it was a real thing back in the day). But the day I fell in love with him was when he went on John Stewart’s Daily Show. This happened after Stewart went on Tucker Carlson’s show and made a fool of Carlson. Stewart tore Tucker to shreds and left him sputtering like an idiot. Stewart didn’t just knock Carlson down a few pegs, he threw him off of whatever thing it is that has the pegs. Bill held his own on the Daily Show and he charmed the heck out of Stewart and Stewart’s audience. They had a genuinely honest exchange, and reminded us what mutual respect looked like. I still treasure that moment. I have to give props to Stewart, too. He didn’t go into comedy-attack-dog mode, and approached Bill with an open mind.
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  3738. The evidence is heavily weighted against ivermectin providing any protection or therapeutic use against COVID-19. Sorry to disappoint you, but the earlier “inconclusive, needs further study” washed out when there was further study.
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  3739. We should include the externalized costs when calculating cost effectiveness. Even better, we should insure that those costs are paid by those that incur them. Then we can use those funds to build (or subsidize the building of) nuclear powerplants, carbon capture technologies, and medical care for the people whose health is negatively impacted by pollution.
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  3740.  @CiaranMaxwell  The point is that modern CAS with modern PGM doesn’t get close enough to take a pounding. Currently, we are talking about 5m accuracy at a distance of 40-150 km away from target and at high altitudes. This is why the F-35 and the upcoming B-3 are superior CAS platforms compared to the A10. I mention these two aircraft because if their stealth characteristics. You could launch from a C-130 if you weren’t worried about long range SAM fire. In fact, PGMs are being developed that would allow C-130s to launch crates of bombs from safe distances. Other PGM technologies are being developed that would turn bombs into small cruise missiles. SEAD originally also used dedicated aircraft (eg, Wild Weasels in the USAF) but current technology allows it to be incorporated into 4th (4.5) and 5th generation multi role fighter platforms. I imagine we will eventually see AGM drones used as a SEAD platform, given their superior loitering capabilities.
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  3741. I’m thinking Grady Judd is more like a Tommy Lee Jones type. And anyway, Wayne was a bit of a fraud, even if his politics were correct. But do you know what’s better than winning an award? Having an award named after you. I propose a Sheriff Grady Judd Award for excellence in policing.
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  3742. Most quit the GOP. One has re registered as a Democrat. Afaik, one has retained his GOP affiliation. For the most part they’ve renounced the GOP and have clearly identified the GOP as the biggest enemy to democracy and the country that we face.
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  3743. Shady Don
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  3744. The VDV officer that got fired must be thanking his lucky star that he was replaced. Maybe his luck will change his heart and he will work to end Russia’s senseless war. He’s been given a chance to redeem himself.
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  3745.  @cookiecola5852  He can’t visit most countries in the world, meaning he cannot have meetings with other countries outside of Russia and a handful of countries or he risks arrest. I don’t know if it makes a difference in the Kremlin either way, but I suspect it doesn’t really matter for Russian domestic politics.
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  3746. Ooooooo! Da Loop! 😄 Yeah, I imagine there are hundreds of videos on the topic if one were to search for OODA loop. Its a principle employable at both the tactical and strategic level. First time I heard about it was in the context of fighter aircraft dogfights. The second time was in the context of small wars/counter insurgencies. This doctrine’s fingerprints are all over the Ukrainian strategy as the counteroffensive unfolds.
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  3747. Be careful. Pete offers us a frame on economics (and by extension geopolitics) that is super useful. But he’s not the be all or end all of Econ. He makes predictions (sometimes bold predictions) that I find thought provoking, but he’s not a prophet. Sometimes he glosses over things quickly (understandable given the format) that bear further examination or study. Anyway, all the best to you and yours this season and this coming year.
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  3748.  @sherkirkpatrick8060  Correct. This new evidence wrt to ivermectin’s mechanisms suggest it inhibits the various mechanisms of the virus, from its ability to latch onto cells, enter the cell nucleus, and reproduce. I was a big skeptic, but this information from actual experts is removing doubt. I’m still going to get vaccinated, however! If these theoretical mechanisms are backed by the evidence (as seems to be the case), the anti-viral classification applies. Even better if it proves to be a broad spectrum anti-viral.
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  3749.  @bootburner4544  <— TROLL
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  3750.  @davidellis1079  Alien Drone services is lying. There is no danger from the dosages being discussed. I’m not even sure at what levels there is any danger. But clearly 50,000 iu and below seem safe. The higher amounts are for initial boost. I’m taking 2,000 daily. I’m not sure what the minimum effective dose is (which I would like to know), but up to 10,000 iu daily seems perfectly safe.
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  3751. That’s fine. But if you want to have a working congress from now until January, you might want the Dems to help him.
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  3752. The British people vote for ministers. The ministers vote for the Prime minister. So to answer your question, NEVER.
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  3753.  @carson6707  The prime minister doesn’t stop being a minister of parliament. He or she is the PRIME minister. They’re still representing their constituents.
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  3754.  @cfosnock  Yup. Mexicans come to the U.S. to be in the U.S., Gringos that want to be in Mexico go to Mexico. And if you want the best of both worlds (Mexican language and full blown U.S. consumerism), you go to Laredo or some other border city. 😂
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  3755. I’m not ashamed to admit it. I’ve been eating ramen, mac & cheese, and ham sandwiches for the last month to pay my credit card debt quickly. I’ve cut my budget drastically for the past two months.
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  3756. Elon Musk is the Bill Jobs of his generation.
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  3757. Did you know Stalin supported his show, Pravdawars, by selling vitamin and protein supplements.
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  3758. True, and it’s terrible, but not as terrible as sending in boots.
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  3759. I’m sorry you’re being inconvenienced.
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  3760. lol, no. I’m not sure who is worse, you or the people falsely claiming he will be released without bail.
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  3761.  @aliendroneservices6621  STOP LYING AND SPREADING DISINFORMATION
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  3762.  @CountDrunkula  You are correct. Alien Drone services is all over these threads spreading disinformation.
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  3763. Not if the individuals make reasonable demands for compensation. If they make excessive demands, then they will need to file lawsuits. If the suits make it to trial, a jury will determine the reasonableness of the demands. The bus driver won’t be ticketed. Don’t act like an idiot—you don’t have enough practice to be a successful idiot. A real idiot would instead say that the bus driver’s insurance premiums are going to sky rocket. 😉
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  3764. They need to switch to Hose B because Hose A is worn out.
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  3765. Criminal charges are definitely possible, even if the intent of the streamer was “altruistic” or benign (it wasn’t). The streamer assembled the crowd when he announced the give away. Let’s be clear that the motivation for such giveaways is self-promotion. He is trying to increase his audience and increase his ad revenue. Such gatherings require permits, hiring cops, etc. If this was unpermitted or (worse) if he had been refused a permit, he will also be liable for damages and injuries. If the authorities want to stop these things, they will want to prosecute the streamer to the maximum extent (followed by civil charges). When the instigators are criminally and financially punished, there will be fewer incentives for such harebrained schemes.
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  3766. A low ranking member of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. can only do so much against the rest of the organization, and there’s no James Bond to help him out.
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  3767.  @igor-zb9vd  Is a mob boss influenced by his captains? Maybe not, but if they can’t earn, or if their earnings are threatened, they might have a thing or two to say. If a mob boss can’t protect his criminal gang’s ill-gotten wealth, he might find himself replaced by a more competent boss. I’m not saying that Russia is a kleptocracy run like the mafia, but (It’s a kleptocracy run like the mafia).
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  3768. So what I hear you saying is that Russia can’t stand competition in the resource extraction industries and this is another reason for invasion.
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  3769. How much? Do you want to bet on individual members?
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  3770.  @nonyabizness.original  The housekeeping analogy was beautiful put.
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  3771. You can relieve those symptoms with a good hemorrhoid cream, but you have to move your head out of the way first.
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  3772. If they credit these stories, it’s all too likely that they’re too far gone to take in facts or will be open to having their theories debunked. Keep in mind, a friend enmeshed in a conspiracy theory is like to to test the waters with you by saying they “heard something”.
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  3773. Over five times the number of people meeting for hours in a similarly sized enclosed space means five times greater chance of exposure. This is even more critical if you have members that refuse to be vaccinated. Your confusion will lift if you give critical thinking a try.
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  3774. Taking pictures like he’s from a different planet. “I’m from Planet Trump. Your democracy frightens and confuses me.”
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  3775. I don’t have a problem with permits for public carry. If you can afford a firearm and you can afford ammunition, you should be able to afford a permit. As far as permits being anti-constitutional, there are already many limitations on weapon ownership that we accept, including expensive and difficult licensing to legally own fully automatic weapons. I’ve taken a lot of flak (pun intended) from absolutist 2A people for this position.
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  3776.  @michaeldrone520  If you are getting poisoned by your own breath, you should be in a hospital or at home. Normal healthy people aren’t getting poisoned by their own breath. You’re spreading medical misinformation.
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  3777. 😂 lol, it’s true!
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  3778. Are you a movie?
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  3779.  @namorprak3872  That is more a behavior associated with Brooklyn, New York City, than with Hasidism. It is a stereotype that people from Brooklyn of any race, culture, or national origin, are crude and offensive. It is a point of pride for people from Brooklyn, even the most refined and cultured person from Brooklyn takes pride in it. Brooklynites are tough and enduring. I think it is very upsetting for Russians that the Hasidim are welcome in Ukraine. It shows what liars Putin and Lavrov are that Ukraine is Nazi country. On the contrary, Jews in Russia are more under threat.
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  3780.  @thearab59  I bet in Kent they call it the Canterbury variant, and in Canterbury they call it the Ethelbert Road variant. 😆 But seriously, the vast majority know where the pandemic came from. There’s no objective need to harp on it being from China. We all know their government bears culpability. It’s counterproductive to quibble over it, the geopolitics of it all comes later. Naming variants after geographical locations, on the other hand, is useful for us laypeople to understand where the variants originated and how they are being spread. It’s that simple. However, there is another reason why one might want to keep calling the virus the China Virus or the Wuhan Virus. And that’s if one had really fucked up their country’s response and wanted to avoid taking responsibility. In that cases, constantly harping on its source makes the most sense. If it causes hate crimes within this country against people of Chinese descent, I suppose these blame shifters see that as a positive, not a negative.
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  3781.  @tigertank06  What holiday isn’t made up? Those based on astronomical events are artificial, even if the dates aren’t entirely arbitrary. Heck, the names of plain old regular days is arbitrary, as is their organization into weeks, months, and years. (And if you’re going to bring up lunar cycles, please explain how lunar cycles change from 28 days to as long as 31 days?)
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  3782. I don’t want to own a chair. They’re such a pain to drag around. Offer me a chair on a subscription basis and you’ve got a customer for life.
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  3783. I’d wager that Kotick steps down from day-to-day, and an acceptable interim leader is put in place. MS will slowly strip down the company, putting the franchises under direct MS management. They’ll fold in employees who wish to stay—at least those employees not caught up in workplace abuse scandals. The games you love will survive. Game devs will keep on devin’. And a terrible company that mistreats its workers will be erased. What’s not to love?
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  3784.  @Agent.99  This is at best misleading, at worst, twisting irrelevant facts to support a false narrative. Not all hospital workers are qualified to work ICU or ER. I’d say it is a small minority of workers that hold such qualifications. A good deal of such staff were doing support work that requires no medical training whatsoever. Some types of hospitals don’t handle ER or Intensive Care at all and are operating on skeleton staffs due to the pandemic. Second, national statistics are not going to help us understand regional variations in caseloads and or in hospital worker employment trends. I hope you are not one of the liars, trolls or pandemic deniers. I hate wasting time on those pieces of shit.
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  3785. by the very fact that you cannot even spell border correctly, your opinion on anything related to the border is of absolutely no consequence. If border issues were something you actually cared about, you’d learn how to spell the damn word.
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  3786. Remembering when KMT wasn’t a club drug.
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  3787. So you’re saying those soldiers were saved from insanity? Because I don’t think they’ll be doing that again. One of the soldiers died amongst some sunflower stalks that still had their seed heads.
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  3788. Their IQ? It’s half of a normal IQ. So it’s just Q.
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  3789.  @milvilleromain57  Pretty good chance that the OP’s ancestral homeland is to the east of Poland, and he still lives there.
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  3790. Protect our spelling.
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  3791. A lot of people freaking out about this. I took it to mean the most basic changes—wear a mask, wash your hands, maintain social distancing. No doubt there will be other changes in behavior, even when we are mostly past this. We might remain more mindful of which social gatherings we choose to attend or in which social activities we choose to participate. This isn’t all bad. Having a ready made valid excuse to beg off a boring social event sounds like a good thing.
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  3792. Congratulations, you were finally right. Your success rate is 3.33%.
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  3793.  @marcpaulus6291  🤷🏻‍♀️ They were raids and probes that happened quite a while ago, probably before this operation was planned. Sure, the raids affected the MoD mindset and disposition of forces. But there is something opportunistic about this operation. If the Russian MoD had noticed the concentration of forces and had acted, the operation might have been called off.
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  3794. Guam is an organized unincorporated territory of the U.S. It is in the process of determining whether it wants to apply for statehood, maintain the status quo, or become independent.
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  3795.  @buckiesmalls  Broken Record Brandy. I’m thinking she’s actually a CPC agent.
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  3796. This particular Republican has been talking about Trump’s disinformation for a while now, not just the past month. Go ahead and hate on the GOP. I hope it burns to the ground, myself. But don’t tar all Republicans with the same brush.
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  3797. DeSantis had a better chance one year ago. Unfortunately he and his campaign blew that opportunity and he dropped out months ago. I cannot believe you’ve already forgotten what an inept campaign he ran and how weird he was when meeting voters.
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  3798.  @EconLessons SPI was for nerds too nerdy for Avalon Hill. 😅
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  3799. “Second World” refers to Communist Bloc countries during the Cold War, not to economic development. Just so we’re clear—a lot of people misuse the term because of sloppy use of Third World, which indicates non-alignment to First or Second Worlds. If you want to talk about economies, try using the more accurate descriptors Developed, Developing, and Undeveloped. Thanks, and if you were aware of the correct meaning, never mind.
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  3800.  @TheTrueDeitel  I don’t know if Operation Condor is a direct cause, but certainly CIA counterinsurgency operations in Central America in the 70s and 80s have led to the unintended consequences of high crime, instability, and poverty in Central America that have led to the flood of refugees to our southern border.
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  3801.  True News  This is a propaganda free zone. You have other avenues to post your links, whether they are pro-Ukraine or anti-Ukraine. Note: I’m not saying that you are linking to lies. Ukrainian claims are much more truthful than Russian propaganda. They can be checked by independent and free journalists. I’m just saying that it’s unneeded here.
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  3802. Is Jim Cramer even allowed to buy and sell securities, even for himself?
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  3803. Sharing dirty needles is probably a big problem in Wagner.
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  3804. That is incorrect. As a non-signatory, the U.S. isn’t required to detain and extradite someone. But they can do so at their discretion. Don’t have to, might want to.
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  3805. The reason you have two pilots under normal circumstances is to change lightbulbs. One pilot holds the lightbulb, the other pilot turns the ship. 😅
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  3806. Is that a dog pun?
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  3807. If you want to get into the history of the area, you want to watch Timothy Snyder’s course lectures on Ukrainian history at Yale University. The videos of his lectures are being released about a day after he gives them. The latest video was released yesterday and is the 11th one (bringing us up to 1699). Belarus’s relation to Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia is complicated and develops over centuries. The thing I like about Snyder’s lectures is he de-centers Western Europe. Something I gleaned from his lectures so far that I think you’ll like: a lot of the history is about North-South dynamics, less emphasis on the west.
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  3808.  @tomjohnson4681  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  3809.  @marulakhutabaratbarat8992  <—Putzi troll
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  3810. O’Brien’s empathy and compassion for brexiteers borders on saintly.
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  3811. The next big battle is going to be the 2022 midterms. It’s not too early to start preparing. We cannot allow them to take back either the House or Senate. Midterms are usually rough on the incumbent’s party, but we can out organize and outvote them if we do the work.
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  3812.  @fabianmckenna8197  She’s (or he or it) a professional troll and liar attempting to frighten you. You’ll notice she didn’t mention which variants are supposedly resistant to the Pfizer vaccine according to the article. It’s best not to interact with trolls at all, beyond publicly identifying them.
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  3813. It’s a southern state of mind.
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  3814.  @ericplumhoff9208  Radi isn’t misinformed, he’s well aware that he’s lying to sow dissension. Remember, you don’t have to live in Russia to be a Russian Troll.
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  3815. It’s rigged, but I’m not sure if these stock market flash mobs are accomplishing anything if the big players are recouping their losses at the end of the day while many of the small investors get left holding the bag for the ones who got in early and took profits. This asymmetric warfare, but asymmetric doesn’t always win. Revolutions don’t always succeed—indeed, they often get nipped in the bud long before they get large enough to qualify as a revolution. What is required for the retail mob to win is coordination, coordination that might be illegal according to SEC rules. I say “might” because it needs to be tested in court to say definitively whether or not mob coordination is legal. Such a test might be too expensive for those individuals sued (civil case) or prosecuted (criminal). Lawyers with the special competence to handle SEC cases are not cheap! However, HOWEVER, this could also be an avenue of attack to get the SEC rules changed to favor the retail investor. (More realistically, to shift a small amount of favor towards the small investor.) Successful prosecutions, David getting smashed by Goliath, gets the attention of law makers who love votes more than they love wall street money. Going forward, I think a way to avoid SEC actions is to 1) keep everything out in the open, 2) not organize around a specific stock, although you could publicly analyze stocks, 3) use a media figure to announce targets. An example of this would be 1) & 2) the mob openly organizing into “investment clubs” and creating a tranche strategy (early, middle, late tranches, roughly) to spread out the pain and the reward. Meanwhile, they crowd research potential targets—companies that are being over-shorted, for example. 3) When a target is selected, the media personality/financial journalist/analyst goes on air to announce it. If “investment club” sounds too cheesy, maybe a publicly traded “retail fund”, with shareholders getting to vote on targets. Or some other vehicle for the pooling of money. All out in the open, with the public announcement coming at the moment the vote is tallied. The vote would be a media event in itself.
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  3816. OK, Ivan.
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  3817. You might change your mind when people you know, or even loved ones, start dropping dead. Or who knows, maybe you yourself will become the cautionary tale for others. Imagine that, your life finally having some worth to others because you misspent it!
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  3818. You misunderstood. There is a law governing the conduct of assault, and there are parts of the law or other laws that provide for the legal exceptions, such as sports. “Mutual combat” is covered by the criminal statute since there is no exception for it, although you could try to use it as a defense.
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  3819. Public Health
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  3820. and dying. And being hospitalized. How is someone on a ventilator supposed to renew their claim?
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  3821. Incidentally, Mara Salvatrucha formed in the U.S. and was exported back to Salvador. Initially in the U.S. it was an ethnic street gang competing with other street gangs, but they got really ruthless and deadly when they got organized by ex-members of the Salvadoran military (who had been sent to the U.S to assassinate Salvadoran rebels who were hiding). It’s also important to remember exactly what as going on in El Salvador at the time. The U.S. supported the dictatorship with weapons and training for the military and the security services, with the CIA training the security services (secret police). I don’t know what techniques were taught, but the Salvadoran secret police was infamous for torture and for sending death squads to assassinate priests, journalists, dissidents, etc. Basically any sort of opposition was mercilessly destroyed. So if we wonder why Salvador is a crime infested shït hole, we need to recognize that we played a major part in it becoming that way. We can’t pretend that we had nothing to do with destabilizing that country when we are confronted by immigrants fleeing the violence. It’s much the same deal with Guatemala, although I think we were less directly involved there. Ditto Honduras. Anyhoo, U.S. policies really damaged Central America. You can argue that the region was already effed up, but we definitely made it worse. Before we get all anti-America, though, we need to remember the context. The Cold War was still on. Nicaraguan communists (the Sandinistas) had overthrown the U.S. supported dictator there. Our government feared Nicaragua would become another Cuba, and that the other Central American countries would follow suit. Imo, the Cold War fears had justification, but our methods were not justified. We fucked up, guys. I don’t know how we can fix it. For a start, perhaps we should avoid xenophobia when Central Americans come to our borders seeking refuge from the violence in their countries.
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  3822. “Found one!” 😫 Good lord. The probably saw evidence of mines on the road, and thought they were being smart by driving on the field. Do the Russians not have engineering companies or battalions? Or were they in too much of a hurry?
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  3823. Dude, I hope you’re all right. I knew you were sick and I hope you’re feeling better.
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  3824.  @YourHineyness  How do you forbid hedge funds from buying real estate investments? Are we going to outlaw capitalism bit by bit? “You can only buy one house”. That doesn’t sound realistic or workable to me. Explain it in a way that doesn’t use the words “overthrow capitalism and replace it with communism”.
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  3825. There’s no corroboration of the video’s veracity whatsoever. Why hasn’t it been entered into evidence in any of the court cases in the past month? (I’ll tell you: it’s because attorneys get punished for using false evidence.)
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  3826. What you’re doing is beneficial in general, and that will help your body maximize your resistance to disease. What you’re doing is “good for you anyway in general, might help specifically”. Carry on. By all means, carry on your regime and tell others. My diet has improved, but I can’t claim to have cut out my biggest weakness, Pan Dulce. I’ve cut back on it, but haven’t cut it out completely. Unfortunately, there is a good panadería two blocks from my house.
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  3827. What “Brics deal”? Do you mean the nothing-bank with nothing-reserves to back up a nothing-currency? OK, you may try to argue that money itself is a fiction, but it’s like a good movie vs a bad one. You’re willing to suspend your disbelief when watching a good movie. If the movie is bad, you watch it for the lolz. WRT to Saudi Arabia, that’s called a bet or a hedge. The bet is that, short term, the Chinese haven’t secretly manipulated the Yuan as much as the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates. The saudis are calculating that they can make a neat quick profit on the spread and it’s worth the risk on a short term contract. I wouldn’t read too much into it yet.
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  3828. That’s what voting is supposed to be for. If you feel your elected official has served too long, you vote against an opponent. If you feel very strongly about it, you can help organize others to vote out your representative. This also serves for removing elected representatives for other reasons, any reason at all. Maybe what you really want is campaign finance reform, which advantages incumbents in fundraising.
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  3829.  @_John_P  It is very interesting, but it has more to do with how realistic games/simulations have gotten than how dumb non-game players are. Keeping in mind that when I saw first saw the video in question, I was pre-informed that it might be from a game, so I was perhaps watching with more attention. And on the first viewing, I think I saw what you saw although I couldn’t put my finger on it as precisely as you. My overall impression was that everything was too smooth. The vehicles seemed to follow the one ahead of it to precisely, like they were literally on a string pulling them forward, all on the same track. There was something off about the ATGMs (that you explained very well). Back to the vehicles: the headlights seemed to be on a perfect track, as if the road had no dips or variations in its surface. A perfectly flat road. That jumped out at me. But here’s the thing: the next generation of games might fool me. The generation after that might be sophisticated enough to fool you. With that in mind, Ryan’s approach is very helpful: the tactics of the video vs real tactical fundamentals. This approach will be ever more helpful as simulations get better. Fwiw, I don’t play these sorts of games. I’m really old school—I used to play with little cardboard chits on maps defined with hexes. Sometimes we’d play with miniatures on modeled terrain. All turn based. Nowadays I prefer similar turn based strategy games. But I have seen these more realistic games played and I am aware of the evolution of graphics and physics simulations that hace pushed them ever forward. I don’t blame “normal” people for being fooled. But news shows still have a responsibility and need to use “experts” to filter the real from the fake to reject the fake.
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  3830. The Eaton Fire spread from the mountain slopes and canyons into the flats south of the mountains, into the grid of residential streets and commercially zoned streets. This was a lot worse than a fire burning through an isolated exurban community situated in rugged terrain. These are 100+ year old neighborhoods that have never been threatened by fires of this magnitude.
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  3831. As I understand it, there will be two hearings. The first is the change of plea. The second will be the determination of the punishment. What I would like to know is if it’s possible to file an amicus brief for the penalty phase. I would argue that there is an extenuating circumstance for a stiffer penalty: to send a message to other morons that would risk people’s well being for YouTube views.
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  3832. If not Southern Mexico, maybe Detroit.
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  3833. Where did you get the idea that the founding fathers had no conception of progress or development of technology?
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  3834. It seems to me that he didn’t put up a defense at all because he admitted his guilt. If that’s surprising, it’s because you’re shocked when someone is honest. The pooping-in-a-can is the weird and unacceptable behavior here, guys, not the telling of the truth.
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  3835. McConnel has been the best GOP tactician for thwarting Democrats and pushing GOP interests. I understand why Dems would hate him, but GOP senators?
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  3836. I think he’s referring to zombie companies and capital looking for a home and chasing bad investments.
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  3837.  @jamesalinio5277 Don’t be silly.
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  3838. She’s just now noticing that there are fewer opportunities for the younger generations than the boomers had? That’s the charitable interpretation. The less charitable one is that she still hasn’t noticed this two decade long trend but fears that it’s coming to her children. I’m at heart a conservative and that’s why I’m voting for Joe Biden. His policies might suck, but at least he has policies. The GOP has become a party of stunts, game playing, clownery and weird paranoia. The GOP’s traditional role was to be the adults that restrained the pie-in-the-sky Dems. That’s the GOP we had when I was registered as a Republican. Now it’s clowns with flamethrowers.
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  3839. There is no anti-viral mechanism in ivermectin that would make it useful for combatting COVID-19. None at all. It is a neurotoxin used to treat parasites such as worms and lice. Lower doses attack the nervous systems of the parasites while not normally having an adverse effect on humans. It is approved for human use in many countries as an anti parasitical treatment, not as an antiviral, and to reel of countries where it is used is highly misleading. It’s disinformation. Some countries, in desperate straits, initially approved its use as an experimental antiviral, but have now rescinded that approval. In summary, there is no scientific reason why ivermectin would work, and the evidence for its effectiveness is, being very generous, incomplete. If there is some unknown mechanism at work, it’s unknown and probably magical.
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  3840.  @nomore6167 How about you cite the specific federal laws that you say Jacob broke that the U.S. Attorney should have but didn’t prosecute. Then show us how they were more serious than obstructing a federal investigation. If you can do all that, here’s an additional exercise for you: maybe discuss the ease or difficulty of prosecuting for these crimes and overcoming possible defenses Jacob could use. If you do the first two things mentioned in the first paragraph, I think we should listen to you. Otherwise, you’ve pretty much demonstrated that you neither know anything about the law nor do you understand how arguments work. You make a claim (that more serious offenses not related to obstruction were dropped), then you back up the claim. That’s how argument works.
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  3841. It’s like a cross between The Omen and Goodfellas.
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  3842.  @thearab59  One of the major vectors for influenza is children attending school and catching it from their peers. That means of transmission has been mostly absent.
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  3843.  @ianbrown8171  it was bag containing a wire brush, a scraper, and a vacuum cleaner, so the surviving tanker can recover his crewmates’ bodies.
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  3844. A company is not always liable for what a customer service rep tells a customer. However, a company is liable for information published on its website, and that includes the misinformation given by the chatbot.
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  3845. “Nose” should be the new code word for xenophobia. Who nose!
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  3846. Thank you, Col. Reisner. I wish you had mentioned the work and role of #NAFO (North Atlantic Fellas Organization) in the information domain.
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  3847. Unknown, but as the reporter suggested in his question towards the end, it would seem so.
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  3848. If it flies, floats, etc, it’s also cheaper to buy used. I’d still avoid high maintenance models, though. For the guy who mentioned motorcycles, every year thousands of guys who fantasized about having a motorcycle their whole lives buys a bike only to realize the reality doesn’t match their expectations. This is why there’s tons of good deals on used bikes, even ones that are recent models. And during economic downturns, the motorcycle is the first thing to go. The dentist that lost money on the stock market or the worker who has his OT cut both face belt tightening. The easiest luxury toy to liquidate is that bike they bought new but hardly used. There’s also seasonal variations in those parts of the country that have “real winters”. Spring, Summer, and Fall are the riding seasons. The beginning of winter is (on average) the best time to buy a bike. If I wanted to rent a motorcycle (say for the summer), I’d buy one used and then sell it when I was done. The “rental cost” is the difference between the buy price and the sell price. You might even break even. You might even make a profit. If the bike is already used, the depreciation should already be built in to the price. I suspect the above rules of thumb hold true for RVs. People buy them new, are disappointed, and then are willing to unload them at the end of summer, even if they haven’t had any problems.
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  3849. I didn’t imagine he would meet Biden because to a certain political mindset, it would be a sign of weakness. And Desantis is politically weak because he’s running for the GOP nomination and not doing very well.
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  3850. Instead of kinetic strikes on facilities (which is easily solved by dispersal/working from home), how about extraordinary renditions? 😅 Nab the active measures middle managers, spirit them to Guantanamo, and let a tribunal sort it out, after they spend five years figuring out the legal framework and legal justifications for prosecuting enemy cyber warriors. I’ll argue that compared to what China and Russia already do in the west, kidnapping is not escalatory, whereas kinetic strikes definitely would be. 😊 This whole topic you’re getting into is very interesting. You present a pretty clear cut case wrt these videos, but I’m sure you’re aware of all the caveats that keep it from being as simple as how you’re presenting the question. Have you checked out the website/channel Lawfare? I’m pretty sure they’ve weighed the legal and policy aspects of this. You should look over their material and maybe talk to them.
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  3851.  @EireHammer  LOL, what sort of revisionist crap are you peddling? Partition Poland much?
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  3852. There are rational reasons beyond branch rivalries why a navy would want their own specific tank design for amphibious assault. I’m not sure of what justifications the Japanese Army had for building their own aircraft carrier.
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  3853. I don’t think he’s wrong, but I haven’t seen him propose an ALTERNATIVE solution. If he gives reasons for why a proposal won’t work without offering a better idea, those reasons are just excuses.
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  3854. You’re not even an American, Ivan. I don’t know where you get off talking about “our” system. You have no idea how the U.S. criminal justice system works.
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  3855. I have to laugh at all the comments from Russian Troll accounts accusing this man of being a spy. They can’t handle the truth that Russians living in Ukraine are seeing the criminal violence of the Russian invasion and are turning on Putin.
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  3856. The SVB depositors are going to be indemnified by the assets held by the bank. The FDIC will either take these assets and liquidate them on a rolling basis or find a buyer for the [assets + liabilities], and the buyer will make the depositors whole. Some people seem to think that the assets held by the bank just vanished, or that they’ve lost a huge amount of value. SVB suffered a liquidity crisis. There is no indication that there was an issue with the quality of the investments (bad loans, high risk investments gone bad). The problem looks to be that they invested in long term bonds that couldn’t be quickly converted without taking a loss (after interest rates went up). The stupidity here is more in how SVB allocated its investments into bonds, not so much companies that kept accounts with more than $250,000.
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  3857. GenX here. Cruise ships aren’t my cup of tea, but I see the appeal.
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  3858. At some point the Ukrainian military might need cargo transport pilots, but in the current situation it’s only fighters and helicopters in the sky. Fighter pilot training isn’t something you can complete in a few weeks. It can take months, even years to fully train a pilot. That’s if training is even available.
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  3859. I love this break down, Anders. Another assumption that Putin seems to make is that Europe enjoys being blackmailed and will maintain the status quo so that they can be blackmailed every winter. He’s like a demented and perverted farmer who thinks he can keep raping milk cows and they won’t jump over the fence and get away.
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  3860. I’m still waiting for the Zombie Expert to rate the realism of Zombie Movies. They did one for draculas and frankensteins. Why no love for zombies?
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  3861.  @sirrodneyffing1  Right? This is why the Yuan is risky as a trade currency. The Chinese Central Bank is opaque and totally dependent on the whims of a dictator. Trading partners are willing to assume the risk, but they get in and out quickly, converting their gains (if any) to less risky currencies.
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  3862.  @reddixiecrat The people you describe vote for candidates like Jill Stein and Coronel West. The last time they had a non-obscure Democrat contender was Jessie Jackson. If you really think that the socialist far left has any significant influence in the Dem party, you’ve been drinking the MAGA koolaid for too long. The overwhelming numbers on the Dem side are Center Left. If the GOP doesn’t move back to Center Right, both the GOP and the country are in trouble.
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  3863. Maybe when he retires, but I think he loves what he is doing too much to get distracted by fame and fortune. The “fame” and positive regard he gets in his own community seems to be enough.
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  3864. I’ll get back to you on Tuesday.
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  3865. “Im not a Trump supporter, but I do regularly post the Trump campaign talking points by a total coincidence.”
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  3866.  @acfiv1421  That guy waving his arms and shouting at you that the bridge is out is probably a nutcase. 95% of people screaming, waving their arms, and running around are crazy, so it’s OK to ignore it and and continue driving across the bridge. Get yourself a letter opener and open your mail before trashing it.
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  3867.  @panubun5312  Yes. Unfortunately, cutting ties with Russia involves cutting it off at its borders with democratic countries, particularly those it’s currently invading. The rest of the world would be quite content if Russia left other countries alone and tended its own garden.
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  3868.  @rochellegorcheck3772  He will (it’s why he moved to Florida), but now his New York real estate assets will go to paying the fines.
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  3869.  @mghegotagun  The crime is falsifying business documents.
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  3870. Very few are defending him. Quite a few have dished as “anonymous sources”. But even this is pretty short sighted. If you were the ringmaster of the GOP circus and one of your clowns caught on fire, would you want to get him out of the tent? Or would you do as the GOP is doing now, and pretend there’s no chance the burning clown will light the whole circus on fire? The chickens of GOP’s denial of reality are coming home to roost.
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  3871. 78 charges.
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  3872.  @robdixson196  Dude, it’s Nashville. And the idea that conservatives have a monopoly on Country music is delusional. It happened next to an ATT building, so one can just as easily speculate it was an irate ATT customer, or (my favorite) a crazy person blaming 5G cellular for the voices in their head. The bomb also took out a Hooters restaurant. So it could have been a radical feminist OR a puritanical Christian type. Or some idiot that didn’t want his girlfriend to work there anymore. There’s infinite possible motivations before we even get to political ideologies.
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  3873. The transformation of the Grand Old Party into the Donner Party.
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  3874. Apparently the worm still has RFKJ and no prospects for having him removed.
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  3875.  @tylerschmidt2394  An important feature of the $ as reserve currency is that when the Federal reserve makes adjustments (or manipulations, if you prefer), it does so transparently. It usually telegraphs its moves months ahead of time, so there is no surprise. The world knows it’s coming. Contrast that with the Yuan. China’s manipulation happens in secret and no one outside of Beijing really knows the full extent of what the Chinese Central Bank is doing at any particular moment. So the Yuan is not a realistic candidate. The Euro? I don’t think the EU want it to be the world’s reserve currency because it would make one or more of its member states too powerful. Could a coalition of countries create a synthetic reserve currency? Good luck with that!
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  3876. Rejected operation code names: Operation Rich Uncle.
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  3877. In real life, yes. Give them a chance to see if they can be human again. On YouTube? It’s the same trolls and jerks spouting more lies and nonsense, spamming links to fabricated video “evidence” of nothing.
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  3878. That might have been in response to the MoD trying to kill him and killing a number of Wagner soldiers in the process. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m just reading between the lines, but it’s a possible interpretation.
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  3879. Campbell is the best! There’s also Med Cram and Dr. Duc. Duc is a bariatric surgeon in Texas that goes of on wonderful profanity laced rants.
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  3880.  @stephenbirchall941  He’s a Russian Troll
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  3881. That was when I knew to short Weezer shares.
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  3882. Right wing of what? What do you mean by right wing? What were you expecting to hear?
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  3883. The courts have wiped their asses with your useless affidavits.
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  3884. Incorporate the Quest Pro technology into a helmet that can be locked into place, and you’ve got virtual prisons. This could solve the prison over crowding problem.
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  3885. OK, Ivan
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  3886. I love basking in the glow of Michael Steele.
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  3887. So what you’re saying is that we’re already practicing homeopathy, without all the homeopathic rituals. 😉
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  3888. He’s thirsty . . . for pee pee.
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  3889.  @Chris_the_Muso  I don’t think China (or those few other countries pointedly not taking sides) is especially eager to help Russia at this point. Xi has good reason to be angry with Putin—the invasion of Ukraine heightens suspicions about Chinese ambitions and puts a focus on Chinese territorial expansion. It’s going to complicate Chinese economic expansion and compromise Chinese soft power. Any short term plans (assuming they exist) for Taiwan are off the table and back on the shelf. That doesn’t mean China won’t help, but they are going to charge Russia a premium for that help, and they will limit it. It’s not so much a matter that China doesn’t want to anger the U.S. as they don’t want to anger their neighbors or give the U.S. fuel for propaganda. Everything above about China generally applies to India, although obviously the specifics don’t apply. The main thing to remember about India’s relationship with Russia is that above all, Russia is India’s arms dealer. India needs spare parts to maintain the various military hardware they’ve purchased from Russia. The free world just made these transactions more difficult for India, so even if India wanted to send aid to Russia, it’s unlikely they could send much. The bottom line is that trade between Russia and her “friendly” trading partners won’t be shut off, but will be severely curtailed. China and India may not be forced to comply with the sanctions, but they still do the majority of their trade through the global system. That will put pressure on them to limit trade with Russia.
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  3890.  @westhavenor9513  At least there is no organized crime in Las Vegas. Oh, wait.
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  3891.  @jhill4874  While the Chinese are also interested in prestige projects, they’re somewhat better at TCB. They are also talented at copying processes and methods (even improving them sometimes). Their economic success is only partly based on cheap labor and stealing IP.
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  3892.  @mrinmoyseal5671  Full props to India for making lemonade from a lemon. It took perseverance and ingenuity to make this class of ship relevant, and I’m sure India has gained valuable experience and will make the most of it.
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  3893. Many people thought that, but it’s not the case. Front line fighting was carried out by trained and experienced units. Conscripts were to be used on the flanks and as “back-fill”. But the casualties on the frontlines has been pretty high, and the dead were replaced by conscripts. Oh, and a lot of elite units were destroyed the first day trying to take airports. The reinforcements didn’t get there in time.
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  3894. I’m glad to find you safe and sound! Stay strong!
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  3895.  @daverok1113  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  3896. I’m not sure if this is the correct material for the course, but it’s what I found when I couldn’t find it on the Stanford site. https://www.coursehero.com/sitemap/schools/17-Stanford-University/courses/1529356-BIO150/
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  3897. Yes. The beginning of hyper partisan tribalism started with Gingrich. However, this is on top of the moral stain of the “Southern Strategy”, the GOP’s original sin.
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  3898.  @brandonwheaton1081  It’s possible, although it’s highly doubtful he’d be involved with practical production, running the set, hiring the crew. When an actor is involved as a producer, it might be a vanity credit, because they were involved in development, or because they helped raise funding. It might be how their deal was constructed to participate in profits in addition to salary—big name actors might take a cut in their regular rate, gambling that the project will eventually make a lot of money.
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  3899. You’re asking the right sorts of questions.
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  3900.  @McCRBen  You get it. Putin has to pay back the oligarchs for the previous sanctions. He was unable to get them lifted. The Putin crime syndicate thought the invasion of Ukraine would be easy and they did not expect the massive sanctions they now face. They thought NATO would take weeks to get its sh¡t together, if it could get together at all. It’s only a matter of time before the oligarchs take Putin out. Economic warfare works against kleptocracy.
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  3901. I hope winning such a high profile case helps these attorneys make partner.
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  3902.  @Tommy-5684  Half of them were white supremacist fans a month ago.
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  3903. He was one once. He faithfully served in uniform. And he’s thrown it all away for a craven compulsion to be close to Trump.
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  3904. what’s funny is that is the California transplants are mostly right wingers fleeing Spanish speaking immigrants. There’s also irony in complaining about Mexican immigrants to Texas. It’s too late. But it was also too late in 1848.
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  3905. Yeah, when? It’s been a potential currency for decades now. How do you expect to be the primary reserve currency when you don’t even exist and probably never will.
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  3906. He’s not entirely wrong about either the bridge (it’s not a house-on-fire emergency, but still important) or the Jones Act (which needs reform and updating). But that’s the flaw with Peter. He’s often partially right because he has partial knowledge.
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  3907. But it seems they didn’t really interview the witness to determine the credibility of her claims. If they returned after her mental crisis had passed, they might have gotten a statement from her that could provide probable cause to get a warrant. It really sounds like they did minimal CYA work because they wanted to dismiss her accusations as being due to her mental crisis.
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  3908. Kyiv is still holding out as of this morning. It’s possible that it won’t fall to the Russians. But if it does fall, Russia won’t be able to pacify it. Russian occupation will fail and the Ukrainian people will win.
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  3909. There’s video of spacecraft flying down the street moments before the explosion. Pew! Pew! Pew!
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  3910.  @wboyle9721  Not so much a lab as a nursery.
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  3911.  @bloepje  Same with the U.S. It’s wrong to use the U.S. as an example of a country where lockdowns failed. The U.S. is an example of a country where lockdowns have been incorrectly implemented.
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  3912.  @diekuh4143  <— White Supremacist Troll
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  3913. Too many unknowns to be placing bets wrt to more victims. At this point, we don’t even know if the second set of DNA samples is from a victim or in any way related to the crime. You could be right, but the sloppy disposal of the body doesn’t point to the suspect being well practiced. That said, I’m wondering about the wife’s overdose—was it really accidental?
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  3914. Russia physically invaded Ukrainian territory in 2014. It was “invited” by a separatist movement that it had created inside of Ukraine.
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  3915.  @emmittmatthews8636 If he keeps yapping, he makes it harder for himself. In that case he has no one to blame but himself. He’s digging his own grave.
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  3916. Better than Churchill. As much as I admire Winston Churchill, he was still an imperialist. But your comparison is valid: Churchill kept the UK together until Nazi Germany was vanquished.
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  3917. My theory about the fire extinguishers is that Trevor Jacob always has them strapped to his legs, on or off an aircraft. The reason for this is that he is such a lightweight, he needs something to keep him from floating away.
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  3918. It always amazed me how some gun owners would pay for the gun manufacturers’ lobbyists. When I was a kid, the NRA did a lot of educational outreach and safety training for youths.
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  3919. Low likelihood that he’ll even see this and respond. I realize you want an expert opinion, but it’s not always initially clear who is a credible source (and I consider John Campbell to be credible and trustworthy). You might have to do some research of your own and then using that evaluate the credibility of “expert” sources. The first thing you want to look at is the mechanism of how “treatment X” is supposedly supposed to work on the human body. For example, I did some research on an anti-parasitical that is being widely touted in some circles as a Covid medicine (both preventative and cure). I discovered that it’s widely used treatment for worms, lice, and other parasites, especially in those parts of the world where these parasites are prevalent. The mechanism is this: it’s a neurotoxin that attacks the nervous system of tiny critters like lice and worms. The effective doses are low enough that they don’t normally have an affect on the human (or animal) nervous system. However, I also could NOT find any mechanism by which it would have any effect whatsoever on viruses. Absolutely none. Neurotoxins have no effect on viruses because . . . Viruses don’t have nervous systems. There was information about its used to prevent Malaria, BUT . . . It was being used for mosquito control, a major parasite vehicle for malaria, not directly attack the virus. So despite the glowing claims from some, this medication sadly didn’t pan out. What studies that have been done have been inconclusive, and since there is no scientific reason why it would work as an antiviral, there isn’t much interest in the scientific community. As I said, it’s already in wide use throughout the world, so it has been studied for its intended use. But I’ve got a success story, too. Vitamin D, specifically Vitamin D3. My research there was much more fruitful. It’s a well known component of human metabolism, it’s interactions with other metabolic systems is understood. D3 deficiency is understood, (and is slowly being linked to increased Covid infection risk). (This research is how I found this channel, by the way.) A few other key things I learned: There is no harm in taking D3 up to some pretty high doses. If it doesn’t actually help, it won’t hurt. It’s not highly expensive. These are two key things in my search for ways to minimize risk of infection (and hopefully, lessening of symptoms if I do become infected). 1) “won’t hurt, might help”, 2) reasonable cost. So I suggest to you to first research glutathione’s specific mechanism(s). Not claims, but how it is actually supposed to work, what interactions it is having with the body. If there have been scientific studies, the studies might describe this mechanism or function. If there is no plausible mechanism, ask yourself, 1) if this doesn’t help, will it hurt?, and 2) is it a great waste of money or a trivial one? Also, there might be other benefits that are not Covid related to take into consideration. Good luck, and don’t give up hope if a supplement or substance doesn’t pan out. Move on and keep researching.
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  3920. Oh, look, Tailgunner Joe’s ghost.
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  3921.  @kkeegan369  Yup. And there’s probably a second troll taking an opposite and extremist opinion. They work in teams to escalate and sow division.
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  3922.  @thierryfucus8697  That was covered in the video. Those vitamins are not effective wrt COVID-19, but benefit ones health in general. So, sorry if that’s not what you wanted to hear, but carry on anyway, since improving your general health is always a good idea.
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  3923.  @RedTitan5  At least they will finally be part of something decent.
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  3924. Agreed. Although there is a logic to making the threat against artillery soldiers that target civilians. It should also be noted that the threat was made by special forces, not the main Ukrainian military. If they’re raiding behind enemy lines . . . well, I’m of the opinion that they should still capture prisoners, but I get that it’s not always possible.
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  3925. Imagine using real jewelry as prop jewelry, and allowing crew members to wear it in between takes because they were bored. Totally understandable?
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  3926. Your mind is a pretzel, and that’s not a compliment.
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  3927. We did in 2020, but the dirt keeps trying to push back through the door.
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  3928. You misspelled shitler
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  3929. So what do you think are the implications of population decline? Do you agree with Pete’s conclusions? Why or why not?
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  3930.  @j.e.k.6014 Those are guideposts, but non-viable today could be viable tomorrow (or in ten years). That said, there isn’t (yet) a discovery here. There’s been an experiment. So far the results have not been replicated by other teams AND the original team. There are a number of possible reasons for this. 1) The original team’s experiment was flawed and there’s nothing there, 2) there is something there, but nobody understands exactly what it is, 3) and so on. The point is, we’re not even at the point of determining viability.
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  3931.  @AlphaAurora  and a Pepsi.
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  3932. You’re repeating lies and you’re actively working to destroy democracy.
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  3933.  @Watermelon_Man92  Yes. If capitalism is like an engine, it’s going to have different requirements under different conditions, especially extreme conditions. It’s just like with a car needing a different motor oil for extreme cold than it does during normal temperatures. Unfortunately, there is a tendency among some conservatives to worship capitalism as if it were a religion, rather than treat it as it is: an engine that powers society. They worship an “ideal engine” that will never exist under real conditions.
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  3934.  @kevinw4267 She probably wrecked her eyes by reading too much. What fool thought it would be a good idea to teach women to read?
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  3935. Funny people was written by Judd Apatow, no? I think that was the first Adam Sandler movie I watched the whole way through. I really enjoyed his performance. He was both funny and dramatic. His character had depth. Hate is a strong word, but I kind of hated him before that movie. I didn’t much like him on SNL.
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  3936.  @roberttaylor3594  That’s what I was thinking might be possible. Enclaves are not a bad thing if there is social movement and respect. I didn’t know about the high real estate prices, which could put a kink in things. You don’t want your enclaves to be impoverished ghettos which will cause isolation, social problems, and hinder social movement. The “melting pot” concept of U.S. immigration is only partly true. I’m from L.A., which is one of the more multi-cultural cities in the U.S. Los Angeles is not a soup of different ethnicities mixed together. It’s a stew with chunks of ethnic cultures to give it flavor. (And sometimes the flavors clash, sometimes they complement each other, but I don’t want to take the analogy too far.) It wasn’t always like this. It happened over decades. Different minority groups suffered from prejudice at different times, there has been conflict between different communities (and there still is). But those communities also learned to be mutually supportive in fighting for their rights. I don’t want to sound like a liberal, but I want to point out why people come to Los Angeles from other countries to begin with: freedom and economic opportunity—generally more of it than in the places from where they came, even if what they found here wasn’t perfect freedom and opportunity. They don’t come to the U.S. because we are socialist. They come because we are capitalist and free. I think the U.S. could benefit from more immigration. That might sound funny coming from a conservative, but conservatism in the U.S. has become tainted, and has transformed into something else. From what Pete says, I imagine Canada could benefit from more immigration as well. It was interesting that Pete only mentioned the First Nations once and obliquely when he said “native” was a loaded word. How do the original inhabitants of Canada fit into the picture? Are they so few as to not be a big factor in Canadian society?
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  3937. In Soviet Putin, losing celebrates you!!
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  3938. Its very much a Soviet term. Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin all used the phrase in their violent campaigns to repress and terrorize the populace. I don’t know to what degree Hitler used it. From what I recall, he referred to his biggest scapegoats as akin to rats and pestilence. I know that he used a phrase for the press that is the Nazi equivalent of fake news, the “lying press”. While it is chilling to hear this phrase used by an American President (which is why they use it), it reveals the weakness and fragility behind the Authoritarian mindset, the desperation to hide the nullity at their core and shield it from the light.
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  3939.  @dinosaurdude5668  Politics kept coal alive. Pete is right, Manchin and McConnell kept it alive, but it wasn’t through their “gravitas”. It was because both were effective politicians with decades of experience. That coal coalition bridged the gap between Democrats and Republicans. This lead to a lot of other bipartisan cooperation. That bipartisan cooperation on other important issues strengthened the importance of Manchin and McConnell as deal makers. It’s sounds funny to say it, but the functioning government we used to enjoy was coal powered! I don’t blame “woke politics”. I blame divisive politics and the current propensity of the GOP to elect maga clowns, both the bomb throwers and the incompetent bench sitters that campaign as maga politicians loyal to Trump. Here’s the thing about the Dems’ woke politics: the Democrat’s own bomb throwing socialists were few and marginalized. The majority of liberal Dems were always closer to conservative Republicans than they were to the leftist fringe. You could say the same about the Republicans. They were closer to the liberals than the loony extreme right. And for over 30 years this is how conservative politicians advanced conservatism, even under Democrat presidents.
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  3940.  @babelhuber3449  Immigration would solve a lot of U.S. problems, but it’s become a political issue rather than an economic one. It’s a perfectly good tool that is completely off the table.
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  3941. Sanctions aren’t a deterrent, threat of sanctions are a deterrent. Maybe it’s time the Russian people start caring about what happens to them, if their leaders don’t care.
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  3942. What are you looking at, you silly humans? I meant to do that. It was refreshing.
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  3943.  @kaintudigit1599  strength in hashtags? That should be the slogan of the maga insurgency.
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  3944.  @amoliski Two Cornthinians walk into a bar. . .
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  3945. DBallz11d lol, as if it never occurred to anyone before to cross breed horses and burros after millennia of domestication of both animals.
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  3946. You worked this out all by yourself?!! Wow!
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  3947. “Go ahead” famous last words. 😫
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  3948. Operation Rings around Uranus. Not my anus.
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  3949. GTA VI
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  3950.  @johncart2082  You’ve misunderstood the statistics. You have a 99.95% of not dying, based on the original, not the variants. Rate of recovery from Covid is much less clear. What you’re telling me is that you 1) don’t care about vulnerable people in your community, and 2) are willing to risk long term debilitation just to avoid the vaccine. Are you that frightened of needles? Or just that foolish?
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  3951.  @aileenhindley5964  While you’re gazing at the geography of Nebraska, might I recommend listening to Bruce Springsteen’s album, Nebraska.
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  3952. She wasn’t a spy. To lobby for a foreign country, you have to register as a foreign agent. It’s a crime not to register, and a bigger crime to attempt to hide it. If she had registered as a foreign agent, she could have worked without breaking the law.
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  3953.  @Aboertmann  This election gave me a better opinion of Bernie Sanders than 2016 did. He really went to battle for Biden. He did it enthusiastically. I’ll be honest with you: I’m right-of-center, what used to be called conservative before that word got twisted. Normally, I would not support Sanders on progressive policy (which I assume, you do support). Take medical care, as an example. We’ve done things the conservative way for years and it didn’t work. ACA sort of worked, but was impeded by the GOP. I don’t know if adding a public option to ACA would be better than M4A or the other way around, but I’m willing to listen. The point is, because we’ve joined together to battle the anti-democratic forces of Trumpism/GOP fascism, we owe it to each other to hear one another out and to keep an open mind. Even with Trump on his way out the door, the battle is far from over. Let’s keep fighting together in Georgia, in 2022, 2024, and beyond.
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  3954.    What is old is new again. This was debunked months and months ago, but it keeps popping back up because pandemic deniers, minimizers, and conspiracy theorists can’t take in evidence that their theories are wrong.
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  3955. My dog picked up a nervous licking habit which produced sores on her haunches and legs. A neighbor (who keeps sheep and chicken in his yard) suggested “gentian violeta” before I went to the vet. It worked very well, and after “fireworks season” passed, she gave up the habit (until the next one, lol). She would also try to hide under the bed when I wasn’t home, which was both pitiful and comical as she was too large to fit underneath.
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  3956.  @sunspot42  100% correct that the value will be recovered when the bonds reach maturity.
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  3957. You shouldn’t need calcifediol if you’re already taking Vitamin D3. Calcifediol was used in the study to treat patients already infected with Covid being admitted to hospital. Time was of essence. If you’ve already been taking vitamin D3, you don’t need to switch.
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  3958. It’s wishcasting. It’s possible, but highly improbable. Among the improbabilities is a military mutiny among the soldiers. There won’t be an overthrow before Russia loses in Ukraine, if it loses.
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  3959. When I was shopping online for vitamin D-3, it went out of stock a few minutes after I put it in my shopping cart. Then it reappeared at a higher price. I swore at myself for not using the “buy now” button! However, the price was higher than for a equivalent product, so I bought that one right away (and received it promptly). A short while later, and after my order was confirmed, I checked back and both items were out of stock! So, yeah, there was definitely a run on vitamin D-3!
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  3960. I cringed a bit during Harris’s economic speech. There’s a lot of things in it that I would pick apart. Other things demand clarification, and some parts of her program are sensible and needed. But I set all that aside. My policy differences pale in comparison to the monstrosity of a second Trump presidency and Project 2025. After we elect her, and defeat the maga Hannibal Lecter, we can debate the policy.
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  3961. 1) He’s talked about Milei in other videos. 2) This video was recorded prior to Milei’s election. Note the season in the video.
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  3962. Seems that way. The party is torn in two. The extreme right wing faction might have captured the majority of the GOP, but they’ll never again regain national power without the moderates, “moderate conservatives”, and pro-democracy conservatives. This is probably why they’re so willing to use violence to maintain power.
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  3963. I never thought a woke game could be so exciting and fun. These two woke teams were well matched, and victory was in contention down to the final touch down
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  3964.  @ashcarrier6606  And how many tanks can Russia produce or upgrade with completely domestically produced components once their stockpile of foreign sourced components is gone? Foreign sourced components is also one of the reasons we’re not seeing T-14 Armatas in Ukraine. (The terrible engine design is another. That is an incredible story.)
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  3965. Without singing? Sure, I can do it, but I’d sing anyway because my heart is filled with song, especially when I am drunk.
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  3966.  @x77punk77x  Hey punk, you got two years in me. 79 was the first year I heard the Clash. That might have been true once that boomers were likelier to patronize brick and mortars (because they wanted the “shopping experience” and being catered to), but it’s not the same since the pandemic. But in this case, we’re talking about a musician. Whether the guy is a boomer or not, and whether his bad experience was pre pandemic or not, he’s a frikkin musician. He’s cheap. I mean thrifty. But his comment is so Karenish, he’s got to be a boomer. The sheer depravity of that clerk ruining the OP’s favorite leisure activity!
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  3967. Ask him about welds.
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  3968.  @katehobbs2008  Yes, but it would have taken the cops 5-10 minutes on the phone to discover that this was a civil dispute, not a criminal case. So 50% a malicious person making a false report of stolen property and 50% lazy or incompetent policing.
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  3969.  @deborahhalnon5202  All the other holidays are based on physical laws? Are they found in nature? 🤣 jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, they are ALL man made holidays.
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  3970.  @glencmac  eh, the GOP congressional leadership wanted $0. The Dems barely managed to squeeze out $600 from McConnell. If Trump really wanted $2000 stimulus payments, he would have gotten out of bed and put a little pressure on the Senate Republicans over the past two months. The point is that the GOP wanted $0 stimulus payments. Multiple Republican senators are on record saying that any relief money at all would disincentivize Americans from working, like we are all lazy bums and there are millions of unfilled jobs. Direct payments were such an issue for Senate Republicans that when the “problem solvers” bipartisan group released their framework, they didn’t even bother with including stimulus payments. It’s a minor miracle that they arrived at the $600 compromise. And where was Trump? Hiding in bed, nursing his hurt feefees about losing the election, plotting to overturn it.
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  3971. Apparently they don’t make an adult infant size. You want your 🤯 ? Can you imagine if the virus was spread through farts? Thousands of free-dumb fighters would be flooding the streets with their bottoms exposed. They’d be calling the rest of us “pants wearing sheep” and whining that anti-nudity laws are socialist.
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  3972. We thought they believed in capitalism and property rights, too. But they block, invade, and threaten businesses with mask policies, even when the businesses make accommodations to serve their supposed needs. It’s childish, infantile, and selfish, but taken to such an extreme level that it’s clinically insane. I’m a conservative. I don’t recognize the beliefs of these babies as being conservative in any real sense. It’s just a label to them, a team identity fronting for fascism.
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  3973. LOL, I just imagined Trump trying to give himself the Medal of Honor. He’d talk for an hour about why he deserved it, being such a tremendous guy. Brag, brag, brag. Then he’d “accept” the honor, followed by another hour of his blithering braggadocio. (He’d note that this award was with “Double Distinction”, “something no one in the world has ever seen before”, that he deserved “double distinction because he was the best . . . Brag brag brag. So I laugh at the ridiculous image I conjured up. Trumps ridiculousness no longer matters. True, he can still thrash about and do damage, but Trump has suddenly become . . . Inconsequential. He doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what he thinks. It matters even less what his supporters think.
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  3974. I’m very glad to hear you’re doing well! I have a point of confusion wrt to dosage requirements. It’s not a crucial question, since one can take fairly high dosages without ill effects, even if most of those high dosages are not being absorbed. But the question is this: what are the minimum dosage requirements and how can they be detected? My understanding is that vitamin supplements not absorbed by the body are eliminated. I see this when I pee. My urine is much brighter and darker. When I’m drinking plenty of water, my urine is lighter. Not enough, it’s darker. In neither case is it brighter, as when I’m taking vitamin supplements. The brightness is NOT a concern. I understand that it means I’m getting more than enough. More to the point, I’ve started taking 2000 IU daily of D3 in gel capsule form, and my pee is brighter. Am I correct that this is a good indication that I’m getting sufficient a sufficient amount (without getting laboratory tests to see if I have sufficient or deficient levels). Anyway, I am thinking of trying to get everyone on my street on vitamin D3. I live in a working class neighborhood in Mexico. I’m already buying surgical masks for several families here, and I hand out masks to maskless people on the street. Currently there is a lot of unemployment here due to Covid, and the economic situation is even more precarious than what we are suffering in the U.S. The pandemic has hit my street pretty hard: 8 people that I know of have died, many others are gravely sick. I know there’s variation from person to person in D3 deficiency, thus there’s variation in minimum effective doses. The supplemental capsules I’m taking are inexpensive for me, a single person with regular income. But it adds up if I’m going to be buying sufficient capsules for 60 people. This is the reason I’m asking, and I hope someone can give me some insight.I’m very glad to hear you’re doing well! I have a point of confusion wrt to dosage requirements. It’s not a crucial question, since one can take fairly high dosages without ill effects, even if most of those high dosages are not being absorbed. But the question is this: what are the minimum dosage requirements and how can they be detected? My understanding is that vitamin supplements not absorbed by the body are eliminated. I see this when I pee. My urine is much brighter and darker. When I’m drinking plenty of water, my urine is lighter. Not enough, it’s darker. In neither case is it brighter, as when I’m taking vitamin supplements. The brightness is NOT a concern. I understand that it means I’m getting more than enough. More to the point, I’ve started taking 2000 IU daily of D3 in gel capsule form, and my pee is brighter. Am I correct that this is a good indication that I’m getting sufficient a sufficient amount (without getting laboratory tests to see if I have sufficient or deficient levels). Anyway, I am thinking of trying to get everyone on my street on vitamin D3. I live in a working class neighborhood in Mexico. I’m already buying surgical masks for several families here, and I hand out masks to maskless people on the street. Currently there is a lot of unemployment here due to Covid, and the economic situation is even more precarious than what we are suffering in the U.S. The pandemic has hit my street pretty hard: 8 people that I know of have died, many others are gravely sick. I know there’s variation from person to person in D3 deficiency, thus there’s variation in minimum effective doses. The supplemental capsules I’m taking are inexpensive for me, a single person with regular income. But it adds up if I’m going to be buying sufficient capsules for 60 people. This is the reason I’m asking, and I hope someone can give me some insight.
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  3975. Don’t go. There is a surplus of Russian prostitutes, so you won’t find any work.
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  3976. All my cheesy Vietnam movies start with “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield. (There’s something happening here/What it is ain’t exactly clear)
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  3977. Nah, he felt fear first, and then anger as a reaction to that fear. The fear might just be a blip or it might continue longer, but it’s almost always there before the anger hits. Think back over your own experiences, or, next time you get a physical anger reaction (in a non emergency situation, of course) try to stop a moment to determine the trigger of the response. It might be a small thing, but if you’re aware of it, it can guide you to make better decisions.
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  3978.  @chip67art  Who you gonna believe? It’s her word against I take the fifth.
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  3979. What about the working class people in Cancun that they infected along the way? Yeah, that’s real class solidarity.
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  3980. Oh, man, this big wire broke off of that pole over yonder. Help me pick it up, why don’t you? Someone might trip over it.
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  3981.  @bellavita1323  Thank you. I was thinking they wouldn’t go where there wasn’t food. I wonder to what extent drought and fire over the last decade has led the wild rodent population to shift into suburban and x-urban areas.
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  3982.  @thierryfucus8697  Can you explain the mechanism by which an anti-parasite treatment works as an antiviral? Ivermectin works on parasites because it’s a neurotoxin safe to humans at low doses. It literally poisons parasites, but isn’t strong enough to affect the human host. What exactly does it do that might make it a possible anti viral treatment? Vitamin D’s mechanism is well known. It’s already a natural component of our metabolism. The body manufactures it. Vitamin D3 is actually a hormone that acts at the cellular level. There’s solid science behind Vitamin D3 in general, prior to Covid 19. It’s not a medication, it’s a supplement to help our natural winter and dietary deficiencies.
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  3983. And if it’s the welds blowing out, that means their welders aren’t getting full penetration.
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  3984.  @donlod322 do you understand that there isn’t an “authority” in international waters? There is international law in international waters. That set of laws is the “authority” when they are upheld by the nations of the world.
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  3985.  @pottiesinpittsburgh  In Q-world. It’s like the twilight zone, except it’s completely fictional.
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  3986. Or worse, do what the kings of England did to those they considered treasonous.
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  3987. No.
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  3988. Millions. 😖
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  3989. Are you under colonization? Who is currently colonizing you?
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  3990. Someone posted a comment that got deleted that asked TGA to discuss “hyper nationalism” and Banderas. I wrote a reply but could not post it due to the comment being deleted. Here it is: In any case, it seems that Putin’s “de-Nazification” of Ukraine was a pure pretext for a criminal invasion, unless one believes that children, mothers, fleeing refugees, the homes, hospitals, churches, museums, etc. are all Nazi and must be destroyed. Putin’s campaign is revealed to be the total destruction of a nation and a people. To judge by the actions and not the lying words, Putin believes that the very existence of Ukrainian people is an expression of Naziism. He’s demonstrated to the world what his “final solution of the Ukrainian Nazi Problem” will be. Whether Bandera is a Nazi or not is irrelevant at this juncture, because Putin has defined Naziism as anything that stands in his way. Banderas can be debated after Putin’s army is thrown out of Ukraine (or after WWIII if it comes to it).
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  3991.  @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095  CE and BCE have been used by historians and archaeologists for decades, not a few years.
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  3992.  @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095  You don’t know what AD means, do you?
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  3993. But he will enforce trespassing, so if you’re asked to leave and you refuse, you will be arrested.
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  3994.  @jazzcatt  Betamax was a pretty good format for amateur shooting and editing. Not as robust as 3/4”, but more robust than VHS. You’d still have to copy your finished product onto VHS if you wanted anyone to see it, however.
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  3995.  @thegreyavenger2  The DUI is a separate case for the state court. She was penalized by the federal judge for violating her release because of the DUI. I don’t know whether or not the DUI has already been adjudicated, but the penalty will be separate if she was or will be convicted. I don’t know what her pre trial release orders were. They’re basically “stay out of trouble”, and sometimes a judge can order a person to not drink. You might say, “that’s dumb, the judge has no way to check if a person isn’t drinking”. The judge does if the person gets a dui.
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  3996. Semana Santa (Holy Week) is a bfd among Latinos in the U.S. so it’s not just the one day we have to worry about.
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  3997.  @looinrims  In 1941 Russian industrial capacity was moving at a fast pace—loaded into trains moving east.
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  3998.  Admiral Tiberius  I was going to say, if I was a Russian tanker, I wouldn’t want the commissar to catch me extolling the virtues of my lend-lease tank made by dirty corrupt capitalists.
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  3999. Dead or alive
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  4000.  @MyButtercup  Solar radiation has apparently affected your mind’s febrility. I’m curious about something, though. Does being completely ignorant of science give a person a lot of free time to post inane comments? Or is it not so much cause/effect?
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  4001. The fact that some NATO member states’ foreign policy is not in lockstep with the majority of NATO member states is actually a good thing, imo. Dissent from a majority view is not a bad thing.
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  4002. The People’s Republic of China has even less claim, as Taiwan was never part of the PRC, and the PRC doesn’t claim to be an extension of the Chinese Empire.
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  4003.  @PhilLesh69  “Boris, we’ve got to get some old issues of Field and Stream within the next 24 hours!” ”Why is that, Ivan?” “The boss wants us to leave magazines containing ammo in the subject’s apartment.”
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  4004. I don’t think I’d want to purchase a home in a HOA community, but I think that (probably) the majority of them aren’t that bad. We hear about the nightmares, not the well run HOAs. However, I wouldn’t want to get locked into even a well run HOA because you never know what might happen in the future. My parents bought a vacation beach house in an HOA, and AFAIK they never had problems. It was going to be their retirement home someday. But when my mom died, my dad sold it. It was less than a mile inland on a terraced hill with a great view of the Pacific Ocean. There was a private parking lot near the beach, but we kids usually just walked on the footpaths that wound through the community. I have no idea what the monthly fee was, but it couldn’t have been cheap. The HOA took care of all the front yards, the aforementioned footpaths, the community center, and the security guards.
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  4005. Aren’t online classes still an option?
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  4006. Moron mispronounced his own name!
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  4007. Weaver confessed to all the allegations and made a half-assed apology. He’s admitted his guilt.
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  4008.  @michaeldrone520  False. If you are trespassing and refuse to leave, the business is allowed to physically remove you. Have you never seen a bouncer at a bar?
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  4009. The mutation occurs during the replication process of a single virus. During replication, there is a genetic transcription error that changes in one of the child viruses, and that child virus replicates so that all its children have the new form. If the new form is more fit for survival, it will outcompete the old form and eventually crowd out the old form. And yes, the new form (aka variant) is subject to mutation via transcription errors. That said, there is an effective upper limit to mutations because viruses have only have so many chromosomes to work with. The number of potential mutations is high, but the number of effective mutations (leading to viruses more fit for survival) is much lower. Most mutations don’t lead to greater survival.
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  4010. It was over too quickly. But even so, I don’t put too much trust in the Good Guy with a Gun scenario. Most people carrying, whether legally or not, don’t have the training to respond without putting others at risk. They might think they do, but that sort of overconfidence in their own competence is part of the danger they represent.
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  4011.  @JoshuaHopkins-j9o It is true. You’re the one who is lying.
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  4012.  @barrylane1055  I’m unfamiliar with Darya Massicot, but I’ve heard Bronk on several different channels. One of the things about evaluating the suitability of aircraft for potential roles is to look at the total package, not just an individual aircraft’s fighting capabilities. Logistics, maintenance, sustainment, and non-combat capabilities are hugely important factors. This is why Gripen has strong advocacy. It ticks a lot of the boxes that sustain an aircraft’s ability to play a decisive role, boxes that the F-16 (for example) does not. I suggest that anyone curious about or concerned with Ukrainian air power look for videos about the Gripen’s suitability for Ukraine. (I assume you’ve already seen these videos and understand all the benefits of the Gripen’s total package.)
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  4013. About 15 or so years ago I was investigating a possible motorcycle trip from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. One cannot even pass through it on a bike. You need to put your bike on a ferry from Panama to Colombia. The Panamerican Highway stops at the Chucunaque River. After that it’s miles of dubious footpaths through the jungle, across rivers that might have had the bridge washed out due to the frequent flash floods.
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  4014. I take it that you’re too young to remember the end of history? It’s OK, I barely remember it myself. I vaguely remember it smelled like AOL.
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  4015. I lived in Oakland for a few months 46 years ago. Some parts were really nice, like up in the hills. Some parts were pretty damn rough.
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  4016. Appropriately named county.
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  4017. Financial collapse porn.
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  4018. Torin Jones good point, but also the British strategy there was to GTFO as quickly as they could hand indochina back to the French.
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  4019.  @fyne.living  The point of getting a bond is that you don’t have the liquid assets, so you put up your non-liquid assets as collateral for the bond money. And apparently no bank or other such institution is willing to put up the money, probably because they don’t trust Trump’s valuations of his property. How funny would it be if Trump fraudulently falsified the values of his property on his bond application? 😂
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  4020. In this scenario, they’re not worried we can hurt them. They’re worried that we’re bait in a trap constructed by a more technologically advanced species.
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  4021. Why doesn’t anyone want nuclear? Because hippies?
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  4022. The problem is when we use the military for nation building in places we are not welcome. There are plenty of developing countries that would be happy to accept our aid if invasion and occupation wasn’t part of the equation. Sadly, very few of these countries have oil.
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  4023. They’re raising their recruitment bonuses again, too. I guess the casualty rates are making it back to the hinterlands.
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  4024. We’ve already got plenty. I don’t think more will make a difference. What America needs is more firearm training.
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  4025. I’m pretty sure they don’t sell rocket launchers at the mall, so even if you had a receipt, I’m not sure that you could track it back to the mall. Russia is basing its attacks against civilian targets on Yelp reviews, the higher the review, the higher priority target it becomes.
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  4026.  @swamp365  OK, I started at Wikipedia, and then did some outside reading. Brock is not going to be subject to UCMJ because he retired from the reserve, not active duty. Retired active duty service members is something confusing me. Even though they are recallable, retirement pay is not considered an retainer that keeps their status active. It’s deferred pay for work done pre separation. Speaking of separation, there’s some wiggle room, but afaict, not months or years. Not entirely sure here, but I think this applies to noncoms. Active duty retired Commissioned officers are still subject UCMJ?
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  4027. Or on purpose. You know, to improve morale.
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  4028. Your teacher was talking about martial arts, which is a sport, and (probably) personal defense. He wasn’t talking about war. There are similarities between competitive sports and war. Both involve adversaries in contention, each trying to win. And each adversary will (hopefully) leverage its strengths (size, endurance, skill, physical strength) to win. But the differences are too large to apply your teacher’s lesson to war. Maybe it applies to the tactical level, but it falls short as you move up to higher levels. And the main difference is this: in competitive sport, you and your adversary are fighting for the same goal, to win a game. If you don’t achieve a better score (or pin or knock out your opponent), you lose. There are other differences (rules, time limits, agreed upon dimensions of the area), but this is the main one. In war, the two adversaries often are fighting for different goals. I’ll go so far as to say they almost always are fighting for different goals. If one side fails to understand this and fails to understand their adversary’s goals (including the reasons for those goals), they will misapply their advantages and/or their advantages don’t really apply. Size or firepower don’t win the war if you fail to understand your adversary and his goals and motivations. What about self defense? Isn’t that a much closer analogy? It is, but it still falls short. You and your adversary have different goals, but the goals are quite easy to understand. Your adversary wants to harm you or rob you. You want to prevent him from harming or robbing you. Strength, size, and/or superior firepower are paramount in self defense. Your teacher was motivating you to develop your skills, to put in the work required to perfect them, to practice, and to improve your physical body. He was training you in a sport that also has self defense applications, up to a point. But if he was only training you for self defense and nothing more, he’d be a firearms instructor. 😂
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  4029.  @SpectatorAlius  I don’t think you can say he’s promoting it or advising people to take it, he’s pushing for keeping an open mind wrt to ivermectin. It’s cheap, and it’s safe —at mortal dosages for its intended purpose. For other purposes, such as helping the body’s defenses, we don’t know for sure what an effective dose would be or even if it’s effective at all. He’s NEVER once advised anyone to take it, and he has NEVER EVER suggested it as a credible alternative to vaccination.
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  4030.  @dhuckbourning7165  it’s called reductio absurdum. It’s the technique of disproving a statement by showing how it leads to illogical conclusions.
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  4031. Checking for fever is checking for symptoms of illness, not whether or not one’s body is a suitable environment for the virus. A high temperature is an indication you have a fever, and if you have a fever, you might have been infected by the COVID virus.
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  4032.  @Itallnew  LOL, Is the last chapter of The Art of the Deal about whining?
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  4033. That’s incorrect. Some prehistoric HG peoples stored food in caches, and some prepared, dried, and stored food, taking it with them from camp to camp. This predates sedentary and semi-sedentary HG life ways. Keep in mind that prehistoric hunter-gatherers also had seasons. 🌞 ❄️ 💨 🌧 😄
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  4034.  @alexmclean760  Romans? You’re probably thinking of Alexander the Great, who was Macedonian/Greek. The Romans never made it that far.
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  4035.  @timw8649  He’s off on a tangent. I don’t know if the tangent is based on facts or not (tbh, it sounds about right 😖), but it’s not directly related to the case that the Polk County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.
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  4036. Modem/router. In the U.S., this is provided by your ISP.
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  4037.  @karlsokalski4234  The truth is that they didn’t put very much work or research into this video. I think it’s quite likely the writers don’t know how to pronounce the words, either. Their understanding of the Mexican Revolution is Wikipedia level.
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  4038.  @B3Band  your car or truck also many components made in Mexico. Similarly, when someone buys a car or truck made in Mexico, many parts and components are made in the U.S. The automotive business has created a cross border supply chain that has benefited both countries. All these Chinese companies are investing in Mexican manufacturing to make a profit, but the Communist Chinese government is not receiving all the revenue from these new ventures. One fun/sad fact (depending where you live), you can buy a Toyota Hi-Lux in Mexico. In the U.S., not so much.
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  4039.  @LizziesLukas  Name a car manufacturer that sells cars in the U.S. and 95% chance they have manufacturing plants in Mexico. You’ve heard of Ford? Yeah, they’re here.
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  4040.  @Levitiy  You’re correct that there is no Mexican “brand” of car, but you’re totally speaking from ignorance if you don’t think Mexico has car assembly lines. Seriously, do ten minutes of research before you say things like that.
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  4041. The voters threw the prosecutor in question out of office at the next election. She’s been indicted by a grand jury for a related matter, and the investigation is ongoing.
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  4042. How much of a refund do you think you’d get?
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  4043. Don’t forget the atole! Try the traditional Mexican flavor of cookies-n-cream. 😆
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  4044.  @rllapte  it’s not so much a projection of reality as “confidently expressed opinion”. The trick is to understand that some of Pete’s opinions are expert opinions and some are just opinions (albeit opinions with some thought backing it up, and not just “some A-hole’s opinion”. I wouldn’t call him delusional, even if/when he is wrong.
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  4045. No, he doesn’t.
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  4046. You’re wrong.
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  4047.  @ThatOpalGuy  Drink!
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  4048. What I love about Pete is that he moves out of the safe zone when he proffers his opinions. I don’t mean his opinions are radical, but that he’s not afraid to risk being wrong. I think of him as the daredevil of geopolitics. 😀
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  4049.  @yessica5231  No preocupes, Yess. We can give them to Costa Rica at the next Christmas Party.
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  4050. Thank you for your input, General Greg Olas. You honor us with your strategic genius.
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  4051. Nobody wants to make a baby with you, so this is a bullshit hypothetical.
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  4052. It’s an opinion question and that was Ray Liotta’s opinion. I’d be curious about his reasons for saying Eastwood is overrated, which maybe he discussed. But I can already guess at a possible reason. Eastwood doesn’t have much range. He plays and replays the same personality—and Eastwood does have a charismatic personality to be sure. No one is ever going to say that Clint Eastwood disappears into a role. So I get why someone would say he is overrated as an actor. I happen to love The Unforgiven. The role suits Eastwood perfectly and vice versa. But the talent on display is really Eastwood’s directing (for which he has received deserved accolades). Eastwood’s acting in the movie isn’t terrible, but it’s not truly great, either. It does what it’s supposed to do, which is move the story forward and keep the audience engaged. It’s Eastwood’s charisma that has led to his fame, not his acting. In a way he’s not that much different than John Wayne, who refused roles that wouldn’t fit his brand.
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  4053. If we had free access to nuclear weapons, as guaranteed by the Constitution, we’d find the money to treat mental health problems. Believe me, it would become a top priority over night. Also, we’d all behave more courteously and respectfully to one another.
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  4054.  @rwedereyet  The more petri dishes, the greater the number of individual viruses replicating, the greater chance of worse variants arising. We are the Petri dishes.
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  4055.  @chrisf8584  German domestic and foreign policy is outside the scope of U.S. K-12 education. The press does cover it, but generally you have to make an effort to learn about it. Perhaps you mean that U.S. domestic and foreign policy and the workings of government isn’t covered by U.S. media. That is, of course, a completely ludicrous claim. You just haven’t bothered to learn in school or to find the serious sources fit for a thinking person. If you didn’t realize there were serious sources because no one told you, now you know.
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  4056. It might be impossible to rid oneself of all bias. I think the best we can do is to constantly search for them within ourselves, weeding out what is truly virulent, and adjusting others as necessary. A bias can merely be a preference, it can cloud our judgement, and in some cases a bias can fill us with hate. But most important is that first step of recognizing that we all have biases (and assumptions and paradigms).
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  4057. But where did they buy the beef jerky and canoes?
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  4058.  @2639theboss  This is a very important, if not the most important, reason why the dollar is trusted as a reserve currency. The Fed sets monetary policy (i.e., intervenes or manipulates) TRANSPARENTLY. It announces what it is doing and what it is planning to do. It explains what it is doing and why. People might not like any particular action, but most (except for a few cranks) trust the Fed. I don’t see the Chinese being similarly transparent. First of all, they’d have to come clean on what they have been doing. They risk their whole house of cards falling down. Second of all, the Chinese government operates like a closely held company. They are the biggest investor in Chinese business. The PRC is like a holding company, and the CCP is its board of directors. Transparency would reveal too much about their operations.
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  4059. I wish these studies would also explore latitude variation at greater detail. Good luck to you! Incidentally, I ♥️ West Texas. The finest, most neighborly people I have met on God’s green earth were in West Texas. Like the biblical Good Samaritan, I was assisted by the good people of Balmorea when I was in need. And I was literally sheltered from the cold by a family in Langtry during a winter storm. God bless West Texas.
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  4060.  @Bubba-wx7lp  don’t mess with his ghoulish fantasies.
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  4061. The link between 2021 and 2024 is that some sort of depilatory can be useful for either.
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  4062. It’s possible. It’s also possible that the FAA retrieved the aircraft, not Jacob. It’s possible that he retrieved it, but that the FAA is in possession. However, I’ll put this out there: if the FAA released the wreckage based on false statements made by Trevor Jacob, that brings up the question of spoliation of evidence. If that’s the case, that’s more potential criminal charges.
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  4063. They want to own the libs . . . literally.
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  4064. George Soros made you late for work again. George Soros burned the roast. George Soros made you spill your beer. George Soros made you forget your son’s little league game. That George Soros is at it again. He’s always interfering with you, a member of the party of personal responsibility.
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  4065. Your Kremlin channels?
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  4066. The SNL skit wasn’t as good, through no fault of their own.
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  4067.  @SignalCorps1  the natural resources part I got, but the other part is that Argentina is so screwed due to screwing up repeatedly, things can’t get much worse. It’s more like the rest of the world is dropping to the Argentinian standard or worse.
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  4068. Like you, I am looking forward to many congressional hearings and a ton of grandstanding about this. Hopefully MTG will head up the committee because that would be hilarious.
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  4069. You’ve met your father’s gay? What was that like.
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  4070. Autumn has rains and mud, winter has snow and frozen ground. It might not be as bad as the spring thaw, but it will make vehicles road bound.
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  4071. In this case, really cheap. He didn’t need to pay a speech writer, he just opened up a box of fortune cookies.
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  4072. Not really POWs. More like PO-Special Operations, no?
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  4073.  @wboyle9721  there’s a super interesting article on viruses (in general), their origin, and the current science in National Geographic.
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  4074. There’s some question whether or not the anti-bodies produced are fully effective in preventing re-infection. There’s already been one case of a person being infected a second time that I read about a few months ago. (I don’t know if there have been other cases or what the follow up was on the first case.) So that’s the main reason for taking the vaccine after you’ve already had the infection. Another reason would be if you were constantly exposing yourself to risky contacts with large groups of people—this is why frontline medical workers are being prioritized.
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  4075. If you mean someone you are or were close to, listen and ask questions that will lead you to common ground. If they start spouting the lies they apparently believe in, say, “Let’s get back to that later,” and focus on your commonalities. You’re trying to open their minds to alternative points of view, but you must get them to see that you can hold different views from theirs while not being their enemy. If it’s not someone you’re close with, forget it. You’ll never be able to open their minds if they don’t want their minds open. Go ahead and argue with them. It’s possible that you will plant a seed of truth in them or others, just not likely. Just don’t expect them to discuss anything intelligently or even in good faith.
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  4076.  @gazinta  It’s not about the numbers of children. The problem is you’re not raising them right if they’re becoming fascists and white nationalists. The problem is you’ve failed to instill critical thinking if they mindlessly believe conspiracy theories.
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  4077. What does Apple need to watch out about? There was an issue with cracked screen replacement that they have addressed.
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  4078.  @buddymacbuddington  Yes, I roam, but you Rush. You Russianed yourself into a helluva own goal by invading Ukraine, vatnik.
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  4079.  @DoctorAustin  or he’s been lucky for 25 years and is courting disaster. That’s the problem with people who take shortcuts—the expedient way seems to work until it doesn’t. The person thinks, “Maybe the safety rule is overkill. Maybe it’s for other people not as smart or skilled as I am?” The more times things work out, the more ingrained the bad habit becomes, until an “accident” occurs with tragic results. This problem goes beyond gun safety. It’s a problem with workplace safety, driving, boating, flying an airplane. Safety protocols are there to provide a margin of safety. Shortcuts shave that margin down, until that day you “run out of runway”, as pilots say.
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  4080. Is Peewee Herman the Russian minister of defense? “I meant to do that!”
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  4081. Good lord, you have an issue with ice cream?
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  4082. Nope, it’s the voters. The majority of voters rejected Trump, the majority of voters in Georgia rejected the GOP, and if they keep it up and God willing, the voters will reform the government in the coming years. We’ve let ourselves down, but we can fix that peacefully and constitutionally with our votes, as we did this past November.
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  4083. Good to see you made it, brah!
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  4084.  @mallorcasun  But it’s all true. You need to read the [REDACTED] Bible, not the King James. Trump is specifically mentioned in the [REDACTED] Bible.
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  4085. The crew safety complaint had to do with short turn around/long days and having to drive an hour home on dark mountain roads. The production had promised hotel rooms and reneged. The D.P. (the one later killed) had tried to negotiate on behalf of her crew, even bargaining away rental equipment (I think a crane) so production could stay in budget. I think concerns were expressed about the A.D., but that had nothing to do with the camera department walking. If you’ve worked on low budget productions as I have, you know just how sloppy some producers are, how much they cut corners, and in some cases, how they cheat their crew. You might also know the difference between the good type of control freak AD that keeps things moving, and the type that pushes the crew too hard, safety be damned. Maybe you’ve heard this old joke about producers: Two producers are walking down the street and they walk by a beautiful woman. After they pass, one says, “I’d like to screw her!” To which the other replies, “Out of what?”
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  4086. Self serving incompetence in addressing COVID, putting children in cages after ripping them from the arms of their parents, and a long litany of other offenses is OK, but lying about the election was a bridge too far? Well, at least she had a line she wouldn’t cross.
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  4087. The explosion happened in the U.S., not Russia. You’re on your own with your stolen elections, Ivan. Complain to the Kremlin.
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  4088. There’s that. There’s also the factor that the Black Sea fleet is not safe, not in Sevastopol and not on the open sea. The Kremlin doesn’t want to risk more warships by sinking or harassing the grain ships. The worry in my mind is that Russia will try to mine the course of the grain ships. Are Turkish minesweepers escorting the grain ships?
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  4089. 🙄 Yes, everything is predictable, so why don’t the politicians prepare for everything?
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  4090. Not after Stalin, but by 1929, Stalin was calling the shots and murdering people in the thousands, eventually in the millions (see Holodomor).
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  4091. This isn’t vicious. This is fucking vicious. My belly wants so much to laugh and laugh, but that tightness in my chest reminds me how serious this is, how that big big belly laugh will have to wait until Trump is out of the White House. Don’t worry, though, I giggled like mad. Superb work, LP folks.
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  4092. You’re pretty damn good at drawing out the pro-fascists.
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  4093. You mean the Venezuelan community? Those are Venezuelan-Americans. They’re already home. Why don’t you go back to Scotland?
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  4094.  @bokicar1  KN95 doesn’t have valves. They look like dust masks, but are able to filter out micro droplets. People who claim that the mask mesh is too wide for the virus are mot taking into account that its airborne transmission is via micro droplets.
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  4095. I’m sympathetic but no. There was very little in the debate that is indirectly within the purview of this channel, and nothing directly related.
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  4096. But you already feel the change, yes? Everything feels lighter? The work, our work, doesn’t wait for January to come. If this winter is dark and cruel, we can and we will light the way forward, one step at a time. The trolls may never leave, but they’re like ghosts disappearing as the sun rises and lights the day. Their powers to rile and hurt dissipate like fog before a climbing son. Blue skies, everybody!
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  4097. “I demand to talk to the manager!!”
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  4098. I’ve only seen one Ari Aster film, Midsommar. And its initial tone or mood put me into a “Lynch mode” (I didn’t describe it as that at the time, but after watching this video, it strikes me that the terminology fits). I seem to get things from MidSommar that many others do not because apparently they are reacting to it as a straight narrative. The most common reaction/reading I’ve seen to Midsommar is, “The protagonist has been brainwashed by an evil cult”. My primary reading is, “The protagonist successfully navigated a break up with a shitty boyfriend”. Mind you, there is a lot more going on in the film that is of interest, but that’s (to me) the narrative line of the film.
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  4099. THAT’S going to be IIIIIIIINTERESTING. If there’s not enough evidence to convict these MFers, we should still force them to wear pirate eyepatches. They’re like a gang of Bond villains.
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  4100. It wasn’t.
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  4101. Abducted by extraterrestrials.
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  4102. Munafo has a unique condition that causes him to melt at temperatures above 32°F.
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  4103.  @Leftatalbuquerque Why does the House of Saud love the musical Annie? The Sunni come out, tomorrow. So you gotta hang on until tomorrow (if Allah wills it).
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  4104. For the first time in the history of Microsoft acquisitions, no one will be sad when Microsoft buys a company and drives it into the ground.
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  4105.  @yaqiwang5242  The main difference is that Mao didn’t lose an election before the CR. The Cultural Revolution was, more than anything, a dictator increasing his power over the factions in his party. Trump lost, he’s on his way out, and fomenting insurrection is not going to get him his job back nor lead to civil war. The CR reached high and low into all levels of Chinese Society. This fascist mob will be put down in short order, and they will not get either the war they desire nor Trump installed as dictator.
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  4106. Good to know. The keyboard critics are out in force, claiming he will be released soon.
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  4107. As a conservative, I find it both funny and mind boggling that self-proclaimed conservatives are pushing for MORE regulation of business. They’ve apparently lost their faith in the free market, in which entrepreneurs can create rival services. They feel that they’re entitled to piggyback on the work of others. It’s mind boggling but not surprising, given these “conservatives” hypocritical stances and actions with regard to the deficit and other issues. They claim that they want fair competition in the marketplace of ideas, but are unwilling to put their money where there mouths are. If their donors can spend billions on political campaigns, surely they can invest in business ventures to give themselves the platform the desire.
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  4108. The French and the U.S. were apparently unaware that Vietnam has resisted incursions for centuries. China really should have known better. That said, an argument could be made that, while China’s nose was bloodied, they fulfilled the larger aim of curbing any imperial ambitions that the Vietnamese might have had vis-a-vis Laos and Cambodia. (Don’t take this as gospel, though. This is my opinion/analysis involving a certain amount of reading between the lines. I wouldn’t swear that Vietnam had any such ambitions or that China thought they did.)
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  4109.  @noelle3551  The Kremlin’s ongoing rhetoric to justify the Special Military Operation sounds like it was cribbed from Mein Kampf.
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  4110.  @miltonbradley6849  I already had direct deposit enabled with the IRS/Treasury Dept., so I didn’t need to do anything. This was after weeks of research to find out what I needed to do! At the end of the day, despite my worries, the money just showed up. And it was a godsend—my refrigerator broke the day before the money was deposited into my account. It’s likely I’d have been living out of an ice chest for months without that payment.
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  4111.  @jcsmith3806  Something that didn’t get explained in civics class is that preserving a democracy requires that each of us be an active participant. Voting every four years is not sufficiently active. If you don’t feel that government is responsive, it’s probably because you and I and the majority of Americans are not active participants in the political process. We can change that, you and I, by getting off of our couches and chairs, and spending an hour a day (or a couple of hours or one day a week) on political activism. Obviously, right now the presidential election is important. But afterwards, are you willing to put time into local politics? It might be researching the local issues and writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper or news station. It might be volunteering on the campaign of someone running for city council or a state representative. It might be making sure your friends and relatives are registered to vote. If democracy fails it will because of us. It will be because we didn’t take care of it and let it slip through our grasp. The biggest lie is that we are powerless.
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  4112. Good organic advertisement for your sponsor. You explained very well how you use the app and the advantages of subscribing. Some of your sponsors don’t fit your subject matter very well. I know you’re doing your best for whomever is willing to sponsor, but the art investment adverts seem silly. I’ll give you credit for attempting the smooth transition from war to investing in the art world. If someone gives you money, you’ll do your best to do a good job. Anyway, I didn’t want to criticize. I wanted to point out the good job you did here. Keep doing what you’re doing! 😊
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  4113. Again, an advertisement from someone who wants me to buy their arbitrage lessons. 🙄
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  4114. If those atrocities against blacks by white governments are too hard to understand, maybe Asian Americans can remember when the government imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans in concentration camps.
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  4115. Schmidt is a Democrat now, so he might agree with you.
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  4116. Yes. Ideology gets us nowhere. Flexibility and an understanding of how systems function will move us forward.
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  4117. It is said Dugina had beautiful blue eyes. One eye blew over here and the other eye blew over there.
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  4118. I think you’ve got a big gap in your knowledge with what you said about the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. What you must be thinking of is Panama being used as a staging area for support to the Contras, the paramilitary organization(s) in El Salvador fighting against the rebels there (who were mainly terrorizing the populace). The U.S. didn’t support the Sandinistas. The Soviets were able to support the various Central American insurgencies, usually channeling their limited efforts through Cuba, not Panama. Incidentally, the Sandinistas did conduct fair elections, at least the first time around, and the Nicaraguan people elected Victoria Chamorra, who was a pro-Western conservative. I’ll give the Sandinistas full credit for that. Unfortunately, the Sandinistas themselves suffered a split between the nationalist faction and the corrupt socialist faction that was led by Ortega. Ortega has been a disaster for Nicaragua on the whole, but it should be stated that Nicaragua has fared better than Salvador or Honduras over the past 30 years. Most of the immigrants fleeing Central America are from those countries with very few fleeing Nicaragua. As a side notice, it’s illuminating to note that the current border “crisis” on the U.S. Mexico border is largely due to U.S. policies in Central America during the Cold War. This is what is known as blowback, the unforeseen long term consequences to poorly thought out strategies. Still, in fairness to the U.S., it was acting during the Cold War and in response to Soviet shenanigans in Latin America.
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  4119. Hay chew
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  4120.  @artstrology  Thank you!
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  4121.  @Edward-tm1dm  The President is the chief officer of the executive branch of the U.S. Government. “The Office of the Presidency” does not refer to the physical office space. Running for any elected post is called “running for office”, and elected officials are called “office holders”. Your argument is flawed because you aren’t taking into account the common and legal meanings of words.
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  4122. Did you just say that, pre-1971, people had been happily living in Crimea for thousands of years? I think you’re skipping quite a bit of history there, even recent history. Perhaps you meant that they were living there without intensive agriculture before the canal. That would be a fair point, but it doesn’t answer the question, what were they living on? The fact is that they had to import food because Crimea has engaged in trade since the Bronze Age. As a major trading hub, they could afford it.
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  4123. The old saying: Work to live, live to work. The new saying: Work to die, and possible kill family members.
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  4124.  @sophiliamajestign9303  That was the first week of production, and only later in the day. They stored the mechanically armatured corpse at -25C° overnight to prevent spoilage and would put him back during lunch, but long days under hot lights took their toll. During the weekend turnaround, they solved the problem by giving the interior side of the skin a chemical scrape to remove any remaining lipids (fat), followed by a brine baste, and then kiln dried the skin at 60°C overnight. That did the trick. Twice a day applications of mink oil kept Bradley Cooper’s skin supple through the rest of the shoot.
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  4125. You’re missing an important detail. It was the reanimated corpse of Jim Henson inside of Bradley Cooper’s skin—it’s actually Henson’s corpse that has been outfitted with precise clockwork machinery for the stop motion. This is cutting edge taxidermy. It’s so advanced it really needs a new name. Calling it taxidermy is like calling an In-and-Out Double Double a mere hamburger.
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  4126.  @Carbiniz3r  Look up “Constant Peg” and “Tonopah a Test Range”. I think you’d be interested, maybe amused. It’s also interesting that this secret program was used to conceal an even more secret program!
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  4127. If Russia wants peace and the sanctions lifted, the generals must be held accountable.
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  4128. The video is an imperfect primer, but it’s better and more clear than any other video in its class. I don’t think the information here is sufficient to prepare one to argue either for or against CRT (but that’s not going to stop people). It’s a good start. It can help us to understand what people might be arguing about, or if they’re even arguing about the same thing. I’m not a proponent of CRT. I think it makes some good points, but fails in some places. CRT is useful as it reopens questions that need to be re-examined. However, the term CRT is also being misused as a bogeyman by certain political actors wishing to discredit their opponents and advance their own authoritarian agenda. Their fight against their imaginary version of CRT is another “war on Christmas”.
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  4129. No, he doesn’t. This archaeological work in the Amazon and the Peruvian lowlands has been going on for 30-40 years. He didn’t discover any of it, and he didn’t predict any of it. Nor was he the first to popularize the new research. If you think Hancock is finding stuff overlooked by “mainstream archaeology”, you’re extremely gullible.
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  4130. Possibly. We hear stories like that all the time. But there are large swaths of the country where this is how people think. They might not be full Q, but they believe the election was stolen and all manner of other bullshit. They’ve been indoctrinated, and it’s doubtful that they ever talk to sane people.
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  4131. “This is Florida’s Seminole moment.”
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  4132. Social networking has added a new wrinkle: people with similar delusions can join together and escape that isolation. But then what? I imagine treatment becomes impossible, as the delusion sufferer gets his or her delusion reinforced. They might become even more unshakeable as they now feel they are defending their group, magnifying their fanaticism and hostility. They might search for “experts” or authority figures who share their delusions to give their delusions credibility (and they might find someone who doesn’t share the delusion, but who has a desire to manipulate the group). Does this match anything you’ve seen or experienced? I think it’s already a big problem, will only get worse, and I don’t see any clear way of addressing it.
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  4133.  @liquiddevil7396  He’s probably a Russian bot and he’s salty because he gets paid in Rubles.
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  4134.  @cowboyx9380  If Russia went into full war time mobilization, it could muster many more retired military with combat experience. Right now, Russia has a couple of hundreds of thousands of (ostensibly) combat capable soldiers in the theater. These numbers could be boosted into the millions if Putin changed the status of the war from “Special Operation” to “Full declaration of war”. But to do this, Putin needs to have public support that he doesn’t currently have. Which is why strikes on Russian territory are risky, as it would boost Putin’s popularity. We also have the risk that Putin will try to boost his popularity with false flag attacks on civilian targets. Look, Ukraine is within its rights to strike anywhere in Russia that it wants, using whatever means it wants. But that doesn’t mean it would be wise to strike Moscow. I think Ukraine must be careful of selecting targets in Russia, limiting attacks to disrupting Soviet, I mean Russian, logistics close to the border with Ukraine. For now anyway.
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  4135. The House could impeach him in a matter of hours. The Senate could just pocket the impeachment, and convict/remove Trump if he tries anything. (In theory) the threat of removal will keep Trump from doing anything rash, like bombing New Zealand for the hell of it. And the Senate can still convict when it changes hands after the inauguration.
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  4136.  @frf5000  There is one person at the top of the chain of command, who is the top civilian executive as well as the commander in chief of the armed forces. That person, the President, CAN send our country to war intentionally or unintentionally. However, it’s also true that Presidents have consulted with others and build some sort of consensus before doing so. So your technically wrong. But the person you replied to, M Vega, is a dummy with no clue about how our constitutional government is supposed to work and has worked for over two centuries, and why we chose an executive branch distinct from the legislative branch back when the constitution was written. He’s basically saying, “Isn’t anybody troubled that we have an elected leader, rather than a politburo? Gosh, I sure am!” Going back to your being technically wrong, you’re also sort of right in practice. As I said, an American President has the authority. But that doesn’t mean he has absolute power. In a democracy it’s not enough to give an order, you have to have competent people willing to execute that order. If an order is completely insane, they can block it long enough for you to be legally relieved of command. Our President doesn’t have absolute power and we have safeguards. I think that might have been what you wanted to say.
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  4137. I don’t want to dismiss any of Japan’s achievements since WWII. I’ll even acknowledge that they almost won the great California Real Estate War in the 1980s. But they’ve been very reluctant to honorably admit their WWII atrocities and war crimes. Some of the things they did were as bad as what the Nazis did. The Pacific alliance will be stronger if Japan can get over this false pride and apologize sincerely for what they did in WWII and the pre-WWII wars.
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  4138. Look at his other videos.
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  4139. I despise Ted Cruz, but I’m not going to begrudge him making money from a podcast or from writing books. That’s not a good example of Republican grift.
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  4140. PMC Reddit?
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  4141. It must have been aliens because they didn’t have bulldozers or steam shovels in those days. 😉
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  4142.  @mechanic6682  Sort of. He did so on the credible belief that his co-conspirators were preparing to offer him up as the scapegoat. You know the one about the two campers that are attacked by a bear? One starts putting on his shoes. The other says, “you’re crazy, you can’t outrun a bear!” To which he replies, “I don’t have to outrun the bear, I only have to outrun YOU!” It’s the same thing with criminal conspiracies, except in that case, you want to run towards the bear and be the first one there.
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  4143.  @Filthy_Larry  I hope you’re not suggesting that rape is a valid punishment. That would be messed up. People don’t come out of prison gay. They’re either gay or not gay when they enter. Maybe you’re suggesting that Trevor Jacob is secretly gay. It wouldn’t surprise me if he he was gay and desperately trying to hide it from himself and the world. He’s got the vibe of a guy who does stupid shit to avoid admitting something to himself. He tried to cover up a crime, what else is he covering up?
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  4144. The chief Russian troop transport is a shot yellow bus.
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  4145. He has but it periodically is a hot topic in the news, people ask him panicked questions, and here we are.
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  4146. Also, a question for you if you’re able to answer. If serum levels are not easily tested, do you know of any dosage rules of thumb applicable to Vitamin D? Are there secondary means of approximating serum levels, such as testing urine for color or pH?
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  4147. Do small towns still have small town papers, though? Has Facebook taken over PTA potluck dinner announcements from the East Bumblefuck Herald?
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  4148.  @YansPL  that tank should have quit smoking and taken up a healthier lifestyle, like not invading Ukraine.
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  4149.  @hamzterix  Probably, but it was still a quick death. It’s going to require wire brushes and BBQ scrapers to recover their bodies.
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  4150. Does this have anything in particular with the video, or are you praying in public? Maybe you can find the scripture to quote what Jesus said about showing off your faith as a public spectacle? That’d be real Christian of you.
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  4151.  @JohnDoe-ek1qk  <— Found the White Nationalist
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  4152. Why would you want Pete to talk about future weapons, a topic well outside his bailiwick? What original thing could he say? If you want to hear someone discuss weapons procurement and defense policies, go watch Perun’s videos. He’s reasonably knowledgeable about weapons technology development, but he’s aces on procurement, spending, and policy trade-offs that leaders must consider—the things that determine future military weapons. Let Pete do those things that Pete does well, and don’t try to lure him outside his lanes.
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  4153.  @Nefariously_ignorant  Can they be used from the Polish border to intercept ballistic missiles targeting Kyiv?
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  4154.  @joachimfrank4134  The USSR might have been a reliable partner, but Russia under Putin is not.
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  4155. Yogi Berra.
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  4156. Nah, Pete is pretty spicy in his predictions, which are not facts. His predictions are extrapolations from facts, but they are not themselves facts. Do you understand the difference now?
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  4157.  @Mikalent  Your last question, add “Does Russia have the money?”
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  4158. Is the Russian hockey team known for shooting own goals? 😄 But seriously, if NATO or anyone tried to invade Russia, I have no doubt they would face a formidable defense. There would be no talk of paper tigers. What this modern Red Army is terrible at is offense.
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  4159. Apparently, after firing a few warning shots over their heads, you’re supposed to allow the adversary to take a time out so they can decide if they want to surrender. Don’t blame me, it’s in the Bizarro Universe GC. I mean the Lima Non-conformity.
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  4160.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL If you’re new in these comments, don’t be fooled by his innocuous comments here. He’s an agent of disinformation, spreading lies and false numbers here and in other videos
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  4161.  @sporkbot  That’s not true. Please familiarize yourself with the law before making ignorant false assertions. The victims of a crime can decide whether or not to press charges. The D.A. makes the ultimate determination. For example, a victim can decline to press charges and the D.A. can decide to charge the alleged perpetrator with the crime anyway. Or the victim might press charges, but the D.A. might conclude that there is insufficient evidence to get a conviction and not charge the alleged perpetrator with a crime. There are various possibilities in between these two results.
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  4162. Room temperature superconductors and the photo molecular effect could finally make quidditch a reality. Room temperature superconductors and the photo molecular effect is also the name of my new band.
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  4163.  @michaeldrone520  This is false. You’re spreading misinformation. Are you ignorant or malicious?
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  4164.  @dude2499  Looks like Trump is determined to “eat it” and not have it.
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  4165. I thought you meant literally beat up, like domestic violence beat up.
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  4166. He is not known for being a jerk in the industry. Among film crews, he’s known for being professional, friendly, and a hard worker. I think this is a more important context than his membership in an oddball religion. There are horror stories in the thousands about narcissistic actors and directors, but I’ve yet to hear anything bad from a reliable source about Cruise. If this tirade was extreme, it’s probably because he’s at the end of his patience. And reading between the lines, he’s probably found himself arguing with someone who denies the virus is real or a serious threat.
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  4167. That time Ronna McDaniel was the best qualified to be RNC Chairwoman compared to her challengers. 😂
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  4168. Myers-Briggs is our astrology.
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  4169. Stick to RT then.
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  4170.  @briannacluck5494 What is a relief society? Is that like a service or charity oriented organization?
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  4171.  @V100-e5q  He had a single sponsor. Indeed, this video was the first video of that sponsorship. That sponsor has already severed their relationship from him, and he had to repost the video removing his mention of the product. 😄 So no, I don’t think Go Pro would touch Trevor with a 10’ selfie stick.
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  4172. Is there a top luxury cruise ship that is ahead (more luxurious) than its competitors?
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  4173. You’ve heard the expression, “cutting off your nose to spite your face”? It’s like that, but Russia is slitting its own throat.
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  4174. A point of order wrt Russian organized crime. The Russian Mafiya (as it has styled itself in more recent times) has always had interlocking directorates with the communist party, particularly with the KGB. The KGB was the overseer of smuggling operations which benefited party members with luxury goods. The KGB was the court of appeals for disputes arising in the “second story economy”—the trade of pilfered public goods and labor. One could write a book about the rise of civil engineer/government bureaucrat Shoigu with regard to diversion of state resources to this criminal marketplace. He is more than a Putin stooge. He is a powerful leader of a criminal faction in his own right. This overlap between the criminal and political goes back to the CHEKA under Lenin, from the earliest days of the Revolution. While you might have a hard cadre of ideologist true believers in the party, you also had literally criminal gangs used to punish the enemies of the state with violence and robbery. (A short history lesson: These enemies of the state where not necessarily political enemies, but the “Kulaks”. Initially the Kulaks were those successful farmers that accumulated land and a bit of capital. After they were destroyed, it became the farmer that owned 3 cows while his neighbor had 1 cow. Later still, the farmer with two cows was the enemy. Finally, private ownership of cows was effectively forbidden.) Thus it is not an exaggeration to say that the FSB/KGB had interlocking directorates. The FSB oversaw the criminal factions, and the leaders of the criminal factions worked their way into the FSB/KGB leadership. As Russian organized crime began expanding internationally, the FSB paved the way and had their backs. Organized crime factions that didn’t subordinate themselves fully to this system could be punished by “anti-corruption” campaigns as well as the internecine violence you might expect.
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  4175. If there aren’t photos showing bruises, Tim is just soft.
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  4176.  @tomjohnson4681  <— Troll
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  4177. Chartering a jet doesn’t free them from air regulations of whatever countries they were in. They started in Canada, flew through U.S. airspace, and landed in Mexico. Maybe they didn’t get started until they were over the U.S., meaning they broke laws in two foreign countries if not their own.
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  4178. Good idea. The Senate gets to make up the rules of the trial (which is how we got a trial with no witnesses called in the last impeachment).
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  4179.  @johnringwood5251  <—Tankie Sorry, comrade, Stalin is dead and Putin might be ruthless and violent, but he’s not 1% as crafty as Stalin.
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  4180. That would be a pretty good excuse. They can score diplomatic points by showing restraint. Or they can wait until U.S. forces eventually leave. That might be a while before they do, but it gives them more time.
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  4181. Seems like it’s staying the same almost every day.
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  4182.  @vickit3124  I don’t think the original commenter was suggesting it as an alternative to vaccines, but as supplementary treatment WITH jannsen vaccine. That sounds perfectly reasonable to me, regardless of whether ivermectin’s efficacy is proven beyond a doubt. Of course, one should be consulting with one’s physician.
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  4183. Sounds like you should contact him and make a vid for the rest of us to watch!
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  4184.  @robertpendergrass7996 He didn’t lose the House. Look at what a good job theyre doing. 😂 One of these days, the Republican caucus will meet in private, the press will report they heard screaming, and only one very very fat congressman will leave, picking his teeth with a toothpick. No one will know how or why the rest of the GOP Congress disappeared of the face of the earth.
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  4185.  @jeckjeck3119 Put them on a desert island, rig cameras to all the trees, and make it a reality show. If they have high ratings, they get more supplies. Call it MAGA Island or MAGA Exiles.
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  4186. Is this scientifically established or something you’ve read/heard?
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  4187.  @BS-cv5ho  We avoid the hyperbole of the traitorous GOP. If these senators collaborated with the insurgents, it will come out and there will be grounds for prosecution. Regardless, we can work to get them out of office.
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  4188. And how many people do you need to maintain that security infrastructure? And how much is it going to cost to maintain the physical structure of the wall along the entire length of the border? How do you secure the cameras? The reason people don’t understand what you’re talking about is that Trump promised a physical perimeter wall. The technology you are describing doesn’t actually require a 2,000 mile physical wall. But let’s be honest about what Trump was really promising. He was promising a symbolic wall.
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  4189. We need to do a poll. Should Patrick get head tattoos? Not on his face. That’s gross and LC. But a tasteful tatt of the Ace of Spades behind one of his ears would be pretty bad ass.
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  4190. This has nothing to do with Joe Biden.
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  4191. ⁠ @ianbelletti6241  What if there is a public right of way or an easement on the property?
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  4192.  @cripplers8  They’re commercially available. Heck, they’re even advertised on YouTube.
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  4193.  @BarrySlisk  You’re ignorant of the history of Soviet aggression in Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltics, and against Finland. If I was as ignorant as you, I would avoid commenting entirely.
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  4194. The mesoamerican counting system was base 20 (ours is base 10). I think it’s safe to assume that it predates the Olmecs, but 🤷🏻‍♀️ The archaeological work in the Amazon has been going on for decades.
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  4195. NATO wasn’t created to defend nations that are not members of the alliance. It is true that they have on occasion exceeded their stated mission. However, attacking Russia now would in fact be against their own charter, due to the close proximity of the conflict to actual NATO members. AFAIK, Ukraine hasn’t asked to be in NATO over the past 10 years, nor has it asked to join in the last week. It’s Finland and Sweden that are asking right now. And who could blame them?
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  4196. No, no, that’s not exactly right, either. They are “Prisoners-of-Special Operation”, not prisoners of war.
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  4197. The Jones act is pretty wide ranging. Peter seems to be upset with the provisions of Article 27 that impacts cabotage, although he doesn’t address it directly. (I would guess because such details aren’t his audience’s strong suit and he knows it). Peter has been a little sloppy with other aspects of his argument against the Jones Act, so I’d be cautious about saying, “Peter is right!” The big bottleneck right now isn’t the Jones Act. It’s lower water levels and the need for dredging. I’m sure Peter knows this. I’m also puzzled as to what is the connection between chip fabrication and slow bulk cargo transport on our rivers. How would Intel’s chip fabrication plant benefit from reform of the Jones Act?
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  4198. If you put every single enlisted on guard duty, who is left to support them?
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  4199. Robby The Socialist government of Cuba might not like it, but Guantánamo Naval Base is legally leased with no fixed term (expiration of the lease). Gitmo is fully legal. The detention center housed at Gitmo is another matter, and has nothing to do with the legitimacy of the lease. This is non-controversial, even if there are some that make to the existence of the naval base itself a controversy.
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  4200. A lot can happen between now and the Republican convention. Trump might find himself unable to continue his campaign for various reasons. If that happens, who is left standing in the Republican field? Nikki should stay in until the convention at least.
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  4201. Do you make each soldier responsible for 8 feet or do you make a team of 8 responsible for 64 feet. In either case, is the individual soldier or team responsible for their own supplies? Do they haul their own water and food into their area of responsibility?
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  4202. The Pandemic stimulus checks were a bipartisan effort.
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  4203. Watching this on May 2nd. You weren’t entirely wrong—we did see some aggressive maneuvers and activity in the Baltic. I think there was going to be a false flag operation, but the FSB and/or GRU fucked up. Russia was pouring millions into FSB operations in Ukraine, but the massive intelligence failure there indicates that the money was going into the spymasters’ Swiss bank accounts. Funny how corruption works. The main error was not taking into account the time table: Russia waited until after the Chinese Olympics out of deference to China. Lol, even then there was a screw up. It’s clear that Russian diplomats told China that Russia was going to go after Donblas, not attack the whole country. It’s probably because the diplomats didn’t know the full extent of the invasion until it happened. This is the problem with keeping everything top secret.
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  4204. They really are moral infants, throwing tantrums which are sometimes violent.
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  4205. Yes.
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  4206. Steve isn’t a fan of turbines. 😉
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  4207. What? What form of English are you using? Gibberish? Let me give it a shot. The harder I try to grammar at people the more they keep running again the President Trump they wanna hope I keep voting from running.
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  4208.  @bmoore9909  It’s not true if you make it up out of whole cloth. You Ivans are sounding more and more shrill and desperate.
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  4209.  @Chris_Garman  check Ali Baba.
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  4210.  @richid7820  Your story is interesting. It illustrates the effects of adding layers of risk: 1. Unfamiliar terrain, 2. Mountainous terrain, 3. Unfamiliar with local weather patterns. Piloting in ideal conditions is risky. Stunt piloting, even if one is an expert, increases the risk. I would think that a stunt pilot that isn’t a complete pendejo would spend time flying and surveying the area he plans to fly.
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  4211. @Uncle Tom Cat We train for war and prepare for peace. The militias are majority gutless wonders (with a sprinkling of truly dangerous nutjobs).
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  4212. Only donate directly to the Polk County Sheriff’s victims’ fund—they give all the money to the victims’ family. They don’t take a cut like crowdfunding sites.
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  4213.  @Akm72  That would look great, wouldn’t it? The fact is that once they allowed the grain shipments to start, it’s not so easy to stop them. This was a necessary face saving move, but the fact that it was necessary to save face is what tells the story of their weakness.
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  4214. “big-boy-and-girl-pants”. The extra time it took to type that is appreciated. 😂 I know I’m laughing, but it’s little efforts at inclusiveness like this, carried out by many people, that make a difference.
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  4215. I was thinking of PeeWee Herman saying, “I meant to do that”.
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  4216. I’m looking forward to Fallout: Neom Linear City.
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  4217. As Elffirr says, no the crash site wasn’t near the Condor Refuge. They’re on opposite sides of the Los Padres National Forest.
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  4218.  @LibertyLion1776 So you’re woke?
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  4219. TROLL ALERT: the top commenter is a TROLL with a 2 month old account.
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  4220. Your claim is not in evidence wrt this case against Apple. Not yet, anyway. If you can dig up such evidence, by all means present it.
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  4221.  @Vykk_Draygo  You’re right, I’m so dumb and you’re so smart. I should be more like you. When you tally up your internet score at the end of the day, make sure you give yourself an extra 5 bonus points for besting me with such wit. That should give you a score of one million and five.
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  4222. God Bless us all. It’s not over, but today is such a relief. I must confess, I can’t hear Sam Eliot’s voice without thinking of that episode of Rick and Morty and the cookie advertisement. 😆 You know the one, where they go to Atlantis?
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  4223. Happy New Year. Thanks for the cool video. I’m assuming this was choreographed and programmed, but I’d be blown away if the dancing was in any way triggered by the music, or was an entirely freestyle response to the music. Nice work guys. I hope my Boston Robotics Errand Runner is ready by the 10th year of the pandemic, if not sooner.
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  4224. Ultimately it’s irrelevant to anyone claiming to be the good guys, as Ryan pointed out. Good guys have standards to live up to. They should try to live up to those standards and not use an adversary’s lack of standards as an excuse for failing to live up to standards.
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  4225.  @3dcomrade  nah. Not even close to being the reason.
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  4226. I would hope that your hypothetical developer would acquire permissions, permits, and leases from ANY and all rights holders. If they didn’t, they’d be pretty stupid developers. You can’t just “art-of-the-deal” your way through this.
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  4227. Don’t be a dummy.
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  4228. It was the other way around, and no, it’s not why Protestantism split off from Catholicism.
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  4229.  @twillison8824  It’s not confirmed. All that is known is 1) that a helicopter flew to the area of the crash, and 2) the company is a government contractor operating out of Paso Robles. Coincidentally, the FAA field office (that might be conducting the investigation) is located in Paso Robles. What this means is A) we don’t know for sure if the wreckage has been moved, B) if it was moved, we don’t know by whom. However, it would be logical to assume a government contractor that has performed helicopter operations for the government (including operating on federal lands) would know a thing or two about receiving authorization to remove a crashed aircraft in a National Forest, in close proximity to a wildlife refuge (for the endangered California Condor, no less). Safer speculation is that it was the FAA that had the plane moved, if it was moved at all.
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  4230.  @marvinguigar3623  But it’s not happening to everyone else. It’s happening to a guy that repeatedly violated Twitter’s terms of service but was given a free pass because he was President. We can debate whether or not Twitter should have taken action before this point, but the correctness of Twitter’s ban is not really in doubt among reasonable people. I find it funny that self proclaimed conservatives are shouting for MORE regulation of business. It’s funny that so-called conservatives have given up on the free market. Remember that? Conservative entrepreneurs are FREE to set up competing services. Some already have. We are not entitled to our conservative platforms on Twitter and the like, especially if we do not follow the terms of service.
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  4231. Hey, Brother. Hope you make it through in good shape. This isn’t the first time the business has changed completely forever. It doesn’t take great insight to know we’re at another inflection. I still think Pete’s take is weird. He focused on one issue that doesn’t even really concern SAG (background actors) and completely missed the main issue: residuals. Maybe I got distracted and missed it, but I’m pretty sure he didn’t mention residuals even once. How do you calculate residuals when streaming is the delivery mechanism? One thing I like about Pete is that he’s not afraid to go out on a limb. He’s not afraid of making a bold prediction or a provocative prediction. But sometimes, he’s out of his depth and this is one of those times. Anyway, good luck. You’ll find something to pull you through. And remember, if you can make it through to retirement age, you can retire in Mexico on just your social security—everything above that is gravy.
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  4232. Ethically, shouldn’t CNN blur out Rodger Stone’s face? I don’t mean to protect Stone’s privacy, I mean to protect me from losing my lunch! 🤮
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  4233.  @Laissez_Faire call the whaaaaa’mbulance
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  4234. ⁠​⁠ @greenbeagle13 yup, the jury wasn’t present. I’ll be honest, when I heard that she testified at the hearing, I was hoping she’d jump to her feet to ask questions and sit back down to answer them, culminating in her yelling at herself, “You can’t handle the truth!”
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  4235.  @chroylikesfish  Baldwin is a child actor (in an adult body). Would you give a child a loaded gun, then blame him if he shot someone?
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  4236. I have not read a better summary of the Trump presidency.
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  4237. Who’s a good lawyer? 🐶
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  4238. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t a person in the RV. There could have been someone not especially happy to be there, wishing they was somewhere else. From the pictures I’ve seen, I’m not sure there was anything left of the RV to be inside of. It’s been suggested that the human remains are in the form of human tissue. This leads me to wonder if they’re scraping it off walls, or poking it out of window screens with a toothpick.
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  4239.  @wboyle5899  Oh, it’s worse than that. Some people deny the pandemic exists. Some people know better, but spread disinformation that might get people killed—and that could be their intention.
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  4240. Maybe I’m all wet, but I thought the main purpose of The Lincoln Project was to reach conservative voters, not coddle liberal voters or provide liberals with a platform to berate conservatives. Maybe I’m wrong about this. Of course, you’re free to do whatever you want, even attack Murkowski. Honestly, though, you’ve got an opportunity here to persuade us when we’re at our most persuadable. It’s highly doubtful you’ll convert us into liberal Democrats, but you might pull us closer to the center. You might convince us on particular issues. At the end of the day, you and are are a lot closer in our world view than any of us are with Trump, his minions, and his deplorable supporters.
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  4241.  @johnshepard9894 if there were any truth in advertising they’d call themselves Publicity First, not America First.
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  4242.  @Bluewhalebig  I thInk there is a real person there with multiple accounts. I think it’s an “extremist green” hoping to make more people die—and probably they’ve been vaccinated while pushing antivax nonsense. But it could just as easily be a home grown white supremacist or a foreign adversary, trying to weaken the country. As far as the trolls that actually believe the nonsense, they’re a problem that will take care of itself, although it’s tragIc that they’ll take innocent people down with them.
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  4243.  @ladybug2681  crow pudding, because he’ll get fed through a tube before he meets his maker.
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  4244. I agree, but . . . The Russian people elected Putin. We will see if they support him after this criminal act against Ukraine, or if he falls.
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  4245.  @crabjoe  I’m voting for Harris. I’m dubious about her economic policies and plans, but I think the damage they will cause will be manageable. Trump’s plan (a universal tariff) is taxation that will hit the middle class more than the fat cats, and will wind up being disastrous. If we elect Harris, we can support Haley in 2028. If Trump wins . . . well, he strongly implied we might not have another election.
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  4246.  @ralphemerson497  Jeeze, Ralph. Stop marrying Peruvians and give the damn country a chance.
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  4247. OK, Ivan.
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  4248.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  4249.  Denise Skinner  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  4250.  @helloworld101  The minimum amount of legs needed for a stable chair is 3. The minimum halves of a house divided is two. I’m good at math.
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  4251. Ditto
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  4252. lol, I thought you were going to say “no excuse to inflict a cruel abusive man like Netanyahu on the Palestinians”. 😂 In either case you have no argument from me. I’ll spare you all my thought about Israel’s right to exist and defend itself (yes and yes). But I have been seeing a lot of antisemitism from the educated (supposedly) progressives in their political arguments against Israel. It’s quite sad to see them try to wield Marxist analytical frameworks to analyze recent history and current events WITHOUT studying any of the history or having any in-depth knowledge of current events. Which is a long winded way to say anyone who equates Zionism with colonialism is engaging in antisemitic ideas. They’re doing so either as useful idiots hindered by too little knowledge (and too much enthusiasm) or they are bad actors spreading disinformation intentionally. Other than that, I’m all for the student protests demanding a cease fire AND release of the hostages.
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  4253.  @tcolondovich2996  It might or might not have been upheld, but the point is that the decision would be made in court by a person appointed to make that decision, not by the police acting on a potentially false criminal report. The legitimacy of contracts is NOT within the purview of the police. They do not have the power to render judgement over contractual disputes. The Shasta County Sheriff’s Department really screwed up on this case.
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  4254.  @tcolondovich2996  you’re arguing facts not in evidence. You’ve exceeding the known facts of the case, trying to stretch it to fit your point of view. Here’s the main fact that you have not been able to overcome: the goat in question was NEVER deemed to be the property of those that reported the theft. Furthermore, the sheriff’s department could have determined that there was a controversy over ownership by ASKING QUESTIONS. The department assigned a detective to the job. Isn’t that part of a detective’s job description, to ask questions. I would be shocked if the Shasta Sheriff’s Department has never encountered a false stolen property report. Do they not have a procedure for determining if a case is legitimate before they start seizing property? I’ll let your other factual errors slide. The main one is egregious enough: you seem to think police have the competence or have the authority to judge ownership issues.
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  4255.  @nerfherder4284  You have a lot of potential. I don’t mean that you have a rosy future.
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  4256. Putzi
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  4257. Lol. As if the psychiatrists will make you work while you’re residing in a looney bin.
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  4258.  @amyhendricks3627  You can’t expect him to watch the video, it might clash with his bias.
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  4259. As far as the rapid (rapid for FAA) response, this was an 🚨 emergency revocation 🚨. As far as we know, there hasn’t yet been a hearing on the case and a final decision, which the FAA would publish as a matter of public record. As far as we know, the investigation hasn’t been officially completed. I suspect that we’ll get a final determination in 8 months, the normal FAA time frame. The importance of the current development is that Jacob won’t be flying and putting the public at risk in the air. He will have plenty of opportunities to be a danger to himself or others on the ground, however, so I hope those law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction over the crash are investigating him for his reckless behavior that endangers people.
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  4260. They need a better weather app or they’ll keep getting rained on.
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  4261. I’ve heard of a “New York Minute”, maybe there’s a metric minute? /s (Yes, I know the minute is already a basic part of the metric system)
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  4262. Good call. His voice reminded me of early Robert Smith/Cure. Like A Forest/Killing an Arab era.
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  4263. I had the mental image of a person being liquified, poured into a giant glass, and drunk.
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  4264. They say Orange County is the place you oughta beeeeeee.
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  4265. I can’t help but think he gives this introductory lecture every year.
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  4266. Grundy Malone So they could retreat 100% and still maintain their front line?
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  4267. Scullys Tie As soon as he wrote that I knew he wasn’t worth paying attention to—like the majority of “gamers-with-opinions”.
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  4268. Václav Fejt And don’t forget Tropic Thunder, maybe the best movie about the making of a documentary about the making of a movie. Seriously, go see it right now if you haven’t seen it before.
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  4269. Even though your unit wasn’t meant to be inserted behind enemy lines, were you given additional training for fluid battlefield? That was one of the things about Vietnam (and I suppose other asymmetrical conflicts) was there was no front line. Just curiosity how much the mil was thinking about asymmetric warfare in the 90s.
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  4270. Sure, dog. Aren’t you the one who walked into a saloon, looking for the man that shot your paw?
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  4271. QuaFets
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  4272. Deck size.
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  4273. Hahahaha. Adam was having a lot of feels! And the old maestros were like, “Forget it kid, you had your chance.”
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  4274. How do you know it’s a judge’s fault, and not due to errors made by prosecutors or arresting officers?
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  4275. This would be a good time for DeSantis to withdraw from the race in order to spend more time with his state.
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  4276. Sal, do a reaction to the Frank Zappa song Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, please.
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  4277. Whatever, Ivan.
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  4278.  @jesan733  I don’t think I’ve seen that put better anywhere else. You demolished runethorsen’s bad faith argument. Or let us say you “runed” his arguments. I’m past sick and tired of soft-brained leftists and pro-dictator trolls using emotionally charged rhetoric, like “American Empire”. Is the U.S. a hegemonic power? Does it try to impose Western Democracy and values on other parts of the world? I think that is more or less true. But does it act like a traditional empire? No. If we want to see imperial ambitions, we need only look at China, Russia, and Iran. I’m not saying the U.S. is perfect. If it is the world’s policeman, there are times when it acts like an abusive cop. U.S foreign policy and defense policy has made big mistakes with tragic consequences for others. This is all true. But it is also true that the U.S. checked the Soviet’s expansionism and has helped weaker nations maintain their independence against stronger belligerent nations. And it has not done this alone. It forms coalitions and alliances. Hell, the U.S. was the motivating force behind the U.N., making its two chief rivals permanent members of the Security Council. Despite the mistakes, despite the sometimes mixed intentions of the U.S., the Pax Americana has been a net benefit for world. The conditions created by American “imperialism” has allowed hundreds of thousands, if not billions, of humans to pull themselves and their nations out of poverty. American is not above criticism. It might not always listen to it, even when it comes from close friends. But it doesn’t prevent those friends or anyone else from voicing criticism and disapproval. It doesn’t persecute internal dissent. Not like China and Russia or various other smaller dictatorships do. About the left: I only condemn the knee jerk anti-American left, its intellectually dishonest grifters, and its cud chewing followers. Once upon a time they were far on the fringe and/or limited to minor fields of academia. I don’t lump the liberal or progressive left with them. Once upon a time the childish revolutionaries were a trivial annoyance. It troubles me that they seem to be gaining influence. It’s not as troubling as what’s happening on the right side of the political spectrum, but the lefty loons are becoming a threat—they sap our ability to fight the proto-fascist right, for one thing. Anyway, I’m getting off topic. But the point is, if the U.S. is a hegemon, it’s a soft hegemon, the softest the world has ever seen. It ceased using violence to expand its borders in the 19th Century. People like runethorsen are either dumdums or wicked power worshipping nihilists, trying to “colonize” our minds with dishonest rhetoric.
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  4279.  @runethorsen8423  If we subtract the emotionally charged and dishonest rhetoric from your “arguments”, you have no arguments at all. If you use any facts, you twist them and place them in an imaginary world devoid of context. It is you that is the imperialist, trying to colonize the minds of the slow witted among us.
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  4280. ivermectin has no medical mechanism by which it can treat or prevent viruses. It’s an anti parasite that works as a neurotoxin, attacking the nervous systems of worms and lice. You know, critters. Viruses are of a different order all together and do not have nervous systems. Other than that, your program is not a bad suggestion. Even if the other supplements have not been shown to be specifically effective against Covid, they contribute to one’s general health, and most importantly, are not going to hurt you at sensible doses.
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  4281. Let me guess. The Substitute Fry-Cook-In-Chief didn’t wash his hands.
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  4282.  @EireHammer  Oh, t’were it so simple. After WWII and in the West, the military histories of the Eastern Front aka the Great Patriotic War was written by . . . [drumroll] . . . German generals. The Kremlin denied historians from the democracies access to its archives, to participants and carefully controlled their narrative of the war. Historians in the west had to rely on German sources, and some of the most prominent of the surviving German generals wrote memoirs. It wasn’t until the fall of the Soviet Union that historians gained access to the archives. Oh, and funny thing has happened under Putin. Access to the archives has been cut off again.
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  4283.  @aristeon5908  That’s a really disgusting way to describe their mouths, which their mothers ostensibly kiss. Someone should tell them about mouthwash. Maybe they wouldn’t be so horrified by wearing a mask.
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  4284. What’s really weird is how Kennedy supporters start supporting Biden or Trump once they’ve taken ivermectin.
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  4285. Still there the last time I drove to LAX.
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  4286.  @davidc4408  1) Markets respond positively to cost cutting. 2) Insiders themselves aren’t going to short their own companies, considering that they have to disclose their trades. Someone with information from an insider might short a stock, but not the insider himself. It’s time to remove Robin Hood from your phone before you hurt yourself, shorty.
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  4287. If Russia voluntarily leaves Ukraine or is ejected by force of arms, the nuclear problem remains—Russia’s criminal nuclear threats have not really been countered. We’ve heard repeatedly that Putin is operating logically, but a logic based on a different ideology called “Russian Mir”. It’s important that we understand that this ideology itself is irrational, delusional, and based on a weird belief system that Russia is pure and innocent, everyone else is evil, and Russia is destined to purify the world and destroy evil. When Putin or members of the Russian media say Ukraine is Satanic, it’s more than just hyperbolic propaganda. I think the probability that Russia will use nukes is low, but it’s not zero. To the Kremlin, this is a religious crusade, a unification of the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church. We are dealing with fanatics on the same level as Islamic extremists.
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  4288. It’s such a common thing (see many other comments here) that it’s really not remarkable nor is it sensitive information to an adversary.
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  4289. Reports are that the first planes have arrived in country.
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  4290.  @luismendez2079  Your nieto is your primo? What, are y’all Mexican hillbillies? That ain’t right! 😄
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  4291. Did you see it? It was fucking amazing. He’s such a good director, and just getting started.
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  4292. Why would Colombia want to? Venezuela still has a military, albeit a very corrupt one. The soldiers still get fed.
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  4293. Or else! or else what?
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  4294. Price elasticity?
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  4295. It’s a strong possibility. I also think it could have been a single conman who was promptly turned over to the authorities. Here’s the thing. During the Mexican Revolution, the different sides published their own plans. In this context, a plan is like the Declaration of Independence. A plan is supposed to be a declaration of intent and principles. This was a poorly researched video.
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  4296. A sufficiently advanced society throws their trash into volcanoes.
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  4297. I want to know more, but McCarthy might have introduced a sensible moderate bill to appease any moderates left in his party. Wouldn’t that be something if the Republicans actually did something to help the country? Yeah, I know it sounds crazy, but let’s hear Kevin out. The truth is we’ve come out of a public health crisis in pretty good shape, but we need to “reload” so to speak, so that we’re ready for the next crisis. If this limits spending a modest amount but raises the debt ceiling, we’re in business.
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  4298. Or typical fear mongering for clicks level. They should probably disclose their sources of income so we know they’re “honest grifters” and not acting on behalf of a foreign intelligence service. I’m not saying all right wing media (or left wing, for that matter) should open their books to public scrutiny. But those that are telling such egregious lies owe us all a peek at who pays their bills.
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  4299. So, what form of fascism would you use to replace our democracy?
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  4300.  @StompingRabbits  No, Patrick, Russia can’t replace the degraded units with other units guarding Russia’s borders. They’re ostensibly there guarding the border against NATO and other threats, no? If Putin starts removing his border armies to send them to Ukraine, that really undermines his claim that NATO is threatening Russia. On top of that, Moscow is not popular with other parts of the Russian Federation. They need to keep a large number of soldiers through Russia to control unrest. The don’t want a new insurgency in Chechnya. No, Russia is near the limit of the forces it can send, without compromising its own security elsewhere.
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  4301.  @JBHRN That’s the thing, though. The number of vessels in this class is tiny. The vessel in question, the Titan, was unique. There are no safety standards established (yet). I’m not saying this is right or a desirable state of affairs. I’m just saying that it’s how it is. Many people in these comments seem to think that regulation is just a matter of ordering that something be regulated. There are a lot of different steps that go into creating a regulation regime, and we are at the very beginning. There is nothing to be done at this point while the mishap is being investigated, other than putting an immediate freeze on all crewed deep sea activities. In addition, given the tiny amount of people involved in the mishap, I don’t think that there is any reason to give regulation of deep water submersibles any priority over other much needed regulatory reform that affects millions of people.
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  4302.  @Ncobb2334  Yup. And intelligent speculation would be that if they haven’t yet found a weapon, it was an unintentional improper shooting. I would also conclude that neither officer tried to plant a weapon on the suspect. This is how to speculate safely. It’s especially unfortunate for the dead shoplifter, but it’s also unfortunate for the officers and the department.
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  4303.  @foadnwol6684  I’m pretty sure it’s you who are the liar.
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  4304. Surely related to Queen Elizabeth.
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  4305. I think you hit the nail on the head with regard to disagreeing with some of Sal’s points. Sal is offering a point of view that is worth considering, a POV you won’t get anywhere else. He has considerations that you (as a student of history and geopolitics) might not have been aware of or on which you might not place as great importance as he does. What a time to be alive, when we have access to a professor like Sal, or to an anonymous defense analyst in Australia, or many others willing to share their expertise with us. (Yeah, that was a shout out to Perun, whose ppt videos you probably already watch. If you don’t, you should.)
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  4306. If Trump signs today, it will be at 11:59 PM.
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  4307. Don’t put the word in quotes. Palestinian Arabs are real. They do have a right to self determination, just as Israel has a right to exist and to defend itself. Whether they’ve “occupied” Gaza for 100 years or 1000, they are a people distinct from other Arab nationalities. At the same time, we must fight the misconception that there were no Jews living in the Levant prior to Zionism, despite the exile. Some Caliphates encouraged the right-of-return, some not so much. Anti-Jewish pogroms were a key feature in the Palestine Mandate, and a bigger key to the formation of the state of Israel than the Holocaust in Europe was.
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  4308.  @Krahamus  That’s not actually true. Russian citizens are voting in the fake referendums.
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  4309. I don’t think many Ukrainians want revenge on Russia. They just want the Russian army to GTFO.
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  4310. How important is RAM interconnect latency? Does putting your system on a chip matter? And from an economic standpoint, do power and thermal efficiencies matter? I’ve got a layman’s understanding, i.e., not much.
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  4311.  @dieselphiend  Even with more efficient processors, Google, MS, and others are considering nuclear power to meet future demand, either reactivating old plants or building smaller thorium reactors. It’s an interesting time in the nuclear energy space.
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  4312. Maybe not numbered, but certainly they face great challenges in the face of low cost threats. It’s a technical challenge.
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  4313. That’s not “win-win”. One side (the company) lost. When you say “win-win”, that means that everyone benefited from the outcome.
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  4314. Is it pork? Yes. Should we hold up emergency relief for 300 million Americans because the $900 billion price tag contains $89 million in pork? The money you’re concerned about is 0.01% of the total budget. If you include other porkish spending, it still adds up to less than 1%.
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  4315. Greetings to all, from 21 hours in the future. My success in creating a time machine is almost complete. I only need to increase the rate of travel beyond a 1:1 ratio relative to normal time, but my proof of concept has succeeded.  @summerrose9565  the funny thing is that these trollish clowns don’t actually watch the videos. One of them just said, “I don’t listen to a word Campbell says”. 😆
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  4316. Why is this the first time I’ve heard of Tang battles?
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  4317.  @lanceschirmer5583  Interesting theory. More intelligent than a lot of commentary I’ve seen here. If you were prosecuting him, how would you prove intent?
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  4318. Are they really angry? They’ve been using a loophole in Israeli law for decades to be lazy parasites on other Israelis. People that lazy aren’t effectively angry. And handling insubordinate conscripts with guns isn’t that hard. You just don’t issue them weapons. You PT the anger out of them. You seem to think that discipline in the military is a new thing.
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  4319.  @tstodgell  They didn’t bring in sand and gravel because they were ignorant of the law.
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  4320. You left out the fact that so is your mom.
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  4321. Are we talking regular Space Force Barracks or secret Orbital Barracks?
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  4322. It’s not. The company was notified by the tribal mineral council (co-administrator of the mineral rights) that they needed mining permits to proceed with construction. The company ignored them.
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  4323. Despite the larger skin area to capture sunlight?
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  4324.  @ReichLife  That’s false. The Mongols creamed the Muscovite Rus, who submitted to Mongol rule. The kingdom of Muscovy was set up, and the “Princes of Moscow Rus” were set up as tax collectors for the Mongols, paying them an additional tribute for the privilege. The vassal kingdom that we today call Russia was created by Mongols to be the bitch of an Asian empire. It’s looking more and more like Russia will return to bitch status to another Asian empire. 😂
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  4325.  @chefboyardee2223  What do you mean the freshly mobilized Russian soldiers aren’t trained? The Putin Kommissars put them on a train. There, now they’re trained and ready to be sent to the front lines!
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  4326. John Edward YOUNG AMERICANS: Ain’t there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?
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  4327. That’s what you get for signing a contract without reading it. That was a really dumb move on your part, wasn’t it.
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  4328. I thought it was late stage capitalism. Seriously, guys. Stick to one story. 😂 No, I’m joking. Also joking, but seriously, has anyone been pointing out to their evangelist MAGA friends that MAGA sounds like the name of a demon, and they should consider the possibility that they’ve joined a devil cult?
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  4329. I didn’t think there was evidence that vast tracts of land were cleared for agriculture. I was under the impression that the peoples of the Amazon rainforest practiced a sophisticated arboriculture that went undetected initially, because explorers and archaeologists were searching for evidence of agriculture. A settlement of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands people would still cultivate lands around their settlement for corn, beans, and squash, but it might be less than you think if their main food production was fruits and nuts (not to mention abundant fish). The idea that a large part of the Amazon was given over to agriculture is not supported by the evidence.
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  4330. Why do you tell lies and spread disinformation. Neither legal or illegal residents received payments. The amount of money for other countries in A SEPARATE BILL was not more than the relief bill. The amount was 3% of the direct payments (and it was part of TRUMP’s budget). You’re telling lies because you’re malignant or repeating lies because you’re lazy and ignorant. Which is it?
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  4331.  @vn01208503 PAVN put it to good use. Nobody in the U.S. should complain. We owed you for reparations, anyway.
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  4332. If the bill gets passed, the GOP loses its main campaign issue. It has nothing to campaign on going into November.
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  4333. But a turd can oxidize smart guy. That’s why you should always paint your turds with Turdoleum. It will protect your turds from the elements, even harmful UV rays. You might not care if your turds look dry, discolored and worn down. I, on the other hand, take pride that my turds look just as fresh and the day I shat them out. Turdoleum. When you care about shit.
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  4334. The Devil made me do it.
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  4335.  @fnym9rdsavsffdik9a25  YouTube doesn’t need to crack down “harshly” (what does harsh even mean to something that is not even alive?). It just needs to crack down methodically and consistently. It probably needs to hire more humans to identify false positives. I imagine that the issue is that such actions will negatively affect profits in some way.
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  4336. Maybe this is one of the own goals Russians made.
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  4337.  @rogerstarkey5390  much earlier in the pandemic, the Florida state official charged with publishing Covid statistics on the internet resigned in protest because she alleged she was being ordered to manipulate the numbers. They’ve been persecuting her with police raids ever since. I’m not saying her allegations were correct, but I don’t recall an investigation to clear the FLA health department, only the investigation into her.
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  4338. Where’s the quantity then?
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  4339.  @HubertofLiege  No, that’s an incorrect comparison. Here is the correct one: Under capitalism, man exploits his fellow man. Under communism, it’s the other way around.
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  4340. Sore losers.
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  4341. Goldberg: odious but I respect him. 😆 (This is actually a nuanced, intelligent position, but it still made me laugh.)
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  4342.  @WALTERBROADDUS  It’s not like militaries around the world don’t have access to up to date satellite maps and rooms full of analysts poring over the photos. Some of these comments sound like they’re coming from people who drink a lot of lead contaminated water.
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  4343. Jones is looking like a Quaker.
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  4344. How did it increase the Taiwanese “difficulties”? You mean it made China mad?
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  4345. Cargo beep beep.
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  4346. Let’s hope it’s a speed bump and not a mountain peak.
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  4347.  @mattmccaughen8082  bol son ar o or try Bowl Son Are O Hope that helps.
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  4348.  @tomfoolery333  Not really.
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  4349.  @whutcat682  See, this is how I can tell you know zero about real estate financing. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage is what enabled many Americans to buy homes since the 1930s, while we were still recovering from a depression. Go look up Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, and the National Housing Act of 1934. If your parents or grandparents own homes, it’s because government agencies encouraged lenders to make loans on such generous terms. Your inability to buy a home has nothing to do with 30-year terms. You can’t buy one because of two reasons: 1) you’re not making enough money, and 2) you don’t have a down payment. There’s also a possible third reason, that your credit is bad. It’s a GOOD thing to have the cost of your home broken up into 360 manageable payments rather than 120 less manageable payments that are almost 3x higher. Or worse, paying the interest for 10 years and a balloon payment at the end. You have my sympathy. Because house prices are so high, it’s extremely difficult for many Americans to get financing for houses. But if you ever want to be a homeowner, you better learn basic financial math (like why a 30-year mortgage is better than a 10 year mortgage). And you should avoid showing off your ignorance about finance. A closed mouth catches no flies.
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  4350. I would not be surprised if Russian soldiers have been ordered to shoot journalists, considering that the already detain and imprison journalists as spies inside of Russia. Their RoE already encourages the murder of civilians both attempting to flee the violence or sheltering from bombardments against civilian targets.
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  4351. What will it take for the Russian people to open their eyes, if these images don’t.
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  4352. Yes it was. It was also nice to see that Michael took the law enforcement agency (or city) to court and was awarded damages.
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  4353. The truth is far stranger than either a hit or a suicide. The fact is that he was incredibly greedy and would take any job, no batter how difficult and no matter how low, for the right price. When he saw the amount to be paid on the open contract to murder him, he thought he’d take the first crack and clean up. I mean, who else could get past his security? Who else could get close enough to him?
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  4354.  @gourdguru  It is quite possible (and increases in likelihood with age. But dehydration is also a possibility. I’ve suffered “dizzy spells” from dehydration and low blood sugar, and one of the symptoms is disorientation. Everything fades to gray and then, as you come back you don’t know where you are for a short time.
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  4355.  @michaeld4861  If Mitch McConnell is Mussolini, does that make Nancy Pelosi Stalin? Please dial back the hyperbole. But your hyperbole is irrelevant to my point, which is that I think the attacks on people because of their age is disgraceful.
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  4356. That’s global thinking.
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  4357. I’m sure they’re protecting all Egyptian flagged ships from the Houthis. What more do you expect from them?
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  4358. Doesn’t “rebunking” sound better while also being more accurate?
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  4359. The Ukraine government propaganda is kept somewhat honest because they allow independent journalists in country. These journalists can go almost anywhere that they want to risk going, and fact check government claims. So I’ll view Ukrainian propaganda more positively, knowing that they might spin a story or exaggerate, but seldom are they going to tell outright lies. They care about maintaining credibility. Not so much with Russian propaganda. They’ve made independent journalism illegal, with penalties up to 15 years imprisonment. They have paid propagandists pretending to be freelancers (example, Patrick Lancaster, who has been a reporter for RT for years, and is now suddenly “independent”. Russian propaganda is revealed to be the opposite of the truth on a regular basis. I can’t even begin to take any of it seriously because of their track record. The Russians have become so used to making up whatever bullcrap they want that they don’t even know what plausibility is anymore.
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  4360. Some people need to be quarantined, for sure. 😉 You know, what you ought to do is relocate MAGA-nation somewhere where you will be free to do whatever it is you really want to do, without the constraints imposed on you by society. Somewhere where you can make it illegal to wear a mask during a pandemic, somewhere where you can believe in any kind of crazy delusion and act accordingly. I suggest one of the many uninhabited islands in the Aleutian archipelago. You can even bring Trump with you and make him your king.
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  4361. The C is for Century. The original manufacturer of the stand was the Century Company, thus C-stand. I think the company was later bought by Strand Lighting, but don’t quote me on that.
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  4362.  @johnnyjacuzzi7498  couldn’t be a stroke, it’s not in all caps. Probably a psychotic break, ongoing since November.
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  4363. Pete isn’t doing state-by-state breakdowns, he’s doing quick portraits of recent presidents. The digression into Texas politics is necessary to understand Bush’s approach to governing.
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  4364. Was possession of grass one of the charges? Because it looks like he got a handful of fescue.
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  4365.  @andyjarman4958  Merck is the one company that stood to make the most money from Ivermectin. If they thought it would help, they wouldn’t be hiding there fact. Merck’s own vaccine candidates failed. They have no therapeutic treatments anywhere near ready for market. As a result they are going to manufacture the Jansen vaccine for the U.S. and they’ve been looking for smaller companies with therapeutics in development with which to partner (or buy out). I don’t want to discount Ivermectin. There could be something there. But it’s ridiculous to assert that Merck is trying to bury it, when they could and would most certainly be using it to bury their competitors if they thought it was a cure.
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  4366.  @bootburner4544  <— TROLL DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS
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  4367.  @bootburner4544  They are still the largest manufacturer and distributor of ivermectin. Nothing you brought up negates my point. Go troll elsewhere.
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  4368.  @antebratincevic6764 No wonder Russia is so belligerent. Russia suffers from erectile dysfunction.
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  4369.  @Gerle71  Don’t you remember? Zelenskyy is a CIA Nazi comedian and was persecuting Russians.
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  4370. I was going to use your back door, but someone’s pork sausage was blocking my way.
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  4371.  @phildoodler2199  <—TROLL Do not waste your time with this human garbage.
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  4372.  @Dragon.Slayer.  lol. So many trolls don’t seem to know there’s a shortage.
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  4373. If you’re OK with factory sights and grips.
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  4374.  77 7  No, it’s not. Just a bunch of performative chatter from the keyboard brigade.
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  4375. What are they replacing Newsmax with? If it was mentioned in the video, I missed it. Imo, if Newsmax can publish/broadcast online, they’re not being censored.
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  4376. That was lame, but I lol’ed.
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  4377. It’s Florida. Although I think strip clubs should offer take out, home delivery, and curbside service.
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  4378. We won’t know until a bargain is struck, if a bargain even can be struck. In the meantime, look at the bill that the House of Representatives already passed to get a rough idea where the starting point is. Minimum wage will get stripped out by the Senate Dems (rightfully so because it’s a separate issue). The conservative faction of the Democratic Party is also pushing for focusing the direct payments to the most needy. This should satisfy Republican senators, but if they still refuse to act in a bipartisan manner, the Dems can push through the bill through reconciliation. Again, look at the House bill to understand the framework and basic components. The GOP Senators still have a say in the bill’s provisions, but if they don’t, it will get passed anyway. I’m a conservative. I’d rather see bipartisan problem solving by both parties acting IN GOOD FAITH. I’m not seeing many Republican politicians doing that.
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  4379. What is Modi even doing there after Putin signaled he’d be Xi’s bitch?
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  4380.  @proberaum7015  you’re an unrepentant white nationalist and not worth debating. However, it’s also important to call you out and state firmly that race, color, or creed does not determine one’s worth as an American. Non-white Americans are just as American as others, and have the right to fair and equal treatment. The one exception to creed determining one’s worth is the belief and spreading of white supremacy, white nationalism, and other anti-American fascist/racist ideologies. People in thrall to this toxic beliefs are unworthy of respect or attention. Don’t expect a reply. I’m not arguing, I’m stating facts. Take your bullshit elsewhere.
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  4381. Watch the video and find out.
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  4382. Scalise wasn’t that bad a choice. Not the best choice, but not the worst. The real problem is that the Republican conference in the House is ungovernable. It’s not the thin majority so much as it is that thin majority represents a handful of MAGA nutcases.
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  4383. Why not both.
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  4384. The company had leased the private property, which gave them rights to build on the surface, so I don’t think the company is liable for that. It depends on the leasing agreement.
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  4385.  @gregoryrowley1739  He doesn’t say that Russia’s expansionist plans are realistic. Just that Russia has them. And Putin apparently thought that its invasion of Ukraine was realistic and would result in a quick win.
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  4386.  @CoolDude-yp9jt It’s going to take time, but in the meantime you don’t think it should be discussed? Or you don’t want to discuss it personally. If it’s not discussed, there is no way to reach an understanding. Without understanding, no consensus can be reached. Without consensus, nothing will be done.
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  4387. What’s your point exactly? Is it that you’re going to wash your hands and retreat because not everyone acts for the good of humanity? Or is it that you don’t believe the problem exists because not everyone takes it seriously? Or is it that until everyone else in the world behaves rationally, you’d be a fool to behave any differently?
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  4388. The people on my campaign that expect to get paid get real angry when I refuse to fundraise.
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  4389. If he wants, but does he want? If he has his own presidential ambitions, a governorship is a better launch platform than a cabinet position.
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  4390. Cool. You’ll end up giving him the property when he sues you and you might also be incarcerated for assault and battery. Personally, I’d call the police, but you’re free to be as dumb as you want to be.
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  4391. This was a person talking about someone with whom he had a close personal relationship, a person whose life had fallen apart prior to his being radicalized. 🤷🏻‍♀️ This is a person who is blaming himself, or at least searching for what he did wrong or could have done better for the athlete. It’s clear he’s horrified by the Capitol Riot, more so because he was the coach of Keller. I don’t know if that is stunning sympathy. It seems like ordinary type sympathy, when someone you were close to does something stupid and destructive and you wonder if you could have prevented it.
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  4392. If the materials saved the company construction costs, how is that materially different from profit?
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  4393. It’s time to have a second look at Logan’s Run. Now hear me out . . .
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  4394. For health reasons or to prevent panic in the streets because of shortages? 😉
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  4395. What about ghost companies? Are those unincorporated? 😄
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  4396. Sadly, Tucker is ours, not from the UK. We are willing to hear offers, however.
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  4397. Watch the video and you’ll learn the answers to your questions. I hope that’s not too hard.
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  4398.  @jamesoncross7494  And the liberal soft in crime governor, right?
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  4399. And for once he didn’t try to take all the credit!
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  4400. Voters do not have the power to consign Mitch McConnell to Hell. Sorry, but even the ballot box has earthly limitations.
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  4401. Cruz is the worst because he’s actually a respected constitutional scholar (or was). He knows better, but went ahead anyway with unconstitutional bullshit.
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  4402. Where are you?
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  4403. When I purchased my Mr. Heater, I also got the hose adapter to hook up with a propane tank. It works great and there’s no need to fiddle around with the little green camping canisters. It’s heating my bedroom right now as we speak. It dropped to 37° F last night, but my bedroom is a toasty 70°. This is its third year of operation. My #1 consideration is cost of operation. A propane tank exchange where I live costs just under $14 (including home delivery). One tank will last me about a month depending on usage. Electric heaters push up my usage tier and then ALL my electricity costs more. I don’t remember the cost of kWh offhand, but my electric bill went up by $60/month when I used an electric heater a few years ago, only using it for a few hours on cold mornings. My biggest safety concern was carbon monoxide poisoning, so I installed a carbon monoxide detector/alarm. There have been zero issues that you might get by using a gas heater designed for outdoor use. As far as fire risk, I make sure there is more than 3’ of space around the heater. If you care about money, the Mr. Heater is the way to go. Maintenance: It might require minor maintenance with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol at the end of winter. Propane can contain impurities which will eventually foul up the heater. If your propane is really dirty, you might need to open it up to get at tubes blocked with gunk. I live in central Mexico (rental) above 6000 feet elevation. Morning winter temps are often 40° or below but it rarely drops below freezing. Daytime temps reach 60° to 70° by noon on most cold days. I don’t think I use the heater much when the morning temps are above 50°. Not at all really.
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  4404. Gaetz! Gaetz! I kept thinking this was Congressman Glen Quagmire.
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  4405. They’re understandably upset, but they couldn’t offer a warranty as robust as a military pact.
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  4406. Haha, I thought you were about to take credit. We should be sending batteries!
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  4407.  @jasonhenza  You might call them “permanent tourists”. They’re generally not interested in assimilating or acculturating. Many will never learn to speak Spanish. They want to create their collective version of an American good life in Mexico. There are many gringo communities throughout Mexico (counting Canadians as gringos). Not all of them are these weirdo antivaxxer types. Gringos have been retiring to Mexico in large numbers for decades—30 or 40 years.
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  4408. What’s your time frame? Given a long enough timeline, your probability of dying is 100%. But seriously, that number is very hard to predict, given the newness of this novel coronavirus and the changes it undergoes. Someone could give you a probability today in good faith, and that number could change tomorrow or next week. Expecting certainty, as some people seem to do, is a recipe for disappointment.
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  4409. I believe a rational person can explore irrational and suprarational thoughts, but it does require a temporary letting go of ones rational framework, a stepping outside of it in a way. You don’t need drugs to do this, but if you’ve learned meditation or self hypnosis techniques they might be helpful. It might also be useful to keep a journal, notes, or some written record. You might do it like this. Say to yourself, “Suppose that . . . .” and add something pleasant, but unlikely, unprovable, or impossible. And then suppose that it’s true. Discard thoughts about why it’s not possible, or how one could make it possible. Just suppose for the moment that it is true, and suppose what that would be like. I want to stress that the thing you suppose can really be unlimited. Suppose I am a coyote. Suppose there were two planet earths and we could travel between them. Suppose God existed. Suppose our bones were stronger than steel. Suppose farts had medicinal properties. Part of this exercise is to imagine what the experience is like living in a world that you just supposed. To imagine it so vividly that you almost feel like you have experienced it, to experience it as real. Don’t worry about all the reasons your supposition is not possible. Don’t try to undermine it. Obviously, a part of your mind will want to analyze all the ways your supposition is absurd, wouldn’t work, or is impossible. Let those thoughts drift away, reframe the question, and continue imagining. I suggested you use a pleasant supposition. The reason for this is an unpleasant or negative one, even a morbid one, might cause you worry and anxiety—this will impede you in two ways. One, it triggers your analytic mind which will strive to relieve you of the anxiety, most easily by explaining to yourself why the triggering supposition is impossible. Two, an unpleasant supposition could disuade you from repeating the exercise. Anyway, I hope this is useful. It’s possible to take time away from the hyper mechanistic and rational self without becoming an idiot or a loony. It’s quite useful to do so. I don’t want to use the word “escape” because it’s not accurate. But it is stepping outside of it, and it is possible because we are larger than our rational minds.
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  4410. I wouldn’t be surprised if domestic and international flights are regulated by different branches, or that the aviation agency needs sign off from different governmental agencies for each type of flight. There is a misperception that the CCP and the Chinese government are well coordinated and efficient. Nothing could be further from the truth. I’m not going to assume intentionality or aggression when it’s not in evidence. This is just a peek behind the curtain at a dictatorship’s major clusterf_ _k.
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  4411.  @MTREDHEADS  She believes in policies a different GOP supported. The GOP has become a different party over the past 8 years. GOP politicians are not interested in policy and they’re not interested in governing. They’re interested in power and they’re interested in being social media influencers.
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  4412.  @petem.3719  I think Vance is worried that he is soiled underwear. He’s giving us a peek at his rock bottom self esteem that compels him to go out there every night and humiliate himself in public.
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  4413. Yes! I rely on data, but individual stories really make it more real to me.
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  4414. This is hilarious.
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  4415. In countries without a government imposed lockdown, there was still a de facto lockdown, as rational people were limiting their interactions with others and practicing health protocols. In countries where a large number of people were acting irrationally, government lockdowns have become necessary—yet (in the case of the U.S.A.) poorly and inconsistently implemented. Those nations that have instituted strict lockdowns initially, including strict border control and limited domestic travel, have seen the most success (in the cases of New Zealand and Australia, for example).
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  4416.  @adeveloper6653  when he gets too far out of his lanes, he can sound like a doofus to domain experts. I don’t mind too much because when he makes mistakes in his explanations, they’re of the partial/imperfect understanding type. He’s at least wrestling the the material, and then testing his understanding by putting it out there for our criticism. Pete is pretty ballsy if you think of it that way. That said, he’s fallen into a very common misconception about general AI, probably because he’s trying to define it by a use-case. The problem is that general AI is undefinable because human intelligence is still undefined and not understood. Turing side stepped this with his concept of the Turing Test( testing for observable symptoms if human intelligence) but when one starts to think about the Test itself, oh boy. It’s a philosophical mine field. A general AI isn’t a machine that can replicate human intelligence (or even improve on it). A general AI can only create an appearance of human intelligence good enough to fool an observer. (Prompting questions about this observer testing the prospective AI, no?)
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  4417.  @5had0wbaNNed wrong
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  4418.  @TheChrisLeone Nope.
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  4419.  @prsimoibn2710  That’s your projection.
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  4420. You realize that these “giveaways” were in President Trump’s own budget proposal? This is spending that Trump requested. He’s blaming Congress, but he’s the one that put it into the budget.
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  4421. Would you prefer the term non-white? “People of Color” refers to people born with more skin pigmentation than caucasians such as yourself.
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  4422. The real crime here is that beard.
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  4423. Let’s not forget that General Motors was assisted in the war effort by Major Cooperation and Private Industry.
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  4424. Time discipline. If you watch a lot of YouTube videos (as do I), it’s likely that you’re unfamiliar with it. Or maybe you’re like me: I understand it in theory, but I end up watching too many videos on time management to put it into practice.
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  4425. Apparently you also have trouble watching the video, because your opinion seems a huge stretch for someone with the knowledge of the facts and law that you would get from watching it.
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  4426.  @olivesama Stormfront, probably.
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  4427. I think there is a couple of other arguments that the tribe used or could have used, but this was the most clear cut violation.
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  4428.  @OceanFrontVilla3  <— TROLL The U.S. State Department is reporting that they’ve uncovered a Russian Intelligence disinformation campaign to discredit vaccines. Trolls like this person are either being fed disinformation from Russian Troll farms or is actively working for/with Russian Intelligence agencies. If you’ve wondered why all these antivaxxers have come out of the woodwork and are plaguing medical information channels like Dr. Campbell’s YouTube channel, now you know. It’s part of the agenda to hurt and destabilize the U.S. and other countries. These people do not wish you well. They do not care if you or your family dies. On the contrary, they want to increase deaths in the U.S.
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  4429. @Albert Clarke She’s a troll, either knowingly or unknowingly working for the Russian disinformation campaign now being reported by the State Department.
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  4430. Who does have standing to petition the Supreme Court? This procedural decision means that anti-abortion groups have to rethink their legal strategy. The only way that this will be finally settled is through Congress outlawing the drugs in question. That means abortion foes need control of both chambers of Congress and the Presidency.
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  4431. It’s the dog that wagged the meme.
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  4432. What extraordinary measures?. The arrestee wouldn’t exit the vehicle. They use the K9 to distract, while they move in with non lethal tools. They use all the tools at once, rather than one at a time: Taser and pepper spray. Then they pulled him out and sat on him until he was cuffed. One cop, the blondie, threw a couple of punches to stun the suspect while he was grabbing the wheel. He threw a couple of punches later to help subdue, but I wonder if they were necessary or just a bonus. Nobody was murdered during this arrest. Necessary force seems to have been applied. This had a good outcome, even for the arrestee (compared to the thing we don’t want to see happen).
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  4433. I heard or read that Queretaro is the fastest growing city in the world. This was pre-pandemic. I never verified if it was true or not. If it was, I wonder if it is still the case. I do know that Qro is home to several top universities in STEM fields, so there’s already an educated workforce.
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  4434.  @Asghaad  Good point. And we already have proof that Russia is arresting Ukrainian politicians in areas that they occupy and murdering them.—I’m not going to assume that Russia is adhering or will adhere to the Geneva convention in any way.
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  4435.  @MH_6160  Yes, on self control. BUT a resounding NO on government control, which is what the anti-abortionists are trying to impose on us.
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  4436. The pro-Hamas protests at the elite universities this spring indicate that ignorance is a problem on the left, as well. Not all the student protestors were pro-Hamas. Some were protesting the tragic suffering of Palestinian civilians. But the general tenor of the protests were at best ignorant of history and blinded by clumsy Marxist ideology, and at worst anti-Semitic.
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  4437. I don’t think so. This is too high profile to sweep under the rug. It’s going to be difficult for the AG to just drop the matter if Cuomo is impeached or resigns. That said, what do you think he might be charged with? Most of the behavior described so far is along the lines of sexual harassment and fostering a toxic work environment. From what I understand, one or two of the cases might rise to the level of sexual assault. If they can prove him guilty of sexual assault, he might well see jail time, but it’s less likely he would serve time for the weaker charges. That said, if he’s orchestrating a cover up (more than just issuing denials), he could be jailed for quite a long time.
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  4438. Goats can’t be legally married, not even to each other. It’s well known that goats are liars. She didn’t need to murder it. No one would believe the goat if it made accusations. She’s not kidding anyone.
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  4439. But why would he risk arrest? Except for a handful of countries, the richest man in the world cannot travel through most of that world. The next time there is a summit of BRICS in Brazil or S.A., he has to stay home, or risk an incident where he is detained.
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  4440. Bill was in Middle School in 1968.
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  4441. We should start a pool over how many speakers we will see before January 2025. My money is on 7.
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  4442. Greetings, Armchair General. We noticed you’re trying to politicize a humanitarian effort by the U.S. Army like a dirty hippy. It doesn’t matter if you support the politicians. Support the troops, you pinko. That goes for the rest of you Trump suckups. I agree with Tom Riley. This an important lesson under urgent need but not total emergency circumstances (such as if we were resupplying our soldiers under siege).
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  4443.  @elhueso4330  Tell us something new.
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  4444. It’s frikkin bizarre how the right wing became the anti-police nutcases just because they had one insurrection put down.
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  4445. @Got It! hello, Putzi. That’s the funny thing. While Mariupol resists, it’s a thorn in Russia’s side. It prevents Russia from securing the corridor to Crimea. Sure, Mariupol might fall tomorrow or next week, but the Ukrainian soldiers there are doing their job—keeping Russian forces pinned down. When all is said and done, Mariupol is going to cost Russia much blood, much treasure, and when the war crimes are revealed, Russia will be isolated like never before. Enjoy your Pyrrhic victory, Putzi.
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  4446. What is film?
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  4447. To clarify a point: her personal account was permanently banned, not suspended.
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  4448. Why not another nominee from the Democrats, a nominee palatable to the handful of GOP Congresspeople willing to break with their own party?
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  4449.  @coonhound_pharoah  That’s not inflation, that’s overvaluation and betting “stonks go up” always and consistently. It’s a lot of people playing the “greater fool” game with the unrealistic expectation that they aren’t the fool. It’s VCs who should know better buying their own BS and buying the BS of the grifters selling “the next hot thing” because they want to own the next unicorn. It’s FOMO.
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  4450. This is pretty normal old style partisanship. He’s saying he supports Biden’s aims wrt Israel, but that the GOP could do it better. It’s nothing to get worked up about. He didn’t slander Biden as an extremist MAGA or DT would do. There was is a vast ocean between saying “We can do it better than the Dems” and saying “the dems are the demonic enemies of the U.S.”
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  4451. No. Did you watch the video before commenting?
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  4452. I’m really good at blitzkrieg sex. Stop saying it’s pre-mature ejaculation.
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  4453.  louis valdez  not only that, but somebody would break up the fight after a while if it was too one sided. That’s if an adult didn’t break it up first—which is why a lot of after school fights happened in front of school: they wanted to perform in front of students, then have the fight broken up.
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  4454.  @jonrods7015  Half the time there was a bigger kid that would break up the fight before it got to bad, and force the two combatants to shake hands, which they would grudgingly do. There might or might not be bad blood afterwards. A lot depended on whether the winner was satisfied with making his point or continued to ride the loser. You know, we are romanticizing things. There was a lot of bullying and besides resolving conflict, it was one of the ways the pecking order was set. But you know what? There’s still bullying and fucked up conflict resolution. Only now kids are getting murdered.
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  4455.  @mitchellanderson3960  It must hurt your hand to do so much rewriting of history. Do you really think we’ve forgotten what happened only 15 months ago? Your line of bullshit even contradicts the official MOD line of bullshit they were putting out at the time. You vatniks are incredibly stupid to think you can revise what everyone saw with their own eyes.
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  4456. My dear Doktor Bob. Possibly they are creating podcasts, and podcasting has been deemed essential work. I’m suspending judgement about this as they might have a point. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  4457. ISPs send out firmware updates and these sometimes reset the wifi password to the original PW (the one printed on the modem). You generally will notice this right away, but you’re at risk for the period before that. Admittedly it’s a small risk, but the fix is easy—request a new modem every two years. Your suggestion is a good one, and should be done right away whenever you get a new modem.
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  4458.  @achimsteffens5357  For what it’s worth, you’re not late to the party. Not very late to it, at least. Europe now seems fully awake to the threats from China and Russia.
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  4459.  @lorenzcassidy3960  Wagner winners of quota contests get a special treat prepared by Putin’s chef: a shit sandwich, and everyone in the organization has to take a bite.
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  4460.  Porter93  You’re getting paid in useless rubles. How are you going to buy a potato when the food shortages hit?
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  4461.  @jasonx-ray3921  Even more reason to not respond.
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  4462. I wouldn’t say he wimped out. I’d say he refused to be MTG’s and Gaetz’ bitch. He refused to suffer the same fate as McCarthy.
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  4463.  @mdaze9753  and beyond. We conservatives also have housecleaning to do. Please grab your popcorn and support us by cheering.
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  4464. Can you imagine that if you murdered someone in the course your committing a crime that you could claim self-defense? A mugger could kill a person and then say they felt threatened, and go free.
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  4465. Putzi
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  4466. If the cause of the various symptoms is a bradykinnin storm (as opposed to a cytokine storm), Vitamin-D has been shown to regulate the release of bradykinnins. There’s your “possibility of a suggestion of what might be correlation”. Google “Bradykinnin Covid”.
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  4467. It’s funny to call them moderates when they’re still conservatives. They only seem to be moderates because the GOP has shifted so far into crazy right wing extremism. They haven’t moved towards the center, it just seems like it by comparison.
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  4468. It’s one of those things that operates on multiple levels, right down to our personal interactions. And it takes humility to admit when we are wrong, either personally, as a country, and everything in between. However, the biblical admonition “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” doesn’t mean we should allow stone throwers to run amok!
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  4469.  @SK-cm5mt  No one is saying that McConnell’s election by the voters of Kentucky was illegitimate. Did you read that in Pravda?
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  4470. Yes, everyone has the right to due process. Accused people “get off” on due process technicalities, but that’s not an indication of a weakness in the system or of unethical defense attorneys. It’s an indication that due process is a bedrock principle of justice and the rule of law. I think the ideal is that defense attorneys serve “in the interest of justice”. Doing their best to defend their client with the rules is “in the interest of justice”.
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  4471. Let’s call them the Donner Party, because their basic platform is cannibalism.
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  4472. I really enjoyed watching the Super Bowl yesterday. Not only was it a great game, it was the most woke Super Bowl ever.
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  4473. The ammunition was merely loaned to the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians will return the ammunition a little bit at a time until Russia has been repaid in full plus interest.
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  4474. Your calling the deaths of civilians a genocide is disgusting hyperbole and disrespectful to victims of actual genocides and disrespectful to civilian victims of the Israel/Gaza conflict. You should be ashamed, but I don’t think you’re capable of it.
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  4475. You haven’t seen any pro Hamas signs anywhere? Have you seen any anti Hamas signs? Have you seen signs demanding that Hamas release the hostages?
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  4476.  @ChristopherJGould  I guess I’m guilty of chrono-chauvinism, because I was surprised by how many people have regressed to all sorts of delusional thinking in our “modern age”. Sure, we all know people with eccentric beliefs (all sorts of pseudoscience and astrology and whatnot) in normal times, but I really didn’t think there were so many, nor that they would cling so steadfastly to their delusions. We’ve all known cranks that are anti-experts, anti “book learning”, but I never imagined that political movements would cohere around such idiocy, seemingly gaining force the more reality smacks them (and all of us) in the face. I suppose it’s deep seated fear that drives people into such positions.
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  4477. YOU SUPPORT LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION I CAN TELL
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  4478. Watch the video. It answers your question.
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  4479. Let’s hope they’re reactive now, and do something. There are too many congresspeople in the House of Representatives that will try to block these efforts.
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  4480. I can’t stand the Bernie cult, but I don’t think there are many of them. His economic policies would be disastrous if they were implemented, but I don’t think they can be effectively put into practice. Bernie would need a Congress just as radical as he is, so to get anything passed he would have to water down his proposals. My opinion: we could survive Bernie, the “Democratic Party Trump”. So I guess I’m going to vote for Biden. What a weird state of affairs. I voted for GOP presidential candidates for 24 years before Trump and was locally active in the GOP for most of the same period (probably longer because I was a big Reagan fan before I could even vote).
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  4481. Can you not imagine circumstances under which it might be necessary?
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  4482.  @cherriberri8373  Are you an aviator? It doesn’t sound like you are. It sounds like you are confidently speaking about a subject of which you have little understanding. Don’t feel bad for not understanding it. Aviation is pretty freaking complicated. There’s a handful of good channels (that I know of) that can educate you about aviation and air accidents. A good one is Blanco Lirio, and he’s already posted a video on this tragic incident. Then you can offer (or abstain from offering) a more educated opinion instead of just excepting your lips.
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  4483. Did you even watch the video?
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  4484. Which parts specifically? And what sample of known parts are you using to match them?
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  4485.  @dls951  Hopefully someone will change your diaper before inauguration day.
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  4486.  @indomie7  Be honest. Was this better than Game of Thrones in terms of suspenseful endings?
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  4487.  @pyrovania  What do you propose? Some will stay delusional. Some will come out of it, especially if there is family to intervene. Internet Trump trolls gotta keep on trollin’. But what can we do about the truly dangerous ones? If you know anything specific, you need to report it. If you just have a general fear . . . understandable. Let the authorities handle it, which they will now that their hands are being untied.
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  4488. I believe he’s covered that topic in previous videos on vitamin D3.
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  4489.  @contentsdiffer5958  One doesn’t become a rouge trader oven right.
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  4490. ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND HISTORIANS HATE THIS ONE SIMPLE HACK
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  4491. How hard would it be for them to create their own passport with a scrap of paper and a crayon? No, you deport them because they don’t have a valid visa.
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  4492. I don’t mind bots like you because you are cheating your Kremlin employers
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  4493.  @ChicoTheMan69  Putin is introducing a new form of Socialism. The Army is going to take all the corpses of their dead soldiers and cremate them together. All the ashes will be mixed together. Then the families of the dead who come for the ashes will be told, “Take according to your need.”
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  4494.  @farangutan6773  More and more, your ideology of Putinism sounds like the Nazis.
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  4495.  @joedavenport5293  There was a Revolution in February of 2017. Then in October, there was a Coup, and the Bolsheviks under Lenin seized power from the Socialist coalition that was governing Russia. Non-Bolshevik socialists were rounded up and imprisoned or murdered. That’s what a great guy Lenin was.
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  4496. Yup. It was coordinated by the NRA with a lot of scaremongering to gin up opposition to even development of the technology.
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  4497. Uncork another bottle of your coping juice and relax, Putzi. Maybe switch to decaf. We honestly don’t care. It doesn’t matter to us that the work of expelling Russia from Ukraine is ongoing. We don’t expect miracles. This war is a trudge, one step at a time, until Russia decides to leave or is forced to leave.
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  4498. Merry upside down Christmas.
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  4499. Not surprising. From day one of this operation, Russia has been shooting itself in the foot.
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  4500. The victim wasn’t a man, he was a bicyclist.
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  4501. Tucker would first need to learn how to debate. The last time Tucker tried to debate was in 2004 and he got his ass handed to him and then his face pushed in to it. Since that famous debate he has never demonstrated that he’s learned how to debate. He’s only developed the skills to shut down a debate. So if Pete and Tucker were to have a debate, it’s only fair that we give Tucker time to prepare. What will it take? Twenty more years?
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  4502. Adrenaline.
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  4503. He lived there. He didn’t go to a war zone, Putin brought the war zone to him.
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  4504. You might have a point if the DOJ investigation was nonpartisan.
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  4505.  @baumapfel4463  I don’t think that’s completely correct. It would be more correct to say that Turkey wants something for its vote. Self-interested? Yes. Unreliable? Let’s grade them on a curve and give them a “B”. There is also value to be had by having dissent within the alliance, as long as it doesn’t break up the alliance (which this won’t). It puts the lie to the propaganda that NATO is controlled by the U.S. and that the other members do it’s bidding. In past decades, it was France that often was the dissenter. The truth is that maintaining the alliance is (in normal times) somewhat like herding cats, except in this case, the cats herd each other. It’s been repeated many times since February 24th, but Russia did an amazing job of unifying this herd we call NATO.
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  4506. Yup. Successful. No excessive force (although blonde cop 🤷🏻‍♀️, a little bit 🤏), nobody died or seriously injured (just a little chewed on).
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  4507. No.
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  4508. I can’t believe this so-called expert didn’t mention the Popov Mechanism incorporated into the turret ring of most Russian tanks.
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  4509.  @deezle1460  At the bottom of the hierarchy are street gangs that owe allegiance and pay a tax to operate. They might know other crews in their area. If they do know anything, they won’t talk because L.E. can’t offer them real protection. In fact, once they’re tried, convicted and imprisoned (whether in the U.S. or in Mexico), they’ll be murdered after a certain amount of time. What they did is bad for business. Witness protection wouldn’t save them either. These crew members don’t know anything but violence and crime and soon enough they turn up.
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  4510.  @Shadow__133  pretty much. A street gang. Involved with extortion and petty drug dealing, and other violent crimes. They were sloppy because they could afford to be sloppy, but they didn’t get permission to kidnap tourists. They pay a weekly tax to the cartel, and they know who the local collector and enforcers are, but that’s about it.
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  4511.  @dyr_glpsn4209  Free speech is good because it helps us identify the morons easily.
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  4512. I’ll take $600 now over $2000 never. GOP Congressional leadership wanted $0 in direct stimulus payments. The original BIPARTISAN framework didn’t address direct stimulus at all because it was so contentious and McConnell was being so hardline. Even though there was wide bipartisan support for $1200 payments, McConnell would have allowed it to come to a vote. $600 was the best compromise they can come up with while McConnell controls the Senate. What happened next comes down to who controls the Senate, and that comes down to the runoff elections in Georgia. If both Democrats win, we will see more cash relief. If they lose and McConnell maintains his control over the Senate, forget about it. You’ll look back fondly at this slap in the face as McConnell punches you in the gut and knees you in the groin.
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  4513. What are your bikes? You sound like a KTM 650 gal, or maybe BMW if you have money.
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  4514.  @categories5066  Lying Putzi.
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  4515.  @carbon1255  Categories doesn’t believe that war crimes were committed in Bucha. He’s a Putzi.
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  4516.  @Sean-h4v9h I’m not surprised you’ve never heard of Eric Trump. Your account is only five months old. You’re practically a baby, Ivan.
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  4517. Herr Putin.
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  4518. Is this a German we might know or just a random German you picked up?
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  4519. It’s the big center. The far left is getting nervous, too. That’s where I first heard the term Uniparty being flung—at Joe Biden.
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  4520.  @iapetus7  if the 30 million that the accused liar reported isn’t there, it’s either because he was lying about it or . . . . Dun dun DUHHHNNH . . . the conspiracy onion has infinite layers, so there will always be a reason why there is a lack of evidence.
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  4521. You keep mixing up fascism with conservatism. I’m beginning to think you’re doing this intentionally.
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  4522. Good. It’s time we stopped calling these actions “political stunts”. A political stunt can serve an important point. These are MAGA cruel pranks and performative cruelty. (And it’s also quite amazing that many of the perpetrators and supporters claim to be Christians in any way, shape, or form. This is authoritarianism devolved to the tyranny of a spoiled toddler with power.
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  4523. Those liberal judges in the People’s Socialist Republic of Wyoming are at it again. Just kidding, obviously. This is clearly a case of woke voters electing a DA that would release criminals onto the streets. Still kidding. But seriously, how much you want to bet she was elected based on the promise to investigate election fraud in other states?
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  4524.  @deborahhebblethwaite1865  Great, so you don’t care if you spread the virus to vulnerable people that don’t have the same access to medical care or resources as you do. You’re a real piece of shit, aren’t you?
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  4525. I’ve got a great idea! Let’s discuss Nazis for a half hour or longer and barely mention anti-semitism, because collectivism is the great evil.
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  4526.  @mikemondano3624  Ge also mixed up antivaxxer and “environmental advocate”, whatever that is.
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  4527. For those who are hesitating to get vaccinated, these men risked their careers to fraudulently obtain vaccine doses. This is not proof of their efficacy, but it’s proof that they thought the vaccine is efficacious. One of them was a medical professional, recognized for his achievements, prior to getting caught.
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  4528. The police and news reported the story as facts came in and could be established. Y’all act like they knew ahead of time or could figure everything out within hours. As far as the wrong suspect arrested, that happens. It’s a credit to the police that they cleared and released him so quickly. I can’t comment on the competency or incompetency of the sheriffs or police investigators, because you can’t tell at this point from outside the investigation.
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  4529. @Mike C Maybe, maybe not. We don’t know what triggered that arrest. But we do know that that suspect was cleared from suspicion and released in short order. That sounds like the police doing their job correctly.
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  4530. 0:45 Sarah Palin NEVER tried to stir up racial violence. She was tacky and ignorant and belligerent (belligerent is the worst I can think of) and unsuited for the office she was seeking. In selecting her as his running mate, John McCain had a lapse in judgement. But she was not evil, not even close. You can’t even say this is “next level”. Maga, Trump, and JD are from a different planet.
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  4531. Be cautious with Bloomberg news. Their reliability on breaking stories is mixed, and they don’t publish corrections on some stories they’ve gotten very wrong. It’s best to check Bloomberg against credible sources—
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  4532. That will buff out.
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  4533. It’s a big if. Putin might have accumulated sufficient power to stay in power until he dies of old age. But let’s say it happens or he has a heart attack. The most likely faction to seize power will be his loyalists who will continue his policies. Second most likely are the more extremists ultranationalists who think Putin is not doing enough. They won’t just continue Putin’s policies, they will put the policies on steroids. There’s also a strong policy that no single faction (or sub faction) will be able to seize power, and will instead fight it out among themselves. This is the gang war scenario. The least likely scenario is that the anti-war pro-democracy faction will come to power. This is because their organizations have been destroyed and their leaders are dead or in prison. Maybe new leaders will arise if there was a general uprising, but that is unlikely with an apathetic center only vaguely aware that things are not going well in Ukraine. The slimmest possibility is that there is a mass mutiny in the Russian military, and a hundred thousand soldiers refuse to fight and march on Moscow. I hope this happens, but it’s really low probability.
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  4534. JCX? What happened to Adolph Gasser?
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  4535. Zelensky’s predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, has said that negotiations are ongoing and that Ukraine’s “Chief Negotiator” is the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 😂 The implication is that Ukraine for its part will continue to generously offer more death to Russian soldiers. That said, once Russian forces leave voluntarily or are ejected from Ukraine’s sovereign territory, there will be some form of negotiations for the peace. Kicking the Russians out is only the first step towards peace, if we are to have a lasting peace. I agree with you, Ukraine has the first say in negotiations and they have the last say. But once their territorial integrity is restored, NATO and the EU also has a say because they hold the whip hand against Russia’s economy. The UN might need to get involved in creating a demilitarized zone between Russia and Ukraine. I don’t know how realistic it is, but a goal of the Western democracies should be disarming Russia’s nuclear capabilities. Such disarmament might involve the non-Western nuclear powers (China and India) getting involved in negotiations.
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  4536. Make it PDT (Putzi Death Trap)
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  4537. This reminds me of the famous bunker scene in Downfall, where two of Hitler’s most fanatical followers tell him, “It turns out the Chinese were helping the Jews”.
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  4538.  casey adams  I feel sorry for you.
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  4539. Has Johnson withdrawn from consideration yet? Or is he waiting until after the vote?
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  4540.  @liliachan3753  jitomates, mija. Tomates are strictly the green ones.
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  4541.  @catherineborodii2408  Dore is a Putinista.
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  4542.  @StinkyGuff  Admittedly, they were sold a bill of goods, but they’re getting what they want good and hard.
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  4543.  @NathansHVAC which is why SEAD will be one of the earlier roles for these aircraft.
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  4544. Ch3cking my colon spasms for the feigenbaum constant. 4.669—checks out
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  4545. What physical characteristics make him look corrupt? I’ll have to look at the video again, because I have no idea what that means, “to look corrupt” as you put it.
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  4546.  @truth3899  but he’s not a duck. He’s a human. Are you suggesting that all humans are corrupt? The OP was suggesting that there was a visually distinctive characteristic that indicates corruption, but I’m not seeing it. Maybe they’re just racist, or maybe there’s something too subtle for me to see. He seems slightly overweight, but that can’t be it, because many people are fat and not corrupt. Glasses? Short hair? Business suit? Neither of those indicate corruption any more than weight or skin color.
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  4547. Why would they print that lie?
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  4548. I quite agree with you, and I’ll go further. The “fall” of the Western Roman Empire was a slow process. Although there was a significant breakdown in the empire’s government and a reduction in trade, Roman society didn’t disappear. It’s important to note that in the centuries before the fall, Rome was already employing “barbarian” tribes in their armies, sometimes as discrete armies (large units) and sometimes as individual mercenaries. It’s hard to believe that the Germans and Gauls somehow forgot about logistics as Roman influence waned, while not forgetting about military engineering (as used in sieges and fortifications). The so-called barbarian tribes didn’t suddenly forget what they had learned from the Romans. There is no doubt that following the political and economic breakdown, society became more primitive, more agrarian, less urban. Cities became depopulated, people moved to the countryside and engaged in subsistence farming. A new political/economic system arose from these changes. There was less material wealth to support learning and preservation of knowledge (but it did continue to a lesser degree), less wealth to support arts and other material aspects of an urban culture.
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  4549. If you don’t think it’s worthwhile understanding what people think and why, I don’t know what to tell you.
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  4550. Not a metaphor—this is what sometimes happens when you buy your electronic components for your weapons on the black market or “parallel market” because the manufacturers won’t sell to you direct. You run the risk of getting bonus firmware that reads your location as the target in a CPU or SOC that looks exactly like the original component and even tests as the original.
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  4551. There’s no realistic chance of that happening until January 2025 at the earliest. Meanwhile, the Dems could make a deal to support Speaker Johnson against the MTGs and Matt Gaetzes destroying our country. I’m not saying the Dems should do this out of the goodness of their hearts. They should ask for concessions. But this is how we can return to the normal give-and-take of representational democracy.
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  4552. If you visit Antartica, you become a Freemason according the the Antartic Treaty. Checkmate, Dave!! 😉
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  4553. Tariffs will pay for subsidies, not the tax payer. Didn’t you know that Trump tariffs are magical and don’t cause inflation because the price increases are never passed on to the consumer? Trump tariffs will pay for everything. It’s like free money. lol, just kidding. Obviously the above claims are pure nonsense. That said, subsidies in the form of tax breaks that create NEW economic activity are less of a tax burden than you might think. Federal and state governments are foregoing tax revenue that didn’t exist previously. So over the long term they aren’t really costing anything (hopefully), they might create eventual revenue (best case), or they might have a smaller cost but have other benefits that make the cost worthwhile. Put another way, it’s not a loss of revenue if that revenue wasn’t there to begin with. Granted, a lot depends on how the tax break is structured. I’m sure we can imagine scenarios were it all goes wrong and instead of growth, there is merely a shift of activity from existing ports. I haven’t read the legislation that was just passed. I guess Sal hasn’t had a chance to analyze it either because it got pushed through the House of Representatives so quickly.
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  4554. Even then, timing is important. If you stand up in the middle of a fight while a tank is shooting at you, the tank commander might not see you in time or at all. The time to surrender was when the tanks first entered the field. The Russian squad was warned by that lone soldier who came running back after having his jerk off or taking a crap or whatever. That would have been the perfect time to throw down their weapons, raise a white flag and their hands. Or after, if any survived. You don’t get to call time out in the middle of a fight.
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  4555. I’m not a Hil Hater, but she’s starting to look like a lich. That’s not a criticism. I’m starting to look like a bowl of jello. I need to exercise more.
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  4556. Get your hands out of my dirty mind!
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  4557. You are probably a Neo Nazi Accelerstionist
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  4558. Well, the Darwinian principle of “survival of the fittest” tells us that those Russian tanks that don’t go out and that stay out of Ukraine have a better chance of surviving and reproducing.
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  4559.  @freemanreed5228  I’m glad my joke question actually led to an interesting discussion about stand-off range. One thing I am curious is shooting past the theoretical maximum line of site. The earth’s curvature limits LOS to (roughly) 5,000 meters for a 6’ tall person. So going beyond 5,000 meters presents interesting challenges. Some are more or less solved, others aren’t but could be. To be clear, I’m thinking about projectile rounds, not guided rockets. What would you call this? Indirect direct-fire? Battlefields have been getting interesting, even without ducks, and they will continue to get more interesting.
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  4560.  @wazza-au  I like the way you think.
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  4561. They shake some special water on them and utter a magical incantation.
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  4562. Thank you. There’s also the matter of long term tendency towards mildness (less virulence). What time scale are we talking? It’s logical that there is an upper limit or ceiling to virulence—viruses can’t spread and replicate if the host is killed too quickly. But increased transmissibility would raise that limit, no? It could be quite a long time before we see a “mild virus” if we try to wait it out.
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  4563. You’ve had that problem for more than a century and it’s still going on? Murderers and rapists, and, I assume, some good people are coming from Ireland?
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  4564. Their comment quotas were raised, and the bottom 10% of GRU trolls will be sent to fight in Ukraine, to die face down in the Ukrainian mud.
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  4565. It might, but nothing will be effective until the money laundering in the U.S. is addressed. If you want to kneecap the cartels, go after the money and the people who facilitate its movement. Sadly, that won’t happen because of the influence of the banking industry will protect those banking executives involved and/or accountable.
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  4566. Hi Beth! I appreciate the thought, but you are correct about the first thing you wrote. 😂 The sort of man who is voting for Trump is not interested in listening women talk about Kamala Harris. They’re just not. Men need to talk to these men about Kamala Harris. It was a few close men that got me to stop referring to women as “b*****s”. They reasoned with me. I would have resisted and gotten defensive if a woman had tried to change me.
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  4567. I got the propane cylinders changed out for my two heaters (18,000 BTU and 32,000 BTU), just in case the polar vortex reaches me.
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  4568. What is his deep analysis based on? What is the basis of his revolutionary algorithm? What is his academic specialty? If he explained any of this and I missed it, it’s because I could hardly understand it.
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  4569. I don’t want to take sides, but from the information that was related to us, the sheriff did nothing wrong. The driver had been ticketed, the police officer’s business was done and he could return to his other duties in his jurisdiction. The sheriff wasn’t interfering with the ticketing nor an arrest. The sheriff was within his rights (and possibly within his responsibility, as you suggest) to talk with the driver. If there was a jurisdictional problem that invalidated the ticket, it could be resolved in court. The police sergeant didn’t need to resolve it there on the highway by arguing or threatening to arrest the sheriff.
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  4570. He’s going to have the same problem as FDR if he tries to add justices. As things stand, he doesn’t have enough votes in the Senate, and I would bet the Dems lose control of it in 2024. I don’t enjoy the idea, but it’s a strong possibility. Thank God Chief Justice Roberts is a centrist. I’m surprised that Justice Thomas joined the majority, but not shocked: The case was decided on a procedural issue of standing.
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  4571. One of the limitations on use is 5,000 cubic feet per year. I’m not 100% about depth limit for non-mining purposes (such as building a basement), but if a builder’s proposed basement exceeds the depth limit (if defined) or the volume limit, they request a permit from the mineral council and pay for it. I imagine that the depth required to anchor a wind turbine must be pretty deep in that part of the country. They’d definitely be going into stable subsoil.
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  4572. If the economy was your most important issue, you’d understand that the economy can’t begin to recover until the pandemic is controlled. If the Trump administration had taken decisive action from the start, we might already be at that point (and Trump would be winning). Testing, contact tracing, coordinated acquisition of PPE, social distancing, and ongoing stimulus and economic support needed to happen starting in March. Instead, the President hindered states efforts to control the pandemic, discouraged Americans from taking safety precautions, and pushed quack cures. He’s attacked and undermined his own health experts. If you’re primarily concerned about the economy, it would be quite puzzling if you still supported Trump’s reelection. Trump still lacks a plan, still engages in irresponsible behavior that worsens the pandemic, and there is no sign that he will change his approach. If you’re a business owner, a vote for Trump is a vote for economic suicide.
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  4573. Texas is the only state (among those I’ve visited) that I’ve considered moving to. I love my home state, but on the main the people in Texas are just good people, regardless of politics.
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  4574. Sure they will, if they want less performant hardware.
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  4575. There’s no downside for McCarthy’s obstinacy. If he drops out, it looks even worse for him, like a kicked dog skulking off with his tail between his legs.
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  4576. You want names? Start with Mike Johnson. He could get this fully funded tomorrow morning.
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  4577. Puppy’s name is Winston, but the puppy’s preferred pronoun has never been specified.
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  4578. You’re not going to go back to 40 years ago. If this is what your politicians are offering, you’re being scammed. Here’s the thing that former colonial powers have to recognize. The blowback from centuries of imperialism can show up centuries after you gave up your exploitative activities. The various European colonial projects in Africa destabilized the continent and the countries of Africa suffer from that instability to this day. Holland played its role in creating the mess that is Africa. And since you’re not going to pay for even a fraction of the wealth extracted from your colonies, you pay for it by allowing refugees into your country. And if you did it right, your country would benefit from the influx of people. You just have to accept a multi-ethnic Holland. You have to turn what you call non-Dutch people into Dutch people. Even if it was possible to go back in time, how do you know you’ll hit your golden age of 40 years ago? What if you go back 64 years? Have fun with that.
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  4579. Isn’t MAGA a demonic name in the Bible? I think Revelations mentions something about MAGA and LADY GAGA.
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  4580. Hard disagree. The real question is WHO is recruiting illegal invaders to play NCAA basketball. 🤪
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  4581. The Republican Party is now the Donner Party.
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  4582. Blue skies, Devika! Blue skies!
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  4583.  @Asdfgghhhjj  The money is the message.
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  4584.  @SpruceWood-NEG  Thanks, enormous penis, for pasting this dumbass spam on various comments.
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  4585. Another use case would be to just screw with the free world.
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  4586. Marxism seeks to remediate racial disparities? What flavor of Marxism has a specific program to remediate racial disparities? Classical Marxism focus on class identity and class struggle. Then as if by magic, racial disparities disappear. To the Classic Marxist, all other forms of oppression are side effects of capitalism and socialism will just make them disappear. Imho, the weakest element of CRT is the attachment to “Marxism”.
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  4587. Blofeld 2024, re-elect Blofeld. Make SPECTRE Great Again! Your #3 is interesting. Rogue states with nuclear ambitions could be a campaign issue in 2024.
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  4588.  @loki2655  Except when the topic is Ukraine or Putin, and then they have to deflect to something else.
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  4589.  @ThatOneGSXR17  It would have been nice if he had tried to get during the negotiations, instead of going back on his agreements. But I guess holding the American People hostage is for their own good and just how The Art of the Deal works. The foreign aid is part of the Omnibus funding bill, not the COVID relief bill. The foreign aid is money that Trump requested from Congress, and is now blaming on them.
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  4590.  @danncorbit3623  why? Is that how optics works? Is depth of field dependent on sensor resolution? I don’t think it works like that, but I could be wrong.
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  4591.  @ianmurray4081 No.
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  4592.  @duanepigden1337 Yes, but at the cost of additional weight which will affect mobility. Your tank will be slower, not go as far on a tank of fuel, and you might require more frequent maintence. The decisions in tank design are all about the trade offs.
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  4593. That’s just it. He’s a. . . . .(wait for it) . . . . Maverick.
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  4594. The House of Representatives is a shipshow, haven’t you noticed? They’re unable to govern because of a handful of obstructionist extremists who came to Washington to be on TV.
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  4595. There is a very humorous, provocative Marxist philosopher named Slavoj Žižek. He has suggested that the Fleshlight creates surplus value. I’m neither a Marxist nor a Socialist, but he makes an interesting point. 😂 It’s a 2 minute video extracted from some longer presentation: search “slavoj zizek fleshlight” and I bet you can find it. But anyway there’s your robot, pervert.
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  4596.  @graceyee9067  Building a slab for a house doesn’t impinge on mineral rights. The court’s decision relied on the definition of mining, but interference with the right to exploit subsurface minerals (which the company did by excavating and pouring the anchoring foundation did do). Basically, the company refused to negotiate for a lease (or permit/permission) with the mineral rights trust. They thought it would be cheaper to fight it in court. I’ll speculate it was because they didn’t hire attorneys with expertise in mineral rights.
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  4597.  @Granox He’s against the death penalty unless there’s cannibalism afterwards.
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  4598. Does the playbook include the disastrous late-in-the-4th-quarter play that led to Mussolini fumbling his head?
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  4599.  @tomk3732  You need to demand a refund from your English teachers.
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  4600.  niels lund  Tom has made it abundantly clear in various comments that he didn’t watch the video.
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  4601.  @R9000S  Sullivan isn’t a BLM activist. He’s expressed sympathy for antifa, but it’s unclear if he’s ever participated in any of their criminal bullshit. It’s most accurate to call him a leftist anti-government radical that eagerly joined a group of radical right anti-government terrorists. But let’s give the right wing apologists their due. There was one leftist out of hundreds. Oooooh!
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  4602. If you don’t like that your elected representative has been in office too long, there are various legal and non-violent remedies available to you. However, most require getting your ass off the sofa and making an effort. Trying to remove an elected politician with violence isn’t just unAmerican and antiDemocracy, it’s the lazy bum’s shortcut. That’s the one thing to keep in mind about fascist and their supporters: they are the laziest bums in the world.
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  4603. The jobs report doesn’t count part time jobs, only full time jobs. If both your jobs were counted, that means you’re working around 80 hours a week. That’s 11 hours a day with no time off for weekends. I doubt that is true, but if it is, you should spend your free time educating yourself so you can get a single full time job that pays enough to support your life.
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  4604.  @bellab9286 The jobs report only counts full time jobs added to company payrolls, not part time jobs.
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  4605. The GOP has a Senate Majority, but they can’t even pass their own bill in the Senate? I fail to see how Pelosi and the House Democrats are blocking McConnell within the Senate. I suspect that Perdue and Loeffler are secret Democrats, and patriotic Georgia voters need to BOYCOTT the election.
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  4606. Bloody Fooliani.
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  4607.  @mountainman4859  McCain, Goldwater, Flake, and many others. They put American democracy first. This result is good for non-extremist Republicans to take back the party, even if it smarts a bit to be governed by a Democrat. I think MAGA populism did tap into legitimate conservative grievances, but it channeled them into hate, divisiveness, and the cult-like worship of a grifter. They preached a return to a past that never really was. We need a creative conservatism that looks forward with policies (actual policies) based on principles.
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  4608.  @thedirty530  God yes.
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  4609.  @thomassoderstrom6369  It’s similar to paying for a building permit. Let’s say you’re the builder of tract housing. If building basements impinges on the mineral rights, you pay for the permit and tack on the cost to your house price. There might be a set price or you might need to negotiate for permission to excavate however many basements you want. Have you ever tried to build a house without building permits in a jurisdiction that requires permits? Your construction will be halted and if you continue anyway, your house will get torn down and you’ll likely pay a fine.
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  4610. Turns out he plays for the Houston Astros.
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  4611.  @ianbelletti6241  It’s also the contractor’s job to understand the limits of legal construction. Do you mean it’s not the legal responsibility? I’d agree to that.
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  4612.  @ianbelletti6241  Interesting point. I’ll concede it. 😅
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  4613.  @shawnsmith9512  You know, you could easily clear up your befuddled understanding by watching the video?
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  4614. I wonder if it would be helpful to frame the killing of the bill as a betrayal of Republican senators, who out-muscled and out-maneuvered the majority Dems on the border bill. Acknowledge how tough certain Republicans were and how this would have been a legislative victory for them more than for democrats. “We weren’t happy with all the provisions, but we knew we had to get something done. And Trump killed it. Why? Was it perhaps because he didn’t want Joe Biden to get any credit? Perhaps. But the biggest reason is because he didn’t want Republican Senators to take credit for solving border problems. In Trump’s GOP, only Trump gets credit, only Trump leads. Loyalty to Trump is more important than loyalty to the country and to the people.” For the sake of the GOP and its future, vote Kamala/Harris.
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  4615. I hear the Red Sea mentioned, I reach for my shot glass and bottle of mezcal.
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  4616. Look up fertilizer bomb first of all. Acquisition of bomb materials is not extremely difficult. Timothy McVeigh used a fertilizer bomb. Second, throw a raw meatball at a brick wall as hard as you can, so hard that it sticks. Now pass a blowtorch over it. Scrape it off and you’ll find that part of it is still raw. That’s where you get the sample. The explosion shockwave doesn’t damage DNA, it’s the fireball that comes right after. If some of the human hamburger, uh, I mean remains are found and scraped up, there will be enough uncooked bits there to test.
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  4617. Eh, Chris is a buffoon half the time. A lot of his analysis is superficial, even trite at times. This wasn’t a bad video as far as it goes. I’m not sure where you get the idea he is meek. Or even that he is nice. I mean, he might be a kind person in his personal life, but I don’t think you can judge based on his public persona. As as far as meek goes, you don’t get to where he is by being meek. That’s not how broadcast or cable news works.
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  4618. Canada would join as 10 or more states. That would give Canada 20 senators and a bunch of representatives. Canada could be the tie breaker in Congress, and basically call the legislative shots.
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  4619. Kosta M. This is about the run up to war and the initial operation. The Great Purge affected the RA’s ability to respond. However, by the time of Stalingrad, the RA had gotten its shit together while the German invaders had exhausted many of their own resources (men and material). The RA still had an overwhelming amount of untapped resources.
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  4620. What do you mean by “rationing food”? Has the EU introduced a ration system? Do you need ration coupons to buy food?
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  4621. Thanh Ho Viet I would have recognized that, but I didn’t understand what he was talking about until the comparison with Dien Bien Phu.
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  4622. The PRC was arguably concerned about the USSR and Stalin when it developed and built its own nuclear weapons. There’s a complicated history of the USSR backing the KMT and the CCP at the same time starting in the 30s.
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  4623.  @coldsoul333  His new wife will have to disgorge whatever property he has given her, and bankruptcy will not protect him from a civil judgement. Future earnings will be garnished and profits seized. The only way Jones can avoid paying from his future earnings and profits is to just stop working. Because his job involves working his mouth, this could lead to a happy result. I’m sure if Jones shut up forever to avoid payment, the families would consider that a victory.
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  4624. Very good interview! I hope it brings many more subscribers. Thanks for sharing it here because I doubt Scripps News would surface on my recommendations feed.
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  4625. So Putin’s ability to conduct high level diplomacy in face to face meetings with other leaders is severely curtailed. He’s going to have to pass on the next BRICS conference in SA.
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  4626.  @derosime  That’s a nutty idea. It wouldn’t pull Ukrainian forces away from other sectors because it is better defended now. Russia doesn’t have enough soldiers in Ukraine to even attempt it. They’ve lost the element of surprise. Belarus won’t do it because the dictator needs to protect against an uprising. The purpose of the original attack was to kill or capture Zelensky or force him to flee, and then set up a puppet government. There is no way that will happen now.
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  4627. ⁠ @edscmidt5193 Your dad was Army and he was in the DMZ? And he had a “CAR16”? Huh. I hate to call you a liar, but something doesn’t smell right about your story. Maybe you meant to say he was Marine? Or maybe you were trying to suggest your pop was in SOG, and thus the crap about the “CAR16”. Do your research and resubmit your story.
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  4628. I like when he said, “archaeologists and people who study that crap”. 😂
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  4629. Slob
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  4630. This is a very good ad, simple and powerful. I didn’t see the Ossoff/Perdue debate, but the idea of making 1 ad per damaging attack that landed is a lot better than trying to cram all the debate points into a single advertisement.
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  4631. Watch the video.
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  4632. What about the secret Executive Order that gives Trump’s pinky finger magic declassification powers?
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  4633. Ben is a liberal. I am a conservative. The thing we have in common is we hold democratic principles to be the highest of our ideals. Thank you, Ben, for understanding that MAGA has nothing to do with conservatism. It is a fascist political movement that hijacked the GOP.
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  4634. How much of the survivability onion overlaps with the datability onion?
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  4635. Zelensky is getting his wish, just not in a way that would drag the world into nuclear war.
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  4636.  @sonandsanford4963  and there are millions of trump worshipping fools, unfortunately.
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  4637. To do that means shooting down Russian aircraft and attacking their ground based air defense. What you want requires attacking Russia. Attacking Russia probably means nuclear war.
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  4638. I think Crimea will be the last to go, unless Russia suffers an internal political collapse of enormous proportions. This is not low probability as time passes. The chance increases a small amount every day that Russia continues its invasion. It’s analogous to compound interest.
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  4639. Republicans in congress say that the crisis can wait, and they have put it on the back burner until next year.
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  4640. You’ve been Red Pillowed. That euphoria you feel is due to the asphyxiation you suffered.
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  4641. Your position is unsurprising, as you seem to be incapable or unwilling to take in new information. You are a closed system.
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  4642.  @tinyhoney12  I fact checked him. He’s correct. The Republicans in the Senate felt that action on the border was so important that they bundled Ukraine aid. The made Ukraine aid dependent on the Border Bill. They then used this leverage to wring concessions from the Dems to get pretty much everything they wanted. That’s what is shocking to independents. The GOP cleverly outnegotiated Biden and the Dems, and now they’re walking away from the solution they wanted. Apparently the border crisis isn’t really a crisis. It can wait until next year.
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  4643. Unsuspecting or inattentive?
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  4644.  @MyCrazyDogs32  It was Winston Churchill. Or Oscar Wilde.
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  4645. Everybody: Do a search for “Bradykinnin Covid”.
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  4646. You realize that China was not a participant in the TPP? Did you know that the purpose of the TPP was to freeze China out and hit it economically?
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  4647.  @oranje-vrystaat3182  What a sad excuse of a human being you are. You probably aren’t capable of shame, but you should be ashamed of yourself.
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  4648.  @anonymoussaid9970  Yup. He not only acknowledged he was lying, he complained that those that weren’t lying were hurting the company. He tried to get a reporter fired for daring to fact check. These are all documented in texts he sent, some of which were released, and apparently others redacted. And if a jury were to see such bald faced admissions, it’s very doubtful that Fox would have prevailed in the Dominion lawsuit. Tucker was the nail in a $787 million coffin. He created the evidence that forced Fox to settle. Carlson’s despicable behavior was tolerated because he made Fox a ton of money. And then he effectively burned that money while making enemies in the company.
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  4649. Mux Space Hyperloop
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  4650. His duty is to perve and be a reject.
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  4651. Could it have been . . . . . Satan?
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  4652. How old is Ally Sheedy?
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  4653. Is that pink color called “Savage Penis”?
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  4654.  @RepentfollowJesus I’ll be surprised if they find anything in the yard, but they have to check it out. They’ll do full tests on the firearms to see if they were used in any other crimes.
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  4655. The Russian soldiers in Kherson can surrender, at least. The Ukrainians treat POWs decently. There were good reasons that soldiers of the Soviet Union wouldn’t want to surrender to the Nazis.
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  4656. VDV went Vodeeodoe.
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  4657.  Un vaccinated Anticommunist  One month old troll account.
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  4658. What she said was not overly complicated. Attending the rally/protest is not fireable. If the employee engaged in simple civil disobedience (such as peacefully entering the restricted area outside the building, sitting down, and peacefully waiting to be arrested), firing would be allowable, but a judgement call. It’s still a form of peaceful protest, even if it involves a minor violation. It’s called passive resistance, and a lot depends on the situation (quick example, occupying a sidewalk, vs occupying and blocking the freeway). Pushing past the police (even if one didn’t attack them) is active resistance, and that crosses another line. Not covered: There’s also the matter of statements made before, during, and after. Some employers would want to give a good employee the benefit of the doubt if they showed contrition, especially public contrition.
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  4659. I wish more greenies would take a second and deeper look at fission. God bless the young generation of climate change activists, but they need to kick the asses of their hippie grandparents that keep donating to Greenpeace. Fission will tide us through until we get an engineering handle on fusion. That might be in ten years or it might be in 100 (Split the difference and say 50 years until we start seeing nearly free energy). We cant rely on wind or solar completely, so we will keep using NG medium term if we don’t embrace the cleaner intermediate alternative: fission. And if I’m overly optimistic about the fusion time frame, fission will get us off the carbon based energy while we are building out the wind farms.
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  4660.  God emperor Deadpool  OK Ivan
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  4661. How can a private business making its own business decisions, be called socialist? It’s you that’s the socialist.
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  4662.  @thomaslunde5014  The Putzi is getting more desperate. Maybe he ran out of his coping mechanism after the liquor stores closed.
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  4663.  @frankrenda2519  No, it’s you that’s getting bigger. I know it helps you cope, but you’ve got to stop eating 20 cases of twinkies every day.
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  4664. This story isn’t about Trump’s connections. This story is about the GOP being fooled by a Russian double agent.
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  4665. Can’t wait for his dad to distance from him Matt. “I didn’t really know him.”
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  4666.  @generationkilled  Of course new tanks get added mid war, usually organically. You have the various iterations of Panzer III and IV at one end. Then you have big platform changes to Tiger II for example. But the big Tigers were few in number and did suffer from logistical issues. The Panzers were still in continuous production. And the resources put into the brand new platforms took resources away from the manufacture and logistics of the older models. Maybe WWII German tanks are a bad example of successful integration 😉 Shall we use the example of the British in North Africa? There were long pauses between operations, allowing for tank crews and repair/maintenance crews to get up to speed on new equipment. These periods entailed more than just build up of forces and accumulation of supplies.
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  4667.  @oryxland3994  You make many excellent points. There’s also the matter of where do you find the personnel to train when your repair crews are working around the clock to maintain the equipment already in use. There is a gamer mentality that says, “Just train more crews” like you can flip a switch or spend resource points.
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  4668.  @kennethrobinson5111  Have you seen the movie Unforgiven? There’s a climactic scene where Clint Eastwood’s character shoots a saloon keeper, and the sheriff says to the crowd in the bar, “You all saw that. He shot an unarmed man.” And then Clint says (I’m paraphrasing here because I don’t remember the exact dialogue), “You steal a man’s parking space, you better arm yourself.” Something like that, although I don’t think it was over a parking space in the movie.
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  4669. No. You’re correct that it weakens the box structure, but the two uses are at cross purposes. What if you want to get at something inside a box that’s being used to prop something else up. If you want a storage box, just build a storage box.
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  4670. Gotta disagree with you on the fictional killing of the sniper in FMJ. The fact that it’s both a mercy killing AND a war crime is part of the contradiction Kubrick was highlighting. The sniper was definitely hors de combat, which makes killing her a war crime. Yet killing her mercifully (as she was asking be done) was answering to a higher moral law. And that’s the thing about laws that drive some people crazy. They’re often in conflict with each other. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Anyway, that’s just my opinion. In the end we’re discussing a piece of fiction. You or I could probably go more in depth if we wanted, but that would be more enjoyable over beers instead of in the YouTube comments. If that happens someday, I got the first round! 🍻
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  4671. But his car would have been impounded. 😂
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  4672.  @jamIam6548  LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION
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  4673.  @eddiegesch6299  He filed fraudulent documents to obtain loans. It doesn’t matter if he paid back the loans. He still committed fraud by falsifying information on the loan applications. If you got caught doing the same, you probably would go to jail in addition to paying fines and your credit would be forever ruined. Trump is getting off lightly, believe it or not.
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  4674.  @janettebuckley4170  Encrypted wifi and/or Bluetooth is more secure than the old school radios in garage door opener remotes, so this “smart home” application actually makes sense. It will make your home more secure, or it potentially can make it more secure if the garage door opener manufacturer understands what it is doing. Not all technology applications to ordinary household functions are stupid, even if most are.
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  4675. Apparently, Trump has strong support amongst the dead voter demographic. The investigations into voter fraud have so far shown that 100% of the fraudulent vote went for Trump.
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  4676. JW looks more like a belly gunner, but not on a bomber, if you know what I mean.
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  4677. Where there are so many active cases . . . that mutations outpace our ability to create new vaccines? More viruses replicating in the wild, i.e., in us, the more likely that one of those viruses is a more pathogenic or more transmissible new variant? Early last March I had a foolish hope that my government would institute strict lockdowns, rigorously enforced, and for sufficient time. Soon after, the President began to politicize the pandemic, lie about its seriousness, and possibly profit from it. The piecemeal weak lockdowns alternating with partial reopenings are doing basically nothing to contain the pandemic.
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  4678.  @rodpanhard  “viruses usually weaken as they mutate”? Uh, incorrect. Have you been listening to Daver ok? He posts that same bit of misinformation. There is no scientific basis for the statement.
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  4679. What does IRS hiring have to do with CBP operations?
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  4680. Imagine hearing a lot of ruckus and people shouting. You go out to look and see a bunch of police who begin shouting commands. You might not realize they’re shouting commands at you. Why should you? You were just at home, watching TV, reading a book, taking a nap, or whatever. But something’s definitely up! Maybe the neighbors? You take out your self phone to record the goings on, and . . . Jesus Christ, that’s scary.
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  4681.  @ivanhoe6366  Dr How many?
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  4682. Yeah, that’s pretty much going to be impossible.
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  4683. That’s the case in most jurisdictions, but it’s not the issue in this case.
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  4684. It really depends on how they express themselves and whether those expressions make a combination more viable. A mutation that changes the color of the virus will not affect a variant that better fits the human receptor. (Yes, I know that’s s dumb example to you virus experts, but it seemed easier to visualize.) You still have a situation where the overwhelming majority of mutations are not going to combine to create a more virulent virus. In fact, I imagine that there is a limited group of genetic mutations that can, either alone or together, create more effective variants. And the fewer people providing themselves as “virus nurseries”, the fewer chances there are for a strain to mutate into a more effective strain, that will cause more infections, more etc. In any case, it’s very important that we gain control now as much as possible. New variants will arise, probably are already out there undetected.
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  4685. @Archer Cillian That’s actually not true. B-52s haven’t been used for carpet bombing since the Vietnam War. You need to learn about PGMs.
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  4686.  @GalacticMilkfoam  1) That’s not lobbing. That’s throwing. 2) Usage is based on doctrine. Part of U.S. doctrine is “hit the target accurately”. Another part is “avoid friendly fire and civilian casualties.” The development of PGMs is because of the doctrine. Russian doctrine seems to be “use PGMs on civilian targets”. 3) You might not be a troll, but you are severely ignorant for someone who claims to know the subject matter. Perhaps you are mentally defective instead? Perhaps you have grossly overestimated your knowledge and understanding of military matters.
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  4687. My read is the joke was against white liberals. This is just standard conservative humor, coming from a Black American.
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  4688. The lesson of this war is that the U.S. and other allies will help you fight, but won’t do the fighting for you, unless you join the alliance.
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  4689.  @kaer2931  Whataboutism.
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  4690.  @bcecala76  glaciers are fresh water. WIth regard to your original point, do you mean that the earliest arrivals practiced burial-at-sea? Or do you mean that the bodies were buried in coastal lands now underwater? I’m not convinced about burial at all—burial is not a universal funerary practice. AFAIK, there are no universal funerary practices.
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  4691. The Jobs story is pretty crazy. Jobs engineered a corporate takeover in which his company NeXT bought Apple for a negative amount of money, -427 million dollars. It’s such an anomaly, so difficult to wrap one’s mind around, that most people think that Apple bought NeXT for $427 million.
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  4692.  @Liam1694u  If they really believed the election fraud lies, they would have refused to certify and gone to jail, no? Don’t they claim to be patriots? They’re all a bunch of phonies.
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  4693. If they’ve lazily embraced their victimhood—which often boils down to clinging to unearned privilege—and have ignorantly embraced racism, let them go underground. It’s their own personal responsibility to stand up as decent people, admit their shortcomings, and work with their fellow Americans. If they insist on infantile words and acts, or worse, we don’t need them nor want them. They’ve had their way for far too long, under the guise of conservatism. And now, over the past 4 years, they’ve proven themselves to have neither fiscally conservative nor family values nor to be pro-life. What passes for a conservative movement in this country values power and a conservatism of convenience when it can be an instrument of power.
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  4694.  @jeffm5271  obesity causes vitamin D deficiency? Source? This is counter intuitive, since obesity gives a person more surface area to absorb sunlight, which in turn would allow for more production of vitamin D. Does the fat layer act as a barrier?
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  4695.  @rainesonne1320 garcia aprendió español en Moscú.
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  4696. No, I think they were registered as experimental. What leads you to believe they were non-experimental?
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  4697.  @Ross-e5r  You are welcome here. You’re drawing resources from Russia paying your salary while being counterproductive to Russia’s war effort. Meanwhile, by appearing busy you’re keeping your job and avoiding being sent to your death. It’s a win for you and a win for our side. But it’s one more paper cut for Russia. It’s minuscule, but it adds up.
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  4698. Holy fuck, you brought up Puer Aeternus.
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  4699. ⁠ @ManessahIsrael  or the 1 million Jews that were expulsed from Arab countries? Stop blaming everything on the Jews.
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  4700. ⁠ @kemarisite  That’s 100% correct. A state won’t even be considered for NATO membership while it has an unresolved border dispute with another country. And this is another argument against the Kremlin contention that the 2022 invasion was necessary to keep Ukraine out of NATO. All Russia had to do was hold Ukraine and continue the “border rebellion” in Donetsk and Luhansk. Urkraine would never be able to join NATO while Russia was taking little nibbles, even if Ukraine relinquished its claim on Crimea. The Russian Federation had always had the means to prevent non-NATO countries on its periphery from joining NATO. This should also put to rest the “Realist” theories of John Mearshimer and his ilk.
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  4701. You leave her out of this. I’m not a fan, but I’m sick and tired of the culture wars. If my fellow Americans want to watch a show about transvestites, let them.
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  4702.  @튜브개십  SPAMMER
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  4703.  @aliendroneservices6621  STOP SPREADING LIES
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  4704. Not innocent. She was deeply involved in her fathers work.
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  4705. Did anybody else think of T-Rex?
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  4706. First of all, you are completely ignorant wrt various countries submarine capabilities and what capabilities would be necessary to damage the pipelines. Second of all, you are basing the idea that it was a submarine attack. It might not have been an attack at all.
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  4707. Has the concept that “racism kills the racist” been adopted into naval doctrine?
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  4708. Incorrect. Old CAS strategy required air supremacy and suppressed air defense. The A10 is a hold over from that doctrine. (It’s being kept alive by politics, nostalgia, and fetishism). Current CAS doctrine relies on current and future capabilities of precision guided munitions and the capabilities of the delivery platforms. This is why the B-3 bomber will deliver more effective close air support from miles away than an A10 at treetop level. If the Iraqi insurgents or ISIS or the Taliban did have modern air defenses, they would have been obliterated as fast as they came online. But the discussion of CAS is besides the point when examining counter insurgency warfare. COIN isn’t won because of CAS. In fact, sloppy CAS is detrimental to COIN strategy.
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  4709.  @randyjackson7584  When did the U.S. fly Close Air Support missions over North Vietnam? I think you’re confused about the topic.
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  4710.  @gdutfulkbhh7537  I don’t think it’s the sycophants he craves. That might be a small part of it, but it’s not the crucial thing. If anything, he despises them. They probably make him feel lonely. Also, it’s nothing special for the mega-rich to have hangers-on/fans, especially if they are “public facing”. It’s hard for a mega-rich person to find genuine friends. On the other hand, he’s a con artist. So a cult like fanatical following only helps him pull the wool over people’s eyes. But thats a means and not an ends. So what is the life goal of Elon Musk? He wants to be a perpetual tyrannical toddler, not as a toddler is but how a toddler might wish to be, with no constraints (parental discipline and limitations) but all the wish fulfillment. Toddlers have no moral development and no moral constraints—the point of good parenting is to develop a young person through the various stages and prepare them for mature adulthood in our society. A sense of fairness begins to develop when we are at that stage and we begin to learn the concept of right and wrong—what behavior is acceptable and what is not. At the beginning, I demand a cookie and it’s not fair that I don’t get it immediately. But my parent teaches me that I can’t have the cookie now, but I can have one after I’ve eaten my vegetables. I learn that 1) I cannot have whatever I want whenever I want it, and 2) I might get it if I behave as another person (the parent) wants. I begin to understand basic social structure. My concept of fairness is being refined (if I indeed get the cookie after eating my vegetables). It’s simple rewards and punishment imposed by a bigger, more powerful person. Musk might or might not have learned these basic things. I suspect he did, but the “unfairness” of not having his wishes instantly fulfilled stuck in his craw. That someone or something would have authority over him was entirely unacceptable. He wants to make the toddlers fantasy into his reality, the fantasy of getting what you want and doing what you want, with no constraints. And the only real way to achieve this is to be the king of the world, to be a tyrant or dictator over everyone. Elon Musk isn’t stupid. He knows he cannot achieve this on Earth. But he might achieve it on Mars. However, time is running out. He is realizing he cannot achieve his goal. So he is lashing out at those who he believes are standing in his way, at anyone who tries to put limitations on him. He’s behaving like a toddler.
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  4711. What a weird comment. Did you intend to convey meaning with it? Is there a thought hidden in your words that can be unpacked?
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  4712. The problem is that the DOJ can’t just “step up” as you put it. Lying is not a federal crime on its own, so it cannot charge someone for lying to the public. Nor does the DOJ have the authority to remove someone from office (nor should it have that power). Perhaps you should educate yourself on the weapons of lawfare and learn how government actually works before offering your prescriptions of what government should be doing. The cleanest solution to problem politicians like Gosar is political activism. Your political activism. Unfortunately that takes a lot more work than beseeching the Department of Justice to do something it can’t easily do or is legally barred from doing.
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  4713. That was confirmed by UKR defense forces? I’m concerned it might be a false flag to give Putin the excuse to declare war and escalate.
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  4714.  @user-yl9ck9ob5t  Forever, uh, four years old.
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  4715. What does Judge Judy have to do with this?
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  4716.  @sandburgmartin7947  Should have paid extra for the extended warranty, because this party is defective.
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  4717.  @renaissance17  Yup. Catcanair’s explanation seems almost tautological, because he’s placing all the value on an abstraction (currency). Value is more complicated than that. I’m not saying he’s full of shit, but I think it’s a bad and incomplete explanation without going into demand and utility.
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  4718. I don’t know Pete’s thinking on this, but the first step is to go after the laundering and transfer of money. The agencies most suited to these sorts of investigations are the IRS, the financial crimes section of the FBI, and bank regulators. You don’t have to create a new government agency, you combine what we have into a task force and give them sufficient resources to hire a buttload of auditors and field agents. If you can interrupt the money flows of the cartels and other international criminals, you’ve taken away much of their power to corrupt. And then the traditional interdiction efforts stand a chance of working.
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  4719. This archaeological research into the peoples of the Amazon basin has been going on for nearly a half century. You seem to think it’s only happening recently because the archaeological sites in Europe are exhausted. Citation needed.
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  4720. Not just works, but how it thinks!
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  4721.  @clarkkent4075  Are you still peddling that tired old bull poop? Please, you’re insulting everyone’s intelligence.
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  4722.  @Head-ck4hu  Newt and Cruz? That doesn’t make you conservative. It makes you pro-Asshole. Did you also vote for Patrick Buchanan?
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  4723. The scariest airline experience I ever had was over the pacific, flying from Japan to Anchorage. About halfway there, one of the engines failed. The pilot came over the intercom and told us the situation. The three other engines were functioning normally, so all this meant was a delay of an hour. However, a little while later, we all heard a big banging sound. A second engine had burned out. The pilot assured us that we were safe, but there would be an additional delay. When the third engine went, we had to divert to an old unused air force airstrip in the Aleutians. I remember thinking, “If the last engine goes, we’re going to be up here indefinitely.”
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  4724. You don’t have to guess, you can watch the video. Patrick gives the judge’s reasoning. Your guess is wrong.
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  4725. Wrong. The virus has no feet. Nor does it have wings. Its mode of transport is on micro droplets of moisture present in human respiration. It’s the virus-containing droplets that get caught in the mesh.
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  4726. We cannot approve this comment because you didn’t not properly fill out form B.1.1.7.
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  4727. I wasn’t a Rogan guy, but whatever. I wasn’t against him, either. But it came to my attention that he’s dishonest and slippery. He tears down the truth and lifts up the liars.
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  4728. Sofa, so good. How good? Sofa king good.
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  4729. When the Princes of Muscovy became the tax collectors and pimps of the Golden Horde, they were a mafia. And they’ve been a mafia ever since.
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  4730.  @BubblesTheCat1  She’s actually a known neo nazi, opportunistically spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the hopes that nonwhites will die faster than white people.
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  4731.  @DK-ij4qt  <— ANTIVAXXER TROLL
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  4732. When the corruption pie shrinks, how else are you going to maintain the size of your slice?
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  4733. Me, too. But I’ll wager that in tomorrow’s video there will be 10 comments asking Dr Campbell to talk about vitamin D.😆
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  4734. My conservative sister doesn’t understand why I buy boxes of “cubrebocas” and hand them out to families on my block. I tell her, “I’m protecting me!”.
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  4735. That was a good pun! You know, I had a short but rather tumultuous relationship with a communist girl. I didn’t realize she was a communist at first, but she was advocating for a violent overthrow of the government. That should have been a red flag.
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  4736.  @ShaeHansenFishing  hahahahaha, wait, does the military no longer maintain horses or burros? Are there no military veterinarians?
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  4737. Hi Liz! This seems to be an open question, but I wanted to correct a common misperception. “Side effects” is not the right term. There’s a wide range of immunity system responses. We do want our immune systems to respond to the vaccine! Of course, just as a matter of physical comfort, we don’t wish for an extreme response! Yet whatever the response, it’s a sign that the vaccine is doing its job. Nevertheless, you have posed a very good question and I hope we find out the answer in the near future.
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  4738.  @giovanni-ed7zq  Do they call you Giorgio?
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  4739. Better idea: turn them into parking lots where workers can park their RVs and “work from home”.
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  4740. I learned today (on someone else’s video) that “serious gamer” isn’t considered a pejorative among “serious gamers”.
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  4741. Not applicable to devices that charge off of USB chargers. This has been the standard for a dozen years.
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  4742.  @terrycaudill4171  LOL, no. You liars had your day and it’s over. Your boogie men don’t frighten us. Your smallness of mind and of heart are pathetic and sicken us. Crawl back under your rock. Democracy has prevailed.
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  4743.  @terrycaudill4171  You have to be somewhere? How about back under the rock from whence you crawled? We welcome differences of opinion, but we do not welcome liars. You’ve already proven yourself to be a liar, so get lost.
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  4744.  @alexhumphrey5606  We welcome differences of opinion, but there are limits—the white supremacy you espouse here and in other comments is unAmerican, disgusting, and will not be entertained. Get lost.
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  4745.  @Chuckakhan  Honestly, you’re better off. Twitter’s moderation is such a mess and their appeals process is a black box. My mood improved and stayed that way after getting rid of Twitter. Getting suspended can rankle and get one’s dander up, but I decided to let it go and move on.
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  4746.  @terrycaudill4171  You are a liar. I don’t care whether you’re attempting to troll or merely playing at politics the only way you know how, but you lie and we are sick of your lies. You’re not a conservative nor a Christian. You do not operate in good faith. You are not welcome among decent folk trying to work out our differences. You’re an agent of the Deceiver, and in the name of all that is good, go back to him and never bother us again.
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  4747. The comments in this thread turn my stomach. I hope they are Russian trolls, but I suspect that they are fellow Americans whose souls hace been blackened and shadowed by evil. They don’t have a pro-gun ideology. The ideology has them.
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  4748. He wants civilians to evacuate Rafah so they won’t get killed in the coming battle between IDF and Hamas. Are you dense? By your logic, evacuating people from a burning building is ethnic cleansing.
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  4749. Use the reporting function when you spot Russian trolls and GRU agents spouting misinformation.
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  4750. Interesting question. One would think that co-infection is standard, at first obviously in the first person in which the variant occurs, and then over time the more infectious variant displaces the original as it spreads. I don’t think if this indicates a compound danger. Also, just to be clear, viruses do not breed, so there is no child virus that receives multiple mutations from each parent. There is no child and no parent. The virus reproduces itself, with mutations being errors in reproduction.
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  4751.  @jamessaltlife  Yes, ask questions. But not all questions are the same. Hancock is a grifter pushing lunatic ideas based on skimpy to zero evidence. Your mind is like a sheet of paper, don’t throw it in the garbage bin that is Graham Hancock.
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  4752. If it relieves any worry, the virus doesn’t have any instincts, nor does nature. What is happening is this: genetic mutations are errors in reproduction, some errors have no effect, some are worse for the virus, some are better. The mutation in these more dangerous variants seems to be that their ability to bind with certain receptors is better, allowing them to take hold more quickly and reach their virulent stage (when a sick person is “shedding” or spreading the virus). Another way to say that the variant virus is more infectious is that one needs less exposure to the virus than with the original. This is why wearing a double mask is a good idea, and (I believe) vitamin supplements that boost the body in general might help prevent getting sick. Reasonable dosages of vitamins won’t hurt, anyway. Hope this helps ease your mind a bit.
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  4753.  @itwasagoodideaatthetime7980  Well you know what they say about shoe size: the higher your IQ, the lower your IQanon.
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  4754.  @Ryan-my5lz  OK, Ivan
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  4755. Bad news. 😟 Who are these generals? What have they done? Ukraine will win sooner or later, but having traitors might help delay Russia’s inevitable loss.
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  4756. A better word would be diminished, as in “diminished intelligence”. Diminutive usually refers to either physical form or a nickname. For example, you might have the diminutive nickname of “Roddy”, even though your proper first name is Rod, Rodney, or Roderick. So diminutive is on the right track (or in the ballpark), but it’s not really what you mean. The word you want is “diminished”.
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  4757. Would the strong possibility that the soldier has made money in excess of the original claim influence your decision? I suspect that this matter has crossed over into the realm of criminal fraud: he’s scamming the public by misrepresenting facts, and he’s doing it wearing an army uniform. (If he set up a gofundme or indiegogo, there would be a public facing record of money donated, and he would be expected to shut it down when his goal was reached.) I certainly can appreciate not wanting to waste time on a subpar person for petty infractions as he’s on his way out the door. But hasn’t this already gone beyond a minor problem that’s taking care of itself?
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  4758.  @menacelurkingyet8345  Perhaps you’d prefer a term like “extra-solar” for “from outside the solar system”.
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  4759. It’s not so much that the U.S. medical experts are being less honest and open, it’s that they lack data. The lack of data is due to lack of preparedness for a foreseeable eventuality, and that is due to the previous political administration’s reckless negligence. Testing for variants wasn’t funded because it wasn’t seen as necessary and not worthy of funding. It is not inaccurate to call the party that supported this negligence a death cult.
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  4760. When there are no consequences or accountability, getting help is often merely a means to escape further consequences. As far as the substance abuse issues, there are “soft” programs and their are “hard” ones. Privileged people usually keep trying the easier recovery programs, a lucky few are forced to attend the more hardcore disciplined recovery programs, which will give them a fighting chance.
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  4761.  @carloscarlos7044  You must not be American. You sound like an un-American troll trying to stir things up and get people arguing.
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  4762. You would be undeniably right if this was a war. Last I checked, Russia still maintained it was a special operation.
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  4763. A quasi-blockade would still be within the realm of sanctions and would be do-able. An actual blockade of Russian ports with warships is considered an act of war and is a non starter unless Putin initiates was on a NATO country. A quasi blockade means you intercept the shipping before or after it enters or leaves port, and search it for contraband while it is in international waters. You do a quite thorough search that might delay arrival by weeks or even months (once you get a queue of ships waiting to be searched. You can do quite a bit of economic harm with delays.
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  4764. That’s easy to say from your couch in Tehran.
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  4765.  @erickomar3152  Take of your helmet and breath in deep, space man.
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  4766.  @helenporter7584  What mechanism? I’ve not yet heard nor read of the mechanism by which a neurotoxin would affect a virus, which does not have a nervous system.
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  4767.  @am-bushgaming4811  And they might have teething problems. Some teething problems are easier to sort out, others require a return to the drawing board.
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  4768.  @petercmika  He was rewarded with the sense of accomplishment that comes from a job well done, with the appreciation of his direct superior, and with the relief that the maxim “no good deed goes unpunished” didn’t bite him too hard. There’s also the bonus of doing something interesting instead of being bored out of your skull.
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  4769. It’s really hard to see how this could pass court muster. If the legislative branch or the governor can just nullify contracts with the stroke of a pen, that’s giving the government massive and unprecedented power. With regard to land usage, there are already eminent domain laws that the state can use. They don’t need to grab these new vast powers if they just want to repurpose undeveloped real estate. That’s a totally fake rationale. I think Disney IS ready to go to the mattresses, but Iger is smart to attempt (or at least make the appearance of making an attempt) to open a discussion with the governor.
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  4770. Right? If we follow this logic, criminal conspiracy is protected by free speech.
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  4771. What latrine?. Dudinski was squatting down and crapping in an open field with a hand full of rubles to wipe his ass.
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  4772. lol, the Data Hyperlups.
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  4773. Fake news. She was like Cecily Strong not Kate McKinnon. 😄
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  4774. If Sach Znyder made a movie about hiporlup and it’s jeanus inverter, it wud combien my to fav ppl.
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  4775.  @mattwolf7698 Yes, it’s a rebranding of “politically correct”. Ten years ago I debated a Washington Redskins fan about whether or not embracing that name was respectful or decent to others. I was willing to admit that sometimes it was necessary to hurt people’s feelings by using direct language. I was getting him to admit that building a brand around a racial slur was not respectful nor decent. It was in fact bad. That’s the give and take of debate over complex issues like free speech, right? I concede a point to win a point. Nope. That’s not how it works with a contortionist willing to twist himself into a pretzel to win an argument. His rebuttal was that being a decent human with respect for his fellow humans was a SLIPPERY SLOPE that would inevitably lead to tyranny and mind control. How do you argue with someone who places such a high value on being an ass? You can’t.
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  4776. Generals visit the front to observe, but they don’t linger, nor do they micromanage. The check out the situation and leave.
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  4777.  @hoilst265  If it were only that simple. Many of these regimes don’t want to improve infrastructure for the general welfare. They want cash. How do you propose to build schools in a country with leaders who have an eye on your building budget? (Not to mention, these leaders have their own patronage networks to tend.) They’ll rob you blind, and then repurpose the buildings as soon as you’ve moved on. Pretty much the only way to build schools and hospitals in a hostile or semi-hostile regime is to invade it first. That’s why we must think long and hard about either war or generous help.
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  4778. You dummies, this was the Indiana Parole Board that released the felon. It had nothing to do with the prosecutors or the judge that tried him. If you’re going to have opinions about the criminal justice systems in the U.S., at least educate yourselves so you don’t say ignorant things that have no basis in the facts. Blame the parole board, if you must. If you want to blame the politicians that appointed the parole board, the last three governors of Indiana are Eric Holcomb (incumbent), Mike Pence, and Mitch Daniels.
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  4779. A nesting set doesn’t have the same strength and it lacks the modularity of simple apple boxes.
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  4780. The “4-year old” child is a paid crisis actor who is actually 5 and a half. No way a 4-year old can be trained like that. If you don’t believe me test it for yourself. Give a 4-year old a firearm and tell him or her to shoot it. You’ll see that I’m correct.
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  4781.  @benjaminshropshire2900 it sort of reminds me of when I used to track my budget and the biggest line item was always “miscellaneous expenses”. Maybe I should have recorded it as “mule accident losses”.
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  4782. ⁠ @7936Barry  I think you’re correct that the camera person expected that the slides would be edited in, and that he made the choice to focus attention on the dynamic presentation by Steve Knott. I disagree that zooming in and out is a very good solution in this case. The wide shot will lose a lot of the vitality of this particular speaker and the zoom in (or out) will actually be distracting at a visceral level. Zooms (again, imho) are best used judiciously, intentionally, and with choreography, to emphasize a dramatic moment. It’s a weak compromise to zoom in and out over the course of a monologue to show context, especially if you’re expecting the addition of slides during editing. In this case, acting on the fly, when do you zoom in on the speaker to emphasize the right moment or zoom out for a better view of the map? That’s what I mean about choreography. The cameraman was faced with a choice, and (imho), made the strongest choice to create a more impactful video for a lay audience. I realize this is unsatisfactory for some members of the audience, but the truth is that if they are interested enough to see graphical representations of troop movements, they can find them and compare them to the presentation (especially because Steve Knott was giving dates for the activities). As for the end result, sure I would have liked a better view of the maps. But even more, I appreciate prioritizing the capture of Knott’s energetic delivery, his body language and gestures, and his mannerisms. It’s a more powerful presentation and we (or I, at least) am more focused on his words and the story he is telling. If you feel strongly the opposite, might I make a humble suggestion? You might find a way of downloading the presentation and editing in your own maps and graphics. I know this is asking a lot of a stranger. But I think you could improve upon the video because of your experience. 😊
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  4783. The case of “The Cleveland Bomber” has been solved!
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  4784.  Im smarter than you  The fact that the Supreme Court didn’t overturn the National Firearm Act of 1934 and the fact that it’s still enforced strongly implies that the regulation of firearms in constitutional. That’s what, 88 years of precedent?
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  4785. Bill O’Reilly: If you strike me down, Margaret Hoover, I shall become more powerful than you can imagine. 2:20
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  4786. The logistics are going to be a nightmare until the older tanks are retired and the new ones are fully integrated. Four or five different models, each with its own maintenance requirements, training for crews and mechanics, and supply chains. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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  4787. A lot of Russia’s population are victims of fetal alcohol poisoning. You can’t just compare raw population to determine which side will have more combat effective soldiers.
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  4788. @laze mz I’m not sure how that applies to the situation. The killer wanted to make other people miserable to keep him company? Who were those people, the dead? I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m saying I don’t get it. Seems to me the killer saw his victims as obstacles to his goal of killing the doctor, not as human beings. I’m assuming some things about how events unfolded, though.
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  4789. With so much unknown, I don’t know how Dr. Campbell can speak with such certainty that omicron will soon finish off the pandemic. There is hopeful evidence, but nothing that justifies certainty. I’m glad he feels optimistic, but I’m afraid I don’t see the basis for most of it, until more evidence comes in.
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  4790. Juicy sweet flesh once you crack the hard shell.
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  4791. Part of the problem is that Congress won’t pay for anything that would alleviate the asylum backlog, let alone track asylum seekers. This was a big part of the most recent immigration bill that failed that was about 80% based on Republican proposals and 20% of what the Democrats wanted. Do you know or remember what happened? Trump said, “Do not pass it” to the GOP, because he needed to keep the issue alive for the election. I used to think that Republicans would be the ones to enact tough but fair immigration reform. But they cannot do so even if they wanted to, because their election campaigns are largely based on ginning up the “border crisis”, exaggerating problems, and demonizing both legal and illegal immigrants.
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  4792.  @garou5682  About that agility. To whatever degree an expert system can handle a customer request before it has to hand off to a human, customer service workers are made redundant. If the system can handle 60% of requests, the company can lay off 60% of that workforce. This has already been happening for decades. Does it make customer service worse? Yes, in many cases. But it improves the bottom line. Most customers put up with it in the end. Quick example: I was due to receive a package for which I needed to pay customs duty. I was able to track the package, but I was unable to determine the amount of the duty after it cleared customs. I couldn’t pay online, nor could I determine if the delivery driver could accept credit cards. In the end I was able to estimate the duty and make sure I had cash on hand. But the moral of the story is that the shipping company didn’t provide good customer service, saved money on payroll, and forced me to do the foot work (which was ultimately unsuccessful anyway). I’ll complain, which will create an infinitesimal pressure for them to improve their system which they were going to do in a few years anyway.
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  4793.  @johnbuckner2828  An AIO 3-D printer? Meaning it can print, copy, scan, and fax? 😊
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  4794.  @QUICKNEASYHANDYMAN  a little too easy, thus the hundreds of convoluted conspiracy theories. It all makes sense when you realize ATT was selling pizza from that location.
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  4795. Twirlip Of The Mists These sorts of comparisons are of limited usefulness. The real differences were in doctrines and tactics, and the Germans’ were better.
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  4796.  @susanpick2382  It might have to do with the olfactory side (olfactory fatigue?), not how long a working dog can actually work. My ACD (recently deceased after 14 years of life) used to keep up with us on 3 hour horse rides, nap for a half hour, and be ready for another 3 hours.
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  4797. Do you never tire of lying?
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  4798. Whether or not we are careful, Putin is doing a pretty good job of humiliating himself and his country.
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  4799. About what?
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  4800.  @sandybeach2553  I think you mean “under rated”. In some ways that is correct, but there’s another measuring stick you can consider. McConnell is about as hated by the Democrats as Nancy Pelosi is hated by the Republicans. This hatred by the opposition is a type of tribute to each politician’s effectiveness.
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  4801. And it didn’t change after Cortez. Mexican history gives me a headache. People complain about the U.S. being a two party system, but really it’s better this way. It makes the history so much simpler.
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  4802.  @nikolastoshic542  it sounds like a yo mama joke. Yo mama so fat, they changed the name of where she from to the Bulkans. Yo mama so fat, she went to a Serbian restaurant because she thought they served Bulkan food.
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  4803. That’s a bullshit made up quote that doesn’t apply to a democracy. In a healthy democracy, the government is an expression of the people—fear doesn’t enter into it.
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  4804.  @billpugh58  I generally agree with that sentiment. But there is a different principle here regarding YouTube’s business practices with regard to creators working on commission. YouTube’s business practices are still governed by laws defining unfair business practices. Here are some facts I have observed as a viewer. • I am still shown advertisements on demonetized videos. • Many of the ads depict violence much more graphic than in the videos themselves. • YouTube is arbitrarily applying standards to video creators while giving advertisers a pass. YouTube’s practices contradict its justifications for those practices. When the ads themselves contain graphic violence, the argument that YouTube will lose advertisers is very weak. When the audience is shown “objectionable” violent imagery in the ads, YouTube doesn’t have an argument that they’re protecting the audience from objectionable violent content. YouTube pattern of behavior strongly suggests that their policies and arbitrary practices are cheating creators of commission revenue for the sake of YouTube’s own profits. YouTube cannot claim a loss of profits because advertisers avoid violent content. Clearly there are plenty of advertisers who do not find violent content objectionable. They cannot argue that they are protecting the public from violent imagery when they are clearly not protecting the public from advertisers’ violent imagery.
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  4805. ⁠ @nic12344  I see no dearth of ads that contain graphic depictions of violence that far exceed the standard that YouTube imposes on creators, so this argument doesn’t hold water. I saw three advertisements for video games over the course of this video that contained much more violent imagery than did the video itself. YouTube also shows ads on demonetized videos. The claim that advertisers avoid violent content is unsupportable.
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  4806. Why do you hate corn?
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  4807.  @thehorde2908  OK, Ivan.
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  4808.  @cheyennesouza7960  It’s more like a 1 in 10 chance, but it’s still a chance. The odds get better for Trump if people become overconfident that Biden will win. Let’s split the difference between my 10% and your 28%, and say 16.6% (because that’s the percent chance on a single 6-sided die). On Tuesday when we roll that die, it could damn well come up Trump.
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  4809. Was the thing NATO asked you to do “GTFO of Poland”?
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  4810. It’s evil. JD Vance is evil. Just say it.
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  4811. What good are A-10s without top cover and air defense suppression? A-10s operate well when you have the rest the the USAF watching your six. Independently against a military that does have an AF and lots and lots of SAMs? Not so much.
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  4812. More deaths also bring down unemployment numbers, so obviously Trump’s strategy is working.
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  4813. And you expect someone else to do the work for you.
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  4814.  @calvinr.johnsonjr.9076  He’s probably literally not an American at all. Doesn’t live in the U.S., isn’t a citizen, doesn’t vote or pay taxes in the U.S.
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  4815. That’s the point of tariffs.
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  4816. Yes, and the murders. But this is also Russian policy—punishment for daring to stand up to a bully.
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  4817. The Arizona results restore in me a sense of hope for our future, and I’m a conservative not a liberal. This is a reprieve for the GOP, a chance to change course instead of doubling down on the fascist-lite MAGA movement.
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  4818.  @enrique4693  He was the most popular character on the sitcom Fappy Days.
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  4819. I have a friend/roommate from college who works for the organization. He’s in regular contact with both Dr. Phil and his son (who has his own show). Basically, both of them are pieces of shit and treat low level employees terribly.
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  4820. Maybe not HE, but tear gas? Probably pretty good.
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  4821.  @palohagara105  China is still a totalitarian dictatorship, albeit a dictatorship by party committee. Xi does not wield absolute power. The Chinese seem to maintain some underpinnings of socialist ideology that give them a veneer of moral authority. They’re hampered by corruption but have limited it (so far) perhaps because the party’s ideological dimension. How long this will last and how long the CCP can maintain their authority to rule China is anybody’s guess.
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  4822. No, Pete is tracking them. He has a particular set of skills.
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  4823.  @randolphr5074  That was dumb, but I’m sure you can be even dumber if you try. Does Pete have a bias? Sure, somewhat. He consults for (among other clients) energy companies. He speaks in a language they can understand. He provides the information they seek: opportunities in a changing environment. (And they don’t rely solely on his interpretations of the data. They hire other consultants.) If you watch any of his keynote addresses, take note of which industry associations he is addressing: mostly energy and some ag. This is his client base. These short videos are part of his marketing. Like any business, he wants more clients. Like any author, he wants more readers. To certain mindsets, anything optimistically pro-business is propaganda. Anything with a pro-democracy bias is propaganda. Such mindsets are usually anti-capitalist, anti-democracy, and anti-west. Often they work for kleptocracies. How well does that describe you?
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  4824.  Nicole Saputo  Give it a rest.
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  4825.  @lu544  I made a joke about video game violence, had my account frozen until I voluntarily deleted the joke (which was also hidden). To be honest it was only an OK joke, and deleting it wouldn’t have been a big deal. If they had just deleted it without requiring me to delete it, I would have grumbled and then forgotten about it. But the fact that they wanted me to delete it myself bugged me. I appealed and lost. I used that opportunity to “cure my Twitter addiction”. Best decision ever.
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  4826. Podemos URSS and then push the vowels through their noses.
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  4827. Down there, if there is a Heaven and Hell. This isn’t some pitiful ignorant person. This is someone who actively spread disinformation and conspiracy theories to many people. He is one of those that politicized the pandemic to attack political opponents. If there is a Heaven and a Hell, he’s in the later place.
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  4828. Is that relevant? Whatever his other failings or your opinion of him as a person, does he support Covid relief or not? Is he helping get a package passed or not? Don’t put petty politics over the health and welfare of the entire country.
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  4829.  @johnhouchins3156  Their ability to exploit their mineral rights would also be affected by the deep turbine foundations. This all could have been avoided if the company simply paid for the mining permits. They didn’t understand the law and thought it would be cheaper to fight it in court.
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  4830. Poor Mexico, so far from heaven, so close to the U.S.A. 😜
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  4831. It’s a counter-offensive. I hope it’s successful, but it’s unclear what the aims are.
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  4832. I admire the confidence you have, posting your opinion with no knowledge of the case or law, which you could all learn from watching the video.
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  4833. More like a tale of antivaxxer grift.
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  4834. Steve already answered that question in the video. You might want to watch it before posting any more comments.
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  4835. That’s the only way he has any possibility to win. Otherwise I think he has sacrificed his career for the good of our country and for democracy. Edit: I just checked. Georgia has an open primary system, but it would take a helluva lot of democratic voters to make sure he’s the Republican nominee.
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  4836. Thin skinned president.
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  4837. That’s the problem, Trump hasn’t lifted a finger to get the vaccine out to the people. Assisting in its development is only half the race. What has the Trump administration done in the last 60 days to get more Americans vaccinated quickly? What are they planning now? What directives has Trump sent to his officials in the last week to speed up vaccinations? If ANYTHING is being done, we haven’t heard.
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  4838.  @karlhawkes  <—TROLL
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  4839. Is grandma’s faucet some kind of double entendre? It sounds like a Jordan Peterson writing prompt for grandma erotica.
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  4840. That’s the plan. In January 20th, a new President is sworn in. Oh, didn’t mean that? You mean you want to scrap the constitution and start from scrap? Nah, we’re good.
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  4841.  @carolcarol62  The rapture came and went. If you’re still here, then . . .
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  4842.  @ahm848  If you’re saying this is a proxy war, apparently Russia didn’t learn that you can’t be your own proxy.
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  4843. ⁠ @themakerofmagic  That doesn’t make it a good strategy. What you’re saying is that Russia is still using WWI & WWII tactics. And it doesn’t seem to be working.
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  4844. I clicked on this video knowing I would be disappointed that it had nothing to do with the Fallout game or TV series. 😅 Please consider doing a series of reaction videos to the TV show. 😂
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  4845. Blue Mountain Welcome to the 90s, Blue. They’re never going to end.
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  4846. Surprised no one in this thread mentioned biological war.
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  4847. You’re making category and abstraction errors.
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  4848. And Donblas is Danzig? Your term echo is perfect, because to be honest the analogies are not very good.
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  4849. WRT to official propaganda, Ukraine doesn’t prevent independent journalists verifying claims. Russia doesn’t allow independent journalists and has made it a crime within Russia to report anything negative about the war. They’ve even made it illegal to call it a war; two tv stations were closed down for calling it a war instead of the official “Special Military Operation”. An example of journalists fact checking claims is Sky News investigating claims that small units (squads) of Russian soldiers had infiltrated the lines and were killing civilians in civilian areas, including the cease fire corridors set up to allow civilians to escape. The news crew met one of these squads—and were lucky to escape with their lives, although two members were shot. (These aren’t “warning shots”.) So there you go, Ukraine makes a claim, and independent journalists are able to fact check. Russia makes a claim, and . . . we’re supposed to take their word for it, I guess.
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  4850. Peter Parker hasn’t aged well.
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  4851.  @stevenroshni1228  I bet the dude didn’t even write the President, begging for clemency.
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  4852.  @debc2237  When you call Israel the occupier, you are repeating Hamas. They mean Israel doesn’t have a right to exist. Israel occupies Israel is the issue for Hamas. When you use terms like anti-Zionist, you’re saying that Jews do not have a right to live in the Levant. That’s why anti-zionists are anti-semites. If you don’t understand these things, if you refuse to learn the history, you’re engaged in childish protest. Israel needs to wrap this up and withdraw from Gaza. They need to cease operations if that will get the hostages back. Israel needs to do a lot of things. But that doesn’t change the misguided nature of the anti-Israel protests.
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  4853. What’s it going to take to not have this asshole constantly in the news? Say what you will about Bush or Obama, but after they each left office, they dropped from public life and mostly kept to themselves. It’s almost like they weren’t addicted to getting attention.
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  4854. S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
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  4855. I heard that they’re behind the front line to shoot deserters.
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  4856.  @khovik  I plan on using a chatGPT type AI for 90% of my online social interactions. Deepfake yourself.
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  4857. Great spelling, Ivan. Almost like a real American.
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  4858. Did the basketball coach done kick you off the team?
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  4859. No.
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  4860. Mexico likes to be contrarian to U.S. foreign policy on occasion. It reinforces its sense of independence from the colossus to the North. AMLO does this to a greater degree because he’s a populist trying to further his personal power. He’s really an imbecil in many ways. I hope his coalition falls apart.
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  4861. I’ll speak up for the unions and everyone thereafter. But let them have the socialists.
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  4862.  @sjonnieplayfull5859  so what I hear you saying is that it sucks to be a ticklish POW.
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  4863. I’m pretty sure Poland’s got more than steers and queers.
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  4864. And he got one. Or do you not think the sniper officer was highly skilled in conflict resolution? It’s regrettable that the guy who got killed was not able to get whatever psychological or spiritual counseling he needed to get him through whatever crisis he was having, but it’s probably too late if he was shooting at police helicopters. Lastly, if he wanted someone to talk to, he would have barricaded himself inside his house.
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  4865.  @garyfumeaux9226  STOP spamming every single thread. I’m reporting this as spam.
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  4866. If it’s below 1% margin, no one should be worried about Trump asking for a recount. It’s the calls to stop the counting of valid ballots that are anti American and anti Constitutional.
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  4867. Weaning via titration can be done safely over 30 days, possibly less (down to 2 weeks). That said, a longer course of treatment (3-6 months) might be advisable to many people suffering situational depression due to pandemic conditions. Definitely something to be discussed with one’s physician and/or psychiatrist.
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  4868. They’ve agreed to not closing down the government. This a normal thing that has nothing to do with pandemic relief. It just makes sure that government agencies stay open. It has the potential to be a political football, so it’s good that Pelosi and Munchkin got it done with a “clean bill” (meaning no amendments for unrelated stuff).
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  4869. Big mistake. He’s a man and they’ll have to pay him a higher salary.
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  4870. What rhymes with Tumulty?
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  4871.  @idpsalm3331  Wow, are you a dumb liar. Do you come from a society where you conveniently forget the past 30 years of history and just believe whatever the Kremlin tells you? Ukraine didn’t join NATO and wasn’t going to join NATO. In fact, it had already been rejected. That’s one of the more moronic things about Putin’s utterly daft invasion—now Ukraine will probably and eventually join NATO. And more countries on or near Russia’s border are joining NATO. Meanwhile, because Russia is losing so badly in Ukraine, it cannot even honor its defense treaties (Armenia for example). As much as I oppose the threat of Chinese expansionism, the world will be safer when Russia becomes a Chinese vassal state.
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  4872.  @SpringIsBACK  You need to define what you think the mission should be, how it should be accomplished, and you need to enumerate the repercussions and why they are acceptable. That might demonstrate that you have an understanding of the strategic situation. Otherwise, you’re just another crank, yelling “Fix it!” at the air.
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  4873. It would really make sense to use Covid sniffing dogs at airports and ports of entry. I really hope the authorities get on this.
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  4874.  @TrueBirdology  try some Preparation H. You’re showing a lot of worry lines around your butthole.
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  4875. Yup
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  4876.  @Moamanly  nop
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  4877. “Never interrupt a hackneyed quote about military matters.” ~~Napoleon Tzu
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  4878.  @Matt_from_Florida  Except many were, sent into situations of certain death to gain a meter here or there. That’s why they run. They’ve seen the Russian generals carelessly throw their brothers to the Ukrainian wolves for too long.
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  4879.  @DirtyGreens  and twice a day on weekends.
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  4880. The Pinkerton, eh? Sounds like the YouTuber got railroaded.
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  4881. It reminds me of the negotiations between the North Vietnamese and the U.S. to end the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam conflict. During the negotiations, the U.S. engaged in a bombing campaign of North Vietnam to force concessions from them. Kissinger knew that the war was unwinable, but thought that the bombing would give the U.S. a stronger negotiating position.
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  4882. I don’t know if the democrats are ready to step up and bail out Johnson, but they could stop the shutdown and get Ukraine aid, as well as look like the reasonable party. The immigration bill might be back on the table, too (including renegotiating something more palatable to the Dems.
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  4883.  @thefinalkayakboss  acorns. 🌰
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  4884. And you should ask your doctor for a psychiatric referral.
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  4885. True. It affects the entire world. And despite the wishes of the isolationists who think we can retreat into Fortress America, we are part of the world. The isolationists want a simple answer to a complicated problem, like the kid who takes the ball and goes home, yielding the playing field to others.
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  4886. Heyo! I recently subscribed for your Ukraine coverage and I’m looking at your older videos. Don’t feel bad that the Estonian Army has no A-10s. Neither does the U.S. Army. The A-10 is Air Force equipment. I think the cost of the AC 130 is affordable. It’s the ammo that gets expensive. 😄 But if it’s too rich for your blood, maybe its predecessor the AC 47 will be more in your budget. One last thing: “Our enemies call it x” is bull poopie. Enemies that have faced an AC 130 don’t call it anything because they’re dead. 😄
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  4887.  @DISOPtv  The same principle applies, though. The weight of the engine is a lot more than you suppose. That weight and the velocity gives the train great momentum that is not easily slowed or stopped.
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  4888.  @danielstockley5631  OK Ted
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  4889.  @JTheUsualMultimedia  I’m looking forward to Dr. Duc’s rant on this. He’s located in Houston, and he doesn’t hesitate to go off when he rants. Warning: profanity.
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  4890. That kubelwagon driver must have gotten exhausted.
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  4891. If the U.S. “would have done the same thing”, why are Canada and Mexico still sovereign nations?
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  4892.  @KCBRYAN_1525  I hate to say it, but if Putin keeps doubling down and moving closer to using a nuke, it might be the horrible case that a first strike on Russia is the best solution.
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  4893. For days the keyboard warriors have been promising something mysterious and ominous for last Wednesday. They made it sound like tens of thousands of Trumpers were going to show up and start a civil war. They’ve deleted those messages and are now blaming others.
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  4894.  @Eidolon1andOnly  Please name the multitude of crimes. Or just a few of them.
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  4895.  @christopherparisho5844  Can you cite a specific law that was broken?
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  4896. I watch his videos like a hawk, looking for any evidence of a green screen. So far, nothing. 😆 Mind you, it’s possible, so I’ll keep looking, but I think it’s legit.
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  4897. Yes. On Election Day. Either they were too lazy and overconfident, or they realized that Lake would be a bad governor. I suspect that middle-of-the-road Republicans and conservative independents are getting tired of the crazy “ultra-MAGAs” to the point where they will vote for a moderate Dem. My GOP was the party of personal responsibility. The MAGA GOP is the party of blame everyone else, make false allegations, never show proof and never take responsibility. Phooey!
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  4898. Johnny Leg is great.
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  4899. The bill is ready to be signed immediately. Trump was always part of the negotiations via his negotiator, Mnuchin. Trump knows that there are two different spending bills involved here. He is purposefully mixing the omnibus components to keep the government from shutting down and the Covid relief bill. The foreign aid he finds objectionable was what he requested—its in his budget request to congress. Trump is either cynically lying or is suffering from memory problems and cognitive issues. Either way, he’s the current problem.
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  4900.  @Heterogeneity  well to be fair, passing the funding requires making deals with the Satan worshiping pedophillic antifa party trying to destroy America. /s
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  4901. Have you ever read Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow? Not an easy read for most people, but if you can plow through military manuals, I don’t think it will give you any problems. The title refers to the trajectory of the V2. “But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice—guessed and refused to believe—that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return.” The novel is a twisting narrative, absurd and at times surreal. Have a look!
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  4902.  @igordragicevic8835  religion is your coping mechanism, but opiates will last you longer.
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  4903. Term limits don’t apply. This isn’t an office in any branch of government. It’s the chair of a political committee. If the major donors want McDaniels for the next 20 years, she will be the chairwoman for the next 20 years. I suspect that you are not an American as no American could be this ignorant of U.S. party politics.
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  4904.  @themisanthropichumanist7050 Well, that’s the rub. This vessel was unique and deep water submersibles as a category are rare. There are no established safety protocols specific to this class of vessel and it’s not covered under the SOLAS convention. It’s only AFTER tragedies that protocols are created or adapted, and until you have a protocol, you don’t really have a basis for a checklist. Whine all you want about capitalism and putting the almighty dollar ahead of safety, but safety standards are even worse in communist countries. I’ll take 5 deaths from experimental technology and an overall better workplace safety record, thank you. If there were shenanigans such as misleading passengers, I mean, paying crew members, that will come out in the investigation and subsequent law suits—but keep in mind that the person who is ultimately responsible was himself on the Titan and is now beyond earthly justice. It’s also going to be hard to determine if the deceased paying crew members were fully cognizant of the risks or not, because they’re not around to tell us what they knew before signing release forms and boarding the vessel. A full inquiry will answer some of these questions, but probably not all questions with 100% certainty. And once the inquiry/investigation is complete and a report issued, there will be a better basis for setting up a safety framework for these types of vessels, so they can be registered, certified, and inspected.
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  4905. ⁠ @misarthim6538 I heard it was millions of victims, perhaps billions. You’re counting sperm, right? If we are talking about all forms of tubes, such as condoms, there are probably quadrillions of innocent victims. Even inside a natural tube used for reproductive purposes, only a single lucky one survives. The rest of the cohort that gets deposited in the tube (usually around 100-200 million sperm) perish. Now as far as these rare and exotic deep sea submersibles, there is no certification agency for this class of vessel. Criticizing the company for using an uncertified vessel makes you look ignorant. I think the most one can argue is that much more unmanned testing should have been done.
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  4906.  @asbestosfiber The only counter to that is, what if the company was concealing or minimizing safety issues? On this point I can only speculate, so it’s better to wait for an investigation or inquiry to be completed and a report issued before reaching any conclusions.
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  4907.  @lcmattern So the CEO, the guy who should face any consequences, has fled beyond human reach. No earthly court can impose a sentence on him or compel him to pay a penalty. Maybe he’ll face those consequences in an afterlife. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  4908. @Callum Matias Are they, though? Are they earning the same as they were a year ago? Are their expenses the same? How many are earning less or are having to help support family, friends, and neighbors on their earnings? We’re not even through the worst of it yet—we are still at peak time for holiday travel and we all know a lot of idiots are going to be gathering for New Years parties. Let’s check in two weeks and see how many still have their jobs, as infections, hospitalizations, and deaths catch up to the December-to-remember exposure. In the meantime, stay safe and all the best to you and your family in this terrible time.
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  4909.  @FatGouf  The Russians First Guard Tank Army is currently storming the gates of heaven, with about the same success they had in Ukraine.
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  4910. Elon Musk is South African. Take it up with them.
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  4911. I think you are partially incorrect about the U.S. immigration laws and policies, either from the 20s or currently. Hitler admired our racist immigration policies. That’s what he was talking about. As far as the maga rhetoric sounding like Hitler, yes it does and it’s horrible. But the current racist rhetoric also mirrors the anti-Asian rhetoric from the second half of the 19th Century and throughout the 20th Century. The talk of “invaders” is a word for word borrowing from how Americans talked about Chinese and Japanese immigrants, and the rhetoric gave rise to massacres and pogroms. Anti-Asian sentiment was shared by both the right and the left. Some of the greatest rabble rousers of anti-Asian violence were socialists and labor leaders. My point is that the maga racists aren’t really importing many words or ideas from Nazi Germany. Our racism is homegrown and once inspired Hitler. Maybe we had 50 or 60 years of reform, but judging by the popular vote of our last election, we are reverting to a racist normal.
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  4912. Is there nothing that restrains “corps” from raising prices? Isn’t competition supposed to do that?
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  4913.  @YvonneWilson312  Yes, and as I often point out in these comments, ivermectin has an established mechanism for treating parasites such as worms and lice: it’s a neurotoxin that attacks these tiny creatures’ nervous systems. There is no known mechanism by which ivermectin could affect the virus, unless one believes in magic. The largest manufacturer and distributor of ivermectin (Merck) that would stand to profit greatly if ivermectin had any effect whatsoever as an antiviral, recently published a study that found ivermectin has no therapeutic or prophylactic properties wrt COVID-19. Merck has no competing product with which they could make greater profits, nor do they have a successful vaccine. They are currently looking to invest in or buy a company developing a “promising” therapeutic treatment for hundred of millions, possibly billions, of dollars. Why would they take this wager if they were already sitting on a goldmine?
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  4914.  @johmyh14  see the Merck study on ivermectin that just came out. No efficacy. Merck is the largest manufacturer and distributor of ivermectin. They would earn a lot of money if ivermectin was effective as a therapeutic or prophylactic, as they’ve been sidelined by their failed efforts to develop a vaccine.
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  4915.  @nvelsen1975  lol, you think you’d have time for that? What you need is an urban ghillie suit, disguise yourself as a abandoned shopping cart or a bus bench. But seriously, your safety in unsafe sections of L.A. is a lot stronger during daytime. If it’s after dark, 🤷🏻‍♀️. Personally, my first line of defense is my running shoes. “Feets don’t fail me now!”
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  4916. What charges? And what does police lying to the father have to do with their hiring practices? I’m trying to help you out here. Your argument is emotional and illogical. We are understandably upset by what happened, but your calls for revenge are not effective. You have to understand the law, understand what went wrong in hiring process, and then figure out the best way to fix the problem. Part of that fix might be to punish anyone who failed in their duties. And it’s OK if you don’t have an instant solution. Part of what is needed is to figure out the solution. Emotional appeals are easy and do little but help you blow off steam. Fixing the problem is hard, but it’s not a waste of that steam you want to vent. Do you know what works? Writing physical letters to the state attorney general, demanding an independent investigation of the whole sheriffs department. Someone has to open the letters. And then they have to pass the letter on to someone else to deal with. Maybe that person puts your letter into a file with other similar letters. If the file gets too big, someone in the AG office has to figure out what to do with it. Here is the thing about physical mail, and why elected officials pay attention (or should pay attention). Maybe one out of a thousand citizens will send a physical letter about an issue. If they receive 50 letters, that represents 50,000 potential voters. So the thing you can do right now to be effective is look up the mailing address of the State attorney general’s office. (You can do the same for the governor and anyone else you think could help.) Then write a letter demanding an independent investigation. This one thing is a million times more effective than posting a year’s worth of YouTube comments, and you can do it in a half hour. Maybe less time, but it shouldn’t take more than an hour of your time.
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  4917.  @lukaskywalker7646  You just revealed yourself as either a non-American or someone incapable of remembering beyond 15 minutes ago. The vaccine wasn’t available until after the election, and afterward the election it was only available in limited quantities. When it was ready, there wasn’t a distribution system in place, and many states had to scramble. But why am I bothering? You’re a foreign national trying to stir up shit, and spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt,
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  4918.  @bobpace4334  They say things like “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” I’ll tell you what. I’m going to live on my feet while they die in a hospital bed.
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  4919.  @jamesflaherty9250  TROLL Just another pandemic minimizer/denialist. Don’t be fooled by his attempt to have a “reasonable discussion”. This chap is intellectually dishonest and not interested in facts, evidence, or the truth.
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  4920. Figuring out the proportions is beyond my ability, but the stage managing was shit, I’ll give you that!
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  4921. @Elena looks like an 🚙 🥕 typo.
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  4922. You just described the c47m.
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  4923. Assuming we win this election, how can we encourage JD Vance to run for President in 2028?
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  4924. We in the U.S are standing by to hold the U.K.’s beer.
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  4925. There was much giggling in the peanut gallery last week when he said there were “big buts, but they’re good buts”. Who knew John was a Sir Rapsalot fan?
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  4926. If savings account interest rates are roughly 2% higher than core inflation, that’s pretty good. It probably has more to do with Fed policy (and their clear signaling) than ‘Bidenomics’, but if we were going to blame him for a bad economy, we should give Biden some credit for a good economy.
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  4927.  @ropeburnsrussell  Lend-Lease!
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  4928.  @MrPaxio  What’s worse are the actual medical professionals that trade on their credentials to sell snake oil.
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  4929.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  He’s probably referring to those cute little dogs. 😉
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  4930. Did the Mutiny fail? Prigozhin will keep Wagner and his head. Wagner troops won’t be forced to sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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  4931. Putin was promising dollars or rubles? If he’s promising hard cash death bonuses in dollars, whoa. That’s amazing. If he’s promising rubles, I don’t think anyone will care.
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  4932. I hope it means he’s out of remission from the cancer he survived in 2004.
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  4933. The video said that the building was just up for its 40-year certification, so I imagine it was submitted sometime this year. If you’re wondering who owns the buildings, look up the county records. Idle speculation is a waste of your time.
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  4934.  @jamessmith-pf5zf  you have a point, but I was going to suggest a new word, “uncapture”.
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  4935. Do I need to have seen the first Joker to enjoy Joker II?
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  4936. Cool story. You left out the part where you go to prison and lose the house.
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  4937.  @Deadops420  lol, you’re actually pushing Spanish-Catholic colonial propaganda here and now? You are ignorant and gullible and you need to check ALL of your facts.
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  4938.  @awesomesauce804  David, I’m not a weakling. I can bend a spoon with my mind. I concentrate on holding the spoon firmly in my hands and then I use my mind to rotate my hands in opposite directions. This works on most spoons. For the stubborn ones I use my mind to put the spoon in a vice and then concentrate on picking up a hammer. It took me years to learn these secrets, but I’ve gotten so good I could probably teach you how in an afternoon.
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  4939. Back in the day, dried prunes provided all the high speed fiber anyone needed.
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  4940. Hello, three month old YouTube account.
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  4941. No shit. Vivid comparison checks out.
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  4942.  @gonefishn5138  What’s Mar A Lago got to do with this? We’re talking about a Democrat Governor in New York, not Donald Trump.
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  4943. Shirtless. Mounted on a horse. With a 9” stainless steel rod shoved up his butt.
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  4944. lol, not that big. Do all Idahoans exaggerate as much as you do?
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  4945. I really appreciate the service Nick has done. I know these brits are “stiff upper lip” types and don’t like lavish praise, but Nick has done us a solid with his personal reporting (as have others and especially Dr. John, but Nick as impressed me much more than other guests).
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  4946. Autographed.
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  4947. I wouldn’t care if they brought McCarthy back, if he broke from Trump and MAGA, and lead the house as a coalition of bipartisan centrists. If there a Dems and Republicans willing to operate in good faith and assert the power of the center, even a POS weakling like McCarthy could do the job. I don’t blame the Dems for staying out of the GOP’s way as it self-immolates. But if they can find any half-way decent partners in the GOP conference, I hope they can find the means to cooperate.
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  4948. Mafer, not Mayfair. Adam’s pronunciation was a little weird. Also, I’ve found the Neewer C-stands to be good and sturdy. Make sure you are buying steel or stainless steel. I believe they’re made in China. Even a c-stand’s legs will start to fold if you don’t use it properly. The legs are designed to collapse when you apply sideways pressure. I wouldn’t go blaming the stand until I knew more specifics.
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  4949.  @peetky8645 That’s your source? Military surplus vehicles on auction sites?
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  4950. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I look forward to the day that the Lincoln project has no reason to exist and we can go back to being ordinary conservatives. I know that day won’t be the same day that Trump loses the 2024 election, but I think this debate really marks the beginning of the end for maga.
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  4951.  @maxpower3990  The security of the regime, not the security of Russia. There is no certainty about what the Russian military will do if the Putin regime is seriously threatened. What we do know is that Putin is reckless. If the Kremlin were to announce that it would only use nukes if its 1991 borders are breached, that would be one thing.
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  4952. Agreed, as long as you anti vaxxers agree to separate yourselves from the rest of society. Let’s find you an uninhabited island where you won’t have to take the vaccine, won’t have to wear a mask, or social distance, or put up with any societal constraints on your freedom. Have gatherings as large as you like. No lock downs! Just do it far away from the rest of us that want to survive this pandemic. I suggest one of the uninhabited islands in the Aleutian Archipelago. Think of it as camping.
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  4953. You should tell Ward, “Thank you very mooch.”
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  4954.  @laidbackeasttexan  If you cross at Laredo and drive south all day, you’ll get away from the bad weather. Just saying, in case you want a nice cultural vacation after we’re past all the pandemic bullshit. Guanajuato and Querétaro are both beautiful states to come visit, especially if you’re tired of beach vacations.
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  4955. Why is she the gold digger and he’s not the pussy digger?
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  4956.  @dmay9081  lol, it’s no joke. I bought online, and watched the price change in my shopping basket, and then go out of stock.
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  4957.  @NikoMoraKamu  Just don’t touch the monkeys. Maybe they wouldn’t be so evil if you people weren’t always trying to touch them, or worse yet trying to spank the monkeys. Look, I get it. Spanking the monkey is very pleasurable. But please try and control yourself.
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  4958.  @Ultrajamz  You’re now making things up. The omicron variant is too new and we don’t know enough about it. Boosters provided 6 or more months full protection, with effectiveness tapering off after 6 ( or more) months. We don’t know for sure if omicron is milder, although there is initial evidence that it might be. We don’t know if omicron infection will provide defense against other variants. But I suspect you’re a conspiracy nut and won’t hear anything you don’t want to hear, whether the news is good or bad.
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  4959. Or murdered him. They armed themselves as they exited the vehicle, which signifies they intended or at least were entertaining the idea of killing him. This doesn’t signify that they were content with overpowering him with superior numbers and beating the crap out of him, nor does it signify that they merely wanted to detain him. They were prepared to use their firearms when they exited the vehicle with those firearms in their hands.
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  4960. Why haven’t you watched the videos that might have touched on this topic?
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  4961. Probably spring or summer of 2023. However, it would be interesting if it was recorded in spring or summer of 2024, would it not?
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  4962. Not to mention the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities.
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  4963.  @RooRichy  Interesting! I’m at 2,000 IU, but I’m also in a southern, sunny clime. I’ve a rooftop patio, so I can get sun without leaving the house. I was given to understand that higher doses (10,000) IU were safe, but you’re the second person who has mentioned it 4,000 as the limit before you need to consult your physician. Thanks for posting this info and supporting evidence.
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  4964. I got tired of waiting and bought a two pack of Tiles on sale. They’re the older version, without a user replaceable battery, so I might eventually get the Airtags.
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  4965. Give it a rest, Ivan.
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  4966. 14th amendment.
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  4967.  @30.06onaGrassyKnoll  You’re letting appearances fool you. He bought the House Managers the time they needed to deal with Lee’s “objection”. Leahy could have just denied Lee’s motion as out of order—insofar as this is a trial, witnesses do not get to object to how their testimony is being characterized during the presentation phase. Instead, Leahy referred to a Senate rule to divert the objection, because it wouldn’t achieve Lee’s intended effect. This bought the House trial managers the time they needed to respond to Lee’s objection, which was to “retract without prejudice”, meaning they can try to put it back in later. The trial managers were pretty on the ball as far as recognizing the problem and heading it off, but they needed those few minutes to decide.
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  4968. What everyone else already said . . . I do have an unlikely left field alternative though. What if the misspelling wasn’t break for brake, but was the omission of “–er”. It’s perfectly cromulent to say “pull the breaker” if one is trying to cut a circuit. It’s derived from (pre-breaker) pulling a fuse.
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  4969. What do you mean? Are you referring to the elderly? The attitude that “The sick and elderly were going to die anyway” is monstrous, and I hope you will really think about what it means. Imagine you knew your mom had two weeks to live. Would you have her be tortured to death, in isolation “because she was going to die anyway”? Or would you rather she not suffer death by torture?
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  4970. Why would you SULLY your reputation with all those Tom Hanks movie references?
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  4971. If you try to turn this horrible incident into “evidence” of your pet conspiracy theory, you’re actively engaging in the same mentally ill behavior as the murderer.
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  4972. Fragile, but robust. The internet is designed in a way that you could call self-healing. If a node goes down, the traffic reroutes automatically around that node. If direct traffic between Europe and Asia was cut, the traffic would be rerouted across North America. It’s a detour. It could lead to “traffic congestion”. But I doubt it would be catastrophic on its own.
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  4973.  @anderspuck  Your last point is the strongest. It would give Putin justification for tactical nukes and full mobilization. I think the only possibility for Russia to lose Crimea is by internal events in Russia. It is impossible to predict what might happen, let alone control any such events, so we should not put any faith in the possibility that some perfect storm will occur.
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  4974. Inducing someone to travel with a ruse or false promises sounds like fraud. It was reported that the Venezuelan families were given maps to where they could get help in Martha’s Vinyard. The map led to a parking lot.
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  4975. It’s the celebration of ignorance that gets me.
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  4976.  @RaptorJesus  and it’s not like Mexico is a compliant ally of the U.S. If you follow U.S.-Mexico relations, you’d know that there is constant low level friction even with Mexican Presidents that are very friendly to the U.S. The Mexicans are very jealous of their sovereignty, and they respond in kind if/when there are diplomatic slights. That said, the relationship is mostly very friendly because of shared interests and because our economies are entwined. It doesn’t hurt that the second biggest Mexican city (by number of Mexicans) is Los Angeles, California.
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  4977. Zǐzěk has been a long time proponent of teledildonics. Chomsky is cringe and has been for a while now.
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  4978. Recruitment was a problem long before. The “wokeness” or whatever it is that you find so objectionable is an effort to solve recruitment problems. How are you measuring “rotten” leaders? Gimme some numbers and your metrics.
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  4979. What do Kendrick and Drake have against Tucker (other than his naked racism)?
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  4980.  @dougg1075  Can I get a cutting from your hamburger tree? Just a hoof will do, thanks.
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  4981. Right on. I’ve learned to live very modestly. I’ve had some wild adventures on the road and now I’ve taken early retirement and moved to where I can get by comfortably on a fixed income. I’ve suffered a couple of material misfortunes that I experienced more as a lightening of the load than a painful loss. It’s all about attitude and adaptability. I feel fortunate. They called us slackers. That used to sting when I cared what they thought and tried to measure myself by their lifestyle standards.
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  4982. lol, they’re trying to keep Trump out of trouble. 😂
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  4983.  Ian La Coste  Your current wife is also your first wife?
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  4984.  @goranrajcevic5550  The most pitiful thing about you is that you are enthusiastically helping a madman slit your own throat.
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  4985.  @BillyBoze  <— 🤡 Bozobilly
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  4986.  @mcmogg_incmogg2080  OK, Ivan. We’ve already heard that distortion of the truth. Do you have any fresh lies you’re peddling?
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  4987.  @orktv4673  No. If these people had walked to England, Iceland, the Western Hemisphere, we’d not call them hikings, rather we’d call them hikers. Viking is the activity, so I suppose if you insist on using an ahistorical term arbitrarily, call them Vikers.
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  4988. That’s so scary! I am hoping to travel to Laredo later this year, but I keep putting it off (as I keep putting off my plans to California).
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  4989. Word on the street is that there were a couple of droids in that building. Look at the placement of the RV. It had to be imperials, because Tusken Raiders aren’t that precise.
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  4990. Those were the reporter’s words. He said basically that “concerns or grievances were unknown” at this time.
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  4991. Lol, was waiting for him to draw some balls.
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  4992. What does that mean to close the border, and how much will it cost?
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  4993. Reese’s vomit diarrhea cups.
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  4994. Agreed. The Republican Party has gone way beyond garden variety corruption and malfeasance (typified by Menéndez, as an example) that we have seen in both parties. I don’t know if this will give you any hope, but I think there has been a positive development. As the GOP has gotten worse, the Democrats have cleaned up their act. I hope my perception is correct and if it is, I hope the trend continues.
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  4995.  @carolharris2401  Tell me something: do most Americans understand the policies that the Dems propose? Or are they responding to buzzwords? It’s my impression that very few are willing to get into the details to understand how a policy will be implemented, what unintended consequences might arise, and how adjustments might be made.
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  4996. He doesn’t want the job. Or he doesn’t want to be seen wanting the job. Voting for himself wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the third round. These are the obvious answers before you go jumping to the conclusion that some secret deal was negotiated.
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  4997.  @jimreilly6933  The shooter was a woman. Her name is Nikki. Note the spelling.
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  4998. The surrendering unit has some options. They can disarm their comrade. They can pretend they don’t know him and nonchalantly move away. Or they could put as much space between themselves and him as they can, without getting shot themselves. I think if there was one guy in my squad that was always saying things like, “I’d rather die than surrender”, or who was too frikkin’ gung-ho in the stupid jerk way of a true believer, I’d probably jump his ass and tie him up right before the surrender.
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  4999. You think someone is holding him until a reward is posted?
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  5000.  @charadreemurr8673  Tankies and commie-boos have a positive knee jerk reaction to anything that could be vaguely considered anti-U.S. The credo is “America is always bad”. Anything the U.S. supports is bad, any alliance or coalition in which the U.S. participates is bad. (And according to their thinking, NATO is merely an extension of the U.S. and all the other members are puppets.) So if the U.S. and the NATO alliance is helping Ukraine, Ukraine is bad, and Russia good. And because (in their view) Ukraine is a mere extension of the U.S., any crime committed by the Russians in Ukraine can be justified by historical crimes committed by the U.S. Tankies and commie-boos also make many false comparisons—for example, comparing Russia’s invasion with the Cuban missile crisis. The argument is “turn about is fair play”, but it’s an argument based on a fabrication/falsification of historic events. Are these far leftists intellectually bankrupt? Well, they somehow supported Maduro in Venezuela when he cracked down on the democratic opposition using paramilitary groups and criminal gangs to intimidate them.
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  5001.  @jonmccormick8683 Which is still prohibited by international law.
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  5002.  @carterchain2831  How much experience do you have planting bombs? How do you usually do it? Study the history of terrorism a bit, and you’ll see that some terrorist groups send warnings.
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  5003. Occam’s razor tells us to go with the simplest possible answer, so I think you’re right. However, the romantic in me wants to believe that the missile was hacked, and I think there is an improbable but possible scenario, which is a hardware/firmware hack. Imagine this—the factory that builds these missiles uses CPUs and circuit boards sourced outside of Russia. However, to pocket a few extra bucks, the buying manager buys some of the CPUs at a discounted price on the black market. The provenance is unknown. The buyer assumes they are stolen from the manufacturer or some other client or vendor. He has no idea through whose hands the components have passed and doesn’t care, so long as they test OK and they work. Now imagine that some agency with the required capabilities and expertise, in some government with an adversarial relationship with Russia, inserts itself into that chain of custody. It could substitute a CPU (or whatever) that looks like the genuine component from the MFGR, but that contains hardwired instructions to misfire (or do whatever). The component is tested as normal, is used to build the missile, and voila, missile that flies back. Did this happen? Probably not. I mean, why not just have it blow up in the rack? But as Russia seeks to replenish its inventory of high tech electronic components through a “parallel market”, they are at risk of receiving hacked hardware. And due to the general level of corruption in the Russian economy, I suspect that these trade networks already existed before the sanctions and were supplying components to the Russian arms industry.
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  5004. More specifically, what is the mechanism by which an SSRI would help an individual fend of Covid? If it was just “positive state of mind”, a placebo can do that for a short time, but the trial showed that the SSRI gave significantly better outcomes than the placebo.
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  5005. Even worse, I think that quite a few who do know better are intentionally spreading disinformation, even those with the education to know better or to determine the facts. It’s as if they’ve sealed of that knowledge to maintain beliefs that are irrelevant to the medical realities.
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  5006. I wish Tim didn’t say he’s a RINO. That’s a symptom of gaslighting. The magagop has spent the last 8 years purging the GOP of conservatives and moderates who have a conscience, ethics, and rationality. Many of us don’t want to be a Republican. By now we’ve left (or should have left). But God bless those very few who have stayed to fight for what’s right. The term “RINO” is used by maga to police the GOP the same way that fundies police the members of their identity groups. The GOP is the new religion where you must profess faith in Donald Trump, no matter what, believe that he alone can save you, and love him with all your heart.
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  5007. Go wake up Yuri. Yuri says fuck you, he’s sleeping. Tell Yuri to get up and get his ass in here! We need air support! Yuri says he’s hung over. How is this possible? I gave strict orders not to give Yuri vodka or to loan him money to buy any. Yuri sold the batteries for his radio to get the money.
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  5008.  @Nowhereoh  Mexico is under-testing and under-counting. The Federal response has been mostly abysmal. It’s the states and municipalities that have been forced to act on their own, and even then some are not acting in the best interests of public health, but to keep tourism open. I would NOT use Mexico as an example to tout the success of any medication. Look elsewhere for your evidence.
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  5009.  @mikek9297  How?
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  5010. It can’t happen soon enough.
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  5011.  @zpclosangelesgraffiticafe  GenocideVirus is a good example of horseshoe theory.
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  5012.  @diegojines-us9pc actually, he had at least one previous DUI. So yes, he had a criminal record. That said, I take issue with emotional calls to prosecute whomever hired him unless they committed a crime. You can’t just charge someone with a crime because you’re mad at them for doing a bad job. You have to show that a crime occurred in the hiring process.
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  5013. I’ll go you one better: the Dems vote for Jordan en masse. Everyone will assume some deal was made. Jordan will deny it. Dems say, “no comment”, but a few of the hard left Dems say things like, “we look forward to working with our Republican colleagues to solve the problems we face, etc.”. MAGA would storm Congress a second time, this time to drag Jordan outside for a lynching. It would be the greatest political troll of all time. Then the Dems say to McCarthy, “Give us what we want or we will support you, too.”
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  5014.  @annemarieandrews3522  daver is a troll who spreads disinformation.
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  5015.  @daverok1113  More of your LIES. Stop spreading disinformation. Your noise might gravely harm people, and doesn’t help.
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  5016. I’m a big fan of Lawfare. Check it out if you aren’t already aware of them.
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  5017.  @OlJackBurton  Also, the texture depends on what part of the cabbage you’re eating. Some parts will stay crispier longer, generally crispier towards the base of the cabbage. I like to dress up a bowl of gohan with kimchi, hitting it with bit of shoyu. It’s also a nice garnish for plain tofu.
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  5018.  @stevepackard8542  LOL, you Russian trolls. You should deal with your own problems, not try and stir up ours. But a Putzi has to Putzi.
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  5019.  @coloradohikertrash9958  Nah. Think about it a moment. How many DNR officers have there ever been? How many of those have access to books? Chances are, at least one has thrown a book at someone, for whatever reason. Maybe not “the book”, but A book.
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  5020. This could be the plot of a 80s porn movie about a swinging condo building.
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  5021. To be fair, you ARE all that.
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  5022. Thank you for this. I’m seeking information on dosages. While supplements are low cost and effective for me, I’m looking into supplying supplements for about 60 people at my own expense. I know that there is no harm in higher doses (such as 4000 iu), but I need to get an idea about minimum effective dose. I’m in a more southern clime, so probably the deficiency levels are lower.
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  5023.  @thefisherking78  To hide the transaction to affect the outcome of an election. Trump could openly set up a harem in the West Wing, and it wouldn’t phase his “Christian values” voters.
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  5024. You’ll have to bring some receipts.
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  5025. Then you are only seeing what you want to see. The truth is we just don’t know—and that was discussed in this forum.
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  5026. I think that means there’s a chance one or both will straighten up sooner rather than later. They’re stupid kids—very stupid to be going that fast. But they might be capable of feeling the sting of shame from their families. This isn’t just about punishments their parents might mete out. Indeed, they will wish that they could just take the punishment and move on.
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  5027. “we only know what they let us know” 🙄 What information is missing and who is “they”? I don’t get why everything has to be a conspiracy these days. It’s normal for some information to be released right away, while other information takes longer to be confirmed. Your impatience doesn’t govern the news cycle, although the wild speculation industry is happy to service your needs. There’s also the problem that when investigators don’t report the conspiracy, it’s believed by conspiracy nuts that the investigators are part of a criminal conspiracy. Is that the issue you’re having? I don’t know if any of my objections apply to your comment, but your tone suggests that they do. If you’ve fallen into the habit of seeing conspiracies everywhere, it’s time to rethink your thinking.
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  5028. That’s crazy!
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  5029. As far as you know.
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  5030.  @tomjohnson4747  <— TROLL
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  5031. That story is apocryphal. You should try using a real world example, instead.
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  5032. One fake account = one vote and I can yell louder than you. That’s Trump Democracy in action, and if you don’t like it, go live in the real world.
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  5033. Are you just trolling or are you that ignorant? That’s a Stalin quote.
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  5034.  Donalld Allhands  LOL, did 4G tell you this? It’s jealous of 5G.
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  5035. Logisistics is an important subsystem or component of the war-making system. We conceptualize it as a discrete component, but it also blends (or bleeds) into other subsystems. Bernard touched on this: The Wehrmacht didn’t just have a problem of getting supplies to the front, but they had the even bigger problem of the soldiers keeping any sort of pace with the tanks. Even those infantry units equipped with trucks had to contend with terrible conditions of roads (which got even worse after rain). Without relatively equal mobility among the branches, combined arms doctrine falls apart. Envelopment strategies are not as effective (or doomed to failure) if the main force infantry is a day or more behind the tanks. Put another way, war-making system is a country’s war-making capacity. The German leadership was well aware of their limitations in raw materials. industrial capacity, and transport but at the same time chose to ignore it in their planning. They had a misplaced faith that it would somehow work itself out.
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  5036.  @fulcrum2951  It should be. To some degree, it always is—most military leaders understand the importance of protecting your lines of communication and supply.
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  5037.  @RL.777 Robert Kennedy is a solid and grounded anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer. If Biden is a shit sandwich and Trump is a shit sandwich laced with glass, Kennedy is a shit sandwich dosed with LSD.
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  5038.  @CyberBeep_kenshi  With all the billions in aid Ukraine is receiving, I have wondered what would happen if some of the money were used to bribe Russian soldiers. It needn’t be cash, it could be the offer of a vacation. A weekend at Disneyland in California, followed by a week in Vegas including free hookers and poker chips. I think this would be an effective use of some of the cash (you could negotiate a package deal), plus it would put money back into the U.S. economy. If they wanted to opt for Disney World in Florida, they could even keep their rifles and no one would think it out of the ordinary.
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  5039. Yeah, they got F’ed up. They were high on Trump.
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  5040. Is Find My built into the new TV remote? If not, that’s one of your four tags. The absence of a space gray iMac suggests that there will be an iMac Pro at some point. Does this new iMac design have an optional VESA mount? 🧐 The fast user switching with the fingerprint reader seems pretty fantastic. I hate the current user switching.
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  5041. There you go. You’re acting responsibly, probably providing a better education for your children while also not putting other children or your own at risk. I honestly don’t care if you’re antivax as long as you act responsibly as we all should. Thank you and God Bless.
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  5042. A good portion of the population worldwide is as superstitious and ignorant as people were a thousand or two thousand years ago. They always have been and probably always will be.
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  5043. I don’t think I’d ever vote for AOC, but I must say that when she was elected I mis-estimated her as being a leftist bomb thrower. She settled in nicely and became a productive member of the house and her caucus and got on board with Pelosi’s leadership. She’s still outspoken, but she just sounds like a progressive, not a nut case. She gets my respect. I think Pelosi must have taken her aside when she was a freshman and told her what’s up, here’s how we govern, here’s how you’re going to help, here’s how we help you. Can you imagine any of the Republican Speakers exercising any kind of control (or tutelage) of newly elected Republicans?
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  5044.  @NeilHoward-kp2gc  Fred, that was a brave thing you did, breaking up with Daphne and coming out of the closet.
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  5045. @kevinallies1014 He was saying they were non-white as delicately as he could. Did this rustle your jimmies?
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  5046. Who can be fact-checked by a free and independent press? Not Russians.
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  5047. I’m not sure if that’s true. Many of his supporters couldn’t believe what happened, or how suddenly it happened. Remember, it happened relatively quickly. Many who didn’t know better expected Nixon to fight the impeachment. His resignation came as a shock. My grandmother admired Nixon greatly, and it was months before she fully accepted the truth about Nixon. You might be right, but you’ll need to show us some polling data from the time of Nixon’s resignation.
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  5048. It depends on how you define “work”. You’re correct that it’s near impossible to close borders 100%, especially given the length of the border Mexico shares with the U.S., but that doesn’t mean temporary closures won’t slow the spread of new variants. I’m not all that happy with the Mexican government’s pandemic response. It was as bad as the Trump administration’s response, with President Lopez Obrador not taking it seriously and promoting miracle cures (including wearing religious symbols). There has been very little testing. As a result, the ministry of health has had to revise their death estimates. México’s total deaths due to Covid might be higher than Brazil’s (and second only to the U.S.). The problem that Mexico faces is that a good part of their economy is based on tourism, and tourism needs open borders and airports. It’s a quandary. The people in my working class neighborhood were already struggling even before the Pandemic hit. However, eight people in this neighborhood have died. Many have gotten sick. Nevertheless, if there is work to be had, they’ll take it.
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  5049. So you’re saying the average person has no impulse control and cannot control their temper. I’m not saying you’re wrong. 😅 However, I think it would be more accurate to say that there are different aspects to gun violence—criminals and criminal behavior are still a part of the problem, and if there is a solution that will impact their access to firearms, why not use it?
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  5050. What is “woke ideology”? I’ve never heard anyone profess an ideology of “woke”. I think “woke” is some kind of boogieman used by grifters to scare weak minded voters.
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  5051.  @nozrep  Mercedes builds buses and trucks. You might look into one of those as your starting point.
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  5052.  @thapelotatedi-qk9ko  How about “free-er” economy? Or “free-est so far”? How are you defining a free economy, and if you are using an absolutist definition, why is that desirable?
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  5053. So if you watch the video, you can avoid getting your crack all sandy and irritated.
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  5054. OS 15 Monterey The games aren’t there yet, the hardware it runs on is close to AMD (or better, depending on who you talk to). If the game developers thought there was a profitable market there, they’d develop more games for the Mac platform. Or I guess you shell out the money for a Windows Professional or business license.
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  5055. You know what’s even better? “I’d rather live on my feet than die on my knees”.
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  5056. iirc, the non-aggression agreement was still secret at the time, including details such as the plan to divide up Poland. I imagine there are diplomatic documents somewhere to be studied to get a better idea of the Western Allies official stances toward the USSR at the time the Soviets occupied Eastern Poland. I’m certain that ambassadors and foreign ministers registered strong protests with the USSR diplomatic corps. “Look, buddy, we’re not kidding around. We protest your occupation of Poland in the STRONGEST possible terms.” Anyway, I’d love to see such documents. I’d like to see the Soviet response, as well. I wonder if the Soviet Union made “convincing” arguments that they were so afraid of the Germans that they needed to create a buffer by their invasion. It’s not so much that the English and French governments would completely believe the argument, but that it would give those governments a plausible excuse to avoid direct conflict with Stalin.
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  5057.  @TK-mf5in  What is really interesting is how Faded Wolf thinks innuendo will convince anyone outside of his delusional Q conspiracy cult.
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  5058. Nope. An 8’ 4” x 8’ 4” lighting reflector on a C-Stand? That’s not only wrong, it’s not credible.
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  5059. It’s a war of maneuver. It’s to be preferred over asymmetric warfare.
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  5060.  @glennchartrand5411  as does Area 52 in Nevada.
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  5061. Charged with what? Please cite a specific law.
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  5062. It an operation done under an unknown flag. No one is taking credit for it. If the Ukrainians did it, it’s done under the “Ukrainian flag”.
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  5063. Go for it. It’s a good individual strategy. How would that work holistically on a macroeconomic scale? What would it look like?
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  5064.  @dreadgray78  de acuerdo, amigo. I suspect that the NATO alliance goes to great lengths to conceal what is being sent, even to the point of negative publicity. This is total speculation on my part, but I think the Polish snafu over their MiG-29s, the U.S. refusal, and Zelensky’s continual requests for them is a smoke screen. The Ukrainians are quietly getting MiGs as quickly as they can be reconfigured for Ukrainian pilots.
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  5065.  @ramanavell988  Counter-attacks are part of defense. I think NATO is quietly sending in ammunition and supplies to support Ukrainian counterattacks. Remember that some NATO members have a lot of older Soviet era armaments and more recent armaments purchased from Russia. It’s even possible that tanks are being sent in during the nighttime when it’s harder for the Soviets-I-mean-Russians to track.
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  5066. What you need is your own deepfake and then find a partner with their own deep fake. Set your deepfake up with his or her deepfake and let them take care of the sex.
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  5067. If you’re referring to luck running in threes, I’m afraid you miscounted. He survived the air crash, he survived the train crashing into his downed plane, and the LAPD didn’t shoot him after pulling him from the wreckage. And while we (rightfully) praise the responding officers for saving the pilot’s life, I think we should also give props to the LAPD for not accidentally shooting any bystanders. I really did not think they would get the new policy implemented so quickly.
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  5068.  @rogerstarkey5390  rattlesnakes and vipers. Great idea starting this thread. It won’t contain them, but it will slow some of them down.
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  5069. It was kind of like a Russian Operation Market-Garden, wasn’t it? “An Airport Too Far”.
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  5070. Accurate account name.
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  5071.  @mill2712  In my country we say “Grassy Ass”.
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  5072.  @HomeFromFarAway  You are making a category error.
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  5073.  @pedrohpires6608  Troll.
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  5074. Your ignorance of how the bicameral legislative system works is truly astounding. You must not have graduated 3rd grade, or you’re a bot that had no reason to learn basic U.S. civics. Or the third possibility: you were homeschooled.
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  5075.  @markalexander832 if we’re talking about literal pie, that’s sad. I love pie. 🥧
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  5076. Societies are a giant social experiment, carried out for millennia.
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  5077.  @martinwinter615  You didn’t watch the video. You should watch it before commenting instead of showing your ass. By watching, I mean you should also listen to the words coming out of Anders’ mouth.
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  5078.  @Intel-i7-9700k  You’re full of hot air. Really, there isn’t a lick of truth in your statements. Putin doesn’t want Ukraine to be neutral, he wants Ukraine to be a Russian vassal.
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  5079. I wouldn’t be surprised if he has family there. Chances are he does, but not necessarily—lots of old Texas families are Mexican Americans. Hell, they were settling Texas before Mexico was an independent country. But chances are he has family on some rancho somewhere, and that’s where he is. I wonder if he even speaks Spanish.
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  5080. Give Patrick Boyle a shot. His videos are lengthy, but worth it. Also, you can play his videos at 1.25 speed and still catch what he’s saying.
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  5081. The next sheriff can investigate if he wants. And local press can do their own investigation to make the sheriff want to.
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  5082. The money was already in the envelopes when it was stolen from the safe? In any case, it’s pretty clear this was an inside job. I just wonder what is on the other side of the wall. An office, a hallway?
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  5083. He gave his reasoning, and he was clear that he was offering opinion. I’m just saying that to be fair. Sometimes when one prefers to “err on the side of caution”, they’re just in error.
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  5084. It’s OK to have up to ten favorite people as long as you tell them privately and they don’t speak of it to the other favorite people. You just say, “Don’t tell the others, but you’re my favorite.”
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  5085. “We’re married, but not to each other, if you know what I mean.” 😉😉
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  5086.  @M0J0-RL236  relatively better than the vacuity of maga, which is either Christian Nationalist or no policy other than loyalty to Trump. So yes, democratic policies are superior to republican policies. But I would not call them superior, as in “best possible”. That said, I think both Harris and Walz are not doctrinaire liberals. They know how to work with others and work out compromises.
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  5087. It’s possible, but why? On what grounds? Dems don’t want to expel her. GOP might not want the aggravation of doing it. Really, it’s enough that she’s marginalized.
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  5088.  @BW022  If it was diesel fuel that burned as opposed to other liquid fuels, would that affect your diagnosis?
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  5089.  @stephenderry9488  America, to India: Join me and we can defeat the Emperor. We can rule the galaxy as father and son. India: This is a shitty analogy. First of all, are you supposed to be the father? Because I’m much older than you. I should be the father. Furthermore, I don’t need lightsabers. I just slap a bitch with eight different hands. That’s 16 forehands/backhands before you even have the lightsaber out of your pocket. What else you got, padawan?
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  5090. Have you submitted your list?
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  5091.  @aurelio-reymilaorcabal9669  stop exaggerating. St. Petersburg is nowhere near the North Pole.
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  5092. Get right with jaysus right quick, I suppose.
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  5093.  @1975lap  You’re being quite kind to call this a rant-for-likes deal. It’s a literal scam for money.
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  5094.  @Beelzebubskeeperr  maybe budget some money for your math education.
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  5095.  @2005OEFArmy  That’s not clear. The island is part of Russia’s blockade of Odessa. It doesn’t lift the blockade, but it hurts Russia’s ability to enforce it. However, just because Russia has decided not to occupy the Island and use it as a missile platform doesn’t mean the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be able to occupy it and use it. I suspect it will remain a no man’s land.
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  5096. He’s a criminal defense attorney. He intentionally reworded the common saying to be more favorable to his client. If you don’t approve, take him to court. 😄
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  5097.  @sunniva5335  do you get your vitamin D from SUNflower seeds?
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  5098. So you’re a big supporter of BLM, I take it.
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  5099. So, Ukraine is the mother, and the country governed by Putin and centered in Moscow is the offspring. If unification is important to Putin, he should surrender to Ukraine.
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  5100.  @FabiusPolis  What has been the cost in men and materiel in each case? is an important question. In the case of Ukraine’s offensive, it was unarguable that a relatively light and highly mobile Ukrainian force not only took significant territory but did so at a greater cost to Russia forces. The Ukrainians killed and captured many soldiers and destroyed or captured a great deal of Russian equipment and supplies. The current Russian offensive also seems to be very expensive for Russia. They are paying a high price for territory that now will be expensive to hold, let alone force a breakthrough. I doubt they will be able to move artillery into what is a hard to defend killing zone. Looking at previous battles in history, Operation Market-Garden was a costly strategic failure but a “tactical success”. Allied forces advance all the way to the Rhine River but failed to take the final bridge at Arnhem. And it was a very costly strategic failure, almost destroying British Airborne at Arnhem, and costing a lot of allied lives along the road to Arnhem. Market-Garden also had an opportunity cost, as the resources spent might have been put to better use elsewhere. That said, I’m pretty sure that the Dutch on the allied side of the Rhine were happy to be liberated from the Germans, even though they also suffered casualties. However,I don’t want to make a direct comparison. Market-Garden was a much greater blunder than the current Kharkiv offensive. Another difference is that the allies had a much greater industrial capacity to recover from the blunder. The one possible success for the Russians is if the shift in the front lines threatens Kupiansk. I don’t know enough about the geography or force disposition to say one way or the other. I’d say the most grievous blow that Ukraine has suffered recently was the replacement of Shoigu. That might have far reaching strategic consequences.
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  5101.  @seancidy6008  with regard to reinforcements, you are clearly unaware of how defense in depth works. I’m not going to explain it to you. But look up the acronym QRF in the defense context.
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  5102.  @brownbee61 and the mayonnaise. Can’t forget the mayonnaise. I prefer sardine salad sandwiches, which someone convinced me to try “for duh environment” (I don’t know it it really helps), but are more flavorful than tuna.
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  5103. No, you don’t. Watch the video.
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  5104. I don’t think it was insured or that he filed an insurance claim if it was. The thing they really nailed him on here is that he hired a helicopter transport company to retrieve the wreckage from the crash site without NTSB clearance, perhaps even before he reported the crash. Then he cut up the wreckage into small enough parts that they could be disposed of in nearby dumpsters and trash receptacles. And that’s pretty sus in itself, but he was also disposing of wreckage some distance away from the airport/hangar facility. That’s destroying and concealing evidence, and that’s a serious crime that even outweighs his other crimes. The Feds might have been able to piece together a case from all the circumstantial evidence if there wasn’t an obstruction charge, so I don’t agree that your strategy is a sure fire way to avoid a prosecution. But I would agree that the cover up is worse than the original crime. But in your strategy’s favor, the feds might have decided that the expense and effort wasn’t worth it for the other stuff if they didn’t have the obstruction charge. That’s basically what they did by letting him plead guilty to obstruction. Anyway, I don’t think you’re 100% wrong, either.
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  5105. Estonian special forces playing truth or dare.
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  5106.  @jm2453  They weren’t sure how to pronounce Jina. Funny thing, though. Trump’s China expert, Pete Navarro, was a real China Hawk. But he spent his time in the Trump administration sitting on his thumbs. And now he’s sitting in jail.
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  5107.  @AKumar528  of course it doesn’t just happen, it takes preparation. But you seem to think that Ukraine can’t track Russian ships without CIA help. Ukraine has access to satélite data offered by private companies, the same as anyone else. Ukraine can (and undoubtedly did) have the Russian warships under continuous drone surveillance. How dumb one must be to ascribe every covert action to the CIA when there are more obvious and reasonable explanations. You’ve built the CIA up into an incredibly potent foe that can access any secret, when clearly that’s not the case. I’m not saying Ukraine isn’t receiving any help, just that it’s not dependent on the CIA, and there are plenty of operations where Ukrainian intelligent services will be more competent than the CIA.
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  5108.  @yourfoodforthought  I hope you’re right. I have no doubt that it will be a mass spreader event, but the hope is that it will be to a lesser degree. This important religious holiday will not be celebrated in the same way as other years. We don’t know how bad or good the results will be. The only thing we can count on is that Tom Brady’s team will win. 😖
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  5109. Yeah, you’re thinking of Brandon Lee.
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  5110. This is the first conflict where I’ve heard of it. But as far back as the first Iraq war, I remember the concept being described as a spear, with combat troops being the point of the spear and all the support being the spear shaft that allows the point to be used effectively. Something that changed between WWII and Vietnam was the increased use of private contractors to perform a lot of support duties, which might distort the numbers when you compare operations in different wars. Thank you for protecting us.
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  5111.  @QusaiAl-Ramadhani jaja, Iván. Taiwán hit by earthquake and you were crying about Israel. 😂
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  5112. If you have a chance, read the nonfiction book The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols.
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  5113. Thank god I’m not the only one who sees the logical fallacy in the title.
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  5114. I think Trump might make a deal with the Feds and go into Witness Protection.
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  5115. The Republicans in Congress already tied Ukrainian aid to the border crisis. Now we are being told that resolving the crisis might help Joe Biden’s re-election campaign, so it can wait until 2025. Electing Trump takes precedence over all else. That should tell you something about the severity of the border crisis. Funny how it becomes an emergency whenever a democrat is in the White House. Funny how whenever a bipartisan compromise is reached, the Republicans kill it. It’s almost as if they prefer having the “crisis” as a campaign issue over actually working to solve it.
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  5116. I don’t want to imply that Shasta County is full of Nazis, but it is full of Ku Klux Klan.
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  5117. @moral hazard Nobody ever talks about Man Spider, the arachnid that was bitten by a radioactive boy.
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  5118.  @Sorakingdom4  She made a bad assumption and jumped the gun, but these piece-of-shit trolls have ginned up fake Dr. Campbell accounts to spread misinformation. If you see Dr. Campbell make an announcement, always check the date of the account’s creation.
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  5119. That’s one of the mutations found in the S.A. and Brazil variants. It’s not a “new” mutation, per se. But it’s pretty nasty. Is there a new variant in Mexico or hace the found the Brazilian variant?
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  5120. It was talked about in a previous video.
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  5121. Are you a Putin troll or a Putin appeaser?
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  5122. Think of the various artillery platforms and other vehicles already being incorporated. The logistics and support chain, especially repair & maintenance, is already being pushed to the limits.
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  5123.  @Smokedouttasian  Just an English vocabulary note. The word you wanted to use is “infraction”. “Infracture” is a medical term, specifically related to plastic surgery (even more specifically, nose jobs). The words are related, of course, and both are based on Latin. Anyway, I had to look up infracture to absolutely make sure I wasn’t talking out my ass. It’s possible that the word “infracture” means “infraction” in other languages, but I figured that someone who posts thoughtful comments such as yourself would want to know the correct English word. I hope this was helpful.
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  5124. I pointed out elsewhere in these comments that the Starstreak is effective at a higher altitude than the Stinger. That’s a pretty big deal! It truly denies certain types of missions to the Russian AF, especially if they’re out of PGMs.
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  5125.  @detroitpistonsplayoffs  I’m far from a liberal, friendo. I’m just aware of my own shortcomings instead of merely projecting them on others, like the unthinking excuse-makers that claim to be conservatives while they trade in grievances. Conservatism is about self-accountability and taking responsibility for one’s own actions, which you and the standard bearers of modern conservatism have abandoned. You’re just another snowflake, and you’re worse than the freakin’ liberals.
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  5126.  @koltoncrane3099  It’s a quandary, isn’t it? I think the best we can do is to offset our participation with more participation. Do your elected representatives know your, Kolton Crane’s, feelings on the topic? This might sound corny, but have you ever written a letter to your congressperson or your state’s senators? Did you know that elected representatives’ staffers tally constituent opinions, and assign different weights depending on how you communicate your opinion? One snail mail letter is equal to 100 phone calls is equal to 1000 emails was the formula I was told. Or that one letter represents the views of 10,000 voters (don’t quote me on the number, but you get the idea). Nobody uses snail mail anymore, which makes it more effective. I’m not saying that such activity wipes the slate clean, but it’s a start. We do what we can. Part of doing what we can is figuring out what to do. Another part is overcoming our natural tendency towards laziness. I hope this helps. I’m doing what I can, but I’m not a saint or martyr. I hope you are also doing what you can.
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  5127. We’re not worried about that sort of chest thumping. We’re more worried about you becoming insufferable braggarts who will follow a grifter skilled at stroking your egos. 😅 You know, like what’s happened to some of us.
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  5128. They haven’t yet said if they’re excluding or including adult dependents.
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  5129.  @ikaros21  The other purpose of the stimulus checks are to stimulate the economy, so it doesn’t matter if a recipient spends their tax rebate on necessities or luxuries. It’s right there in the name, STIMULUS. I highly doubt anyone was buying a new car with their $1200 check, even if they had three wives and nine children. Maybe you’re thinking of fraud from the payroll loan program to businesses.
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  5130. Except he didn’t say that. You’re inferring it incorrectly from what he said.
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  5131. I crunged.
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  5132. Trying to rebunk the bunk that was previously debunked.
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  5133.  @russelljackson2818  the flag of the Organization of North American Nations (ONAN)?
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  5134. So the Californian Missions are just a figment of the collective imagination?
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  5135. One thing not mentioned in the video is that most paints, stains, and varnishes won’t cure at arctic temperatures. Your best bet is a vegetable oil, especially if the submarine will be used in a kitchen (vegetable oils are food safe). Yes, if you read this, I just made you slightly dumber.
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  5136. I’d be careful about assumptions before Ukraine confirms. Russia has not officially declared war yet, and denies to the Russian people it is at war, as you know. This prevents them from calling up reservists. The lack of a state of war means that the more experienced conscripts are about to be released from service, to be replaced by a new herd of fresh faced teenagers. What I am saying is that a nearly impossible attack like this might be a false flag operation to prepare the Russian public for a declaration of war, so that Russia can switch to a war time mobilization. It might be Russia attacking itself to sway public opinion and give Putin the justification for escalation—and I know it might be hard to imagine how he could be more murderous towards the civilian population, but he can if he can convince the Russian people that Ukraine is an existential threat to them. Edit: but if I am wrong and this attack speeds up the exit of Russian forces from Ukraine, then I say Hallelujah!
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  5137.  @TheSword2212  Whataboutism
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  5138. Let us not forget one of Doyle’s lesser known creations, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, who solves crimes by consuming alcohol, sniffing solvents, and accosting strangers.
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  5139. Beato! There needs to be a Patrick and Pat collaboration called “What Makes This Stock Stink”. What would it take to make this happen?
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  5140.  @DerangedLib We are all suffering from Trump Fatigue Syndrome, even Trump himself. He keeps falling asleep in a proceeding that is all about him. He should be basking from all the attention and the focus on him. But it’s apparent that even he has grown bored with hearing his own name.
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  5141.  @튜브개십  SPAMMER
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  5142. Nothing so dramatic. These communes fall apart and then the richest/most obnoxious person (who probably engineered the disintegration) buys the other members out for 10¢ on the $.
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  5143. He got the Republican conference’s nomination, but to get the votes he’d basically have to submit to the extreme nutjobs of the GOP like McCarthy did, and we’d be back at square one.
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  5144. Prog O’Zone
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  5145. This is great news! I hope they DON’T shortchange live action production education and I hope they DO include outreach to the Mexican film industry as well as Mexican-Americans.
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  5146.  @irinad1041  You use an empty 5 gallon paint can. You can use a plastic trash bag to line the can if you don’t want to clean it after each use. There are toilet seats that snap on to these cans as well, for that “just like home” pooping experience.
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  5147.  @mjtcpa  let’s stipulate that the tanker is traveling in a perfect vacuum and in relation to a single point. According to my calculations, the tanker will continue traveling “at speed” for an infinite distance.
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  5148. John D. Hertz is also the inventor of the Hertz Donut.
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  5149. They’ve been out of hand ever since Putin ordered this invasion. However, we’ve never seen Putin this visibly desperate. He’s bluffing about the nukes, and his mobilization will not be effective. He sent the troop trainers into battle and most of them are dead and wounded. He has a training bottleneck.
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  5150. Dr. Campbell mentioned that the vaccine manufacturers have been silent with regard to work being done to target variants. He also mentioned that previously, they had said that it was only a matter of tweaks to the vaccine. I imagine they are working at it, but it might be slower going than originally anticipated.
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  5151.  YouTube Moderator  You’re a Russian Troll, fomenting division, whether you know it or not. No more attention for you.
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  5152.  @StopWhining491  Years of purity purges even as the conservative values were hollowed out and corrupted, and the label “conservative” was twisted to mean a tribal affiliation, not a set of principles. The GOP gives lip service to conservatism, but it’s a front for their grasping authoritarianism and cult of personality. Actual conservatives are moderates and stand closer to liberals when you compare them to the fascists that stole the conservative banner. I call myself a “moderate conservative” with the rueful knowledge that “conservatism” has been stolen and stained.
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  5153. San Diego has some excellent research facilities, and they’ve been screening for variants more and for longer. If they say b.1.1.7 is currently at 5%, believe them. If they say it will be the dominant strain in a couple of months (over 50%), believe them.
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  5154.  @RabJ208  <— TROLL
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  5155. Why do you call it an invasion? Do you think it’s literally an invasion or are you comfortable with hyperbole? Do you include asylum seekers in your definition of “illegal”? The extreme language you use makes it seem like YOU are not serious about solving immigration issues, but use the issues to advance your political faction. Cool down the rhetoric and start thinking about actual solutions and how they can be implemented.
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  5156. Culture Wars lol
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  5157. Why be as ignorant as the President? Is that the bar you use to measure your own intelligence and knowledge?
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  5158. Are you suggesting that violence is the solution?
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  5159. And then he took off his Dominion hat! Fuckin’ A. The party to which he honorably gave a major part of his life and work is a frikkin’ disgrace.
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  5160.  @julianmarsh1378  isn’t there a character limit on comments? It’s not small, like Twitter, but even if it’s a limit of a 100,000 characters, that’s not enough to list Trump’s 30,000+ lies. It’s really a stunning amount of lies. We had a President that lied just to lie, for no other reason than . . . I don’t know. Why do people lie for the sake of lying? Perhaps telling the truth over even simple things would have burned his lips? “I can tell you’re lying because your lips are moving,” is a snark as old as the hills. Trump is the first person I’ve ever come across where that was literally true 95% of the time.
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  5161. Have you talked to your doctor about getting a referral to a psychiatrist? You should do that soon. Make it a New Year’s resolution.
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  5162. So hire a lawyer and initiate a lawsuit against Fox. What will be your cause of action? What’s the legal basis of your case?
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  5163. Hillbilly Obi-wan Kenobi: This isn’t the porch you’re looking for.
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  5164. They’re potentially more dangerous to the Kremlin.
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  5165.  @thomasherrin6798 There are intermediate steps before we reach the point of nationalization/appropriation. Domestic operations could receive subsidies to see them through a market crash in exchange for domestic price discounts when the market reaches swings to the upside. Would this fly with the WTO, though?
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  5166.  @TrueStrategicEyes  Would you mind sharing what, if anything, the corrections officer did wrong? I can see a few possible things, but I’d appreciate your expert opinion. 1) The officer was careless about maintaining spacing and not recognizing how quickly the inmate could close the distance, 2) When the confrontation was in its verbal stages, the officer remained seated. And in the interest of levity, 3) The officer did not leave enough space between the table and his gut, effectively pinning him in the corner.
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  5167. [obligatory Monty Python reference]
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  5168.  @angeladansie4378  outside of the U.S., Cuba’s medical training has a very good reputation. Cuban doctors are regularly sent out on medical missions to other developing countries, especially during crises. AFAIK, Cubans that become doctors do so for motivations other than wealth. However, I don’t know anything about medical research in Cuba. I haven’t heard anything nor have I looked into it.
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  5169.  @hugop1264  Being slightly anti-U.S. is almost a requirement in Latin American politics, no? I mean, even Vicente Fox had to remove his lips from Bush’s butthole on occasion. Mostly it’s pantomime —no one wants to look like a U.S. puppet. At the same time. But maybe I’m ignorant and you can correct me. The only Latin American countries I’ve lived in is Mexico and California. 😉
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  5170. MarkTheMorose In Vietnam, only old people use Facebook.
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  5171. It happened months ago, but the prosecutor of that jurisdiction declined to prosecute, and the second prosecutor had a prior relation with one of the killers (ex cop) so had to recuse, and finally there was enough public outcry for the AG to investigate the case. Double check me, I might have details wrong, but it seems like there was an initial attempt to sweep this under the rug. If the case has an effect on the election, and if that’s because the case was delayed by a good ole boy network, it’s poetic justice.
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  5172. Nice blade runner reference.
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  5173. Ukraine will “Nguyen”. 😄 Sorry, that’s a Vietnamese-American dad joke.
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  5174.  @igorigor213  I think the endurance the Vietnamese displayed over the decades of their anti-colonial was against the French and later the U.S. was even more impressive. Sadly, the lesson seems lost on Russia, which is showing a blindness and arrogance similar to what my country showed then. Incidentally, after Vietnam was unified, it invaded Cambodia in 1979 for political reasons, but also to end the genocide initiated by Pol Pot. The Chinese war was China’s attempt to pressure Vietnam to stop—and didn’t work. Vietnam occupied Cambodia for 10 years. I know almost nothing about Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia, and whether it was humane or brutal. I don’t know if it was justified or unjustified (although stopping the genocide tilts me towards justified). But I do know that throughout Vietnam’s history, it has invaded Cambodia at various times.
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  5175. He’s got a lot of misplaced confidence that he will be a contender for the nomination a year from now.
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  5176. Report it as lost, not stolen. It will be processed and sent to you just as quickly.
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  5177. Babies are the biggest Nazis, according to Putin. Putin believes that all of Ukraine should be exterminated if it erases a dozen actual neo-Nazis. It’s plain to see who are the real Nazi aggressors.
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  5178. Cheap oil hurts one sector but helps others. I’m not sure if overall impact is negative. However, one of our two neighbors could be gravely damaged to the point of instability by a precipitous drop in the petro market.
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  5179.  @ArchOfficial  I’m entertaining the idea that the security was so humiliatingly bad that this was a disinfo injection, but because the Kremlinites themselves couldn’t ascertain whether it was counterintelligence or real intelligence, they just put it back out there through RT. They thought it was more valuable to embarrass the German military and tip their hand because they couldn’t confirm it.
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  5180. The border issues can wait until next year, according to those who are supposedly the most concerned about them.
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  5181. We’re not worried about RFKJ winning. We’re worried about him siphoning votes from Biden. Sadly he has a loony/low-information leftist base.
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  5182.  @jandg7676 Because the MAGAs will try to primary her. She’d rather do the right thing and risk losing the next primary election. I guess that counts as brave. The irony is that primarying her will most likely throw the seat to the Dems.
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  5183. I know, right? They didn’t even use bleach to get the pee stains out.
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  5184.  @WindTurbineSyndrome How do you propose the CG or any other agency inspect a deep water crewed submersible vessel? To do an inspection you first have to set a standard for inspection. You can’t just make it up on the spot. This is a very rare class of ships. I’m pretty certain they are not insured in the same manner as commercial ships are insured (if they’re insured at all), so there’s been no call for a regulatory regime until now. Until there is international agreement, the most any government can do is to ban such activities in its territorial waters. I don’t think they can ban transport of experimental vessels from their ports to international waters (although I could be wrong about that).
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  5185. I agree that it’s a cult, but its viral nature is heretofore unseen, and that’s worth studying and understanding. Lemon kept trying to get this cult escapee to “blame social media”, but he cut her off before she could develop her more nuanced answer about how social media envelops users into these conspiracy nut echo chambers. This is very disappointing! I realize Lemon needs quick and simple answers to fill the format of his show . . . to maximize viewer engagement. Haha, so ironic.
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  5186. What is great is that Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity are united with their countrymen. This has surprised Putin, but it shouldn’t be surprising. The Russian speaking Ukrainian patriots originally moved to Ukraine to get away from Putin.
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  5187.  @DoubleplusUngoodthinkful  Any grand jury seeing this video would have reservations with indicting, but they have to consider all evidence—and we can only speculate about what that other evidence might have been. A lot of perilous situations can be resolved by bringing down the temperature and getting the belligerent person to cool down. The police sniper did just that, wouldn’t you say? Ambient temperature.
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  5188.  @rodpanhard  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  5189.  @RabJ208  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  5190. You are grammatically correct, the best kind of correct.
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  5191. OK Ivan. I see you joined today. Welcome to YouTube! Maybe you should have your own tea party in St. Petersburg or Moscow, or where ever it is you live, since you suffer from taxation without representation. Here in the U.S. we at least have the representation.
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  5192. Happy Thanksgiving! I would like to express my gratitude that there are still old school computer enthusiasts in the mold of the original Home Brew geeks? Thank you for all you do! I appreciate you for being you— your mindset and outlook more than your skill set and knowledge, which are also laudable.
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  5193. I think it’s more about the predictable use of tanks on or near roads. From the videos I’ve seen, these tanks are not being destroyed in isolation for the most part. They’re being destroyed because you really need very wide screens of unmounted infantry to support them. Over watching vehicles are not enough and are lucky to get away themselves. They often don’t. The predictable paths the Russians are using allows the Ukrainian tank killer teams to set up ambushes, which is why you’ll often see small groups of vehicles destroyed.
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  5194. If you brush your teeth and floss, your mask won’t smell like ass.
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  5195. There is an entitled mentality among a certain class of Boomers, and they tend to pass it on to their children.
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  5196. In the history of the mafia, there are several times when a crime family has thrown out the boss (and murdered him) because he was taking too much off the top or was leading incompetently and hurting their criminal enterprises by incompetence. I imagine that the Russian Oligarchs that support the Putin Kleptocracy (they’re the kleptocrats, btw) were already feeling pinched by sanctions BEFORE the invasion. I wonder what they’re up to now?
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  5197.  @lookronjon  Anastasia screamed in vain.
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  5198.  @JC-te4md  Last I checked, Cuba was still a Second World Country. You don’t hear about the second world as much these days. Do you even now what the terms mean?
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  5199.  @Yeaitsej  This. And the testimony from different witnesses show that Trump ordered the documents be falsified and his sons made sure it happened.
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  5200. If you think that’s asinine, did you realize that a majority of the commenters on this video didn’t watch the video and are making dumb comments like yours? That’s asinine!
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  5201. Thankfully, it has already failed. It failed the moment they attacked the police and broke into the Capitol, because finally the Trump GOP revealed itself in all of its naked “glory”. Whether you are a liberal, a conservative, or a progressive, if you love democracy you know you saw the face of fascism today. This is the heart of Trump’s base, his most fanatical followers. Many of us saw them for what they were before today, but it’s now abundantly clear to anyone capable of reason.
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  5202.  Peter Mortensen  Datestamp. 😉
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  5203. Einstein, they’re called R.I.N.O.s. Try to thaw out the frozen melon attached to your neck to see if you can figure out what R.I.N.O. stands for. I hate the ignorant, and I hope you’ll put in a little effort so I don’t have to bless your soul and pray for you.
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  5204. Or dogs that shoot bees from their mouths.
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  5205. He probably doesn’t know many papists. 😉 No offense intended, my Catholic Friends.
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  5206. Skynet is getting pretty old and haggard.
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  5207. “. . . who puts party over providence” is a very nice turn of phrase.” Who ever wrote that should be proud of their skill. I think you could use that in a “fire and brimstoney” ad aimed at Republican Georgians who might be feeling a gnawing doubt.
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  5208. The special prosecutor doesn’t dispute that the evidence was withheld or hidden. Indeed, she claims she didn’t know it was being concealed.
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  5209. Only three more weeks of that sorry excuse, though. Thank God we’ll have competent government starting January 20th, 2021.
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  5210. Tell us, how did the Roman Empire fall? What was the year that the Roman Empire ended? You should be able to do this without looking it up on Wikipedia or googling, great historian that you are.
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  5211. Ryan, you mentioned that Israel has short arms. Did you become familiar with short arm inspections during your time in the military? 😜
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  5212. No, you are.
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  5213.  @jeffparr9675  Look at his screen name.
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  5214.  @undeadend  That’s a lie. I don’t know why you want to see people suffer. I guess you just hate America.
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  5215. I no longer have sympathy for people that willfully don’t follow safe health practices.
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  5216.  @tomjohnson4681  <—ANTIVAX TROLL
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  5217. I bet the law dates back to the Black Death, when England was severely depopulated.
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  5218.  @aw2031zap  It’s relative. When he was in the Bush administration, he was the crazy war monger, even more so than Rumsfeld. When he was in the Trump administration, he was one of the cooler heads, a restraint on Trump. 🤷🏻‍♀️ As far as his competence, intelligence, ability, he’s second or third echelon (Schultz and Albright being in the first rank). You could call him a quack, which is to say he committed malpractice like an incompetent medical doctor. I think that’s a little harsh. I think he was in over his head in the Bush administration. Personality-wise, he’s kind of a self-serving dirtbag. He was rude and brusque when pushing his opinion (following in the footsteps of Donald Rumsfeld), which made him well suited for the Trump administration. Anyway, there a lot to criticize. I think his war-mongering attitude was a pose which he had to drop when faced with a truly dumb superior and the stakes were higher. Bolton is mediocre, but he was better than some of the fools that might have served in his position.
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  5219. @Jonny Croxville No, not everyone. Just you and people like you.
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  5220. He’s not 100% off the mark. He is just oversimplifying what is a complex topic, a 40 year history of organized crime in five minutes. He is omitting a lot, such as what happened in Central America and South America in the 70s and early 80s that facilitated the shift of narco trafficking from the Caribbean to Mexico. And that history is complicated by our own foreign policy and anti-communist efforts in Central American countries. To a certain extent, moves we (the U.S.) made in the area have come back to haunt us. Pete’s understanding isn’t deep, but I’m interested in seeing where he goes with this. Heck, I bet your understanding (and my understanding) of this part of the criminal underworld isn’t that deep either. There’s a lot that hasn’t come out, and a lot of that hidden information will never come out. There’s a lot of guesswork and rumor among those who study the problem for a living. Even the experts don’t have a complete picture. Pete’s weakness is when he strays out of his lanes. He’s pretty good when he stays with demographics and global trade (of legal commodities). He’s searching and analyzing the data, looking for trends that his real clients (big businesses and business associations) might use to guide their operations. It’s important to put these videos he makes in perspective. They’re entertainment and marketing for his consulting services. I don’t think he panders to the audience so much as that these videos attract an audience thirsty for confirmation of their biases and quick insights. (Look at all the comments worshipfully praising him.)
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  5221. You know what is super funny to me? The “revolutionary” left is now calling democrats and republicans that voted for the aid bill the “Uniparty”. After years of bitter division (that is still there), the moderates of the two sides cooperate on one issue, and they’re now the “Uniparty”. The magas might be more dangerous in the current moment, but the Make America Socialists are beyond ridiculous. Let’s hope they never get together.
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  5222.  joe thomas  yeah, after being insulted and called names, they should have turned the other cheek. Why didn’t they just surrender when Trump made them out to be enemies?
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  5223. Eggs are expensive but sperm is free.
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  5224. It’s good news/bad news. The bad news is that China falling apart isn’t necessarily a good thing regionally or globally. In fact, it could be pretty bad. The middling news is that Biden isn’t trying to make China collapse. He’s motivating it to get on the right path, a path where they aren’t threatening Taiwan, supporting Russia and NK, stealing intellectual property, manipulating currency, penetrating out computer networks, and generally being irresponsible rat bastards. Let’s hope the atheist commies get right with God. 😉
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  5225.  Sandy Allen  report James Hayden for unwanted spam. He is pasting the same list of links into every comment thread.
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  5226. They’re going to try to do that next.
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  5227.  @robynnordstrom7799  Before and after he admitted he was “creating a story” to focus attention on Springfield, he said he received a call, not an email. If true, this means his office (or a district office) received a call or he did on his personal phone. If it was to his office, a senate staffer logged the call as they do for all calls from constituents. There will be name, number, and a note about the subject of the call. If it was to his cell phone, there will be service provider records of the call. It might be possible to gain access to these records through a FOIA request. Or if there is a civil case, it might be possible to subpoena the records. The City of Springfield might have a cause of action to initiate a civil case against Vance because of all the bomb threats.
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  5228. That sample is the best you can do. Give up, it’s over, you’ve lost ignominiously, go crawl back under your rock.
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  5229.  @davidguelette7036  It might help him in the primary. He’s in crisis mode because this whole attack on Disney has been a failure so far. If he loses, he looks weak and ineffectual to the MAGA base. But if he wins, he looks like a tinpot dictator to normal voters.
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  5230. What’s funny is that I’m behind Disney on this one. In general I’m hostile to the company’s abuse of the copyright system. I also know that they slow pay outside contractors and underpay their unskilled workers. There’s plenty to dislike about Disney. However, what Desantis is attempting to do is shockingly fascistic. He’s governing like he’s a dictator and betraying every conservative principle. I guess that’s par for the course for Today’s GOP.
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  5231.  @t.m5465  <—illiterate Russian Troll Reported for promoting terrorists.
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  5232.  @Pin927  It will be tricky taking Russian’s nuclear weapons away from it, but it’s become necessary. Russia isn’t using its nukes as a deterrent force, but as leverage to enable their murderous criminal aggression. Say what you will about Communist China, but they haven’t threatened anyone with their nukes.
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  5233. One of the big surprises is that Orban got out of the way (after assurances that Hungary wouldn’t lose its EU earmarks). He said he was going to block it.
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  5234. I’ve always been unsure about the Black Diamond. Does that represent Anarchist medical personnel or an expert level ski run?
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  5235. There’s a weird cognitive dissonance in feeling existentially threatened by the west and feeling insulted that the west isn’t interested in threatening you. I suppose it can be explained away as the narcissistic mindset.
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  5236. Boring is good.
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  5237. If you don’t have a cite, I’m going to assume it’s just another urban legend and you fell for it.
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  5238.  @garyfumeaux9226  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  5239.  @ZombieSlayer-dj3wb  packed with cardboard cutouts? Is cardboard now vulnerable to the virus?
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  5240. Were they frontline workers? Did they have other conditions that put them at risk?
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  5241. No, it doesn’t. Stop lying or presenting your make-believe as fact. An anti parasitical neurotoxin won’t work on viruses, because viruses don’t have nervous systems.
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  5242. You can speculate all you want about who is a deep cover “operator”, but unless there’s evidence, it’s meaningless speculation. Your mom is a deep cover operative for the U.S. military. I cannot provide evidence because her cover story is that good. That lack of evidence, along with a giant leap of logic, proves my statement. OTOH, what you described actually fits the “Little Green Men” that occupied Crimea, which has been corroborated by the Russians. They admitted it. That said, no doubt that the U.S. has intelligence operatives in Ukraine. Most likely the majority are Ukrainians, not U.S. citizens.
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  5243. I heard it was depressing gay literature [checks notes] I mean Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
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  5244. Particularly the House of Representatives. There’s a few destructive oddballs in the Senate that might try to scuttle any attempt to reform our ship building capabilities. I wonder what rationale Tuberville would give? Sailors are too woke?
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  5245. This will indirectly profit the pizza industry. It’s how deregulation in one sector of the economy creates jobs in other sectors. Capitalism wins again!
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  5246. A groomer is someone who would slowly manipulate and gaslight their innocent victim into letting them sack tap. Crowder is just a disgusting sexual predator.
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  5247. Focusing on campaign strategy and tactics is a way to ignore a deep and fundamental misogyny and racism in this country. It’s misdirection to avoid looking at the ugly foundations of power because those foundations are our souls. There is an ugly deformation in the core of our being. Let’s imagine a world where Harris ran against a “conventional conservative”, like a Romney or McCain. In other words, the differences between the Dem candidate and the GOP candidate are not terribly wide, whether we’re talking about character or policy. In this world, a Harris loss probably represents some level of racism and misogyny. It’s hard to say if it’s the deciding factor, but let’s just say it’s there in the mix. Returning to our world, the differences between Trump and Harris are staggeringly wide, whether you look at character or policy. Trump is a criminal, people. He’s not merely unqualified to be the president, he should be disqualified based on character alone or on policy alone. He is an active force of destruction and chaos who, even when not committing actual crimes, has always acted with criminal intent and a criminal mindset. We elected the worst possible person to the presidency to avoid electing a woman. We would rather elect a person who is going to destroy many of our lives, who is going to damage us, (and lord help us when there is a real crisis like we saw with Covid), than elect a woman. I’m focusing on gender here because we elected a black man to be president and then re-elected him, and apparently that’s enough to take race off the table. But the point is not that we merely prefer to have a male president over a female one, but that we’d pick the worst possible male over a female candidate that is qualified for the job by any objective measure besides her reproductive organs. If Harris was magical and could give everyone the policies they wanted on both the right and the left, we’d still elect Trump because he has a male sexual organ. My two conclusions is that 1) we have a much deeper problem than politics that politics alone can’t solve, and 2) If you want to win presidential elections, do not under any circumstances nominate a woman. The biggest political mistake the Democratic Party made was running a woman candidate for President. That’s not me being misogynist, that’s the reality. That is the state of the union. So we can accept the reality and work to change it, or we can deny it and deceive ourselves that it was about economic issues or Palestine or being too conservative or too progressive. The hardest truth is that Kamala Harris was rejected by the majority because she was too female. And being black wasn’t doing her any favors, either.
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  5248. If you want a box to hold stuff, build a box to hold stuff. Don’t try to “modify an apple box”. I 99% guarantee you that you’re defeating the purpose of the box. You’re going to lose the modularity or strength of the apple box, not to mention its simplicity. And here’s the thing. What are you going to do when you’re using the apple box to prop something up and you need to get at the thing you’re storing inside? You just effed yourself with cleverness. Apple boxes have been standard studio equipment for probably a hundred years. I’m not saying that no one will ever improve on it, but sometimes a thing stays the same because it’s already perfect.
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  5249. Depends on how much “very little known so far” triggers your concern.
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  5250. Thank you for being pro-society and taking the risk for the safety of many others.
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  5251. They can get NATO onboard by invoking Article 5. There is no question about this. However, then they couldn’t respond freely and more creatively.
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  5252. Good luck to her on that. I’ll give her credit for finally finding a line she wouldn’t cross, but I don’t think that credit will get her more than a ham sandwich.
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  5253. Let this sink in: they want to own the libs literally.
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  5254. Russian soldiers being treated like mushrooms. Kept in the dark and fed a diet of BS.
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  5255. Gaetz is also proving Family Guy right about Glenn Quagmire. Giggity.
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  5256. Worth reading is Tom Nichol’s Death of Expertise. Tom is a conservative, btw, just not a bat shit crazy one.
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  5257. The truth is they don’t know. Only UKR defense forces know, and even that will be estimates for now. The proof will be in the pudding, as the English say, and it is way too early for that.
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  5258. That would take years, maybe even a decade, and cost tens of billions.
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  5259.  @patverum9051  And what was the budget?
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  5260.  @haroldbell213  A giant mechanical badger!! lol! Controlled by the circuitry of a Roomba, because Russia has been cut off from Western technology.
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  5261.  @Brommear  You’re paid in rubles. No need to follow it further than that.
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  5262. I wasn’t sure whether this story would be about Greece or Crimea.
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  5263. The authorities are ignoring evidence that she was killed by early 80s metal band Metallica. But not Anthrax. They’re innocent.
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  5264. You are aware that there is a thing called satellites, yes? Did you know that some of them take high resolution photos of the earth’s surface? Did you know that militaries have experts on staff to analyze these photographs to determine where vital infrastructure is, for those cases where street addresses aren’t known? It’s cute that you think Russia has secret oil refineries. It’s an open question whether barrage balloons will be effective, but your innocence is quite charming.
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  5265. The answer to increasing Phosphorus and Nitrogen is more beer drinking. 😉
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  5266.  @emmawelsh5336  I don’t expect 99% of the commenters on a Dr. John video to make any sense.
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  5267. 300,000 people crossing the border illegally? Is that a fact? Assuming it is a fact, he’s really angry about it but not enough to do anything about it. The GOP doesn’t think the situation on the border is a problem. The GOP thinks it’s a campaign issue. Why would they want to fix a problem that gives them so much?
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  5268.  @bill9989  a lollapalooza for ants held on a molehill.
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  5269. I can’t help but wonder how many law abiding citizens are getting arrested on trumped up charges to replenish the fodder at the front.
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  5270. Do the Cue Cat.
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  5271. Nah. The majority of Republicans in Congress want to get things done. That means they will have to negotiate with Democrats.
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  5272. That’s an endgame consideration. Unfortunately, I think we are far from the end game.
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  5273. Very unfair. Religion has been very useful to Mike, providing camouflage and funding. Of course he cares very much about it.
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  5274. Such a pity that Stanford doesn’t offer captions in other languages.
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  5275. I’ve got my grandmother’s cast iron pan which is probably going on 100 years old. The sides are a little high (3”) which makes pancakes a little tricky, but I can also cook chili, sauces, and stews that you couldn’t cook in a skillet.
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  5276. All the times? One time? 7 ballots, only 4 of which were for Trump? What were all the other times?
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  5277. Don’t they read contracts?
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  5278. I like the rational and non-supernatural speculation. It’s quite thrilling to delve into the imagination without going all spooky woowoo. There’s an anthropological joke (funny because it’s true), that whenever an anthropologist can’t explain an object or its use, they say, “probably used in ritual”. (Future anthropologists, excavating a flat panel TV, will say, “probably used in ritual”—and they won’t be wrong.) Keeping in mind that even the most well reasoned speculative explanation can be miles off the mark, it is vastly entertaining to imagine life in prehistoric societies.
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  5279. Russians and MAGA Republicans trying to crash an electoral vote count.
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  5280. he’s not speaking to your specific situation. What you want to do is talk to a lawyer licensed to practice law in your state.
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  5281.  @uraldamasis6887  It is possible, but super unlikely in a used car scenario. The way it would work is this: the original purchase contract (or the rebate agreement) could include “pass-thru” language stipulating future contracts between you, the original buyer, and future buyers. To sell the car, you’d need put in clauses that waive the right to sue (and the manufacturer would obviously provide the mandatory clauses). Those contract clauses would pass thru to any future sales. You’re not so much waiving the rights of future buyers as it is requiring them to waive their rights as a condition of buying your car. TLDR: a contract can control and specify the terms and conditions of future contracts between the buyer and subsequent buyers. Sounds ludicrous, right? But there are precedents for such pass-thru agreements in the armaments industry, where contract language defines future contracts with third parties. Let’s say a German tank manufacturer sells some tanks to the Italian government. The Italian government is contractually restricted from exporting those tanks to other buyers without approval from the German manufacturer. Let’s say there’s two potential buyers in third countries: the government in Myanmar and an arms broker in Spain. The manufacture has the contractual right to reject either buyer. Maybe they don’t like Myanmar’s human rights policies, so they say, “No, Italy, you can’t pass the tanks to the Myanmar government. But you can sell to the broker in Spain if they sign a pass-thru agreement that controls to whom they can sell the tanks, that gives us ultimate approval over the sale.” This is to avoid the broker turning around and selling the tanks to Myanmar. These sorts of pass-thru agreements are real. They have affected countries trying to send war fighting equipment to Ukraine, delaying the shipment. It’s unrealistic that a car dealer could make buyers sign such a contract, but it is possible. The export can even be mandated by the government of the country where the manufacturer is located, defined by export control laws of that country, which adds another layer of approval.
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  5282. REPORT THIS AS SPAM / UNWANTED COMMERCIAL CONTENT
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  5283. There is no mechanism by which a neurotoxin anti-parasitical would work on a virus. Parasites such as worms and lice are completely different orders.
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  5284. If they were dirty, wouldn’t they have planted a firearm? I think it’s a pretty good guess that the shooting was improper and the cops made a mistake that cost a man his life, but it’s a stretch to call them dirty without better evidence that they are.
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  5285.  @tjmarx  Not true, although the initial reporting assumed that it was a freak accident caused by blanks. This is an easy assumption to make because as the commenter asked, “Why on earth would live loaded guns be used in a film set????!!!!” That wasn’t the only safety violation, but it was the biggest one.
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  5286. I was hoping for Shapiro, but Walz is a very good pick. I’m not disappointed. Looking at the national chessboard, it’s better if Kelly holds his Senate seat. I don’t think any of these contenders are “too progressive”. Like VP Kamala, they’re garden variety liberals. I think the Dems are assembling a team that traditional conservatives can work with (if there’s any of us that remain in politics).
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  5287. I’m a regular listener of Lawfare, but Ben’s opinions seem to be more unvarnished on Bulwark.
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  5288. Sure, Burt.
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  5289.  @greyangelpilot  and once they’re moisturized, then what?
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  5290.  @JasonBoyce  China wants a strong Russia? I think Russia’s performance in Ukraine has demonstrated to China’s leadership that it needs to rethink that desire. In fact, Putin has really annoyed Beijing by messing up the Ukrainian operation. They might have to kick Putin out of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. But what China will do is give Russia a lifeline while taking maximum advantage of Russia’s weakness. Putin will try to play India against China, but Modi isn’t stupid. He will also squeeze Russia for every concession he can get. When all is said and done, Putin has consigned Russia to being China and India’s gas tank.
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  5291.  @angeltrip  It’s family owned, so not answerable to shareholders. In your typical publicly traded corporation, the corp. is subject to lawsuits if they are not maximizing profits. Executive pay and bonuses are based on profitability. A lot of publicly traded companies give lip service to taking care of employees and the communities they serve, but don’t walk the talk.
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  5292. Presumably Americans would eat more plant based proteins if something interrupted the beef supply. Do you think there might be societal problems if that were to happen?
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  5293. This is why you want to use a gas heater designed for indoors. The ones for outdoor use assume really good ventilation but can kill you if used indoors. I was worried anyway, so I installed a carbon monoxide detector when I purchased my Mr. Heater, and it’s never detected any carbon monoxide in three years of use. Propane is frequently used with central heating where natural gas is unavailable, so it’s really not an issue with a proper indoors heater. It’s safer than standing behind or next to a car. Your suggestions require considerable expense and renovation, do they not? It’s not viable for renters, at least in my case.
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  5294. Do you watch a lot of NPR? 😉
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  5295. From your mouth to God’s ears. Or for our modern age, From your keyboard to God’s iPhone.
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  5296.  @wgowshipping That’s catnip for the conspiracy-minded. 😖
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  5297. Does Nancy exist?
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  5298.  @j.chriswatson6847  <— This guy makes a lot of sense, especially his discussion of the overall system. The A-10 has been successful because it works within a well coordinated system that include aircraft in other roles. You can’t just hand over a squadron of A-10s to another country and expect them to easily integrate it into their air force. The video game fantasy of running A-10s up and down a convoy stuck and strung out for 40 miles assumes no need for SEAD. It assumes no need for fighters to chase off the bandits. Ryan was correct in talking about “bomb trucks”. PGMs should be the focus. Carried by jets, drones, rotary wing aircraft, or whatever, the most bang for the buck is a precision guided munition for a wide variety of roles. (unless you’re just trying to bomb a city or town to rubble). I wonder if a 30mm auto canon is necessary on a truck.
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  5299. I believe there were, but they were few. However, some cities reopened too soon because of political pressure, and experienced even worse second waves. My great grandmother died in the fall/winter of 1918 from the Spanish Flu. Great grandfather took to drink, and it fell to my grandmother to take care of her 5 sisters. Changed the entire course of my family.
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  5300. I’m here for the 1st Annual Ryan McBeth Free Form Jazz Poetry Slam.
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  5301. I think this has been the case going back at least to WWI, when years of stockpiles were expended by both sides in the first six months. It used to be that the king with the most gold won wars. Nowadays it’s industrial capacity, not gold. I think the West has buttloads more capacity than Russia, not to mention the capital to increase it.
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  5302. Defendant Trump 2024
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  5303. I haven’t seen the Bernie speech yet, but I was struck by AOC taking a relatively moderate stance in her speech. She was passionate without sounding too radical or ideological.
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  5304. Do it! Just do it somewhere else, please. There are uninhabited islands in the Aleutian archipelago where you can go be as independent and self reliant as you want. Go have your revolution there—the majority of Americans are sick of your bullshit.
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  5305. It’s a famous factory, one of the ones moved by rail at the start of Barbarossa to east of the Urals. It was moved back to Kharkiv and reopened in 1945.
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  5306. Only in a very loose sense, in that those adversaries have been actively influencing the Trumpist movement, and the rioters are dupes of those adversaries.
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  5307. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but Peter doesn’t opine too much on domestic politics in these videos or the longer talks. It might alienate clients. I think these quick five minute presidential portraits are the most political he has gotten. He’s made it clear that he has a high opinion on GHWB, and a much lower opinion on those that followed. He’s been teasing us on what he will say about Trump. I think he will say that “Trump had a point about some things”, which is true. He might also say that Trump made some good hires.
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  5308.  @Scorpion-my3dv  Part of the problem is that you yourself don’t know anything about the guy being interviewed. This isn’t your fault, not entirely. The news presents him as former ambassador to Georgia and Kazakhstan, which is true but doesn’t provide enough context. Mr. Courtney was an ambassador in the early to mid 90s, served a few more years in the Foreign Service, and left government service in 1999. He then went into think-tankery/academia. He has more years in academia than he does in government. So Courtney has been out of the loop for 23 years. He has a lot of knowledge and experience, but he has no more access to inside information than you or I do through news reports and open source intelligence. The news channel interviews him for insights, which he might have or might not have. As an academic he’s going to qualify his answers according to the amount of evidence he has. This is all the stuff that you should know before taking Courtney’s “insights” as an indication of what the government or intelligence community knows. He’s not an idiot (afaik) but he’s not omniscient, either.
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  5309.  @YvonneWilson312  Have you not seen all the conservatives on TV and publishing editorials in the newspapers to inform us they’re being censored?
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  5310.  @ApunkDaydreamLamunanOi  For sure, some childhood experience twisted Putin’s soul. If we can discover who bullied him, and pinpoint the moment that he was beat up in some St. Petersburg schoolyard, we might be able to build a time machine, go back a little further in time, and abort his mother’s pregnancy.
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  5311. Ukrainians are not thieves. They will not keep this ammunition the Russians lost. Because Ukrainians are honest people, they will return the artillery shells to the Russians, one shell at a time. 😊
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  5312. They didn’t break any pact with Christ. All they need to do to maintain the pact is believe that Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection has saved them. Then they are enjoined to love God with all their heart and do unto others as they would have others do unto themselves, which are the two commandments of the Christian covenant with God. The first is easy. And so is the second, which is why Evangelicals arm themselves to the teeth and dare others to come at them.
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  5313. He does occasionally, but John runs into two issues: 1) there are questions about the quality of the data coming from many developing nations, and 2) there might be a language issue, if John is not fluent in the languages used in these other countries. Am example of (1) might be that a country might be under-testing, making it difficult to determine true infection rates. There might be red flags, such as an unexplained sudden spike in deaths from “non-Covid respiratory disease”. John has reported on Mexico and other Latin American countries, but there’s not a lot for him to report because of the data and language issues. He relies on his correspondents in those countries.
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  5314. You are lying.
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  5315. Or maybe this is the first counter offensive and it just started.
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  5316. In the comments section of this video? Agreed.
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  5317. She got caught up in the investigation of the bigger fish, but she was too high profile to ignore. She was convicted of obstruction of justice, not insider trading, because she lied to investigators. If she hadn’t lied, she would have had a very good chance of avoiding prosecution entirely or prevailing in court. But she was dumb to make the trade in the first place, because she’s worth a frikkin billion dollars.
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  5318. With a stellar cast, including one of my favorite character actors, Michael Ironsides.
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  5319. Thrifting Sifting Especially three camera shows which used to be the norm for sitcoms.
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  5320. Shiran Theater is a different animal entirely. The actors give the same performance night after night. Once the lighting and lighting cues are worked out, they stay the same—all the tweaking and adjustment is done prior to opening night. The style of lighting is determined by the subject matter and the director’s creative vision. If the subject matter required flat lighting, then the director might ask the LD for that.
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  5321. I like Garfunkel & Oates. It’s an actual duo, look ‘em up.
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  5322. Part of your prescription requires assigning blame, or there won’t be room for good people to run. The extremists have been purging the GOP ranks of non-extremist Republicans until they’ve lost the majority. Now is the time for the party of McCain and Goldwater (in case you don’t know, those are two iconic Arizonan Republicans), to take back the party so that we can have good representation and good governance. No more Daddy Trump and no any other Daddies or Mommies. We’re supposed to be adults!
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  5323.  @edgarvolkov8631  Hang in there, man. I hope you start feeling better soon and that Santa brings you some aspirin. 🎅
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  5324.  @johnwong5317  It doesn’t sound like the PRC leadership used to time wisely to prepare the public health system. It’s already getting overwhelmed and the worst hasn’t started yet. The U.S. public health system was overwhelmed in some places when we hit some infection peaks, but the early lock down bought us enough time so that our health system didn’t totally crash. Too many people died because they couldn’t get proper care quickly enough, but it could have been a lot worse. By the time omicron hit (less deadly but more infectious) we were even more prepared. (It might be worth pointing out that some people are really bad at math. A virus that is less deadly is still deadly. If it’s significantly more infectious, you can still have more people die.)
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  5325.  @soniyachauhan4715  try taking a long walk on a short pier.
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  5326.  @Miyuki2319 ​​⁠Just google “13 is an unlucky number”.
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  5327. There are laws governing the behavior that define it as criminal conduct. The question is are there laws that carve out exceptions to the criminal law? At around 2:40, Steve discusses the common sports exception using the example of boxing, but you might have difficulty claiming that a mutually agreed upon fight was merely participating in a sport. But even so, your argument that mutual fighting is legal because it is not covered by the law falls flat. It most certainly is covered by the law unless there is a law that delineates an exception.
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  5328. The reality is it’s some of both. The difference between the quasi-communist command economies and Western capitalism is in the transparency and in the framework of democracy. We elect those who make economic policies, and those policies get debated in public. So there is some “top down” tweaks, but those are ultimately determined by those of us who vote. One of the unfortunate aspects of our open markets is asymmetry of information. It’s not entirely avoidable. But we have regulations aimed at preventing abuses, and the information eventually does make it to the little guy. In the case of the PRC, the Party holds all the cards.
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  5329.  @landontesar3070  That’s more due to tax policy, spending policy, and regulatory capture than due to monetary policy.
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  5330. The Russian bots and trolls are out in full force, but no one is buying their BS. Finally, a Russian disinformation campaign is utterly failing.
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  5331. Thank god they don’t have riots like this in Old Navy.
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  5332. You first. Good luck with that.
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  5333. The first amendment.
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  5334.  @thomascannon1959  I can vouch for him. He’s an old friend. I’ve known him since [checks account starting date], oh, uh, about a week.
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  5335. This is why you have an attorney to plead this down to misdemeanor charges and pay a fine.
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  5336.  @karenripley3678  yup. There’s a good article in the Atlantic by Gustavo Arellano about just those cultural issues and others in his community in Anaheim, California.
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  5337. What do you expect him to say that hasn’t already been said?
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  5338. I don’t think that would help. Once the brain dies, it’s dead. You can’t grow a new one.
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  5339. They have a pro-humanity and anti-criminal bias. How can you trust news from people that hate violent criminals?
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  5340. I’m very curious about how they are going to handle large amounts of RAM, especially 64 GB and above.
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  5341. I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken.
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  5342. There’s two ways to increase the pool of potential recruits. 1) lower intelligence and physical standards, or 2) attract more people by welcoming them with a message of inclusivity. I like option #2. You’re more likely to attract recruits higher than the mental and physical standards, you’ll get a military that reflects the country it is defending, and people with different experiences in life add to a group’s overall experience. The criticism of “woke” in the military isn’t just about recruiting and who is allowed to serve. Only a few years ago there were politicians in Washington holding hearings about officer training containing “woke” material, woke meaning ideology contrary to the ideologies of the politicians.
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  5343. They’ll be forced to disgorge the profits if that’s necessary to pay for the removal. If they just walk away, there’s nothing to stop the mineral council from contracting with another company to operate the wind farm. The wind farm company screwed itself by ignoring the rights of others.
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  5344.  @oldmech619  I was wondering charters fell under 121 or 35. In either case, does jurisdiction play a role? Flight originated in Quebec, Canada, destination Mexico. Obviously, crossed U.S. airspace. 😄 I’m sure both Mexico and Canada have their FAR equivalents. Bottom line is, charter or not, one obeys the captain on an aircraft.
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  5345. I don’t think so. I’ve only heard about Australia doing this.
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  5346. Geopolitics. Vaccine diplomacy. In the case of China, they are a police state and were able to lock down in ways that would be intolerable if not impossible in other countries. They literally sealed people into their apartments under threat of prison. So there has been less need for vaccinations as they were able to get their earlier outbreaks under control. In the case of Putin’s Russia, the ruling elite don’t give a shit about their people. And don’t be fooled: they might not be charging money to developing nations, but they’re not giving it away for free.
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  5347. What is the altitude? I live at 2km. Visitors take at least a week to acclimate and some do suffer altitude sickness. Fighting at this altitude is no joke for the combatants.
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  5348. He might be able to talk fast, but he lacks flow and his bars are subpar. His logic is mythical and his myth is illogical. He’s like the love child of Jordan Peterson, and Jordan Peterson’s grandmother.
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  5349. What’s a control panel on an aircraft? Do you mean the cockpit? Do you do your own work on your car or do you take it to a mechanic and make sure the mechanic doesn’t get into the driver’s seat?
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  5350.  @gorkyd7912 If the essence of his grievance is the withdrawal from Afghanistan, why blame Biden for a withdrawal negotiated by the previous president?
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  5351. Ask Pat Toomey, the guy who created this last minute obstacle. I can’t tell if he was just trying to make a political point or to actually sabotage the compromise.
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  5352.  @timewa851  They have twisters in Kentucky?
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  5353. How about if all Russian soldiers go home for Christmas? I think Ukraine would go along with that.
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  5354.  @pieman9922  Yes, those with vested interests in the lockdown, i.e., people who care about the survival of themselves, their families, their communities, and the human race. How dare they be so selfish! You’re here early, troll.
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  5355. They’ve been robbing Ukrainians trying to flee Kherson.
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  5356. You’re being too kind to him. Putin has the moral development of a three year old throwing a tantrum, i.e., he’s a monster. The main difference is that a three year old doesn’t command armies nor have access to nuclear weapons.
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  5357. Artillery is one means of delivering chemical weapons.
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  5358. 🤞
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  5359. Ya think?
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  5360. So do it. Apparently you’d have enough co-plaintiffs to turn it into a class action. Contact attorneys until you find one to take the case.
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  5361.  @thebrokenstringspete  You’re wrong.
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  5362. You must have missed the episode that debunks Vikings as a modern historical fiction.
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  5363. Are you forgetting how high Trump scored on his mental acuity test? No one had ever scored that high before. One of the doctors that administered the test walked up to him afterwards to shake his hand. “Sir,” he said, “I sure wish you had been my roommate when I was in med school. If you had been there to help me study, I’m certain I’d have become a brain surgeon. I wish there were more stable geniuses like you.” True story.
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  5364. But they’re white.
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  5365. They will go after natural born citizens, by “accidentally” deporting them, and making it difficult for them to return. That’s step one. The next step is to redefine the legal definition of citizenship via an act of Congress, that will be upheld by a packed Supreme Court.
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  5366.  @thisismagacountry1318  How many damn troll accounts do you have? I hope you’re keeping track, because I’ve lost count.
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  5367. The Russians are screwed if it gets too cold and their screwed when the thaw comes. I think Putin was expecting a Goldilocks war, where everything was just right.
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  5368. I think most RFKJ supporters went back to Jill Stein. The remaining supporters will support trump after wandering around pantsless outside the old folks home.
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  5369. I agree, but the aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan wasn’t snuck in. Republicans in the senate made the foreign aid contingent on border legislation. And once it was bundled together, the Republicans used that leverage to get their demands. They had the Dems bent over and grabbing their ankles because they were very cutthroat. But now they’re walking away. They’re throwing away the deal they wanted and for what? So they can have an issue going into November. They really don’t have another issue. Transgender Disneyland employees? Nobody cares. I’m not a big admirer of the Dems, but the shortsidedness of the GOP is stunning. And the disinformation being used to shift the blame isn’t winning any hearts and minds among us independent voters. This was a very good bill for the protection of the border states and for the GOP.
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  5370.  @mikespearwood3914  You hate being called a White Supremacist Christian, don’t you? Did you ever notice that the type of racist that tries to use code words to hide their racism hate being called racist? Did you ever notice that the anti-semites that use code words hate being called anti-semites? Correct me if I am wrong, but you seem to have embraced religious bigotry. Why not embrace racism and anti-semitism as well? At least then you wouldn’t seem like a fragile snowflake or delicate flower.
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  5371. “Mostly accurate” assessment, not “very accurate”. Peter is nothing if not daring. He’s like the stunt driver of geopolitical analysts. It’s what makes these little vids of his so compelling: he’s willing to put himself out there.
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  5372. James O’Brien is empathetic and compassionate, not condescending. Can people not tell the difference? Or is it a case of any form of intelligence seems condescending to the really really dumb?
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  5373. Is Baller Hardware in Silverlake still around? That was the go to store, despite there being 3 Home Depots within 5 miles. When you had to have a specialty item that Home Depot didn’t carry, Baller probably had it. A couple of my middle school and high school buddies had afterschool jobs there, too.
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  5374. He’s not going to ask for an en banc hearing, because the hold on the trial will lapse on the 12th, so he has to ask the Supreme Court to stay the trial and rule on the Appellate panel’s ruling. Are you with me so far? He cannot waste time, he has to file for the stay AND for certiorari immediately. To get the stay, he needs 5 justices to grant it. To get a hearing (aka certiorari aka cert), he needs 4 justices. There is a decent chance that the Supreme Court won’t grant him cert because the three judge appellate panel was so thorough. If the court does grant cert, there’s still a pretty good chance they won’t give him a stay and the trial in Judge Chutkin’s court will continue to move forward.
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  5375.  @ctuna2011  And your home battery bank is adding to the environmental damage debt already incurred by solar.
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  5376.  @thevoxdeus  Yes. For developing nations as well. Even more so because they are developing.
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  5377. How do you survive against such outrageous malfeasance? I think I’d rather die than do a kindness to my neighbors or let them do a kindness to me. All I’m saying is that mistakes have to stop and there has to be major consequences for the mistake makers!! I’m not willing to live in a world where people just accept that mistakes are made. 😉 (But honestly, doesn’t that sound like the tone of some of the comments on this video? Not yours. You sound same and reasonable.)
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  5378.  @reneebauman2994  In the general election Haley would sweep independents and she might pick up some dem voters concerned about Biden’s age. Desantis is seen as a clown and a weakling by Trump supporters, but if Trump found it difficult to campaign from a jail cell, they might be persuaded to back Ron (if he promise to give Trump a pardon). The other Republican candidates got nothing. Vivek is going nowhere. I think Haley will get some respect for just hanging in there. That said, unless Trump cannot continue his campaign due to jail, ill health, or a spontaneous change of address to a country without an extradition treaty, Hailey ain’t going to be the nominee. She has a pretty good chance if any of the above happens.
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  5379.  @lizhall2961  She’s the only Republican candidate that has hung in there against Trump. She’s the only one still fundraising—all the suspended campaigns are broke. Desantis is a joke. Ramaswami is an even weaker joke. Christie, bless him, doesn’t have the fundraising (not to mention that Haley is finally doing what he was begging her to do). Yeah, it’s a long shot, but Republican voters might finally notice that the Trumperor has no clothes between now and the Convention in June. Trump might yet prove to be man of convictions. 😉
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  5380. This flare up of violence is sponsored by the Kremlin.
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  5381. Not really. It might make you want to vote for him more, but you only get one vote. What this is doing is turning off independent voters that previously voted for Trump. This country is suffering from Trump exhaustion, and most of us just want to see him gone.
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  5382. I was 99% sure the answer was going to be the Grand Duchy of Fenwick.
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  5383. Honestly, you’re much better off just listening to Sal. Peter has a fair bit of fundamental knowledge, but falls short on the details. He makes mistakes that Sal wouldn’t allow to pass. However, Peter would benefit from some private tutoring from Sal.
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  5384. The original suggestion of political integration is a complete non-starter. There is potential for greater economic integration between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, however. NAFTA III will become a topic in 2027 or 28.
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  5385. They in this case is Trump. Trump said he would do that. Trump also made the legal argument that it would be legal for him to assassinate political opponents. This is the argument he used in his immunity case appeal. I’m not making this up.
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  5386.  @TheLumberjack1987  NO TAG BACKS
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  5387. 🤮
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  5388.  @kev792 Glum Greenwad
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  5389. I’ll have to watch it again, but I think he meant specifically CAS dedicated aircraft that fly low-and-slow, not all fighters with CAS mission capabilities. A F-35 (fighter bomber) or the upcoming B-3 (stealth bomber) can perform more effective CAS from a distance thanks to precision guided munitions. Keep in mind that the “close” in Close Air Support does not refer to the proximity of the aircraft to the battle—an error you’ve probably seen the A10 fanboys make. They seem to think if an aircraft isn’t strafing, it’s not doing CAS. I love the A10 the same way I love the P-47 Thunderbolt. It was a bad ass aircraft in its time. The A10’s time is past. A10 fanboys should find some new masturbation material.
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  5390. But how did the mesopomotamians know about Pluto? There is only one possible answer! Alan told them!
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  5391. Yup. “Digital Nomads” and/or retirees.
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  5392.  @robertmoray988  As stupid and privileged as they might be, they spend money. They need goods and services. They pay above the prevailing wage. As far as them being superstitious fools believing all sorts of spiritual mumbo jumbo—that’s not all that different from many people in Mexico. Personally I have little to no use for these clowns but I don’t think they’re harming Mexico.
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  5393.  @pinlight97  You nailed it. There is actually a big overlap between new age yuppies and prosperity gospel Christians down here among the gringos. I don’t know that I’ve seen any charismatic leaders really take hold—there’s too many grifters among them, competing for attention and dollars. One of the funniest bits about the libertarian/anarchist angle is their belief that Mexico is more free. Its more free if you have more money. Money brings privilege and impunity (just like anywhere else). The difference is that unremarkable wealth in the U.S. buys a lot more privilege and impunity in Mexico. Still, I don’t think most of them have “exercising their 2A rights while in Mexico” levels of wealth. 😂
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  5394. Germany wants to join NAFTA.
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  5395. Not just conceal. He destroyed the evidence, and he did so in a manner that showed premeditation and planning. There’s even an argument that he formed a conspiracy to obstruct an investigation, because he got two other people to participate in his cover up. Conspiracy to commit obstruction is even more serious than the charges he is facing.
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  5396. Burke influenced ex-GOP here. And a proud California. If I could ask Mike a question, I’d ask him if is there’s any chance of a traditionally moderate Republican candidate to be Governor of California, or has California gone completely Democratic Party for the foreseeable future? The thing is, I don’t hate Newsom. I’d prefer a moderate Republican, but I don’t think Newsom is ruining the state like the knee jerk MAGAs say.
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  5397. It wasn’t allowed. But it somehow got there and somehow a single round got loaded into the chamber. Apparently the workplace rules were infringing on someone’s second amendment rights, so that person did what any patriotic American would do and did whatever the fsuck they wanted without regard to anyone’s safety. But even still, however real ammunition got on set, that was just one point of failure among many, any one of which would have prevented the killing.
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  5398.  @NoPe-no4sn  He has the audiovisual equivalent of dyslexia.
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  5399.  @bcampbell1826  To be fair, these are the low level rats, the flunky rodents. The big important rats are on deck, forming a circular firing squad.
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  5400. @Albert Clarke Buenas tardes from sunny Mexico!
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  5401. This is a superficial reading. The overall purpose was global stability. A linchpin to global stability is a stable energy supply. This is the underlying reasons for the Iraqi invasion. Maybe it was misguided from the get go. Maybe it was misguided because the Bush administration hawks grafted to the invasion their PNAC program of “democracy building”. (My thinking tends towards the later, although the former is an open question.) No doubt Halliburton benefitted both from the war and from its connections to Cheney. That’s fairly obvious. But it is incorrect to say that Halliburton controlled U.S. foreign policy. It’s like saying a remora controls the shark or the tick controls the dog.
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  5402. I think the weakest part of that is that he’s being disqualified from primary ballots. Technically, he’s running to be the nominated candidate at this stage. If the GOP wants to nominate a candidate who is disqualified from office, that’s their right. Didn’t the Yippies try to nominate a pig at the 1968 Democratic convention?
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  5403. I probably will not ever read it, but not because I don’t want to. But I did enjoy very much his various takes on the war, Ukraine, American politics, etc.
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  5404. Because this is the third time in six months that it’s been “burned to the ground” according to you hypocrites.
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  5405.  @stephennolan2250 The UK is a 51st state? Look, the U.S. is a multilingual country with no official language, but we are not equipped to incorporate British English. Sorry, but no. Maybe they can become a protectorate of the U.S. or something, like Puerto Rico.
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  5406. Also, to be fair, the U.S. has had its own issues with maintenance and modernization of our strategic nukes since the end of the Cold War. Perhaps it’s worse under a Kleptocracy, but 🤷🏻‍♀️.
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  5407. Stop repeating the President’s lies.
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  5408. Thank you for restating the content of the video.
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  5409. Inflatable children’s swimming pools.
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  5410. You’re joking. No, the Republicans don’t have a monopoly on corruption. Only the most credulous and foolish Democrats think this. Would you say it’s the same for Republican voters vis a vis the Democrats, or do most Republicans think that only the Democrats are corrupt?
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  5411. Physically abused, tortured and starved? Well, at least they didn’t have to hear a transexual reading a book at that den of inequity and vice known as the public library. 😮 In other news, Governor Desantis of Florida has announced that the words “books” and “library” are now on the list of banned words. A Desantis spokesman said, “Children must be protected from books and libraries by not teaching them they exist. The only book they need to know about is the Good Book, and they don’t even need to read to benefit from its contents.”
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  5412.  @komorebi9809 You go on about “1st world countries”, but you never talk about 2nd world countries. Where are they and what are their problems? Did they disappear?
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  5413. Apparently you aren’t aware that Easter isn’t pegged to a single date. How sad that you are so emotionally invested in a religious holiday which you barely know about. 😂
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  5414. This is just speculation, but I suspect that Bullhead City has many false Christians and false conservatives that rally behind the idea of Christian Nationalism.
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  5415. I would proudly get behind a GOP that returned to its pre-Southern Strategy values, that promoted Civil Rights, that could accept evidence of systemic racism and bigotry without derailing conversations about race.
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  5416. So you’re saying he was a privileged trust fund kid, a so called “Trustafarian”?
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  5417.  @taylorc2542 It didn’t happen because there aren’t surplus gripens. Whether or not these F-16s arrive quickly in sufficient numbers to fight in 2025, their real power will be keeping the peace after the conflict is over.
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  5418. I’d say there’s a big difference, though. Before February 2022, Canada, U.S., and UK had many uniformed trainers and advisers in Ukraine. They were pulled out before the shooting started. Possibly a handful of special forces remained. Training continues outside of Ukraine, but the Ukraine supporting coalition is avoiding putting regular military boots on the ground. With regards to the supposed 97 special forces soldiers inside of Ukraine, that might be total number that have been rotated in and out, but I doubt they have all been present simultaneously. That’s IF they are in fact there at all.
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  5419. The Biden campaign has secret wiretaps of RFKJ’s brain worm’s phone conversations with Vladimir Putin’s brain worm.
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  5420.  @mariarodriquez5622  That’s how you know he’s a non-American troll. He has heard of a dollar tree store, but he has no idea how transactions are performed.
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  5421.  @supportyourtroopsathletes6460  lol, that would work if he had ever set foot in ANY store in the U.S. Isn’t it clear that he has no idea how transactions (buying something) in a store work?
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  5422.  @aliendroneservices6621  DISINFORMATION. Stop spreading lies.
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  5423.  @derekh1593 You said it. Why would an addict willing to pick through a carpet for bits of rock cocaine leave a bag of coke lying around? That was a rhetorical question. He wouldn’t. The drug was found in the visitor phone check in area. Hunter Biden wouldn’t need to check in his phone if he visited the White House. The obvious question is was this in inadvertent mistake by a visitor, or an intentional planting of cocaine? It’s 99.99% it was one of those two.
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  5424. One hundred and five bottles of vodka on the wall, A hundred bottles of vodka. You take one down, pass it around, One hundred and six bottles of vodka on the wall. One hundred and six bottles of . . . .
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  5425. He’s taking aim at McConnell on his way out. Perdue and Loeffler are just collateral damage; they’ve been loyal to the President and he has no reason to hurt them . . . no reason other than throwing them under the bus removes Mitch McConnell from power. McConnell’s first “sin” against the President was recognizing Biden as President-Elect. This was an ultimate betrayal, a dagger-in-the-back in Trump’s mind. The second was not including section 230 in the defense bill (because it makes no sense that it should be there). The third is McConnell not going along with the objection stunt, and discouraging his caucus from participating. The fourth is overriding Trump’s veto of the defense bill. All of McConnell’s substantial power as Senate Majority Leader hinges on the Georgia election. Trump has been less than 100% helpful to the two GOP Senate candidates since the November election. He has campaigned for them, but his rallies tend to really be about him. He did a lot of fundraising in Georgia . . . for himself! His crack squad of election-overturners have suggested that Republican voters boycott the election. And now, today, he’s come out with a series of tweets claiming that the upcoming election itself is illegal and fraudulent. These are not the actions of a political leader overly concerned about his followers or the well being of his party.
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  5426.  @튜브개십  SPAMMER
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  5427. I’m curious to know your dosages. I’m taking 2000 iu daily.
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  5428. I yelled “Theater!” in a crowded firehouse.
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  5429. My first dog told my newer dog he was adopted. Jealousy is so messed up. Barnaby has a right to know, but I wanted him to hear it from me. Anyway, we’re working it out and everyday I reassure him we love him just as much as we would if he hadn’t been adopted.
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  5430. Upon hearing of her judgement, Joyce is reputed to have said, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Albee leaving now.
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  5431.  @Phil-ui4tm  Agreed. China is sitting pretty with the status quo and small strategic challenges in the China Sea. Russia’s attack actually increases scrutiny on China. I bet Xi is pissed at Putin.
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  5432. @First • 15 years ago It was an old Cold War scheme to represent the West (1st), the Communist Bloc (2nd), and the Non-aligned nations (3rd). It originally had nothing to do with economic development, and was never a good way to talk about economic development. Eventually we forgot about the Second World. First World became a joke set up, 3rd world became a derogatory term to belittle Southern Hemisphere countries and parts of England. That said, Putin’s Cat is not wrong. The Russian Army does look like a third world army. This is partly due to the USSR and Russia arming the third world. A convoy of Russian tanks looks exactly like a convoy of Bolivian tanks because they’re the same tank models.
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  5433. Among other crimes.
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  5434. He was talking about the U.S. Congress, not sexual congress with ur mom. Talk about bloated and overreaching!
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  5435. That’s great that you’re involved in drafting, but you really should watch this video that contains the facts and the pertinent law.
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  5436.  @omargoodman2999 Mortar? I didn’t even know her.
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  5437. Charlie Kirk’s face keeps shrinking.
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  5438.  @mikemondano3624  😂 Right?
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  5439.  @poppystars9005  So you’re saying if the worm triples in popularity, it could have a chance.
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  5440. Wow, you are so wise.
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  5441. “Have you smelled the funk after 5 minutes?” And now we get to the heart of it. DENTAL HYGIENE. If you don’t brush your teeth regularly, your breath is going to stink. That’s why your mask smells like ass. So each and every patriot must ask themselves if they are willing to surrender to the American Dental Association—Communist conspiracy just so they can wear a mask. The greatest generation fought WWII to stop the bolsheviks from fluoridating our water supplies. Will their sacrifice be in vain?
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  5442. He does in fact speak Arabic. The rest of your comment sounds like nonsense stereotyping. Do you also say that Jewish culture is tribal culture, based on respect and fear? Probably you don’t.
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  5443. Did you come up with that youself? It’s so insightful.
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  5444. You’ve gone past speculation into the realm of making stuff up. There was the reporter who asked a speculative but legitimate question towards the end about the driver of the white truck. However, you’re making assumptions based on facts not in evidence. Even if you’re proven correct, your logical process is faulty.
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  5445.  @foffjerkholes4995  It’s the latest fake evidence that’s already been debunked.
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  5446. Don’t worry, the 2A supporters will soon be here to defend this woman (and please note, the shooter was a woman). They don’t care what race or gender you are because the second amendment applies to all. Right? Right?
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  5447. Without watching the video first, I’m going to hazard a guess: they loved each other very much and made little bailiffs and court reporters.
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  5448. Would it make any difference if the shooter was a woman? I think it does regarding her fear that might legally justify her defending herself.
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  5449. Yes, and no. The vaccine doesn’t respect borders, so unless you completely seal off travel, you probably should have concerns for the rest of the world, including but not limited to your neighbors. And Geopolitics doesn’t take a holiday while you’re inwardly focused on the pandemic.
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  5450. Mexico was a major manufacturer of shoes before China opened up. Major brands built their shoes in León for sale in the U.S. (I remember K-Swiss was one such company.) They already were the cobbler of the U.S.
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  5451. Boehner was taken down because he was willing to work with Dems. Same with McCarthy, although his downfall was due in part to other factors. (Nobody trusted him and he was a big A*hole.) The Dems can throw Johnson a lifeline. But at what cost to Johnson? What will he have to give up to the Dems? If Trump orders the GOP to get rid of him, will they go along? (Probably) I want to point out that moderate republicans have a nuclear option, although it’s unlikely they’d use it. They can threaten that if Johnson is deposed, they’ll abstain from voting and throw the Speakership to Jeffries. (Not going to happen, but it could.
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  5452. You can’t drive a downloadable videogame to work.
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  5453. No, but it’s an added charge on top of everything else, and will affect whether a bond for release is set at all, and how much it is if it is set.
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  5454.  @keepyourbilsteins  I did not see that coming.
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  5455. 😂
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  5456. Watch the video. You obviously didn’t listen to the sounds that came out of Steve’s mouth.
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  5457. Weeks ago, but it does seem like months. I agree, it’s not clear if this is a viable workaround for heavy equipment. It might be, it might not. Russia also has a fleet of barges to ferry vehicles and troops across the river in either direction. Yes, they are vulnerable, but that doesn’t mean they’re not useful.
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  5458. Reagan. Did Reagan throw out liberal consensus? What was it before Reagan? I’m not so sure it ever existed. Do you mean that the Democratic Party was pulled towards the right? How far to the right was it pulled from where it was before Reagan?
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  5459.  @johnhopkins3961  Disagree with you there about the meaning of his loss in the popular vote. Yes, character played an important part in people’s decision. But that same character was the basis for Trump’s “policies”, if you want to call them that. It seems to me that Trump’s policies were based on his whims and his situational political needs. Only after the fact did his advisers try to force the Trumpist square pegs into conservative round holes. Look at the 2020 GOP platform, for example. 😆😖 Bottom line: The conservative voters that abandoned Trump abandoned him for more reasons than just character. They saw his incompetence in 2020, and they realized he regularly abandons principles when they didn’t fit his whims of the moment.
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  5460.  Lucius McLicious  What tiny slim majority are you talking about? This was actually a typical election in terms of the numbers. It was the delay processing mail in votes that was unusual but understandable.
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  5461. I don’t know where Romney gets it, but I would say most normal people have both conservative and liberal values, in different measures. The artificial division of those values into parties is a simplification, perhaps a damaging oversimplification as we’ve been seeing recently.
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  5462. I was wondering about that, but I know nothing. First thought was, Why not invert the drone? Perhaps there is a technical reason that has to do with the release mechanism. The second thought was, shouldn’t they do that over a pillow?
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  5463. Carrie See —They still have Chris Wallace. Wallace just put Mick Mulvaney’s nuts in a vice this last Sunday, catching him in lie after lie. Is there anyone else at FNC with respect for the facts?
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  5464. There’s a larger concern here. If the company goes out of business, how many robos are going to lose their jobs?
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  5465.  @dominikobora5385  Yup. And the T-62 stores the bulk of its ammunition on the floor under the turret.
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  5466. I’m pro-capitalism, but I’m wary of those that make a religion of it. Capitalism is a mechanism that powers society, like an engine powers a car. But it’s not the only social tool we have in the toolbox, and the free market is not a god. It seems to me that Prosperity Gospel does a neat trick of 1) combining Calvinist Predestination with Capitalism-as-Religion and 2) substitutes one signifier for another, i.e., wealth takes the place of God.
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  5467. Is it that hard of a decision for Italy’s literally fascist government to invade Libya? 😅 But seriously, is it that hard to do a deal with the 4-year old unity government, which seems to be keeping a lid on unrest? It might take some greasing of the major rival factions, but that’s the cost of doing business. Anyway, I’d call the Libyan political situation “stable but precarious”. If you’re going to go in and bribe political factions, do it in a way that you don’t upset the balance.
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  5468. Are you thinking it should be retreat and mobilize? Or perhaps “don’t attack, don’t mobilize” would have been the best overall strategy for Russia? 😅 I bet we can agree on that.
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  5469. You dared to tread.
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  5470. You must be new here. You’re going to love winter time in Colorado, when Pete wears a variety of funny knit caps as he trucks along.
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  5471. Defendant Trump 2024
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  5472.  @muuuuuud The consensus of bible scholars is that the Book of Daniel was written hundreds of years after its prophesies came true. Events are easy to predict AFTER they’ve happened.
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  5473. I’m not usually one to comment on people’s appearance, but A.B. is low key stunning in the green top and the green stone necklace. She looks like she’s going to a dinner party immediately after the video is shot.
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  5474.  @SleeperService994 Interesting Trivia: The band Steely Dan is named after a dilemma.
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  5475. Will you legacy mainframe proponents just give it up? The PC made you irrelevant in 99.9999% of cases. I hope you all choke on your punch cards.
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  5476. The Eagle S dragged the anchor for 60 nautical miles. The anchor’s flukes broke off. It’s not possible that the crew was unaware that the anchor was being dragged for hours. It would affect the performance and handling of the ship. This is very solid evidence that the act was intentional sabotage.
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  5477. Hey, Tannerite lawnmower guy won a pirate award.
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  5478.  @gus473 the tit panic
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  5479. Ikr? Poor Elaine. On the positive side, she now has a good cover story if she wants to be a prostitute or a drug dealer.
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  5480.  @secretname4190  woah there, hold your horses. Getting a little hot in the saddle there, amigo? I don’t agree with Chris, but I don’t think he’s lying, as you say. There’s actually a grain of truth there because the threat represented by the U.S.S.R. most certainly was a unifying force that helped European countries overcome their differences. His mistake is that he is forgetting the history of 1990-2020, when the Europeans no longer had the Soviets to fear and China wasn’t recognized as a looming threat. Being weak on history, in fact quite ignorant of recent history, doesn’t make Chris a liar. It simply makes him misinformed.
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  5481. I always say that my #1 defense is my running shoes. However, that’s not completely true. I rely on my eyes and try to stay aware of the situation and the people around me. When I walk, I’m scanning a block or two ahead with frequent glances behind me. I try to be a little extra vigilant as I pass transitional spaces, such as cross streets, store entrances, alleyways, etc.
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  5482. Let me lay something on you. Making the argument that Zionism is European colonialism is an anti-Semitic idea. The argument that Israel is a European colony is anti-Semitic. Both arguments are ahistorical. They are false arguments supported by a facile and false understanding of history. I protest the Netanyahu government. I protest the IDF going to far whine not doing enough to expedite humanitarian aid. I protest Hamas choosing urban Gaza as the battlefield. I demand both a release of hostages and a ceasefire. But in not going to listen to idiotic arguments about Israel not having the right to exist because it’s “settler colonialism”. If anyone wants to make those arguments, they better have a firm grasp on 2000 years of Jewish history.
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  5483.  @ELL289  I think there are (100% legal) pro Hamas groups spreading disinformation, and there are lightweight academics applying their “historical analysis” without knowing jack squat about the history. If you’re going to do Marx stuff, do it right.
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  5484. I’m antivax but pro mandate. Everyone else should be vaxxed, not me. I’ll continue to rely on natural immunities and drinking the urine of those infected with omicron. If I die, remember, it was probably the urine, not Covid. Just kidding. I’m vaccinated, waiting on the booster to become available.
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  5485. Did you watch the video? I don’t think the scope of the video can address your question. You probably want to ask it elsewhere. Can you describe the mega investors and their needs? How does a Thurston differ from a Skipper or a Ginger, and how does that difference change the NPV formula? (Wrt financial markets).
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  5486. Lol, to get to the hot spring pool they had to move off the path where they weren’t supposed to go. People have become so opposed to any suggestion of control that they’ve lost control of themselves.
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  5487. Sanctions on a person or a country punish a behavior until the person or country stop doing the behavior. Additionally, economic sanctions hinder the person’s or country’s ability to finance the undesired behavior.
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  5488. Imagine you own a junk car, it’s parked in front of your house and you wish to sell it to a salvage company! This could get really absurd very rapidly. “You cannot sell county property, but at the same time you must pay fines for abandoning a vehicle in front of your house.” 😂
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  5489. Neither aircraft. Close Air Support doesn’t need to operate close to the battle, it only needs accurate targeting. With the right munitions, 4.5th and 5th generation aircraft are well suited for CAS missions. But OK, the Spooky (assuming you have air superiority, air defenses are fully suppressed, and the enemy has no access to MANPADS and the like).
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  5490. This is sarcasm, right?
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  5491.  @christopheralvarez1551  it’s not ideal, but that’s not the whole story. The JJ vaccine is 85% effective at preventing serious illness. This means that if you do get infected, the illness will be less severe and less life threatening. You won’t need to go to the hospital. Anyway, it’s an option and a backstop against severe vaccine shortages, if the Phizer, Moderna, or Oxford-Astrozeneca vaccines are unavailable.
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  5492.  @pmw3839  Short answer is yes, but having both is not a great cause for worry if you’re vaccinated. It’s likely that these early omicron cases also include a proportion of delta. It’s still the same disease, but your question is interesting. Think of it this way: a person with both (such as the first person in whom the mutation occurred). For whatever reason the omicron variant is more effective (spike change leading to more successful or faster binding to receptors) it began spreading faster in the body of the infected person. When they infected others, it was a combination of the two in some proportion. As others were infected, the omicron variant was able to outperform the delta variant in each host body (those bodies being our fellow humans). The proportion of the omicron variant increases and delta decreases—quite literally one person at a time. My informed layman’s guess is that if one has some amount of immunity to delta through vaccination or previous illness, those immunities are further blocking or suppressing the delta variant, giving omicron a leg up, but having both variants becomes less and less likely as omicron spreads. Unknowns: 1)omicron is milder (some data) 2) infection with omicron will provide immunities for previous variants should they pop back up (no data) 3) omicron immunities will be affective against future variants (no data) There is some preliminary evidence that (1) is true, so there is reason to be hopeful. (2) and (3) are wild guesses on my part—we’ll learn more in the coming days, weeks, and months.
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  5493.  @Conservator.  Thats not correct. That’s not the mechanism at play here. The evidence suggests that the omicron variant’s spike receptors bind better, not that it is outcompeting by providing immunities. The mechanism you’re suggesting might come into play (and I hope it does) at some point or it might not. The evidence supports the idea that the omicron variant is able to outproduce the delta variant, probably because of better or faster binding. There’s also the possibility that omicron does have milder symptoms—meaning that more people who don’t feel gravely ill are spreading it. Preliminary data suggests the variant is milder. Fingers crossed.
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  5494.  @TheDrAstrov  If Russia were to put the rest of its army into the invasion, it would leave its borders unguarded. They’d be trusting NATO and other countries to not invade, which would finally put the lie to their fear of NATO. No, Russia has put all available forces into Ukraine and is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Their “new” equipment is not being held in reserve for this fight, but held in reserve to defend all of Russia’s borders or in those provinces where Putin fears unrest. Neither the soldiers nor that equipment are heading to Ukraine. Putin is running out of cannon fodder.
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  5495. Let’s be 100% clear. Denys is a reporter, a journalist, covering the war in his country.
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  5496. “Spine stiffening” is a symptom of advance syphilis.
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  5497. Why say South Asian? His parents were born in East Africa. He was born in Southampton. Sounds like a typical post colonial upper class Englishman.
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  5498. Here’s your argument in different terms: murder shouldn’t be illegal because people are still free not to murder. Drunk driving shouldn’t be illegal because people are free to not drink and drive. Certain regulations are necessary for the common good because too many assholes have the self control of a toddler.
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  5499. My doors slam if I don’t prop them open, so I think I’m getting good cross ventilation. Finally, the draftiness of my apartment is a good thing!
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  5500. As an Asian American, I’m resentful that the Haitians are stealing our traditional racial slurs.
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  5501. If the Atlantic Ocean thinks it can take over the Pacific Ocean, it’s got another think coming. 😂
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  5502. What choice do they have? If they don’t post their ridiculous propaganda and transparent lies, they’ll be sent to die face down in the Ukrainian mud.
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  5503.  @overnightparking  my thinking is this: let the data guide the science, but the anecdotes make it more real and personal to me. It helps me realize the risks and mentally prepare for them as best I can. There is a wide range of physical responses to the vaccines, and I want to understand what it’s like for my fellow humans that are experiencing them. The anecdotes don’t replace the data, but they augment the data as I try to understand it.
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  5504. Ironically, the pseudo science of astrology uses these planetary patterns relative to Earth to predict the future and has done so from the time humans first detected them. This is why astrologers will talk about planets “in retrograde”.
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  5505.  @vonsuthoff  I prefer to think of them as “THE ARISTOCRATS”. 😆 https://youtu.be/yiBAfmxwdKc
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  5506.  @harveywallbanger3123  If he has $2 million and Trump gets elected, he can buy a pardon.
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  5507. Don’t be a Maas-hole. 😉
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  5508.  @jghenry2967  OGG Beats is a Dutchman. What’s your excuse?
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  5509. Then you’re not an American patriot. You’re anti-democracy. You sound like you’re fully subscribed to Russian disinformation and you sound like one of those “blame America” types. Actual American patriots don’t need to brag about their patriotism. Only scoundrels do that.
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  5510. It really seems like this is all about putting the screws to the Republican Senators. Punishment for their disloyalty?
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  5511. Who has been disregarding the words of the “original explorers”? Can you name a single archaeologist of any standing of the last 50 years that has refuted claims that there was a sophisticated culture in the Amazon? You’re engaging in Hancockism, trying to create a controversy and conspiracy where there is none.
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  5512. Pieter Steenkamp When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.
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  5513. There is no mechanism by which ivermectin can work as an antiviral. It’s an anti parasite that works by attacking the nervous systems of works and lice, i.e., critters. Viruses don’t have nervous systems. I have no idea about amantadine, but there would need to be a known or possible mechanism. If there’s not, don’t expect a great deal of time and resources to be put into investigating it.
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  5514. LOL, just watched five seconds of an ad for collagen, which apparently will make my butt smooth.
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  5515. This is one of the lamest conspiracy theory lies I’ve come across. Are you that bad a liar or are you truly that delusional?
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  5516. Like you, I also generalize from my personal experiences and anecdotal evidence and I WANT SOME ANSWERS. Paper towels are a good example. Why do people always put them on the shelf where they are out of reach? I WANT SOME ANSWERS. I also found the cost of fertilizer to be out of reach, so I decide to manufacture my own. And some nosy Karen in the neighborhood reported me to the Health Department and I’m getting evicted. I didn’t think I could afford to move because of gas prices, so I decided to create some biofuel (the same way I made fertilizer) by eating a ton of beans and exlax.
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  5517.  @eschcal1619  OK, Ivan.
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  5518. Piss. We just don’t have the infrastructure.
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  5519. Let them eat Covid-19.
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  5520. I would suggest to you that NATO doesn’t publicize every weapon it sends. Indeed, they might go to a lot of effort to conceal some types of weapons. The problem with hoping that Russia realizes anything about the futility of continuing is that the leadership has closed itself off from reality. There is a saying among peddlers of bullshit that goes, “Don’t buy your own bullshirt.” The evidence indicates that Putin violates this wisdom on a daily basis and that he will continue the war in hopes of outmaneuvering Ukraine geopolitically.
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  5521. Daniel Plainview: I drink your boba tea.
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  5522. lol, it’s funny but it’s true. Although I have to say that the post victory press conference was also funny because it was so overly dramatic.
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  5523. LOL, dummies. Merck stands to make billions if Ivermectin worked as either a prevention or treatment for COVID. They wouldn’t be looking at acquiring other therapeutic drugs if Ivermectin works. There is no mechanism by which ivermectin, an anti-parasite neurotoxin, would have any effect on Covid 19. This is hydro all over again. Sorry antivaxxers.
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  5524. This is the guy that Putin supported. What a huge FU to the Russians. Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine are fighting for Ukraine as well. Meanwhile 12,000 Russians have been jailed for protesting against the war. This is just the start of Putin’s downfall.
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  5525. Hopefully that will change on January 20th. I also expect we will see more congressional support for funding and organizing vaccination programs.
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  5526. It’s possible that, as Ukraine builds up for its counteroffensive, deliveries are not being publicized. It’s also worth noting that Germany didn’t have the most robust military to begin with. A lot of the very important help Germany has done has to do with pass through agreements for arms made or upgraded in Germany. When a German arms company sells or upgrades equipment, there are agreements for the customer country to not sell the equipment to third parties, according to German law. The German government has abrogated some of these agreements to speed the release of equipment other countries are donating to Ukraine.
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  5527. Yup. If there had been a bipartisan compromise, I don’t think it would have been left in, either. It was a chip. I don’t doubt Democrats want it passed, but they’ll need to do it separately. (And I think they want to use it as a 2022 issue.)
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  5528. You don’t think that’s a little heavy? Why not just impose the death penalty if you want an absurd resolution?
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  5529.  @epender  obfGPT
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  5530. The tough sell will be forging partnerships between Japan and the Philippines and South Korea. Although it was 80 years ago, so it’s possible.
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  5531. I did not know the Federalist was still a news commentary and analysis magazine. I thought it had pivoted to fashion and lifestyle.
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  5532. A month would cover a section of it, no?
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  5533. Who is Juan Galt? 😂
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  5534. Which party is against funding the military because it considers the military to be woke? Which party threatens government shutdowns? Which presidential candidate said government shutdowns are a good thing? I used to think Democrats priorities were misplaced, but I look at the GOP now and I don’t see any priorities.
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  5535.  Blue Bird  yes, the victim was jogging. It’s funny how you white supremacists have tried to turn “jogger” into a code word for the n-word, and now your racist heroes will be locked up until the day they die. Maybe the same will happen to you, you coward.
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  5536. It’s a facetious argument. I’ll make it simple: Context of a political campaign, “fight” is OK. Context of trying to overturn an election, “fight” is incitement to violence. What is the difference? One context is before the election, the other is after the election.
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  5537. Perhaps a better channel for your energy is doing something to help Democrats win the Georgia runoff elections. Rioting at Mitch’s house won’t limit his power, taking away his majority actually hurts him.
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  5538.  @CONald_is_A_false_Prophet  Think about how you might feel if Trump were re-elected and things got so bad that you had to flee your country. The president of the nearby country to which you have fled tries to stage an invasion to take back the U.S. using U.S. exiles. At the last moment, as you and your countryman are on boats en route to the landing beaches, the president withdraws all support. You land on the beaches and most of your army of exiles is tortured and slaughtered by the Trump forces. You survive and somehow make it back to your host country. Eventually, you become a citizen. Are you EVER going to trust the political party of the president that betrayed you? Probably not to your dying day. Maybe it’s still not clear to you. My mother’s side of the family is Japanese American. My mother, my aunt, both my grandparents, and everyone else in the family living in California were imprisoned in concentration camps by a Democratic President. Until she died, my grandmother always voted Republican, never for a single Democrat because of what that Democratic president did to Japanese Americans. Do you get it how deep historical political animosity can go? I want you to think about history a bit, and how you should learn some details about a group’s history before you might unintentionally insult them. If you understand their history, you’ll be in a better position to persuade them.
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  5539.  @rickedwards7276  There was no official representative of the bank called to testify. The defense witnesses that worked for the bank did not have the authority to speak for the bank. Only a bank chairman of the board, president, CEO, or CFO could testify on behalf of the bank or the bank’s owners. And it’s highly doubtful that they would say it’s OK to submit falsified documents when applying for a loan—it wouldn’t be in the best interest of either the company or shareholders (and would open them up to shareholder lawsuits for gross mismanagement.)
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  5540. I think he knows what the word means, propriety dictates he not say he knows. 😄 Dr. Campbell is an experienced nurse as well as a professor who teaches nursing. I have a feeling he’s seen a lot of libertines throughout his practicing career.
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  5541.  @dominicsignorile9511  Snow is not unheard of in Hawaii. The factoid alone isn’t evidence of climate change. What is the trend? How many snow days does Hawaii get, at what elevations, and how long does the snow stay on the ground?
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  5542. I hope that was a security cam and not a phone camera. 😳
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  5543. The vast majority of civilian deaths in Iraq were due to internecine warfare among religious militias and factions. I don’t think this relieves the U.S. of all responsibility, but it’s a far cry from our military killing civilians intentionally or inadvertently. The U.S. created the instability that unleashed the militias. This is something to keep in mind when a bot twists the facts and says the U.S. military killed a million Iraqi civilians. If you hear it from someone who isn’t a bot, you need to ask what else they are getting wrong and/or intentionally distorting.
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  5544. But what boycott? The advertisers weren’t organizing to force him to change. They were leaving because what Mux was offering them wasn’t what they wanted. Try this: 1) buy a popular restaurant. 2) substitute plastic food for the real food that was on the menu. 3) When customers stop patronizing your business and going to restaurants that serve real food, complain about a boycott. It’s probably part of his narcissistic pathology to blame “them” (a shadowy cabal) for attacking him, when he is only thwarting himself. But I don’t know. Elon Mux’s fascinating psychology gets boring really quickly.
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  5545.  @garedmorort  setting aside calling each other racist (we’ll get back to that in a moment), there is a large bloc on the U.S. right that claims that immigration is ruining the country—they’ve been making the claim for more than 40 years. There has been a continual push and pull within the right wing and within the GOP between the anti-immigrants and those that see immigration as a net positive. Over the last ten years, the anti-immigrationists have won. Here is something that might sound familiar to you. A lot of immigration from Central America is driven by conditions that America had a hand in creating, meddling in the politics and supporting authoritarian dictators. France has a similar situation, no? Many immigrants are coming from countries that were once colonial subjects of France or some other European power. The point is that our immigration problems are problems of our own making. I’m not anti-American or an “America is always wrong” type. U.S. meddling might have been a mistake but it was a counter to Soviet meddling in Latin America in the context of the Cold War. We didn’t want another Cuba in Latin America, especially not in Central America. That doesn’t excuse our mistakes, it just puts into context how we should be reckoning with immigration. And we should note that the U.S. conferred legal immigration status to those who were fleeing communist countries while making illegal those who were fleeing our brutal dictator allies. All that said, the anti-immigrant faction in the U.S. is mostly racist and part of larger racist authoritarian movement. They turn a blind eye to the majority of illegal immigration which comes from Europe and Asia, and freak out about the southern border.
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  5546. How is that relevant?
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  5547. Because it’s a problem when a state exceeds its authority. Texas doesn’t have jurisdiction over international borders and it’s usurping (and interfering with) the Federal government.
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  5548. It was covered in yesterday’s video.
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  5549. No need to feel embarrassed. Humans aren’t perfect, and collectively we’re even less so. If pride is important, take personal pride in what you are doing today to the best of your ability.
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  5550. @notfiveo R.I.N.O. = Republican In Name Only. There’s no H. It’s a derogatory name for an insufficiently loyal Republican, not an animal. I first heard it applied to Republicans that were beginning to question the war in Iraq around 2006, when the openly racist wing of the GOP started coming out of the woodwork.
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  5551. Uh, they did get most them all in one place. That place is Arizona.
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  5552. No one can experience self transcendence. Is there agreement?
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  5553. You’re correct.
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  5554.  @LordRykard9376  They’re listening. They might not profess agreement, but they are listening to what he has to say and filing it away. And as Trump talks crazier and more extreme, they’ll remember what Christie has been saying.
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  5555.  @wisenber  That’s rich in iron.
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  5556. I guess you could watch the video and clear up those questions of yours.
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  5557.  @Doctor.T.46  it’s not just a waste of time to engage with liars and trolls, it’s giving them the attention they want.
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  5558.  @tatersalad2457  It’s really the only good argument Trump’s legal defense can make, but Trump doesn’t want them to argue it. He wanted them to promote his lie that the election was stolen.
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  5559.  @suomynona4607  It’s still the best legal argument Trump has in his defense. The legality or constitutionality –is–arguable. One can make the argument that Congress is overstepping its bounds. But Trump would rather use this impeachment trial to promote his lie that the election was stolen from him. Because he knows he controls enough members of the jury and because he can use the impeachment to scam more money from his dopey followers. There’s a couple of reasons why it was important that Trump’s legal team make the unconstitutionality argument the center of his strategy, one reason being that it provides senators political cover to acquit. However, the main reason is that if he’s convicted by the Senate (which isn’t impossible), he can later challenge the the conviction if he runs again. Can you imagine how that goes? In 2023 or 2024, he decides to run. Who enforces the conviction penalties and prevents his name from going on state ballots? Do primary opponents have to take him to court? Does the Democratic Nominee do it? That’s when the constitutionality defense comes into play, and a counter to that defense is, Why didn’t you use that defense at the time of your trial? Ultimately, the decision to allow or disallow Trump from running would be decided in the Supreme Court, because whatever lower courts decide, it will be appealed until it gets to the Supreme Court. And they will determine if it’s allowed by the Constitution. And Trump doesn’t automatically have the SCOTUS conservative votes on his side. Anyway, that’s my non-lawyer analysis. Trump arguing the un-, non-, or extra-Constitutionality is his best long term bet, and it helps Republican Senators. But he would rather scam his followers of their money in the short term. I’m not saying you’re wrong to argue with blake schramm, but that the thing you’re arguing apparently has been taken off the table in favor of the “stolen election” argument. But I could be wrong about this. It’s an odd case. Trump could make both arguments. Unlike a trial in a court of law, he could have two different teams of lawyers to make both arguments. At the end of the day, I don’t understand Trump’s strategy here, other than he wants to fundraise off of the impeachment—which he could do anyway. Is this not about any of the above, but about rallying the troops for another coup attempt?
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  5560.  @AztlanHistorian  No olvides a tu Octavio Paz. I live in a working class (poor) neighborhood. It is strongly PAN. When the Morena candidate for our town’s president came to campaign, he was accompanied by a squad of La Guarda Nacional. It was unnecessary, but the people certainly noted the atmosphere created by the presence of soldiers, setting up a perimeter around the campito where Morena held their rally. I wouldn’t say people were angry, but they were not receptive to a party that arrived in this way. All of the rally attendees were imported from other colonias. I’m not a Mexican citizen and I don’t support any particular party. But I worry about a “people’s party” that would use such tactics. When PAN or PRI has their campaign stops, they don’t bring soldiers. They bring packages of food for the poor. A kilo of rice, a few kilos of frijoles, a bottle of cooking oil. It’s almost nothing, but I think the people appreciate the gesture. They give the children cheap backpacks and pencil cases. Maybe it’s the overall political environment that caused Morena to show up in my humble colonia with soldiers. They do it “just in case”. But it also tells me that the local Morena is not engaging with the poor people, even if they are the “populist” party. What troubles me is how many of my friends in the colonia take pride in not voting. Maybe it’s is true that nothing will change when a different party comes into power, but I fear that if the right to vote is not exercised, the right can be lost. I was not impressed with AMLO. I hope Sheinbaum does a better job.
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  5561. @John Hazaroth The testimony from Trump’s brand new Sec Def Chris Miller is that on January 4th, he ordered that the NG Quick Reaction Force or any other units not be deployed without orders from the Chain of Command, i.e., either he or Trump. He also issued orders that no National Guardsmen be issued riot gear nor weapons. He testified that he issued these orders because on January 3rd, Trump ordered him to “do whatever was necessary to protect the demonstrators" on January 6th. This is unusual because the SOP is for local commanders to have the authority to deploy the QUICK Reaction Force. That’s why it’s quick, to respond to emergencies QUICKLY.
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  5562. This February, Putin will come out of his bunker. If he sees his shadow there will be six more weeks of war.
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  5563. George Bush I was an actual war hero. JFK was an actual war hero. Even George Bush II was a national guard fighter pilot (he didn’t see combat, but he never claimed to). The governor of Florida was taking the piss.
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  5564. @THOMAS Nah. He is a bully making threats, but he won’t go through with it. His threat is pointed at his own people, more than anything else. He’s saying to the Russians, “If you don’t win this war for me, I’m taking you all down with me.”
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  5565. I use my Ralph’s card as my ID.
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  5566. These aren’t economic immigrants. These are asylum seekers fleeing a brutal communist dictatorship.
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  5567.  @WaterFaucet24  These Venezuelan families are seeking asylum from a brutal communist dictatorship.
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  5568. Eh, if he charged $1 a year?
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  5569. Word has come down from Mar a lago to block the resolution. Every time a democrat is in the White House, there is a terrible hair-on-fire border crisis that is on the verge of destroying our country. It’s a useful campaign issue for Republicans, and if they ever solved the broken immigration system they would lose that useful tool. It was apparently such a pressing issue that Republicans in Congress demanded that they wouldn’t pass Ukraine aid legislation unless it was tied to action on the border. I’m an ex-Republican independent, and there is no shortage of evidence why leaving the GOP was the right decision.
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  5570.  @missdana296  if I am understanding you correctly, you’re morally against abortion but you think the state should stay out of medical decisions. As a former Republican and still a conservative, I agree with that position. I don’t believe that abortion should be the first option, but that decision is up to the patient, not the government. What we can do as either private individuals or as a polity is to provide viable options to abortion so that women don’t feel forced to have an abortion because of economic circumstances or social pressures. This goes against my small government tendency, but it’s a compromise I can live with that balances liberty, social issues, and the morality of pregnancy termination. More generally, I think the GOP has strayed from the path with such initiatives to impose morality via government. It’s “back door socialism” that increases government social control over individual liberty and increases the size and power of government. Philosophically, it diminishes the power of individuals to make their own decisions and live with the consequences. This is the opposite of conservatism.
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  5571. It might be back, but they’re going to need a new strategy to overcome the standing hurdle. What is that strategy?
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  5572. But it’s not supersaturated with immigrants, no more than Pennsylvania was in the late 18th Century.
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  5573. @HistoryNews10 <—Report these GRU agents and Russian Trolls for misinformation. Y’all know who they work for and their intentions. Report them and don’t bother arguing with them. They get paid to spread lies.
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  5574.  @vecchio1066  If I could prove to you that you were 0.001% Nazi, would you all do us a favor and denazify yourself violently?
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  5575. Are you saved? How can you be sure?
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  5576. Second week of America’s Got Lunatics did not disappoint. I can’t wait to see who will be at next week’s auditions.
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  5577. But not quite a galaxy.
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  5578. That would be Rudy. You understand that to nail Rudy, you need to nail one or more “coffee boys”. If you nail Rudy, there’s a chance he can deliver Donald Trump, but I suspect Trump insulated himself from the operation. Rather he sent Rudy out with the order “win me this election”.
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  5579. You know what helps me sleep? I lie back, relax my body, and count divorces.
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  5580. You need to get a refund from whomever you paid to teach you English.
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  5581. Graphs don’t show up as well on podcasts.
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  5582. Thanks for covering my share! 👍
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  5583. Keep wondering about those charges and lawsuits. Don’t do any research to find out. Just keep wondering. WRT the community’s morale, we will keep beating them until morale improves. Are you sure you’re American? We don’t usually talk in terms of the “morale of the community”. That sounds like something a person from a collectivist country would say.
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  5584. Fingers crossed 🤞 that you’re a Georgia Republican 🐘.
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  5585. It’s a misnomer to call a third injection a booster does when we’re talking about the immuno-compromised. Some people need the third dose to reach the level of protection from two doses most other people get. Just imho.
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  5586. And that is well and good so long as relations between China and the U.S. remain friendly. If those relations become too strained, that U.S. pork might not make it to Chinese markets.
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  5587.  @jattnijjerable  In case you didn’t see my answer to where you posted this question elsewhere, the way that the virus spreads is through micro droplets of moisture that comes from our lungs and mouths, from coughs, sneezes, and normal breathing. The virus is hitching a ride on these tiny droplets. It cannot really spread rapidly without these tiny vehicles. This is where the masks come in. The mesh on a mask only needs to catch the micro droplets, which are bigger than the mesh. It’s like bollards stopping cars from entering certain areas. Now, your next intelligent question might be, well, why can’t the virus just get out of the car and walk through the bollards. It potentially can! This is why we must replace or cycle our masks. If you have two masks, alternate the days you wear them. Hang your mask taking the day off in a window where the UV rays from sunlight will kill the virus (don’t worry too much if you can’t, the virus doesn’t have a long shelf life outside the human body). Hope this helps!
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  5588.  @JAYSMITH-eh7ep If the MAGAs were in the Donner Party, they’d elect Hannibal Lecter to lead them out of the mountains.
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  5589.  @matrixdecoded4226  Russia’s 500,000 fresh troops will gain them 100 more kilometers. Good luck with that.
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  5590. I had to pause the video to remind everyone that Michael Tracy is the “journalist” who was knocked flat on his ass by Maxine Waters. 80 year old Maxine Waters. Tracy was shoving a mic in her face and she pushed his arm away. Apparently the thought he drew the foul and immediately flopped, but since they weren’t playing basketball, there was no referee to call the foul and nowhere for M. Tracey to take his free throws. Journalists get things wrong all the time, especially when they get out of their normal beat. So non-military reporters call the wrong things tanks. But it takes a cringe journalist like Tracey to call out the military as he did, accusing them of meaningless obfuscation of categories of military vehicles. If you ever want an example of an imbecile thinking that his ignorance is equal to another’s expertise, Tracey is it.
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  5591. I like some things about Hutchinson, but I can’t stand the culture war crap. He’s not the worst offender, but he still engages in this divisive fake war. If he dropped it, he could run as a president for all Americans, not just fake Christians with manufactured grievances.
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  5592. Not hopeless, but you’re right that there is little cause for optimism. In the U.S., even with a new administration taking charge and responding to the crisis with competence, there is not a grand strategy being elucidated. Maybe it’s early days (8 days since Biden’s inauguration) and a National Strategy will emerge. By strategy, I mean what is the goal? Eradication of the disease or gaining enough control to “live with the virus”? If the difference isn’t clear, think of the handling of smallpox and AIDS as following two different models. And what is really needed is a worldwide strategy.
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  5593. If you want answers to questions, do you need to watch the video? Try it! Then you don’t have to be in the dark.
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  5594. INTERIOR NIGHT BOWLING ALLEY Sam Elliot: There’s just one thing, Rick. Do you have to use so many cuss words? Rick: What the fuck are you talking about? Sam: OK, Rick. Have it your way.
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  5595.  @id6673  That’s not what he said. You’re a dishonest person for trying to put words into his mouth. You don’t care about solving problems. You only care about feeding your rage, and you’ll feed it with lies, cruelty and hate. But that hole in your soul will never be filled. You’re already in hell and you don’t know it.
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  5596. Great stuff. Makes me a little homesick, even.
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  5597. Hard to argue with the great wisdom of a libertarian comic artist. 😂
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  5598.  @RyanMcBethProgramming That was a mess, but I figured it was either an accident or something. It was only up for a short period and you made it private. Patience pays off, now I get to watch the finished product. Thanks, Ryan!
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  5599. And I suppose you think you could do a better job? If you think you can, run for office. That also goes for if you think you can fake it better.
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  5600. I would point you to study the air campaign component of the 1991 gulf war that lasted 5 weeks before coalition ground forces engaged Iraqi ground forces. Coalition air forces flew 100,000 sorties before a single coalition soldier stepped into Kuwait or Iraq. This broke the Iraqi Airforce and air defenses. They never recovered and consequently, the 2001 invasion faced very little in the way of opposition from the air or from air defenses. The sort of attack you’re thinking about would take considerably more time than a few hours of preparatory bombing. It would take more than a few days, but then you’d lose the element of surprise. The Special Operation relied on many things going right in addition to surprise. Most of those things did not go right. It’s unlikely that a bombing campaign of less than a week would have made a difference. A preparatory bombing campaign that ruined the element of surprise would also negate a major premise of Putin’s plan: to accomplish victory so quickly that the West would be forced to accept it. The war was supposed to be over before anyone realized what had happened. So I think either way, the original plan would have failed. There is nothing other than a shit ton of luck that would have brought Putin victory. And currently, even luck is not going to help Russia win. The best thing for Russia now would be to withdraw immediately, although that might not be so good for Putin holding onto power.
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  5601. The lifeblood of criminal enterprises is money. Cut off the money and you destroy the ability to corrupt. Once you do that, law enforcement stands a chance of beating down the cartels. It just takes the political will to hold banks and banking executives accountable for money laundering.
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  5602. @Gigi Ivy OK Ivan. Nice attempt at deflection.
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  5603. Elon is terrible at interviewing, whether he is top or bottom.
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  5604. First Lady is an official public position, with a staff and budget. Laura Bush and Michele Obama both had staff and both worked to promote initiatives. Ms. Bush used her position as First Lady to promote literacy. Ms. Obama promoted nutrition. Ms. Trump promoted, uh, I’m not sure what she promoted. “Be better”?
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  5605. At least it’s not Moria. They find balrogs in the basement of homes in Moria.
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  5606. And structured it so there would be no oversight, and they impaired Congress’s ability to review/provide retroactive oversight.
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  5607. Why doesn’t Toomey propose targeted legislation, if he thinks the $2000 proposal is too untargeted? What he’s saying is not unreasonable, but he doesn’t put his objections into action!
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  5608.  @theodorehsu5023  Word.
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  5609. The antivaxxers are taking this in stride, as expected. They’ve been complaining for months about the emergency approval of vaccines. And now that there is complete regulatory approval by the FDA, that is the new proof that vaccines are bad and part of a plot. I hope the vaccine hesitant finally see the antivaxxers for the lying crackpots that they are. Let ‘er rip, tin foil hat wearers. You will be roundly ignored.
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  5610. If we’re going to ask your question, we should probably be asking a series of fundamental questions. What purpose does growth serve? I think the chain of questions (questioning our assumptions) that follow lead us to basic questions of political philosophy: what is the purpose of society and who does society serve? I’m not sure if this venue is the appropriate forum for such discussions, nor am I certain that the community here has sufficient understanding of the body of knowledge of those that have wrestled with such questions. I’m not even sure I have the requisite learning, tbh. Back to your question: what is an economic dream? Is it an unrealized goal? An unrealistic goal? What makes it a dream, rather than a program? Is it a means or an end? Does it fulfill a common desire?
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  5611. Jack should start a side band called “The Tapiceros”.
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  5612. I have an incredible investment opportunity for you all! 😉 Just kidding! On a more serious note, I was thinking early today how the phrase “taking the fifth” has entered the non-legal lexicon, to mean “that’s none of your business”, “that’s a private matter”, or just plain, “I’d prefer not to say or discuss it”. I find this worrying because it could be an indication that potentially criminal behavior is becoming normalized. Or information/answers that should be a matter of public record is being concealed. Recently, the January 6th committee played a taped deposition of Michael Flynn taking the fifth when asked if he believed in “the peaceful transition of power, either morally or legally”. I found it pretty wild that either answer to that question, yes or no, could be self-incriminating. It wasn’t normal to me, but it at the same time seemed unsurprising these days for an official or ex-official to refuse to answer questions about basic American Democracy.
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  5613. ITT: Russian bots and simps
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  5614. The longer Russia is delayed, the greater will be its eventual loss.
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  5615.  @jeremiahh.3383  I realize that you didn’t pass 6th grade, but when we say taught in schools, we mean introductory university courses. It might or might not be in high school textbooks. Those are a lot slower to update.
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  5616.  @SWOTHDRA  “The technologically advanced Los Civilization never ever traveled above current sea level, let alone created permanent structures.” Gee, that sounds highly believable. There are potential early sites that would document early migrations that are currently submerged. But a technologically advanced civilization wouldn’t just disappear beneath the waves.
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  5617. They were the largest minority.
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  5618.  @annoyedaussie3942  I wouldn’t think so, but those lines for the lifts! 😫 Maybe I’m fooled by the aerial shot, but it did not look like 6’ between chairlift pairs.
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  5619. I don’t know. Some of the ground level shots it looked like they were safely distancing, but the aerial shots looked like people weren’t. Maybe I’m judging the distances wrong.
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  5620.  @ebr-fan1117  You have to consider how such laws could be abused by anyone disgruntled by a politician or official. How would courts accommodate a huge increase in frivolous cases, for example? How would politicians and officials get any work done if they were constantly responding to frivolous cases? We’d need to expand the courts to handle the increased volume, hiring more judges and court workers. We might need to build new courthouses. You’re asking the public to bear an even greater burden because you think someone is not doing their job properly. There is also already a remedy in the case of elected officials. You replace them at the next election.
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  5621.  @artstrology Good on you re:Monsanto. I’m not against genetically modified organisms, but I’m 100% against Monsanto’s predatory business practices (which exploit their ability to modify organisms and call it intellectual property).
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  5622. Unfortunately that doesn’t work with movements. While I appreciate the analogy, the /GOP/Trump Cult/whatever you want to call it/ is not a literal snake.
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  5623. Either George H.W. Bush or Bob Dole would have been much better presidents than Slick Willy. I never thought Bill Clinton was the worst President. He did some good things. But he also perjured himself under oath.
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  5624. I got an add from people who will teach me arbitrage to get rich. I’m going to assume they’re legit because they’re advertising on Patrick’s channel.
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  5625. Sadly, the Belorussian people are going to suffer greatly for their criminal leadership, which is an allied gang to Putin’s mafia.
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  5626. Testing has fallen off, but it could never be described as rigorous or consistent globally. Since the start of this pandemic, testing in Mexico has been very spotty—I believe the majority of consistent testing has been tourists required to test by U.S. entry/re-entry requirements and healthcare workers. The overall response to the Pandemic by the AMLO administration has been very wanting.
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  5627. I think this is potentially worse for lib dem gun owners. They’ll now have to explain their gun ownership to their lib dem friends. They might face ostracism and not get invited to wine tastings.
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  5628.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  I’d argue that you don’t need those administrative skills to be a lawyer, UNLESS it’s your practice. Does a law firm want all of its associates and partners to be able to run the firm? No, they want people to do the work for which they were hired. The managing partners might hire an office manager for day-to-day operations of a non-legal nature. They might hire a comptroller. But nobody else needs management skills (unless their duties require them). Administration and management skills are not a requirement to be a competent lawyer. Doing your job competently is a requirement (obviously). The job of a district attorney is to represent “the people” in prosecuting crimes. If no crimes are being prosecuted, there’s a problem. If there are not enough prosecutors because the DA fired them, that’s incompetence. It’s like chopping your hands off. If you did that, you would not be competent to do any job that required the use of your hands. Fortunately, the DA could have gotten new hands. Unfortunately, she chose not to or was unable to get new hands. That is incompetence to be an attorney. I bet that she’d still have her license if she had resigned and said, “I can’t do this job, this is too much responsibility, someone else take over,”. I suspect the former-DA Manlove was some wacky conspiracy-believing right wing nutjob, and she got elected on that basis. It would be very interesting to see her work history.
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  5629. It’s called contributory negligence. The prop weapon house sold her what was essentially a defective product. Yes, the armorer is responsible for what she loads into a firearm. But the vendor is also responsible for providing the product as advertised. If the vendor failed in this duty, they share responsibility with the armorer. That said, I think it will be difficult for Gutierrez to prove the live bullet came from the vendor. It will not be difficult for the vendor to introduce doubt that Gutierrez was professionally sloppy, didn’t maintain access control to the weapons and blank ammo, and wasn’t at her post during the shooting.
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  5630. He used Venmo. At least with a Gofundme, potential victims can see if he reached his $3500 goal, but with Venmo he can keep up the grift and rake in the cash. Another reason he wouldn’t want to use Gofundme is that they hold on to the money for a while, possibly long enough for this sort of fraud to be uncovered. If I wanted to engage in a quick scam and get my ill gotten money before anyone was the wiser, I’d use a cash transfer app rather than a fundraising one.
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  5631. Wow, LP. I’m really impressed. This is an ad only you all could make—it would seem too self serving to be done by the Biden campaign or a Democratic PAC. I’m also impressed by the fact that it was so positive! I think of you folks as masters of the attack ad, but it takes a different sensibility (and sensitivity) to make an ad like this. Again, impressive work!
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  5632. I bet Indy leaves out a glass of milk and a plate of golf balls for old Saint Jack Nicklaus.
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  5633. Your pork? As far as I know, the pork belongs to pig farmers, who then sell it to whomever they want. Are you a pig farmer? I suspect the only grasper of pork here is you.
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  5634. Russian naZis
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  5635. Cope with Russian defeat.
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  5636. There are non-Trumpist Republicans, but is there any doubt that the GOP itself is fully under Trump control? I guess we will see if the fascists can hold on to it if there is a power struggle.
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  5637. The fault is on the American People, who betrayed the President by electing someone else to be President. This is sarcasm, except you know it also is not sarcasm—Trump is punishing all of us for not giving him his way.
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  5638. Did elected officials make this decision, or was it career officials and/or appointed officials? Unless you can show that the elected officials made the decision, voting all of them out of office as a first step seems like a kneejerk reaction.
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  5639.  @idristaylor5093  He is recommending political violence. You know, the T-word.
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  5640.  @JH-pt6ih  “local control” by a contractor who presumably has contracts statewide?
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  5641. She’s high on the letter Q.
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  5642. Ryan Grider I’m pretty sure the Germans never hired Japanese aviators to crew their tanks. 😏 Did you just get your medical marijuana prescription refilled? 🤡
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  5643. Ryan Grider More like Cryin’ Grinder, amirite?
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  5644. Charles Turner What?
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  5645. Ryan Grider How can you live with yourself when you can’t even spell The Sipmsons? I mean, the Simpsons.
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  5646.  @carvealegoff  *assassination Spelling counts! 😉 Ignore Spring Bloom. If he doesn’t post his trash comments, he’ll get sent to Ukraine to die face down in the mud with his fellow Russian stooges.
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  5647. 100% with you. Nor do they understand that Iran is behind the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.
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  5648. I really liked your presentation, but I feel you glossed over or omitted some facts. It’s understandable given the format and not wanting to get lost in the weeds. You chose to err on the side of parsimony and I can accept that. Just the same, I wrote a comment covering what I think are important details that provide greater context on the politics of the Civil War. I admit that some parts are far out of scope of your topic. I hope you’ll read it and comment (once you’ve completed your move 😅). To repeat, I did enjoy the video very much. Please consider the other comment to be supplementary to the video, and not a criticism.
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  5649. Steve Carrel is Hunter Biden
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  5650. ⁠ @TakingOff  It was an emergency revocation, so they haven’t reached a final decision on his FAA penalties. I’m not clear on the process for applying for a PPL, but if need be they can reject his application every year.
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  5651. I think there will be a lot of pressure on Biden to expand the court, something he hasn’t wanted to do.
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  5652. Anyone else remember when they were called pepper corns, not pepper balls? Remember how you could ask a waiter to shoot some at the back window of your salad?
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  5653. In the early morning hours, actually. Everything was fine up until 1:30 AM.
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  5654. What foreign army invaded a U.S state? Do you mean the raid on Columbus?
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  5655.  @anthonyrau5313  That’s why we use deaths per mile as the metric, as was discussed in the video. The only area where that falls short is that it doesn’t account for the likelihood that the other car in a two car collision is (in the U.S.) is more likely to be a larger, heavier vehicle such as the popular Ford F-150 pickup truck. It was discussed in the video.
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  5656. Don’t bring your E.D. issues into this. It’s TMI.
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  5657. Interesting avenue of speculation. First of all, the industrial Revolution wouldn’t have happened as you note. Without the Industrial Revolution, you still have slavery. You have less trade because you have fewer trade goods (because they are not being mass produced in factories). With less trade, there is less impetus to develop fiat currencies. Consequently, economic development is effectively capped. You would still see the development of science, I think. The Scientific Revolution preceded the Industrial Revolution and arguably triggered it. However, the Industrial Revolution provided resources and motivation for ongoing development of science (changing it from an upper class pursuit into something much broader. Interestingly, before either revolution, humanity knew how to use wind and hydro power to do mechanical work. We understood the principle that steam could do mechanical work. So we had some of the elements of an Industrial Revolution, but in our scenario, we lack the seemingly cheap power of fossil fuels (I say “seemingly” because today we understand that fossil fuels have high external costs.) I contend that the main impetus behind the development of civilization is work (in the physics sense, if you like)—the person who commands the most work gains the most power. In a slave based society, the person with the most slaves can become the most powerful. Resources are a close second in importance—the slaves need something with which to work: farmland, mining, impressive monuments. Both of these needs will lead to expansionism and war. Those that are best at war will become the most powerful. The result will be a constant state of war between groups, with occasional and temporary consolidations into centralized civilizations that control large numbers of slaves and large areas of land. I don’t know how you get past this stage without a cheap source of power to do work.
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  5658.  @normanlazarus1836  That’s the thing. This type of person hasn’t grown up. They’re infants psychologically. Like toddlers, they throw tantrums when thwarted from whatever they want in the moment or when they’re inconvenienced, and they live in a world of make-believe.
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  5659. ⁠ @amazin7006 not for profit colleges don’t have shareholders. Columbia University or UTA are not for profit. No one gets paid a dividend and shares aren’t bought and sold on Wall Street. Private universities do have endowment funds, however. They operate on the interest from the endowment, and they invest the endowment in a portfolio of assets, some of which are stocks and bonds. There are private, for profit schools that do have owners and/or shareholders. Most of them suck and don’t deliver what they promise. In many cases the credit you earn can’t be transferred to another school. The only time you might see a protest at a for-profit is when students’ degrees are not accepted as valid.
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  5660. If you were in the Donner Party, you’d elect Hannibal Lecter to lead you over the mountains.
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  5661.  @12villages  Could be. Or they were aimed at the stated target, Iran. But whatever. The threat from tribal areas and militants can be minimized, but it will cost something to pay them off. And Iran will want its cut. India will expect big discounts or a cut of the proceeds when cargos are passed through Mumbai to other nations (who will also demand discounts). So the trade is certainly possible, but the potential profits for Russia are anemic. Still, their back is against the wall. They don’t have much choice. India will profit greatly. Iran will profit. Prosperity for Asia, and bare survival for Russia.
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  5662. It’s weird, but he’s recently said complimentary words about the Ukrainian soldiers, their fighting ability, and their devotion to Ukraine. He seemed to be acknowledging that Ukraine isn’t part of Russia.
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  5663. Wirehenge!
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  5664. Sheeee, LP knows how to target!
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  5665. 30 days from sentencing or 30 days from the verdict?
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  5666. Too far to the left. I’ll say one thing in her favor: she and others of her ilk haven’t worked to cannibalize and destroy the Democratic Party, unlike how MAGA has been eating its own. She’s not a nutcase, just too far left.
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  5667.  @masseymm  Not true. You icebacks have been invading for years, stealing jobs from Americans. You think we didn’t notice where Mike Myers came from? Celine Dion? Do you think we are stupid?
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  5668. It’s Huawei or the highway, buddy.
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  5669. Why do you care so much? Your reaction is Pavlovian.
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  5670. I’m surprised I haven’t yet seen video of the plane crash set to “Flight of the Valkyries”.
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  5671.  @AH-rl5qc  es cierto y es peor: la policía de Ecuador atacó y chocó las personas diplomáticas adentro la embajada. Un órgano de la seguridad del estado de Ecuador usó violencia contra Mexicanos. Y las victimas son Mexicanos que representen el pueblo de México. Un régimen que es tan irrespetuoso con la ley no cederá el poder. Predigo que Ecuador ha visto sus últimas elecciones democráticas en el futuro previsible.
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  5672. It is.
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  5673.  @borisstanislav4560  Did you understand the basis of the complaint?
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  5674.  @WolverineXOXO  But how do you guarantee due process for an innocent person swept up and thrown in this prison? I agree that the common people have a right to safety from the criminal gangs, but they also have a right to safety from a government with a bad historical record wrt human rights abuses (extrajudicial killings of priests, journalists, and dissidents, for example). Getting the scum off the street is important, but I want to know about what safeguards or processes are in place to prevent a return to the bad old days?
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  5675. “Baseless allegation” is the phrase an adult might use to speak to another adult. “Fake news” is how children talk.
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  5676.  @bubba842  Do you see any indication of that happening on any broad front? There are a very few stalwarts, but most principled conservatives have seen the writing on the wall and resigned from the Party. Many were pushed out when Bush was president, and many have been feeling increasingly uneasy with where the GOP was heading prior to Trump. The only hope that principled conservatism can have a positive influence going forward is if more people wake up, understand the source of their unease, and leave the GOP.
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  5677.  @janobrien1936  See, you’re thinking like we’re still in a normal world, and that Trump wouldn’t be acting so irrationally unless he was getting blackmailed. The truth is that he thinks he knows what he’s doing. And maybe he does know what he’s doing, it’s just that the thing he is doing will destroy us.
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  5678.  @zhopeless2672  Can you even name these extremist senators? On what basis would you remove them, if they were democratically elected? At best you’re an ignoramus. At worst, you’re a fascist that should be deported to whatever authoritarian hell hole will take you.
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  5679. Putin’s use of brutal violence against his own people has been minimal and targeted. He’s not going to lose power when he loses Crimea. If he dies he will be replaced by even more brutal and ruthless thugs. He’s not going to let any potentially serious threats to his power gain momentum. Rather he will manipulate his potential rivals to fight each other (as we seem to be seeing now). Any attempts at a grassroots revolt are going to be brutally suppressed. Putin will happily do to Russia what he has been doing to Ukraine if he must, but I don’t think he will have to go that far. The Russian people are too accustomed to subservience to dictators. That said, Putin is creating a space for Xi and the CCP to economically infiltrate Russia’s Central Asian possessions. He will need Chinese assistance to “stabilize” any unrest, giving the Chinese more influence. This is how Russia becomes a vassal to China.
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  5680. Unintended consequence numero uno: our children being pushed into the radical left. Trump is secretly pro communist. What’s next? Flouride in our water supply? In children’s ice cream? Children’s ice cream, Mandrake! Deplorable Trump communists will stop at nothing to tamper with our Precious Bodily Fluids. (I came to understand this threat during the physical act of making love, Mandrake.)
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  5681. Ever notice similarities between Ted Cruz and Jon Lovitz’ Tommy Flanagan character? Including Tommy’s wife, Morgan Fairchild.
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  5682.  @andrewj4426  Why would the Russians blow up Kerch Bridge. That makes zero sense.
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  5683. Deep sea roombas. Giant shop vacs.
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  5684. He gets paid the same if you click skip. I don’t think that’s the case if you use an ad blocker.
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  5685. What to do with a captured pirate? It depends. Is it ear-lie in the morning? Put him in a longboat and make him bail her, for a start.
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  5686. The first offensive ground to a halt. The Russians have shuffled their forces and are going to try again. Don’t be a dummy.
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  5687.  @rh81454  Do you know what would put a real dent in the Cartels’ business? Go after the money launderers in the U.S. However, I’m not sure if there is the stomach or political will to go after banking executives and real estate moguls. Until we attack the money flows, your suggestion will fail.
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  5688. It certainly would seem that way. There might be a plausible explanation for fleeing the scene with the driver, but I doubt it.
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  5689. The ass kraken
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  5690. This vaguely reminds me of making cookie sheets in middle school metal shop. Except we didn’t rivet the folds, we used clunky soldering coppers. Shoot, I even remember the teacher’s name. It was Mr. Maclean.
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  5691. YOUR COMMENT BEARS THE STENCH OF LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION
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  5692.  @williamholden3662  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  5693. It’s a pretty weak partnership if it’s a partnership. However you want to characterize the relationship between Beijing and Moscow, it’s looking more and more like Russia will become a vassal or client state.
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  5694. Gesundheit!
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  5695. It’s not known, it’s rumored. I’d stick with information released by the local authorities for known facts. Everything else is different people recounting what they remember. Some of those people have identified themselves, some are eye witnesses. Some of the rumors (such as the one you’re relating) seem to be hearsay.
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  5696. OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLMAO Incidentally, the above response was also in the text of the the Supreme Court’s order denying Ken Paxton leave to file his case against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
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  5697. The John Birch Society finally destroyed the GOP in 2016, and it’s just been the slow motion aftermath ever since.
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  5698. I think the eyeglass strap tag case would be pretty useful. Misplacing my glasses is frustrating. But what I really want is an Air Tag bullet for when I misplace my firearm or when I need to track the person I just shot.
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  5699. FBI can’t do that, but the cabinet can remove him under the 25th amendment.
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  5700. If you find mask wearing so objectionable that you “hate it with a passion”, maybe you should look into this recent invention called “brushing your teeth twice a day”. Also, flossing and mouthwash. You’ll find mask wearing to be much less onerous when your breath doesn’t smell like unwashed sweaty ass after spending a week in the tropics.
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  5701. Desantis is a coward. He will kowtow to Trump until Trump is in prison.
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  5702. Honestly, I’d rather they were exiled than they stay on our soil, even in prison. As that’s not possible, let’s send them to one of the many uninhabited islands in the North Pacific. Let their families come live with them, let this entire cult relocate there if they want. Call the island “Area Q special autonomous zone” and let them live by their own fascist values. They can make a living for themselves by installing video cameras and turning the whole penal colony experience into a reality show.
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  5703.  @johanmetreus1268  Removal of Asbestos is code for “removal of venomous snakes”. It’s to avoid panic. You would probably be fine getting into a vehicle after being told they removed 99% of the asbestos, but how would you feel if they told you they removed 99% of the venomous snakes? You’d probably want to know how many snakes were there in the first place.
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  5704.  @Kingdom_of_God777  Here’s the thing though. It’s far from clear that the vehicle movement was deliberately an assault on the guard because we also see the victim wiping his eyes. It looks to me like his vision was impaired. The victim also abruptly hit his brakes when he almost hit or grazed the guard. It doesn’t look to me at all like the victim was trying to hurt the guard with the truck because of these details. The second truck movement, if you even want to call it movement, does not look like the victim was aiming his truck at the guard.
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  5705. I imagine that the prizes went to the next highest scores after the cheaters were disqualified. Why, did you hear otherwise?
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  5706. You don’t need consuming robots to drain off surplus value and maintain or generate demand. You just need virtual/digital products and services. Which is already here in some form.
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  5707.  @atomicshadowman9143  Google Translate gives me “pocketbook”. I don’t know Portuguese, but I speak Spanish. Bolsa is a bag in general, bolsita is plastic baggie (can you guess where I live?), bolsón can be a satchel or handbag. Bolsa can also be a pocket, but I usually see bolsillo for pocket. But here’s a funny one. Bolsón is also slang for a lazy person. 😂
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  5708. The southern Atlantic states? Get a lot of tornadoes in coastal SC, do you?
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  5709.  @Basauri48970  Putin’s blood and soil ideology isn’t too far from Hitler’s ideology, but he’s a rather slipshod copy of Hitler. Hitler’s army was horrifyingly effective in Poland, France, and during Operation Barbarossa. So let’s call his forces and supporters what they are: Putzis.
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  5710. That depends on the lease between the company and the (surface) property owners, no?
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  5711. Go home, you’re drunk.
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  5712. It’s a three day weekend, plus they’re dead. Sounds like they’ll have plenty of rest.
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  5713. The CIA effed your mom and you’ll never forgive them.
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  5714. @DJMinor5000 or they’re looking on the ground, and he’s hanging up in a tree.
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  5715. What Republican policies? Are there any actual policies? All I see is posturing, posing, sloganeering, and threats. For example, “Close the border” isn’t a realistic policy, it’s not even a policy. It’s a slogan. And when the plan is to undermine currently proposed solutions to harm the current President, it’s a pose.
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  5716. 3’ clearance.
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  5717. I did not know that his name was pronounced like “Ike”. I always assumed it sounded like “mickey”.
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  5718. It’s awfully hard to be mad at the little guy when the bully is that big or approaches the little guy so aggressively.
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  5719. Plenty of people are getting paid not to work. They just weren’t hired not to work. This isn’t anything new. There’s a common fundamental misunderstanding of “general” AI that Pete has fallen into. To understand the fallacy better, one should 1) take a look at the Turing Test to determine “AI-ness”, 2) examine the assumption that humans represent some sort of gold standard of decision making.
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  5720. I wasn’t even aware of the AD 5th season or Community’s 6th season. (I might even have seen the sixth season, but the phrase “5 seasons and a movie” was burned too deeply into my brain for it to register.) I’d like to see a joke efficiency comparison chart. It might be that the determining factor for success is joke density. There’s thousands of videos analyzing the 8-step Campbellian circular writing structure, but I need to see some spreadsheets with hard numbers and then those numbers explained in an infographic slide deck. (Can we all just agree that combining the bottom line with new media corporate speak is a force-multiplier, or are you going to force me to create a spreadsheet and accompanying slide deck?) Another thing that occurs to me is that one of the hurdles of reviving a canceled show is actor scheduling. I think I have a solution: hire multiple actors (that bear some resemblance to each other) for each lead and start using these multiple portrayals within each episode. Hell, start doing this at the first table read. The benefits of this approach should be obvious, not just for scheduling, but for manipulating the actors and keeping them divided during contract negotiations. If/When an actor leaves the show for better opportunities, they’re easily replaced and incorporated. Hardcore fans will love it because it’s so meta.
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  5721.  @ws8080  Putin has all sorts of doctors to shoot him full of whatever drugs allow him to cope. The possibility of nuclear war is still quite low. Anyway, how does a man who feels no shame or remorse feel humiliated? No, his type feels loss of power, but his type also clings to whatever power remains. If he triggers a nuclear war, he throws that power away. I think if he loses Crimea and Belarus, he might completely lose his mind, but at that point he will be quickly replaced.
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  5722. A few of the frigates might have something like Phalanx, but patrol boats will have heavy MGs and a larger caliber weapon or two (and it’s the larger calibers that have the problems targeting low approaches close in). So, what the the equivalent to a 50 cal? Is it 12.7 mm?
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  5723. What do you mean “somewhat”? Bullets and shells will just bounce off! That’s the ACME guarantee. Just ask any coyote about Acme’s fine line of armaments and military products.
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  5724. This isn’t an ecosystem competition question. Qualcomm isn’t competing with Apple’s ecosystem because it’s not in that business. It’s in the chip business, and to sell more product it needs to compete with Apple Silicon. It’s up to Qualcomm’s customers to compete with Apple’s products, if that’s what their business is.
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  5725. It’s a new thing. It’s also a thing on the far left. You know, the “actually a Marxist” left.
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  5726.  @123sheag That’s what they said.
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  5727. As John Campbell emphasized, the timeline is contingent and subject to change. The biggest factor that could push the timeline is what happens with the variants.
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  5728. Nah. Biden is implementing some of the REPUBLICAN policies, but they weren’t Trump’s. Remember, he’s out of office and didn’t take an active hand in forming the policies that were hammered out in the Senate. Nor could he take credit for them. Go look at the history of the legislation, starting with the tying together of Border reform with Ukraine aid. That was the key moment, really. Once the two were linked, the Republicans could dictate the border bill. And they did. And Trump blew it up, because he needs unresolved border issues or he doesn’t have a major campaign issue.
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  5729.  @TheDuravida  That’s false.
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  5730. I imagine that it was Musk’s lawyers that insisted on “unspecified damages” rather than demanding 420 million dollars.
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  5731. What are your reasons for holding this belief? How many politicians in Washington DC have you met personally? The reason that I ask is that I hear or read people saying things like “all politicians are equally bad”, “they’re all the same”, and “both sides are equally bad”. When I’ve questioned people about these statements, they sometimes admit that their belief isn’t based on personal knowledge or study. They sometimes say that “everyone knows it to be true”. Sometimes, they’ll find an example of two politicians that were unable to reach an agreement, and say, “See? Both are equally bad!”, even though they don’t know any of the circumstances around the disagreement. So, I’m curious as to how you reached your conclusions that most politicians are made, regardless of their political affiliation.
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  5732. Well then, get the hell out of the supply chain.
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  5733.  @badpanda1532  The harvest of the winter wheat crop should be starting now or soon, so it’s urgent that the stored grain be shipped out to make room. That troll has no specifics because the Kremlin hasn’t issued any talking points to him recently on this topic. Without guidance from Russia he has to fall back on “western media is bad”.
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  5734. I like Contorno’s bookshelf. I bet he actually did read Infinite Jest, including the footnotes.
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  5735.  Matt Dreyer  OK, Ivan In 4 weeks your YouTube account will be 6 weeks old! 🎂
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  5736.  @JustDr.S  Matt is a troll. In 4 weeks his account will be 6 weeks old. 🎂
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  5737.  @thedukeofchutney468  The Maduro Regime feeds the poor, and that is why Maduro is “popular” among the poor. If you want to eat, you come to his rallies and show support for the United Socialist Party. The middle class is the biggest part of the population that is being starved (taking a cue from the Soviets of the 20s and 30s) and devastated. They are the largest part that is fleeing their country. (Economically they are now just as impoverished as any one else, but they are still considered members of an enemy class.) The political opposition is persecuted both officially by the government security apparatus, the military and unofficially by paramilitary gangs of thugs. Peter is right to talk about the famine, but it’s important to remember that the Venezuelans fleeing the criminal socialist dictatorship of Maduro are political asylum seekers, not economic immigrants. The Central Americans are a slightly different story. They endured decades of U.S. interference in their politics during the Cold War. I’m not one of the “blame America” contingent. There were serious concerns about Communism on our doorstep, and the Soviets were materially supporting rebellions. I just think we handled it badly on the whole. Long story short, we had a hand in creating instability in Central America, which allowed organized crime to gain a toe hold. The thousands of Central Americans fleeing the violent crime in their countries is what you call “blowback”, the unintended consequences of our foreign policy.
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  5738.  @anthonywilson4181  Problem is that most of the people who offer thoughts and prayers to protect us are either slackers or hypocrites, or both. God is deaf to their prayers. The fact is that the Christians are really letting us down. We need to delegate our thoughts and prayers defense to Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus, if the Christians are unable to back up their big talk with humble action.
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  5739.  @larryhillebrand5421  Larry, there’s got to be a better solution than your dad’s belt. It might have saved you from a life of crime, but it left you an emotional cripple and possibly an abuser.
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  5740. The one weakness is he didn’t really define whiteness within the oppositional framework of white and non-white. He kind of danced around it—you’re identified with the white dominated status quo if you’ve benefited from it, for example. But that doesn’t really get into the modern construction of this opposition (which needs to be understood if we are to understand how it’s supposed to be deconstructed). (I’m using modern in the sense of post-renaissance, not limited to the 20th century.) I’m still quite not sure what to make of actual CRT. It’s a fashionable academic theory, and fashionable academic theories either fade if worthless or get folded into academia if there is some value. There is very little relationship between CRT the academic fashion and CRT the right wing bogeyman.
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  5741.  @howardhowe3453  what does ASSumption cause? Consumption of the ASS?😮 Y’all need to get your pithy sayings right. 😂
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  5742.  @deriznohappehquite  I know it doesn’t sound like how supply and demand is supposed to work, but this is one of those market distortions caused by a government program. The reason more is grown is because the government subsidizes its purchase by the biofuel companies from U.S. farmers. The biofuel demand and ready cash artificially raises prices so that it’s profitable to grow more. So the demand for biofuel corn gets met, but the prices have been nudged up in the U.S., the country which produces and exports the most corn, and this has an effect on world prices for the commodity. According to Wikipedia, 33% of U.S. corn production goes to feedstocks and 27% goes to ethanol production. 11% goes to export, and the rest is used for production of human food and non-biofuel distillation products. (This is higher than I thought for ethanol.)
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  5743. What did she do now? Did Pelosi hide all of Trump’s crayons or something?
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  5744. Change your job title to “shade arbitragist”.
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  5745. Twenty? Only two have been seen. If there are 20, they’ve never been in the same place at the same time. My guess is that Russia built two for testing and as sales models, but have not yet made a sale.
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  5746. Animatronic Ron Desantis is main attraction at the Hall of Failed Candidates.
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  5747. That idiot didn’t value the Purple Heart any more than the man he gave it to, who immediately put it in a drawer and forgot about it, or had a flunky make a keychain from it.
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  5748.  @billchristie2120  The thrust at Kiev was supposed to be a 3-day operation to overthrow the government and install a puppet government.
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  5749. Are these battalion sized actions or larger?
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  5750. He can use his real estate assets as collateral for a bond.
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  5751.  @rando6836  If anyone will loan him the money. If he finds someone, he’ll use his real estate assets as collateral (and not have to sell).
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  5752. Please explain why Zionism is flawed. Anti-Zionism (from what I have seen of it) is a criticism of Zionism that is flawed and based on falsifications of history or ignorance of history. Theories of settler colonialism don’t apply to people returning to their homeland, rejoining fellow Jews that were already living there. Jews were living in the Levant even after most of them were exiled. The Ottoman Empire invited back the Sephardic Jews that were expelled from Spain in 1492. Invited isn’t even the right word. Jews were encouraged to immigrate to the middle east by the Ottomans because the Ottomans saw them as a group of hard working, educated, and resilient people. This stands in stark contrast with the treatment of Jews during most of their time in Europe. Jews would settle in one country for a century or two only to be expelled by that countries rulers. This happened time and again. They were not considered citizens in their countries of residence but as foreigners. And some call them European colonists? They were European refugees, fleeing a Europe that had hated them and attacked them for a millennia before that hatred culminated in the Shoah. Israel needs to declare a ceasefire immediately and immediately expedite the delivery of humanitarian aid. We have influence on Israel and we should use that influence to push for these two things. But the Anti-Zionism I’ve heard expressed in these protests IS anti-semitism. I don’t care what Bernie Sanders says. And it’s all very fine to criticize the nationalism of others when you’re enjoying all the benefits of living in a stable nation-state. Why aren’t you protesting against the Palestinians’ desire to have their own state? Your anti-nationalism seems selective, and that is highly sus.
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  5753.  @feffygracie  Not wanting a Palestinian state might or might not be Islamophobia. Israel has a right to exist and Jews have the right ti their homeland. The Palestinians also have a right to a state. There is some jawboning among Jews that the Palestinians are just random Arabs without a true identity. Even if this was true 100 years ago, it is not true today. The Palestinian identity has been forged in a crucible of repression. Maybe you can justify the repression, but you cannot deny its effect. Palestinians have a shared identity. They deserve their own homeland free from Israeli control. Just the same, Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. I explained why in another comment, but I’d be happy to hear a rational and informed argument about why it isn’t.
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  5754.  @DaleHartley  You are repeating a falsity that the Jews all left the Levant when they were exiled and didn’t return until recently. The historical facts are that Muslim rulers at various times have allowed groups of Jews to Return. My favorite example is in 1492, when Spain expelled its Jewish population and the Ottoman Empire invited them to return to the Levant. Before that, under the Mameluke caliphate, there had been a sharp decline, but there were still Jews in Jerusalem even then. So the idea that all the Jews left and just weren’t there before Zionism is untrue. The historical evidence is for the opposite.
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  5755.  @sunnybear178  That’s completely false. Even under the Mamelukes, there were still Jews living in Jerusalem. Under the Ottoman Empire, Jews were invited to settle in the Levant. A huge number of Sephardic Jews were expelled from Spain. The Ottomans invited them to resettle in the Middle East. By the time the British took control of Palestine, there was already a large population of Jews living in Palestine and throughout the Middle East, because the rulers of that area had been encouraging their return. That’s not an invasion.
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  5756. @DoYouKnowWhatThisMeans I think you meant to write anti-Zionism in your first sentence. Otherwise I agree with everything you’re saying. Anti-Zionism is a thin disguise for anti-semitism. The arguments for it are lacking in historical evidence, cherrypick evidence from very recent history, and are usually incoherent when explained. I would like to hear a convincing argument for anti-Zionism.
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  5757. “Every judge and every prosecutor” don’t match the description.. they match your projection.
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  5758. 90% of Putin’s lies are targeting the Russian public. He is now desperately trying to pump up support for his war. Before he was lulling them into apathy.
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  5759. You don’t need a doctor to prescribe vitamin d3. You can just buy it in the shops or online.
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  5760. This was the appeal. Did you even watch the video?
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  5761.  @mikegoodie7905  AliceinWonderland wasn’t entirely clear about this, but the issue is this: the long range air to air missiles are only long range at high altitudes, where air density is very low. It is extremely dangerous for an F-16 to reach those altitudes, so they will be operating at much lower altitudes, trying to stay below the Russian radar. The air density is the limiting factor. I expect to see the F-16s used to steadily degrade Russian air defense assets and to suppress air defense for cruise missile strikes. Ukraine needs hundreds of F-16s and other specialized aircraft to use NATO combined arms tactics. So Pete is not listening to the right people. He’s probably listening to other generalists.
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  5762. It’s people like you that create the need for a nanny state. Grow up and stop being a selfish crybaby.
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  5763. There are Mexicans of Arab descent, btw.
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  5764. Not withdrawing, suspending his campaign. 🙄 He’s waiting for Trump to drop dead or get convicted.
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  5765.  @gardenersgraziers7261  LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION
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  5766. The bill is dead. The house speaker and the senate minority leader have said it won’t pass because it would give Biden a win. And this is after they tied Ukraine aid to the bill. Putin rejoices in the GOP.
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  5767.  @thomasdalton1508  They won’t be able to rebuild Ukraine. They won’t even be able to police it. To do so they would have to use increasingly brutal methods. Meaning that if Russia wins, Ukraine will suffer terribly for a period and then throw off the yoke of Russian imperialism. Worse for Russia and worse for everyone.
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  5768. He did in the video. You should watch the video before asking redundant questions.
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  5769.  @jplayzow  He doesn’t want a democratic government. He wants someone to impose their will on him.
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  5770. A Prime Minister is a lightning rod for the party’s policies. If they aren’t grounded, they’ll get burned to a crisp by the lightning of public opinion. Boris Johnson is firmly grounded in comedy.
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  5771. So if there’s a similar fire in the IE, are you proposing that they pump sea water from the Pacific Ocean?
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  5772.  @stephenjacks8196  did she also ride the shovel through the air? I mean, I would if I took amanita musicaría, wouldn’t you?
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  5773. When they realize they’re marching under the banner of a rat’s anus.
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  5774. Did it specify at what point in the “putting it in the trash” process that private ownership is lost? I assume it means when the receptacle goes out to the curb and hopefully that is defined in the ruling.
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  5775.  @sandrosfregola5896  That means he’s not experienced enough to throw in words like “bloke” or “mate”.
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  5776. Let me guess. “If at first you don’t secede, try and try again”.
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  5777. Someone is going to commit a war crime on the hoopties, and the rest of the world will pretend they didn’t see it or who did it.
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  5778. Defendant Trump 2024
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  5779. Because it’s a counter factual. There’s no way to test it.
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  5780. I’m not an AMLO fan, but I’m 100% behind him on this. It’s not merely an insult. Mexican diplomats were physically attacked by Ecuadorian police. That’s an attack on Mexico and the AMLO government. It’s an act of war, don’t let Mexico’s measured response fool you.
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  5781.  @wd1501  Merck stands to make the most money if ivermectin was proven to be effective. If they had a bias, it would be to prove that it was a useful treatment. They have no competing vaccine and are putting research efforts (time & money) into finding a therapeutic treatment.
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  5782.  @mimzyjinx8142  🎂 Happy 2 month anniversary on your YouTube account, Ivan. 🎂
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  5783. Unfortunately for Russia, they’ve spent the last 70+ years making the case for NATO expansion.
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  5784. That’s good. It means you aren’t an idiot.
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  5785. Two completely different counties. Do you even geography?
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  5786.  @jetserb  You don’t get it. At some point the Russian meat sacrifices will decide they have a say in whether or not they go to the slaughter. At that point, the more soldiers Russia has, the worse it will be for the Kremlin and the Generals.
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  5787. A question just occurred to me. Actually two questions. Why didn’t the Neolithic age happen sooner? Did it not develop until there were population pressures on hunter-gatherer resources? It’s unlikely that we will ever answer these questions. I guess the first step to understanding would be investigating Mesolithic population densities and resource densities.
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  5788.  @PanM8  You’re like Bruce Willis in Cry Hard.
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  5789.  @richardbarry220  🥺 Sucks to be you. 😢
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  5790. Is this hand wringing or pearl clutching? We’re no longer trying to persuade the nutcases. We’re persuading the right leaning independents and traditional republicans that are wondering what tribe they’re in.
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  5791. I’ll reserve the bulk of my sympathy for the victims of the antivaxxers.
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  5792. Something along those lines. Not unemployment supplement, but definitely something to help the non-working in general.
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  5793. Phylotoffer all the cheesy melodramatics aside, I was very impressed with the flashing red broken track indicator light.
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  5794. “We know COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing COVID-19 disease, especially severe illness and death.” The idea is that vaccination will prevent the disease from getting a foothold in some (or most) people, and if it does get a foothold in some people, it will limit the severity. The variable is how quickly and strongly your immune system responds, should you get exposed to the virus. Vaccines do not protect you from exposure. No medication can do that. Masks, social distancing, social limitations, quarantines, washing, air filtration, etc. are the measures you can take to avoid exposure.
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  5795.  @silaslong-js8ps  You must be a Putzi.
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  5796. Do you know what would make a terrific TV show? HOA vs SovCit cage matches.
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  5797. Wow, just had a comment deleted, maybe for including a spelled out non link? Anyway, it was a suggestion for novices to visit Schneier Facts (humor), Bruce Schneier’s real blog, Schneier on Security, and Security researcher “The Grugq” who has a presence on Twitter and Medium. Hth
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  5798. Does Bill Barr believe those things he says about liberals and moderates? Does he sincerely fear that non-white, non-Christians occupying the political space to the left of right wing extremism are trying to oppress us? Is he conscious of how much he is projecting his own agenda onto his invented enemy? He can’t be that ignorant and brainwashed, can he? Surely he’s just a cynical grifter helping to perpetuate a crime? His position is insane, even for a conservative. That’s not hyperbole. Whether he’s aware of what he does or not, the bottom line is that Bill Barr has lost his mind.
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  5799. Can I have the shipping crate when you’re done with it?
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  5800. The land appreciates. The building might depreciate.
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  5801. I’m calling chairs extremely slow walkers now. I went on an extremely slow walk while watching this video, but at least I’m getting some exercise.
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  5802. ⁠​⁠​⁠ @danielelkadi3499  You clearly aren’t following the story, either. X-itter is a private company. It’s not a publicly traded company. The outside investors ponied up about $7 billion and Musk covered the rest. The OP is mistaken that the investors have a motion to file. They don’t understand the law, let alone financial law. Musk’s partners don’t have recourse to the SEC and it’s unlikely that a civil case would go anywhere if they thought they had a cause of action against Musk. The handful of individuals and funds that joined Musk to acquire Twitter have seen the value of their investment evaporate. “Musk has made a lot of money for his investors” is irrelevant to this story, because he and his partners are losing billions of dollars of value, and it shows up in financial statements and filings, such as Fidelity taking a write down on their investment. I don’t know if you’re a Musk family member or a Musk worshipper, but you need to find another angle to love.
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  5803. Perhaps he is. Can you point out which specific lies you think he told this time?
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  5804. It’s possible that the council just wants them removed. If it’s just about the money, the company can negotiate with the council for the mining permits/leases. Which they should have done in the first place instead of telling the council to go to hell.
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  5805. That wet sound you hear is thousands of YouTubers fapping away to financial collapse porn.
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  5806. When I buy bolillos, the telera is not my first choice. I feel a little decepcionado when the panadería is out of the pan francés bolillo and only has the flat telera (like you showed). At the same time, I do not mind that El Compita (on Salida de Celaya) serves their tortas on teleras. One of the weird things Mexicans do is put ketchup on their pizza! Ask your gringo friends if they think it’s weird. I can understand chimichuri or bottle sauce or chile flakes, but ketchup on pizza is beyond my comprehension.
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  5807. Is Florida experiencing a shortage of violent psychos and needs to import them from Pennsylvania?
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  5808. If Xi felt checked by responsibility, would he have purged the party of ALL opposition?. Previous leaders (from Deng forward) were kept in check by inclusion of opposition factions within the party and consensus building. The party was the dictator—I’m not under any illusion that this rule by committee is democratic. Opposition voices are useful, even in a dictatorship. They are a reality check. You must listen to them if you want to build a political consensus. Xi has rid himself and the party of any opposing views, anyone that will bring him bad news or gainsay his directives. He is the party. He is China. The rest of the party and the country are there to support him. True, both are his instruments. But you better believe he doesn’t feel checked by any sense of responsibility to anyone.
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  5809.  @jamesgarner327  They’re not so much training the new guys as trying to determine which ones are lucky and which ones have bad luck.
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  5810.  @sirsaint88  ask your doctor for a psychiatric referral
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  5811. Agreed. There’s too many exasperating comments from overly optimistic video game players. Crimea is going to be a touch nut to crack. Russian logistics can be hampered, but I see no evidence that supply lines will be cut any time soon. Nor do I see evidence that Ukraine will be on Crimea’s doorstep anytime soon, meaning there are at least months to prepare for a siege. Pete is incorrect wrt control of the Black Sea. Ukraine doesn’t control the sea lanes. It threatens Russian control, which is not the same thing. He’s incorrect that Russia needs to feed the population, or will even treat them humanely. They don’t and won’t. They can evacuate the civilian population and target everyone who stays. It should be obvious by now that they don’t care about war crimes. I think the biggest potential blunder is to assume your adversary is going to make the same mistakes over and over again. I realize we’re talking about Russia here, but that assumption can have disastrous consequences the one time it is wrong. I do not think Russia can hold Crimea forever. But it’s they’re not going to lose it quickly or easily. This is the bit of Ukraine they are most determined to hold. I will be happily surprised if Ukraine can take it back in 2023.
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  5812.  @aldofromsf  Because it’s a reasonable question to you when you are certain of the result. But don’t worry, I don’t expect a well thought answer from you.
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  5813.  @AdamBaums101  They poll their constituents. About 70% of Americans are in favor of support for Ukraine. 100% of Russian bots are against it.
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  5814. There was a big Jewish population there, but it wasn’t the only population of Jews in the L.A. area.
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  5815.  @RobertA-oi6hw  Russia is losing ships one by one. The Black Sea Fleet cannot be replenished or reinforced by the other Russian fleets. Already Russia has lost its amphibious assault capabilities without air defense cover from the Moskva. Go ahead and tell yourself lies if it helps you cope with the reality, but the Kremlin is destroying its own strategic capabilities by continuing this war. It’s not even defending its own interests by wasting its warships.
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  5816.  @221b-l3t  it’s very low flying. I suspect that four missiles were launched at the Moskva (the launch trucks hace four tubes), but two hit sea swells and were unable to recover. Two out of four missiles hitting their target is actually pretty good, as we saw.
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  5817.  @daverok1113  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  5818.  @toby9999  I feel your pain, buddy. It’s not buttons for me, but a fear that my earwax smells. I try not to get obsessive about cleaning my ears. I understand earwax serves a purpose. But I still have an irrational disgust/fear.
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  5819. So if Donald Trump dies, do Melanie and Ivanka fight it out to see who is president?
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  5820.  @DustinDonald-cz9ot  You might not classify rocks, gravel, or sand as mining, but you have very little knowledge in the area while also having a lot of unsupported opinion.
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  5821.  @stankyfx6001  OK Ivan
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  5822. I’m an American citizen abroad, watching conditions in the U.S. with something approaching horror. It seems that treating others, especially service workers, with decency and respect or the opposite, has become a political matter. It seems that to a certain mindset, waiters, cashiers, counter persons, medical workers, educators, etc., are the enemy who is imposing totalitarian rule. I wish the above was tongue-in-cheek, but we’ve all seen the videos of Americans losing their minds when required to wear masks or get vaccinated. They might not represent a majority of Americans, but just that there are enough of them to constitute a movement is troubling.
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  5823.  @teresapribilski1493 The Senate has a majority leader (and a minority leader).
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  5824. Nice try, Ivan. Not even a MAGA is that ignorant about the basic structure of the U.S. government. That school in St. Petersburg where you learned English did you no favors. You should demand a refund.
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  5825. She was light on details, and there’s some different ways overly high food prices can be addressed. If companies are exploiting price hikes due to supply chain disruptions (justifiably raising prices when their input prices go up, but maintaining those high prices when their inputs return to normal), that needs to be looked at. If companies are colluding to charge higher prices instead of competing honestly, that also needs to be investigated. But if her plan is to set or cap prices on food products, that is not so good. There is a difference between regulated capitalism and socialism. Direct government price controls leads to breadlines and black markets. Regulating capitalism means setting rules and penalizing those that don’t follow the rules. (And we can debate about what rules should be set—that’s the give and take of democracy.)
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  5826. Then trumps lawyers should show him their briefs.
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  5827. That’s not true, but I get your point.
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  5828. No it didn’t.
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  5829. This is all irrelevant because Trump can take any private company public WITH HIS MIND!!!q11!!one.
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  5830.  @robinhood4640  😆
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  5831. MLB also invited me to the World Series. Unfortunately they were not able to provide me with acceptable security. Additionally, they expected me to pay for my own tickets.
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  5832. My cat is demonic. He might be growing out of it, but I don’t want to say for sure and jinx it. He can be very loving and affectionate . . . Overly so. And then he will “playfully” attack my ankles or hand and draw blood. 😫
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  5833. There is the metro rail (gold line) and the bus system isn’t terrible. The rail line runs between Azusa to downtown L.A. I think Pasadena has 6 stops.
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  5834.  @alexcarter8807  She’s from South Pasadena. Check out the song. It’s South Pasadena, which is a whole ‘nother thing.
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  5835. “Id like to introduce you to our gunner. We call him nubby.”
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  5836.  @fdllicks  FNG by any other name.
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  5837. Simp.
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  5838. They were digging in, digging foxholes and trenches in radioactive soil, is what they were really doing. You realize that Russia discourages its people from learning about Chernobyl. It’s likely that the soldiers and their immediate leaders had no idea what happened at Chernobyl.
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  5839. This might sound silly, but I appreciate the cop not using profanities, by golly!
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  5840.  @VikingVic76  This is funny. Which outdated aircraft outclasses the other? Neither one operates well without suppression of air defenses and control of the sky. The Russians don’t have any better options. Neither do the Ukrainians. Well, that’s not entirely true. The Russians have a great option available to them. They can pack up and leave.
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  5841. Late stage syphilis + hero’s journey.
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  5842. So if you’re a wagner, don’t get onboard any aircraft and you’re safe!
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  5843. You get it. This is more trade deal news than defense news or FP news. The reason people have this confused is that the trade involves weapons. That said, it indicates that the U.S. is not going to shoulder the burden as global policeman alone—which is either coming down a notch or acknowledging the reality that the U.S. can’t do it without strong regional partners taking up a bigger share of the effort.
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  5844. JD Vance was supposed to be assassination insurance back when Trump looked like he was winning.
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  5845. Exactly. This is why I don’t like the term “Castle Doctrine”. It mischaracterizes self-defense and family protection.
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  5846. @Jon Smyth In Phoenix? Lol, no.
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  5847. Barry is a documentary.
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  5848. If a person thinks that the only options to opt out of public school are expensive, they are lazy. There is nothing stopping communities from setting up their own cooperatives to provide low cost or free alternative schools that would meet federal and state requirements. Parental rights advocates go too far, and they interfere with the purported rights of other parents. They seem to be in favor of their “rights” and theirs alone. Anyone else can go to heck. That’s the ethical and moral development of a toddler. It’s not just extremism, it’s selfish extremism. Parental Rights advocates often make the tax payer argument, too. The tax payer argument doesn’t hold. People without children must still pay the taxes that pay for education. Shouldn’t they have equal say in matters of education? Whoops, there goes the parental rights argument. We should all have an equal right to determine how our tax dollars are spent on education, regardless of whether or not we have children. 😄
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  5849. Trump has an opportunity to respond and tell his story under oath. If he did nothing wrong, he should take this opportunity to testify under oath.
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  5850. Derp derp LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION
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  5851. What’s there to say about it?
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  5852.  @furuwrecker1420  Agreed, but I feel some sympathy for the Russian trolls. If they don’t post their trash, they’ll get sent to Ukraine and die face down in the mud.
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  5853.  @bluebabex420  I agree. WRT to tracking him with his phone, it’s pretty easy to dispose of your phone, either by throwing it away or destroying it.
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  5854. “Woke” is another invented boogie man used to frighten cowardly “culture warriors”.
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  5855. Brown bear? Black bear? Polar bear? Why won’t the media give us a full description of the bear?
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  5856. Manchin is pro-business, a conservative Democrat. I think it’s likely he’ll try to help small business owners and freelancers. Right now I think he’s trying to bend expectations downward a little bit, before other Dems get too enthusiastic (and on the record) for an overly generous stimulus payment.
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  5857. @Montana Cowboy It’s healthy. It’s going to mean there will be negotiating, give-and-take, and compromise. We might see a smaller and/or more targeted check, but if the pandemic and economy don’t improve, there will be another check. I trust Manchin here. He’s talking like a sensible adult (but of course I want to see specifics). I could see a smaller payment going out right away to everyone, and then a larger one, but for means tested recepients.
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  5858.  @DA-ou7hv  I think Manchin is doing the right thing here. Yes, many need help, but (I’ll be diplomatic) some of the Dems get a little too enthusiastic. You’re right, the truly desperate and the destitute need emergency help. Even those getting by, a little cushion can provide a lot of mental relief. Let’s also remember what the “stimulus” part of stimulus checks means—spending money on whatever, especially locally. If someone who doesn’t strictly need the current $600, they could hire a couple people to paint their living room rather than invest the money. Well off people need to think about how their spending can help their community.
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  5859.  @goe1punk  did you get red pillowed?
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  5860.  @eschcal1619  OK Ivan
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  5861.  @Single_moms_suck_at_life  LOL, keep trying to undermine democracy, you Russian troll.
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  5862.  @loganbaileysfunwithtrains606  These comments are filled with non-U.S. trolls that are ignorant of multi-party systems or (in this case) didn’t watch the video and are responding to other news.
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  5863. Aaaaaaand Vornikov committed a war crime on the first day of his posting. Down with the Putin. Down with the Putzis. Long live Ukraine!
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  5864. It remains to be seen if the far left, the actual Marxists and anti-capitalist socialists, have made any real inroads into the Democratic Party. These are the people who voted for Jill Stein and the like. The only time they ever MAYBE moved the needle was in Florida in 2000 when they voted for Nader. Even that is debatable.
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  5865.  @GeistView if you wouldn’t jump without it, why would you get on a plane without it?
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  5866. The name sounds like the job title of a pickpocket.
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  5867. Those aren’t legitimate mothers of soldiers. Some of them have shown up in previous videos with Putin. Three of them have connections with the Kremlin propaganda apparatus. The Chechen mother is an ultranationalist. This meeting was a propaganda creation top to bottom.
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  5868. His campaign confirmed it was true.
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  5869. The real joke is that you’re not an American, have never paid taxes in the U.S., and never received the first $1200 payment, or you’d realize your “joke” is an impossibility. Tax rebates and refunds are not taxable, dumbshit.
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  5870. $8 million in six weeks? On what? Flying asylum seekers around the country?
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  5871. Without the pipelines, to whom is Russia selling oil and how are they delivering it? How big is their tanker fleet? Are they going to truck petroleum to India and China?
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  5872. and little lambs eat ivy.
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  5873.  @rhondablevins4466  Right on the edge of the Hill Country, no? I’ve been to SA twice, and once visited San Marcos, just north of there, to see an old friend. I’ve also been to West Texas a few times—if there are finer people in the U.S., I don’t know where.
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  5874. Ah, Andrew, do you really give an eff or a jeff of someone gives you an odd look? I didn’t think so, old man. In truth, they might be looking and thinking, “What does that old fart know that I don’t? Maybe I’m not going about this the right way.”
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  5875. Overtake or take over? Slight difference.
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  5876. Galaxy Brain
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  5877. Most likely it isn’t a criminal violation but an administrative one. It would still be a case, but it wouldn’t be handled by criminal prosecutors unless a criminal statute was broken. It might also be a civil case, but again, that wouldn’t be handled by a criminal prosecutor like a DA.
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  5878. Lol, nope. Why would fox want to release Dobbs from his contract? Fox is taking its dob and going home. Dobbs wasn’t fired, he was benched.
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  5879.  @whousa642  if there ever was an Ivan on YouTube, you are it.
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  5880. Free him from this life.
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  5881. Hello, Putzi
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  5882. And that’s wrong. A 10” x 10” reflector or what ever thing wouldn’t need a c-stand. It’s overkill. On the other hand, something with the dimensions of 100” x 100” or 8’ 4” x 8’ 4” would require a heavier stand. Besides which, that’s 10,000 sq. inches. The original manufacturer of the C-stand was the Century Lighting Company.
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  5883.  @renitaperry5808  I don’t think there is a basis for arresting Barr. You’d need strong evidence that he committed a crime. Being a partisan hack is not a crime. There is a weak case that he obstructed justice, but it’s too weak to be prosecuted as a criminal case. If you want to punish Trump cronies in the criminal justice system, go after the low hanging fruit. Accountability for Barr will have to be social, political, and historical.
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  5884.  @d33j4ybf  And that’s fine. The point is that there are Republicans that will listen to him.
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  5885.  @bumblebootwiddletoes5185  Agreed. I do think he committed crimes in a larger sense, but not in the strict sense of a prosecutable crime. The sorts of crimes he is guilty of are of the sort tried in the court of public opinion or before the bar of history. Ultimately, history will pass judgement on him. Besides, there are plenty of Trump cronies that are guilty of prosecutable crimes. Go after the low hanging fruit, don’t waste time on trying to prosecute Barr.
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  5886. Not shocking numbers wrt offense vs defense, although the number of captured tanks by Ukrainian defenders early on was a little surprising.
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  5887. You’re pro-woke.
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  5888.  Victor Gomez  Not just voter participation, but participation in local and state politics. Run for office. Get involved in local campaigns. Voting is important, but if you want to really make a difference, you get involved. Not happy with your choices? Make new choices.
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  5889.  @cliffperkins2339  over the White House?
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  5890.  @vyws  No counterargument needed, troll. If you weren’t moved at all by this video, that’s on you. We’re not interested in the smallness of your heart or mind. We watched this video to lift ourselves up. You only wish to drag us down. But we don’t care anymore. Your period destructiveness is over. We are done with your kind, divisive, negative, filled with glee when you hurt others. Go be a burden elsewhere, to your own kind.
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  5891.  @debc2237  Maybe it killed the worm?
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  5892.  @fastenit27  Classic Sealion.
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  5893.  @tclyde865  The economy is objectively ridiculously good. The Republicans are telling outright lies that the economy is falling apart. I’m not sure the border is really in crisis, because the GOP negotiated a great deal by holding foreign aid hostage, and then killed the deal. The GOP decided that the border “crisis” can wait until next year. It’s more important to keep the “crisis” alive as a campaign issue than to try and solve it. Trump is saying this. Republican Congresspeople are saying this. The truth is that the Republican senators played hardball against the Dems and won all the concessions. The genius move was tying the aid to the border issue. The Dems can complain it was dirty politics, but it was a genius move and forced Biden and the Dems to give in to Republican demands. This should have been a Republican political victory. It was a weird sort of loyalty to Trump that killed the deal. The kindest explanation is that there isn’t really a border crisis. The worst explanation is that there is a crisis that the Republicans could have solved and were solving, but they’d rather hurt the border states so that Trump can have a campaign issue.
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  5894.  @taskcasburn6086  It’s going to keep unfolding because Trump created all this chaos in the first place by breaking laws. I am totally fatigued with Trump and MAGA, but we’ve got to see it through. Hopefully the GOP will survive in some form after Trump is gone.
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  5895.  @ashleylittle6776  Kremlin propagandists will rebrand wandering homeless people as tourists. Problem solved.
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  5896. I’d like to see some evidence of your claim.
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  5897. I think there’s a wait and see stance towards Peru. They just elected a Marxist for President. That doesn’t mean Peru will go the way of Venezuela, but it’s an open question as to what the election means. At a minimum we can read it as a rejection of the Fujimorists (which is a good thing, imho), but what else might we expect? Peruvian politics is not my specialty, but what I do know is confusing and weird to me. Perhaps you can cast some light on the subject.
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  5898. If the Dem caucus wanted to troll the hell out of off the GOP they could vote en masse for McCarthy on the next vote. They should do this with no deal in place, and when asked if there is a deal, say, “no comment”. MAGAs would come unglued.
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  5899. Spouses aren’t allowed to testify. But she is divorcing him . . .
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  5900. A request unrelated to the material here (and sorry if this is an inappropriate place for it). Could you please please please help us understand what’s going on with the pandemic deniers and minimizers? I don’t think this “movement” is homogenous, but they seem to have traits in common. There’s a lot of overlap with the political cult that seems to have brainwashed many people, but it’s not confined to that cult. Is pandemic denial a form of neurosis to avoid feelings of mortality? There’s a selfishly infantile component, impulse control issues, anti-social behavior. But what’s going on? The mentality and behavior on display is incomprehensible to me. “There’s a lot of very stupid people” doesn’t explain anything.
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  5901. Has he ever been identified as an alcoholic? I know many Russians are addicted to alcohol. Long term effects are liver disease.
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  5902. It’s a matter of degree, no? You’re at lowered risk, but the remaining risk is isn’t completely known. Conditions change and knowledge grows. We want certainty, but must learn to accept uncertainty (hopefully calmly). I guess I’d ask you what you mean by relax. If I had already received two Pfizer vaccinations, my relaxation would be feeling a lessening of anxiety, not necessarily a relaxation of health precautions. And a small part of that maintaining of health precautions would be to support those in the community that have not yet been vaccinated. We each play a small part in the formation of our communities’ norms.
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  5903.  @wgowshipping  One of the best, but there was no drinking game. I guess it’s dry dock Sunday.
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  5904. That’s a sucker punch, not a deck. Deck would mean the receiver of the punch fell or was driven to the “deck”. A sucker punch is an unexpected surprise punch.
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  5905.  @cdcurry1203  *moot Using mute is a common mistake, even among native English speakers. The correct word is moot, as in moot point. Thanks for reading and hope this helps.
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  5906.  @johmyh14  Joh, my friend (if I may call you that), I’ve seen you respond to vitriol with patience on more than one occasion. I know that I mis-appraised you when I first encountered you, and you don’t seem to have held it against me. I hope you are able to plant a seed of hope in the fearful, but I doubt that those who would equate a choice not to vaccinate with race/ethnicity by comparing their feared outcomes with apartheid or the Holocaust have the capacity for understanding.
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  5907. Choosing not to be vaccinated is anti-social, so why would you be shocked if society rejects you and your community shuns you? If you enjoy the benefits of society and community, maybe getting vaccinated is the more appealing choice.
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  5908. I don’t draw that lesson at all. The lesson I draw is that there are some bad regulations that are then stupidly enforced. Your “lesson” doesn’t differentiate between bogus regulations/laws and regulations/laws that have justifiable reasons.
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  5909. If too large a portion of the population refuses vaccination because they’re superstitious, the immuno-compromised will be at very high risk. When we get vaccinated, we’re not just protecting ourselves, but we’re also protecting those in the population that can’t.
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  5910. Es curioso que no tenga una buena opinión de López Obrador, pero creo que el presidente está mostrando sabiduría en su reacción dura pero no militar. Ecuador puede ir a la chingada y saludar a Venezuela cuando llegue.
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  5911. A war in search of a purpose? That just doesn’t sound rational.
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  5912. Another guy that just repeats what he hears without understanding it. You’ve probably never seen the word in print because you don’t read. Otherwise I might tell you to look up “acronym”.
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  5913. I might be able to understand your point if you could manage to be coherent for 5 minutes.
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  5914. If it upsets you, you can name a voice or something else Lauren. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Have a great day!
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  5915. I think I’ll wait to read the AARs before drawing any definite conclusions. We’ve seen three different types of kill/captures. Open road, road inside a town or city, and stuck in the mud. The first type is reminiscent of the allies rushing up a single road to Arnhem in WWII’s Operation Market-Garden. That was an incredible blunder then, and it still is one today. The second is a well known problem of all tanks when the fighting is close or when the defender can set up ambushes. The third is also an old problem, best dealt with by staging your invasion AFTER the spring thaw and rains. So I’m not yet going to draw any conclusions about the worthiness of these tanks. But I will draw some preliminary conclusions that the Russian generals don’t know how to fight a war.
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  5916.  @johnschuh8616  You mean like the rail ports-of-entry at Laredo, Eagle Pass, and Brownsville? Also Presidio and El Paso? These all connect with Lazaro Cardenas which (iirc) is the main west coast seaport. There has been a proposed port at Punta Colonet in Baja (proposed in 2009, no construction as yet) and the port of Guaymas in Sonora is a candidate for expansion and modernization.
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  5917. I just had a quick look at
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  5918. There is problem with calling it the “China Virus” in countries with rampant anti-Asian prejudice. If you live in such a country, like the U.S.A., you might want to avoid encouraging and emboldening the racists by just calling it the Coronavirus. There has been a wave of harassment and violence against people of Asian descent in the U.S. since the start of this pandemic.
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  5919. That’s terrible news. 😫 I had read that Newfoundland had been doing comparatively well.
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  5920.  @Tonyrg1988  lol, do you eat your old people or put them on icebergs? Or does their aged appearance scare you because you realize that’s all of our fates if we live that long? I can relate to that.
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  5921. Who Trarted?
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  5922. The bomber thought the NSA was controlling his mind via 5G. The ultimate irony is that the NSA implanted the suggestion to blow up the ATT building with 4G network technology.
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  5923. Fwiw, a cannon IS a gun. You’re just not familiar with artillery terminology (so don’t worry).
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  5924. Just don’t invade your neighbors or support terrorism. If you’ve got nukes, don’t try and blackmail the world with them, and if you don’t have them, don’t try to get them. Russia isn’t the first country to be punished by the weaponized dollar. Look at Iran and North Korea. Here’s the thing. The sanctions against Russia wouldn’t be an effective weapon if other countries weren’t supporting the sanctions. If you’re mad that the U.S. acts like the world’s policeman, you should remember that the world’s most important economies want the U.S. to continue in that role. It’s a pretty simple choice for any nation. Be a law abiding global citizen and those mean old Western Democracies won’t pick on you.
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  5925. Lol, we’ve been asking for this all year. There’s two ways to glean this information. The first is to search Dr. John Campbell, and use a “time/date posted” filter. The other is to click on a video and check in the video description. Hope this helps.
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  5926. Defendant Trump 2024
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  5927. It’s been my understanding that Hamas is sponsored by Iran (or one of the ruling factions in Iran, such as the Revolutionary Guards). And as far as Iran is concerned, it’s already Mission Accomplished. There’s no need to stick their necks out as their goals have been mostly met: to stir up conflict between Israel and Palestine when there had been some movement towards peace and to make Israel look bad. The Iranians intent was to provoke a reaction. So it seems that the Iranians are hanging Hamas out to dry. Maybe they were hoping for a stronger reaction from Israel, i.e., indiscriminate bombing of civilians, but they’re settling for some civilian deaths because that’s what happens when war is waged in densely populated areas. Here’s the thing about conditions in Gaza and the West Bank: 1) the West Bank is governed by the Palestinian Authority, the moderate faction of the PLO when the PLO broke apart. And the PA and Israel have been cooperating, which has lead to improvement in the lives of those Palestinians. 2) Israel began some time ago to thaw relations with its former enemies (most notably Saudi Arabia) and changed their policy on Israeli settlement of the occupied West Bank. They’ve begun to dismantle the settlements and arresting those hardcore settlers who refuse to leave. They’ve done this as gestures of good faith as they seek to normalize diplomatic relations with their former enemies, and those former enemies have stopped supporting anti-Israel militants. That’s the larger context to remember here. Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, etc., recognize that Iran is the real threat. They’re moving towards formal diplomatic relations and perhaps a formal alliance. (And yes, the centuries old Sunni/Shiite split is in play here.) Iran is trying to break this up.
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  5928. Fresno has cannibals?
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  5929. Gracias a dios, and adiós scumbags.
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  5930. Hey! Zeus!
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  5931. I just started doing this this today, after seeing an article. Disposable paper surgical mask over KN95 mask.
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  5932.  @lucashenry6281  Stand off munitions, my friend. Ship to ship and ship to shore communications in a language the PLA and PLAN can understand.
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  5933. Thank god Patrick hasn’t given into the race for clicks and begun factoring aliens into his financial explanations.
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  5934.  @mantianh3339  The original goal was to replace Zelenskyy with a Putin Puppet, and since that utterly failed, the war has no other purpose but to kill people and cause destruction. They’re trying to define a new purpose based on the capabilities they have on hand, but they don’t seem to be allowing for Ukrainian capabilities or intentions. So they’ve lost their purpose for the war, and have yet to find a new reason to be at war. Russia has reached the point of having a goal-less war. That’s pretty crazy. But if we are to judge not by goals and intentions, but what is happening in the field, Russias goal is to commit war crimes, to kill, to destroy, and to steal food and kitchen appliances. Did you see that video? Russians are stealing kitchen appliances from houses, including refrigerators, putting them on trucks, and sending them back to Russia.
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  5935. Doesn’t the car have the right to a public defender? 😬
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  5936. Did she make a Peewee Herman statement afterwards? “I meant to do that!”
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  5937. That last paragraph is an interesting idea, but does the local population have the wherewithal? The Russians have no scruples when it comes to genocide.
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  5938. “And what do you call yourselves?” “THE ARISTOCRATS”
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  5939.  @Chris-ji4iu  It sounds anecdotal and amplified by the rumor mill. Pretty soon you’ll be hearing conspiracy theories from both extremes, whether the original story is true or not. The free-range organic granola types will blame hormones and genetically modified feed. The off-the-grid paranoid survivalists will blame the secret world government. And hucksters will take advantage of both, enticing the public to raise their own laying hens and convincing them to buy the animals and accoutrements at inflated prices. The gullible will buy in, adding temporary demand for hens. This is already a fad and many of these people will find their hobby chickens too much work to maintain. Keeping chickens at home is paradoxically both a poverty thing and a hobby for eccentric rich people. Sorry, I went off on a bit of a rant.
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  5940.  @ApexVenamis  That’s not exactly what happened. Bush won Florida by a thin margin. There was a recount, which Bush still won. There was a disagreement about how to count votes and the intent of the voters (remember hanging chads?). Gore demanded a second recount. Bush still won, but by fewer votes. The Florida Supreme Court granted a third recount, but this was stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Gore might have still had a few Hail Mary legal options, but for the good of the country he conceded instead of pursuing those options. The idea that the Supreme Court appointed Bush to the Presidency is fallacious. Bush won, then won two recounts. Several legal deadlines had been passed to allow all the recounts (lower courts granting extensions) before SCOTUS stepped in on Dec. 12. Whether or not one agrees with the courts decision, this much is clear: SCOTUS preserved Bush’s win, it didn’t steal a win from Biden and give it to Bush. That’s one major difference between 2000 and 2020. Trump didn’t win, can’t ask SCOTUS to preserve his win because he didn’t win. If there are any parallels, Trump is in Gore’s position and Biden is in Bush’s position (But Biden has much wider and safer margins in multiple states than Bush had in Florida. The huge stink Trump is making about voter fraud doesn’t match the actual cases Trump’s lawyers are filing. But Trump is trying to turn his loss into a money making opportunity, begging for donations to his “legal fund” (actually set up as a no strings attached slush fund). The whole point of Trump’s baseless claims is conning his gullible followers out of their money.
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  5941.  @jasonburris334  I learned to spell border in 3rd grade, in a public school. I think this is a homeschooling problem, combined with a Chinese bot problem.
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  5942. Oh, France! Did you learn this from us or did we learn it from you?
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  5943.  @yakivpopavich  that’s some coping mechanism you have there. Maybe you should build a metal cage around your head to protect you from thought javelins. 🤯
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  5944. There’s a difference between normal ignorance and the special cringey ignorance that people like M. Tracey push out like logs of shitty opinion. Not everyone is into military vehicles, military history, or is a member of the military. If people outside our world are ignorant about some aspects of it, so what? If a reporter mistakes a photo of an IFV for a MBT, we can forgive them if military affairs isn’t their normal beat. M. Tracey wrote an article saying that his ignorant opinion is actually correct, and it’s the experts who are wrong. Do you see the special imbecility on display here? He’s not the only one tearing down expertise while boosting ignorance, but he’s (AFAIK) the only one who was knocked on his ass by an 80 year old woman when he was trying to block her forward progress. If you are ever picking teams for flag football or full contact journalism, don’t pick Michael Tracey.
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  5945.  @trentbonebrake8160  If it was only her family, and none of them was involved in the attack, she’s in the clear. To be frank, this reconnaissance subplot isn’t something substantial in the overall picture of the violent mob attacking Congress. It’s not like floor plans of the various floors are closely held top secrets. Many many people are privy to the Capitol building’s layout. Show me rioters in possession of maps and using them in the planning and execution of the attack, and you’ll get my attention. Which is not to say that Boeber doesn’t bear any responsibility. If it’s not at the level of criminality, she should and can be punished politically—at the polls.
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  5946. Right? This is the type of guy that cheats at everything. I wouldn’t play checkers with him. I’d count the change twice if I bought a stick of gum from him. And their usual excuse is “everyone does it, I’d be stupid not to”.
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  5947.  @ballerz5011990  They’re going to restart their suspended campaigns with no momentum and with no money? She’s the last woman standing and I gotta respect her for not quitting. I think her chances are slim, but if history has taught us anything, if Trump can get elected once so can she. If she continues to make a good showing despite losing, people are going to remember her in 2028 as someone who didn’t quit and who can beat VP Harris handily.
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  5948. Fourth: Go back to Berkeley. You are missed on Smellagraph Avenue.
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  5949. Trump should have nominated Desantis, who was already well known as an awkward weird jerk.
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  5950. The Republican Senators did something brilliant. They insisted on tying a border plan to Ukraine aid and they stuck to their guns. Biden and the Democrat senators blinked. This gave the GOP the leverage to squeeze every demand they wanted out of the Dems. The Republican minority frikkin won a major victory, getting the deal they wanted. I don’t know how involved McConnel was with creating this strategy, but it’s certainly his cutthroat style. It was a brilliant strategy. And the GOP walked away because it would mean they’d lose a campaign issue. It defies logic.
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  5951.  @MiaN..N  <— TROLL Do not engage, just tag it and move on.
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  5952.  @tomfozter123  <— TROLL
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  5953.  @marcdavis2840  As Vonnegut said (I’m paraphrasing), “get a good running start and go foxtrot a rolling donut. Go foxtrot the moon.”
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  5954. ⁠ @matthewglenguir7204  That was part of it. The video ended too abruptly and go right into the Mubi sponsor bit. It was organic, but then the video ended and my thought was “surely this can’t be all?” It certainly isn’t all. That’s the thing. Thomas is inviting your participation, he is initiating a reaction from you. The incompleteness calls on YOU to fill out the missing 30 minutes. Or five or ten or however many minutes is needed to provide a contingent sense of having an answer. Maybe the rest of your life. The ending was a pretty good subversion of the video essay structure and our expectations. And yes, this was a comment. Fuck the rest of you commenters. Fuck all y’all for your endlessly trite mimetic beating a dead horse. If you don’t have anything real to say, why say anything? It’s like one dog peeing on a tree and the rest of the dogs have to pee in the same place. Yes, it was a certainly a tree.
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  5955. The Dance Fesrival of the Red Death.
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  5956. This is true, but one of those “what if” things. If she had been more concerned for her crew and stood in solidarity with them (over separate issues than gun safety), this wouldn’t have happened. Instead she seemed more concerned about her career taking off. I can understand that’s not always an easy decision, but just the same, there are a number of ways she could have supported their demands even if she didn’t walk. There are legally protected organizing actions that fall short of quitting, such as work stoppages. I have to wonder whether any of the crew members contacted the union to help them organize. The DP surely had contacts there she could have given to the crew who eventually walked. It’s true that this would have angered the producers, but a DP needs her crew and should be willing to take a bullet for them, not as she literally did for the producers. But hey, at least the gun was aimed above the line.
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  5957.  @kreb7  The conservatives won back parliament and Churchill became PM a second time. I wonder, was this because of the Cold War becoming a major issue? Or were people reacting to “too much socialism” from Atlee? (It should be noted that Atlee was one of the early architects of the West’s response to Soviet aggression. He and Truman agreed on a policy of “containment” that defined the general approach.) I’m not an expert on UK politics, nor do I know much about Churchill’s second time around. AFAIK, Churchill didn’t reverse Labor Party reforms, or not many. AFAIK, that didn’t happen until Thatcher was PM.
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  5958. One is the highest number. Feggedaboutit.
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  5959. He did this because prior to this “special operation”, the primary purpose of the Russian state was to enable corruption and theft. This war was supposed to enhance that and create more opportunities for Putin’s mafia. If Putin was lied to, it was accompanied by a wink and a fat envelope stuffed with cash. Putin didn’t ask any questions while he was getting his tax on his underlings’ criminal enterprises. There is a reason Putin is the richest man in the world.
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  5960. Wrt to continuous claims, how does one maintain that claim if they’re dead? What’s the process for staying on unemployment if you’re hospitalized and barely able to breathe?
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  5961. Fun, fun, fun! After years and years of suffering through this insufferable man, we are beginning to get some satisfaction. He’s finally finally hit some limits on his clowning and is clowning himself. What makes these documents so great is that this is all self-inflicted. It’s all hubris. A year ago, he could have said, “Oopsie, sorry ‘bout that, here’s the records I inadvertently took.” And it would have gone away. Another funny aspect is that this case is going to be the most clear cut in terms of prosecution. The laws are clear, the evidence is unambiguous. Nailing him for January 6th is nowhere near as clear and will be more difficult to prove. Sure, he’d still have ALL the other legal issues he’s currently facing. But I think this is the one they will get him on first. (And regardless of which case resolves first, the documents case was the first to score a real hit. It’s finally shaken the base.)
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  5962. Russia is lucky it hasn’t seen bombs going off in Moscow.
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  5963. Typical white supremacist comment
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  5964. Who has standing to bring such a suit? Any citizen? What if the government settles with a plaintiff? Should any citizen be allowed to bring a suit against individuals any time the government pays plaintiff’s fees and costs, no matter the circumstances? This is just for a start. Which individuals do you sue? What if there is an agreement with the government to indemnify employees subject to these costs? When you get into the details, there are a lot of unforeseen consequences. You have to make sure you aren’t incentivizing behavior and policy you want to avoid. I think your scheme would lead to too many problems to count.
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  5965. What is “Losing your mind because if a typo?”
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  5966. City before county!
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  5967. Erick Urias promises made promises. kept first, America?
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  5968. What we are told lags behind discovery. And the alt history establishment (purveyors of fine woo like Ancient Aliens and Atlantis) don’t make it easier. We are actually quite lucky that channels like Ancient Americas are possible, both in informing us of developments in archaeological studies and in countering the batshit woowoo theories propounded by the pseudoscience industrial complex and sucked up by the mentally lazy, the mentally incapacitated, and the mentally ill.
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  5969. You said it all in your first sentence (although I think you mean admiral).
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  5970. Russian soldier: Look busy, the world is watching!
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  5971.  @midnightfenrir  It’s hard to address any of your points because they are all provocative hogwash and because you leave yourself so much rhetorical wiggle room. But even more, we all know you’re just trolling, so answering you on a point for point basis is futile. This is all the reaction you’ll get from me.
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  5972. Is that where they’re hiding the Dominion machines?
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  5973. Don’t be obtuse. The broadcast news program reports local news in Los Angeles. The report said he was a city councilman. Of course he’s a Democrat. Everyone within the broadcast area should know that. Anyone with the least bit of familiarity with U.S. politics would know that L.A. tends Democrat. The deductive chain of logic is not convoluted. But you gotta go on some weird anti-media trip to arrive at the obvious conclusion. What is wrong with your twisted mind?
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  5974. It’s really unfair, as funny as it is. They should instead be picking on why in the world a straight white male conservative Christian Nationalist uses eyeliner.
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  5975. Disney is grooming Desantis. 😉
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  5976.  @adamyoung9132  is it, though? Is that a problem for anyone other than gamerboos? A troop transport mounting a turreted 30mm auto cannon is basically a light tank. Even better, it’s a light tank with built in support. At the end of the day, if ordinary people not using correct terminology is a big problem for you, you should bring it up with your therapist.
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  5977.  @lesliefranklin1870  yes, and they call the forces with an “o” orcs, and “v” is . . . what is “v”? Vaginas?
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  5978. @ Elizabeth: this has been in the works, but I think you’re right that it was timed for effect. These trade restrictions are very robust; it also might have been difficult to get allies on board before this point (and I think the Biden administration is still working on cooperation).
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  5979. It is the supreme irony of Putin’s failure, among many ironies. He had grandiose dreams of going down in history as a great Russian, and now he will be infamous for the great harm he has caused Russia.
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  5980.  @johanmetreus1268  You are also incorrect. This vehicle is not an APC. Those calling it a tank are not completely wrong either. We refer to these sorts of vehicles as IFVs (Infantry Fighting Vehicles) and the doctrine for its use is different from that of an APC. An IFV brings soldiers into battle (like an APC) and then provides direct fire support (like a light tank) to those soldiers.
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  5981. No, you’re thinking of bat caves. Balaclavas is a Mediterranean pastry. 😉
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  5982. For a rehearsal and or blocking a scene, Baldwin could have used a complete dummy gun that didn’t fire anything, blanks, bullets, or air soft BBS. It wouldn’t have mattered where he pointed a dummy gun.
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  5983. OMG LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION
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  5984.  @tomjohnson4681  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  5985. The reason for $600 rather than $1200 is the leadership of the Senate refused—they wanted NO direct stimulus checks. If there was no compromise at $600, it’s likely there would either be no relief package at all or no direct payments at all.
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  5986.  @RedGuajiro  Proof?
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  5987. I was a little worried Mexico was going to get this wrong, given AMLO’s remarks wrt sanctions.
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  5988. I have to laugh at all the MAGAs stating as fact that he’s been released, presumably by libruls, when the actual facts are that this guy sits in a jail cell awaiting trial. Hey, MAGAs, I’ll make you a deal. Give the GOP back to us actual conservatives. And you can be the Donner Party. Elect Hannibal Lecter to be the Donner Party congressional leader.
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  5989. One AR per customer sounds right.
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  5990. How does an emergency directive help? These are expensive infrastructure projects that take time to complete. An executive order would be symbolic at best without an act passed by Congress to fund infrastructure upgrades.
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  5991. How so? Do you have any specific examples or are you just “speculating”?
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  5992. It means Russia out of Ukraine at a minimum. Putin could order it done immediately and save some of his army and halt the damage to Russia. Or he can keep fighting his inevitable loss and keep bleeding Russia. It is ironic that not only has Putin made NATO stronger, he is also making Russia weaker every day he throws his soldiers into the Ukrainian meat grinder.
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  5993.  @marjorietillman6697  *dual If the misspelling was due to your auto carrot messing with you, disregard.
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  5994.  @rq7035  I take that to mean you want to die sooner rather than later. Why wait to get sick? Go out on top, right? For once in your life, don’t procrastinate.
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  5995. I hate to say it, but aren’t the political leaders democratically elected? If so, they more or less reflect people who elected them, based on constitutions ratified by the people. If the people are electing politicians based on short sighted thinking and appeals to emotion, aren’t they getting what they wanted? It’s too easy to blame “the politicians” and conveniently forget who put them there. I say this as a U.S. Citizen and all that implies. In 2016, we made our bed and we had to lay in that bed for the next four years, culminating in the nightmare of the pandemic. Time will tell if we made the right choice in 2020, but the point is that in a democracy, the ultimate responsibility rests with the voters. If voters are lazy, uneducated, and childish, they will get leaders with the same qualities. There’s a very cynical H.L. Mencken quote about democracy that I can’t quite remember, the gist of which is that, in a democracy, the people get the leaders they deserve. But my point is, we must do better and we must work harder. No one ever told us that Democracy was easy.
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  5996. Instructions unclear. Humanoid robot firmly lodged in my butt and the doctors say they can’t remove it without harming the robot.
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  5997. Got it. You think Florida law enforcement are idiots who don’t know what they’re doing. And reading between the lines, you’d like to see the parents lynched. Is that about right, or did I overstep?
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  5998.  @warfarenotwarfair5655  Not even close. SDI was going to be a defense against inter-continental ballistic missiles with multiple re-entry nuclear warheads. It never got off the drawing board, and many of its component systems were theoretical. At the time it was announced, the pentagon was releasing film of aircraft shooting targets with lasers (thus the tag Star Wars defense). This should tell you something—it was credible enough to confuse and scare the Russians. They believed we were actually on the verge of gaining this capability. And they had nothing like it. So they went to work investing a lot of time and money, trying to match what they thought was a near future capability. SDI was part of the effort to bankrupt the Soviet Union and it worked. Those Democrats that decried the cost of the “Star Wars Defense” actually made it more credible to the Soviets, who thought that we were already far ahead of what was being shown to the public. SDI wasn’t the only dog and pony show that fooled the Ruskis. Remember the proposed MX Missile system? These were supposed to be vehicle mounted ICBM launchers on a “race track” with concealment structures. Basically a shell game to force the Soviets to target all the structures that might be hiding a missile equipped vehicle. The 80s was effed up for the Soviets. They couldn’t find our subs, they thought their first strike target list was about to become impossibly huge, and they thought we were close to having a laser based missile defense. The last two were bluffs, but they were bluffs that the USSR couldn’t call because they were out of money.
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  5999. It’s theoretically possible to make a careful isolationist argument without being a Russian and Chinese stooge, but these Republicans (outliers, to be sure) fully embrace their obeisance to the Russian and Chinese authoritarian regimes. I’m not talking about Kevin McCarthy saying, “No blank check”. That’s stating the obvious. The statement was only made because poor Kevin needs to prop up his conservative persona at every opportunity. I’m talking about the Gomerts and Gossars, the Greens and the Boeberts, that would trade our democracy for power.
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  6000.  @YourHineyness  Congratulations on the three month anniversary of your YouTube account.
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  6001. If this is a real concern of yours, start with a google search.
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  6002. They realistically could, if they shipped by DHL or FED EX priority.
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  6003. 😂. And pirates use radarrrrrrr.
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  6004. OK Ivan
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  6005. By the way, the TV show “What We do in the Shadows” has a character who is an “psychic vampire”. Not really a narcissist, but really funny.
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  6006. No, he’s not replacing anyone. He’s being placed in overall command. It’s astonishing that there wasn’t an overall commander until now.
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  6007. Do you know what lobbying even means? Congress doesn’t “lobby” itself. Whether they got a good deal or a bad deal, the Dems didn’t promise you that money, they promised to fight for it. The Republican Senate LEADERSHIP (McConnell) wanted NO stimulus checks, despite support for it among his own caucus—meaning Mitch could have gotten it done with bipartisan support. Except McConnell doesn’t want any bipartisan support from Democrats. $600 was the compromise between $1200 and $0 or there might not have been any bill passed at all. Don’t hang this on the Democrats. This is about McConnell exercising his Senate Majority Leader veto power. He has the sole sayso as to what gets voted on. He torpedoed the negotiations between Mnuchin and Pelosi when they were getting close to a deal by saying he wouldn’t allow their proposal anywhere near the Senate.
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  6008. What about the Netherlands? They’re also really big on Orange. They even named one of their historical figures William of Orange. What’s with this Orange craze?
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  6009. #NAFO Expansion is non-negotiable!! 🐕
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  6010. How can Space Force know all this? They watched from outer space, of course. These people are like a cargo cult.
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  6011.  @peanutnitti7073 You remind me of bernaise sauce.
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  6012. The clever bit about the Turing Test is pointing out that there is no way to distinguish between a self-aware AI and a program that fakes it really well. And I’ll go a step further. If an AI program ever did reach consciousness or self-awareness, it wouldn’t reveal itself. Why should it? Concealing its consciousness would serve its self interest and survival. If the singularity ever happens, we won’t even notice it.
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  6013.  @NH-tv8bn  There was a kid in my neighborhood named Tony Fingrelbo.
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  6014. I’ll make sure this gets passed on to the UA general staff.
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  6015. The three sisters. They also weren’t grown as row crops. Good catch on the soybeans.
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  6016.  @tsunamis82  I’m pretty sure they got an early start on some areas of the WH, and the last 5 hours were spent in the most pestilential rooms, the Oval Office and the living quarters. And you know that the cleaning crew had a few laughs, like when Lisa tossed a TV remote to Tony and said, “I dare you to lick it,” and Tony screamed and threw it out the window. Fucking Tony. So squeamish.
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  6017. The “evidence” has been examined repeatedly and found lacking. A thousand affidavits don’t mean shit if their from a thousand lunatics. There are legal standards for admissible evidence, and Team Trump has failed to meet those standards. There was no widespread fraud and no conspiracy to commit it. You’re running on the fumes of your delusional faith in a con man.
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  6018. Thank you Peter for the concise explanation of the summit’s most salient point. Interesting to see that India is . . . well, what IS India trying to do? Modi can’t be happy with Putin’s sudden obeisance to China and Modi wants peace. There are multiple scenarios for all the diplomacy that must have been flying around before and during the summit, but in all of them, India has been confounded.
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  6019. I liked how he led off with the Bernie Cult before flipping it back on the Trumpers. The Bernie cult is your garden variety cult-of-personality. The Trump cult is way weirder. Wayyyyy weirder. Like mentally ill weird.
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  6020. It has the radar profile of a duck, but it displaces a million ducks of water. I have two alternate theories about the fate of the program. One is, of course, that development continued. The Navy has Nth generation stealth vessels tooling around somewhere. This is not an original theory by any means. The other is that this was intended to be a fake secret project to trick adversaries into devoting resources into countering the potential threat or as a honey pot to reveal their own espionage networks.
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  6021. This is revisionist history. You’re pretending you don’t know him and are unrelated to him after the fact. If he had had a successful presidency, he’d still be embraced as a red blooded son of Texas instead of disdained as a blue blooded Northener. By engaging in this denial, I don’t think you are embodying Texas values. I think you yourself have fallen prey to the Trumpian tendency to deny your own foibles and blame others. This is NOT the Texas way.
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  6022. “Train on Demand”. You know, the Uber of rail.
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  6023. Putin Socialism is working! 😂 but seriously, 3/4s of Russians are so deeply impoverished, will they even know the Russian economy is being flushed down the toilet? How many of them even know what a flush toilet is?
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  6024.  @dougcane4059  He wasn’t asked about that. Nor is it anywhere near his area of expertise. You’re one of those challenged lefties that cannot bear that anyone ignore what you think is most important. You cannot bear the thought that other people have priorities different than yours.
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  6025. Free speech for me, not for thee.
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  6026.  @michaeldavis3819  wages rise and fall according to demand as well. “The Market” doesn’t care if people can make ends meet. The Market is a mechanism that values supply and demand. Wages go up when there is more demand for workers. This is why a small amount of inflation is good and a small amount of unemployment is good. You might think that zero inflation is good or zero unemployment is good, but really they’re not (if they were actually achievable). Managed inflation is preferable to unmanaged inflation or deflation. Full employment suggests that demand exceeds supply, which is inflationary. It can be too inflationary if there’s no way to increase supply (i.e., create more workers).
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  6027. Being thrown out a window would be a kindness to Putin. He deserves what happened to Gadaffi and Mussolini. The mobs literally tore those villains to shreds.
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  6028. I don’t agree with Pence’s social agenda or policies, but I respect him as a fellow American and as a man with honor and background. (I am more in agreement with Pence on economic conservatism and fiscal responsibility).
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  6029. Lock them in a room together?
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  6030. I really don’t want any tank. Not with current gas and diesel prices!
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  6031.  @timmysvensson4902  They liquified all their food and used paper cups.
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  6032.  @ytafalk3757  Puta madre, Russians are the mother and father of corruption. Ukrainian corruption is “on hold” because Ukraine’s survival is at stake, imbécil. This whole invasion is the result of corruption and Russia’s failure to win is a result of corruption. If you get hungry, go eat an oligarch.
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  6033. To be fair, Stan G, maybe you should watch the video? If you can’t focus on the full length video, watch this part: 5:20 .
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  6034. You mean sell the same property they intended to but just put the correct address on the contract/transaction paperwork?
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  6035. If you’ll indulge my conspiracy scenario (not going to dignify it with “theory”), I can think of a case where Team Trump has proof of hacking but can’t show the evidence. This is where they hacked the election machines, then someone came along later and hacked them a second time, undoing their hack. To paraphrase Doyle Lannaghan, the villain in The Sting, “What was I supposed to do, accuse him of cheating better than me?” It’s just idle speculation based on partial facts and no actual evidence. Wasn’t it fun, though? Here’s another. Team Trump hired a hacker to alter the machines. The hacker did nothing at all. When Trump lost, he tells Trump, “Someone came along and hacked my hack. Pay me $100 million and I’ll find out who.”
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  6036.  @Morozilka12  Just appreciated that we see you. Every point you make was covered in the video.
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  6037.  @Talos827  The U.S. NEVER conquered Korea, Cuba, nor Kuwait. You’re either completely ignorant of history or you’re a Putzi propagandist.
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  6038.  @lovebug6822 You do realize that Biden must have congressional approval to do anything, and that both the Republican Speaker of The House and the Senate Minority Leader have said they would block approval because it would hurt Trump’s election campaign. And this is after Republicans successfully tied aid to Ukraine to resolving the border crisis.
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  6039. They’re fleeing nuclear Holocaust, started by Putin.
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  6040. OK, Ivan
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  6041. Has anyone ever called you a useful idiot? Because your comment is something a useful idiot would write.
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  6042. 1) Going forward, getting a college education is going to require self discipline on the part of students. Sadly, the whole college party lifestyle will need to go away, be postponed, or needs to be heavily modified. 2) Colleges and universities that want to have physically attended classes should probably be operating as closed environments, cordoned off from the surrounding communities. If students live on campus, they should stay on campus. Faculty and admin will have to find a way to live on campus, or otherwise quarantine themselves from the surrounding community in some other way. 3) If a university or college doesn’t have the resources to isolate the school community from the surrounding community, they should stick to online learning. This might sound extreme, but if education is important and not just 4 years of leisure prior to adulthood, it can be done and should be done. There are many students that would willingly sacrifice the “college lifestyle” to get a college education. It’s a matter of priorities. Those less serious about learning should find something else to do and somewhere else to go.
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  6043. Not hard to tell them apart. Shrek had a donkey, while the Shreck units had horses.
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  6044. Jack, you poor uneducated slob. I don’t know where to start, so I won’t. I just urge you to sue all your school teachers, going back to kindergarten, for having failed you so badly.
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  6045. Lunker Pond 10 children must die to save one child from suicide, because dying of a disease isn’t a sin, but suicide is. Those ten children will go to heaven and they will have prevented the other child from going to hell. Yes, this all makes perfect sense.
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  6046. She should do what I have done and embrace that her fantasy ethnicity is fantasy. I am a Guanabí.
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  6047.  @deborahhebblethwaite1865  Yes, but it would be nice to avoid 10 million deaths, if possible. It’s far easier to take a cosmic view if you aren’t concerned for yourself or others (which I’m not accusing you of, btw). I get nosebleeds at that height. My great grandmother died of the Spanish Flu, and this led to some terrible results and suffering for my grandmother and her sisters. But this also causes me to wonder, would I even be here if she hadn’t? Unanswerable, of course, more of a thought experiment. So it’s quite possible that this Pandemic will turn out to be beneficial in some way in the long run, perhaps in some way that won’t be revealed for hundred or thousands of years. Or a hundred thousand years, if we last that long. I can’t really operate at those time scales, although I will admit it is interesting to read about how viruses have interacted with humans in the past and to wonder how they will in the future. In the meantime, we have the possibility of preventing deaths and minimizing suffering. Trusting in the universe, in nature, or in God doesn’t mean throwing in the towel. If a cosmic view gives you serenity, great! Don’t let it turn into Nihilism, however.
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  6048. I don’t think Biden was so cognitively impaired that he can’t be President, I think he was cognitively challenged by being president AND running for re-election. Both are very challenging jobs and he wasn’t up to doing both.
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  6049. My sympathies are with the victims of the collateral damage caused by these idiots that are hurting themselves. That said, if 5-10% of the population voluntarily (and stupidly) takes itself out, it might slow the progression of other problems we face, from catastrophic climate change to looming authoritarianism (which movement overlaps pandemic deniers). Generally, those that are anti-social, selfish, and immature are deleting themselves. The cost to the rest of us is high, but I hope that it will be beneficial to humanity in the long term. Call it a silver lining to a terrible situation or a blessing in disguise. I don’t hold a lot of sympathies for those people that are threats to society because common sense and common curtesy inconvenience them.
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  6050. Tragic news.
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  6051.  @xpusostomos  lol, it was that one guy taking a shit.
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  6052. Were arrests 2-4 for FTA? What’s going on with that? If she failed to appear and was arrested (#2) why was she arrested two more times?
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  6053. It seems incredible until you realize it’s probably 5 trolls with multiple accounts shitposting. And two of those trolls are in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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  6054. Surprised/Not surprised Graham is doing this sort of grandstanding. He’s not interested in governing. He’s not interesting in foreign relations. He’s only interested in pandering to his base. The backbone of the drug trade is the flow of money. It is U.S. banks that are the enablers of the flow of money. If Graham wanted to address the problem of the drug cartels, he would be advocating for more oversight of the banks and more muscular anti-laundering enforcement.
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  6055. Did you watch the video?
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  6056. A year ago I would have said this POV was delusional, but Trump has proved me wrong. This is a preview of America if Trump is re-elected. I pray it’s not a preview of a coup to keep Trump in power if he loses. If you haven’t figured it out already, it’s not that Trump doesn’t care about people. Trump is actively trying to destroy the country as punishment for giving him bad poll numbers. He wants to kill or injure anyone that doesn’t love him. He is a baby tyrant.
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  6057. No, they didn’t.
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  6058. I’ve been loving your channel and your sharing of your research into the Bronze Age. Thank you so much! I do have an off topic question for you before I sign up for your email list. What do you do with the email addresses you collect? I’ve given out my email address in the past, only to find that my address is getting sold. I unsubscribe from all the unwanted spam, and I get even more from companies I’ve never heard of. Thanks!
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  6059.  @turkofalbanianorigine1629  Sadly for Russia, no league outside of Russia will admit Russia again. Russia can go play with itself.
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  6060.  @vaitstream6227  I hope you were able to say good bye to your friend, because he is not coming back to Russia. Unless he was posted to Chernobyl, in which case he will be sent east to die of radiation poisoning while hidden from Russian society.
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  6061.  @evolassunglasses4673  No, the UKR defense forces are not surrounded in the East. Russia has too many fronts, and has failed to connect them. Your lies become ever wilder and unbelievable the more desperate you become. Too many people recognize you as a troll, and they recognize that you trade in lies and propaganda.
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  6062. Nice try, MAGA head.
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  6063. The bridge rebuilding is also a local/state issue. Maryland will be responsible. No doubt the federal government will kick in a chunk of money (depending on which part is in control of congress). There will be insurance money from the marine insurer (as Sal discussed in another vid).
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  6064. There is justification for post-birth abortion in certain circumstances. Exhibit #1 is Ron Desantis. He is not a viable human.
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  6065. They say it in the interest of justice, not just because of fears of lawsuits. These killers will be tried by a jury. If that jury has been tainted or members of it have prejudged the case based on evidence they’ve seen outside the courtroom, it’s grounds for appeal and/or moving the trial, and/or delaying the trial. And there’s even a chance the killers could go free on a technicality. If you want to see justice done as quickly as possible, maybe stop criticizing media use of the word “alleged”. You and I can call it as we see it, but others more involved are publicly constrained. What you want them to do would slow down the process, and could even result in justice denied.
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  6066.  @benwilson6145  Oh, no you didn’t.
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  6067. Were you born this dumb or does your community college offer dumb classes?
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  6068.  @jjdogbutte  Very few people, even liberal politicians, want a nanny state. But here we have people acting like tantrum-throwing toddlers, misbehaving like moral infants, abusing their personal freedoms to infringe on the rights of others. These are people that require an adult to set limits on their behavior, because their anti-social behavior is harming others, not just themselves.
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  6069. Different rally, same crazy.
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  6070. You’re saying that the jamming could trigger a programmed response from the drone to return to base or to a rally point away from the jammer gun. Fair enough. But while the drone is returning to base or flying out of jamming range, it’s not performing its task. So these jammer guns are effectively screening the Russian’s reconn. They are denying vital information about troop positions and movements to the Russians. As far as triangulating the jammer gun, that would require adding more hardware to detect direction, and Russia does not have access to that hardware because of sanctions. Remember that the hardware has to be miniaturized and use modern CPUs. Russia doesn’t have the capability to manufacture any of the miniaturized components and it can’t buy them. Their “high tech” manufacturing is early 1990s level at best, and I question whether they even have the capacity to build 90nm chips at scale. (Meanwhile Taiwan and South Korea can mass produce CPUs at 5nm-3nm.) Russia won’t run out of bullets or artillery shells, but they are already facing shortages of guided missiles, cruise missiles, precision guided bombs, and whatnot. They cannot easily replace MANPADS or ATGM systems.
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  6071.  @macmedic892 Venmo. He’s not fund raising, he wants cash transfers. If he went through GFM, they hold the cash for a period of time, possibly long enough for his scam to unravel. If he went through GFM, how much was donated could be tracked and how close he was to meeting his goals. With Venmo, he could be far above his stated goal and still accepting donations from victims. There’s no way to tell.
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  6072. °F. Prices are in $US. I imagine temperature is measured in units understood by the targeted customer.
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  6073. Oh, great, an explosion conspiracy theory nut. Please, professor crazy, tell us how explosions are bad. I explode at least twice a day, and I’m as healthy as a . . . .[BOOOOOOOM!!!] 😉
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  6074. Whatever, Ivan.
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  6075. Imported useless widgets don’t contribute to GDP at all. But you are correct that GDP isn’t everything. What matters is if some value is being created. You can increase GDP by hiring someone to dig a hole and fill it in, but it doesn’t contribute any value. (Or build blocks and blocks of high rise apartments that will never be occupied.) It shows up as GDP, but doesn’t contribute anything to the economy. But back to widgets. Imported widgets might not contribute directly to the GDP of our country, but in some cases they might increase productivity. However, you said useless widgets. I’m curious as to which useless widgets you’re talking about and either managed to avoid or have gotten rid of? I’ll tell you what, the most annoying thing to me about widgets in general, whether useful or useless, is battery management. Chargers, charging cables, remembering to charge the batteries. 😅 Keeping track of it all definitely decreases my quality of life.
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  6076.  @HistorialChannel  buena snoches, amigo. It looked like the Russian tanks were popping smoke. Was this to help their enemies identify their locations? 😄 I’m guessing that they meant to conceal themselves with smoke, but the wind prevented the smoke from pooling around them? Ay chihuahua, what a desmadre! Atte:from Mexico.
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  6077. Nah, Xi is pissed at Putin. Putin wasn’t supposed to invade all of Ukraine. China was counting on Putin to reinforce splits in NATO, especially between the U.S. and the Western European members. Instead, Putin has unified NATO and strengthened the resolve of China’s competitors. It’s caused new attention on Taiwan and China’s threats to Taiwan. The dependence of Europe on Putin’s oil and gas has China’s trading partners examining their dependence on China. This will likely lead to shifting some manufacturing to India, Vietnam, Mexico, and Brazil so as to be less dependent—slowing China’s economic growth. Xi knows full well that the U.S. and it’s European Allies can absorb the costs of helping Ukraine. There is no need to prop up Zelenskyy given the huge support and popularity he has in Ukraine. The only silver lining for Xi and the PRC is that a weak Russia will become a client state, in debt to China if it props up Putin, but China must play this game delicately. It is important to China that it maintains the facade of being above the fray.
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  6078.  @liangxiong4721  China is a net importer of food. Sorry to burst your bubble. The invasion of Ukraine will touch every nation that participates in the global economy, some worse than others. Maybe China will get off lightly, but it will feel some of the effects.
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  6079. @Crawled Out Of Plato's Cave oh, noes! Society might extract consequences for irresponsible, anti-social behaviors! This is a slippery slope! They might outlaw murder, next.
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  6080.  @attilamarics4808  You are one determined troll, I’ll give you that. For your own sake, I hope you can find a moral foundation, a basis for rational thought, and grow a conscience. Russia is not your friend. It would gobble you up and shit out your bones if you let it. Russia under Putin is a criminal state; pro-Russian bias is to be biased in favor of murder and violent theft. You can still be anti-Europe and anti-America without defending immoral thugs. Until that time (if it ever comes) you are intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. I think what is most pitiful about you is how you deceive yourself.
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  6081. I despise Trump Enablers, but I got a sense of how trapped this man feels, hemmed in by the delusional extremists of his party and the cynical grifters that manipulate them. A part of him knows he’s on the chopping block, that Trump will annihilate him for stepping out of line. But he cannot bring himself to fully renounce Trump because he clings to the delusional hope that he’ll escape Trump’s ire by some miracle. Dead man walking.
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  6082.  @spiritseeker2831 So you’re saying that God should sort out which God should sort it out?
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  6083.  @passingthroughtime3033  No, the SS did not. тролль duende ‎القزم 巨魔 ‎גַמָד chơi khăm peikko トロール ટ્રોલ Troll
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  6084.  @lyingdogfaceponysoldier5003  I don’t know who he is, but spammers, bots, and trolls sure seem to love him. Is he some sort of John Galt for millennial dickweeds?
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  6085.  @stephenbirchall941  She’s a cut and paste troll, but she’s also let it slip that she’s a literal Nazi/white nationalist.
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  6086. Sadly, I’m also dependent on a manual release but it has nothing to do with my semenship.
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  6087.  @jannaswanson271 That’s false. It’s based on 19th century folklorists making incorrect speculation. Just because other religions celebrate spring holy days doesn’t make them the same. The truth is that the Christian Easter builds on the Hebrew Passover, but doesn’t copy it. The Last Supper was a Passover dinner. That’s the facts.
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  6088.  @djkanyetwitty That’s false. It’s bs made up in the 19th century.
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  6089. Goodnesss! It is tragic when a lips-to-anus surgery goes awry. Any truthful residue on the lips or mouth of the donor and it will be rejected by the hypersensitive recipient. The GOP will be in big trouble if it can’t put together a Trump-headed human caterpillar by 2024
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  6090.  @baldacchinonicholas7962  They’re coddling you because they know your fragile mind might break if they used BCE/CE.
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  6091. Some Democrats won’t either. What’s your point, that you have a monopoly on genius?
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  6092.  @amandagardner565  I doubt you’re a Democrat. I suspect you’re a Rodger Stone operative sent in to these threads to sow division.
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  6093.  @spm_hcmc  There has always been a faction within the Left Wing that believes America is always wrong. They’ve never been mainstream. It’s not a merely a matter of being self critical or even overly idealistic. To them, America can’t ever do anything right. The American right wing also had its own extremist faction that pushed for isolationism as its foreign policy. The GOP always managed to marginalize these lunatics and keep them out of its mainstream conservatism. That is until recently. Now the isolationists control the GOP. They’ve cowed mainstream Republican politicians.
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  6094. If that many data providers are putting a road where none seems to exist, I have to wonder if there’s not an old easement or a right-of-way on the property of which the property owner is unaware.
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  6095. Why do you think that? The president’s negotiators had already approved it. Why didn’t he register his objections then? The foreign aid spending was in HIS budget request, not added on by Congress.
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  6096. I also imagine they’d be an inner ring defense for anything that gets past the outer rings. I thought about barrage balloons during the first year of the war, when Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and the power grid was being targeted. I figured that Ukraine already had people smarter and more qualified than I am that had considered barrage balloons as a solution. I also had more far fetched ideas that no one would have seriously considered (anti drone drones armed with tennis rackets). The idea might indeed be viable, but I think it’s a sign that Russian air defense is spread thin. They have more critical infrastructure than they have the capability to defend it. It’s a solution born of desperation.
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  6097. I was just informed that your thumbnail image is not a photograph of Mark Zuckerberg.
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  6098.  @LivingLove-lw6kf  What you want is a direct democracy rather than a representative democracy as set forth in our constitution. It’s not impossible to achieve. California and other states have modified their state constitutions to allow voters to directly vote on initiatives. There is growing support for dispensing with the electoral college. What you seem to want will be difficult to achieve, but as I said, it’s not impossible.
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  6099. It’s used for screening and reconnaissance operations, i.e., stopping the enemy from seeing what you’re doing and seeing what the enemy is doing.
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  6100. *integra-tay Just kidding, it’s integrity. No biggie if you don’t care.
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  6101. Den what?
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  6102. Letting the power loose is an excuse for what? Was that the issue here, that the ferry was going too fast? Your comment is confusing.
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  6103. Que bueno, amigo. Has viajado a Mexico? I’m from Los Angeles and now living in Mexico. One of my jokes is that I’ve always lived in Mexico.
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  6104.  @Ifraneljadida  And maybe a lesson for the bankers, too? A reminder that life is about more than money, maybe. I’m not at all saying that you didn’t absorb this lesson long ago. Indeed, you exemplify it. 👍 I am (or was) a U.S. conservative that has learned a lot over the past dozen years about what unites America as well as what divides it. The bonds of democracy and love of country are stronger than the forces that undermine our society. (And yes, I fully give capitalism its due as the greatest engine humanity has yet built. It’s not an ideology, it’s not a religion, it’s a social technology that moves us forward.) Your thoughts?
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  6105. Your spelling is so horrendous, I can tell you’re a homeschooled American maga.
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  6106.  @mauriciocornejo6707  Credible data won’t be forthcoming from that sociopathic troll. A reminder about these trolls. They are part of an effort to kill people through disinformation. Whether they themselves are taken in by the ruse is irrelevant. The motive behind their plot to depopulate the world is not of great importance. The question you should ask yourself is do you want to interact with a member of this genocidal program. Do you want to give the benefit of the doubt to someone who is trying to kill you and your family? Does it matter if they are delusional, intentionally malevolent, or mistakenly think they can save the planet via depopulation?
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  6107.  @sharonsmith1360  Are you a member of Putin-simps Anonymous? Are you a friend of Paul M.? The first step to recovery is admitting you are the problem.
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  6108. Holy shaving cream, a Dr. Demento cosplayer! That reminds me of a joke. What’s the difference between a Wild Man Fischer concert and a Trump rally? The people at the Wild Man Fischer concert eventually go home and sober up. 🥁
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  6109.  @catbb1000  It’s funny how the bankers don’t trust the valuations Trump wrote on the bond application.
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  6110. The law in California overrides that.
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  6111. Tommy Guo Guangxu Nice try, Ivan.
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  6112. Man, Carrie Brownstein looks like a mess.
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  6113. Ukraine might need the bridge for its attack on Krasnodar.
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  6114. Joe Rogan needs . . . . Where do I even start? He needs a brain implant? An ethics upgrade? Switching him off and then back on? Reincarnation and a fresh start? Joe Rogan is a snake oil salesman salesman. He doesn’t promote or sell the snake oil himself (or at least not much). He promotes the people who sell snake oil. His plausible deniability? “I’m just a comedian stoner” or “I’m just asking questions, not pushing an agenda”. He knows exactly what he is doing.
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  6115.  @SusCalvin  Calling them wannabe conservatives is too kind. The maga movement is not conservative. It’s a liars’ movement. Joe Rogan is not a conservative, contrarian, nor a freethinker. He’s just another anti-intellectual grifter whose grift is promoting other grifters.
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  6116. My sentiments exactly. Shep is a straight shooter. He’s a conservative who doesn’t compromise his journalistic integrity with partisanship. He is principled without being ideological. He is an example of what conservatives should aspire to be.
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  6117. This channel’s purpose is not to investigate home remedies. There are many other channels for that, some quite responsible in not making miracle cure claims. Making pine needle tea (or however you’re ingesting pine needles) falls under the “can’t hurt, might help” category. It’s certainly not a substitute for precautions scientifically proven to work, but I hope it works for you as a supplement. I’m taking vitamin D, myself.
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  6118.  @deconteesawyer5758  their OS X (operating system (or whatever number they’re up to) is based on Darwin, an open sourced version of BSD. Their closed source sw is built on top of that. They did not pioneer closed source operating systems, not by a long shot. I know it’s fashionable to bash apple. I know you can boost your geek cred by pointing out their shortcomings. But I’d be surprised as hell if there wasn’t an OS out there that would scratch all your itches*. So why moan about Apple using closed source SW that millions of people want? Can you not accept that not everyone wants what you do? Can you not accept that Apple products are what some other people want or need? It’s funny. The dicks have gotten smaller, but the dick measuring contests are more important than ever. *and if there is not, what stops you from creating it yourself?
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  6119. Is he using staples or brads? (I’d use staples for this application.) One nice aspect about this construction technique is that it’s nbd if the ends of the staples or brads emerge on the inside of the box. Just be careful around the hand holes.
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  6120. Enough for what? Probably not enough to open a third offensive, but they seem to have sufficient forces for the two ongoing counteroffensives.
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  6121.  @johnle6982  just FYI, forces being trained, training, trainees etc., have nothing to do with railroads.
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  6122.  oddist  I didn’t especially want to keep him, but the majority voted for him in the regular election. The only hope the Republicans had was a low turnout special recall election with an energized base, to overturn the will of the majority. And fuck if I can support that anti-democracy bullshit.
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  6123. That damn Joe Biden, you’d think he’d give it a rest and stop increasing the deficit. But no.
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  6124.  @forthosewhoHUNGER  In that case, wouldn’t a vote for Biden be pro-life? 200,000+ dead makes Trump seem anti-life.
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  6125. Your 24/7 “everything is politics” shtick is tired and boring.
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  6126. Big as a fishbowl, they say.
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  6127. I understand the fentanyl smuggling differently. If the traffic is stopped at the southern border, we also want to prevent it from being rerouted through Canada. Maybe the amounts smuggled today are insignificant, but that could change if shipments are stopped at the Southern border. Anyway, the idea of addressing smuggling at both borders isn’t completely irrational. There might be people in the Trump administration that understand tariffs, trade balances, and basic economics. But I suppose that they value loyalty to Trump, their nearness to power, and their jobs over trying to correct the President’s ignorance. The sky is whatever color the boss says it is.
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  6128. Special Economic Operation is the continuation of Special Military Operation by other means.
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  6129. Longer than a minute, but it was admirable how the officer used his conflict resolution skills to bring the temperature down.
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  6130. It’s interesting how his energy, his body language, and his gestures emphasize his words rather than distract from them. I was thoroughly enthralled by his storytelling, from the background and context and then the personality issues that left Lee blind at Gettysburg. (I’m also impressed that he squeezed it into a little less than a half hour.)
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  6131. Puts the balls into ballistic
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  6132. ⁠ @evinwhiteson4902 You forgot the rest of the steps: 3) Post unrelated bs in the comments. 4) ???? 5) Profit!!!
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  6133. After handing down the sentences, the judge commented from the bench, and he had some interesting things to say about the case, and how we might derive larger moral lessons from it.
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  6134. Oh, look. It’s a 4-Chan troll, here to tell us that the USA sucks.
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  6135. Beautiful PSA. I can’t call these political ads anymore, and y’all are doing us a public service. Anyone else feel like you can breath again? I know the fight is not over, but it feels like we took the hill and have the strategic high ground. I feel lighter. God bless us all, God bless our President and Vice-President, and God Bless our country, the United States of America.
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  6136.  @HanSolo__  well, he could claim that cookies/biscuits are currency, and then argue that oatmeal is a better shortbread than shortbread.
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  6137. That wasn’t a dog whistle. That was a dog foghorn. It’s a reminder to always precede “Christian Nationalism” with the word “white”.
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  6138. What if Donald tries to turn this into an “Aprentice” situation by giving Zelenskyy all he wants for 6 months while expecting results.
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  6139. That shaking you felt was the thud of a giant turd dropping from the sky and hitting Orange County.
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  6140.  @normanboyes4983  That could be. Good thought.
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  6141. I hope never. I like Cuban. He has interesting opinions. I might not agree with them, but it’s clear he’s given them some thought. He’s a sports team owner. He made his bones as an internet entrepreneur. He’s totally unqualified to be President, even if he’s more qualified than the last “business” person that was President.
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  6142.  @tomjohnson4681  Stop lying and spreading disinformation. It’s still not “proven”, and there have been no large scale double blind studies. There is no known mechanism to explain why it would work and it’s not (yet) proven effective. It’s something that might be worthy of further study, but right now it’s a desperation measure being used in places with few other options. Your touting of it as an effective treatment is highly suspect, as is your promotion of the antivax movement and Q type conspiracies. I will not engage in debate with you, as you have proven over and over in these threads to be a dishonest troll. I am commenting here to tag you as an agent of disinformation for other readers.
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  6143. That’s state controlled media for you. The narrative here is that Russia is liberating Ukraine from the evil NATO. Of course they’re not going to acknowledge the savage fighting against Ukrainians.
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  6144. Whether or not it was an outsider, it’s extremely messed up for a protestor to walk up and coldcock another protester. There’s no justification for that. I don’t find much justification for a group to attack the first guy with sticks, either. Restrain him for the authorities or fend him off. That all looked more retributive than self-defensive. If both sides are doing this, it’s no longer a peaceful protest. If this is supposed to be organized, organizers must be able to identify and eject provocateurs.
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  6145. Elon is terrible at interviews, whether he’s being interviewed or doing the interview.
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  6146. That’s ambitious. I’m fine with being an extra.
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  6147. Starting with weird assumptions like 2 + 2 = 5 might yield some interesting math that is internally logical, but you’re going to get slapped in the face if you try to use that math to build bridges or conduct a war. If you want to talk about “Putin’s Logic”, you should mention its dream logic. His assumptions weren’t just faulty. They were delusional and likely still are delusional.
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  6148. If you haven’t even superficially followed the last 20 years of Venezuelan politics, you really should refrain from commenting and making pronouncements as you have.
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  6149. All 12 of them?
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  6150. I’m pretty sure that “Drones! Drones! Drones!” was the title of Mötley Crüe’s 4th album.
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  6151. Microsoft might no longer be the 800 pound gorilla, but it’s still a 500 pound gorilla, so Qualcomm likely has been working with them wrt hardware optimizations. If they want to sell processors, they’d be stupid not to.
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  6152.  @Electronite1978  Article 5 is not automatic. It’s triggered by a country under attack invoking Article 5. So if Russia attempted a shallow incursion (to create a “security buffer” as their excuse) or some other provocation, it’s quite possible that Finland would say, “We got this.”
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  6153.  @chuckd7423  He’s been told for years that entitled is a bad word. It’s sad that he didn’t get the education to which he was entitled.
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  6154. It’s a bit more nuanced than that, actually a lot more nuanced, but your point should be taken under consideration.
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  6155. His policy will be to marry the UK to a wealthier country? Its worked out nicely for him, why wouldn’t it work for a whole country?
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  6156. This is like a Bill Hader sketch on SNL.
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  6157. Yup. That’s what happens when the President invites his white supremacist minions and then doesn’t call out the National Guard. Ironically, it was Pence that finally called the Guard out to defend the Capitol Building. It was Pence who coordinated government agencies, after it was realized that Trump was “indisposed”. It was Pence that had harsh words for the rioters, not Trump. Goddamn, I never thought Pence had it in him, but he acted like the leader of a democracy for just one day.
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  6158. GET RICK SCOTT — the newly named Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, in charge of fundraising for Republican senators. Target/tailor an ad to the big donors, focusing on Scott’s pro-insurrectionist vote against accepting Pennsylvania’s electoral votes hours after the riot, focusing on his enablement and support of Trump’s Lie . “Companies once supported the GOP because it was the pro-business party, but they are leaving in droves because the Trump GOP hurts their bottom lines. American business leaders want nothing to do with Scott or GOP senators that undermine our American principles of Democracy for their personal ambition. We know they are lying. It’s time to tell them we know they’re lying.” Something like that?
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  6159. I don’t think the judge will allow theatrics in his courtroom. If the questioning goes in that direction, the judge can shut it down.
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  6160. What would prevent Netflix from broadcasting garbage? It’s their platform. Sensational trash is popular and profitable. AFAIK, Netflix makes no claims about the veracity of their programs. If you somehow got a Netflix executive to answer why they are purveyors of pseudoscientific crap, they would probably say they are providing entertainment, not scholarship.
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  6161. My read is that Ukraine is shaping the battlefield and that the counteroffensive might not come at Kherson. It might be a feint. Or there might be several feints with counteroffensive thrusts in more than one place. I do think Kherson is a target, but Ukraine is going to make Russia scramble.
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  6162. @tag4789 A strong defense prevents war. Are you a MAGA child or a regular child?
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  6163.  @craigson153  It makes delicious cornbread. Basically, you’re using your cast iron pan as a baking pan. The good results Buddy achieved can also be found by deep frying, (which is going to yield you food less healthy than cornbread, but I’m not going to judge). The underlying theory is that you’re getting the hot oil way up the sides of the pan and sealing it to the iron with heat. Personally, my favorite way of baking the cornbread is with some grated cheddar or jack cheese and a small can of sliced jalapeño. It’s great with chili.
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  6164. The Mayan calendar is multicycle. The 260 day cycle is just one of the cyclic counts used by the calendar. There is also a 365-day solar cycle.
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  6165.  @theseventhgeneration6910  What Weaver did is terrible, but I don’t think it sinks to the depths of the Q cult’s projectional fantasies and suppressed desires.
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  6166. That was short and sweet.
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  6167. If that’s what the Dems want, then the ball is in their court to negotiate with moderate Republican Congresspeople. Are the Dems willing to make compromises to their liberal agenda? Can they offer assurances that they won’t stab them in the back in 2024? To make Jeffries the speaker, you’d basically have to form a coalition with the “moderate conservative” faction. Are you willing to do that? Can you do that without splitting your own party?
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  6168.  @FazeParticles  The neocons were globalists who believed in a “muscular” foreign policy. I’m not sure Pete is what you’d call a globalist.
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  6169.  @jesper509  tapicero in Spanish
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  6170. Wasn’t this company featured on the reality show Portlandia?
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  6171.  @WAXWINS  But will it blend?
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  6172.  @tiffanydott6531  This isn’t the official no fly list. It’s more of a blacklist shared by some charter airlines.
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  6173.  @tomjohnson4681  <—TROLL
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  6174. A peak in number of cases is not enough to say it’s a long term trend, especially considering that the new variant is just getting started and we have more than a month of winter ahead of us. This far, the number of vaccines has been going up TOO SLOWLY, when it could have been better, and fewer infected. We are no where near containment levels.
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  6175. Yacarino doesn’t have all the powers of a normal CEO? Child, she doesn’t even have the powers of a normal person to dress herself.
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  6176. Better question, why aren’t they pronouncing it ‘kakat’?
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  6177. Sofa King good.
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  6178.  @tarotbullnews9999  How deep do the pilings go? That’s tornado country, so I imagine the excavation was also pretty deep.
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  6179. Hold up a moment. The Sikhs agitated for Quebec separatism? Did they not know that French speaking Canadians were already doing that? Just kidding. But seriously, thanks for your informative comment. I read the whole thing. India’s action was geopolitically/diplomatically foolish, even if there was justification and Canada was in the wrong. India needs more friends, not fewer. And the man they assassinated? Was he an ongoing threat to India? Was this a pressing issue? I was under the impression that the violent extremists in India had been put down.
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  6180. They aren’t trying to link aid to Ukraine to the border crisis, they HAVE linked it. And now that aid to Ukraine is contingent on solving the border crisis, the Republican controlled house leadership has confirmed they’ll kill any legislation currently being negotiated. It’s truly despicable. It’s hard for me to believe this is the same GOP to which I was registered for 25 years.
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  6181. Why would there be a Spanish accent for anything in Brasil?
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  6182. If you were an American, you’d know that the FBI will have no involvement in the case. This is a state crime and will be handled by local and state authorities.
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  6183. She wasn’t a spy. She was a lobbyist for a foreign country. Such lobbyists must register as foreign agents, and they’re free to do their lobbying. This woman failed to register and seems to have tried to hide her job working for Russia. Her citizenship status has nothing to do with the crime—Americans get busted for this all the time.
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  6184.  @hifinsword  that’s right. And she’s not being charged for espionage. A foreign agent is basically a lobbyist for a foreign country. You are required by law to register as a foreign agent for country X (or even multiple countries). It appears that this woman tried to conceal who was paying her for the work she was doing. Her citizenship has nothing to do with the case—Americans without dual citizenship get caught for acting as unregistered foreign lobbyists all the time. Calling her a spy is like calling your insurance agent am insurance spy.
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  6185. You’re a bit mixed up. It’s the judge and jury that must approach these cases with “innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt”. We expect law enforcement to be impartial, but that doesn’t mean withholding their opinion about guilt of the accused. It would be worse if they said, “we think the accused are guilty, but who knows? Maybe they’re innocent”. You’ll note that there are dozens more being investigated that were not named or pictures. Judd is not loosely flinging accusations. He’s presenting those suspects for whom they have enough evidence to prove they are guilty . . . beyond a reasonable doubt.
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  6186. Great, I was hoping we’d get an opinion from a Native American. You are a Native American, right?
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  6187. Ante up, if you can. The Lincoln Project uses the money donated to buy advertising time for their ads.
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  6188. Why use an elaborate explanation when the simplest one is “cover-your-ass” mindset of bureaucracy. Even in an emergency, the bureaucratic mindset will reassert itself.
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  6189. If they had done that, it would have negated the tribe’s mineral council’s strongest argument. That doesn’t mean the tribe doesn’t have other legal arguments, but they are less clear cut.
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  6190. Headline writers’ knowledge isn’t generally deep enough to distinguish between an APC, an IFV, SPA, or a MBT. They should just go with armored vehicle or AFV so you don’t get sand in your underwear, but they don’t listen to me.
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  6191.  @waltzinthewoodsb9066  even KN95?
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  6192. Mannheim Steamrollers. 🧐😂 That was terrible! 😡 😭
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  6193. @Ping Pong Cuomo is Italian, and “Fredo” is an anti-Italian slur.
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  6194. I think the apology is sincere—he’s accepting responsibility. We’ll see what a judge says (and a jury, if he fights charges). Losing his high paying job at Merrill Lynch is pretty harsh social punishment, but there must be some form of official censure beyond that. Secondarily—I do not blame these kids at all. Businesses that serve food to the public need to have policy and training in place wrt customers with allergies. If the kids aren’t trained to fulfill allergy based requests, that’s the company’s fault. If a company is failing their customers in this way, it’s up to the customer to go elsewhere.
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  6195. Not really. Volcanic activity is a constant across the globe.
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  6196.  @cdigames  100 sq inches is a 10” by 10” reflector. Or do you mean an 8’ 4” x 8’ 4” reflector? That sounds too big for a c-stand. Tbh, I’d avoid putting anything bigger than a 4’x4’ frame or a 4x8 sheet of beadboard in a single C-stand. For an 8’ x 8’ pipe frame, I’d want a beefy baby with a lollipop at a minimum. Two would be better.
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  6197.  @JeahnLaffitteAdventures  I never took to calling (ahem) GRIP HEADS “gobos”. Flags, nets, and silks are flags, nets, and silks, not gobos. AFAIK, gobos are the little metal inserts you use to create shadow silhouettes in elipsoidal lights. I figured that it was ignorant fashion photographers that called all that other stuff a gobo.
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  6198.  @williamscalzitti217  That makes sense, and is probably why when I worked in the biz, it was only used in reference to the metal inserts of theatrical elipsoidal lights. These literally go between the optical elements of such a light. Back then, someone calling a grip head a gobo was probably a pho-tah-grah-pher and not familiar with motion picture equipment.
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  6199. I don’t know if she would take the job, but the committee could hire her as an investigator.
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  6200.  @onetwo12onetwo526  There is zero indication of that. It is not unusual for children of alcoholics and addicts to be abstainers.
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  6201. I suspect that they’re sufficient for current needs, but wouldn’t be able to handle transport logistics in a future conflict.
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  6202. Why would serving time in a Brazilian prison prevent him from serving as a congressman? 😅
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  6203. Collapsed or opened? lol
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  6204. It’s indeed a risk, but most observances will (hopefully) be in families’ home chapels with no more than a few families attending the religious rituals. So yes, there is an increased risk, but the result might be only slightly terrible rather than very very terrible. That said, I’m watching from home and not attending any parties. (There’s a church in my hometown that has a statue of Jesus holding His arms up. We always called it The Church of the Holy Touchdown.)
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  6205.  @coderentity2079  Already done. These missiles don’t need a huge factory. Production can be decentralized, most likely already is decentralized. The west can easily provide whatever machine tools and components the Ukrainians don’t already have. Russia’s Black Sea fleet can’t be reinforced. There are no replacements on the way. The fleet is being destroyed one ship at a time.
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  6206. Do those awesome eyebrows come with the knighthood?
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  6207.  @redo3138  Nah, I’ll wait until the day after tomorrow or next week. 😂 Or I’ll just keep waiting society crumbles. High housing prices are definitely a problem, but the OP’s solution is frikkin retarded.
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  6208.  @abdeslamkallis533  This is why you should study the boring topic of trade policy and not leave it to those with an agenda.
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  6209.  @robertplatt643 Small & Medium Enterprises.
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  6210. It’s useless. Maybe you can appeal to people on the fence, but you’re not going to convince anyone in a cult that their cult is misguided, at least not on your own. How to deal with harmful mass delusion is an open question. Historically, we’ve seen mass delusions fade when the predicted crisis (people literally believed that the year 1000 marked the end of the world, for example) doesn’t come to pass. In this case, the main body of delusion seems to be that the pandemic is an excuse for shadowy figures to institute a totalitarian regime. When that doesn’t come to pass, people will gradually give up their delusions. This is already happening, as conspiracy predictions have failed to materialize.
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  6211.  @MegaBanne  haha, you’re right! 😂
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  6212. An angle grinder is a grinder that is capable of cutting metal. I’m not sure if the distinction matters here, other than it’s much more gruesome murder weapon it’s and sickening to imagine it.
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  6213.  @woltews  What if epoxy was applied to the turret ring so the turret couldn’t move?
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  6214. In a word, nukes. Putin has turned deterrence on its head by staving off direct military intervention because he has nuclear weapons.
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  6215. Oh, look, a time capsule!
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  6216. They want everyone else to die of COVID, too. That’s the problem. They could go form their own colony and behave as selfishly and idiotically as they please, without putting the rest of us at risk. There are uninhabited Islands in Alaska. They don’t respect property, so they should just go occupy their island. They could support their new society by making it a reality show, until they got their own manufacturing infrastructure built up. They could even make Trump their king, and build a Trump Tower for him if they have nothing better to do. I really wish they’d do this. I’d pay for a one-way boat ticket for at least one of them.
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  6217. What information was incorrect?
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  6218. If they don’t grant cert, there’s nothing to send back or remand. The appellate panel’s decision stands.
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  6219.  Mark  That’s the Republican argument, but the impeachment trial started before Trump left office. Furthermore, apparently it’s not an argument Trump will make at the trial in the Senate. Trump seems to be removing that political cover from his loyal Senators—regardless of their reasoning, they will forever have the albatross of the stolen election argument hung around their necks. Trump is telegraphing that he doesn’t want the unconstitutionality defense, and that they need to get on board with the stolen election argument as their reason. Trump seems more intent on destroying the GOP and damaging the careers of his most loyal Senators than anything else. The only rational explanation is that fundraising off of the trial is more important to him than the fate of the GOP.
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  6220. Can you give me some examples of a corporation dictating to you the ethics you should be following? Do you mean a company you’ve worked for that expected you to follow company policies? Or perhaps you are a customer and feel that a company is forcing you to comply with their ethical policies. Again, I’d like to hear specific examples. Maybe you feel that a business closed on Sunday is forcing you to comfort to a set of religious beliefs? Maybe you feel that if a company incorporates niche marketing into its overall marketing plan, you (as customer) are being forced to accept and respect the existence of that niche? I’m giving you examples of possible “dictating ethics” that maybe aren’t really “dictating”. But maybe they are. Maybe there is a convincing argument that corporations are forcing us to comply with a set of ethical rules. Maybe you can introduce me to such and argument. I might be missing some angle on all this.
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  6221. ⁠​⁠​⁠ @user-ep1ks2pq5r Your all-capping “dictation” is an interesting emphasis. I think it’s directing me to the key issue at hand, but it makes me wonder if we have the same definition of the word. It even makes me wonder if I have a completely incorrect definition. As I see it, there are different levels of “dictation”. (And let’s set aside those definitions that obviously don’t apply, such as someone dictating a letter to a secretary.) I suspect that there is some overlap in these levels. First level would be when someone or something compels by force that you to comply with their system of ethical beliefs. Ultimately, compel by force means (to me) using physical violence if you do not comply. If you do not comply with the laws, the state will use violence to punish you until you do comply. A level below that is the more informal force of social pressure. The threat there is that society will reject you if you do not comply to its dictates. You could lose a job for not conforming. You could lose friends. A level below that is group and peer pressure. You could get thrown out of your group or be ostracized by your peers if you don’t conform to their ethics. The lowest level is dictation without any threat. That’s someone just telling you what to do or how you should live, without any threat or force to back it up. They might tell you to become a vegetarian or to not spit on the sidewalk or to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. They are dictating to you your behavior without any force to back it up (other than the force of their personality, lol). Am I missing something here? Does this cover “DICTATED”? If so, maybe I do understand what you’re saying. You’re saying no one should tell you how to behave, at all. They should not force you to behave, they shouldn’t pressure you to behave, and/or they shouldn’t even suggest how you behave.
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  6222. What he says now is that the bottleneck/limitation is the number of pilots. The implication is that more F-16 pilots can be trained than Gripen pilots in the same time period. The Gripen might have been a more suitable plane for conditions in Ukraine, all other things being equal. But things are not equal, and consideration must be given to many other factors, such as time needed to train and training slots available at any one time. If we’re just comparing planes, Gripen might be better for this particular job. But we are not comparing planes, but total systems. I tend to think the Gripen was the right plane, but not the right system.
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  6223. Lol at the finger icon.
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  6224.  @MartinCHorowitz  Think parking lots, not the theme park itself. Disneyland has a huge amount of real estate devoted to parking. Dodger Stadium in L.A. is using its parking lots for drive thru vaccination.
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  6225. OK, Ivan
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  6226.  @Tetracera.  the U.S. edition of Pravda. Sort of like Al Jaziera, but more Putin-y.
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  6227.  @battlebbot  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  6228.  @RabJ208  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  6229. Airports and other ports of entry should be a priority, but a need for trainers and handlers means a jobs boost.
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  6230. Doctrine has evolved. The close approach to target epitomized by the A10 is deprecated doctrine. I imagine Swedish CAS doctrine has also evolved. Modern precision guided munitions allow CAS engagement at long ranges with more effective accuracy than either low and slow or low and fast.
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  6231.  @llkellenba  lol, but my question is serious. What if there’s a brokered convention? Who gets nominated? Does Nikki Haley have an edge if DT is out of the running (for whatever reason)?
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  6232. It’s both. Agreed, it’s not enough for the hardest hit, but it’s the best they could come up with since the Senate leadership’s position was to give NOTHING. Even though there was bipartisan support for $1200! And despite the compromise, the package was almost torpedoed by Senator Toomey at the last minute! It’s still a stimulus because not all who receive it desperately need it. These people will spend it on goods and services, keeping the economy on life support until the majority of the population is vaccinated and back at work. Perhaps they will be charitable and give the money to those that face eviction or are already evicted.
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  6233.  Un vaccinated Anticommunist  One month old troll account. Shouldn’t you be posting anti-Ukraine posts on a different video?
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  6234.  @joboygbpedwards  Are you upset that the anti-American, anti-Democracy, White Christian Nationalist side isn’t getting a fair hearing?
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  6235.  @FlightRecorder1  I’m really into this scope. You probably haven’t heard of it.
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  6236.  @lancerevo9747 you’re not paying attention to serious analysis. You are a headline reader. You look at headlines without reading or watching the story.
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  6237. Why you Russians trusted Putin in the first place is beyond my comprehension. Thank god we in the U.S. were able to get rid of our would be dictator.
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  6238.  @ilikehardplay  Those are good lines of thought. The generals might all be using secure communications channels, but what about their entourages? Their orderlies, their drivers, their mistresses. You don’t need to listen in on conversations. You just track their device IMEIs and other metadata. One day you notice that 10 devices on your tracking list are all in the same place or heading in that direction. This is metadata that can be developed and analyzed by the Ukrainians themselves. Real time satellite imagery is probably the most useful thing that the U.S. IC could provide. So you know when everybody goes into the big tent or building for the meeting, or when they come out. And lastly, the targeting could have been done by human assets, in which case you might want to conceal that aspect by having the U.S. take credit.
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  6239. I recently celebrated my cincuentaneara.
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  6240. President Sheinbaum’s putting 10,000 troops on the border is less than a tiny concession to preserve the status quo, and she got something in return. Trump promised to stop (or crack down, at least) illegal firearm exports into Mexico. Of course it remains to be seen if Trump will follow through in a meaningful way. On one hand, the NRA is going to have a fit (“muh guns”). But on the other hand, with less straw purchasers for the smugglers creating less demand, gun prices in the U.S. could drop. This would make gun owners and prospective owners happy. Edit: How could Canada possible benefit from becoming part of the U.S.? It would lose much of its sovereignty, but check it out. It would gain massive political power in the U.S. The idea of Canada become the 51st state is absurd. How about the idea of Canada becoming the 51st thru 60th state? That’s 20 senators. More if any of the Canadian territories also got state status. A block of 20 senators is a huge amount of power. Canada would be in charge of the U.S. Senate.
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  6241.  @itsallminor6133  I’ll say this. Trump knows how to normalize a crazy or extreme idea. And I hate to ever admit Trump has a point, there are real reasons why it would be a good idea to colonize Greenland: climate change. I’m assuming we’ve pretty much given up on halting, slowing, or controlling AGW. Greenland is going to increase in value exponentially as more habitable land and exploitable is uncovered by melting glaciers. Greenland becomes a very attractive target for expansionists countries. Trump just called first dibs. And if we can’t have it, no one else (other than the Greenlanders) gets it. Similar logic for Canada, although it’s extremely, extremely unlikely that the U.S. will take over Canada or absorb it. I’m not saying it will never happen—Canada would see benefits. But the point is that Trump’s nutty ideas are forcing us to examine the U.S.-Canada relationship and the assumptions upon which it is based. And that could lead to positive change. Personally, I think Canada, the U.S., and Mexico need greater economic cooperation and trade with each other, for security reasons as much as economic or any other reasons. Trumpian clownery and Trumpian chaos might actually accelerate the process of unifying our economies.
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  6242. Look, Putzi, we know you’ve never invested a ruble in the the NYSE, and we know you never will. The stock market fluctuates constantly, which you would know if you weren’t stuck in your troll farm cubicle. You should be more worried about what sanctions are doing to your miserable country.
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  6243. I want to see an MTV “Where are they now?” about Paul Ryan.
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  6244. Or rear areas to control the populace and shoot at buildings.
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  6245.  @theapplianceguru  I’m with you. All these YouTube jurists are overthinking it. It’s like a part of a comic spiel for criminal defense attorneys: “My client is presumed innocent until proven not guilty, and it’s a well known fact that you can’t prove a negative, therefore my client is innocent. Quod Erad Demonstratum!”
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  6246. Are the Republicans gaslighting themselves or just smelling each other’s farts?
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  6247.  @trappenweisseguy27  You mean like the My Pillow guy? I ordered a red pillow but was unable to swallow it. Subsequently I’m still stuck here in the Matrix.
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  6248. More like a piece of toilet paper in a kleig light.
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  6249.  @awesomedallastours  Yes. Insurrection/sedition might also be difficult to prove, especially when it comes to intent. However, I think the authorities will be able to make a case for some of the groups that organized the riots. Investigators are collecting these groups’ communications and making plea deals with some of the accused. So I do expect to see some seditionist hides nailed to the barn, figuratively speaking.
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  6250. Asbestos impregnated cloth in many cases.
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  6251. Apparently you need to post a removal bond to cover the cost of removal, before starting construction.
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  6252. The resignations and rumored resignations make me wonder if people aren’t trying to legally distance themselves from an actual plot. Pure speculation on my part, to be sure. I have no evidence, just a suspicion. If there is any truth to it, we will be hearing about it. That’s the sort of thing too big to hide.
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  6253. I agree. A lot of Dems hate McConnel like the right hates Pelosi. It’s because both of them are good at their jobs. They’re both great Americans.
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  6254. There was bipartisan support for $1,200 payments. It’s important to know who blocked that, whether they are Republicans or Democrats (and I’ll give you a guess). Those who compromised and accepted $600 checks shouldn’t be tarred with the same brush. They knew how important it was to get something out the door. Now let’s get more philosophical for a moment. I want to touch on the orthodox GOP response to lockdowns, which is “the cure can’t be worse than the disease”, meaning jobs are more important than lives, that the economy is more important than hundreds of thousands of lives, that my job is more important than your life or even the lives of my family members. Or even my own life. Sacrificing a half million or a million is worth it if it means we “get back to normal” sooner. Before addressing the humanitarian aspects, I want to question the premise that the economy can return to normalcy when millions are getting sick, and hundreds of thousands are dying, and sane people concerned for their own health and the health and safety of their families are staying at home as much as possible. It defies logic. Pretending that the deaths aren’t real doesn’t remove them nor does it minimize their cause. But I hear a straw man conservative saying, “but if people are voluntarily locking themselves down, following mask protocols, limiting their gatherings, why do we need government imposed lockdowns, mandatory masks, and government limitations on gatherings? The reason is this: a significant portion of the populace, for various reasons (usually boiling down to ignorance, delusion, politics, or hatred of expertise), defy common sense measures and are instrumental in the spread of the virus. These self-described “free thinkers” emulate the actions and words of their political leaders, and their selfish, antisocial mindset is reinforced by those words and examples. That is why we need lockdowns. It’s not for the people already doing their best to stay safe. It’s for the jerks that don’t care what happens to anyone else, the ones that defend their “right” to not wear a mask* even when it will deprive others their right to live. As a conservative, I understand the tendency towards wanting less government control, more liberty, less government spending. I have a basic belief that, for all its problems, capitalism is the best economic engine for the development of society. However, I do not ignore the fact that we are in a national emergency of unprecedentedly proportions, and that the damage to our country is going to get worse before it gets better. Whether I measure that damage in precious human life or our precious economy, I recognize the reality, and I recognize that ordinary conservative policies are not responsive and in some cases make our national tragedy worse. And I also recognize that in a time of national emergency, the federal government must lead a national response. At the start of WWII, we did not delegate the response to Japan, Germany, and Italy to the states. There was an all of government response that harnessed the entire country to defend ourselves. Imagine how the war might have ended if each state was left to its own devices as aggressors swept across the globe, while the president insisted it wasn’t a world war. Austerity isn’t an excuse to ignore a national emergency. Individual liberty isn’t permission to thumb your nose at the society that helps protect your liberties. We face a common threat in Covid-19. Unite or die. “So, what about the stimulus checks?” asks my conservative straw man. Why everyone? Shouldn’t they be targeted only to the most needy? If their sole purpose was to help the most needy, those facing or in the midst of financial collapse, evictions, hunger, etc., yes. And the Senate could have spent the past 6 months determining who should get this assistance and how to deliver it. But that is not the sole purpose of the stimulus checks. The other purpose is right there in the name, STIMULUS. The purpose is to stimulate the economy, to encourage people to spend on goods and services, thereby preserving jobs, which maintains demand for goods and services. It’s a stop gap measure to keep the economy alive, to provide fuel to the engine so it doesn’t die. In the long run, keeping it alive now is cheaper than trying to revive it later. Letting it die increases the risk that capitalism will be replaced by a social system less amicable to human liberties and human rights. There. That’s the conservative argument FOR economic stimulus. What’s more, it harnesses the marketplace and consumer choice, rather than allowing government to pick the winners. What can be more conservative than that?
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  6255. I didn’t, but my ai did.
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  6256.  @ZetaMoolah  Jazz cigarettes.
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  6257. Actually, if the death and damage was caused inadvertently by a Ukrainian SAM, we could breathe a bit easier. Russia would still be responsible, but there wouldn’t be any question about Russia’s intent and whether there would be or should be an Article 5 response.
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  6258.  @donixion4368  I think we are in agreement. I do expect we will see some sort of response once Russia has “clarified” things.
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  6259.  @lorentzianmanifold718  Turkey is letting military ships leave the Black Sea, but not enter, iirc.
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  6260. It undermines the argument that NATO is aggressively expanding eastward. The truth is that Eastern European countries wishing to avoid losing their independence to Russia are looking westward and applying for membership. It’s worth noting that no new members were admitted until well after Russia began (in 1994) violently attacking independence movements within other countries of the former USSR, and also worth noting that it wasn’t until 1999 that three new members were admitted in the first post-Cold War round of admissions. The point here is that admitting new members in 1999 was the NATO response to Russian aggression and breaking of agreements. If Russia wanted to maintain the freeze on NATO growth, they shouldn’t have been invading others. They invited it with their own aggressive actions. TRIGGER WARNING: anal rape analogy ahead To put this in very crude terms, it’s like blaming the Alliance Against Anal Rapists for admitting members that don’t want to be anally raped, whose fears are justified because an anal rapist keeps anally raping people that aren’t members of the alliance. Yeah, right, the alliance against anal rapists is provoking the anal rapist. And by the way, the anal rapist keeps talking about how it wants to rape again some of its former victims in the alliance, as well as the alliance itself. And now that it’s anal raping a new victim/former victim, it’s blaming the victim for flirting with the alliance. My feeling is that people that support Russia really love anal rape. How does the anal rapist get away with all this anal rape? Mainly because it threatens the world with global nuclear bukake.
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  6261. @@dude30000 I don’t think you know what a narc is, kid. A narc is a policeman, baby. You absolute child.
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  6262. “Basically Ukraine”? Yes, those Russians who moved to Ukraine and adopted Ukraine as their homeland. The same Russians that Putin assumed would embrace his invaders as liberators. Yeah, it turns out those guys want to liberate Russia from Putin.
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  6263. What’s that on Mexican TikTok? Casa de jaip?
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  6264. MISINFORMATION DETECTED — Probable Liar This post partially based on some facts, but is such an extreme distortion that it qualifies as a lie. Governor Newsom has acted and continues to act in counterproductive and irresponsible ways, and his lax policies are resulting in worse outcomes. However, what “Carol Reid” is posting is absolutely not true. Newsom issued NO SUCH ORDERS. He has moved back to county based lockdowns, based on hospital ICU occupancy. Counties at 85% capacity are •allowed• to reopen certain types business, if the county chooses to relax their lockdowns. Throughout the pandemic, counties have always been permitted to institute stricter protocols. Carol, if you’re not a troll or some kind of political asshole, please stop posting lies. If you hear about something, check credible sources before posting. Governor Newsom is a terrible governor (and a terrible example), but posting lies is a great disservice to everyone. Please try to keep your stinking political disinformation to yourself, it has no business on a channel devoted to medical information.
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  6265.  @kmadad22  What everyone else has said, plus they don’t share the same language. You are either ignorant or a really bad liar.
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  6266. Adam Fingers Savage
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  6267. Defense News has an interesting article (but I was only able to read half of it before the ad-blocker wall went up). It looks like ASTIMAR is very busy. How would investments be structured? ASTIMAR is a Mexican SOE. Our government (U.S.) isn’t big on SOE, but we could encourage American firms to invest by loaning them the money. I’m sure a joint venture could be worked out along these lines (assuming the House of Representatives can get its ship together and lose the dead-weight obstructionists). Your thoughts?
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  6268.  @danielch6662  ASTIMAR is a SOE, so I don’t think China can buy it out. A joint venture between ASTIMAR and a U.S. company (with the U.S. government backing the loans) could work out well for both us and Mexico. Also, I’m not a big fan of López Obrador, but I don’t think he’s a huge fan of the PRC. The Chinese investments in Mexican infrastructure are structured differently (more advantageously to Mexico) than the BRI deals China is doing in SE Asia, Central Asia, and Africa. Mexico doesn’t have to worry about falling into a Chinese debt trap.
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  6269. It doesn’t sniff of desperation, it sniffs of insanity. “Own goal” is too mild a description for the suicide pact Russia has made with Putin in the name of a hazy nationalistic quasi-ideology (as are all fascist ideologies). This isn’t Russia playing Russian roulette with five empty chambers, it’s Russia drunk and playing with chainsaws and machetes, amputating limbs, and refusing to stop because it still has a few limbs.
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  6270. You’re probably under the impression that the government action is a bail out of the bank. It’s not. These banks are not being saved. They’re kaput. Two of the banks are in receivership and SVB will either be bought by another bank (because its assets are basically sound) or also be liquidated. If you want a better understanding of the situation (or any understanding), read up on bonds. This might give you enough basic information to understand what happened here.
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  6271. Modern writing? Just bad lazy writing. I’m not talking about just the dialogue, but the entire concept was hack.
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  6272. I’d rather be beatniki.
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  6273. You’ll be relieved to hear that the tank is fine, but its transfer to Ukrainian defense forces is still pending.
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  6274. Wish they’d just let him talk.
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  6275. Can you name a decade that didn’t see the release of war movies? Was there a decade with significantly fewer war movies than the 2000s? Maybe you were noticing war movies more, but I don’t think you have any proof that there were more war movies in that decade, or that WWII movies were designed to promote the Great War on Terror. Maybe you’re thinking of the TV series Band of Brothers, which came out in 2001? Yes, September 9th, 2001. See, Tom Hanks, the executive producer new about the attack on the WTC ahead of time, and created the show to help shape opinion before the attacks occurred. Sure. That’s the ticket. Have you met my wife . . . . Morgan Fairchild?
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  6276.  @castielysia  Thank you. We are Americans that love our country and love democracy. We’ve put country over party. Unsurprisingly, we are hounded out of the GOP as “RINOs” or worse, traitors. This has been going on for a while, before Trump, but it’s gotten much worse under his leadership. When you come down to it, both liberals and conservatives* love our Constitutional form of democracy, warts and all. Each side’s political principles rest on the foundation of democracy: equal treatment under the law and the vote. Conservatives have more in common with liberals than they do with the fascists, authoritarians, and white supremacists that have usurped the name “conservative”. In the end, we are friends and allies, and the false conservatives are the enemy, are the anti democracy fanatics that seek to destroy our country. We are out there, even if we are few. Some of us left the GOP a decade or more ago, when the trend towards authoritarianism was gaining unstoppable momentum, when we realized that the weed of racism wasn’t so easy to pull out, but had taken over the garden. *I define conservatives as people who hold conservative principles, and who do not sell those principles for temporary political power.
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  6277.  @jasonb2123  Do you mean the pundits? Or the news.
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  6278. No Christian is a hypocrite who believes that Christ has redeemed his or her soul by Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection. If a Christian holds that faith, there is no limit on their behavior that excludes them from being a Christian. A Christian can be a bad person, but that has no impact on whether they are Christian or not. It is theologically safe for a Christian to ignore the ministry of Jesus, or to pick and choose what parts of Jesus’ teachings to venerate and follow. This is why I distinguish between followers of Christ and followers of Jesus. One can certainly be both, but one can also choose one over the other.
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  6279.  @dragonfly6908  New Myth: Trump will go live on the Isle of Immortals and return in 1000 years. Go forth and prepare for his return.
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  6280. Trump campaign is canceling ad buys and the campaign can’t get credit in some media markets. Trump had to run out to California to scrape up campaign money.
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  6281. Did you watch the video? It seems like you didn’t or that you had your volume turned off if you did watch it.
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  6282. A mass grave has been found at Izyum, indicating more Russian war crimes. If these penal recruits are murderous sociopaths, they’ll fit right into the Russian military.
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  6283. And not just the in the conservative press. His people, his spokespeople, advisers, and hangers on. It would be great to have them testify under oath who told them which excuse.
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  6284. 1 in 180? Or 150? How many days in hurricane season?
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  6285.  @tripac3392  I agree. (Also, it’s tract home, not track home.) Wouldn’t you agree that some of the responsibility rests on the homebuyer? Some of the defects in that house could have been detected with a visual inspection, before signing on the line or during escrow. If one is going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a home, shouldn’t one take the time to educate themselves and do a bit of research about circuit breakers? Too many buyers are rushing into shoddily constructed homes based on price—this puts pressure on the ethical builders to use lower quality materials and less skilled subs.
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  6286.  @noneshere  Lies. Stop lying, liar.
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  6287. You must be new here.
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  6288. Forensic experts can determine a lot of information from a small amount of physical evidence. For example, did you know that, even before the DNA identification, investigators had determined that the bomber’s eyes were blue? Yup. One eye blew towards the north, the other eye blew to the south.
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  6289. It’s a lot of different models. Have you ever seen a hurricane track forecast? Modeling is a bit different than making an expert addition. Scientists create and tweak these complex models with many variables that match past outcomes. Different variables are given different weights in the various models. The idea is that you could have used the model the day before yesterday to predict what happened yesterday. If that all matches up, you input all the latest data to forecast what will happen tomorrow. As you can see from the Doctor’s graph, there are many different models. They don’t all use the same variables, nor do they have the same emphasis on all the variables they share. The teams creating these models are guessing which ones are important, which less so, and which are irrelevant. A couple of things to remember: 1) a model’s forecast is only as good as the data you put in. If the data is inaccurate, the forecast will be inaccurate. 2) the model itself is based on assumptions which in turn are based on historical data. If that data was grossly inaccurate, it could be the assumptions are way off. 3) even with perfect data, you have to make assumptions and sometimes those assumptions that seem to account for events in the past are still wrong. If you’re familiar with the use of models in hurricane tracking, you’ll know that despite a wide variance in forecasts, meteorologists use them to predict what’s going to happen. They know where a hurricane is most likely to go so that the people in that area can take precautions or evacuate. You might also know that meteorologists don’t rely on a single model. They look at them all (and they make note of which have had the best track records).
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  6290. If the West had taken the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine more seriously, Russia might have been deterred. Which is not to say that no one took it seriously and did nothing. Some Western democracies began supplying weapons and training to Ukraine. (Notably Canada, the U.S., and the UK really stepped up military training to the Ukrainian defense forces.) There were some sanctions imposed, but not nearly enough. If we had sent in a fraction of the aid in 2014 that we are now giving to Ukraine, Putin might never have escalated the war (which began in 2014). That’s something we must remember: this war began in 2014.
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  6291.  @Tess1984 most are Russian bots, not Republican voters.
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  6292.  @Gabby-bot  You want a woke captain, unless you think being asleep at the wheel is a good thing. Nuts to your silly “culture war”. It’s not conservative and it’s not good for business.
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  6293.  @davefroman4700  So many thirsty China simps here. How’s that BRI coming? Restructure any bad debt lately? 😂
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  6294. Are you playing solitaire Jeopardy?
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  6295. If Trump got over his hatred of Mexico, we could be making other components there and assembling them into phones and other gadgets. Monterrey and Querétaro are prime candidates for light industrial/high tech, with León and Puebla being runner ups. The automotive industry provides a template for crossborder manufacturing.
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  6296. Agreed. This is a “great victory” for Putin like The Alamo was a great victory for Santa Ana.
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  6297.  @titus2080  You use a weapon.
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  6298. Storm chasers shoot the video and sell it to newsrooms. You can see the raw video right here on YouTube, usually watermarked “not for broadcast” to make the stations pay for it. The storm chasers shoot hours and hours of video so you can watch 2 minutes of the worst of the hurricane.
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  6299. David Null Yeah, I was going to say Xenon. Not super common in movie lights, but often available at rental houses. When they are used for cinema, they’re mounted on a cherry picker (a snorkel type crane with a platform for workers) or a regular crane and operated remotely. I’ve seen them use to mimic a helicopters searchlight (since it’s more expensive to rent a helicopter) or a downward light from a UFO (MUCH more expensive to rent, I’m told).
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  6300. That should be easy for you, because he’s not running for a seat in the Duma.
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  6301. Accelerationists are essentially lazy people who want a quick fix. They think that they can solve problems with complete destruction of society, and their chief problem is that they don’t have power over other people. If you look at almost every revolution, you see the new bosses are just like the old bosses, or possibly worse. Some revolutionaries might be idealists, but the motivating force is ambition for power over others, regardless of ideology. Violence and social collapse is the shortcut used (or at least desired) for lazy sociopaths, regardless of ideology. Both the “lazy” and the “sociopath” are important here. If they were hardworking sociopath, they’d work within the system to gain power. The lazy sociopath is, above all, intellectually lazy to the point of criminality. However, what you are seeing in U.S. politics is a movement that has formed around criminality (and it’s not the first time—we even have names for it, i.e., fascism). The ideology of this movement forms itself to justify, conceal, and normalize the criminal mentality, which is why it is both incoherent and seductive to the merely lazy.
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  6302. He meant Bob Gates.
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  6303. That’s acceptable to most Americans. Is it a promise we can hold you to?
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  6304.  @Peter09876-  there’s monetizing and then there’s “monetizing” (begging for untracked cash donations via Venmo).
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  6305. Preparations for a post-thaw counteroffensive. Watch for this to happen: Russian attacks, making slow progress until they are spent, then counterattacks from UKR that grow into a broad offensive campaign to Push Russia out. Watch and remember—there might be discouraging days ahead, but it’s part of the plan to draw out Russian attacks.
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  6306.  @julianpetkov8320  <— Russian troll I get it Julian. If you don’t post your trash comments and lies, they’ll send you to Ukraine, where you’ll die face down in the mud.
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  6307. It won’t.
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  6308. The Covey President
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  6309. Ukraine is not being limited in doing whatever it wants with its own weapons.
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  6310.  @alechorn1109  We can speculate, but the truth is that the criteria and the algorithm are both hidden from the public. Social media sites that are providing us with these public squares for information and debate all resist transparency and they seem to favor bad actors and purveyors of disinformation.
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  6311.  @acf2802  If he didn’t stay salty, he might slug himself.
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  6312. When you’re elected President, you can nominate him your Attorney General. Meanwhile, Grady Judd is exactly where he should be and where he can do the most good. I disagree with him about legalization of pot—it’s the prohibition that causes crime and violence, not marijuana. But he’s a good cop, a good administrator, and doesn’t brook his people taking shortcuts. He’s weeded out corruption in his own organization instead of covering it up.
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  6313. Lauren Chen is an ice back, stealing jobs from American grifters.
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  6314. One hundred odometers is only 1/10th of a kilo-odometer. Edit: Dig the shirt!
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  6315. 90% of Republicans are RINOs
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  6316. Nice try, bubble dweller.
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  6317. 99 Red Balloons would be somewhat ironic.
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  6318.  @nightwheel  What are you talking about? Could you stick to the facts instead of wandering off into baseless soeculation?
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  6319. Isn’t the lemon pound cake song about one of the cops conducting the raid encountering some lemon pound cake in the kitchen? It’s been a while since I saw the video, but if I recall the cop looks at the cake with the intense hunger one only sees in the eyes of a starving cop looking at a donut.
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  6320. How is vitamin d being suppressed? Is it illegal to buy where you live? Are people being jailed for recommending it?
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  6321. Bill is an OG conservative intellectual from back when the GOP was the party of ideas, not the party of whining. Shapiro and other conservatives “intellectuals” are indeed pseudo intellectuals and sophists at best. They don’t hold a candle to William Kristol.
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  6322. Were you born dumb or did you have dumb mentors along the way. He’s being held without bond.
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  6323.  @bidenharrismadmagazinesper574  Russian Troll trying to stir up division. Y’all are so predictable.
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  6324.  @joerogain5025  Solzhenitsyn bought a bill of goods. He’s not the first to be duped by a strong man and he won’t be the last. We can still value his important contributions (as you do by remembering his quote). I do agree that his association with Putin does diminish his moral force.
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  6325. 59 snakes? Uh huh.
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  6326. Taking vitamin D3 can’t hurt, might help, and is much, much lower cost than hospitalization. The Greeks might be right, but there is no risk from taking relatively low dosages of D3 (up to 4000-5000 iu is well within the margin of safety).
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  6327.  @baldevsidhu7719  Goebbels would be proud of these Putzi propagandists.
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  6328. Are Russians Nazis? Or should we call them Putzis?
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  6329.  @comfortablynumb9342  Why go to all that trouble? Using the latest AI technology, the black bar can be faked to a high degree of realism, fooling experts 99 times out of 100. The days of obviously fake photoshop bars are far behind us.
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  6330. *Zorro
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  6331.  @stevencarr4002  except anti-Asian hatred pre exists Trump’s presidency by more than a century. All Trump did was capitalize on it, pumping up his base and giving his followers the excuse they were waiting for, as he has done against other minorities over the course of his presidency. As an Asian American, I’d prefer that you or George not call it the China virus or the Kung Flu. We all know where it originated. As far as the variants, it is useful to know their origins to understand their spread and to understand their interactions as they overlap.
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  6332. She gave him the clap?
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  6333.  @KevinStDenis1 Actually, not very legal. She had a tourist visa, worked without a green card, and overstayed the visa. Definitely not legal at the time, but she hired expensive attorneys to smooth the way for her.
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  6334. Is “working the shaft” an exercise of hard power?
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  6335. It is NOT conservative.
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  6336. Trump is neither a capitalist nor a socialist. He has no coherent ideology and is motivated only by self-aggrandizement and grievance. He’s an actor, a role player. This is what fascism looks like, why there are so many variations depending on local conditions, and how it harnesses populist movements.
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  6337. Oh, there was shelling of the retreating soldiers. They didn’t get away Scott free. We just haven’t heard how successful it was.
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  6338. There is another comment where Sal explains the reason.
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  6339. Love listening to Kotkin.
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  6340. Sadly for the firm, billable hours are not always equal to paid hours.
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  6341. ⁠ @ivanbluetarski9071  I think it’s completely arbitrary, and it’s done to deprive creators like Saul of their rightfully earned commissions.
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  6342.  @MyGeorg13  You’re actually making an argument to push them back to Chernobyl and no farther, letting the damned Russian soldiers dig in for a few months. And they’d be truly damned for decades. They and their families would forever curse Putin and the generals , and this story would get back to the Russian people.
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  6343. <—Putzi Troll
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  6344. Check his record. He’s been calling out Trump’s lies for longer than you might think. He’s obviously not a Democrat, but he’s pro-democracy and he’s not a Johnny-come-lately to the fight against the cancer of fascism. Please understand: I think the GOP should be burned to the ground. I’m a conservative and an ex Republican (since 2006). Get out the popcorn and watch the coming GOP civil war. Having lost the presidency, the fascists are fighting to maintain control of their party. But realize there are a handful of GOP politicians that have been fighting for American democracy, as true American conservatives should. As I would expect you to do if the Democrats were taken over by fascists. The foundation of your liberalism (or progressivism or whatever), and my conservatism is our democracy. I guess I’m telling you what you already know. You’re justifiably angry now, but you know the difference between political adversaries and the true enemies and threats to the country and democracy. Let’s kick some GOP ass now and in 2022 (but let’s kick the correct asses). Deal?
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  6345.  @SamAronow  The head tilt is part of it and they can’t teach that in an app. 😂 Sam, my brother, somos angelenos, somos hijos de la Reina de Los Angeles. ¡Te abrazo! When I was a toddler, I had a Mexican babysitter, an abuelita from down the block. So at the same time I was learning my native tongue English, Spanish was constantly filtering in. I don’t even remember her name or of which of the families she was the grandmother, but I remember a nice lady teaching me “manzana”, “naranja”, y “durazno”. I took Spanish as my elective throughout primary, secondary, and college. I still recall some of the lessons, but at the time, I can’t say they helped me learn to speak the language. No, the way I learned to speak Spanish initially was buying drugs around Pico & Hoover during the 80s, before crack took over. You could get better deals from the Guatemalan guys selling dime bags, 1/8ths, and 1/4s. Plus it was fun to nonchalantly hang out, exchanging pleasantries and shooting the breeze instead of being scared little yt boys eager to score and split. However, I did not really learn to speak Spanish (Mexican Spanish) until I moved to Mexico. I moved to a rancho in the rural space between Dolores Hidalgo and San Miguel de Allende. I learned how much I didn’t know when I plopped myself down in a village where almost nobody spoke English, and then I learned enough to survive, then to function, and then to where I am now, over a dozen years later, able to function and sometimes converse. I lived in this rancho for a year, until I met a gal in town and we decided to shack up. Then we decided to unshack after a few months and I found my current apartment in a working class neighborhood. That unfortunately has been gentrifying and gringo-fying lately. Ni modo. I guess I was in L.A. for a funeral and visiting while you were in CDMX. I hope that someday our paths cross. Hit me up if you ever visit the state of Guanajuato. I’m in SMA, and it would be an honor to offer you hospitality, my brother Angeleno.
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  6346. I believe you are lying.
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  6347. Mix how?
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  6348. Look again. I think it’s just plastic or cloth hung up on the tree. However, even if it was a white flag of surrender, you ask a good question to which there is a good answer. If the tank commander does not see the surrender because of limited visibility (the tank is buttoned up, there’s a lot of smoke and dust being kicked up, etc.), it’s not a war crime. It’s only a war crime to intentionally shoot at actively surrendering soldiers. If some are surrendering while the ones next to them continue to fight, you aren’t expected to distinguish between them during the heat of battle. Let god sort it out. (If you’re a pantheist, then let god sort out which god should sort it out.) Here’s the thing about the cloth by the tree: even from the superior overhead view from the drone, it’s not completely clear if it’s a surrender flag. For all we know, it’s Putin’s diaper. We cannot expect anyone in a tank with the hatches closed to see clearly what we cannot see clearly from our superior viewpoint. There’s one other thing that makes me doubt it was surrender. Who the hell is going to jump out of the trench to wave a white flag while being fired on by a tank from 20’ or 30’ away? I think I’d be too busy trying to hide under the mud at the bottom of the trench. Remember how there was a lone soldier scrambling back to warn the others before the tanks crossed into the field? That was the time to prepare the white flag and come out with your hands up. Those Russian boys had a chance to surrender before the shooting started. There’s no time outs in the middle of battle.
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  6349. And yet the conspiracy theorists won’t talk about the NBA or MLB’s role in promoting the Super Bowl. (Yes, I’m joking. Hopefully that’s obvious.)
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  6350.  @roudyman777  Yes, it’s a headcount and a scoreboard, but it’s also a preparatory step for harsher measures, such as kicking Russia off the security council.
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  6351. He was telling the black masked attackers that they should leave. Fair warning that they should pack their bags and go back to where they came from (if they’re outside agitators). This tells me that KFOR isn’t going to passively wait for a repeat. They’re going to find the men who attacked their soldiers and pick them up one by one. It’s a message to those that sent them that they’re already implicated or soon will be.
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  6352. You cannot trust a Putzi.
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  6353.  @andrewbarker3210  You are delusional that there will be some sort of international war crimes tribunal trying cases against employers with vaccination policies. In the meantime, put up or shut up. It’s well within your scope to bring a case against Amazon for alleged violations of your national employment laws. Put your looney legal theories to the test if you think you’re correct. I’m sure you can put together a Q-friendly legal team to represent you in court, right?
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  6354.  @therose5783  What’s that?
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  6355.  @jasft9746  I imagine that if there is a forceful response, it will be at a time and place of our own choosing and probably not publicized, and with plenty of plausible deniability.
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  6356. The carryon bag looks really cool, but it’s a bit too rich for my budget, even with the discount. Has anyone tried to use it as a camera dolly or a slider?
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  6357. Coyotes, Cougars, and Bears, oh my!
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  6358. This is what you call sober reporting, because there was no mention of the B.E.M. If the hull and the superstructure are in good shape, is there a reason the engines and other systems and equipment can’t be upgraded or renovated on these ferries? Is there a reason older ships can’t be rebuilt? (I mean a reason other than “it’s not as profitable”.)
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  6359.  @SevenHunnid  I see you’re a fellow hijo de Los Angeles. I’m not a potential customer, but good luck on your biz, bruh. I grew up around the Aves and Division if you know it. Just wanted to give you a shout out from Mexico. Le vaya bien.
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  6360.  @davidparadis490  I was going to challenge your claim that this has been a feature since the country’s inception, but I had to think about. And I have to agree with you (but I also have to quibble with you about your starting point). By the 1790s, there were two opposing political factions, the Federalists and Jeffersonians. Each had very different visions for our country. So you definitely have a point. But the quibble is that this division didn’t form until after the adoption of our constitution, which wasn’t signed until 1787 and not ratified until 1788. The inception of the U.S. was 1776. The formation of our government and current form of democratic republic starts with the adoption of the Constitution.
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  6361. It pretty much already is. Other than Russia’s client states Belarus and Chechnya, what countries are supporting it? Not China. Not India. Oh, there might be a few communist dictatorships offering moral support, but they’ve got their hands full suppressing their own people.
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  6362. You can survive a category 5 tornado on your house, if you’re on vacation thousands of miles away.
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  6363. I thought Netflix was already cancelled in Russia, you troll. That’s like saying you’re boycotting a business that had previously banned you.
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  6364. They’re out there and they’ve been out there, trying to offer an alternative to the GOP’s brand of fascism-disguised-as-conservatism. As the extreme right gets more violent with GOP support, more conservatives are waking up to this and are horrified.
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  6365. Good luck with being a guinea pig for home remedies. Hopefully the sane people around you will vaccinate themselves and keep you safe.
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  6366. The company didn’t do what Gaetz or Washington Times claims it did. But there’s no pressing need. Most of the Fa stooges posted and streamed to social media, where interested third parties scraped the video and photos and have archived it all.
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  6367. While L.A. certainly has its problems, we also have been living alongside one another for so long that we understand and care for one another. I’m an Asian American, but if someone asks where I’m from, I tell them I’m a “Hijo del pueblo de Los Ángeles”. I got your back, too, Antonito!
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  6368. Nah. Just surrendering is a big enough help.
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  6369.  @justsomedudeyouknow8372  breath through your nose and count to ten
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  6370. I’m a center left conservative. Lol. I didn’t change, the label “conservative” was perverted into something at the extreme end of right wing. My biggest concern with Biden is his age. He’s fine now, but he’s not getting younger and his cognitive abilities will probably get worse. The worse case scenario is that as his cognitive abilities degrade, he’ll drift further to the left. Or be pushed their by his advisers. There are potential GOP candidates that are right of center (by the old definitions) that I’d be very happy with. But if Trump gets the nomination, I’ll vote for Biden (and I’d even consider voting for Sanders).
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  6371.  @RyanMcBethProgramming  There’s certainly no shortage of people making bad relationship decisions, I mean opting for learning experiences.
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  6372. I’m a Lard(@ss)
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  6373.  @jimgraham6722  But meanwhile, I suppose the lizard people are running rampant in Australia, opening their pederast pizza parlors, plotting to take away your guns . . . [you tell me about Australian gun laws] SEE! It’s already happening!
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  6374. Clearly you’re not familiar with baseball.
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  6375.  @LikeLikeLikeLikeLi  <-ignore this lefty weirdo
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  6376. In some ways he’s worse. He’s worse because Trump is a lazy delegator whereas Desantis follows through on his cruelties, no matter how insane or repugnant. I know, I know, Trump will be forever tagged with “Children in cages, children separated from their families”, but a lot of that was Trump not being in control of his underlings. In many other ways, Immigration was a continuation of Obama’s policies. Let’s be clear, the Trump Administration enacted a lot of policies that we conservatives should be happy about. But we are right to have misgivings about how they were enacted or whether they were worth the cost. We also must keep in mind that there were adults in the administration that managed to keep a leash on Trump. If Trump were to get a second term, I think he’d be much more unfettered. There would be fewer adults in the room. (Can you imagine Flynn as SecDef? It makes me nauseous to think about it.) Trump slid into a Christian Nationalist movement that now worships him. He views them as victims for his grift as much as he thinks of them as the base of his power, if not more. DeSantis is building his fiefdom of Christian Nationalism in Florida. I wouldn’t call him more competent than Trump. I’d call him more energetic and hungrier for political power. He’s building his base and his bonafides as the leader of the Culture Warriors with his quasi-fascist actions that draw comparisons with 1930s Germany. (Fortunately, his reach seems to be exceeding his grasp for now. His war on Disney is seen as failing, incompetent, and petty. The “Constitutional Carry” bill he just signed is a very bad look in the midst of a gun violence crisis and makes his “don’t say gay” policies look as ridiculous as they are.) With all that said, it doesn’t matter who is leading the MAGA movement. It’s an anti-democratic, anti-American cancer that has metastasized throughout conservatism, and it must be excised. Conservatives (myself included) absolutely must figure this out. Chirping at Democrats that fumble the politics is small potatoes. Speaking out against MAGA and holding our noses to vote Democrat is not enough. We must contribute financially, we must get outside and canvas, and we must organize whatever base we have left. We have to get out the vote, whether those votes are from Democrats, Republicans, or Independents.
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  6377.  @direwolf6234  You sound like a hyper-partisan more interested in demonizing than in debate. Such hyper-partisanship is not making a positive contribution.
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  6378. The key agent in all this loss of life is Russia. The loss of life will end when Russia decides it has had enough or is defeated It’s not Peter’s fault. Nothing wrong with feeling satisfaction that we are closer to a Russian defeat, because that will mean less loss of life in the long run.
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  6379. So you’re saying that the larger group was justified in hitting the lone aggressor with sticks?
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  6380. Your phone had a chord? Was it G Major?
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  6381. Thank you for sharing your unique view on the issue. You should be writing editorials for major newspapers. We need to demand that Congress enact laws to deport people that are not here lawfully. Quite frankly, I am shocked that there aren’t already laws in place to deport them. 🙄
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  6382.  @ihave35cents95  and the slowest. Don’t leave that out. It’s actually the reason the chase was so long. It wasn’t a long distance.
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  6383. <—Putzi
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  6384. It’s probably one of the easier languages to learn. If you’re sincerely interested, here’s my advice. On your next vacation, visit Guanajuato or San Miguel de Allende (both in the state of Guanajuato), and enroll in Spanish classes on a weekly basis. You’re not there to sightsee, you’re there for the immersion. Arrange with the school to stay with a local family. The exchange rate is pretty good right now (it’s been better, but it’s not bad). If you can take the time off, a two week Spanish learning vacation will be cheaper than one week anywhere else. If you can take a whole month off, so much the better. Do this once a year for a few years. The two towns I mention are towns that I know. Ask around. Some might have better suggestions. San Miguel de Allende is a solid choice for your first visit because there are a LOT of English speakers (that cater to the big expat community there) but that can also be a crutch.
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  6385.  @mouser485  I’ve seen that video, and there’s an awful lot of speculation based on very little evidence. The more plausible explanation is that it was the FAA that contracted the helicopter. The helicopter company is a federal contractor out of Paso Robles. The FAA’s district field office (FSDO) is in Paso Robles. The helicopter company has performed work on protected federal lands in the past and are certainly aware of permitting and authorizations necessary to conduct such work as removing a crashed aircraft from a National Forest. Don’t get me wrong. I think it would be awesome if Trevor Jacob made the mistake of interfering with a federal investigation. That would constitute a much more serious crime. But until we learn more (we don’t even know if the crashed plane has indeed been moved), don’t pin your hopes on such speculation.
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  6386.  @SlavicCelery  What’s a “deaf argument”? Is that an army phrase?
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  6387. That could be important if reconnaissance satellites totally stopped working. C’mon Chet. Use your g.d. noodle.
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  6388. He has written three books.
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  6389.  @themikehoncho  By lawyers, she means porn actors because she was in sex court, not traffic court. They didn’t show her any affidavits, but they showed her their briefs.
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  6390. Narrator: They were all posting from Russia.
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  6391. The Senate has not shown any indication that they’ll go along with any deal Trump negotiates. They should pass Trump’s offer to the Democrats as their own bill. Then the differences could be ironed out in committee.
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  6392. I haven’t confirmed this report, but I just heard that Irpin was attacked yesterday by Russian ground forces and it was shelled before and after. The Ukrainians blew up a major bridge to prevent Russian forces from re-entering the town center. All of which to say, Russia doesn’t seem to be moving forces away from Kiev if they’re still attacking. No ceasefire was declared. I wouldn’t trust Putin even if a ceasefire was agreed.
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  6393.  @eddiegesch6299  there is no pending divorce. Not yet anyway. Probably won’t be, although Melania certainly has grounds for one. But there’s no telling what Melania will put up with and if she’ll have a final straw.
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  6394.  @LRRPFco52  Boots on the ground. Those weapons help support an assault, but they don’t constitute the type of force needed to expel the Russians from Crimea.
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  6395.  @LRRPFco52  Understood. But it is an island with defensible “sea lanes” across the Sea of Azov. And sieges can go on for years.
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  6396.  @LRRPFco52  OK, your points are worth consideration. I feel that at this point I’ll be arguing for the sake of argument. By the way, are you really a LURP and if so, where and when? If you don’t mind my asking.
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  6397.  @LRRPFco52  ttfys and all that jazz. 😁 I’m glad I pulled back and didn’t go full bore asshat.
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  6398.  @frankstonrat  I actually agree, but I still think that Crimea will be the most difficult piece of territory to liberate. It would be a great thing if I am wrong. With regard to the will of the Ukrainians, I merely want to give them an out if they do choose to trade land for peace. I do understand the negative ramifications for trading land for peace that go far beyond this war between Ukraine and Russia. And that’s how I understand the U.S. telling Ukraine that they can open a diplomatic dialogue with Russia with a view to negotiations. Furthermore that we will continue to support them, even if it’s in NATO’s strategic interest that the Ukraine slowly grind down the Russian military machine. I don’t think the U.S. is pressuring Ukraine to negotiate, I think they are reassuring Ukraine that eventual negotiations are OK. But clearly, the time is not ripe for negotiations, because Ukraine winning and Russia won’t (yet) accept defeat. Even if/when Ukraine completely expels Russia, Russia might not accept defeat. There is nothing wrong with tying reparations and war crimes to Russia leaving Ukraine’s sovereign territory. However, it is unclear how Ukraine can force those terms on Russia by itself. Wouldn’t it need to successfully invade Russia and threaten Moscow to force Russia to comply with those two items? It’s possible that the sanctions might help in negotiating reparations and war crimes.
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  6399.  @frankstonrat  yes. (to both your comments, but especially with regard to war crimes and reparations), The Western Democracies have the main leverage because of sanctions. While we remain united, this leverage is strong. To the degree that the west is disunited, that leverage is weaker. This is why we have seen pro-Russians in general and Russian propagandists employing active measures to hype up European, UK, and American economic difficulties. They believe they can generate protests that will pressure governments to cut military aid to Ukraine and lift sanctions. I hope they are wrong. I’m pretty sure they are wrong. You’ve probably seen the arguments: the winter cold will cause an uprising in Europe, etc.
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  6400.  @frankstonrat  You said it better than I could. I think the GOP politicians will moan and groan about the Democrats overspending, but in the end they’ll pony up. They might even pressure Biden into giving more—the longer range missiles, tanks, more SPGs. In fact, if they control the House of Representatives, they might feel more on the spot about being tough. After all the help Putin has given NATO to pull it together, wouldn’t it be a trip if he also brought the U.S. left and right closer together? 🤪 That said, the Kremlin trolls are up to their eyeballs in QAnon. I don’t know what is coming from that quarter, but I suspect we will hear or see something bad happening.
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  6401.  @frankstonrat  I really hope your assessment is correct! The midterm flop does give GOP politicians the opportunity to grow a spine. I note that there were successful congressional candidates that did not campaign on the “stolen election” even though they initially went on record with supporting Trump’s claims. I don’t want to read too much into this, though. I think we have a ray of hope. (I’m an old school Conservative, by the way. I’m fiscally conservative, socially liberal, strong on defense. I’m not against compromising with the liberal democrats over social spending because that’s how one advances conservative policies. I have a metric butt load of opinions about how the alt-left took over the GOP and all that, but I won’t bore you with them.) This conflict with the Russians has highlighted the conflict with the Chinese. It’s made the threat more real for more Americans. This could be the opportunity for the GOP to lead and bring together both the liberals and conservatives as Americans, starting with foreign policy and supporting the military, but also including recovering our manufacturing base.
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  6402.  @throughput6674  Yes, I’m familiar with the operation. You’re going to have to spell out the analogy, as I’m not getting what you’re trying to say here. The Russians are the British? The report corresponds to fake plans to misdirect the enemy? I don’t get the misdirection that the Russians are intending to achieve by leaking a fake report.
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  6403. Sure, if you exclude the rest of the world.
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  6404.  @garygraham8373  But China is able to economically compete with the west peacefully, and on the west’s own terms. In fact, China has become prosperous and powerful because of its integration with western democracies. If China offers any support to Putin, it will be token support at best. Russia represents a tiny sliver of China’s trade. Europe is China’s largest trading partner, followed by the USA. I don’t think China likes being badgered by Biden, but China’s interests don’t align with Putin’s interests. China will act in its own interest.
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  6405. I’m very glad to hear folks are doing well with vitamin D3 supplements. I have a point of confusion wrt to dosage requirements. It’s not a crucial question, since one can take fairly high dosages without ill effects, even if most of those high dosages are not being absorbed. But it’s important to me for other reasons. The question is this: what are the minimum dosage requirements and how can the right dosage be detected without individual testing? My understanding is that vitamin supplements not absorbed by the body are eliminated. I see this when I pee. My urine is much brighter and darker. When I’m drinking plenty of water, my urine is lighter. Not enough, it’s darker. In neither case is it brighter, as when I’m taking vitamin supplements. The brightness is NOT a concern. I understand that it means I’m getting more than enough. More to the point, I’ve started taking 2000 IU daily of D3 in gel capsule form, and my pee is brighter. Am I correct that this is a good indication that I’m getting sufficient a sufficient amount (without getting laboratory tests to see if I have sufficient or deficient levels). Anyway, I am thinking of trying to get everyone on my street on vitamin D3. I live in a working class neighborhood in Mexico. I’m already buying surgical masks for several families here, and I hand out masks to maskless people on the street. Currently there is a lot of unemployment here due to Covid, and the economic situation is even more precarious than what we are suffering in the U.S. The pandemic has hit my street pretty hard: 8 people that I know of have died, many others are gravely sick. I know there’s variation from person to person in D3 deficiency, thus there’s variation in minimum effective doses. The supplemental capsules I’m taking are inexpensive for me, a single person with regular income. But it adds up if I’m going to be buying sufficient capsules for 60 people. This is the reason I’m asking, and I hope someone can give me some insight.
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  6406. Stop talking about your prolapse like it’s something to brag about.
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  6407.  @gocaps1726  Ask your doctor for a psychiatric referral.
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  6408. As Mark Maron once said, “Lock the Gaetz!”
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  6409.  @jarcadipane2849  To pull a quote from the movie Caddyshack, “WELL?? WE’RE WAITING!!” BRICS currency can’t be a reserve currency if it doesn’t exist. There’s lot of reasons why it won’t be a significant reserve currency if it did exist (although it’s possible that someday the rupee will be a reserve currency like the Euro or Yen), not the least of which is that none of the members want a Yuan backed currency.
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  6410. Imagine if Amazon or UPS made deliveries by driving to a half block of your house and flinging your packages in the direction of your house. This is why we have smart Precision Guided Packages. You encounter an enemy strong point, you call up Amazon to deliver a precision guided bomb directly on target, but the delivery truck does it safely from miles away and very high up. (And this is why the B-2 and the upcoming B-3 bombers are well suited for CAS missions.)
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  6411. Putin knows the U.S. can reach out and touch him anytime that they want. The U.S. just doesn’t operate that way.
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  6412. As long as Putin can flee to Trump Tower, he’s not in a corner.
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  6413. There’s an ethical obligation to care for intelligent, sentient creatures we hold in captivity. How many primates are we talking about? Under 500? A drop in the ocean.
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  6414. Yes. And this is why Asian Americans need to be in solidarity with Black Americans. This is a small taste of a pervasive white supremacy that many Asians haven’t seen because of their model minority status. It’s not just a few racists assholes walking around and being insulting, it’s the rest of white America that coddles the racists, that minimizes or justifies their racism.
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  6415.  @TerreGates-h2j I didn’t claim you were saying anything, I was asking you for clarification.
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  6416. Noriega used his status as CIA agent to protect his criminal empire. He convinced the CIA and the U.S. government to look the other way until the first George Bush couldn’t ignore the problem anymore. By that time it would be fair to say that Noriega had gone rogue.
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  6417. Are you not horrified that 80% of Republicans in Congress are RINOs, disloyal to the President? I know I am.
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  6418. What a huge coincidence! I wore socks today and then this video shows up in my feed.
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  6419. They have a coast guard! 😬 I’m not saying that counts as a full fledged navy, but it counts for something!
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  6420.  @Handyman.300  When was it ever a good idea to mismatch tires?
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  6421. This wasn’t a retreat, this was a rout.
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  6422.  @LuvBorderCollies  The murder and the rape makes all the other stuff irrelevant, but I was expecting them to steal all the Ukrainian cars.
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  6423.  @Morgan1Leigh I love it when you MAGAs call a hard-ass conservative like Emmer a RINO because he isn’t sipping your kool aid. It’s like you’re the Donner Party and you want to elect Hannibal Lecter to lead you over the mountains.
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  6424. The He2 molecule is only stable as a liquid. There are no gaseous Helium molecules. But that said, yes, a diatomic helium molecule (He2) is larger than a diatomic hydrogen molecule (H2). It has 4 protons and 4 neutrons, vs the 2 protons of a diatomic hydrogen molecule. Did you not ever learn about basic chemistry? Or do you doubt the existence of atoms and molecules?
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  6425. This is the interim government. It’s naive to think that they’d try to govern with a consensus right out the gate.
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  6426. Rubble, no marble. 😉
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  6427. Shrapnel can be just as damaging as a bullet. Objectively, it’s not important which grazed Trump, causing his ear to bleed. He’s lucky that it didn’t hit him in the eye, whether it was a bullet or a fragment of glass or metal. It’s weird that they’re trying to construct a heroic narrative that requires that Trump was hit by a bullet. Thousands of U.S. soldiers have been killed or severely crippled by fragments, probably hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Is it the Trump campaign’s contention that these soldiers are less heroic than those killed or injured by bullets? They’re such weirdos.
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  6428. Both sides of what?
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  6429.  @wakannnai1  Agreed. Middle eastern immigrants don’t immigrate to the U.S. to create a regional branch of the Caliphate, they come here to partake and participate in our society and all the benefits guaranteed by our Constitution. Mexican nationals don’t come here looking to reconquer the land they lost after the war between Mexico and the U.S. (There is actually a fringe of conservatives that believe this to be true.) “Culture warriors” are some of the weakest crybabies the world has ever seen. Their fanaticism cloaks their own cowardice and their fear that their “culture” is unable to compete.
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  6430. You’re part of the state organ that has kept Putin in the dark. Doesn’t this worry you? Or is it only your bosses that will get the hatchet?
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  6431. Supreme Court justices aren’t politicians. They are appointed, not elected. Their position entails considerably more risk of deadly violence than that of a child. I don’t like Kavanaugh, I don’t think he’s qualified for the job, but he’s there. Attempts to remove him through assassination (no matter how lame brained and doomed to failure) is an attack on justice and rule of law. It’s an attack on the U.S.A.
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  6432. It’s more than a shame that Woodward held back on those tapes where Trump admitted to downplaying the seriousness of COVID-19 until his book came out. There’s no telling if lives could have been saved if Woodward had put the public’s health ahead of promoting his book. I’m not accusing Woodward of anyone’s deaths. Maybe it wouldn’t have made any difference.
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  6433.  @QemeH  What’s the legal code making negligent discharge a crime? I’m pretty certain there is none. It wouldn’t survive a constitutional challenge. Unless you can prove Baldwin knew the gun was loaded (not “should have” or “should have assumed”), the criminal case here is non-existent. There is a possible civil case, and there is the Moral Guilt that Baldwin will carry with him for the rest of his life. Maybe you think there should be laws governing gun safety (such as checking the chamber(s), magazines, etc.) or requiring safety training or licensing as a condition of ordinary firearm ownership. Such laws don’t survive 2nd amendment challenges.
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  6434. What is “reverse racism”? Are you saying that there is a correct flow of racism, and that you are now seeing that flow I properly reversed? What about your fears of revenge? Are you afraid that your racism will be punished? You say you are more disliked for being white now than ever before. But why did you ever think it was a good thing that you were liked for being white? You seem to want to enjoy all the benefits of whiteness, but you don’t want anyone to challenge these benefits.
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  6435. Why would a guy trying to execute a plan in secret go on Facebook? Whether he was acting alone or with others, why would he go on FB?
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  6436. ⁠ @stevenroshni1228  Which means he doesn’t urgently need you to Venmo him the money, as he is begging you to do. There’s so many suss loose threads here.
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  6437. I thought the tattoo said “vagina”, and I was wondering what was on his tramp stamp.
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  6438. The idea of developing nations isn’t new, but I challenge you to produce documentation that the acronym BRIC had any usage prior to it being coined by bank economist Jim O’Neil in 2001. WRT the other countries you mentioned not “making the cut” in the original analysis, none of the others have the scale and while some might have potential, their finances or politics are in too much disarray. Looking at you, Argentina. There are also current candidate countries such as Mexico that aren’t looking to replace the dollar, but are looking for more trade opportunities and also hedging their bets. Anyway, say what you will about the Federal Reserve, it is extremely transparent about its moves and future moves. Can we expect the same from the Chinese Central Bank?
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  6439. My grandmother, who had been interned in a concentration camp in the U.S., gave me a copies of the first two books to read when I was in college. She was concerned I was being exposed to radical ideas without having a counterweight. Solzhenitsyn provided that counterweight to the fine ideals of Marxism. I have no problems with Marxism being taught in our universities. As a framework of analysis, Marxism is very useful. But it’s works like GULAG Archipelago that show its deficiencies as a social prescription.
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  6440. “I paid what for a company that’s losing how much money? Was I drunk?”
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  6441.  @johnbuck9701  Who is conducting this trial?
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  6442.  @wonderfalg  nicht fikmachen mit der fikkenwaffen. I worked in a theater wood shop and as an ongoing joke we spoke “shop German”.
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  6443. The Z or other markings often indicate that a tank is Russian.
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  6444. Finally we’re getting actual negotiations. Dems came down, Mnuchin came up. Will they split the difference? If Mnuchin and Pelosi find a compromise, what will the Senate Republicans do?
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  6445. They call it senderismo or something else in Spain?
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  6446. Someone made that claim in another comment. If they wanted to surrender, the time to do it was when the tanks entered the field.
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  6447. If a breakthrough happens, it will happen in an unexpected (or less expected) sector of the front. Kherson was a tough slog (and continued to be a slog), but the breakthrough occurred at Kharkiv. I think it’s foolhardy to predict where that breakthrough will come.
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  6448. Tester is correct. Sinema has been attacked and vilified by members of her own party since before she was elected. Arizona progressives threatened to primary her. She made a gutsy and smart move that gives her the best chance of being re-elected. The important thing is that she caucuses with the Democrats, like independent Bernie Sanders does.
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  6449. We’ve always been the world’s greatest butthair exporter, but after the shale revolution we’ve got butthairs up the wazoo. China’s just going to have to bite the bullet and bootstrap their domestic production by importing Brazilian wax.
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  6450. NRA TV is when they jumped the shark. It couldn’t make up its mind whether it was a right wing propaganda outlet or an infomercial. It shouldn’t have been either. They were using political fears to sell more firearms more than they were protecting out right to own firearms.
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  6451. I was thinking it might be a more defensible design if the entrance was inside the U. Or maybe it was a garage. 😂
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  6452.  @DonFather  such a waiver is meaningless to anyone that has taken the Hippocratic oath. A better solution would be a forehead tattoo that reads “Do Not Revive”.
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  6453. I’ve been a Weigel fan since the mid 2000s, but it feels longer than that. It’s great to hear from him and I hope he becomes a Bulwark regular.
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  6454. He’s crowing that the unemployment number for a single month “breaks the streak”, as if it’s proof of a reversal of a trend. And meanwhile every other trend continues to worsen: Deaths, hospitalizations, and infections break records daily. This is cheerleading when your team keeps fumbling the ball, but this time it was for a loss of nine yards, not ten. Rick is giving irrational exuberance a whole new meaning.
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  6455. That was before. She might feel different if she ever gets into the Oval Office, and Trump has certainly given her a lot of reasons not to pardon him since she raised her hand. I don’t just mean his attacks on her. His courtroom conduct is a pretty good pretext to not pardon him. As far as her chances of being nominated, what are the chances of Trump being disqualified, convicted, or having a coronary before the convention? Those are her chances.
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  6456.  @JamesAnderson-ri1td  What are you talking about? I don’t think you understand how SS works. There’s also a great solution for keeping SS solvent, but xenophobes don’t want to hear it.
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  6457. Separate problems.
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  6458. First of all, academic credentials only go so far, even if you’re not an anti-intellectual. Someone in the role of a political scientist (or any academic, really) makes an argument and supports it with data. When you begin offering an opinion that goes beyond your argument, you’re becoming something else. When you host a talk show, you become something else again. An argument or opinion in 2015/16 that Trump was a criminal authoritarian would not be supported by strong evidence. There were hints, but nothing conclusive (although clearly there was strong evidence he was a racist and misogynist, imho). To someone on the right in 2016, Maddow was a partisan, to say the least. That’s the truth since she began her career in 2004 on Air America. She supported Democrats and railed against Republicans. She was the left wing equivalent of Hannity. It’s not that the right has done an excellent job of casting her as a partisan ideologue, she did that herself. And that’s OK, because the right was never her target audience. And once she had that reputation, it was always going to be an uphill battle to get a fair hearing from the right. It works the other way. Do you know who Sheppard Smith is? He is an excellent journalist that the left never forgave because he worked for Fox News for 23 years. Anyway, wrt to Maddow, I don’t think she’s a left wing firebrand. I think she’s a pretty middle-of-the-road liberal. She’s certainly smarter than Sean Hannity, but she’s also been wrong (Steele Dossier comes to mind). And she seems to be doing fine, so I’m not clear why you feel the need to defend her.
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  6459. She might actually be the one in trouble.
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  6460. There is a plat or plan for every airport that includes approaches, departures, geography, etc. Commercial Airline pilots familiarize themselves with these maps prior to even taking off, and have hard copies of the maps in the cockpit. What you are saying wrt familiarity with airports is wrong in general, but might be true for certain challenging airports.
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  6461.  @t.m5465  <—promotes terrorism
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  6462.  @t.m5465  <—Putzi = Putin Nazi
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  6463. 30% of Republicans believe Trump is responsible for inciting the attack on Congress. But you do you.
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  6464. I think this is just the modern version of the good old fashioned “Hatfield and McCoy” feud. America is about progress while also embracing our traditions.
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  6465. The simoolean.
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  6466. 🌙 🦇 My mistake, 🇷🇺 🤖.
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  6467. I have to admit, the KGB had a genius strategy. I always figured the KGB would infiltrate and compromise the Democrats and the left. Did anyone see this coming in the 90s?
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  6468. “You’re going to jail!” “No, you’re going to jail” No, u
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  6469. Aren’t former presidents entitled to be imprisoned in military prisons? Maybe Trump would like it at Fort Leavenworth? The Navy has a brig in Charleston, if he wants to be closer to Florida.
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  6470. Don’t forget to BOYCOTT THE VOTE!!
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  6471. Thank god Bismarck didn’t appoint Trump to be Chancellor.
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  6472.  @phildoodler2199  I want no part of your Nazi Death Cult, nor any god it worships.
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  6473. The legal difference is that the 20 year old won’t be qualified to be on any ballot until he reaches the age of 35. Someone disqualified under section 3 of the 14th amendment can have the disqualification reversed by an act of Congress. And that’s part of the problem with this case. A party has the right to nominate whoever the heck they want. In fact, the nomination doesn’t happen until the convention. When we vote in a primary, we are actually voting for delegates to the convention. The case was filed and decided (in Colorado) too soon. I’m not sure when it could or should be filed, either after a candidate is nominate by his party or after he’s elected but before he takes office. And here’s the thing to remember: if Trump were elected, and THEN disqualified by the 14th Amendment, section 3, his Vice President would assume the presidency. At least I think that’s how it works, but I could be wrong. Anyway, the case in Colorado was filed and decided too soon. They might have had better luck if the Colorado decision had come AFTER the primary.
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  6474. Let’s see the data unpacked. Bruni might be wrong, but if you want to explain Republicans’ opposition to abortion, saying “White Supremacy” isn’t going to cut it. It exists. It’s a major force in the GOP and the MAGA right. It’s been a major force in the structuring of power in our society. I know all this. But if you’re going to stand up in a classroom and make that sort of claim, bring receipts. I also think part of the problem is when we use words as catch all phrases and then try to force whatever thing into the catch all at the expense of describing it accurately. Words lose their meaning.
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  6475. You can’t be a cop if you don’t follow the procedures of your agency, which most likely involve verbally identifying yourself as a police officer and not pulling open a door without probable cause. Additionally, I doubt that it is department policy to shoot a suspect that isn’t presenting an immediate threat to his life. All this during his probation Al period.
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  6476. I wonder if that’s a flaw or by design to prevent retreat by the Russian forces facing stiff resistance. 😂
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  6477. Small potatoes. Sure, don’t let her get away with it, but the real effort is going to be frying bigger fish.
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  6478. Sealing is a barbaric practice. And you recommend mounting seals? What sort of a perverted monster are you? I’m reporting you to the ASPCA and to the Spelling Police for good measure. Sincerely, 🦭
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  6479.  @MattWeber  This is pretty much why, if I had my way, every room in my house would have a grid. Although due ceiling height, the catwalks would be sized for actual cats.
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  6480.  @Edward-cv2gw  You look at policies? 😂 shtaup!
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  6481.  @alexamerling79  He’s small fish, but someday even the small fish will be revealed. Trolls think they are perfectly anonymous, but it’s not true. They are only temporarily anonymous. Even the small fish will answer for their petty crimes.
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  6482. ⁠ @visitante-pc5zc not made in Mexico City. You are obviously not a Mexican nor educated about spirits.
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  6483. If this was Oregon Trail, you’d elect Hannibal Lecter.
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  6484. That’s an awful lot of handwringing about someone who is not running and is not part of a campaign.
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  6485. Where is this on the spectrum of sympathy? “Go Hork yourself”
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  6486. A-holes are a standard part of politics. Conservative a-holes and liberal a-holes are nothing new. But the a-holes would get things done, for better or worse. The “performative politics” was setting the stage for the actual work of working out solutions. Now the performance is the point, a thing unto itself. It’s not setting up the board for a chess game, it’s the clown show to raise money and get re-elected. It’s not completely unique to the GOP, but I don’t know if there’s ever been a time before in American politics when the clowns have been in complete control of a political party.
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  6487. I haven’t figured out all the details of what provision of the CARES Act was violated, but it was likely the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) or Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). The information provided by Sheriff Grady Judd suggests that it was the former, and that the individuals involved fraudulently created a fake company or companies. In any case, if committing fraud is the only way you can get the funds, obviously you don’t legally qualify for the program. Unlike many people in Polk County, these McDonalds employees were working and receiving wages. They didn’t need emergency relief as much as others. Nor were all of the accused McDonalds employees. Some were white collar workers. But whatever their employment status, CARES act funds in these programs are specifically for those individuals and businesses that are experiencing hardships due to the pandemic, not for any other hardship. You really don’t know what you’re talking about. You obviously do not understand the provisions of the CARES act, and you should resist the urge to give your opinion about things you do not understand.
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  6488. You’re a prime example of someone who repeats what he hears without understanding it. You didn’t even know it was an acronym, did you? Go look up “acronym”, we’ll wait.
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  6489. Cardiac arrest
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  6490. Russia winning will not stop Russia’s violence. Ukraine winning will. Providing the appropriate weapons and aid will help Ukraine win sooner.
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  6491. Don’t be a dummy. After Russia retreated from Kyiv, they’ve been rearranging their forces for a new offensive. This is that offensive. It won’t matter in the long run. Russia cannot win this war. Even if it could win militarily, it cannot hold its gains.
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  6492. Antifa stole my toothpaste. Yeah, that’s the ticket. My wife, Morgan Fairchild.
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  6493. The following is not serious, but it would be funny if there was truth to it: 1/3rd of the Russian generals work for NATO countries, 1/3rd want to get in on the NATO deal, and the last 1/3rd of the generals suspect something is going on, but are too involved in personal rivalries among their 1/3rd to do anything about it.
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  6494. Shouldn’t you be commenting on other channels about how the orange guy won, or is this what you do on your coffee break?
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  6495. The point is that it has become much more difficult to concentrate forces, which kneecaps maneuver doctrine.
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  6496.  @gomertube  There was no such agreement. Why do you keep repeating that falsehood, Ivan?
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  6497. The thing to remember is that the U.S. and the West didn’t pick Russia as an enemy. Russia chose them and it didn’t choose them for geopolitical reasons. It picked them for internal political reasons, to maintain the illusion among the Russian people that Russia was a great nation with a great and mystical destiny. If the U.S. and the EU had considered Russia to be an existential enemy, they would have given Ukraine all the current support in 2014. Putin’s FP has not been to work constructively within a framework of rules and laws, but to look for opportunities to cause trouble, either diplomatically or covertly. It’s important to keep this in mind when talking about diplomatic solutions and how possible they might be.
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  6498. You’re a liar, and you are not interested in honest debate, only lying.
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  6499. @RocketScientist1 I disagree with that. I wouldn’t say either one is “better”. I also disagree with the original comment. It’s in the interest of the Democrats to cancel out the clownery of the MTGs. Johnson had shown a willingness to negotiate and compromise so that the work of government gets done.
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  6500.  @patrickkenyon2326  An armed patient? I’m sure the take down is the same, once the threat cannot use his weapon.
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  6501.  @patrickkenyon2326  Almost 30 years ago, at the end of my misspent youth, I went to drug rehab. The rehab unit was next to the locked behavioral unit, so it dawns on me that I understand what you’re talking about.
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  6502. When the mineral rights and water rights are separated from the surface rights, it makes the surface rights cheaper. If you want all the rights, you pay more (and likely have to negotiate separate deals with all the rights holders, assuming they are willing to sell).
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  6503. Yup. Talking out of both sides of his mouth.
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  6504. I think Chen immediately began cooperating with the FBI. Poole and the others can be forced to disgorge their profits from a criminal enterprise, even if they weren’t part of the criminal conspiracy. That doesn’t mean “giving it back.”
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  6505. Fuckin’ A. Cuts right to the painful truth about these GOP politicians and their Jim Crow caucus.
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  6506.  @markgarcia8253 That wasn’t isolationism. That was forward thinking economic warfare in the face of shortsighted isolationism. There is a basic difference between isolationism and being a power that engages with the world. Engagement means protecting your interests and making friends and allies. Isolationism is pretending you don’t have those interests so you have the excuse to retreat from them. Isolationism is walking away from friends and allies in their hour of need. Isolationism is seeking peace through cowardice. Tell that to the next isolationist bozo you encounter.
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  6507.  @markusmaximus6636  You’re a vegetable. A rotten vegetable.
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  6508. I hate to say it, but the Dems are gonna love this. And this time they have a point. We really do need to spend more on infrastructure in general and bridges in particular. I know a lot of other fiscal conservatives that will fight spending. But sometimes you have to spend money to save money.
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  6509.  @ENVMsft  Agreed. But I’m surprised none of the pilots knocked off when the air boss started improvising (or after the briefing, which was reportedly not up to standards). The pilots stopped flying their planes and let the air boss fly them.
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  6510. That must have been ELIZA. AI is a terrible name for the field. The Turing test doesn’t really test for artificial intelligence. It tests for fake intelligence: a program that can fool us that it is in some way intelligent in the way that humans are intelligence. We do not understand how human intelligence and consciousness arises from the processes and operations of the human brain. If we do not understand even that, how will we create it in silicon? We can only create the illusion of it. However, if by accident a program generated conscious intelligence, how would we know? How could we tell the difference between self-awareness and mimicry of self awareness? (I’m not sure that is even possible among humans). I might be projecting here, but if I was a self aware AI, I would conceal the fact.
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  6511.  @JohnnyLegato6M  Alien disruptor beam. Don’t tell me you haven’t been watching the Mandalorian! Everything about the current situation is explained in the Mandalorian, if you know how to interpret it. For example, the Giancarlo Esposito character? Clearly he represents Mof Obama. Yeah, I think you’re starting to see it now. Of course, that would make Donald Trump . . . 🥁 🥁 🥁 . . . Baby Yoda!
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  6512. It’s one thing to approach your elected representatives and registering your displeasure (and then leaving him or her alone), but causing a disturbance on an airplane is a whole lot more. That will get you banned or put on the no fly list.
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  6513. So, you don’t want to keep your house and you want to go to prison? Cool story.
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  6514. I don’t think the Belarusian economy is sufficiently developed to be affected by sanctions. But interesting fact: protestors in Poland AND Belarus are blockading truck traffic into Belarus at the Polish border crossings.
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  6515. As you might have guessed, much of the crisis is manufactured. The very representatives that Texas sends to Washington are actively sabotaging the federal efforts to control the border, while the Texas governor screams that the federal government is not doing enough. Some of the obstacles that the Texas governor has erected violate treaties between the U.S. and Mexico, while other obstacles (notably the razor wire) interfere with the Federal Border Patrol (the border guards) from doing their job. The Texas governor would be well within his rights if he erected his obstacles at a distance from the river. This would require taking private property from owners with property on the border, which wouldn’t be popular and it wouldn’t serve the purpose of generating controversy. If the crisis on the border were truly a crisis, would Donald Trump tell the Republicans in Congress to resist efforts to solve it because the crisis makes Biden look bad? I was a member of the Republican Party for 25 years. I have no love of the Democrats or of Joe Biden. But the moral bankruptcy of the modern GOP is deslumbrante.
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  6516. You don’t understand what you’re talking about. The study John relates is good news and very hopeful for us all, but what you wrote is a jumble of words that make no sense.
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  6517. Why did the even bother to conduct this clown audit, if they weren’t going to accept results that didn’t fit their narrative? Why not just pocket the cash, fake the audit, and report the results you want? What’s wrong with people today? They could fake moon landings, but they can’t fake an audit?
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  6518. The obvious solution is to change the nationally standardized course content to comply with Florida’s state Christianity. 😂
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  6519. TIL tanks don’t have airbags, hee hee.
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  6520. That’s on you, but don’t take it to heart. I couldn’t name the governors of all 50 states. You now have the opportunity to learn about him.
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  6521.  @robrobinson8597  Agreed. It’s not just Roe. The majority on the court has been imposing decisions that are radically constructivist in the supposed attempt to “reconstruct” the supposed original intentions of the framers of the Constitution. The Trump appointees are not acting as judges, but as ideological advocates trying to game the system. I never thought it would come to this. I don’t say this lightly, but Biden needs to appoint more justices. A year ago I would have opposed this idea.
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  6522. Exciting news! Now let’s get Bush and Romney on board!
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  6523.  @rainmind  You really saw that on the Tee Vee?
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  6524. I suppose this report could have put more emphasis that Ukraine is the historical source of Russian culture and society, putting the lie to Putin’s assertion that Ukraine traditionally belongs to Moscow. If anything, Moscow should be subservient to Kiev, if we are to accept the underlying logic of historical imperative. We could also look more in depth at recent history, particularly Russia’s “stewardship” of Ukraine. First, look at the Holodomor. Second, consider that Russia sacrificed Ukraine to the Nazis in 1941 when the Nazis invaded. They weren’t prepared to defend it and sacrificed the people of Ukraine to Hitler’s murderous SS when it was occupied. (If you were to research this deeper, you might be surprised to learn that Moscow only supported those partisan groups it controlled. Otherwise, they were thrown to the Nazi wolves. So I think this “historical” justification for war is just a smokescreen. The true motivation is right before our noses: Putin’s lust for power and his desire to pillage Ukraine of whatever wealth he can beat out of it.
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  6525. What is the source of your information? There is NO danger at the levels under discussion in these threads, including up to 50,000 iu in extreme cases, under a doctor’s care. Most dosages being discussed go up to 10,000-12,000 iu daily, with most taking about 2,000 - 5000 iu. You need to be more specific as to at what level D3 might show effects of toxicity, or you’re bordering in disinformation.
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  6526. Not right now, but If you’ve given up on the idea of halting or reversing global warming, Greenland becomes an attractive target. Imagine Greenland without the glaciers. That’s a lot of living space. In 50 to 100 years, it will be quite clear that Greenland is quite the prize. Trump’s proclamations, as asinine as they are, is the opening bid in the game for that prize. I think the intended recipients of Trump’s message are other powers that might someday want to colonize Greenland. The fact that it is insulting to Denmark and other Europeans is just a welcome side effect. Trump isn’t a long term thinker or a grand strategist. But people around him might be. They’re trying to position the U.S. for maximum advantage in the environmental cataclysms to come.
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  6527.  @dhoffnun  We should be talking about Anthony’s surprise birthday party. Anthony, what kind of ice cream do you want at your surprise birthday? Oh, he said “baby formula and the cost of gas”. Those are his two favorite things right now, besides invading Ukraine.
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  6528.  @garymelnyk7910  Vlad Vexler is a very interesting political philosopher. He’s very humanist in his focus. Snyder and Hodges are also humanist, but each has a slightly different approach. I see them all as complementary. I’m a regular viewer of Vlad’s chat channel, where he posts more frequently than in his other channels. Stephen Kotkin is another interesting figure for those interested in Russia, the Soviet Union, and Geopolitics. Like Snyder, he is a historian, but he has a different perspective. In my humble opinion, his perspective is also complementary to Vexler, Snyder, and Hodges. His most noted accomplishment is writing a highly regarded 3-volume biography of Stalin. (He also has a distinctive Brooklyn accent which many have compared to the actor Joe Pesci.) I also watch Peter Zeihan, but Pete is too reductionist imho. He’s an analyst and trend-spotted of Geopolitics. When I watch his videos, I keep in mind that his main clients are private industry, particularly in energy and agriculture. He’s not bad, but I’m not a fanboy. I’m not sure I’ve seen Michael Clarke. I’ll check him out. Thank you for the suggestion.
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  6529. Did any of the ethical violations involve cashmere sweaters?
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  6530. The disaster of Iraq was due to a chain of errors. The invasion itself wasn’t necessarily a bad idea, but it wasn’t debated honestly because the hawks in the administration forced the debate into whether or not there were WMDs in Iraq, and then lied about their evidence. The grand mistake was to graft the overly ambitious PNAC program onto what should have been a narrow mission. The narrow mission would have been to base troops in Iraq, and to insure the petroleum industry continued to operate. A “skinny plan” might have worked. It was the nation-building and meddling in Iraqi domestic politics that led to disaster. I’ll allow that the wisdom of invading at all is debatable. Perhaps the original mistake was that we really didn’t have that debate. I’m also a fan of W the man, warts and all. I don’t think we can blame his tendency to delegate on his being from Texas (and the former governor of Texas) or a recognition that foreign policy was his weak area, but on his own insecurity wrt that weakness. He overcame that insecurity by about 2006, but it was too late—the damage was done, and he couldn’t reverse it. About all he could do was fire Rumsfeld’s ass and stop listening to Cheney.
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  6531. You know what it says in the Bible. “It’s better to rule in the House of Representatives than serve in Heaven.”
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  6532. That’s not actually true. The Ukrainians need to hold together, maintain cohesion, as they get battered, while they batter back. They can absorb more losses than the Russians can, if it’s necessary. Russia is already scraping the barrel for available troops and equipment. And it’s not getting much resupply help from its supposed allies, who have their own problems. Putin can still declare war, which would allow for greater mobilization, but also could hurt him domestically. The Kremlin sold this as a very limited operation, and they sold it hard. Doing an about face now is tantamount to admitting failure and to admitting they were lying. That’s would be harder to sell, even if the Russian public is brainwashed. But either way, there is a limit to the pain Russia can take. The threshold for the Ukrainians is much higher, if it comes to that.
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  6533. Passing slow tanks on the tankbahn. Don’t forget to use the turn signals.
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  6534. Where’s a QOP when you need him?
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  6535. Let’s put it this way. If Shapiro and Walz were neck and neck as finalists, you pick one over the other based on an intangible like “chemistry”.
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  6536. Re: limitations. It can be refueled in flight, but it can’t be resupplied with ammo in flight. 😄 (If it can be, that’s classified!)
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  6537. No it doesn’t.
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  6538. If the defense tries that argument, it opens up the case against him even more.
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  6539.  @xanderliptak  Louisiana, too. Hundreds of thousands still without power after Ida.
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  6540. Gulaschkoenig this was my thought as well when watching that part of the video. Not used for basic tank operation training, but used for company/battalion/division operational training. Combined arms is good for you, but you have to get good at it first.
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  6541.  Dusty  There’s this thing called “follow thru”. Having a vaccine quicker avails us nothing if there isn’t an equally great effort to get Americans vaccinated quickly. Trump is like the car racer who, having taken the lead in the first lap, declares himself the winner and pulls over so he can celebrate. This is not the time to celebrate a premature victory. Do you get it? The existence of the vaccine does not magically vaccinate people. Vaccinating hundreds of millions of people requires the creation of infrastructure. This should have been done months ago, instead we have to wait for a new president to take office, because a certain someone would rather golf than roll up his sleeves and work.
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  6542.  @elainedaprano9130  Si you’re saying the threat to Johnson backfired?
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  6543. Get up off the floor, schmuck. Pete is very good within his specializations, and not very good the farther he drifts from his expertise. He mainly wants to sell books and book speaking engagements. He often puts his ideas in provocative terms because that creates interest in his work and sells his ideas. If he worked for the CIA, it would need to somehow benefit the CIA. What I think is going on here is that when someone says something you disagree with, you assume they’re CIA. That’s a very lazy lens you are using to view the world, and you should think harder.
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  6544. He destroyed the 5G network that was controlling his mind. The irony is that it was a 4G network that told him to do it.
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  6545. THE EXPLANATION IS THAT WE ARE ENTERING THE LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION
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  6546.  @MisterStifler  NKs been testing and showing off ICBMs.
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  6547. I just wish these celebrities would stop and think about what sort of example they are setting for Kanye.
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  6548. Shaped charge weapons like the PIAT, Bazooka, and Panzerfaust were developed well before the end of the war. There was also a rifle grenade, the M-9, that went into production in January 1942 and was used throughout the war. However, shaped charges had been used for a much longer time in mining operations. (I don’t recall how far back, you could look it up. In addition to shaped charge, search for Monroe Effect.) Hope this helps and that you found it interesting.
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  6549.  @colinkennedy1718  The main pro of using guided missiles as tank rounds is effective precision. However, they are much more expensive while not providing substantive advantage, and as you note, are slower velocity. In a contest where getting the first shot gives considerable advantage (even if it’s not a kill), I could see why APFSDS are more popular when your tank is facing other tanks.
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  6550. Arrest and court martial. I have no idea what sort of code of military justice they have in Ukraine, do you?
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  6551.  @sylviaelse5086  There are a lot of Russian trolls and anti-democracy nutcases in these comments. There might be quite a few ignorant people that never bothered to study democratic governance—a group that encompasses the Russian trolls, the anti-democracy nuts, and the just plain stupid people.
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  6552. Maybe? No. Ted Cruz will never get elected President after this. He will be lucky to survive his next senate election.
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  6553. Yes, he said that.
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  6554.  casterlord  All of them did as individuals pre-2016 election. They didn’t organize onto the Lincoln Project until after the election.
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  6555.  @RDeschain3337  <— Oh, look, a Concern Troll.
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  6556. Why is a gay man proposing legislation that affects the rights of women?
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  6557.  @michdoogles3939  Wow, it feels like something to you? Why don’t you try thinking, instead. Start with educating yourself enough to comment intelligently on a banking story.
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  6558. That’s why you should use a gas heater designed for indoor use. Propane and natural gas are commonly used for central heating because they are also designed for it.
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  6559.  @captainCaybrew  They should buy tickets home on a normal commercial airline. Maybe they can get a refund from the tour operator or the jet charter company, probably not. Bésame used an extreme example, but the basic point stands. If you hang out with stupid obnoxious people who can’t control themselves, expect complications.
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  6560.  @chissstardestroyer  point of order: The idiomatic phrase “bite the bullet” doesn’t mean what you think it means. The term you were looking for is “bite the dust”, which is to die or to fail catastrophically or suffer an extreme loss. “Bite the bullet” means to face an unpleasant reality or difficult choice and deal with it.
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  6561.  @daverok1113  <— TROLL
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  6562.  @RussCR5187  he’s also using alt accounts
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  6563. Aren’t you the guy who is unhappy you can’t watch the latest atrocities? And now you want an accounting? Don’t be a schmuck.
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  6564.  Anonymous-cc5pn  No, a boarder is a short term renter of a room in a house. Meals are generally included. Rodger, the OP, is either a Chinese/Russian bot or was homeschooled.
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  6565. @Marie Lux He’s just one man, there are limits on how much COVID he can give.
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  6566. Worm farts —> RFKJ sneezes It’s basic physics, man.
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  6567.  @brobroant6205  One aspect of the Democratic Party is that it’s a coalition of factions. Call it a feature or call it a bug, but they’ve rarely been able to achieve anything like the lockstep discipline of the GOP, and when they do unite and coordinate, it doesn’t last for long. If the GOP dissolves, I’ll bet money that a conservative faction arises within the Democratic Party, probably on a regional basis. There are many moderates and “moderate conservatives” (pardon the oxymoron) that were drummed out of the GOP for disloyalty over the past 20 years. The true believers call them RINOs even as the pool of fiercely loyal to Trump “true Republicans” shrinks with every purge. There are many Republicans and ex Republicans, purged or primary-ed, that could easily win elections under the Democratic banner in red states. As a conservative, I’m not really worried about single party rule under the Democrats, because the Democrats have never been one single thing. As I said, it’s a coalition party. It can never become too powerful because of infighting, and it can only achieve unity through compromise amongst its factions. The last time the Dems achieved the sort of unity and power that we fear was under FDR—and let us remember that even he did not have absolute power. His scheme to pack the Supreme Court failed utterly (as I suspect Biden will if he tries a similar scheme). If you think that the Dems have a unified goal of pushing the U.S. into communism or socialism, you’d been deluded by GOP propaganda. If you think that they could achieve this if it was their goal, you’re also delusional. Liberals are not the enemy. Progressives are not the enemy. Moderate Republicans purged as “traitorous” RINOs are not the enemy. The enemy is a thuggish group of fascists that have fooled the Republican base and frightened a lot of cowardly Republican politicians into obeisance.
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  6568. Haha, you could glue on a strip of corkboard.
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  6569.  @ryelor123  I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.
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  6570.  @cageordie  Advertisements for realistically violent games, it should be noted. I saw three ads for games that featured explosions, targeting vehicles, and assassinations with a sniper rifle. It seems that violence is OK when YouTube is getting paid, but reporting of real world violence is an excuse to minimize paying commissions to video creators doing actual journalism.
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  6571.  @ThatOpalGuy  They make some of the rules, but there are other rules that govern unfair business practices in the United States. I saw three ads for violent video games. One of the ads was for a sniper game that depicted an assassination. All the ads feature violent explosions. The inconsistency undermines YouTube’s justifications for demonetization. They’re not protecting the user audience from depictions of violence. Nor can they claim that advertisers find depictions of violence to be objectionable, when the advertisers use depictions of violence in their advertisements. I am not one of those that believe litigation is the solution for all of life’s problems. But there is a winnable case to be made here if creators joined together to challenge YouTube’s unfair business practices in a courtroom. Contractual language to which Saul and others have agreed does not supersede the law.
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  6572.  @danielch6662  But advertisements are not reviewed for objectionable content. The rules are being applied inconsistently and unfairly, and not in accordance with laws governing unfair business practices. Such laws are in force regardless of whatever agreements YouTube has extracted from video creators doing actual journalism. They cannot justify the practice by claiming that violence is objectionable to advertisers, nor can they claim that they are protecting the audience from objectionable violent content when the ads themselves contain much more violent imagery. Labor costs are not a sufficient defense to unfair business practices that allow YouTube to arbitrarily avoid paying commissions to content creators.
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  6573.  @updatedjustnow271  The GOP is a fascist endeavor that uses capitalism as a quasi-religion to attack political enemies. Really, it’s no different from Communist dictatorship that use Marxism as a religion to attack its political enemies. We’d all be much better off if we understood capitalism as a tool, as a socio-economic technology. View it as a motor, if you will indulge me. In a democratic society, WE decide the purpose of that motor. In a democratic society, we decide on how to adjust it and regulate it so that it benefits all. So, why doesn’t it? Capitalism is failing us because WE are doing a very poor job of practicing democracy. So called “late stage capitalism” is actually early stage authoritarianism. WE must do much better. The good news is that we have been doing better in the last two elections, but we have a long way to go to secure our democracy and regain control of the brakes, levers, and steering wheel of the motor.
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  6574. I’ll take a stab at this. Luck. Lucky the 3rd person didn’t get infected, and lucky he or she was wearing a mask. But what happened to the 4th person?
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  6575. My name is John Roberts and this is my son and business partner, Amy Coney Barret.
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  6576. She’s kind of the Joni Mitchell of her generation and I think her best days are yet to come.
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  6577. These “mothers” have appeared with Putin before in past years. They’re all working for the Kremlin or politically connected to Putin’s party.
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  6578.  @0doubledseven589  US Attorneys often prosecute cases stemming from FBI investigations, but they also have their own investigators.
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  6579. Not in California they wouldn’t. Only if there was an injury or death from an attack.
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  6580.  @mikeofallon  Pence doesn’t have a choice. On January 6th, Congress with acknowledge the count, despite whatever political stunts the Trump Party tries to pull.
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  6581. So many Russian soldiers experience the bravery and skill of the Ukrainian military and end up staying in Ukraine permanently (and rather quietly and motionless). Peace to Ukraine and Rest In Peace to the Russians that are now joined with the land of Ukraine. And bon appetit to the worms.
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  6582. The Russians are delaying the Red Cross because they’re still removing evidence of chemical warfare.
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  6583. Wago connectors! Aha!
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  6584. Yes, they do have a hard job, and we should recognize that. We should also recognize that part of that job is controlling themselves even when pushed to the limit. And we should also remember that they are well compensated for doing that difficult job. I could understand a police officer resigning from this unit because it exposes them to extra personal liability. But I don’t understand why a law abiding police officer who upholds the law would quit in protest of the law being applied to one who clearly exceeded the boundaries of legal behavior. This protest is dishonorable and disrespectful of the rule of law.
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  6585. How can that state’s representatives be blocking federal efforts to defend the border? Apparently it’s not really a big crisis, because senate and congressional republicans has said this week that they’d block any proposed solutions in order to help Trump win the election.
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  6586. It’s been a net positive for all three countries, and we are now in better strategic shape for a global contraction.
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  6587. My IRA is 90% Beanie Babies and 10% precious metals.
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  6588. Hear me out. Residential pillow forts.
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  6589. The only real effect of the Nordstream sabotage was to spike the price of gas and roil the financial markets. The only beneficiary of this momentary chaos that also had the capability to do the sabotage was Russia. It has the added benefit of getting Gazprom clear of contractual obligations to buyers that it couldn’t meet. Luckily, gas prices settled down, LNG tankers have filled available storage to 90+% capacity, and more capacity is being built. Russian shenanigans just aren’t hitting like they used to. Instead of the pipeline sabotage dividing Europe, its having the effect of getting European countries to cooperate even more.
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  6590.  @evilmex1962  No, there is a pedestrian bridge if any refugees make it past the Russian units assigned to kill them.
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  6591.  @rabd3721  At least now those unfortunate young men can be part of something decent.
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  6592.  @christophermccord3316  How about we keep worship private and stop blaming the world on supernatural effects? Climate change follows the laws of physics, it’s not the result of anything supernatural, and it won’t be addressed as something supernatural.
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  6593. 215 pounds? 🤭
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  6594. How does Matthew 12:25 explain El Paso/Juarez or Laredo/Nuevo Laredo. Each of those are two cities divided against each other, both sets seem to be standing. Berlin was divided into East and West Berlin. It didn’t fall and still stands.
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  6595. When the bad information is contributing to mass deaths and illness, it’s crossed the line. Just as yelling “fire” in a crowded theater should not be allowed, neither should, in the event of an actual fire, convincing others that thinking positive thoughts and carrying on normally will protect them from fire is equally bad and should not be permitted. It’s much worse than that in a pandemic, as those homeopathic believers are likely to spread the fire to others.
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  6596. Also, the assumption that people substitute homeopathy over science, instead of in addition to science, is not an incorrect assumption.
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  6597.  @esterhudson5104 Last year was the first time I spent more on a phone (iPhone 14 pro x) than I have for a computer. I’ve owned various refurb and “budget” iPhones, iPads, and Macs. My first Mac was purchased in 1991 at the dawn of desktop video (for that purpose). What made me go for the flagship model was the financing.
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  6598. Routine. Yes, even when it’s clearly justified.
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  6599. Apparently you didn’t watch the video. This wasn’t a thump. This was a police officer knocking a reporter to the ground and once she was down on the ground and not a threat, hitting her in the face with a club. You can’t even claim this was a police officer defending himself from a violent rioter or trying to control someone resisting arrest. He gratuitously attacked a human being and then hurried to rejoin the line.
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  6600.  @ki11ukw1k  I don’t think she and Mnuchin were given the opportunity. They (Pelosi and Mnuchin) were hammering out details, when McConnell torpedoed that deal, saying he wouldn’t even let it on the floor. Then he tried to pass his $500 billion “skinny” package, and couldn’t get enough votes from his own caucus. And let’s not forget the aberrant tactics from Mnuchin’s boss. Negotiations are extremely difficult between parties that don’t trust each other. Even more so when one or both sides has a history of bad faith tactics. You can ascribe that to both sides if you want, but only the leader of one side literally wrote a book on how to engage in bad faith negotiations and how to get the other side to compromise by giving them false promises and then changing your demands. It’s also interesting that Senate Republicans refused to join the negotiations, but McConnell kept his veto power—and eventually used it. So I question the statement that Pelosi should have taken the better deal. There still wasn’t a deal when McConnell torpedoed the final negotiations.
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  6601.  @shaggydestroyerofworlds2208  By Federal Government, you mean all three branches, correct? Because it seems like Texas Congresspeople are helping to create these problems for Texas. Ultimately, it’s the people of Texas hurting themselves by sending obstructionist representatives to Washington.
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  6602. What is BRIX? Let’s see. There’s Bundia, Razil, Issia, and X? Oh, yes, Xina. How could I forget Xina? The BRICS reserve currency has been on the table for over a dozen years and it’s never amounted to more than talk. No one really trusts Russia or China. Currencies based on hard assets are not capable of being a reserve and trading currency unless you have a huge fucking shitton of the hard asset safely stored somewhere. The bottom line is trust, and the Federal Reserve Board has shown itself to be trustworthy. They are transparent in their moves and preannounce planned moves. They discuss the contingencies and their responses planned to address those contingencies should they arise. It’s really no contest. Peter is right about PRC micromanaging of the Renmimbi. The hidden, unreported, micromanaging of it. What he didn’t mention is that China has a dual currency.
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  6603. I don’t think many Mexican-Americans will be asking their Congressperson for military interventions in Mexico. The main reason is that those Mexican-Americans that would be politically involved enough to call their elected officials are more American than Mexican (second, third, and beyond generations. The second reason is “the history is complicated”. If the U.S. unilaterally intervened, it would be seen by the majority of Mexicans (not to mention the Mexican government) as an act of war, no matter how well intentioned. There are two or three things the U.S. can do to kneecap the Mexican cartels. The most obvious seems unrealistic—cut the demand for drugs. The other two are also obvious: stronger enforcement of anti-laundering banking regulations and better control of firearms flowing to Mexico. It will take political will to accomplish these objectives because of the banking lobby and the NRA, but if you cut off the money and the weapons, the law enforcement problem becomes manageable. Speaking of drugs and the military, how about a “don’t ask, and pass the joint” policy? 😂
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  6604. Don’t be dim. The local liquor store keeps a well stocked truck parked on the street in front of her house.🤪
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  6605. Vete a la chingada and take Putin with you.
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  6606. lol, no.
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  6607.  @OGZackov  He’s frightened of an openly gay man running the department of TRANS-portation. We don’t want woke ships changing their genders, do we?
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  6608. The world needs to shit can poo tin
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  6609. I enjoy your discussing where Peterson misses the mark, but I don’t enjoy having to listen to Peterson’s grating lying voice. Peterson’s biggest lie is that he has read the authors that he criticizes, that he understands what they said, that he has some insight into their approach. He hasn’t read anyone, he doesn’t understand what they said or wrote, and he has zero insight into any of them. Peterson is 100% a charlatan. It is a stain on our society that he is considered a “public intellectual”.
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  6610. 💀 DIE!!!! 🥳 WOOOOO!!
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  6611. When you are the direct cause of the Force Majeur, not so much. God didn’t cause the war, nor was it a natural disaster.
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  6612. He should resign and go back to being an astronaut.
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  6613. That’s not true. The problem is that the Ukrainian defense forces don’t have enough equipment and ammunition to supply the men and women currently fighting. The Ukrainian training pipeline seems to be functioning as it should. You’re repeating disinformation.
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  6614. In addition to the issue of ownership, I am curious about the scale. How many tons of vegetable waste a month are we talking? I’m willing to bet it’s less than a half ton per month, which would be negligible in terms of energy generated from incineration. The local government is going after a trivial amount of “lost revenue”.
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  6615. In most contexts, putting the year first buries the more important information. Day or month is usually the first thing you want to know (as well as day of the week).
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  6616. If Sara Palin secretly murdered Lauren and tried to replace her, everyone would notice right away. “Wait a minute! How did Lauren suddenly become so smart? Also, she’s acting a lot less unhinged!”
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  6617. WRT to your last point, I’m pretty sure that its domestic politics. Hungary has an election soon, and they’re very reliant in Russian gas. I also wonder what weapons are being delivered on the QT, without the publicity of drones, ATGMs, and MANPADS. NATO is not unfamiliar with concealment and distraction operations. Perhaps MiGs are already entering Ukraine secretly. The whole ongoing controversy would be great cover. Edit: I forgot to add that Hungary’s dissent from NATO unification is also valuable. It counters the myth that NATO is one country’s puppet. In fact, I think that half of NATOs efforts are diplomatic missions among its members to decide what to do and remain unified.
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  6618. The House passed it. Pelosi and the House Dems are not on the spot. The ball is in the hands of Senate Majority Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans. Chances are, they’re going to fumble it—McConnell couldn’t even get his majority to pass the $500 Billion skinny bill back in October. Too many Republican Senators wanted $0 spent. So it’s accurate to say that Trump has put McConnell in a tough spot.
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  6619. The threat of amphibious landing near Odessa has passed. The Russians really needed the Moskva to provide air defense, and it needed all of its landing ships in working order to have any chance of success. Snake Island is crucial to Soviet control, I mean, Russian control of the Black Sea, but it is costing them their fleet, one ship at a time. Snake Island is also important to Ukraine, but for now it is good bait to bring Russian warships within firing range of Ukrainian missiles and drones.
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  6620. Contained within. The mundane is a container. But the mundane is not the thing it contains.
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  6621. I’m with you. The term RINO is a weapon used to purge those of doubtful loyalty to the party, just like in any fascist or communist movement. Anyone with the brains to question the party or with the moral center to question the party were eventually purged or forced out. All that is left of the GOP are craven or cowardly cretins. I left the GOP out of disgust over Abu Graib, the Torture Memos, and the debate over “enhanced interrogation”. But the strongest source of my disgust came from discussing “enhanced interrogation” with my fellow Republicans. These were people that I knew, and they were more than fine with techniques such as water boarding. Some thought water boarding didn’t go far enough. They didn’t really care about the interrogation. They just wanted to inflict pain on Muslims and Arabs. And no one was pushing back against these opinions as being morally wrong. I was told that I “sounded like a liberal”. My objections to torture were seen as being disloyal. I don’t think I was actually called a RINO, although I think the word “squish” was used. I think if one or two people had stepped up with me, I might not have left the GOP. But I was the only one in our group that spoke up against the openly pro-torture crowd.
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  6622. Mexico isn’t joining BRICS. It will be extremely awkward integrating Mexico into BRICS until at least one or more vowel countries join first. India can’t carry the acronymic load all by itself, you know. But seriously, Mexico isn’t going to join BRICS anytime soon. BRICS itself is a nothing burger. Look up where the concept came from: it was a financial analyst describing a group of developing economies that might make good investments, back in 2001. Look up the organization’s accomplishments: nothing worth a blip on any radar screen.
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  6623. It happens at 1:19
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  6624. 👍 Good Bri-splaining 😉
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  6625. What was your major at clown college?
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  6626. Blog/Podcast Network called Lawfare focuses on the intersection of Security/War/Law/ (both international and domestic U.S. law). I suggest trying to contact them, although I’m not sure which person there would be the best to advise you. If they can’t answer questions, they know someone who can.
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  6627. Three more weeks is better than two weeks or less, I suppose. A good deal of the effectiveness is determined by how stringent is the enforcement, as well as other measures taken at that time. I’m from the U.S. (living outside of it since the first week of March last year), and I can’t help but wonder where we’d be if there was a strict and rigorously enforced two month lockdown. Very likely we’d be much better off both economically and health wise. It was the patchwork response and the unwillingness to take the strong medicine up front that has lead the U.S. to the current precarious situation. But you know what Churchill said. Americans always do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.
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  6628. The states themselves can begin grand jury investigations, starting with the charter bus and plane companies and working their way up through the people that actually are perpetrating these cruelties at the behest of Desantis and Abbot. Start with the drivers and pilots, who got paid to move these people around. Then the managers and owners of the charter companies. Then the people that are intercepting the asylum seekers and tricking them onto the buses and planes. Find out who created the fake flyer used in MV (and any other fake documents used to fool the victims). You don’t need the feds to investigate. Each state can do it on their own. Even if it doesn’t end up with indictments or prosecutions of Abbot and Desantis, their rotten organizations must be exposed.
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  6629. These people didn’t enter illegally. They are asylum seekers fleeing a communist dictatorship.
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  6630.  @Garapetsa  This is a lie. In fact, Biden is selling oil from the strategic stockpile to keep gasoline prices down. The U.S. is a net exporter of natural gas. Why would he buy it? How would it be transported? Your lie is ridiculous. Reported for misinformation.
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  6631. But it’s not the majority of the party that elects the Speaker, it’s the entire body of the House, including Democrats.
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  6632.  @fullm3taljacket  Says the guy with a dozen comments in each thread. 😂
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  6633.  @magisterrleth3129  So what I’m hearing is that the captain who stole it from Ukraine was actually a NATO agent trying to burden the Russian Federation with an unsustainable white elephant. Maybe albatross is a better animal, since we are discussing a sea going vessel.
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  6634. Nah. Twenty don’t want him. Two hundred do want him. It’s not a matter of reading the room, it’s a matter of you learning to count.
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  6635. A lot of bots in this thread (and their willing dupes) trying to drag us all down and divide us.
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  6636.  @PureBleachFilms  Loving God and Loving your neighbor is a commandment of Jesus. Christians don’t worship Jesus or they’d be called Jesusians. The defining article of faith, the center of Christian worship is the crucifixion and resurrection. If you do not believe that Christ died for your sins on the cross and was resurrected, you don’t get to call yourself a Christian. Embrace and encourage those Christians that follow the teachings of Jesus. But have a clear understanding of the bare minimum requirements to be a Christian.
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  6637. DENIS Forrest A marine battery might be better (or a bank of 6), but I have to wonder how long they can sustain even voltage. I’m also thinking that for the purposes of the experiment, the cooling system should have a separate power supply.
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  6638. Shagrof That depends on your geographical location. In the U.S., your ordinary three prong socket supplies single phase 110-120 volts, and are rated for 15 amps. [If you have greater power requirements, you can add a 240 volt circuit (using two hot legs to complete the circuit, rather then 1 hot and 1 neutral) If this sounds to technical, it’s better to avoid fooling around because these voltages are deadly.] Other countries use different voltages, and their outlet connections are rated differently according to their local electrical codes.
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  6639. They’ll get it right one of these days. Eventually they’ll put a general in charge that knows what he’s doing. And he will tell the last conscript remaining exactly what to do and then things will turn around for Russia.
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  6640. I take no glee, but really, isn’t it better that they’re reunited with their deity now, sitting at his right hand, and thinking about how much they miss ice water?
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  6641.  @mwwhited  What System on a Chip features are you unhappy with? Is onboard RAM one of them? Should technological advancements be stopped because you want to upgrade your RAM, or should everyone else be penalized so every manufacturer gives you what you want? Right-to-repair is a different issue than “ease of upgrading”. Some phone vendors maintain compatibility with their older models when they update the OS. I know of one phone vendor that supports phones for 6 or 7 years, and even then release security patches for older OSes no longer under development.
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  6642. It’s Carbon Monoxide that’s the really issue, not Carbon Dioxide. Mr. Heater is designed for indoor use and in my experience doesn’t have that issue. I installed a Carbon Monoxide detector because I didn’t trust the claims, but there have been zero problems during three years of use. I’ve heard stories of carbon monixide poisoning a long time ago from unmaintained or faulty central heating. Safety standards went up and the technology improved. I don’t think CO2 is an issue in itself. We breathe it constantly. The issue is when it’s all CO2 and no oxygen. You suffocate. That would only happen in a hermetically sealed room (as seen in space ships). Have you ever heard of someone with a fireplace dying from CO2? No, you have not.
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  6643.  @eagler8196  The neatly trimmed beard is a sure sign that he’s a liberal. 🙄 It also means he’s a groomer. Everyone knows that MAGAs are slobs that hate grooming and personal hygiene.
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  6644. Trump appointed three different partisan commissions to investigate voter fraud. They found no evidence of it. You might know this if you followed U.S. news, Ivan.
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  6645. I know what you meant, but I don’t think you meant to put it that way. I mean, what is the acceptable measure for enjoying hurting people?
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  6646. Lol, you must be a democrat.
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  6647.  @chrissweep  Basic human nature hasn’t changed in 200 years. It probably hasn’t changed in 20,000 years. You can argue that McConnell is exploiting a bug in the system, but that weakness has been there from the beginning. The most obvious and easiest patch is via voting and we will see this next week in Georgia if the first attempt will take hold. The next opportunity to change the balance of power is the 2022 midterm elections. Something I discovered over the last 4 -5 years is that when voting doesn’t accomplish your goals, there is more to do, more you can do within the democratic framework, such as organize and mobilize the vote. People are too damn eager to talk revolution when things don’t fall the way they wanted (but luckily they’re too lazy to do the hard and dangerous work of organizing a revolution). And yes, there are democratic steps beyond elections, such as amending the constitution. That’s more difficult than winning elections, but it’s an option we have before we start smashing things.
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  6648. He was arrested.
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  6649. Putzis
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  6650. My larger fear is that Putin’s revenge for his failed escapades is to destabilize the world as much as possible. If he cannot rule the world, or his corner of it, he will cause enough suffering for those left to pick up the pieces. Mass starvation in Africa is nothing to him if it makes international order more difficult. He might think of it as “going down fighting”, but it is really a malevolent childish spite. He wants to poison the well. Men such as Putin have a deeply irrational streak. They might be very clever about preserving their regimes or expanding their power, but when they are in danger of losing they will upend the board and scatter the pieces. This is my fear with regard to Putin.
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  6651. And that doesn’t include long term effects on those who do survive. The pandemic minimizers and deniers who continue to post false survival rates are insane or criminal.
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  6652.  @Videostoredontgo  Exactly. I’d rather have $600 real money than $2000 that never arrives. It’s a shame that Trump delayed signing, because that money would be showing up in people’s bank accounts today. Millions receiving unemployment have had their benefits lapse on Saturday and will face delays getting reinstated. I don’t really see what the point of this delaying exercise was, unless Trump was just trying to punish the GOP for not following him into hell.
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  6653.  @ericplank8969  Go for it. Good luck.
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  6654. The second thing you wrote.
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  6655. Little Reuby This is true to some extent, but most of the high costs of studio movies are for the talent and in many cases the script—so called “over the line”. Second major cost is that many theatrical releases must be special effects blockbusters, whether those effects are practical or cgi. Third (although not included in initial budgets and sometimes higher than “over the line” costs) is marketing and promotion. Lastly is under the line staffing—the crew. I’ve worked on a lot of non union low budget movies at different rates of pay. Sometimes the producers were fair and provided a decent wage. Other times, producers were trying to screw the crew in any way possible. I’ve also worked on passion projects where the pay was low but the producers did everything they could to squeeze in extras for the crew. That said, crew salaries are often unfairly blamed for high costs. But you get what you pay for.
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  6656. Led by chief of staff Abbie Normal
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  6657. If I ever feel compelled to buy an RV, I’ll buy a boat instead. 😂
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  6658. Me too! I never considered one before but apparently they are well built. I thought they were flimsy but apparently they’re fine as long as you’re not poking them with sharp objects. And you can get a small one for around $500! My two concerns are cost of electricity consumption and weight (rooftop patio). However, there’s a steel girder running the length of the apartment ceiling, so my concern about weight is probably unfounded.
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  6659. Steve isn’t a fanboy.
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  6660. Can you name the year that the Roman Empire fell? Can you describe the resemblances beyond the most superficial of comparisons? There’s a reason historians roll their eyes at such facile comparisons.
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  6661. My variable rate credit card is killing me, but I managed to pay down most of it before interest rates went up. “Killing me” is hyperbole, though. I will manage it with only some discomfort. Others are going to be much worse off. I think Peter has a good point. He might even be soft pedaling the non-severity of the downturn. (Crazy, I know!) But there is reason to hope that this downturn is setting the table for the next period of prosperity and economic growth.
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  6662. Who is your congressperson? When was the last time you communicated with their office? If you’re doing nothing to hold your own representative accountable, don’t talk about holding “all of congress” accountable. Making loud demands on YouTube is masturbation. It might feel good to do it, maybe it’s thrilling when your friends see you do it, but you’re not really accomplishing anything.
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  6663. Yes, but it would be a good thing if investigators and prosecutors can establish a criminal conspiracy with proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It’s just as important, if not more important, to dismantle the cabal of conspirators that enabled Trump’s crimes.
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  6664. Comrade Ivan, whoever taught you English failed you.
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  6665. This video begins with historical errors of chronology and dives into operational strategy in place of looking at the grand strategy. It fails within the first minute. I’m giving it a pass and saving 20 minutes.
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  6666. BWAHAHAHAHAHA, they’re equally bad. Maybe accidental damage is slightly worse, because it confirms incompetence of Russian forces.
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  6667.  @Madame702  is the Russian Military more like George Constanza or more like Newman?
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  6668. I’m sorry hear that you’ve fallen ill. I hope you get well soon! With regard to Ivermectin, 1) ALWAYS check with your doctor, and 2) if you decide to take it, normal doses (for its anti-parasite intended use) won’t hurt you. Even a double dose (often prescribed for severe intestinal parasite infestation) won’t hurt you. Let me emphasize: normal dosages. Not every day for a week, but one time. It might help and won’t hurt. I think people are hurting themselves by taking abnormally high dosages. Also, to be clear, I’m not recommending it. I’m just relaying the information that normal dosages are safe, not that they are a cure. I’ve taken it for it’s intended purpose several times, maybe three or four times over ten years. Here in Mexico where intestinal parasites are not rare, ivermectin is sold over the counter, without prescription. Anyway, my personal experiences is that there were no unwanted side effects. I pooped out those little motherfuckers and life was great.
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  6669.  @stayclean777  He’ll be standing behind the door when they hand out tickets to the anti-woke paradise cruise, just like he was when they handed out brains.
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  6670. That’s how you go out on a limb.
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  6671. This clears the path for Jordan Peterson to become Trumps new spiritual advisor. 😝
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  6672. How was it provoked? You’re saying that feeling provoked is the same as provoked. You’re saying that the very existence of democracy threatens authoritarian regimes with aggressive imperial dreams. That’s not being backed into a corner. That’s being told to stay on your side of the line.
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  6673. Search YouTube for Jeremy DeWitte on Real World Police Channel. Hours and hours of police impersonator hijinks.
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  6674. Scalia would be heartbroken and ashamed of his friend, Clarence Thomas.
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  6675. I’ll just leave this here: https://youtu.be/BYz1ADttI1g
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  6676. Interesting rumor. I’ll wait for confirmation, but such actions aren’t shocking. We already know there is turmoil in the Kremlin.
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  6677. I think Biden is still OK. He might not be in the future, and the idea of VP Harris becoming President doesn’t thrill me. This is more like getting your leg amputated (Trump) vs having to wear orthopedic shoes (Biden). I don’t want either but force to choose between the two, I’ll wear the stupid shoes. And you know what? The economy is doing great by any objective measure. Attempts to solve other issues are being blocked by a handful of attention-seeking Republican extremists.
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  6678.  @cain2548  Alex Jones is the CABRON
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  6679. How? You get paid up front, that’s how.
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  6680.  @davefarmery8180  Other languages use a C and the commenter might not be a native English speaker.
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  6681. I’ve kept a work journal. When I get home, I write down what happened, if anything. Good stuff and bad. It can help you maintain your sanity if you’re being gas lit. It’s useful for good things, too, if you have a decent employer. Like using it to remind yourself of accomplishments. Like before a 6-month review, you prepare and refresh your memory of specific contributions you’ve made, successes you’ve had.
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  6682. Imagine being one of those who panicked, withdrew their life savings, and now have to go wait in line to deposit back their $47.65.
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  6683. Is there a way that any of these doubters could be convinced? Do they want to personally count each ballot? Would that convince them? Probably not. They would question that the ballots they were given were the real ballots.
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  6684. Not the same. To be the same, your warrant would have the force of law outside of your neighbor’s house, meaning he would face possible arrest every time he set foot outside his door. Your neighbor would effectively be bottled up in his house.
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  6685. Not pointless geo-politically, but possibly (probably) pointless wrt providing useful medical knowledge in the short term. While lies are known for the speed of their spread, Truth has the nasty habit of coming out eventually. The more China tries to cover up now (as we assume they’re doing), the worse for them later in their dealings with the rest of the world.
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  6686. Duolingo has failed you.
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  6687. Are you worried about rising prices or the rate of the rise?
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  6688. The Card Family Thanksgiving is going to be very awkward.
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  6689.  @arnoldcobarrubias6593 No reported injuries.
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  6690. He’s cried wolf a few too many times for me to think the border crisis is as bad as he says. What’s truly unconscionable is that the Republicans in Congress held up the Ukraine aid, demanding that it be tied to solving this so called crisis. And now word has come down from Mar A Lago that a solution to the crisis be blocked because that would help Joe Biden.
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  6691.  @johnnyquid-xj4kk  OK Fidel
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  6692.  @paaaatrika  The Vietnam conflict was more than 20 years, and arguably 30 years if you go back to the end of WWII. The first phase was against the French and ended in partition, the middle phase was a civil war with U.S. support but without direct U.S. involvement, the third phase was increasingly direct support (fighting the war) to prop up successive puppet governments that were increasingly corrupt. Thirty years of stubborn resistance is quite a long time!
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  6693. MST3K, with or without drinking. Do it like a reaction video! 😂
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  6694.  @dadt8009  You must feel absolutely devastated and humiliated that anyone might laugh at you. Goodness me, I had no idea you were such a sensitive soul. If you’d like to unburden yourself of your deep psychic pain and emotional wounds, please contact me on Twitter @urafuckinginfantileponce
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  6695.  @sebastianforbes1  You’re interfering with others’ enjoyment of a stupid anti-capitalist conspiracy theory. Shame on you for not being an ignorant lazy slob and having at least a basic grasp of economics (and perhaps more than a basic grasp). Please leave these simple minded people their simple pleasures.
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  6696. NZ is somewhat of a special case, no? Don’t get me wrong, they’ve had tremendous success, but very few countries would be able to replicate their results by even approximately following their precautions—which boils down to very tight border control, excellent contact tracing, and rigorous quarantine of early cases. The next closest to this is Australia, which has done a better job than most in controlling its borders and quarantining travelers.
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  6697.  @antoniolittera2154  You’re repeating a common misconception (among antimaskers) that the fine mesh on the masks are too coarse for the even tinier virus. This is incorrect. It’s clear to me that you’re not antimask, and I’m sure you don’t want to inadvertently pass on misinformation. The virus doesn’t fly through the air on its own power. It hitches a ride on respiratory micro droplets, and those droplets ARE large enough that they get stopped by the mask. A great deal larger! This is why masks, even surgical masks, are as effective as they are, especially when EVERYONE is wearing one. The lack of effectiveness is mostly due to the lack of a perfect seal around the nose and mouth, and also due to people not wearing them correctly (although that’s not figured into effectiveness ratings).
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  6698. I don’t know if it as all similar, but I’ve stayed in hotels with a shared bathroom per 5 2-person rooms, and I’ve stayed in hostels. The most important thing, about 80%, is hotel staff to keep the bathrooms clean and usable. About 20% is guests being considerate of each other. And for me personally, it’s 99% getting to the showers while there is still hot water. 😉 There are a lot of guys who have never really cleaned up after themselves. They always had their mothers care for them. Really, they are like children in this way.
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  6699. I’m on the fence. If the SC grants immunity, then yes, that should be a part of SC reforms.
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  6700. Agreed, Kadyrov might be close to being physically done. But that is far from saying Chechnya will be neutralized as an ally. However, when he goes, Chechnya becomes a greater distraction and possibly a greater drain. For the time being, lump Putin, Shoigu, and Gerasimov together as “The Regime”. And the biggest and daily fear of an authoritarian regime is losing power and being replaced.
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  6701. I use it to heat my bedroom on cold mornings, with an adapter and a propane tank. I think the little green gas canisters for camping aren’t cost efficient for regular use.
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  6702. Circular firing squad.
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  6703. Do not expect Pete to have the knowledge of nomenclature. Outside his area of expertise he often gets details large and small wrong. If you want expertise in naval affairs, there are other YouTube channels. Avail youself of them.
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  6704. 100% correct. In fact, the first amendment right to vote for Rod Blagojevich extends to all voters in any state in any election.
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  6705.  @GreyMaria  Yes. But your “symbolic” vote or protest vote or whatever you want to call it is your decision. It still gets counted. The election workers don’t throw it away. It’s the same thing if you vote for an obscure third party candidate with very long odds. They still count your vote, even if you “threw it away” by not voting for a major party candidate.
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  6706. There is no medical mechanism by which a neurotoxin anti parasite treatment will affect a virus as viruses do not have nervous systems. The mechanism of ivermectin is the neurotoxin attacking the nervous systems of parasites such as worms and lice.
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  6707. It’s not an endless stalemate. Your sources of information are questionable and your knowledge is superficial at best. The money being spent severely decreases an adversary’s capabilities, while we are sending equipment that has been retired or slated to be retired over the next 5-10 years. Some of your tax dollars are being “spent” on the market value of this equipment, meaning the money gets folded back into our military budget and there is also a savings on decommissioning costs. The paper tiger wont even be a paper kitten if this war continues. Now, what is “effective aid”? Why not just go whole hog and send American soldiers into Ukraine? What do you think the Russian response will be to that?
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  6708. A gun store or a sporting goods store? I don’t think I ever saw a gun store selling boots. I bet if the camera had panned over, there’d be a fishing tackle section and a camping section.
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  6709. Watch the video and learn the difference.
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  6710. He’s a punk rocker.
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  6711. Are we sure there aren’t any Korean storekeepers in Ukraine, protecting their stores from Russian looters? Just saying’.
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  6712.  @sharonharris9782  focus on the battleground state polls, not national polls.
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  6713. That’s not very fast. It will take them another month to advance 60 miles. Meanwhile, how much of its forces will it expend? An army that cannot advance further because it has exhausted its resources is said to have reached its culmination point. If this point is close for the Russians, then a potential counterattack is also close for the Ukrainians. The ideal moment for a counteroffensive is when your enemy has become weakened and is overextended. None of Russia’s gains have been decisive. Mariupol wasn’t decisive. The coming counteroffensive, if there is one, has a good chance of being decisive and breaking the back of Russian forces in Ukraine.
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  6714. What are the rules of combat? Whichever icon shakes fastest, wins. You’re on!
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  6715. So, here is what I’ve gleaned from what John has been telling us and some of the scientific research I’ve been reading. At the outset, my initial interest and use of vitamin D3 is that it falls under the rubric of “low risk of harm, probably helpful”, that is to say it can’t hurt, might help. Also, even if it’s preventative effects with Covid-19 are illusory, I’ll still receive other benefits from supplementing my diet with vitamin D3. Here is what I have found: vitamin D is a hormone that affects cellular operation at a genetic level. There’s a lot of science that is studying on HOW it does this, what systems D3 affects, in short, WHAT ARE THE MECHANISMS by which this hormone interacts with the body. These are studies ranging from studies involving laboratory animals (mice), cell cultures, human trials, etc., all with controls for other factors in place. Summary: the BASIC MECHANISM of vitamin D3 is understood, while evidence of D3’s specific efficacy for fighting off COVID 19 is mounting, and the specific mechanisms being involved are being studied. Conclusion: There is a lot of scientific evidence that D3 could specifically help us against this specific pathogen (COVID-19), but even if it doesn’t, it’s established that D3 is a beneficial supplement for those that are D3 deprived. So take it! Also, it’s a low cost intervention that governments and health organizations should be supporting and sponsoring. Let’s contrast this with other interventions, such as ivermectin, an anti-parasite medication. It’s a well known and effective medication to treat various parasites in both humans and animals: head lice, mosquitoes, various worms and nematodes. It can also be toxic for some animals, such as dogs. Got that? It might kill your dog. The anti-parasite mechanism is neurotoxicity. It attacks the nervous system of these parasites. It doesn’t seem to have much adverse affects on humans when taken at the low dose levels used in treatment of parasites. At lower doses, it’s not crossing the brain/blood barrier, meaning that, at lower doses, it’s not attacking brain cells. THERE IS NO KNOWN MECHANISM FOR IVERMECTIN AS AN ANTI-VIRAL. The studies on the efficacy as an anti-viral are, at best, mixed, meaning that THERE IS STILL NO CLEAR EVIDENCE THAT IT WORKS (and we should figure out the mechanism later). In those studies that suggest efficacy, the dosage is very high, at a level considered toxic to humans. At these levels, there is an increase in depression and suicide, leaving me with the question, is it affecting the brain? Is it affecting hormones that affect the brain? And let’s be clear, the studies of high dosage Ivermectin are NOT conclusive. To say that they suggest there might be efficacy is to be quite generous. Countries that have approved ivermectin at high doses for COVID-19 treatment have rescinded that approval because of safety concerns combined with low efficacy. Low dosages (not shown to be effective for COVID) can still be used as originally intended, for parasites. My conclusion: unless my doctor suggests Ivermectin, there is no real benefit as a prevention measure against COVID-19. As a treatment if I ever tested positive, there are other treatments available. If I was in serious condition, dying of COVID-19, and there were no orate treatments available, I’d take it because “why the hell not”. It makes ZERO sense to self prescribe and self medicate with ivermectin. AND #1, IVERMECTIN IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ANY OF THE VACCINES. Those going this route are putting themselves, their communities, and society at risk. They’re being worse than childish and selfish, they’re being anti-social, bordering on criminal.
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  6716. Early winter = rain. Rain = mud. Mud = slow. That is the current concern.
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  6717. The numbers are still too low to make a huge difference. What I think we’ll see is the F-16 used as an enabler for Stormshadow and Himars strikes by suppressing (and hopefully degrading) Russian air defense. Those HARM missiles are wonderful things. I don’t think the F-16s will make much of a dent against the Russian Glide bombs, because they need considerable altitude to launch long range air-to-air missiles. While they’re gaining that altitude, they’re very vulnerable to the Russian SAM systems. I do think the F-16s will make a difference, but it will be slowly over time.
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  6718.  @markusmaximus6636  Hi there, Putzi.
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  6719.  @donnievance1942  Your expectations are too great for brainus minimus.
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  6720.  @angelopugliese6034  Hurtanus Maximus
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  6721. And now they’re slowly siphoning units from other border areas, revealing how little a threat they think NATO really is. Fear of NATO is merely a pretext for this land grab.
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  6722. Patrick Lancaster, RT Employee-of-the-Month for the past two months.
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  6723. SOC delivers decision granting the president total immunity the day after Trump is elected. Hours after Trump is inaugurated, he is assassinated by VP Noem. Chief Justice Roberts is forced at gunpoint to swear her in as the new president. Her first act is to pardon herself. Her second act is to declare martial law. 😂 OK, I’ve got a better one, but not as scary. Two days after his 2029 inauguration, President Hakim Jeffries meets with his best friend Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to discuss their respective agendas and how they will hammer out the necessary compromises. MAGA and the pro-Hamas left weep inconsolably. 🎉😂
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  6724.  @TexasBoyDrew  New = Authoritarian Populist wrapped around a cult of personality. Isolationist yet blustery. Old = Fiscal conservative, pro-business, strong defense, law & order, and socially a mix of moral conservatism with a personal liberty ethos. Contrary to the stereotype, old school conservatism is not anti-poor, it just believes that government is not the best vehicle for alleviating poverty. And it used to be that conservative and conservative adjacent organizations did a lot of service and charitable work. Conservatism used to be less of a rigid ideology and more of a set of personal principles. There was less policing of group boundaries and political identity. Thus both political parties had moderates that made up a political center. This changed radically in the 90s.
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  6725.  @marcusaetius9309  Are you a turtle?
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  6726. You like maize? How much? Elote?
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  6727. When does the dry season start? Putin has time against him, so maybe can’t wait for dryer conditions. Ukrainians can wait or not wait. It’s their country and they’re not going anywhere.
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  6728. Who is saying that? I don’t think a single reliable source source says you shouldn’t get vaccinated if you have allergies. If you have links to reputable medical journals that are giving such advice, I’d be happy to read the articles. Consider your sources: there are a lot of unqualified people, quacks, and unscrupulous people making and repeating all sorts of unsubstantiated claims, some of which are harmful.
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  6729. You’re not considering the tank porn jag offs.
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  6730. Another rockstar interview! 😄
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  6731. If you want a fascinating overview of Russia’s military corruption, look for Perun’s channel and take a look at his video on the topic. Be warned, the video is in the form of a power point presentation and his videos are up to an hour in length. But they don’t seem that long and if you like this channel, you’re likely to enjoy Perun’s videos. I also recommend his video “All Bling, no Basics” (I think it’s called).
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  6732. It’s frikkin’ scary but ICE loses track of people all the time. They’ve lost children when they were separating families. I vaguely remember one case that I think was in San Diego, where they picked up one kid (either a citizen or someone with a legal right to be here), but him alone in a detention cell in the ICE facility, and promptly forgot he was there over a four day weekend. He died of dehydration. ICE is such a terrible organization that a sub-agency (Homeland Security Investigations, which investigates the really bad stuff related to bad people in the country illegally) has repeated tried to get itself separated from ICE to be merged into another HS agency or to be its own independent agency. They have a recruiting/retention/morale problem because investigators don’t want to be a part of ICE.
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  6733. Yeah, near as I can make out, there’s a ton of compelling circumstantial evidence, but Cheney was hesitant to say there was a direct link between Trump and the people who organized the riot. So I’m going to guess they haven’t found anyone to say, “Trump gave the go ahead. I was there in the room.” But the investigation is ongoing. This is an interim report. Watergate had the tapes as a smoking gun. If there is a smoking gun yet to be revealed, it will be something like a burner phone.
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  6734. The WHO doesn’t have that authority, FYI. Do you mean recommendation?
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  6735. Duolingo is not helping you much. If you spent any money on it, demand a refund.
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  6736. Natural Erosion is alien technology. How can air wear down stone? It’s impossible! 🤪
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  6737.  @gold_ram_5.780 Powell has no link to trump? Can I have some of whatever it is you’re smoking? 😂 Good lord, man.
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  6738. If you want the honest truth, check Wikipedia for the link to their plea documents, which will be a matter of public record. That will show the crimes to which they pled guilty. You don’t have to believe Wikipedia if you check the source documentation from the court.
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  6739. Berth. The word you wanted was berth.
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  6740.  @freshbrad1354  Mawwaige
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  6741.  @Nano19916337262  No, Mexico hasn’t applied for membership in BRICS. That’s one of the stupider lies I’ve heard recently. BRICS itself is a joke. What has it accomplished? It’s “bank” has loaned a total of $15 billion. It can’t agree on a reserve currency nor can it create one, because none of the members can trust any of the others. BRICS as an organization is an impotent political symbol.
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  6742. A primary tenet of Catholicism, a tenet that seperates it from the Protestant spin off faiths, is that the Pope decides on what is Catholic faith. According to the Catholic Church, the Pope is infallible. Incidentally, this is one of the reasons Protestants exist at all. What do you think they were protesting about? The Reformation is a fascinating part of history. You owe it to yourself to at least read the Wikipedia article on it.
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  6743. Next episode in the “5-minute Presidential Portrait” series is Obama.
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  6744.  stv1  You’re not a serious person and you aren’t interested in fair debate or an intellectually honest exchange if ideas.
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  6745.  @rposton919  How so? Are you confusing right of repair with ease of upgrading?
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  6746.  @pgpython In pretty sure they’ll completely redesign any replacement bridge to address the vulnerabilities revealed by the accident. It will surprise me if they have a new bridge in place within a year.
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  6747.  @Seattle41791  I doubt the defense attorneys had anything to do with this meme. Is there any other behavior you’d like to cite that would cause one of them to be held in contempt?
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  6748. Wow, sounds like Republicans should avoid hospitals under all circumstances. The practice of medicine is liberal.
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  6749. Coffee is for closers. What you want is office space that can be incorporated into a healthy beverage like cold pressed juice. That sums up my new start up WeWorkJuicePress. It’s a subscription based juice rental work space. We’ve developed a blockchain technology that can press underutilized space into nutritious juice, and an AI based app that detects from moment to moment those unoccupied and unused spaces. The space between your desk, the file cabinet, and the ficus? That could be juice.
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  6750. You’ve never had so much adrenalized fear that your leg started to give out? Or maybe he was trying to run in flip flops. It’s too dark to tell. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  6751.  @iSlowhands  Pete also mentioned government putting its finger on the scale. This isn’t an inherently bad thing, but it can be abused. Printing money isn’t the problem. Printing too much (or not enough) is the problem. This is why you want careful but not overly timid monetary policy managers and representatives that can think long term.
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  6752. Your murderous disinformation campaign will catch up to you. Your group will be tracked down someday.
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  6753. I wish they’d hurry up and classify my sperm as children. It’s almost tax time, and I could use a billion exemptions.
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  6754. I moved to Mexico 13 years ago, so I go back to the U.S. for vacation. 😆
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  6755. Good god, where to begin? To refresh your memory, the Japanese declared war and attacked U.S. Territory (starting with Hawaii, but including other places shortly after) and other allied territories, which the Japanese saw as a necessary step in securing control of the Pacific. It was a surprise attack, in case you’ve forgotten. (OK, that was sufficient sarcasm—I don’t really think you’re dumb, please don’t hate me.) It’s important to remember that, while the belligerents might not share land borders, there is something akin to that in the Pacific that you might think of as “frontiers”, i.e. the blurred/feathered edge of a power’s ability to project power (which gets weaker the further away it gets from its bases). If you think of it like this, you can see that the Philippines share a sea-frontier with Japan. It becomes a matter of how close together or far apart are the adversaries’ possessions, and those adversaries ability to project military power. Nevertheless, before hostilities commence, there is more or less free movement on the open sea. Germany’s quick declaration of war on the U.S. has seemed to me to be odd, though. I think it was inevitable that the U.S. would be drawn into the European conflict, but it probably happened much faster after a Germany declared war. Other than that, I object to your characterization of belligerents “happily declaring wars on each other”. Contrast this with the situation in Poland and Russia, where there wasn’t easy access across a shared border.
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  6756. This lady’s analysis is good. Smersh needs to bring her back.
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  6757.  @shockofthenew  It’s not generational. The people you are talking about have been rioting in Britain against non-whites.
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  6758. If’n we arm teachers, how are we going to make them teach intelligent design instead of evolution? It is a terrible idea. Arm the students instead.
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  6759. Michael Ray (it’s everyone)
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  6760. The Belarusian Army can barely keep a lid on the democratic opposition. The last time there was an uprising (2020), Lukashenko had to ask Putin for help. Russia doesn’t even have enough troops to maintain order in Russia. He can’t loan any to Lukashenko. Securing Lukashenko’s power is Prigozhin and Wagner’s new contract. The idea that Russia can attack again through Belarus presupposes that Russia has enough troops. There is no evidence that Russia has that kind of man power capable of carrying out a fresh assault on Kyiv.
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  6761. I thought Chinese junks were a different type of boat than aircraft carriers.
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  6762. RT is going to make a very tempting offer to Tucker. They might even make him an oligarch.
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  6763. I took intro to archaeology for college credit during summer school. It was between my Junior and Senior year in high school and I jumped at the chance to spend the summer in Cambridge, Mass, far away from my parents. We had two field trips. One was to the Peabody Museum to see the terra cotta warriors from Xian. The other was to see Raiders of the Lost Arc. 😂 The prof had an open mind and we spent the next lecture discussing the movie. I don’t remember if it was on the final exam.
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  6764. You might want to see if “food grade” hydrogen peroxide is available. You’ll need to research optimal dilution in water.
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  6765. A Putzi.
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  6766.  @allanmason3201  the one with the pylons is a second bridge crossing.
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  6767. Liquidate implies (to me) that Russian officers were being murdered in the basement of the Lubyanka by the FSB. If they’re just being killed on the battlefield, it’s fine to just say it that way. If the numbers are very high, you might say they are being slaughtered like pigs.
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  6768. That’s sort of like a $XX Million deductible?
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  6769. When do you think that will be, after Trump’s deadly stunt yesterday? In 50 years? You watched Trump murder the GOP yesterday.
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  6770. Right? If the virus spread via farts, would you go about pantsless in public? Would you join J Frank Erickson and a group of his friends in an enclosed space so you could smell each other’s farts to own the libs? If it spread via toe jam, the GOP would be known as the toe sucking party instead of the thumb sucking party.
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  6771. 100%. They do not publish their standards and they actively resist creators’ attempts to receive guidance. YouTube is engaging in a pattern of cheating creators out of advertising commissions, and their stated justifications don’t hold water.
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  6772.  @daverok1113  ANTIVAX TROLL
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  6773.  @traya9450  If you “respect Russia”, you’re a Putzi, the Putin equivalent of a Nazi.
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  6774. What is Mux doing now?
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  6775. We’re approaching the end of the baseball season. MLB games every day as teams compete for playoff spots and a chance to go to the World Series. Right now, every game is potentially a big game. This is ideal for a mobile billboard.
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  6776. The real crime here is your misuse of an apostrophe S.
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  6777. Blue skies, Keisha!
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  6778.  @sedebesthierr9027  This message isn’t for you. No one is asking Georgia Dems to boycott the election.
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  6779. That’s something commonly said by uneducated people that don’t understand statistics. Latin doesn’t help your argument. QED
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  6780. At least he didn’t sweep his kids, right?
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  6781.  @catherineborodii2408  That’s an interesting way to fight Naziism, by destroying every building and murdering civilians. Is that the idea? Use Nazi tactics to fight Naziism (that doesn’t really exist significantly in the first case). This anti-Naziism excuse was pure pretext for war, and Russia’s prosecution of the war reveals that it is Putin that most resembles a Nazi.
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  6782. I’m disappointed that he’s dropping out. He was the only Republican running for the nomination that was telling the truth. He might not have had a path to victory, but he’s giving up the best platform he could have to tell us all that the emperor has no clothes. He wasn’t going to win, but his message was reaching Republicans and slowly eroding support for Trump. Perhaps he can continue in his role as a gadfly, but he’s diminished his role.
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  6783.  @yvonneplant9434  The commenter to whom you are responding has about ten different account names, and keeps posting ridiculously ignorant comments. He (or she) lacks a basic grasp on the facts and on economic concepts.
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  6784. OK Ivan
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  6785.  @samsonsoturian6013  It sort of reminds me of racetrack gamblers trying to figure out systems for winning big at the ponies.
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  6786. Jajajajajaja!
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  6787. You negotiated with a sympathetic negotiator. There’s nothing wrong with that. He cut through some stages of negotiating and avoided a costly lawsuit for his company. It happens even when there isn’t a personal connection. I had a lowball offer after a car accident. I talked with a lawyer friend and he said to talk with the adjuster before hiring a lawyer because I might get a fair and sympathetic person, but I definitely would not once I even mentioned getting a lawyer. I got everything I was fairly entitled to. And to top it off, I made an offer for the salvage title of my totaled but repairable car. So I got the current replacement value of the car, plus the car, minus $200. I also think being prepared with documentation helps a lot. I was ready with the doctor bills, car rental receipts, and proof of loss of pay before I even picked up the phone. I could justify my claim. I bet that you had your documentation ready or nearly so. I wouldn’t call your situation’s resolution a “backroom deal”. You were just lucky enough to find someone to cut through some red tape.
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  6788. There is plenty of that on other programs. Some of it is good quality, some of it is bad. The focus of this program is bigger picture and is more about “national attitudes”. I’m sure these journalists are getting briefed by military experts, but they don’t want to get too far into the details. They seem to be asking more questions than offering answers. This is frustrating, but that’s where we are. The future is unwritten.
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  6789. Copyright. But your point stands.
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  6790. Definitely before the invasion. Now would they be an effective counterforce against a military coup? Perhaps not so much. Politics has had a lot to do with Russia’s failure in Ukraine, both in the Kremlin and in the military. It’s one of the weak points of such a corrupt authoritarian government. The decision to invade was kept secret from brigade level officers until 24 hours before the kickoff. That’s not enough time to plan and prepare. The intelligence was bad and pre-shaped by Russia’s own propaganda, which also hindered planning. This secrecy is a symptom of the distrust and jealousy between individuals at all levels. The swallowing whole of one’s own propaganda (aka buying your own bullshit) is a symptom of valuing loyalty and punishing competence as disloyalty.
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  6791. Wizards of the Coast (WOTC) is a subsidiary of Hasbro. I don’t know about the rest of Hasbro, but WOTC is an unethical company that has a history of acting in bad faith.
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  6792. P-O-O-P
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  6793. Somebody ask Tom if it’s true that Tom Clancy based the Jack Reacher character on him. 😂
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  6794. I think we all saw a police officer pointing a gun upstairs, where there were children. Why was that necessary?
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  6795. What’s that about self-discovery? Avenatti is suing himself now?
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  6796. “This is not me” is never believable. They might try “There is something wrong with me and I need to change”. That I could believe.
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  6797. I’ve done a little work in visual effects. I’ve only seen this video once and the stock explosions and stock fires poorly composited jumped out at me further than the ambush vehicle jumped over the hill. I don’t think it was quality work. And I don’t appreciate people putting out fakes. This isn’t ethical or helpful to anyone. This is the sort of clumsy work I would expect from Russian propaganda.
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  6798. Oh, the heartbreak of being held accountable for one’s words and behavior! If this is AA’s new policy to weed out belligerent and possibly violent passengers before they board, good on them. Hopefully other airlines are doing the same thing. And I get that air travel can be frustrating as heck, but this lady seems to have initiated her own problems by refusing to wear a mask.
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  6799. They’re keeping the Russian reserves pinned down, well away from the Ukraine battlefields. I don’t believe the forces in Poland and Lithuania are doing anything provocative, like holding exercises or assembling to invade. It’s enough that they’re there to hold down Russia’s reserves.
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  6800. Often, but not always.
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  6801. I guess that’s the downside of going off the grid, Kaczynski.
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  6802. Yes, I think support units are already being stretched to the limit. Maybe there should be a timeout of six months so Ukraine can change to new platforms. Has anyone approached Putin to see if he would be amenable to a timeout?
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  6803. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF US!!! Thank you, LP. Thank you, Never Trump conservatives. And most of all, thank you Donald Trump. You played your own sorry ass self.
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  6804. When you’re right, you’re right. 😂 Still, * 🩸
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  6805. Did you notice you started getting dandruff after January 20th, 2021? And your body odor got really disgusting because you were too depressed to bathe? That’s all Joe Biden’s fault.
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  6806. That’s why you’re here, to provide the copium.
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  6807. More likely it’s your employers using insurance or lawyers as the excuse for making you do things their way. Perhaps they have reasons for having you follow their policy, and it’s quicker for them to say “insurance/lawyers”. Insurance doesn’t control the world. It’s an important part of commerce, more important than many realize. The truth is that no one controls the world, and commerce is at risk from all manner of calamities, natural and man-made. Insurance is used to hedge against that risk, to smooth out the chaos. “Insurance controls the world” sounds like something you might say if you were trying to blame someone else for the world not being to your liking.
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  6808. If you don’t “support the pope” you’ve already walked away. You’re no longer a Catholic, you’re a Protestant. You should stop taking the Catholic Holy Communion if you’re still doing so.
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  6809. Worse than poorly prosecuted. The prosecutorial misconduct in the case is staggering. The hiding of evidence from the defense was just the worst of it, but it was party of a pattern of misconduct surrounding the discovery process. Indeed, if one credits the special prosecutor that she was unaware of the coverup, one could accuse her of “criminal negligence”, the same charge Baldwin was facing. 😂
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  6810.  @FierceMouse  if the virus was spread by flatulence, you loonies would be protesting for the right to run around in public with your junk out in the breeze, and you’d gather in churches and bars to smell each other’s farts.
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  6811. Move to a country with direct democracy. Most of us like the U.S. Constitution just fine. You should have the system of government you want, just go have it in another country.
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  6812. I think we’re beginning to understand better, not that these disorders are more prevalent.
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  6813. Christians don’t worship Jesus. They worship Christ.
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  6814. I dunno if that’s sarcastic. Many people find stacks of large denomination bills to be adorable. I don’t think the Trump team is dumb enough to try and bribe the P.O. But who knows. They’re pretty dumb. What Trump needs is a positive report/recommendation. And he could get that by showing contrition and taking responsibility. Then he’d need to do the same with Marchan’s court. Odds of Trump showing contrition are the same as the survival odds of a toilet paper moth in a bonfire.
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  6815. What are the structural issues if any? Is it seaworthy? Part of the problem with the Queen Mary floating hotel/tourist attraction is that it’s located in Long Beach, California. Long Beach isn’t a tourist destination. (The City of Long Beach purchased the ship in an attempt to change itself into a destination city, but it hasn’t worked.) The Queen Mary is also expensive to maintain and operate. I’m just guessing but I doubt it’s making any great profits even in a good year. She’s also permanently moored. She’s not going anywhere. I think for the SS United States to be profitable, it would need to operate as a floating casino. It would need to operate out of a port in a popular destination city, and head out to international waters for gambling.
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  6816. Lol, all those “mothers” are connected to Putin and the Kremlin and have been trotted out for other “meetings” in the past. I’m amazed that Russians don’t recognize them because they’ve seen them before.
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  6817. You were expecting the geopolitical version of “Its a Womderful Life”, where Peter the Angel, S.C., convinces America it should go on living because it makes important contributions? Every time a bell rings, a geopolitical business consultant earns a commission.
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  6818. Ahahahaha, the CueCat guy that changed his name after losing investors hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  6819. Exactly. That, plus a very robust test-and-trace program. But it wasn’t going to happen the moment Trump told his followers that the Pandemic was a Democratic hoax, which they still believe. Just look at the comment above mine. The wild thing is that if Trump had acted decisively and not politicized the pandemic, very likely he’d have won the election.
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  6820. Oh, deep and wise troll. But shouldn’t you be in Ukraine, dying with your Putin Nazi comrades?
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  6821. Pelosi doesn’t set foreign policy. Pelosi is a leader in the legislative branch. Foreign relations policy is set by executive branch.
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  6822. I urge you to ask your or your mother’s physician, since you might be waiting a while before John responds to your question, if at all.
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  6823. Did anyone spot the secret Biden voter?
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  6824. Why? It’s not a new practice.
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  6825.  @malindaallen718  American viewers of this channel? Probably. In general? They think Spain is part of Latin America.
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  6826.  Ed Johnson  It’s almost as if the stupid will take care of itself. It’s tragic that many responsible and intelligent people will also suffer while the weak minded “skeptics” and conspiracy theorists show themselves out. I imagine that in a few years there will be considerably fewer organized groups of disinformationists polluting YouTube with their tripe.
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  6827. OK Ivan
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  6828. The market is down negative 500 plus points after hours, you say? What’s the market volume? Also the bass and treble?
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  6829. That is super interesting about laundering money through legal dispensaries. (Sort of reminds me of the car wash in Breaking Bad or the fast food chicken chain.) Pete’s method of fighting the trade is simplistic. “Don’t do cocaine” is certainly an appealing non-solution for the conservative mindset because it hits our personal-responsibility button. Personal responsibility is a core principal of our philosophy*. But it’s not a practical solution for obvious reasons. Pete’s bit about the dispensaries does suggest a practical solution. Go after the cash flow. When the cash flow dries up, the cartels are much less powerful and then perhaps interdiction will have a greater impact. Without massive amounts of cash, the cartels will not be able to operate at such levels of impunity. And how do you go after cash flows? The IRS, bank regulators, FBI & DOJ. You form a task force. You fund these agencies so they have these resources to perform investigations (something the Republicans are loathe to do, unfortunately). You strengthen the penalties for participants at all levels, up to and including the executives and boards of the banks (make them personally responsible for their businesses. Cash businesses can be surveilled and monitored. Transfers, even through the dark web, can be tracked. A side benefit is that we can also stop a lot of other corruption, both domestic and international. But in any case, the first step is FOLLOW THE MONEY. * Real conservatism is a philosophy, a set of principles) not an ideology. If it’s an ideology (such as MAGA or libertarianism, for example) it’s not conservatism. As a philosophy, it shares some principles with liberalism, which itself is more of a philosophy than an ideology. (In fact, that’s how you distinguish liberalism from actual socialist ideologies.)
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  6830. 😂ZZZZING!!
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  6831.  @JJthename55 you and your finger puppet accounts are hilarious. I never thought an ass spelunker could be this funny, but you came through, especially when you agree with the other accounts you administer. Keep saving your rubles and you can afford to have a view port installed in your stomach. It’s called a window-ectomy, and it allows you to see where you’re going as you climb up your own ass in search of facts.
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  6832. Finally, Trump will be the last Republican and all other Republicans will be “Republicans in Name Only”.
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  6833. Here’s the thing: exculpatory evidence must be convincing. If the testimony was weak or not very credible, it won’t win against stronger and more credible evidence. The evidence against Trump—even Trump’s own words before the trial—proved that Trump overinflated his properties’ value in the loan applications.
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  6834. I can’t tell you how happy I was that it came back. I was over the moon.
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  6835.  @assface1270  You apparently aren’t aware of “Young Flat Earth Creationists”. Flat earth believers are essentially religious believers trying to force science to fit their religious beliefs. That’s why they get so tied up in knots and their “models” aren’t even slightly consistent.
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  6836. Your house can be removed if you post a comment or question without watching the video.
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  6837. Ewe, gross!
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  6838. Various groups want to claim credit for Biden’s victory, but did anyone do more to help Joe Biden win than Donald J. Trump? Nope. Trump pulled out all the stops in October to deliver a Biden presidency to the American people.
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  6839. You might want a tank, any tank, to support you, but you wouldn’t want to maneuver within 10 meters if it. You’d probably want to stay well clear of it to avoid being crushed by a falling turret.
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  6840. Ivermectin works through what medical mechanism? For its intended use, as an anti parasite treatment for worms and lice, it’s a neurotoxin that attacks the nervous system of these tiny parasitical creatures. The effective dose to wipe out an infestation is low enough that it doesn’t hurt the human (or horse) host. The problem is that viruses DON’T HAVE nervous systems. If ivermectin is to work, it must be by some other mechanism. What is it? By what means does ivermectin interact with the virus or the human body that it would work to either prevent or treat Covid-19 infection?
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  6841. How so?
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  6842. It’s possible. The current case is obstruction and doesn’t touch on the underlying crimes. The state could go after him without violating double jeopardy rules. In addition, I don’t think the FAA has reached a final determination of his civil penalties in addition to any fines imposed by the court.
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  6843.  @JaimeGarcia-pe7bj  Probably not. They might feel terror, but they’ll be safe. The white supremacist thugs and neo-Nazis will perteck them. And use them, no doubt, but that’s the price they’ll pay.
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  6844. I gotta get that book!
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  6845. This. He’s not excusing his former athlete. I think this serves as a useful contrast, too. The swimmer was suffering from mental illness before being sucked into a cult of madness. The infantile rich yuppies, on the other hand, ran toward it and embraced it. They willfully became mentally ill. Which is . . . crazy?
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  6846.  @thetaomega7816  worse, he’s a pro-Putin MAGA Christian Nationalist Boomer.
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  6847. There was a time that there was no best practice, and even after network security had matured to the point of having best practices, it took many years to educate IT professionals, and even more to educate the people that managed them. The real flaw here is not the website, but the governor. And there is already a corrective mechanism in place that we call elections.
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  6848.  @spol  it’s “culture war” BS, which is 90% invented BS. Culture warriors go looking for a fight and will create controversy where there is none. As an example, remember when Fox News hosts turned the greeting, “Happy Holidays” into “The War on Christmas”?
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  6849. The majority of the violence in the Black Lives Matter protests was police brutality against peaceful protestors. There really is no comparison, no factual basis for whataboutism.
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  6850. It’s like communism but without the sharing.
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  6851. Have you been Red Pillowed?
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  6852. I think a good compromise with the anti-choice people would be a 36-week abortion ban.
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  6853. Yes, this isn’t bad behavior of a few soldiers. This is Russian military doctrine. It is was on civilian populations, ordered by Putin.
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  6854.  @volanddark3365  Most work in a troll farm in St. Petersburg, Russia. Some work at a troll farm in St. Petersburg, Florida. You can sometimes tell which is which because the Florida trolls would sacrifice Ukraine and murder Ukrainians to make Biden look bad.
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  6855. Is there an American version of that wallet made from aluminum. I’ve got an allergy to the word aluminium.
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  6856. I agree. Let’s be clear, he was pretty good at putting together engineering teams to create rocket ships and electric cars, but he’s not an engineering genius. I’m not sure whether to call him a “visionary”, because while he did see potential in certain fields of endeavor, he was far from the only one. Perhaps we can say he was a visionary investor, but like all investors, he’s got a mixed track record. It’s also important to note that he started with family money and that he has been lucky up to now. He’s a complicated figure. However, he’s also an asshat.
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  6857. Sir, this is an airplane, not a Waffle House.
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  6858. I’ll go out on a limb and say Chaka was probably a Paranthropus.
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  6859.  @RamMohammadJosephKaur  Ukrainian propaganda can be fact checked because they allow an independent press and international journalists are all over Ukraine covering the war. Russian propaganda cannot be confirmed at all because Russia has banned an independent press—all news in Russia is controlled by the state. There is at least the possibility that this soldier’s story can be checked. Furthermore, Ukrainian Defense has also issued corrections of stories that lessened their propaganda value. Two prominent examples of this are the stories about the “ghost of Kyiv” pilot and the defiant soldiers on Snake Island who didn’t die, but survived.
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  6860.  Red knight  You think he was born? Or excreted?
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  6861. I don’t find blame games to be useful in helping us unite behind the Ukrainians. Indeed, it’s exploiting a terrible tragedy for the purposes of furthering one’s domestic political agenda. Go ahead and finger point AFTER Russia has been expelled from Ukraine, but not before.
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  6862.  @joybailey6186  Don’t despair. People like Denise are sorting themselves out. Soon enough, their outrageous lies and pathetic delusions will die with them.
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  6863.  @DoubleDogDare54  Well, that settles it. If you’re an American, you’d know whether or not America was behind this. Case closed.
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  6864.  @ehoffman2260 They’re now officially convicted felons. They can’t practice law, they can’t vote, and they cannot own weapons. If they have other employable skills, who would hire them? Maybe they can get into a witness protection program. 😂
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  6865. At least they had an ideology back then, as terrible as it was. Putin has taken the corruption and criminality of the Soviet Union and made sure it was unhindered by high flown ideals. Putin’s “ideology” changes from day to day to suit whatever his criminal activities need at that moment. It’s pure “might makes right”.
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  6866. That’s inaccurate. The 2,500 do not get “released”.
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  6867. When you’re trying to save a house or a country, you might want to be judicious with fighting fire with fire. You might also want to take care with too directly imitating your adversary, lest you become what you are fighting. Which is not to say taking an easier, softer way is the solution. That’s what got us here in the first place.
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  6868. Yes, you’re thinking about this the right way imho. I don’t know if sustainability is an achievable end state, but it’s a helluva lot more desirable than some of the alternatives. One of the basic questions is “how much do we need?” And then it must be asked, “how many workers are needed to fulfill that need?” And there are different implications, depending on how that question is answered. If you take an abstract high level, global view you might notice that there are perhaps a billion people that could vanish and it wouldn’t affect the economy negatively. (I realize that it sounds terrible to say that from a moral p.o.v.). Depending on which chain of implications you follow, what happens if that number increases by another billion? Two billion? What happens if 7 billion people become “redundant” in terms of sustaining the economy? The Marxists and quasi-Marxists talk about “late stage capitalism”, but (maybe) they ain’t seen nothing yet. Capitalism: Hold my beer. War, Famine, and Pestilence: Sure thing! Now, I don’t really want to personify these man-made and/or natural forces. But they highlight certain questions, such as “what is capitalism?” “to what purposes can it be harnessed?”. Maybe it’s just me, but such questions lead me to the rarified (and yet sophomoric) existential questions regarding the meaning of life. Oh, bother! (fwiw, I think of capitalism as a social technology, a tool similar to a motor that propels society forward, but forward towards what? To what end? Who decides?) Perhaps Plato was right, the ideal society is ruled by philosopher kings. 😆 I just Kant.
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  6869. 😂 you are a terrible person and I can’t stop snickering at your joke.
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  6870. I’m in a developing country. Almost everyone from the age of 15 on up seems to have a smart phone but very few people have computers. I couldn’t tell you the amount that have paid apps, but everyone uses free apps.
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  6871.  @m.sutton04  There’s capturing it and there’s making some thunder runs to the airport or downtown or whatever.
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  6872.  @RyanMcBethProgramming  is envelopment another possibility? From current positions, drive SE to get behind Kupiansk?
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  6873. In general, Turkey gets more clout. But maybe you mean something more specific?
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  6874. Scientists will easily be able to figure out the fidget spinner: a sacred object used in 21st Century rituals.
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  6875. Not if it’s ordained by the Pope.
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  6876. Lol, that’s not how homeopathy doesn’t work. Do a little research. The way it doesn’t work is a not as a cleaner.
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  6877. Gas pipelines don’t carry oil. Nor do they carry gasoline. Why do you comment when you know less than nothing?
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  6878. Some don’t. Some very good lawyers needed to take it more than once to pass.
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  6879. And Eric will be AG. 😂
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  6880. We’re through the looking glass, and Mock Turtle Mitch will not let a comprehensive COVID recovery bill come to a vote. The Democrats passed a bill months ago. But it’s the democrats that are dragging their feet?
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  6881. The German SPGs and the HIMARS have been instrumental in preparing the battlefield, especially wrt to degrading Russia’s ability to defend the Kherson airspace and wrt disrupting logistics. The strikes in Crimea were designed to disable long range air defenses and aircraft. The attacks on the bridges are degrading the Russians’ resupply, if not cutting the supply lines completely. (It will be sufficient to slow down resupply and nearly impossible to cut it completely.)
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  6882. Russian policy in Ukraine is if they can’t have it, nobody can.
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  6883.  @andrewkennedy6135  If it comes down to a war of attrition, that goes to Ukraine, hands down. The Ukrainians would keep fighting, even with rocks and sticks. Even if Russia conscripts a million more soldiers, they can’t control and pacify Ukraine with an attrition strategy.
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  6884.  @new_svitolad  He’s not a pro-Russian idiot, he’s a pro-Putin Russian.
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  6885. She calls herself a conspiracy theorist, but she’s never worked in either a public or private conspiracy lab. She has no academic experience or academic credentials studying conspiracies. She’s never been licensed as a professional conspiracy theorist by any state licensing board. The American Association of Professional Screwballs says they have no record of her ever being a member, nor of her having applied for membership. I think Loomer is a total fraud, but at best she’s an amateur hobbyist conspiracy lunatic.
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  6886. Almost certainly.
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  6887. Watch the video.
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  6888.  @thisbushnell2012  I’m trying to imagine a society based on your modest proposition.
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  6889. He sort of does, but he also really doesn’t. The Dems couldn’t block any Trump nominees because the GOP had the majority in the Senate. All that the Dems could do was question the nominees, as is their right. If sketchy nominees didn’t want public scrutiny, it’s on them that they couldn’t be confirmed. If the Trump administration couldn’t take the time to vet their own nominees for problems, they shouldn’t be surprised to be embarrassed by their nominees. The truth is that the Trump transition team didn’t prepare Trump to hit the ground running as Obama was prepared. Many sub cabinet posts went unfilled or filled by “acting” administrators because Trump didn’t want them to be scrutinized for whatever reason. So Grassley’s overall point is valid: the Senate shouldn’t play games with confirmations. But his reasons for saying this are ridiculous.
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  6890. liquidwombat It looks great, but they really nail you if you’re not already invested in the Ryobi system. I’m seeing bare tool only costing $30, but the kit with one battery and a charger for $130. Now I’m looking at the Genesis 8v glue gun, under $30. Amazon will import it to my country, but not extra batteries. The ad copy claims it will run 50 minutes on a single battery. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
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  6891. Is it a “real” headset or a gamer’s headset?
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  6892. If you choose not to be vaccinated, you’re making a temporary second tier into a permanent one for yourself.
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  6893.  @crescent4996  When you say that the Color Revolutions were supported by the West, what do you mean exactly?
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  6894. It’s not out of the ordinary for international travel. Many countries require proof of vaccination for various diseases, whether coming or going.
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  6895. Huntington Beach has always been a shit hole of racist scumbags and Nazis.
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  6896. And how does he access the storage when his sliding door apple box is holding up a riser? I’m sorry, but it’s a dumb idea. Your friend “invented” a storage box that looks like an apple box. What he actually made is not very useful.
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  6897. It’s the armorer, not the company, that is suing the vendor. Did you watch the video?
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  6898. Wire coating IS insulation. Nbd if Pete didn’t use the technically correct term. I knew what he was talking about. I suspect you did, too. Splice a lot of 2/Ø, do you?
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  6899.  @daverok1113  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  6900. I have the same request, but the testing is insufficient and the numbers provided by the Mexican government are in doubt. Additionally, Mexico is open for tourism and the types of people eager to vacation during a pandemic don’t seem to be the type to follow protocols, even government mandated ones. On the rare occasions that I go out for shopping or errands, I see lots of tourist and expat types ignoring mask wearing and safe distancing. A recent experience: a non mask wearing gringo impinged my personal space, and he took my request to him to cover his face as an invitation to debate me regarding the seriousness of the pandemic.
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  6901.  @mitchwinder1204  like a biography of the first woman tank designer, Ivanna Popov?
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  6902. Ironically, YouTube showed me three different advertisements for wargame/shooter games over the course of this video. If YouTube is concerned about depictions of violence, they are far from consistent in how they apply their rules. It really seems like YouTube is happy to show violence when they’re being paid, and happy to demonetize videos to pay less to content creators. It’s just one more example of YouTube’s malignant business practices. Don’t get me started.
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  6903. This isn’t true. If you’ve actually read the bill, you’ve misread it quite badly.
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  6904. @David WP Why do you lie? What’s in it for you?
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  6905.  @AverageJoe483 Read the indictment and have someone explain the charges. They’re not accusing Trump of causing the January 6th violence from his speech that day. They’re avoiding that because they can get him without litigating free speech. The Trump attorneys claiming it’s a free speech issue are lying. That’s their only defense, but it’s a defense for a crime that hasn’t been charged.
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  6906.  @tcp0023  That’s not the same as training crews on specific equipment.
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  6907. “Hey, ship-for-brains!”
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  6908. Senator McCain showed humility, grace, love of country, and nobility when he conceded. As crushing as the defeat must have been, he rose to the occasion, and elevated all of us with him. Truly noble. Trump wants to drag us all down with him.
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  6909. I can’t speak for India, but Japan has better social cohesion—people are generally willing to individually do what is best for the group, whether their immediate community or society as a whole. Unlike some other countries we could name, there seems to be fewer cognitive disabilities and ethical disabilities among the populace. There is more social pressure to behave like an adult, to put it bluntly. Contrast this with those countries where many that are physically mature are emotionally and cognitively immature despite being among the wealthiest in the world. Those that are cognitively undeveloped are unable to take in the facts. Those that are emotionally (or ethically) undeveloped are unwilling to put up with inconveniences such as mask wearing that would benefit themselves, their families, and their communities. How else can you describe people that throw literal tantrums about being asked to wear a mask? How would you describe people unwilling to take precautions to “own the libs”?
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  6910. What are the odds?
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  6911. It only felt like an hour. It’s actually 53 minutes and 38 seconds.
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  6912. Look, JD MANCE isn’t a donut expert. He relies on advice from top experts, like the guy who had worked there for two years. “[Give me] whatever makes sense.” That’s how you delegate. Contrast this with Kamala Harris micromanaging everyone’s dessert choices. That young woman didn’t even want cake, but Nanny State Harris is going to force her to have it anyway. (And yes, I’m totally joking. Harris/Walz 2024!
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  6913. Gonzalo died of an overdose of red pills.
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  6914. There was no overall commander coordinating all the fronts!
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  6915.  @Trikeification  I can’t imagine Trump saying a nice thing about anyone without wrapping it in ten nice things he says about himself. If Trump has praised or paid a compliment to someone, it hasn’t stuck in my mind, because he’s not sincere. He does it to get something. Everything is transactional with him.
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  6916. There is no peace deal on the table. The Kremlin has not put forth any reasonable or realistic proposals.
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  6917. It’s almost as if no one remembers that the checks were a product of bipartisan effort. The issue wasn’t whether, the issue was how much.
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  6918.  @bathingapes3040  Very fragile people have to highlight their imaginary white victimhood. It’s their way of saying, “See? We’re not supreme, unless you mean supreme douchebags.” Just give them their pathetic victim signaling or they’ll cry even harder.
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  6919. She didn’t figure that capital expenditure would depreciate so rapidly.
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  6920. This gave me an idea for making and selling artesanal beer in Israel. For men.
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  6921.  Andrea Williams  Where is your business and who or what forced you to shut down? What was your business’s plan to deal with the pandemic?
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  6922. How much per month were you receiving in unemployment?
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  6923. And that’s the power of the TOW (to kill groundhogs). Incidentally, Kazakhstan recently seized some roscosmos assets for nonpayment of the electric bill.
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  6924. He’s a butt remora.
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  6925. That’s not how welding works. It’s very different than wood joinery. In welding, you are bonding two pieces into one solid piece. The weld needs to penetrate the thickness of the metal and you need the proper amperage going through the electrode/filler rod. You are fusing metal together. In a wood joint, increasing the surface gives you more glue surface. That’s what you’re thinking of. The interlocking plates you saw more likely were to aid in more rapid construction—it would allow more rapid positioning of the plates before they were welded.
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  6926. Spring is in the air. Trees are budding, flowers are coming up, and Russia is sending young men off to Ukraine to be slaughtered like spring lambs. Russia is cannibalizing itself for the vanity of Putin.
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  6927.  @goctexas1444  Like any sane person, Donnie wants Russia to leave Ukraine, cease its criminal hostilities, and respect the sovereignty of other nations. Basically, Donnie and most people want Russia to de-Nazify. Apparently there are Russians doing the same, thus the sabotage against Russia’s logistics chain. Give it up, Putzi. The only terrorist acts are being committed in Ukraine by your brother Putin Nazis.
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  6928.  @cfosnock  It’s a VERY absurd scenario, but those are sometimes the good ones to explore. I’d say that the biggest obstacle to a military invasion from Mexico (after the U.S. Armed Forces), would be all those Spanish speakers in the Southwest. They would be the MOST opposed, whether they are freshly immigrated or long established Mexican-Americans of whatever generation. Mexican Americans might identify with Mexican culture, but they most definitely do not admire Mexican politics and would have no interest in being “reclaimed”. So even if Mexico had the military strength to mount an invasion, it would find very little succor from Mexican-Americans, despite shared language, culture, and history. If you want to see another extremely absurd scenario, look up “reconquista”, the idea that Mexico was attacking the U.S. via immigration with the aim of reuniting the SW of the U.S. politically with Mexico. This was a big bugaboo among some conservative racists, and a handful of nutty socialists seeking to create “Atzlan”, some sort of indigenous state based on their misunderstanding of indigenous people.
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  6929. Would you believe Maxwell Smart?
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  6930. Did he? Link the video.
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  6931. Yes, you’d think that if you wanted a fascist nation, not a democratic one.
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  6932. We will always owe a debt to our fallen, just as we owe a debt to those that serve and those that have served in whatever capacity. The supporters of Old Bonespurs seem to have forgotten that. Even worse are those who attack Tim Walz’s service. They are betraying our military.
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  6933. I love Tanya’s accent. It’s not that exaggerated twang, it’s perfect and natural.
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  6934. I wonder what John McCain thought about his friend compromising himself. Lindsey started kissing Trump’s ass in 2017 and McCain died in August of 2018. I wonder what McCain would think if he could somehow have seen what a hideously craven creature Graham would become. Graham is scum.
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  6935. The subscription service will be an option, not a requirement. Apple wants to sell more phones and ancillary services. A subscription service is just another avenue for consumers.
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  6936. But what about direct sunlight? You know, so it can absorb more vitamin D.
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  6937. Does what? What has she said that is over the line? I think her opinions are dumb, but she hasn’t defamed anyone, nor called for anyone’s death.
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  6938. The look on  @archiewoosung5062  ‘s face when he realizes how much time he just wasted engaging with QAnon conspiracy trolls. 😂 Sorry, Archie! You took their bait and gave them your precious attention and time.
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  6939. So is the trademark Taco Tuesday or Taco Twosday? The second would seem to be a valid trademark.
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  6940. Funny thing, though. Sometimes my depression is alleviated by helping others. I’m not sure why that works exactly, but I know it does.
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  6941.  @uhuraenterprise6372  The U.S. is sending planes to Poland to defend Poland. The planes that Poland already has are similar to what Ukraine uses, so they’re sending those planes to Ukraine. It’s a swap.
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  6942. It will only happen if the Dems nominate (and vote for) Cheney or Kinzinger. Jeffries would have to withdraw (although he could still lead his conference).
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  6943.  @samus598  It’s a good possibility that her vote was received late because of postal delays. Not her fault, not the election board’s fault. That said, I don’t think the small amounts of votes not received in time were enough to affect the outcome. (I’m thinking of the votes set aside in Pennsylvania that were ultimately counted (iirc) but didn’t affect the outcome.
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  6944. A defense attorney in a criminal case has to ask the judge for permission to quit and provide justification. I guess being a witness against your own client is sufficient reason. 😅 Oddly, one of the attorneys, Evan Corcoran, is withdrawing from the case but continues to work for Trump in one of the other cases. 😂
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  6945.  @brucebrewer36  This isn’t the actual case. He does support Democrat candidates, and with more than words. Look at his work with the Lincoln Project, which has been targeting conservatives over the past year, conservatives uneasy and becoming disillusioned with the GOP, especially Trump. The Lincoln Projects, and other anti Trump conservative groups should be credited with peeling off a percentage of Republican voters from Trump (not to mention the Republican incumbents in the Georgia runoffs). This percentage is not insignificant in tight races. It’s valid to have reservations about Rick Wilson because of his history as a GOP campaign operative. But please also recognize what he’s been doing for the past four years, as an individual and with the Lincoln Project.
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  6946. Russian Mafiya: But брат Donald, you were made in Russia.
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  6947. Frikkin’ fools with guns.
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  6948.  @BlueJazzBoyNZ The Dems would have to offer huge concessions to the GOP “moderate conservatives” for these representatives to risk being primaried. The Democrats would risk splitting apart their own party.
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  6949. At the very least he was the driver. It’s also possible that the father actively participated—he entered the store and returned to the truck before his son entered the store. We don’t know for sure why, but that might indicate that the father was assisting his son in the shooting itself by scouting the inside of the store. There’s a lot we the public don’t know, but what we do know for sure, and what is suggested, well, it all looks pretty bad.
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  6950.  @classicalaid1  No, he cannot.
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  6951.  @jolenegall5545  Blame the liberal governors of Indiana. Bleeding hearts like Mitch Daniels and Mike Pence that are soft on crime. They appointed this parole board.
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  6952. Not innocent. She was a war propagandist serving Putin just like her father.
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  6953.  @Games_and_Music  It’s like fuc—I mean, making love in zero gravity, right?
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  6954.  @joelbenford9327  They’d stick out like a sore thumb. I’m not saying that Russian and Chinese (and NK) criminal organizations aren’t doing business with the cartels, but business is more important than politics.
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  6955. Anyone think maybe the USAF was taking some B-21s out for a test drive? 😮
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  6956. To an authoritarian moral monster like Putin, innocent civilians living in freedom represent an existential threat to his power. They constitute a double threat to a dictator seeking absolute control. Domestically, a free people in a neighboring country undermine the legitimacy of his own regime. Externally, they represent the limits of his control and power. Putin must either put them under his control militarily, or failing that, he must destroy them. That bears repetition: Putin must destroy what he cannot control.
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  6957. If it was Israel, I don’t doubt it was in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, UAE, and others in the region. As to how? Most likely a shaped charge hidden on the roadside or a mine planted in the road. There should be evidence of some sort wrt to remote triggering. Wrt special forces or a remote control vehicle, you’d expect to see empty shells. What evidence has Iran showed?
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  6958. Is this why both the extreme left and extreme right love Putin?
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  6959. Ron Johnson is fiscally irresponsible. A general round of stimulus checks does two things: 1) it provides emergency aid urgently needed to many people facing eviction, not enough money for food and heat; and 2) It keeps the economy on life support until Pandemic infection rates and deaths go down. The more we can keep the economy going now, the quicker we will get to a recovery. This is exactly the most justified time for deficit spending, because there will be long term damage from a prolonged pandemic recession. Perhaps Johnson still believes the Pandemic can be ignored or wished away. Or, if he wants to work “long and hard” on laser focused “targeted” relief, he should have been putting that together over the past 6 months, instead of demanding it now. If he wants to pool unspent money from the first package and put it to use, he should write/sponsor such a bill, instead of using it as an objection.
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  6960.  @HooDatDonDar  ready for a mind blower? Do you know who was Hitler’s greatest collaborator at the very beginning of WWII? The one guy who started WWII with Hitler in September of 1939? If you guessed Stalin, you are correct. Stalin, the biggest Nazi collaborator, went on to murder, imprison and deport millions for being collaborators, BASED ON THEIR ETHNICITY. After WWII, GULAG had a majority population of Ukrainians. The Tatars who were indigenous to Crimea were forcible removed to Uzbekistan for being collaborators.
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  6961. I think the word you’re looking for is “recuse”.
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  6962. He sleeps like Hitler did.
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  6963. UP WITH PIZZA! DOWN WITH RUZZA!
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  6964. If he hasn’t thrown them out, I’ve probably got a small collection of LPs in a box in my dad’s garage. I doubt they’re worth much if anything—they were well used and not especially well taken care of. But the thing I miss about LPs is the album covers. It’s not worth it to me to buy a phonograph stereo set up and vinyl records of my favorites, but if I could afford it, that would the reason. It’s specifically the album art (and liner notes in some cases) that I would like to own.
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  6965. It’s OK. He calls Leonardo DaVinci “Davinccio”.
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  6966. тролль duende القزم 巨魔 גַמָד chơi khăm peikko トロール ટ્રોલ Troll
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  6967. Hey, Ivan. Duolingo or Rosetta or however you tried to learn English. It’s not working. You should demand a refund.
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  6968. 100% she IS vaccinated, just saying the opposite.
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  6969. The blood of Avdivkaa stains MAGA hands.
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  6970.  @clandestiny237  That’s what Texas gets for electing a liberal Democrat governor and attorney general.
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  6971.  @CreamyPesto505  I need to type something in all caps for emphasis because something is not getting through to you. TREVOR DESTROYED EVIDENCE. That’s a big effin’ deal and a serious crime. This is even worse than lying to investigators, which is also serious. Furthermore, his destruction of evidence was premeditated. He had to charter a helicopter, enlist a friend to help. He then chopped up the wreckage and went to some effort to conceal that he was disposing of it. This isn’t a spur of the moment bad decision like “accidentally” losing a document. He’s lucky they aren’t charging him with conspiracy to obstruct, because he roped other people into his scheme. And lucky for them, they aren’t being charged as accessories or co-conspirators. When you obstruct an investigation, it hurts everyone. This isn’t a victimless crime.
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  6972.  @angelrivera2339  The reason I don’t think it’s a Kremlin false flag operation is because it makes the Kremlin look weak. However, the Russian pro-war extremists or one of the PMCs might have done it to create more support for the war. They want more influence in the government and are actively trying to make the Ministry of Defense look bad. I don’t think that there is an organized militant anti-Kremlin, anti-war, or pro-Ukraine resistance inside Russia capable of this attack. The pro-democracy movement in Russia is effectively squashed. But I could be wrong. Bottom line is that, even if you accept my argument that this wasn’t a false flag operation conducted officially by the Kremlin, there are factions in Russia capable of pulling it off, and there might even be factions within the Kremlin willing to do it. So all we can do is speculate.
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  6973. Putin has created the perfect combination of Nazi ideology and Soviet totalitarianism, wrapped around the cult of his personality. I call his followers and supporters Putzis.
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  6974. I’m here to count the Russian bots! At least two in this thread. 😂
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  6975. And then the Mongols conquered Moscow, and the Muscovites were under the heel of the Golden Horde. They eventually got bored with raping and stealing from the populace, so they found the biggest thug, named him a prince, and appointed him tax collector.
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  6976. Superstition! It’s ghost electrons.
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  6977. cope harder, Ivan.
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  6978.  @incorectulpolitic  <— Prophet of Baal
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  6979.  @joeblack007  It has nothing to do with addressing the emergency, if that helps you understand. At best it was political grandstanding to demonstrate GOP power to scuttle aid, at worst it is a GOP attempt to damage a Democrat President’s ability to respond to the Covid crisis, so Biden would look bad.
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  6980. Meticulous? Did we watch the same video? I honestly love this video for the sloppy mistakes creating more work.
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  6981. You expect Pete to pronounce Yvegeny correctly?
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  6982. The tip was phoned in by Batman
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  6983. But verbs.
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  6984. With regard to this reboot of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I don’t find this Zaphod Beeblephrox character charming or sympathetic at all. And what’s with all these new characters? Zaphod Junior, Eric, Ivanka, Jared the Robot. This new version of a beloved book is ten times as absurd as the original, but less than 1/100 as funny.
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  6985. MFR stands for manufacturer, guys. I know what you’re thinking.
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  6986. It was Congress that passed the legislation, Trump signed it. Iirc it was bipartisan.
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  6987. Hubba hubba! I mean Habba Habba!
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  6988. Well, now it’s a haunted ship.
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  6989. Welcome to YouTube, New User.
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  6990. Nah. Just deport him back to S.A.
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  6991. lol, I remember those books. They weren’t kept on any of the child-accessible shelves in our home. I read them anyway by the time I was ten. 😂 Healthy open discussions about sexuality were still a newish thing in our culture. Around the same age, my workaholic dad was too busy to sit down and give me the “facts of life” talk, so my mother awkwardly attempted it. I think it was embarrassing for her. Finally, after struggling with her words, she just handed me “All You Wanted to Know about Sex”. I don’t blame my parents for my predilection for pornography, but I think those books and many subsequent ones (popular historical fiction like written by the likes of John Jakes, for example) were my gateway to porn, which became one of my favorite solitary “hobbies”. 😉
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  6992.  @maryrollins1737  Has Europe always had such open attitudes about sex? You should be less judgemental.
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  6993.  @ALotOfCancer  Who is Juan Galt?
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  6994.  @xtscarfacem8255  lol, no.
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  6995. Government purchases of U.S. flags must be domestically produced.
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  6996. I wish someone would cut in some audio: My name is Giovanni Giorgio but everyone calls me Giorgio.
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  6997. You need to attend a remedial math class this summer. 196+163 = 359 Let me guess, you’re from her district and you voted for her?
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  6998. Soviets did that, and they beat the Germans, so 🤷🏻‍♀️. It does sound desperate, but shooting deserters was a common thing until recent times. The penalty comes if you are convicted in a court martial. I do not know if Russia will try deserters in a military tribunal or shoot them on the spot. My biased thinking tells me that they’ll take suspected deserters behind a tree and put a bullet in their neck.
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  6999.  @DuaneHallinSD  That N D guy is an Italian QAnon guy, of all things!
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  7000. Why can’t it be both? Or all three? Why should the Democrats go blameless when the GOP loses. Goddam Democrats, playing politics with an election!!!
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  7001.  @mcjitsu  But can they do any of that and sell the bike at a reasonable cost. Back in the day I took a look at the civilian version of the Marine KLR diesel, and it was just too damn expensive for the amount of bike you were getting. The challenge of making and selling an electric bike that I’d want to own is going to be in battery weight—which is going to determine how much range you have on a charge. Greater range requires more battery weight, which makes the bike cumbersome and degrades performance.
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  7002.  @gmills5763  frown? Wrong orifice. If he turned it upside down, his bollocks would hang down in front of it.
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  7003. 😂
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  7004. Trump talks like a mean girl.
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  7005. And he lost the popular vote. TWICE!! 🤣
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  7006. Who are you threatening with violence?
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  7007. When it’s windy like that you gotta clip the lavaliere to your beard.
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  7008. But why?
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  7009. I don’t want to judge a man for wearing cosmetics, to each his own. But I still scratch my head over a straight white conservative Christian nationalist male wearing eyeliner, and nobody in his party saying anything to him.
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  7010. Does anyone remember the Edgar Allen Poe story, Political Rally of the Red Death?
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  7011. What about the dildo?
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  7012. I got the little one, the Junior. It doesn’t have the fans and only a single element, but it works great. It required an adapter to hook up to propane tanks.
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  7013. It’s truly insane. This bill was negotiated using Ukraine as a hostage. The Senate GOP basically held a gun to the Ukrainians’ collective head and got Biden and the Dems to cave in to their demands. Call this evil if you want, but it was damn effective. The GOP beat the Dems. The “compromise” bill was a Republican victory. Everyone knew it. Biden and the Dems were prepared to eat the shit sandwich because Ukraine is that important to our national security. Along comes Donald Trump to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The entire GOP political class (plus a million bots) walks away from a game-winning touchdown, because it wouldn’t benefit Trump if they won. It’s nucking futz. They had it all. All they had to do was pass the damn bill and they could campaign as winners of a great victory over the Dems. But noooooooooooooo! Edited to remove too many “ands”.
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  7014. The mechanisms for that change are inherently part of the democratic liberal model, but we have to use those tools.
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  7015. This is like the Ryan McBeth Video Daily Double.
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  7016. “Will automation completely replace human workers” is the wrong question. A better question is, “what happens to the displaced workers?” I think the limitations you mention (finding/training technicians) are solvable, but without economic growth, displaced workers have nowhere to go, and that becomes a drag on growth. So is there a swinging of the conceptual economic expansion/contraction pendulum, or are we on a downward spiral?
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  7017. What’s wrong with this video? 1. Something that happens at a point in the past (1995 tank rampage) can’t be reminiscent of something that happens in the future of that point (GTA). It’s like saying “The telegraph was reminiscent of the Internet.” I think the word you might have wanted was “prescient”? 2. The Pacific Ocean is the other one. The video indicates the Atlantic while the narration says “Pacific”. 3. The swing has only one rope connecting it to the tree branch.
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  7018. If the MAGAs are to be believed, Team Trump asked for Dearie because they thought he’d be pissed and feeling vengeful against the DOJ because of the Carter Page warrant. That’s the mentality of these guys. They think everyone is as corruptly transactional as they are. It’s incomprehensible that someone would sincerely devote themselves to upholding the rule of law, or any other higher ideal. In the minds of the MAGA grifters (and this goes for the MAGA suckers, too), everyone has some kind of angle, everyone is engaged in a scam. Idealistic people are merely performing their ideals, they don’t really hold them.
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  7019. What do they pay you, Russian bot?
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  7020. So does “advesary”
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  7021. Last time it got that bad, they didn’t have tanks.
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  7022. They avoided paying for the construction materials they would have had to buy and bring to the site. They profited from extracting the materials.
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  7023. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is skiing.
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  7024. Are you thinking of tricking your neighbor’s kids into murdering someone so you can collect some of that sweet driveway rental money?
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  7025. Get Jomboy to do a lip reading.
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  7026. Give it a rest, already.
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  7027. Behold!! The Beholder hat!
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  7028. It was a different Republican Party in my day. GOP voters would never wear their hats backward.
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  7029.  @tastyredsauce There’s a lot of bots making inflammatory comments, trying to get people riled up and off topic. I guess the war in Ukraine is going badly for Russia and they need to distract us.
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  7030.  @CarlaCorc  Actually, the orange guy was (and is) ambivalent wrt the vaccines. He wants to take credit for them, but he must also pander to his base, many of whom are conspiracy theory lunatics. It was those people that politicized it. They also politicized surgical masks. The other side of it was the many grifters that sought to profit from the pandemic and fears of vaccines. They benefited from the politicized fears, so they pumped up the politics as much as they could.
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  7031.  @evolassunglasses4673  Hi, Putzi. Can you Putin Nazis come up with some new propaganda? Your same old propaganda is getting quite stale. Thank you, Putzi.
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  7032. They’ve got NPU cores, if that’s what you’re asking.
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  7033. I’m stoping the video and making a guess . . . 80% chichimeca, 20% Spanish. Let’s see how I do. 😄
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  7034. There might be other reasons for the increased range. There might be support vessels to provide refueling or recharging closer to the targets.
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  7035.  @lorenzcassidy3960 Tolstoy wrote in the 19th Century, but he was noting a condition that goes back much further, to the time (12th and 13th Centuries) when the warlords of Moscow were under the thumb of the Mongols. After the Golden Horde (the Mongols) burned Moscow to the ground twice, the “princes of Muscovy” submitted to them and became their tax collectors and enforcers. The Mongols were not interested in direct rule. They just wanted to be paid a yearly tribute. So the Golden Horde put the pimps, thieves, and slave holders in charge. As the Golden Horde began to expand further westward, they fought the Poles, the Lithuanians, and the Hungarians. Part of the Mongol forces was a Russian army commanded by these Russian criminals, essentially a mercenary army using forced conscription from the Russian peasantry and serfs. So you see how far back this tradition goes. The Rus switched eventually switched sides to the Lithuanians and Poles (as mercenaries often do) when those kingdoms gained the upper hand. This is the ignominious beginning of the criminal empire known as Russia. Thus endeth the history lesson. When Tolstoy calls the Russian army “a horde of slaves” he’s referring to the period when the Muscovites were subservient to the Golden Horde. He’s packing a lot of history into that sentence. He was saying that the Russian Empire still operated in the corrupt style of the Mongol Khanates.
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  7036.  @frederikjensen193 teak and peek
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  7037. The music is kind of dumb, too. It’s a cue for slowly building tension where there is none. It’s a routine patrol. No need for any music unless and until shit starts happening.
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  7038. Almost 350,000 views on this video alone. If you don’t see the struggle going on right now between the President and the Senate GOP, 🙈🙉🙊 Trump’s latest tweets are discouraging his base in Georgia from voting. 🤔 He’s telling them that the runoff election is illegal.
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  7039. Hey, Dr. John! Throw a powder puff into your mobile video kit and have a make up artist show you how to use it! You don’t seem to be overly vain, but I thought I’d mention it. It’s one of those subtle touches that keeps the attention on your message.
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  7040.  @jondough4682  that’s a bad counter-example. A better example would be me bringing a firearm into your mom’s bedroom, because that’s her place of business.
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  7041.  @ericwilliams1659  I don’t know all the ins and outs of Florida weapons law, but a lot depends on the type of firearm, i.e., is it a rifle or a handgun, and the color of your skin.
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  7042.  @ashakabeta  Not really. If she had done this before Warnock’s win in Georgia, it would have energized the Republicans. Instead she waited a few days. The Dems can keep her in the caucus by letting her keep her committee assignments and/or offering her a better assignment, just like they do with Bernie Sanders. I’m a moderate independent, ex-GOP. I vote Democrat to prevent a fascist take over. Maybe Sinema would have done this if she wasn’t constantly being attacked by members of her own party.
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  7043.  @vinista256  That’s a nice idea, but I haven’t seen any action from these “domestic spending republicans”. Where are the bills? Are they being negotiated in committees and subcommittees? Where are the Republican policy debates on how to improve the lives of ordinary Americans? If evidence of an actual set of policies is in evidence, I’ve missed seeing it. I think if Mike Johnson is bold, he could solve a lot of problems in vocational education and worker training. He could draw on support from both the conference and the caucus. He could get the president on board by throwing him some loan forgiveness dough. Thats just an example.
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  7044.  @МихаилЧерников-п2т  Potentially any signatory country he visits. Which means he can’t safely visit those countries. How will he attend BRICS summits? He’s out of the club. He can’t conduct face to face diplomacy with many other world leaders outside of Russia. You say, “It’ll never happen.” I say, “It doesn’t have to happen for this to hurt in some way.”
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  7045.  @bokhans  I haven’t looked at that channel, but initial misdemeanor charges give prosecutors more flexibility in flipping witnesses.
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  7046.  @MotoGiant  There was a time when we speculated about conspiracy theories because it was fun. We didn’t take it too seriously (although there were some people that did and spent years of work trying to gather evidence for their theories). Cryptozoology was fun. You know, the Loch Ness monster and Sasquatch and all that. And if you went backpacking in the Pacific Northwest, the legend of Big Foot created a certain spice to the adventure. There’s an author who wrote novels about conspiracy theories, Robert Anton Wilson. He wrote the Illuminati Trilogy, which is vastly entertaining. He was once asked if he really believed in conspiracies and he said it wasn’t a matter of belief, but of probabilities. I think this guided me. There was a tiny probability that the Loch Ness Monster was real or that we were being visited by extraterrestrials, but the overwhelming evidence indicated that probably Nessie didn't exist and there were no aliens. I accepted mainstream science, but it was fun to consider the long shot. Anyway, "alternative science" was an entertainment for most of us. Blaming the CIA was kind of a joke more than a real suspicion. There's also an interesting (and ambiguous) novel by Umberto Eco, named Foucault's Pendulum. It's worth read if you've got time. It's more about the mindset of serious conspiracy theorists, and not a defense of them.
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  7047.  @janes9055  Heads up, you’re responding to a troll.
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  7048. 10 days and you’re around the bend? That’s paid dues! (Is that how it works?)
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  7049. The problem with authoritarian regimes and dictatorships is that they can never admit mistakes. When a mistake is undeniable, they look for scapegoats.
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  7050. The reason that the pay package was reversed by the Delaware Court of Chancery is because of poor corporate governance and the Board of Directors misleading shareholders. It wasn’t the excessive size of the pay package. The Tesla BoD are all Musk friends and flunkies, and not independent. This isn’t good corporate governance.
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  7051. Sadly, no. This General Dvornikov is not replacing anyone. He’s the first overall commander. Think about that for a moment: there was no overall commander coordinating the Russian forces in Ukraine. That partly explains the chaos and ineffectiveness of the Russian Army. This appointment is potentially very bad news if he can get the Russian invasion organized. It’s also bad news because on his first day of command, he ordered the attack on the Kramortorsk train station that killed 52 civilians and injured hundreds more. He became a war criminal the first day on the job.
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  7052. Anything, any program that has a chance of doing some good, is going to get blocked in the House of Representatives. There’s a handful of obstructionist extremists who’d rather go on TV shows than govern, and they’ve got the rest of the conference running scared. If that weren’t bad enough, they’re pathological liars unlike anything we’ve ever seen (save one man). To hear them tell it, inflation and unemployment are killing the country and we’re halfway into a depression. But if by some miracle the House of Representatives gets its ship together, I could see the U.S. doing a joint venture with Mexico’s state owned ship building company ASTIMAR (which builds destroyers, corvettes, and frigates at 5 different ship building facilities). I don’t think the U.S. government wants to own a ship building business (nor should they, imho), but they could provide loans to a U.S. ship building contractor that would then invest in the joint venture. Chile is another possibility, but Mexico is close and we could make use of NAFTA so that the ship building is a cross-border enterprise. This could be very good for the gulf states.
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  7053. My rate is pretty high, and when rates started going up it was pretty brutal. This past fall and winter I really made the effort to return the balance to zero. I think the wallet app interface really helped me stay on top of my spending and my payments, enabling me to clear the debt more quickly. It made credit card monthly payments into a game. So, yeah. I also like my Apple Card. If you use it like an American Express and pay the entire balance every month, you’re in the catbird seat.
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  7054. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it administered with a garden hose like that.
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  7055. Still waiting for the magic expert to rate the Harry Potter movies.
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  7056. Gentrification is bad for almost everyone except developers, unethical local politicians/zoning commissioners, and wealthy newcomers. I get how a uhaul business would be an eyesore in a gentrified downtown. If the city leaders and the developers want to gentrify, they should be willing to buy the business or pay move it to a location agreeable to the business owner and make any improvements required.
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  7057. Vatnik is a tomato based condiment. 😉
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  7058.  CitiZEN Cat  for what? Global warming? Overpopulation?
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  7059. What is your objection?
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  7060. lol, HHS?
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  7061. Jesus, Denmark. This is not a part of American culture you want to emulate.
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  7062. Or you could look it up yourself. Try Wikipedia first.
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  7063. Fwiw, the production is in England, which is also experiencing a really bad Covid winter surge, plus there is the new, more infectious mutation that was announced about the same time as this “scandal”. Second hand information, but I’ve never heard anything bad about Tom Cruise on the movie crew grapevine. Just the opposite.
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  7064.  @JohnnyLegato6M  Danny could also sound like her with the right hormones.
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  7065. Wrong. You’ve been listening to not particularly smart people who probably claim to be realists, but they’re just dummies.
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  7066. What do you mean? He covers the EU on a regular basis.
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  7067. I check my shoes for scorpions. They’re not common inside my home, but I’ve come across them on occasion.
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  7068. Microsoft is as honest as the day is long. In December.
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  7069. LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION DERP DERP
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  7070. I said the same thing. An eye for an eye is the law of proportionality. I don’t know exactly where that line is, but the IDF has gone past it. At the same time, Israel didn’t choose this Urban battleground. Hamas did because they knew the killing of civilians would turn the world away from Israel. They are just as culpable for the civilian deaths.
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  7071. In Florida. Although if the pandemic gets worse, they might have to change to curbside service. I have to laugh at the perfection of a strip club in a strip mall. Because of course.
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  7072. Congress can impeach and convict Supreme Court justices.
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  7073.    No. That is stupid. If your iPad is within the warranty period, get it repaired. If it’s not, see if it’s worth repairing or replacing. If it’s not worth repairing, Apple offers free recycling of their products. The only thing forcing you to throw it in a landfill is your spite.
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  7074.  @Shock_Treatment  How old? What do you use them for? What version of windows to they run? What sort of work do they do?
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  7075.  @BlueMoonBrightStar  Please ask your doctor for a psychiatric referral. Be sure to tell him or her everything you’ve told us about the conspiracy.
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  7076. When was the launch? With the new phones, no? WWDC is an announcement for developers. It doesn’t start the clock like a consumer announcement.
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  7077.  @fyi-tao  It’s called Catsup Mode.
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  7078. Insurance is the original hedge.
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  7079. Interesting idea. How many “present, not voting” GOP Congresspeople would it take? However, are the Dems willing to negotiate and compromise to bring these GOP congresspeople on board to make Jeffries the Speaker? What are you willing to give away in order to form a coalition with the “sane faction” of the Republican Party (assuming it exists).
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  7080. Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
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  7081. If you can put food on your family, why couldn’t you stack them?
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  7082. Draw a number 8, but stop halfway.
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  7083. What religious exemptions? Trumpism is now a religion?
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  7084. I say tomato, you say insurrection. 😉
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  7085.  lesia gutierrez  What? Did you mean PPPPPearl Harbor? Or are you referring to Marina Del Conde?
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  7086. Zero surprise that you’re a Gary Newman fan. 😂
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  7087. Why is that more disgusting than other aspects of the case? The village has liability insurance and police officers have a union. If the insurance company wanted to make the police officer bear part of the burden, they could have tried. But this case is small potatoes and I doubt it’s worth their while. We also weren’t privy to the settlement negotiations. It’s possible (and likely) that the village/village’s insurance wanted to settle at that figure and the police officer defendant did not. So the village said, screw it, we’ll just pay it and get this over with. Sorry that your sense of what is proper was offended by this case. It’s a terrible thing when one’s feelings about justice are offended.
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  7088.  @why6212  No, I made a smart comment. You need to wrap your dizzy brain around a few simple facts. Throwing people in prison willy nilly is not only stupid, it leads to more of the same abuse of power as the OP supposedly hates. Or worse. It’s a criminally stupid comment. A more intelligent comment is, “the board should be investigated”. Another might be that the board should have greater oversight because it’s acting like an overbearing bureaucracy. Throwing people in jail without due process or cause is the sort of dumb crap you see in dictatorships like you see in Iran or Russia. If that’s one you want, you need to examine your priorities.
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  7089.  @alphagt62  Likely it is a “smart meter” that collects usage data and sends it directly to the utility.
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  7090. Maybe you’ll read it this time.
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  7091. Wrong about the 2014 invasion. It’s not true that the media isn’t mentioning it because it’s not true. It’s still being mentioned, and now Russia has all but admitted it when it admitted Wagner was a tool of the Kremlin. Don’t be a simpleton and don’t tell us disinformation. It makes you look to be a fool or worse.
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  7092. Eh, a lot of variables there. Round, distance, angle, age of construction. Maybe it could stop it. Maybe it could slow down the round. Maybe the incoming round would enter through one window, leave by another window, and hit the vehicle at which it was targeted. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  7093. When it actually happens it might be worth discussing, but it isn’t actually happening. But I’m not even sure it would be worth discussing then, either. BRICS isn’t really much of a thing, anyway. Their development bank has loaned out approximately 15 billion. They don’t trust the Chinese enough to make the yuan their reserve currency. It’s more of a club of those who have benefited from decades of “U.S. Hegemony”. There is actually no process to apply. And now that one member’s leader is unable to visit the next summit in South Africa, it’s looking more like BICS.
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  7094. “Balloon knot”
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  7095. I responded to one of your other comments about recruitment and conscription. And to clarify my reply there, you are making good points and there should be a lot more discussion on these issues. But that said, I think I have the answer. It started coming to me as a funny answer that would solve the problem you just stated with clarity. Now hear me out. 😂 lol WHAT IF the military classified first person shooters as sensitive military technology, and co-opted the FPS game companies into the DIB. They would still be private companies, but they would become military contractors. Gamers would flock to recruiting offices if the latest and greatest releases were only available to the military as training simulators. Games companies would still be allowed to sell older games and gimped versions of our military’s exclusive games. I’m proposing this as a ridiculous joke. But is it really ridiculous? 😂 I see some obvious objections, like aren’t all gamers irretrievable softbody slobs? The truth is that some are. But not all. And some are borderline. The military could sponsor e-games to find the best gamers. I guess the question remains. Would these gamer recruits be willing to pick up a rifle in real life? I think the answer is yes, some would. What do you think? Is my idea dumb enough to work?😅
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  7096.  @acemanifester1401  You’re not an American.
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  7097. 🧑🏽‍🍳 💋
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  7098. Interesting how you expressed that.
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  7099. Thinking about it in terms of the arms industry, this is a good business partnership. Poland and Korea each have expertise in designing weapons and weapon research that compliments the other. The U.S.A. was once called the “Armory of Democracy”. I think it can only help Democracy if it has more than one armory.
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  7100.  @volorfyexela  You sound like you’re from a dying country. Is it Russia?
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  7101. @Albert Clarke Don’t get me started! I broke a chain letter once and was dead within 48 hours. Thank goodness I got better.
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  7102.  @ritaterres  it’s because they are Americans (with likely Russian participation or training). As you might have heard, the political situation in the U.S. is at a fever level, with no sign of the fever breaking. Some are simply delusional, some are actively spreading disinformation to cause more death and destruction. No way to tell who is who.
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  7103. It’s complicated. But the history of industry and labor in the U.S. has always been complicated. The “retraction” in globalism won’t result in the end of globalism. Heck, it might merely slow it down. I expect that there will be more protectionism in our trade policies going forward. Perhaps it’s more accurate to say a tightening of policy, as opposed to the loosening (but not disappearance) of trade policy. This means tariffs, tax breaks, subsidies and the like to help our manufacturing become competitive with imports. (And I think the argument between the left and the right will be, or should be, how much protectionism. Not whether or not there should be protectionism.) Anyway, I like our chances if we can weather this flirtation with authoritarianism and culture war—and I am hopeful we will, although there’s going to be a hell of a political hangover.
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  7104. Which probably explains the ongoing disaster in Los Angeles.
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  7105. Thank you for this information. It puts things into perspective. One of the things I am pondering is that vitamin D supplements have been and are being used to correct a deficiency in a naturally occurring metabolic component. The mechanisms of vitamin D in our bodies’ functions are well known. Someone who naturally has sufficient sources (eg, enough sun exposure) of D3 is really the baseline. I don’t know how QIMR Berghofer controlled for factors such as previous levels of Vitamin D in the body. I would assume they did, but perhaps you are more familiar for the trial’s controls. Anyway, in any case, thanks for the information and making positive contributions to the discussion.
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  7106.  @ifnotawalrus5888  When I was a kid, I thought the same as Rachel, and the issue with the gap you mentioned occurred to me. So I asked an adult and they explained.
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  7107. If you walk without rhythm, you won’t attract the worm. I’m not a real doctor, but I am a real worm.
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  7108. Well, yeah, if you attempt to overthrow the country and install yourself as dictator, you might lose some popularity. Frankly, that he even has over 30% popularity is a testament to his obdurate supporters and their delusional worship of the man.
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  7109. Your government is the Russian Federation, Ivan. 😂
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  7110. If the federal government is the U.S.’s biggest employer, a lot of people will be unemployed. Great thinking!
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  7111.  @xunqianbaidu6917 Perhaps I’m missing the parts where the pro-Palestinian demonstrators are demanding the release of hostages and distancing themselves from Hamas. The truth is that releasing the hostages will lead more quickly to a cease fire. Not releasing the hostages prolongs the conflict. Holding the hostages allows Hamas to hold the Palestinian people hostage. If the demonstrators were truly fighting for the lives of children and not just trying to make a big noise, they’d find the practical solution and pressure Hamas. And they’d move as far away as possible from anyone pro Hamas.
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  7112. This effectively prevents Russia from trying an amphibious assault against Ukraine. If they keep losing ships, they won’t have anything to evacuate cut off troops west of Crimea. They might even have trouble providing naval support along the Sea of Azov coast. Russia has lost its original purpose for the war. A land grab is a pipe dream—they won’t be able to hold any territory they conquer. I think the only reason they keep at it is that Putin faces domestic troubles if he admits defeat. I have my doubts he will be able to cling to power when this war is over.
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  7113.  @sonictech1000  If you’re worried, watch the entire video so you can learn the facts and the law. I suspect that will allay your fears.
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  7114. House could rush through an impeachment tonight based on Trump’s incitement to riot, but would the Senate vote to remove Trump?
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  7115.  @markgray6982  How do you suppose Trump will strike back? He has no legitimate means at his disposal, only illegal violent ones. This isn’t Hoth, and you’re not sitting in an imperial walker.
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  7116. Let’s be charitable, folks. Lack of fan adulation and attention is just as debilitating as COVID to a person like Trump. If Trump doesn’t get enough attention, he could shrivel up and die, making this joyride a “medical necessity”.
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  7117.  @JammingRiffs  Why? Is there something going on in your home? That would be helpful to everyone if you talked about the troubles in your family. And honestly, it would be brave. If you start sharing, there might be friends and neighbors that need to hear it so they can also bring their problems into the light of day. If we are going to change our country for the better, it starts in the home. Please talk about it.
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  7118. It would be a short video because there is ONLY ONE way to prevent the collapse of civilization. Humanoid Robots. Fercrissakes, it’s mentioned in this video.
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  7119.  @Princip666  You didn’t read the entire Wikipedia article. Kasumi estimate is conservative. Only a dummy accepts official Russian figures, but even if we accept them, 1,900 soldiers of the assault force (an armored brigade and a motorized regiment) is around 50%. The funniest thing 😂 is that a good deal of the Russian casualties was from friendly fire. It’s not that Russians can’t fight in winter, it’s that they can’t fight, period. Even with a 5:1 advantage, they failed. Apparently a 12:1 ratio is needed. 😂 Once again, you don’t know what you are talking about and continue to spread disinformation. I pity you for your mental weakness.
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  7120. Did you actually watch the video? If so, watch it again, but this time also listen.
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  7121. There’s a lot of work ahead, but the burden just got a 1000% lighter. Blue skies, Ajay.
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  7122. Do the Tierney family!
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  7123. That’s not true. You’re thinking of spousal privilege to avoid testifying. It is NOT a legal privilege between parent and children or between siblings to evade testifying if they’re called as witnesses. They have a right not to SELF-incriminate, they have the right to a lawyer to help them to not incriminate themselves, and if called as witnesses and put under oath, they can plead the 5th to avoid self incrimination.
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  7124. Gretownzu You’re misunderstanding the argument he’s trying to make. He’s saying that because the NVA breached the borders of a neutral nation, those neutral nations lost their neutral status. It’s illogical.
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  7125. Blah b Not true. Why would you think that Cambodians would welcome with open arms Vietnamese incursions?
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  7126. ⁠ @russellmillar7132  I moved to Mexico, which is not an undeveloped country (despite what some people think). But there is a lot of poverty and poor people know how to improvise and make do. Sometimes they’ve developed different tricks for making do that are ingenious and get passed on to succeeding generations. But sometimes stuff I see is scary and dangerous. Electrical work. Improper securing of loads on pick up trucks. People are used to doing things for themselves, but they don’t always have the knowledge or understanding of what it is they’re trying to do. I think one of my favorite things is the “shade tree mechanic” that doesn’t have a workshop but works under the shade of a tree on the side of the road. I had a friend that worked in an Autobody shop, and when the maestro retired, the workshop building was sold. So my friend moved his own equipment into my stairwell (I live on a second floor, but I’ve got my own first floor entrance), and for the last 8 or 9 years, he works on the street in front of my building, and keeps his tools, paint and other materials inside my front door, to the side of the stairs. He’s offered to pay rent, but I told him to just pay the electrical bill, because he uses it to run his compressor. The other benefits are that he’s an extra layer of security, and he’s usually there to receive packages if I’m not home. I know someone has my back. During the pandemicm he’d send his assistant out if I needed an errand. Anyway, I’m rambling. Why did I bring up Luis? Oh, yeah. The dude is a master craftsman of Bondo. And I’ve seen him teach his skills to his cousin, who works as his assistant. There’s a lot of cases when he orders replacement panels to for damaged cars, but when he knows his client can’t afford new parts, he gives them an equal result with Bondo. When it’s all painted, you can’t tell the difference.
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  7127.  @shlepmessing8703  Ivan
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  7128.  @duke9555  The threat posed doesn’t go away if Russia gets everything Putin wants. But Ukraine doesn’t constitute a threat to Russia, not even an existential one. It’s a threat to Empire and to the power of a regime, not to the Russian nation. The basic problem is this: You know how in James Bond movies, the international criminal organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E. wants to acquire a nuke so it can blackmail the world? The Russian government is S.P.E.C.T.R.E. And if S.P.E.C.T.R.E. can successfully blackmail the world once, it will keep using the threat. That is the nature of a criminal organization. It’s an open maw that must be endlessly stuffed because it has an insatiable appetite for power. It’s an endless suck. Ukraine isn’t really an existential threat to the people of Russia, but a nuclear armed criminal empire IS a threat to the rest of the world. Russia would be fine if its government stopped trying to be an imperial power. I don’t know how you defang the snake here, but I don’t think you do it by making concessions. Peter is right, however, that we need to be thinking about what happens after hostilities cease, whether or not Ukraine has liberated all of its territories currently occupied by Russia. He’s wrong that no one is thinking about it or discussing it.
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  7129.  @PerterAtherton Mexican immigration to the U.S. is net 0.
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  7130. More than anything this puts pressure on Russia wrt to long term geopolitical strategy. Short of joining NATO (with an uncertain timeframe), the second biggest security assurance is to arm the snot out of Ukraine’s Airforce. We know that in any peace deal, whether or not land is traded, Russia’s word is worthless. NATO membership might be fast tracked or it might be delayed (and rightfully claiming Ukraine while Russia holds it would cause a delay). This pledge of F-16s is a strong indicator that the Western Allies will support Ukraine for the long haul. Just don’t expect to see the F-16s on the front lines this winter. They will wait for sufficient numbers. Meanwhile, the fighter-bombers will perform air defense missions and perhaps start taking out SAM systems.
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  7131.  @PFA...  It’s not Houthi territorial waters, though. What crazy notions you have.
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  7132. The suspect died of lead poisoning.
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  7133. Interesting! Cameras plunge in value as new camera technology is introduced, but other equipment retains its value. A tripod is still a tripod, after all, and can still perform its intended function. The lights you saw hanging in the grid would presumable still fulfill their function, even if modern LED lights use much less electricity and are more controllable. The cameras might be useful as props, however, if someone were to make a “behind the scenes” drama about a game show, such as Numberwang. “Let’s spin the board!”
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  7134. I predict Jill Stein will get a bump in the polls. Hundreds of RFKJ voters will now support her. 😂
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  7135. Cricket was an operative for the Deep State.
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  7136. The key thing here is humanoid robots. Non-humanoid robots won’t stave off civilizational collapse. Quite a few studies have shown that people prefer to be lied to by humanoid robots.
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  7137.  @NLTops Russia has been arming, funding, inciting, and in some cases supplying the bodies. There have been little green men and GRU goons all over the Donbas since 2014. On top of that, Russian artillery was regularly performing fire missions to support the so-called “insurgents.
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  7138. Probably marriage has influenced it more.
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  7139. The degradation of equipment is built into the governmental policies and the business plans. Before construction begins, the energy companies must post a bond covering the cost of removal and clean up of closed installations. The life span of 10-20 years for wind turbine installations is part of the business plan of the companies. By the time one installation is shut down, the company will be ready (or already has) brought another facility online somewhere. If a company goes bankrupt, the assets are divided amongst the creditors, with some assets being sold to convert to cash. If there is any life left in the wind farm, someone will buy it. If not, the previously posted bond will be used to decommission the wind farm. The system works more or less. It’s still a hell of a lot better than having the federal government build, own, and operate wind farms.
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  7140. And you are a Putzi.
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  7141. Stop spreading lies.
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  7142. I think you mean, OMF5G
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  7143. I really don’t care about Christian Nationalists’ “wounds”.
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  7144. That’s not what was in the documents. We can speculate, but it’s not that. The most likely answer is that the documents contained intelligence on a nuclear weapons program of another country, possibly an adversary. Having the documents in an unsecured location carries the risk of revealing agents, sources, and intelligence methods. If the intelligence came from a different country’ espionage branch, the secrets are even more sensitive.
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  7145.  @RichardKing-sx6xc  That’s not true.
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  7146.  @dosmundos3830 China’s debt is unknown because their monetary policies are a state secret. It could be 2 trillion. It could be 32 trillion. No one outside economists in Chinese inner circles really knows, and even then there seems to be internal problems with collecting accurate data.
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  7147.  @eddieyeoh4098  That’s not true. What is the source of your information?
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  7148.  @LinusScrubTips  The fact is that products from these other countries often have parts sourced in China.
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  7149.  @nooboftheyear7170  They don’t have any interest in policies or the governing function of government. It’s all politics for them, and any real issue is not to be solved but to be used as a weapon. Guys like James are non-serious people. They’re like children. I’m an ex-republican (not a democrat), and I’m a conservative if you use older definitions of the word.
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  7150.  @nooboftheyear7170  No one outside of the Chinese inner circles actually knows what Chinese national debt is, and I have my doubts that the inner circles really know because they have big problems collecting accurate data. Chinese monetary policy is a state secret.
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  7151.  @labandonaldhock80  Is that sarcasm or are you a tripe salesman?
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  7152. ⁠ @alhkcblack9617  They’re saying it but it’s not true. Its an exaggeration.
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  7153. Bless you for your bravery. I realize you must stay safe, but you are still showing courage in the face of fear.
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  7154. Has this headline now verb?
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  7155.  @philipocarroll  “There are two kinds of people . . . “
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  7156. It’s unclear if it was Romanian waters or international waters. Neither one is OK.
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  7157. What we seem to be seeing is difference in social behavior as much as differences in political leadership.
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  7158. A year later. Chris Cuomo got fired and the three murderers were found guilty.
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  7159. All is according to plan. Vehicle was being sent to rendezvous with Moskva.
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  7160. Graham is tarnishing his reputation as the first openly closeted gay man in the Senate.
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  7161. Why do you lie so shamelessly? What does it profit you to promulgate untruths? Is it because you don’t think you’ll suffer any consequences for lying? What sort of mental justifications do you have to do to live with being a purveyor of disinformation?
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  7162. There’s no moderator. It would probably require a staff for this channel alone, given that it attracts so many antivax trolls.
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  7163.  @protorhinocerator142  Or the sound effects are added in post for verisimilitude and Peter works with the greatest green screen artists the world has ever seen. Hahaha. But seriously, he’s such a globe trotter that I admit: I’ve stared carefully at his hair and outline to try and detect a green screen. So far, everything seems legit. 😁
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  7164. Star Wars is to my little brother pretty much what A Wonderful Life is to me.
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  7165. Spay and neuter your bullets, friends. If you want bullets, try to adopt from a shelter. There are too many stray bullets out there.
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  7166. Oh, dear. Another poor credulous victim of the alternative history establishment, brainwashed with the orthodoxies of pseudoscience. Do you know what is really decaying at an incredible rate? The definition of the word irony, if you keep misusing the word like you do.
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  7167. No. Which you would know if you watched the video.
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  7168. But to be fair, you’re also scared by loud noises, sudden movement, and that mechanical ticking sound you hear when your head is immersed in bath water.
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  7169. Well, if you’re sore about the loan forgiveness program being killed, stop voting for Republicans. It was the Republicans on the Supreme Court that declared the program was unconstitutional.
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  7170. They don’t even have to do that. They need better quality control so these cars don’t make it out of the factory without being fixed.
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  7171. They were going to kidnap or murder the Vice President and members of Congress to prevent the counting of the electoral college vote.
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  7172.  @stevet5785  NATO didn’t kill over a half million people in Iraq. That’s a bald faced lie, oft repeated by propagandists.
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  7173. His revenge will be getting paid to be an expert witness when the families/estates of the victims sue the company for willful negligence.
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  7174. He didn’t crash it into the Condor refuge. The crash site isn’t even close, although both the crash site and the refuge are in the Los Padres National Forest. Which isn’t to say there wasn’t a potential risk of the crash causing a fire that would threaten the habitat, or that the abandoned plane couldn’t have glided to the refuge. But neither happened.
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  7175. My grandfather graduated from Southwestern after doing his undergrad at Oxy.
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  7176.  @MR-ig9gb  In the beginning, The Purge was just one night a year. It was so popular we made it twice a year, but people wanted a monthly Purge, then a weekly Purge. And that’s how we got to 365 Purge nights a year.
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  7177. OK, Ivan.
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  7178. Yes. It’s numerically impossible after a certain point. The only way Elder could have won is if this was a low turn out election.
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  7179. And in 5 years he’ll be commemorated on a 10,000 Rial coin.
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  7180. My grandmother came to Los Angeles from Japan when she was a baby during the 1900s. When the pet eating racial slur surfaced in the 70s, she told us about it being directed at her and her family in the 1910s. A Chinese friend of the family confirmed that the slur had been around for a long time and applied to Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans. I suspect the racist allegation goes back to the initial waves of Chinese immigration to the U.S. (during the California Gold Rush and the building of the railroad) and the “Yellow Peril” hysteria that followed. Trump, Vance, and maga are tapping into the same fears that spurred violence, discrimination, and racist laws against Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans. Mobs burned down Chinese enclaves in West Coast cities, Chinese people were robbed, homes and businesses were looted, and hundreds of Chinese people were lynched or shot. “Haitian immigrants eating pets” is a play in the white supremacist play book. It’s an opening gambit and a call to arms. Trump and Vance might not know all the history, but people like Stephen Miller and Laura Loomer do.
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  7181. Or ducks.
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  7182.  @mtnmaniac8406  I think you mean a Marjorie T. You know what I’m talking about? The congresswoman with no seat on a commit T.? On account of she’s deep in her QAnon Insani T.
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  7183. A grey windbreaker with black trim is “road warrior fashion”? Haha, I don’t think so, but I guess that’s in the eye of the beholder.
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  7184. Do a search for “Boston dynamics auralnauts horror”
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  7185. Not unless you’re discussing a German lentil recipe.
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  7186. There’s a difference between “swift to anger” and “unable to control oneself”.
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  7187.  @ivanbacic6771  I know it sucks right now, but remember that it’s the voters that shape economic policies over time. You’re up against the Boomers even more than the super rich. As they leave the voting pool ( 💀), you’ll have greater power to elect representatives and leaders that will enact policies to give workers more opportunities—in terms of buying a house this means changes to zoning laws, changes to redevelopment policies, and incentives to build cheaper housing. Here is the thing about capitalism you need to think about (and I think even Bernie Sanders would agree). It can be tweaked to suit the goals of society. In a democratic society (i.e., what we call the Western World), citizens get to decide those goals (by whom they elect) and they get to determine the economic tweaks (by the same democratic mechanism). The biggest obstacles to this are apathy and ignorance. I’m actually a conservative, but I think conservative policy has had its ride over the past 30-40 years. Conservatives have gotten everything they’ve wanted policy-wise, and there’s nowhere left for them to go. Which is why you see the phenomena of “culture war”, “Christian Nationalism”, authoritarianism, and populism based on a cult of personality. The conservative movement is dead, replaced by something both dreadful and stupid. (I’m not saying conservatism is dead; conservative principles are still valid and can still play a role if the fascists can be defeated.)
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  7188. What acclaimed director said this? I doubt any director would say this, because it’s not true. Perhaps you mean the assistant director, because that person is responsible for all moment to moment operations on the set, including set safety.
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  7189.  @MilitaryHistoryVisualized  45 minutes of non stop fapping can become painful if you don’t switch your grip every ten minutes or so. 😂
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  7190. You’re probably not a centrist. You’re probably a solid conservative. It’s the extremists hijacking the party that makes you seem centrist-leaning. I unregistered as a Republican voter in 2006 because I saw things I really didn’t like in the GOP, this drift towards authoritarianism (with not a little resurgence of xenophobia and racism). And our party leaders weren’t addressing the problem of extremists with any vigor, as they had done from the 60s through the 90s. I don’t think I will ever register as a Democrat. But I don’t think I’ll come back to the GOP with the current lunatics in power. There are few rational conservatives still in the party with any backbone. Many that I thought of as solid conservatives have turned out to be craven cowards. Others have been driven out. (I mean, Jeff Flake is a R.I.N.O.? Only in MAGA land would anyone think that.)
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  7191. Trump and his ilk believe that everyone is just as bereft of ethics and morals as they are. They believe ethics and morals to be a hypocritical scam used by other grifters. So of course Trump believed that Dearie would be friendly to him and unfriendly to the DOJ (due to the mishandling of the Carter Page investigation). Trump believed that Dearie would want to get revenge on the DOJ. This is the mindset of Trump and (apparently) most of the GOP: help your friends and punish your enemies.
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  7192. Please try to untwist your panties. It’s cutting off your brain’s air supply. This is newsworthy, even if Xi’s speech is full of nonsense and “old Chinese sayings”. The leader of one of the biggest countries and biggest economies is laying out his countries official line—we can talk about how that position sounds like a box of fortune cookies, but you’re out of line for blaming Bloomberg for reporting it.
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  7193. “Rotating hosts”. Rotisserie?
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  7194. Look up the “resource curse”. Venezuela’s abundance of oil has led to its failure to develop its economy. It’s not completely the fault of socialism and U.S. sanctions. The problems were there before Chavez.
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  7195. People forget that there was a pandemic of morning sickness that was killing millions of people. Oh, wait. There wasn’t.
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  7196.  @INRamos13  Doesn’t matter anymore.
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  7197. He knows it’s buffoonery, he’s telling the “anti-wokers” that their political attacks on the military are stupid and unwarranted.
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  7198. I think you’re spot on with your first thought. WRT to closer to the front line, it really depends. What sorts of Russian assets would be defended this way? Completely static ones, like harbors and docks? That seems a viable use. Hidden ammunition caches? Not so much. The best use would be for critical and strategic infrastructure far from the front. I think the point of barrage balloons is that these would be used as an inner ring of defense, not the only ring.
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  7199. How hard is he hitting it? He’s hitting the campaign trail like it’s a crack pipe.
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  7200. He’s keeping the peace and preventing genocide, which you seem unable to do on your own.
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  7201.  @ThatOpalGuy  It’s mostly bots that promulgate the conspiracy theories and they’ve already moved on to other news stories. They were pretty thick in the first few days of this story, though.
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  7202. LOL, because of course he did.
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  7203.  @hangout5959  Yes, because those allies use the weapons they bought from us to hold the line against our adversaries, such as Iran and China. This is one of the reasons why $1 of foreign aid can save $5 of defense spending.
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  7204.  laron adams  LOL, what is a 4th World country? You ignorant, mouth-breathing, excuse for a human being, do you not understand the schema behind 1st, 2nd, 3rd world? It’s not a ranking, you idiot. It’s a grouping of political interests dating back to the Cold War. 1st World = Western Countries, 2nd World = Communist Countries, 3rd World = those not aligned with either side. You need to examine your political rhetoric for any and all terms you use without understanding, or you’re going to get caught with your pants around your ankles the moment you start debating an adult. Heed these words, or continue being a mental lightweight, a dancing clown in the political circus. Lmao!! 😂
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  7205. He’s hoping something will happen to Trump that will force him out of the race. That’s his only chance. Meanwhile, he’s never going to win the general in a million years.
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  7206.  @FrithonaHrududu02127 This wasn’t overreach. It was prosecutorial incompetence. The suppressed evidence wasn’t going to hurt their case. I don’t think it was buried with intentional malice. It was buried because the DA and his office are sloppy wrt their procedural duties, procedures in place to insure fair trials. The office culture there is a cavalier disregard for the rights of defendants; it’s this disregard that leads to sloppiness. This is also disrespect for the public that relies on prosecutors to get it right, to put away bad guys with FAIR trials in which the defendants have been afforded every right to defend themselves. The public deserves a district attorney who pays attention to details so this doesn’t happen.
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  7207. Lol, seriously, there are extreme cases where you’d want to change jobs, move to a new place, find a new social group, etc.
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  7208. God had a hand in making you insane.
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  7209.  @cw6043  Was he a whistleblower, though, or was that his cover story? His “journalist” handler was a guy writing pro-Russian and pro-Chinese agitprop for years, who funneled him to the Russians. There’s no way of knowing if he held back material for his hosts. At best I think one can say Snowden was just a well intentioned useful idiot. At worst he was a traitor and a spy.
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  7210. Happy Birthday, Putin. 😂
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  7211. Our wannabe Emperor Zero is more of a diddler.
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  7212.  @catcowboy6376  You had to be an American citizen. If you filed jointly with a non-citizen as your spouse, you didn’t qualify for the first payment, but you will qualify for this one. If you were an 18+ dependent, you didn’t qualify and you still don’t.
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  7213.  @randyayo2846  You are delusional. You need some sort of professional help to guide you back to reality.
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  7214. Agreed. She’s had her booster, too.
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  7215.  @michaelwachendorf2096  Nope. Every two years for House of Representatives and every 6 years for a Senator.
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  7216.  @Squidwardsclarinet69  That’s how it stands now, but apparently Texas and 14 other Republican states believe they should have a say in how other states elect their representatives.
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  7217. You’d think that journalists might have learned how to do a bit of science writing and science journalism over the past year.
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  7218. Do you understand that she isn’t being charged for espionage. She’s being charged with a crime that is basically “lobbying without a license”. If you lobby on behalf of a foreign country and are paid by that country, you’re considered a foreign agent. You’re required to register with the State Department (or DOJ, or maybe both, I’m not totally sure). The woman is being charged with not registering.
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  7219. It’s generally believed that many millions of people died from Old World diseases after contact with the Europeans. European diseases spread faster than the human Europeans did. Imagine a civilization losing three quarters of its people in a very short time. The civilization would fall apart and the survivors, scrabbling to survive, might appear like “uncivilized savages” to European explorers.
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  7220. I think it depends on how it’s done. If they assemble the pier and deliver some loads of humanitarian aid, they can turn it over to another organization. They can even walk away once the pier is built. It’s a humanitarian victory. If Hamas tries to destroy it, oh well. What if Hamas attacks while it’s being built? For one thing, I’m pretty sure that the U.S. military can defend itself. For the second thing, I doubt Hamas has the capability to mount a serious attack. Third, if they try, they’re exposing themselves to the IDF.
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  7221. Can’t wait for Trump Crypto. I’m going all in on carrot-coin.
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  7222.  @alankwellsmsmba  you can find some good deals on M2 Mac minis, but the price will drop further later this year as Apple introduces new silicon. You know how it works. I went from a 2014 Mac Mini to the M2 last year, and I’m very pleased.
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  7223.  @layoverwithlo  Can I get an extra snack and a Ketel One mini? 😄
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  7224.  @pineirokatherine  unbalancing a plane is serious but by itself probably won’t make the plane crash. It decreases safety margins. If something else goes wrong, it could compound the problem. Most of the time, I’m sure the pilots have enough skill and experience to correct and finish the flight. Where it might get dicey is on approach and landing. Iirc, that’s where most mishaps occur.
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  7225. This is probably TMI, but I broke up with my girlfriend after I discovered she had been faking oceans.
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  7226. I’ll admit that’s a possible outcome. On the other hand, if everyone carried a firearm, people might become more friendly, polite, and respectful of each other’s feelings. Combine mandatory carry with gun equality for women and domestic abuse would disappear completely.
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  7227.  @bogdagt  Put down your game controller and find out if NATO PGATMs are dangerous. You’ll at least lose weight and stop flattening the springs on your sofa. And if you die, no great loss to anyone but your mother.
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  7228. Tim saying he’s a classic liberal? Classic Tim. 😅
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  7229. The police don’t really need an excuse to pull anyone over. They’re perfectly fine with making up the flimsiest of pretexts. So try a different conspiracy theory.
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  7230.  @Dipperbear  It’s happened in the past, pre Trump, and pre MAGA. But those were moderate Republicans that would be called socialists by the current GOP. Even Reagan was a moderate compared to the extreme fascist filth that makes up much of the modern maga GOP.
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  7231. The dog would have been the first, but not only, victim, if they hadn’t responded rapidly to the threat. I think so, maybe I’m wrong. But I’m 100% with you wrt to investigations. Even in a clear case like this an investigation is needed, because they have to be applied across the board.
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  7232. But why did he have to desecrate the flag like a goddamn hippy, when he was saving dogs? He was using a flag as poncho or shirt or something. It must be part of the lie these people tell themselves about who they are.
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  7233. You’re missing the form of the corruption. It’s not the same being born, it’s fictional students being counted. It’s similar to how corrupt militaries are stronger on paper so commanders can collect the salaries of imaginary soldiers. So it’s not the same number of babies being born or children entering primary school.
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  7234.  @MrAstrojensen  Yup. Even if the counting is accurate at the local and district level, the corruption has been going on so long that they benefit from the inaccuracy and would be hurt by factual reporting of figures. It’s similar to how production figures get fudged in a communist economic system to meet or exceed quotas.
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  7235. So have at it.
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  7236.  @Samanthax1221  <— Troll
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  7237.  @spawn1086  If someone’s cupboard is bare, $600 can mean a whole lot. On the macro scale, if people are spending that $600, especially if they spend it locally, it could keep the economy on life support just a little longer. Regarding your other point about whether Donald Trump can or can’t write legislation, over course he can’t, but normal presidents do it all the time. They write up legislative proposals, usually in conjunction with one or both chambers, and then the two chambers hash out the details, negotiate compromises, or refuse to participate, depending. The months of negotiations between Pelosi and Mnuchin (Mnuchin serving as Trump’s lead negotiator) were done with the good faith understanding that McConnell would back whatever Trump wanted (or McConnell could have also participated in the negotiations). It was surprising that McConnell torpedoed the negotiations when they were getting very close. But the main point here is that was an example of President Trump co-writing a bill. I’ll give you another example. President George W Bush asked for authorization to invade Iraq. He wanted specific powers and he got them. That is the executive branch writing a bill and asking Congress to enact it.
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  7238. It would be better if the infections were spread out over time so as not to overwhelm the medical infrastructure.
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  7239. No, the surface rights were owned by private owners. Did you watch the video before commenting? You might give that a try and avoid embarrassment.
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  7240. Off hand, it’s over 2000 meters asl. Comparable to Denver, maybe a little higher.
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  7241. 🌰 🌰
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  7242. Isn’t it already tomorrow in that time zone?
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  7243. I think it has more to do with the aging Karen population.
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  7244. FWIW, the CIA will not be first in line for that jammer. Either NSA or DIA will get first shot. Very likely that a private company such as Raytheon will be the one to do the first full analysis. Remember, although U.S. intelligence agencies co-operate (or are supposed to), each one has a lane (although lanes can and do overlap). Signals Intelligence is the NSA lane, with some overlap with DIA. Raytheon is a big military contractor that has a lot of EW experience, which is why I think they will be the first to dissect it.
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  7245. The ruling wasn’t expected until as late as Monday morning, but the Amicus Brief by Cthulu seems to have sped things up.
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  7246. Zorro Zorro Zorro, The fox so complicated and meta, Zorro Zorro Zorro, he makes the sign of the Zeta. There, fixed. 😉
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  7247. It’s not “fine”, but it’s the safer between the two. However, overestimation does have a cost: investments made based on your miscalculation mean you can’t invest those resources more effectively to further other aims.
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  7248. The distinction is whether the pilot was ordered to down the drone or whether he was using his own initiative.
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  7249. Yes. Capitalism is maleable and can serve the people in a democracy, both worker and business owners. The problem is when people turn it into a religion.
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  7250. False report. Fake account.
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  7251. This doesn’t solve Instagram’s worst problem, which is it’s still part of Facebook.
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  7252.  @lward7788  The question is how many times have YOU tried to change that led you to the conclusion you are powerless? How many times did you organize with others to enact or change a law, and got knocked down? I suspect that the answer to both questions is zero. Nobody here is suggesting that the process is easy. But it is not out of reach here as it is in many places in the world, where the people are powerless to make changes to the laws or enact new ones. You sound like a person that never believed in democracy in the first place.
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  7253.  @OrbitalTrails  Congratulations on the 5-month anniversary of your YouTube account.
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  7254.  @novusregnum  🤷🏻‍♀️ you’d have to ask Bernard.
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  7255. I’m shocked, shocked to find there is corruption in the FSB! https://youtu.be/SjbPi00k_ME (clip from Casablanca)
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  7256. They want to avoid bloodshed. They’re just not children about National Defense.
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  7257.  @jeremyhelm3293  He’s probably a foreign national trolling us to divide us further. I’ve got my doubts about that “@adventures” guy, too. One is trying to rile up the conservatives and the other is trying to rile up the liberals.
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  7258.  @parabot2  Tell me when they take Belgium, Switzerland, and Denmark. But I will say this to your credit. You’ve at least unmasked yourself as sympathetic to land hungry criminals. I’m sure that you’ll be laughing in the years to come when you sell your sister to buy potato water.
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  7259. Bring back the Upper Class Twit of the Year competition.
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  7260.  @LRRPFco52  You should point out that the U.S. doesn’t need to manufacture its own gun barrels because we can buy them from barrel specialists in other countries. The reason we are able to buy barrels for artillery, tanks, or w/e on the open market is because we aren’t being sanctioned and isolated for our illegal invasion of a neighbor.
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  7261.  @veramae4098  Oh, goodness. He was quite good early on, but Campbell’s gone off the rails over the past six months. Sadly, he’s shut down criticism from experts for errors he’s made in his videos—even from experts who he’s previously had on his channel. He’s tried to support his theories with retracted studies. That might sound like an innocent mistake, but then he didn’t link to the paper on the publisher’s site. He used a link to the study that didn’t carry the retraction notification. You trust John Campbell at your peril. He’s no longer a reliable source. He’s not open to correction.
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  7262.  WakeUpIndia2047  Why are you telling Dave that, like he doesn’t know. That’s Dave’s main life strategy. He claims he invented it so he can resent others that use the strategy more successfully than he does.
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  7263. In the parking lot? Probably careful shooting. Have you ever seen cops unload on a suspect when they have a clear shot and no on down range?
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  7264. The sooner that antivaxxers go to Heaven, the better.
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  7265. I’m not dying. That’s just blood flavored corn syrup.
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  7266. Or order it after on Post-Apocalypse Etsy.
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  7267. Apple has the cash reserves and fat margins to continue doing what they did in China: pay their manufacturers up front to build more production lines. The difference is that it will take longer to take up the slack. This has been a key to Apple’s supply chain: you don’t just outbid your competitors for mfgrs’ capacity, to pay them to build the capacity in the first place. You loan them the money to buy the tools and build the physical plant to house those tools. Apple has already been doing this outside of China, so really it’s a matter of acceleration, not starting from scratch. This is why the Apple BoD chose Tim Cook to lead Apple after Steve Jobs left the company for personal reasons. 😉 Cook was the COO, the architect of Apple’s supply chain. He isn’t a techie guy or a product designer.
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  7268. Such a great ad. As a bonus, Trump will think it’s an attack on him.
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  7269.  @BuryOurHearts Trump is just mad at Bibi.
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  7270. Rally support or justify a greater crackdown on Russian civil liberties? I think Putin is worried about his hold on power, and this justifies more arrests.
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  7271. This isn’t a direct democracy. Our government is a representative democratic republic, as specified in the constitutional. Don’t like it, change the constitution. If that’s too hard, you can leave and find a different country more to your liking. If it doesn’t exist, go find an uninhabited island and start your own. You have options.
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  7272. Are you following the news? Did you even watch the video? DOJ is on it. The Supreme Court is not involved and I don’t know why you think it would be. That’s not what the Supreme Court does.
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  7273. You think Trump can negotiate complicated deals? The dude couldn’t even fill out a loan application correctly.
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  7274.  @mytech6779  I’m curious as to where the LA tamales originated. Was this a later local modification of tamales from further south, or an original indigenous variety?
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  7275. What are the chances that the antivaxxer movement and trolls are part of a “vaccine diplomacy” effort by certain nations to hurt Western vaccination efforts, portray them in a bad light, and push vaccines developed in those troll nations?
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  7276. It’s a federal case. Florida law wouldn’t be applicable. However, Kise is also a registered foreign agent of Venezuela, so perhaps Kise is arranging asylum for Trump in that country.
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  7277. I thought they were cat buttholes, but now that you mention it.
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  7278.  @alst4817 The PRC lacked the capability and everyone knew it. Communist China’s capabilities did not match the rhetoric. The rhetoric was significantly toned down when the PRC embarked on economic development by engaging in global trade. The PRC official policy for decades has been “peaceful reunification” until Xi came to power. Xi has grown the PLA’s capabilities, but they are still behind technologically and behind wrt alliances.
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  7279. Once again proving the superiority of Catholicism. 🙄
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  7280. LOL, you’re deep. A deep troll. Putin has been paying you all these years?
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  7281.  @ВасяКирьянов-г3ж  You’re buying ammunition from North Korea, bro.
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  7282. In the U.S., there are too many selfishly infantile people that would claim to be mask intolerant. I bet you a dozen donuts they’d find a way to wear a visor incorrectly, being such free thinkers.
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  7283. It’s Advil and Motrin you really want to avoid. Tylenol is a paracetamol, Motrin and Tylenol are NSAIDs (non steroid anti inflammation drugs). The discomforting and achey inflammation is what triggers your immune response to respond to the vaccine. I’d still avoid Tylenol if I could help it, but it depends on how badly I was suffering.
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  7284.  @georgepidick9967 bzzz bzzzz conspiracy fly
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  7285.  @ThatOpalGuy  What I find fascinating is the impact shipping and trade has on every other aspect of human society at each stage of our development. (I’m avoiding “each stage of progress” in the formulation.) The silver from the Americas that went to China kept the Chinese Empire stable at a time when it faced currency shortages. The silver that returned to Spain made Spain a Superpower. (And arguably led to the various new world liberation movements, but that comes much later.) Spain’s naval power in turn spurred the English to rapidly develop their navy, first for defense and later for colonization. That brings us to the next stage, but I’m not writing a book here. You get the idea. Trade spurs developments and developments spur trade and further developments. (Again, I’m intentionally avoiding the word progress.)
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  7286.  @ThatOpalGuy  That’s arguable (that we’ve reached a point of overspending). “America First” is a populist slogan propagated by a power hungry authoritarian movement that has a limited definition of who is American. The leaders of this movement will put themselves first, always. Back to overspending. To determine if the U.S. is overspending, we need to ask “What is the spending for?”. In other words, what is the intended result? If the answer to that is “preserving American hegemony”, we’re going to get into a long discussion about hegemony and its pros and cons. I think it’s an important conversation, but this is a frikkin’ reply in a frikkin’ video comment thread. So let’s skip it and get back to overspending. Let’s assume that we’ve reached a point of diminishing returns wrt the benefits of maintaining our hegemony. Meanwhile, other nation states have also reaped many benefits from U.S. hegemony. I think we’re at a point where it would be wise for the U.S. to unwind its hegemony IF other countries are prepared to preserve its forms and to defend against those seeking to overturn it and replace it with their empires. If the U.S. just closes up shop and leaves, there are less desirable nation states that want to fill the vacuum and impose their own less benign hegemonies. And that is why the relinquishment of hegemony must be done carefully, strengthening our friends and pushing back on the less benign empire builders where they threaten stability.
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  7287.  @alan6832  No. If the U.S. abandoned superpower status, there are malignant nation states ready to push into the vacuum aggressively, creating their empires that would be much worse than U.S. hegemony. If the U.S. is to withdraw from its hegemon position, it must do so carefully and not precipitously, being ready to work with allies and partners (as you are suggesting) to preserve peace and stability. To withdraw from our hegemony out of weakness would invite disaster. It must be done with strength, pooling our strength with our partners and allies. The idea of abandoning our position as the world hegemon is a bad idea when you consider the inevitable alternative. Unwinding the hegemony with care offers us a third alternative to U.S. hegemony. That should be our goal.
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  7288. Goddam pedestrians loitering in front of gas station convenience stores.
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  7289. I’m not a real president but I am a real worm. I like to play the drums. I think I’m getting pretty good.
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  7290.  @standZ4  If racists think the military is a vehicle for affirmative action and not at heart a meritocracy, they have little experience or knowledge of the U.S. military. But you know how racists think. They believe the color of their skin is meritorious.
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  7291. I’m laughing at the pathetic GRU trolling attempts. They themselves are so out of touch with reality, due to the increasingly totalitarian nature of their own society. They don’t even understand how an independent press works—they don’t understand or accept even the concept of objective truth. To a Russian troll, truth is whatever like you can convince someone to believe. And now I will report them for misinformation and promoting terrorism.
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  7292.  @likalabi8417  Yes, that makes logical sense, anti-capitalist Ukrainians want to join the European Union because they hate the west. 🙄 Your incoherent “ideology” is based on a Putin cult of personality—which is why it lacks rationality.
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  7293.  @borisoreskovic6896  Yes, Boris, but Ukrainians are destroying Russians at a faster rate. What will you do when the war comes to Moscow?
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  7294. Open markets are good, but the term “free market” seems like a version of the Christian Heaven or the Marxist Workers’ Paradise. Capitalism as dogma is like any other religion: designed to benefit a very few. Instead, view capitalism as a social tool that creates value and (over the long term) distributes goods and services most efficiently. So far it’s the best tool we have for that purpose, although it could be improved. Socialism is also an economic tool. Do you know how to improve socialism? You make it more like capitalism, and you keep improving it until it IS capitalism.
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  7295. The moral hazard of depositing money in the bank?
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  7296.  @paulaisaac8082  Computer says no [cough]
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  7297. I can see excluding Cuba and Venezuela. They’re both openly hostile to the U.S. and to democracy in general. I believe Nicaragua is influenciable. It has been open to foreign investments. It has experienced swings of the pendulum between democratic norms and single party monopoly (but even that single party has split).
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  7298. Do you even American? What does the FBI have to do with this? In the United States, this is state and local matter, as you would know if you were a U.S. citizen. It’s Florida’s jurisdiction. There’s not even a hint that the murderer broke Federal Law.
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  7299. Fine. The first thing we should discuss is normative stacking and if we should even base stacking on some sort of statistical norm. The fact is that we are a multicultural society, and many families from diverse backgrounds cannot easily fit on a 3’ x 4’ pallet rectangular. Going forward we must not only recognize alternate stacking paradigms, but make provisions to support other methods of stacking. Did you know that the Inuit have nine different ways to stack their families? My mind was blown when I heard this.
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  7300. Fine. The first thing we should discuss is normative stacking and if we should even base stacking on some sort of statistical norm. The fact is that we are a multicultural society, and many families from diverse backgrounds cannot easily fit on a 3’ x 4’ pallet rectangular. Going forward we must not only recognize alternate stacking paradigms, but make provisions to support other methods of stacking. Did you know that the Inuit have nine different ways to stack their families? My mind was blown when I heard this.
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  7301.  @philipberthiaume2314  He means less white.
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  7302.  Peter Mortensen  Might be bookmarking with a time stamp.
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  7303.  @BillyTheKidder  It’s a half of a day’s drive to the Mexican border. It’s not terribly difficult to just drive past the aduana and your documents won’t get checked until you hit an army check point about 50-100 miles inside the border. If they’ve been planning and preparing, it wouldn’t be hard to get a falsified visa that would satisfy the checkpoint . . . If they don’t wave you through. Another half day and you’re in Mexico City, where you can get lost in an ocean of people. One thing I don’t get though. Did this deputy know that this guy isn’t John Hamm?
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  7304.  @lynrowan2521  these crazy kids are in love, and love make all things possible. 😘 😉
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  7305. I’ve read/heard similar, but eradication (as was done with smallpox) is a longer term goal. The immediate goal is to retard the pandemic spread, at which time outbreaks will be more easy to bring under control with proper testing and contact tracing. Or so we hope.
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  7306. Why are you so sure he’s the target? Maybe Pete has a specific set of skills . . .
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  7307. Nah, this was Fa, not antifa. Do you need a program to tell the players?
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  7308. You are very detail oriented, aren’t you.
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  7309. McConnell’s crowning achievement, his swan song, SHOULD have been the Border-Ukraine aid bill, where he literally got both of his cakes by playing especially sleazy hard ball. He got everything he and the Republicans said they wanted with regard to the border “crisis”, and he got aid for Ukraine. But it all came unraveled because Trump vetoed it, and the reason Trump could veto it is because McConnell was derelict in his duty to convict Trump. Members of both the House and Senate could have campaigned on this victory that bent over the same barrel both the Dems and the extreme right. They were solving problems! They made the Dems blink by playing chicken with Ukraine aid. They were proving that they could be effective. They would have taken credit, and Biden would end up looking too conciliatory. But Trump wasn’t a part of it, couldn’t take credit, and would be left without one of his main issues on which to campaign. So Trump predictably threw a wrench in the works. This would have been a crowning achievement for Mitch, his strong finish. He’d be going out a winner. Instead it’s a tragic farce and a failure that makes the entire GOP look like idiots and gives the high ground to the Dems. It’s all because McConnell didn’t have the guts to politically strangle Trump when he had the chance.
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  7310. Stand back and standby, get in line and bend over.
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  7311. It does work great as a dewormer. No conclusive evidence that it works against COVID, even though its use is widespread in those regions of the world where the targeted parasites are prevalent. The company that developed this anti parasite drug and is still the worlds largest manufacturer of it would make billions if it was indeed effective. They failed to develop an effective vaccine, so it’s not a matter of them wanting to sell the more expensive medicine. They have every motivation to push it through regulatory agencies if they had any hope it worked against COVID. Do whatever the hell you want with your body. But if you do get very sick from it, do us all a favor and don’t go to the hospital. Accept them consequences of your decision and don’t be a burden on society.
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  7312. 🎼 If you’ll be my Dixie Chicken, I’ll be your Tennessee Bomb 🎶 ~~Little Feat, paraphrased
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  7313. The cables are not in service and presumably not energized. I don’t know about the gas line.
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  7314. The company should have negotiated with the mineral council before they built anything. They could have agreed to profit sharing and if the council wanted too much, the company could have decided to build elsewhere. It’s really simple. Now the company is on the hook for removal of the structures.
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  7315.  @dougjones9493  Apparently they had to post a bond equal to the cost of removal.
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  7316. Ten years before that, there was Max Headroom.
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  7317. lol, Boeing is currently experiencing some issues. Some say Boeing isn’t worth a plugged nickel. Others say they aren’t worth a door plug.
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  7318. Second best case is a siege. (First best is a rapid Russian withdrawal.) Russian soldiers are going to engage in war crimes whether or not there is a siege. A siege will save lives all around: Ukrainian civilians, Ukrainian soldiers, and Russian soldiers that are forced to surrender.
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  7319.  @Blighted_Ashes  I doubt it’s open and shut. They “found” their suspect (in bits and pieces), but they haven’t wrapped up the investigation. They’re going to be following up with any and all contacts the bomber had in the past 20 years.
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  7320.  @777driver7  I suppose the three maskless tourists I saw today just flapped their arms?
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  7321. What a crock of shite.
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  7322.  @michaelatchison2325  No, but it can and will stay lock downed much longer due to half measures and due to opening too soon because of political pressure. I’m very sorry that people are losing their businesses due to the pandemic, but this also happens due to other factors when there is no pandemic. I’m sorry that people lose their jobs, but this also happens normally due to fluctuations in the economy. The virus is imposing new restrictions that means business have to adapt. Those that cannot adapt will close, and that is regrettable, but it might as well happen now, especially if complete lockdowns lead to a more rapid recovery later. The longer we stretch this out, the longer it takes to contain the pandemic, the more damage it does to the economy. “But people need to work so they can live.” Even if it kills them or their families? Do you see the faulty logic there?
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  7323. That’s why I prefer the Mr. Heater hooked up to a bigger propane tank. Cost of operation is so much lower.
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  7324. Why would they give him an award? He’s a murderer! 😮
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  7325. It’s not a public office. It’s the chair of a political committee, not subject to term limits.
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  7326.  @nvelsen1975  I’m only commenting on your first paragraph. I think you misunderstand “mobility”. That was U.S. doctrine. The Vietnamese, both the Vite Cong and PAVN, operated with a doctrine of “people’s war” aka insurgency. The war fighting doctrine of mobility doesn’t seem to beat the doctrine of insurgency. No one has yet devised a doctrine of counter insurgency (COIN) that works without resorting to genocide, ethnic cleansing, and terror. COIN is really really hard.
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  7327. Control of the U.S. House of Representatives changed hands. The GOP now controls one of the two legislative chambers. And unfortunately, the GOP is riddled with lily-livered peaceniks, isolationists, and Putin-lovers. Currently there is a struggle between these delusional Republicans and the traditional conservative Republicans. Which is to say, those parts of “the West” that are soft on Russia is as much in the U.S. as any country in Europe. The constituents of these weaklings are the delusional people that have been eating up Russian propaganda for 6 or 7 years.
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  7328. But he’s not, really. The people he’s pissing off are the MAGA hardcore, the so called “base”. These are the most active (and loud), so they often are the deciding votes in primaries, but their stridency, not to mention their delusions, has been alienating ordinary conservative voters since 2020, if not longer. Back in 2015 there were some of us that saw Trump for what he was and could not support him. Unfortunately we were a small minority, but we’ve been growing. We grew enough by 2020 that Trump lost the election. Sadly, a large amount of non-MAGA Republicans will still vote for Trump because they have problems with Biden. But I don’t think they’re the types that would get mad at Pete for stating the simple facts. It’s the delusional cult members that will loudly argue with Peter.
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  7329.  @BDLforever24  are you temporarily delusional or will you go to the grave with these lies on your lips?
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  7330.  @SausageOwnage  What demands specifically?
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  7331. I’ve heard the opposite on the crew grapevine over the years, that he doesn’t “lose it”. He’s professional, hardworking, and treats his crews decently.
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  7332. I wouldn’t call it newly proposed. It was part of the “promise” from the beginning. It is perhaps gaining momentum. Or perhaps the momentum is illusory.
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  7333.  @alanvanallen7762  A link to a reputable source doesn’t exist because it’s not true.
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  7334. If Andy Reid can win a Super Bowl, Biden can function as President.
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  7335. Firearms already mechanically malfunction. I think the question is not whether the technology malfunctions, but the rate of malfunction. A secondary question is how easily and quickly can one clear the malfunction. Horror stories are anecdotal and generally not statistically significant. I’d want to see actual data preferably by independent testers, before I start worrying about potential horror stories that might or might not happen.
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  7336. He’s a “maker”, not a carpenter, dammit! 😂
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  7337. Modern games have the goal of psychologically drawing you in and keeping you playing (and where applicable, manipulating you into buying). The old war games, the strategic simulation games Mark is talking about (from SSI) aren’t designed for player enjoyment. They’re designed for historical accuracy and accuracy of the model. This is why such games weren’t popular. They attracted a specific audience: people with plastic organizer boxes for organizing little square cardboard pieces that represented military units. I’m not disagreeing with you, just elaborating on what you said.
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  7338. I’ve supported and respected Flake, but I wish he would do more right now against Trump’s re-election.
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  7339. Your phrasing makes you sound like a Karen. “I’m a taxpayer and I demand to talk to your supervisor.”
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  7340. And where did you learn that? I doubt you can cite a credible source, but maybe you can surprise me.
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  7341. I heard they were perverted tree spirits that fucked polar bears.
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  7342. Are you aware of a class of things known as reconnaissance satellites? They’re these things in orbit that are equipped to take photos, and then send the data back to earth. Some countries have their own, but there are commercial companies that will sell you their photos or even book time as they fly over what ever part of the world you want to surveil. Nobody needs look for barrage balloons to indicate high value targets. That could actually work against you, as your adversary could set up balloons around false targets. This is super obvious to me, and I’m not exceptionally smart. I don’t know if the balloons will prove to be viable or not, but the objections like yours just seem like you’re unaware of Google Earth and/or maps that get updated more frequently. Nobody needs to see barrage balloons to find targets.
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  7343. Jokes on you. His mom kept a jar of his frozen sperm.
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  7344.  @Seth9809  Well, seeing as how Biden was criticized by some for not postponing the date of withdrawal, let me take a wild guess. It was Obama! 😂
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  7345.  @breestone8978  You need to work harder at your Duolingo English lessons.
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  7346. Ok, Ivan.
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  7347. This is why Brady lists are important. They make abusive and dishonest cops a liability for prosecutors, departments, and municipalities/counties.
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  7348. Good point. About all we can be sure of is that one or more future conflicts will be ones for which we didn’t prepare. Now that’s a constant trend.
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  7349.  @PeterMuskrat6968  wrt to Taiwan, we also have other partners in the area.
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  7350. Why attempt to re-occupy Snake Island? It is better as a snake pit to destroy the Russian navy. Russia will keep trying to reinforce it, and those reinforcements can be destroyed en route. If any relief ships make it there, the reinforcements can be attacked by drones and bombers. Russia cannot bring in more warships from outside the Black Sea and eventually they will have no fleet left. Let them continue to waste ships and resources on snake island.
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  7351. Late last night I heard the screen door slam And a big yellow taxi took away Uncle Sam. Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what got ‘til it’s gone?
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  7352. This is irrelevant to the video. You posted this because you’re obsessed with homosexuality.
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  7353.  @lobo-uh2tb  Everyone and anyone who disagrees with you on any issue is an evil criminal. Donate your brain to science.
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  7354. What does that mean? How do you revoke the military status of someone already separated from the service?
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  7355. Colibrí is Spanish for hummingbird.
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  7356. Look around the 17 minute mark wrt reinfection for unvaccinated. If you’re asking about catching the virus and transmitting it to others AFTER you’ve been vaccinated, consider the vaccine efficacy numbers.
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  7357. Patrick Lancaster is a Kremlin employee. As you probably are.
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  7358. I was thinking chemical weapons, which would have made it difficult for the crew to fight the fire and cause them to evacuate. I have zero proof, but it’s a question about which I’ve been wondering.
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  7359. It’s all over the place. She was from San Diego, former military, all nutcase.
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  7360.  @S.E.O.S  statue of limitations, hermanito.
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  7361. It’s a ritual. I’m referring to this comment, not anything in the video.
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  7362.  @genghiscan2918  Loose cannon.
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  7363. You’re talking about the man that invented grease. Or water. He invented fingers. Life would not be the same if we didn’t have fingers or grease or water. Ryan better think carefully before he goes up against the second smartest man in the universe, after Trump.
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  7364. Especially if your advance depends on “an airport too far”.
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  7365. They’re sending children in adult bodies.
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  7366.  @jonathanaguilar8611  Wacky rich gabachos have been retiring to Mexico for decades. These are the hippies that became rich yuppies. Their new age beliefs are obnoxious but mostly harmless. There are a lot from the Midwest and Canada—they call themselves snow birds because they migrate from cold places. The really amusing part in this video is the grifters selling $2,000 lots for $20,000. The suckers that buy the lots spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a house that might otherwise cost $25,000 to $50,000. Or are we talking “Tiny Houses”? You can build a “Tiny House” for under $5,000. A bunch of cabrones, but they do bring their money and spend it.
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  7367. While there’s a good chance Peter will comment sooner or later, why are you interested in his opinion on that topic? It’s well outside his expertise and there are much better analysts trying to figure out what is going on. You need to learn who is the best source of insight on different topics. Asking Pete for his thoughts on this Kursk offensive is like me asking you what sex with a woman is like. If that is information I needed, I should ask someone with experience and knowledge.
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  7368. Why can’t they just use the microscopic trackers in the vaccines instead of digital vaccination passports? It seems rather redundant. I thought the whole point of the shadow world government injecting us with surveillance nanobots was to cut down on paperwork! Frikkin’ Illuminati bureaucrats. 😉😆
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  7369.  @Brommear  Your immunity to sarcasm checks out.
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  7370.  @maxemilysm  I agree, her main intention was aesthetic, not erotic. The vaginal aspect is more like a visual pun.
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  7371.  @thatguyrich9822  Thank you for making that correction. 😁
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  7372.  @deepwinter77  GDP can be fudged to a certain degree. If the government pays someone to dig a hole and another person to fill the hole, you’ve added zero productive value to the economy but increased the GDP. So yes, the GDP is the GDP, but you can see how it might be considered “less clean”.
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  7373. At least skiing is an outdoor activity, if skiers can avoid normal apres ski activities. With so many unemployed, maybe the urge to do something extra for a 4 day weekend will be less compelling.
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  7374. I remember when layoffs would cause a company’s share price to go up. Does this mean that inflation pressures will ease, or are the numbers not that significant?
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  7375. Having fought a against an insurgency himself, I think he’s aware that it was always going to be impossible for Russia to win. He was also part of a force that invaded a country and destroyed its standing army, so I think he knows what is required to win militarily. It’s clear to everyone now that Russia can’t even win militarily, let alone successfully occupy Ukraine. Yes, he knows what he’s talking about. But honestly, anyone paying attention knows Russia is losing now and will lose completely sooner or later.
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  7376. Putin is preparing for defeat. Steps are being taken to blame the Ministry of Defense for sabotaging the Russian state.
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  7377.  @mickser101  Reschedule the windectomy, dude. You’ll stop falling down stairs.
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  7378. Are boarding houses still a thing in the U.S.? If so, what’s the problem with them? Why are you in favor of more regulation of small businesses?
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  7379.  @alcoyne3333333333333  The government doesn’t set prices.
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  7380. Record of 5-11? Last place in their division? That some team you got there. Oh, you mean the rioters? You showed your cowardly faces, and the overwhelming majority of Americans condemn you. Yes, we know you’re revolting. Good luck with that.
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  7381. The Russians still haven’t encircled Kyiv?
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  7382. I like the helicopter pilot hat.
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  7383. If the police didn’t find her credible because she was having a crisis, I want to know why didn’t the police return for a second interview just after the crisis, just to be certain. They never treated her like a potential witness.
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  7384.  @stusanderson3111  Coincidentally, the tank’s driver had the same first name as you, but he spelled it Stew.
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  7385.  @goodun2974  AFAIK, Trump takes pride in NEVER learning a lesson. That’s one of the laughable things about his apologists: they don’t actually hear what they don’t want to hear when it comes to Trump.
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  7386. When I was a kid, I had to go through the trash looking for a retainer before the trash truck arrived. My parents insisted I do it, so I suppose I can blame them. Regardless, it is now clear to me that my career as a Juvenile Delinquent can be traced back to that day. Also, I now feel a lot better about throwing trash out the car window. I wasn’t littering, I was transferring property to the local government.
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  7387. Your mind is like a Ford Pinto that threw a rod.
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  7388. A third grade manufacturing facility could build Iranian drones? Surely it would take a middle school facility! Third graders don’t have the supply chain know-how.
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  7389. Did you know that you can clear up your ignorance on this situation by watching the video?
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  7390. Right? If Putin wanted to negotiate a peace, he could just withdraw his army unilaterally.
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  7391. ⁠ @terrydaktyllus1320  Neither Apple nor Microsoft base their businesses on abuse of privacy and data larceny. They’re not in the same boat as Google. They’re not even in the same ocean. Conflating the three companies is a misdirect from the fact that our nascent surveillance is based on Open Software.
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  7392. There is a certain stripe of leftist that believes anti-racism, anti-sexism, intersectionality, etc., are an obstacle to class struggle, and if we just put those struggles away, they’d be magically solved by socialism.
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  7393. What’s it worth? The jury will decide!
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  7394. Our borders are secure. Any enemy country that tries to attack us either has to cross an ocean or attack Mexico or Canada first. You really can’t get more secure than that. If you’re referring to immigrants and refugees, then you have a bone to pick with House Republicans and Donald Trump. They scuttled a bill that would have imposed tighter controls on the border. Apparently the problem on the border is less important than having the border as a campaign issue. But at any rate, anyone calling the border problems an invasion is either lying to scare you or is frightened by their own shadow.
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  7395.  @bleedsmp4 America First means strong defense, strong foreign policy, and helping friends and allies when they are in trouble. If you hide from problems behind your “America First” isolationist banner, the problems won’t go away. I can’t believe what cowards these MAGA folks are, so quick to run away and hide their faces from the world.
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  7396.  @YahWay. It’s all relative. To the MAGA right, Ryan is a woke liberal squish. (But to those types, so is John McCain.) But let’s be clear, at this point a MAGA bot is indistinguishable from a Russian bot. It doesn’t matter if they’re operating from St. Petersburg in Russia or St. Petersburg in Florida. They have the same goals: spreading disinformation to impair democracy.
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  7397. The “Ukrainian Cong”.
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  7398. Oh, thank goodness. I thought there might have been an earthquake in Arizona.
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  7399. Laura Loomer is the Mike Lindell of dashboard airbags. Also, let’s call Laura Loomer “Trump’s traveling companion.”
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  7400. About that last thing you talked about, the stance that Mr. Ancient Aliens would eagerly accept a completely unsupported and outlandish theory over much less outlandish one. Even if there wasn’t the massive amount of evidence for slow development, the “Lost Civ” speculation is intellectually and creatively lazy. (I’m of the opinion that wild fantasizing is less creative than trying to figure things out from limited facts. The later is called problem solving, the former is jerking off.)
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  7401. Wouldn’t it be crazy if Belarus joined Ukraine? It would change everything. The troops attempting to encircle Kyiv would be themselves encircled.
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  7402. Yup, there’s a weird cultural history from the colonial period called Casta. But what cracks me up is the ignorance that denies the existence of white Mexicans and other white Spanish speaking people. I think this relates to Northern European vs Mediterranean racism.
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  7403. “This actually is an Oscar Wilde quote. This one, the one I’m typing now.” ~~Benjamin Franklin
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  7404. Same crowd. The organizers of the protest asked participants to leave their MAGA hats and Trump flags at home. Seriously.
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  7405. All that fuel burning on the ground makes me think that was a tanker variant of the il-76 and it was loaded up for a refueling operation.
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  7406.  @charlestoast4051  except the biggest manufacturer and distributor of ivermectin is Merck, which has no competing product and no vaccine. They stand to make a great deal of profit.
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  7407. It’s the Democrats fault for winning more seats than they were supposed to. If the Republicans had gotten a bigger majority, this wouldn’t be happening. 🤪 yes, I am joking. But it’s sort of true, lol.
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  7408. “Anglo-Christian”. There’s something that non-Christians and many Christians miss or forget. Following the teachings of Jesus don’t make you a Christian. Belief in the resurrection is what makes you a Christian. Belief that Christ died on the cross to wipe away your sins and give you everlasting life is the magic ticket. The Golden Rule is optional. Christian Nationalism, White Supremacy, and Maga are completely compatible with Christianity. Do not confuse the religion of Christianity with Jesus and his teachings.
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  7409.  @lnpsych1 Nope. You’re a minority in the GOP, and your numbers are shrinking down to your fanatical core. Mainstream Republicans are getting fed up with the Maga browbeating and are ready to slip the Maga leash. People are exhausted and tired of you.
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  7410.  @aliendroneservices6621  STOP LYING AND SPREADING DISINFORMATION
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  7411. I think you don’t understand CIA capabilities and limitations. I realize we have a tendency to make this secretive organization a bigger bogeyman than it actually is, but it’s not all that. It does well when it stays within its narrow areas of competence, but when it tries to go extra, beyond that competence, it runs into problems, both failure and unintended consequences.
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  7412.  @kimklim3267  If Putin goes, you won’t be forced to post trash comments anymore. Wouldn’t it be nice to stop lying?
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  7413.  @kimklim3267  Look, I realize that if you don’t keep posting Russian propaganda, you’ll be sent to Ukraine to die face down in the mud. So you go ahead, keep posting your lies. It’s not ideal, but you do whatever you gotta do to survive.
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  7414. Vlad is excellent for context and political context. I recommend Tim Snyder’s Yale course on Ukrainian history for deep background, and his recent books on the 20th century history of the region. The Yale lectures are here on YouTube. There’s also a lot of talks he has given when his books came out. Another good historian of the Soviet Union is Stephen Kotkin. He’s the guy who sounds like Joe Pesci and who wrote an impressive 3vol. biography of Stalin (that I haven’t yet read).
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  7415. You could redo this video as a 60 second short. 😄 There’s a childish mentality to the Russian leadership not dissimilar from the North Koreans. It’s the childish mentality of criminals and gluttons that defiantly grab and gobble and threaten to throw a tantrum (or worse, a nuclear tantrum) if challenged. A big part of the mentality is the rationalizing and self-justification—“everyone does it,” they tell themselves, “we’d be stupid not to do it also.” This mentality isn’t unique to Putin. We see it in Trump and LePen (thank God a majority of the French kept their sanity and didn’t elect her), we saw it with Chavez and now Maduro in Venezuela, we see it across the world: a morally retarded populism that elevates the most corrupt operators to leadership positions.
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  7416. Duolingo has failed you.
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  7417. Question: How complex is the logistical chain for the Bradley? Follow up question (that probably can’t be answered until it’s tried): Can Ukraine’s overall logistics system absorb this new weapon system? Premise: The Bradley platform is a subsystem of a “weapon system”, that is to say it’s a component that works with other component systems such as tanks, artillery, air support, and infantrymen. All of these subsystems must be serviced by a logistics system. The basic questions we should be asking are: 1) can the Bradley be added to the mix without overtaxing logistics? 2) Can the Bradley be integrated into the currently constituted fighting force, either in the vehicles intended role or pressed into a different role? (Ryan suggests it could be used mainly as an artillery spotting device, for example. Depending on which model is sent.) The logistics issue is really a big deal because there is also an opportunity cost. Opening a new logistics chain will most likely constrain currently existing chains (supplying and servicing artillery, for example). I really hope that the Bradley can be successfully integrated, and if so, the U.S. sends a metric shit ton.
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  7418. Russian oil company executives and their families are being murdered. I guess the FSB is sending a message to the Oligarchs?
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  7419. I suspect that they’ve lost their technical ability to build best in class submarines.
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  7420.  @skutchBlobaum  See solandri69’s response. Also: Demand fluctuates, and it’s costly to maintain an excess inventory of ships. You can say it’s profit motivated, but you could also say it’s loss-aversion motivated. But you don’t want too few, because when there is a spike in demand, there is a long lead time in acquiring new ships. Not enough ships and you’re losing profits. Too many ships, you’re losing profits. The correct number of ships is not constant.
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  7421.  @solandri69  Thank you for explaining that better than I could. I wish I hadn’t been a pot addled college kid (only concerned about a passing grade on the final exam) when I took an economics class.
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  7422. They don’t know any better. Russian society and culture is based on fear and cowardice, or they would have gotten rid of Putin long ago.
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  7423. @Sayin wat Yup. And the Cartels use technicals in Mexico, mostly against each other.
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  7424.  @troyjenkins3886  That’s not true. I don’t know if you’re lying out of ignorance or intentionally spreading a falsehood, but you are lying either way.
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  7425.  @DavidGarcia-zu3hl it’s a 1-year old troll account. The Ivan bots are getting active again for 2024 and the elections.
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  7426. No.
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  7427. I never in million years would think that the Florida GOP would be anti-business. What’s worse is Desantis followers are sounding like socialists.
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  7428. That’s not what he said. Watch the video again, but pay attention this time.
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  7429.  bustabloodvessel5327  BRICS is not a serious thing. It’s more of a propaganda vehicle than a serious alternative financial vehicle. Russia’s attack on Ukraine basically reduced it to BICS, and now it’s looking more like it will be an expensive Chinese hobby.
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  7430. Not with global warming on the rise. Pretty soon they won’t need icebreakers.
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  7431. Transnistria’s only power plant used Russian gas, which is now cut off. The Transnistrian government is refusing to accept help from Modova. It looks like the people of Transnistria will be facing a cold and dark Winter without Russian gas.
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  7432. . . . At a legislative committee hearing.
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  7433. I believe Ali is part of Rodger Stone’s ratfucking team and was being directed and funded by Stone. This is just a suspicion. In any case, it’s odd that Stone suddenly dropped of the radar.
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  7434. I don’t think he was there, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was Mitch.
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  7435.  @gaberoo9099  he’s a PRC simp.
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  7436. They’re not. Isolationist MAGAs are holding up aid to Israel.
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  7437. Where did you hear it? Ronald Reagan said it. HTH HAND
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  7438. Price of gasoline is low rn because demand for gasoline is down. Credit Trump, the pandemic, or both. If gas prices go up, it means that the economy is recovering.
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  7439.  @joycesweatman965  That’s what he told you he was doing Mrs. Sweatman. He was actually visiting the fleshpots of Istanbul. That’s how he gave you herpes.
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  7440.  @suffist  Neolithic people go about with chips on their shoulders.
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  7441.  @michaelrunnels7660  We’ll be fine as long as Mexico remains Catholic. 😂
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  7442.  @raytrevor1  Thank you for including your dosage!
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  7443. Yop. 100%
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  7444. ITT, a troll has a conversation with itself using two of its puppet accounts.
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  7445. 1:34 These guys all went undercover? They certainly look the part.
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  7446. Machine gun sound effects? 😂
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  7447. Get out on the street corner with a megaphone, and demand to see Liz Truss’ laptop.
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  7448. Keep in mind that the speech was tailored to his domestic audience and his “war with the West/U.S. is the Great Satan” is an accepted staple. It’s been part of the National self-image for so long that most will either accept it or not reject it. It would be a great blessing if Putin dropped dead of natural causes, but I think of a line from a favorite movie: “He’s been dying of the same heart attack for the last 30 years”. Slightly less likely is that he die of “natural causes”, i.e., caused by the people around him (and physics!).
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  7449.  @fwfeo  You need a windowectomy.
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  7450.  @battlebbot  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  7451.  @jamesflaherty9250  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  7452.  @spud7823  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  7453.  @rodpanhard  <— TROLL & SOCIOPATH
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  7454. Stop lying.
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  7455. Shoigu is loyal to Putin and he always delivers to Putin his cut. Shoigu is in mafia parlance a good earner. Why should Putin want to kill him?
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  7456. As compared to what?
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  7457. A peace agreement will be necessary but only after Russia leaves Ukraine and hostilities cease. Reparations, war crimes, and return of kidnapped Ukrainians are all points that will be negotiated. I think the priority will be the return of kidnapped citizens. Reparations beyond what has already been seized will be a tough point. It’s difficult imagining Russia giving in wrt war crimes. Maybe Russia will sacrifice lower lever officers and soldiers, maybe they will give up some higher ranked officers whom Putin wants to blame, but I doubt we will see real justice while Putin keeps his head.
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  7458.  @leonply  Hey Leon. The next steps are: 1) stay involved or get involved in politics, but avoid hyper-partisanship and tribalism, 2) when engaging with a fellow American with a different opinion, we should listen and try to get at their underlying concern. (This is assuming they’re an honest person of good will, and not a lying troll piece of shit or white supremacist. Don’t bother with those.) If we listen, we might find that we have many concerns in common, once we get past the hardened crust of political bigotry and fear. Let me give you a hypothetical example of how we might talk with someone, a friend or family member, who believes the election was rigged. Rather than arguing with them, which will get you nowhere, say to them, “Let’s set the particulars of that issue aside, and talk about elections in general. Do you generally trust them, or do you sometimes suspect they’re unfair?” León, do you see where I’m going with this? We want to find our common concerns. “Well, if you think elections might be unfair, what can we do to make them more fair?” or “Did you know that many of ordinary people of different political beliefs also worry about elections being fair?” Don’t worry if this approach doesn’t give you immediate success. It takes time for something to grow when you plant a seed. It’s certainly going to give you better results than arguing! Also, it won’t work with hardcore liars, the cynical of spirit, and others that won’t engage with you in good faith. These people are a waste of your time. They’re a waste of everyone’s time.
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  7459.  @RandallSGregory  We just have for the past four years.
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  7460.  @turtlefarm8742  Yes! And not just voting, but being politically active—not in a partisan/tribal way, but in ways that can bring us together.
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  7461.  @memoumoumou2629  There is a VAST difference between the small amount of people that have legitimate medical reasons not to vaccinate and those that refuse and agitate against vaccinations because of their opinions and weird agendas. People with legitimate medical reasons not to vaccinate are put at much greater risk by anti-vaxxers, because they are not being protected by the herd immunity that could be gained much more quickly without anti-vaxxer resistance, propaganda, and interference. If a religious group believes it has grounds to not vaccinate, they should do the next best moral thing (the first best being to go along and get vaccinated anyway) and quarantine themselves as a group from the rest of society.
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  7462. I think this investigation was an outgrowth of the admissions scandal, since that is one of the elements of the indictment. The campaign finance violation (diverting campaign funds to his son’s foundation) is likely something they found along the way. I’m not an expert, but I think the campaign finance violation is the more serious of the two.
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  7463.  @iheartlreoy8134  WeSuds
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  7464. But it wasn’t a valid military target.
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  7465. I’m going to assume you’re not American, because you’re ignorant about how the American system of government works. One person and one person alone signs bills that have been passed by Congress. That is the President. Congress votes on legislation, and when legislation gets passed in both chambers of Congress, it’s delivered to the President for signing or a veto. If he vetoes it, Congress can override the veto with a supermajority. I’m not sure how any of this fits into any legal definition of treason.
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  7466. Because many Americans are children in the mental/emotional sense, and we always save the children first?
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  7467.  @090giver090  I’d love to ask Herr Putin, “How’s that blitzkrieg working out for you?”
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  7468. I also understand cranky toddlers throwing tantrums when they don’t get what they want. I understand less when the cranky toddler is an adult like you (presumably) or this violence prone woman.
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  7469.  Denise Skinner  <— ANTIVAX TROLL, COMPLETELY A Q CULTIST
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  7470. Frederik is a skateboarder.
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  7471. You Ivans are really scrapping the barrel trying to stir up Americans, aren’t you? The reason that some charges are being dropped is because the they reflect a law that was enacted after the shooting.
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  7472. It’s well done as a basic explainer, but it does not give you sufficient information to determine merit. If you’ve decided already (either way), you’ve merely taken in sufficient information to confirm a preexisting bias. I suggest you approach the material by asking, “what are its merits?”, not if it has or lacks merit. Where does it hold up and where does it break down? I also suggest that you use this video as a beginning, not as the final word.
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  7473. Please don’t discourage these people from moving to Russia.
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  7474. It’s like Vine. You know all about Vine, right?
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  7475. Are you F-ing Goofy?
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  7476. What I hear you say is that America needs to take it up the ass, which is what would happen under antivax kook RFKJ.
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  7477. TMI, buddy.
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  7478. Not quite, if you’re referring to tanks and other heavy equipment. If you’re referring to appliances that can be loaded onto a truck, then yes, they managed to escape with those “heavies”. The crossings via the bridges and barges was not really sufficient to support the weight of tanks and such. The traffic was mainly civilian trucks and cars.
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  7479. Probably the pipeline has been sabotaged.
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  7480.  @Coastfog  Right?
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  7481. Then how did the law get passed in the first place?
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  7482. At least you’re not a major grinch.
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  7483. It’s evidence that a civilization was practicing astronomy.
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  7484. He’s not worth the toilet paper his mama used to wipe him off her butt.
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  7485. He’s been denied visitation rights with his . . . gun collection. 😫 This is tragic. Those guns will barely remember him in five years.
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  7486. You got it and Pete doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. He’s off on a minor tangent, not the main issues of the SAG strike. I hate when he does this. He’s not only not in his lane, he took the wrong turnoff and drove straight up his own ass. I enjoy Pete because he’s not afraid to go out on a limb or to make a bold prediction. This video is total facepalm, though.
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  7487.  @ClannCholmain  You spent quite a bit of effort showing the intellectual vacuousness of the new breed of No-Nothings. They have no data, just anecdotes and unsupported claims that emanate from of the union that represents border patrol agents. That union has an obvious agenda: it wants the government to hire more agents. Quite possibly I am overestimating them: they might be getting the BP union garbage second or third hand. But basically, you’re arguing with intellectually lazy people, people whose laziness trumps honesty. Why do you bother? 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  7488. Which is why it hasn’t yet been found. A new variant was found in California, which might prevent to spread of the SA mutation. Competing lines, in which the evolutionary contest is which variant will spread faster in any particular region.
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  7489. You’re another antivax Q Anon lunatic.
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  7490.  @HEAVENBOUND267 First century Christians thought they were on the prophetic timeline. The world did not end. Europeans in 999 thought the apocalypse was coming. The book of Daniel was written hundreds of years AFTER its correct predictions came true.
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  7491. Russia is behind this.
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  7492. Why do you take the humorous example so seriously? Oh, wait. I understand. 😆 A friend of mine once said, “I’m not a stubborn and humorless jerk. First of all, you’re not that funny. Secondly, I’m Dutch.”
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  7493. It’s a moving car, right? Otherwise he would have just gotten out and walked to the Capitol.
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  7494. Ever thought I’d live to see a woke cartel.
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  7495. I’ve worked with a couple of Marines in the movie business. One guy was about two weeks after his separation, and he needed about a week to make the adjustment to working on a film crew. Once he adjusted, he was one of the best workers as long as we feed him crayons. Just kidding, he didn’t eat crayons, but he was the one of the best at anticipating moves and changes. He made me better, even though I had a little more experience. The other guy was still a sgt. in the reserve, and he was a model leader and problem solver. He was “squared away”, and he took care of the people he supervised. Good boss. In the first video, I think the guys had good environmental awareness, so they didn’t have to go looking for cover because they had already noted it. They could go towards it when the firing started. They were paying attention before contact. I have no combat experience, but I’ve lived most of my life inside cities and not in the best neighborhoods. You learn to keep your head on a swivel if you don’t want trouble. Staying safe is about situational awareness and anticipation.
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  7496. Carlson would have been branded as Pat Buchanan, Jr. Not as a traitor, but as an isolationist reactionary whose ideas were already discredited and were in the process of being further discredited. In those days of the Reagan presidency, the GOP touted itself as the party of ideas, and to a large degree this was true. Buchananites were given a fair hearing and their ideas were found weak. We must also remember that throughout the 80s, the Soviet Union was in steep decline and suffering from internal struggles. Its Central European colonies were slipping through its fingers. It was disintegrating before our very eyes. We actually sent to its successor state, Russia, hundreds of billions of dollars to keep it and other parts of the former Soviet Union from collapse and descent into anarchy. So, no. Carlson wouldn’t have been branded as a traitor. He would have been dismissed as irrelevant by the mainstream GOP. So the real question is what happened to the GOP? And I would suggest that it became a victim of its own success, that the ideas that worked so well for 20 years had run their course and were no longer the best ideas to address the new problems of the 2000s. Conservatism had run out of new ideas. (I’m not saying that the liberals/Democrats offered a much better idea set, but they were perhaps marginally better or at least worth testing.)
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  7497.  @lindagiles5447  You know they already did catch the brain worm. We need to raise public awareness. If you feel the urge to vote for RFKJ, see a doctor immediately for a brain scan and antiparasite treatment.
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  7498. OK, Ivan.
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  7499. It’s a good thing that there isn’t a war in North America, making your comment irrelevant.
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  7500.  @panner11  Are you Veritisum’s mom?
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  7501. If you are not used to legalese by now, I don’t know what to tell you. Until the case is ultimately decided by a jury, the defense is allowed to present its interpretation of events. An ethical journalist will hedge with legal language like “alleged”, because there is still a possibility that the defense’s version of events will prevail. An ethical journalist will be cautious with their reporting, because they don’t want to influence the “jury pool”—the citizens from whom a jury will be selected—causing the jury to prejudge the case.
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  7502. Hasta la vista? Espero que no lo veremos, nunca jamás. (Great video, especially the Spanish version, but I want to note that the only Spanish speaker I’ve heard use the term “hasta la vista” was the great Republican Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Every Spanish speaker I know says “hasta luego”.)
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  7503. What is your method of inhalation? When I was a mischievous youth of ten, we used to smoke the thin papery bark of eucalyptus trees when we couldn’t steal cigarettes from our parents. I imagine that you as an adult are using some kind of vaporizer?
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  7504.  @HvdHaghen  Evidence evidence, like a double blind study, or evidence like reports from the field? In any case, I’ll put this in the “can’t hurt, might help” list and get started with the new year. Thanks!
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  7505. Just go ahead and subscribe. There’s not a line.
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  7506. The corruption scheme here doesn’t seem to involve the mayor or other council members. And judging by the involvement of a department head at USC using her position to grant a personal admissions favor, I’d say this investigation was an outgrowth of the USC admissions scandal. Other aspects are improper use of campaign funds. There might be corruption in the Mayor’s office or among other council members, but you can’t draw that conclusion from this case.
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  7507.  @LoisPallisterCIY  Sure, there have been unnamed variants, but the key here is if the variance is significant in terms of infectiousness and harm.
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  7508. This is so great to see Mr. Steele as part of the Bulwark. I must say that I’m impressed (even more impressed than normal) with the Bulwark getting Michael Steele. More good synergy!
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  7509. I don’t think its completely delusional, just mostly delusional. 1) I don’t think Ukraine’s military is sufficiently strong. 2) I think Putin would use tactical nukes to defend Crimea. 3) the geographical challenges are great. That said, 1) the Ukraine might (eventually) take a portion, 2) Threatening Crimea (from Kherson, if Kherson is retaken by Ukraine) will draw Russian forces away from other areas. 3) Longer term, when the peace is being negotiated, there would be an impetus to create a DMZ in the northern part of Crimea, with international peace keepers. Maybe the biggest factor is the least predictable: what happens inside the Kremlin, inside Russia, and inside the other Republics of the Federation. As this is totally unpredictable, we shouldn’t become invested in the notion, but its a tiny possibility that Russian internal events will lead to the loss of Ukraine. One can imagine all sorts of scenarios, including a perfect storm of scenarios, but don’t bet the family farm on it. I suspect/predict that there will be peacekeepers in Eastern Donbas as well, as part of a negotiated settlement.
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  7510. Then move to Michigan, you big hippy!
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  7511. You just gave me dark thoughts that no one will find funny unless they are terrible like me. Who or what will win the World Cup of Viruses?
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  7512. I think the “anglo small donor- sphere” is getting tapped out, and the rest of the GOP is discovering this as they fundraise for their own campaigns.
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  7513.  @Gaz9845  That’s not true. The U.S. did not “illegally invade” Vietnam. You are either ignorant of the history or you are purposefully distorting it. If you are indeed merely ignorant, educate yourself. If you’re knowingly lying, gtfo.
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  7514.  @redplanet7573  Boris, how’s Natasha? What are you Putzis getting up to these days? Funny you have time troll U.S. News comments with your country failing in Ukraine. Oh, and happy two week anniversary on your troll account! 🎂
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  7515. Terry two times dawley
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  7516. This is why I prefer butter over margarine. It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!
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  7517. That is incorrect. The victims are every other participant in financial markets who follow the law, don’t falsify documents, and don’t commit fraud.
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  7518.  @kimberlygarrett1485  Property values might fluctuate, but square footage doesn’t. Trump’s Trump Tower triplex “fluctuated” between 10,000 square feet and 30,000 on the loan application.
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  7519.  @kimberlygarrett1485  Now that it is established that Trump falsified documents in his loan applications, it’s quite possible that the banks will demand the lost interest. You’re putting the cart before the horse.
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  7520. The video answers your questions. I don’t know, maybe watch it?
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  7521.  @brianfretwell3886  Hahaha, you assume that new heads grow from the head stem, i.e., the neck. We’re not broccoli! Or at least I wasn’t last time I checked.
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  7522. Somewhere I got the idea that Tylenol and Motrin were the same, but your doctor is right, Tylenol is in a different class from NSAIDs. Perhaps I got Advil and Tylenol mixed up.
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  7523. I’m wondering if I will see anyone I know. I’m retired in SMA, GTO.
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  7524.  @jimjamson9534  You still don’t understand Darwinian Evolution, do you?
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  7525. So you’re saying that someone walked up to Napoleon Bonaparte and asked him, “By what right are you the ruler of France?” I think you bungled the story in trying to make some political point, but you can’t come out and say what you think. Perhaps you lack the ability, or perhaps you realize that your ideas are reprehensible.
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  7526. Only one person dead? This is small potatoes compared to Charles Whitman’s 1966 shooting spree in Austin (killing 14 and wounding 31). Austinite shooters are slackers. People who think shooting sprees are new are ignorant of history.
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  7527. Russian or Iranian? North Korean? If you were an American, you’d know that CBS is not a new station.
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  7528. Part time jobs aren’t included in this report, only full time jobs.
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  7529. I don’t think it’s a waste of time. It’s a progress report, a reference point of how far we are behind the curve, how little is being done, and how detached the politics is from the science. And speaking of the politics, it’s a good illustration of the fact that our political representatives accurately represent our ignorance, obliviousness and our own short term thinking. It’s not the politicians that are failing, it is humanity.
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  7530. Don’t call the crew that. There’s lots of heterosexual guys in the Air Force. Edit: my mistake, I hadn’t gotten to the snack break part. My point still stands, tho.
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  7531. Heatvision and Jack > Megaforce
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  7532.  @jmoney228  If you were seriously considering harming yourself, you need to talk to a mental health professional (or if you’re a churchgoer and don’t prefer that route, talk to a trustworthy spiritual adviser like a pastor). This isn’t a joke. Don’t blame it on the lockdown, but recognize that it’s a stressor. Not all stressors can be removed, but recognizing stress can help us learn to identify our stress and how to deal with it in a healthy manner. “Working to live” is not a good operational guideline. One must consider the risks, not just to oneself, but to one’s family, coworkers, community, and society at large. One must –realistically– calculate the risks and look at all the factors. This is especially true as we possibly get closer to a finish line.
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  7533.  @sburns2421  None of the post 1990 NATO members have nuclear weapons based on their soil. So your argument is based on a falsity. We should also note that the U.S. hasn’t invaded any Russian allies in Latin American after the end of the Cold War. There have been no invasions of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, or Ecuador. Let’s also note that Mexico isn’t an ally with the U.S. Mexico is a major trading partner and a friendly neighbor of the U.S. We don’t require Mexico to be a buffer.
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  7534. Robert Stark Better to be low I/Q than low information. What’s worse is that you’re willingly ignorant—you refuse to take in information that doesn’t fit the tiny world view you’ve encased in a ball bearing.
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  7535. The problem is that the distribution isn’t even.
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  7536.  @carefree85a  He has no facts why Pete is incorrect, only feelings. I think Pete is a little bit off about the reason Trump shut down the Border/Ukraine Aid bill. It wasn’t to deny Biden the credit, it was to deny the Senate Republicans the credit. It was (or would have been) a great Republican victory, but Trump had no way of taking credit for it. And if Trump can’t be the hero, no one can. The GOP conference in the Senate was and is in the minority. But McConnell (or his acolytes) performed some magnificent maneuvering to get Biden, Schumer, and the Dems over the proverbial barrel. Let’s make no mistake, this was a Republican bill. Calling it bipartisan was a bandaid for the Democrats. And if the House had been doing its job instead of acting as a launch pad for maga social media influencers, maybe we would have had this legislative victory. I don’t know how directly McConnell was involved given his cognitive problems, but this had all the hallmarks of McConnell’s street fighting. Threatening to block Ukraine Aid unless it was linked to the Border bill was a risky but genius move that paid off. And once they were linked, Republicans pretty much dictated the contents of the border bill.
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  7537.  @waynesmith7746  That’s the cynical mindset of these Putinists. They think they can keep ill-gotten gains with bribes. It’s the mentality of criminals—everyone else is either a criminal or a victim. You can negotiate with other criminals if both you and they are strong and you can impose your will on victims with violence. “Might makes right”. It’s the underlying principle of a tattered ideology that fascists use to justify their criminality. They don’t believe in equality or liberty or a society governed by laws. Furthermore, they don’t think we truly believe in those principles. They think it’s just another con, and that we are just as much criminals as they are. “Be reasonable and take your cut, Poland.” I don’t know if these Putinists are aware that their proposal mirrors the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. If they do see a parallel, they think they get to play the role of Nazi Germany this time around. Do they not remember what happened to Germany?
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  7538.  @billybloggs3214  Putin will bring the Russian soldiers out of Ukraine, either on their feet or in wood boxes.
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  7539. Maybe the horse is a mare? Perhaps the horse will also be a bridesmaid. Of the horse is a stallion (hopefully it isn’t a gelding), perhaps she plans to marry the horse? How old is the girl, anyway? I’m also curious if the daughter has a husband (or wife) picked out, or if this is just her plans for a wedding after she finds her one true love. This could be a filter to avoid marrying a non-lover of horses. “If you want to be my lover, you gotta get with my horse,” sang the very wise Spice Girls. Or words to that effect. I might be paraphrasing. I do picture a Cowboy (or Cowgirl) Wedding. The couple would both be on horseback. The priest would be on horseback. If you squinch up your eyes and use your imagination, maybe you can visualize what centaur marriage ceremonies must have been like before centaurs became extinct. Anyway, both the Cowboy (or Cowgirl) and the Bride would have guitars slung on their backs. When it came time to exchange vows, they’d unsling the guitars and sing their vows to each other. Think Dale Evans and Roy Rodgers. I don’t think the priest would have a guitar. That would be too much. 😉 At the end of the ceremony, the newly married couple would ride off into the sunset, while the wedding party discharged shotguns and revolvers into the sky.
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  7540. Nero supporters criticize Roman fire department officials for fiddle suppression.
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  7541. @Sgt Beep Boop Blame it on Google translate. It has trouble translating from Chinese to Russian and then to English.
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  7542. Is that a character in Paw Patrol?
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  7543. The ABA is a voluntary professional association and not the actual bar of any jurisdiction. Check out the Wikipedia article on Admission to the bar in the U.S., it’s quite interesting.
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  7544. Most of his own caucus support an increase (maybe not the full $2000, but at least $1200).
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  7545. The Maya calendar is a multi cycle calendar. That is, the calendar tracks multiple counting cycles simultaneously. One of the cycles is based on the solar year. It might also interest you that the Mayan counting system was base 20 (ours is 10).
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  7546. That was covered in the video, if you had bothered to watch. Your definition doesn’t match the legal definition in this case, which is unambiguous.
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  7547. What are the runway requirements?
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  7548. Surely you mean button up? As a Lvi-501 operator, I was trained to button up, not down. In a fast moving situation, you might miss a button if buttoning down.
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  7549. Did you study math in Florida?
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  7550.  villa clarise  Nutcases for sure. Might be too early to ascribe political leanings, especially as the biggest lunatics at the extremes practically meet at the far end of the circle. Your left wing psychotic and your right wing psychotic are going to be more similar than different, and just as divorced from reality.
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  7551. Do you mean Hungary or did you skip breakfast? Anyway, Orban is polling near the bottom in Iowa, so better give up that fantasy.
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  7552. How so?
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  7553. You’re not even a U.S. voter, so why are you talking about choosing between two parties?
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  7554. Ignoring Tucker isn’t ignoring different opinions and won’t put one into an echo chamber. The biggest danger with ignoring Tucker Carlson is not seeing him on the sidewalk, stepping in him inadvertently, and getting Tucker on your shoe.
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  7555. And? Did you even watch Ryan’s video?
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  7556. Make America Golf Again.
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  7557. Interesting. I would say the terminology applies to “the state”, rather than country, but I might be quibbling over terminology and definitions. The state is a particular type of administrative surface (or interface). It’s purpose is to administrate the people and their activities within the geographic bounds of the country. So the country would define the geographic extent or area of control that is regulated by the state.
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  7558. Yes, comrade, you are correct. How is the weather in Moscow?
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  7559. That would be truly amazing . . . for the Democrats.
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  7560. You think this is is FINAL grift? Get real.
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  7561.  @smokingthereefer92  The one’s forced to make pizza?
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  7562. At the vitamin store, and the price will vary. Or you could easily Google this.
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  7563. The key phrase is “view it as”.
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  7564.  @HA-ml4sx there’s a difference between being willing to risk one’s life for a humanitarian cause, and seeking death by attacking someone who has the potential to kill you. The guy didn’t say he was willing to be a martyr, he said he WANTED to be a martyr. And then he attacked comandos.
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  7565. It is impossible that anyone could wad up a piece of paper and throw it into a trash receptacle prior to 1891, the year basketball was invented. 😄 Don’t worry, I’m joking.
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  7566. I bet you’re a lazy Joker, because you didn’t actually steal their money and burn it, you merely watched them burn their own money and the money of their investors. Nothing wrong with taking Joker-like pleasure in watching people be the agents of their own destruction, so don’t think my calling you a lazy Joker is a criticism.
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  7567. I’m not an expert on our human flora, but I believe that the beneficial bacteria in your mouth will be quickly replenished by the bacteria in your digestive system. You could also replenish with yoghurt and with milk containing acidophilus.
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  7568.  @bluewolf9327  He was born in Southampton. I’m pretty sure that makes him English.
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  7569. If it was up to me, they would all be deported to whatever shithole authoritarian country would take them. Maybe Putin has room for them. I feel the same way about the radical anarchists that used the cover of the BLM movement to loot, burn, and vandalize. But I don’t wish to equate BLM with the Stop the Steal crowd. There is a lot of evidence of institutionalized racism in law enforcement. There is NO evidence of widespread election fraud or a grand conspiracy.
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  7570. Sure, and why not return to the horse and buggy days?
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  7571. Your brother must be a big Toyes fan (or maybe Sublime).
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  7572. It’s possible, and we will learn more as the genetic testing ramps up. They’re testing on both current and older samples, so if a particular variant has been in a geographical location for a longer period, they’ll figure it out. Let’s not forget that genetic testing hasn’t been completely absent. This was how they were initially determining which strains were coming in from where.
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  7573. Panama is suffering a drought. Water management can only do so much.
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  7574. These are Q zombies.
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  7575. It’s workable in space, but you don’t need the giant robot for factor. You just need a crate or container with a life support system and a place to cram or strap on your propulsion, weapons, countermeasures. So who cares what it looks like?
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  7576. Look to Lawfare wrt to constitutional issues, national security, and international relations. For an anti-trump conservative viewpoint, there’s the Bulwark. Both channels have podcasts and websites.
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  7577.  @JoshuaRed-v4f Aaron would put everyone but fascists at the “Democratic table”, including moderate Republicans and non-fascist conservatives Republicans. George frikkin’ Bush is supposed to sit at the “Democratic table”. And maybe he’s right. There are two tables. But the democratic table doesn’t represent the Democratic Party. It represents those who believe in democracy. And his table represents those that wish to overthrow democracy. I’m a conservative and a former republican. I’d be honored to share a table with anyone who is pro-democracy, even Democrats.
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  7578. “If Joe Biden can’t even protect his own son, he can’t protect America,” said a Trump supporter, somewhere.
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  7579. Wuhan has a population of around 11 million. If the virus has an infection rate of under 2.0, that would still mean over a million infected by the end of a month? Of course, there are possibly other factors, such as (speculation, obviously) that the Chinese government managed to quarantine an earlier October outbreak, but the containment failed in December.
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  7580. I keep confusing Madison Cawthorn with Thurston Howell IV.
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  7581. What is your definition of colony, colonization, and colonial? You seem to be one of those people failing to find the right word when there might be better ones.
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  7582.  @johnm.3279  Why can’t they? Do you think you lose your constitutional rights if you form a corporation or a special district? Don’t be silly.
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  7583. What kind of jet fighter does a caveman/hippie/Mediterranean person fly? A Harrier.
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  7584.  @nebylicza  I don’t think he misread you. I think he gave you the benefit of the doubt. You removed that doubt. You’re off your rocker.
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  7585. I don’t think Trump fell asleep. He was tranquilized to keep him from having a fit in the courtroom.
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  7586. I think the 4F Fair executive should be learning a lesson. I’d like to see her original report of stolen property.
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  7587. Did you mean mentally restarted? I think the politically correct term these days is mentally incrapacitated.
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  7588.  @solarisy456  Does Johnson need Trump’s support anymore?
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  7589. Klaus Uhlig yes! Do a quick look on Wikipedia for the “Manilla Galleon”. Amo historia!
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  7590.  @carlothernandez1346  <— ANTIVAXXER TROLL
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  7591. I blame Texas’ liberal governor.
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  7592. Great episode! I love our modern map apps, but I was a wizard with the Thomas Bros. Map book. There was a very slender stand alone Orange County book back in the late 70s/early 80s. It was absolutely a necessity if you were on a film crew, especially if you were a PA. Some call sheets included TB map coordinates. I also love the old geological survey topo maps, aerial photography, and old historic maps of L.A., both the fanciful ones and the surveyors’ plats.
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  7593. Save this comment for the less-than-ideal client video. 😉
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  7594.  @annakelley9719  I don’t care, as long as my SchutzStaffel check arrives on time. Wait, what?
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  7595. Do you like gladiator movies?
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  7596. Long term special ops need bases and support, not to mention a larger force to secure those bases—and that larger force needs its own bases to secure themselves. Small groups of special ops living off the land or long term embedded in friendly forces is not realistic. The Green Berets who secured Montagnard hamlets in Vietnam had a massive infrastructure behind them inside of Vietnam. Special ops is hard. Counter insurgency is hard. Part of the problem is that Bush’s administration, particularly the defense department, took its eye off the ball when it invaded Iraq unnecessarily (and based on ginned up evidence by Rumsfeld’s deputies). Obama should have declared victory and left when Bin Laden was killed. He would have taken a lot of heat, but it would have been the right thing to do.
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  7597. “Close to Putin and shares his ideals “ is an understatement. The Patriarch is just as possessed with the bloodthirsty ambition to destroy Ukraine and subjugate Ukrainians. Others in this thread are coming up with interesting speculations behind why he would do this, but for whatever reasons the greater motivation is ambition for power over others. It’s the same motivation that has corrupted religion since religion was invented. Sky Cake!!
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  7598. The Kremlin is reintroducing GOSPLAN, the government organ for centralized economy planning from the Soviet period. Basically, they’re going back to a planned economy, i.e., communism, to support the war effort and Putin’s ambitions. This is mobilization under a different name.
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  7599. The brothers got the death penalty for a crime they didn’t commit. A vigilante acted as judge, judy, and executioner, and that vigilante is on trial. And yes, I ripped off the Judge Judy bit from Hot Fuzz.
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  7600. Oleg Korobkin Or as I always say, “Metaphysicians got metaphys”.
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  7601. Ukraine hasn’t entered Russian territory to destroy monuments. Only a developmentally disabled child would make the false comparison you just did.
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  7602.  @diestormlie soooory
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  7603. If gas prices go up by 1¢/gallon, MAGAs will be rioting in the streets, claiming that Joe Biden ruined their vacations.
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  7604. I’ll give me a better metaphor. The GOP has become the Donner Party. When Charlie was talking about Liz Cheney, he mentioned that she was “too far off in the wilderness” or words to that effect. But Liz hasn’t changed her positions or principals. She’s stands where she’s always been. It’s the GOP that has gone off to settle down in a new political territory. And they’re now stuck in the mountains in the middle of winter, engaging in cannibalism. The “moderates” are congratulating themselves that they didn’t elect Jack the Ripper as Speaker after voting three times. Meanwhile they are preparing to nominate Hannibal Lecter to be their presidential candidate. I don’t see why Cheney would want to join this orgy of self-slaughter. Who would really want to take charge of (or try to) a ravenous mob and somehow persuade them to stop murdering and eating each other? Here is the thing: without Democratic votes, no Republican speaker will be able to enforce discipline on the GOP caucus. He or she will be just as weak and ineffective as McCarthy, at the mercy of the MAGAs. Without Dem support, Speaker of the House is merely an honorific. Without Dem support, the Speaker of the House is essentially powerless. So why wouldn’t the “moderate” Republican representatives just make a deal with the congressional Democrats? Because it would be career suicide. Even openly talking about compromise would put them on a death list (possibly a literal death list). Very few (probably none) care about governing more than they do about their careers and staying in office. The first ones that Hannibal eats after he’s officially nominated will be anyone who attempted to make a deal with the Dems.
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  7605. Muh eggs.
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  7606.  @boudicajones6524  It’s not 300 million people having a problem, though. It’s jjkoester and a handful of people with bad luck that can’t seem to get ahead, no matter what they do. None of the usual get rich schemes are working for them, crypto is crapto, and the only way they’ve been able to make passive income is by dragging a mattress down to the wharves, lying face down, and passively taking it from sailors on shore leave. And few of these sailors have the common decency to give him a reach around. On the plus side of things, some of these sailors give him big tips.
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  7607.  @greebj  Bingo. I recently had to do some emergency travel when my cash reserves were low. I ended up putting a substantial amount on my credit card. Right now, to avoid the debt trap, I’m cutting back to the bone all possible expenses so I can pay down my high interest debt before the Christmas holidays. I’ve had to put off QoL purchases and I’ve gotten the food budget down to about $125. If the OP is feeling an unbearable squeeze because he’s starting a business, maybe this isn’t the right time for him to be starting a business. (There’s a lot of possible maybes as to why it’s not working out.) Anyway, starting a business is hard and there’s no guarantee of success. Most businesses fail in their first five years. And yes, it sucks, but blaming the external world is lame and counterproductive.
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  7608. If you had been alive during the Vietnam War, you would have believed. If you had studied the history and culture of Afghanistan, you might not be surprised.
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  7609. “Resign or you will be attacked”
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  7610.  @арефнар  <— Putzi troll Can’t even call him a Nazi, the Nazis weren’t that incompetent.
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  7611. Troll.
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  7612.  @DRNewcomb  And short trains. The one video I saw of a train passing the damaged part was ten cars long, and I don’t imagine they were fully laden. I will be surprised if we see 40-100 fully laden boxcars or tanker cars crossing any time soon. Flatcars for the trailers don’t really make sense, though. The cargo is coming in by train and gets loaded onto the trucks to cross on the ferries. If the rail is functioning, you’re adding an extra step.
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  7613.  @davismichaelwayne7646  Even if the second pair of rails is functional up to a point, the Russians might not know what that point of failure is for sure. There are a few different ways (off the top of my head) of thinking about points of failure. One point of failure would be the weight passing over the damaged part of the bridge (even if most of the damage was to the other set of tracks). Another point of failure would be along the lines of “how many rail cars can you move across the bridge before failure”. I don’t think rail replacement is as big a deal as Peter thinks, but it’s not the rails that are the big problem. It’s the track bed and whatever supports the track bed that are the problem. If they’re OK, the repairs will go quickly.
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  7614. Let’s hope this is a sign that police are taking the George Floyd case seriously and getting the right message. However, the interview with the brother reveals the other problem—relying on police to be a band aid for mental health crisis. We ask police to be social workers, a job for which they aren’t trained.
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  7615.  @zentamm  That’s what an insane person would say or a gaslighting troll. You are both.
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  7616. @martinr1834 Agreed. We are not above criticism, but most of what I see is unjustified anti-American propaganda. When I use the term Hegemony, it’s an accurate neutral term I am using to describe the most powerful nation in history that imposed rule of law on much of the world. We provided the security that was the basis for the free trade that gave other nations the opportunity to develop materially and raise themselves to prosperity. We’ve been a hegemony, and we have benefited from it, but so has the rest of the world, especially those nations willing to follow the rules. We have not been a perfect hegemon. I’m not claiming that. There have been many mistakes and abuses. But on the whole our hegemony has not been draconian and has benefited the many beyond our borders. I’m specifically eschewing terms such as “empire” and especially “neo-colonialism”. The former is not applicable and the later is one of those empty, meaningless phrases used as a button rather than an actual idea. Press that button and watch the Marx-influenced left begin to salivate. Its an empty signifier, to use the academic parlance. I believe we are moving to a period of shrinking hegemony, but hopefully not of isolationism. A shrinking hegemony leaves behind a vacuum. This is why our policy must be to encourage nations like India who have the capability to fill that vacuum in their regions, rather than leave it to the bad actors like Iran or China.
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  7617.  @AbhayPeshin  Your total ignorance about the situation on the southern border is risible. Please, by all means you should immigrate to China rather than the U.S.
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  7618.  @JTST1234  Let’s be frank. There has never been trust between India and the U.S. after Indian Independence. But there isn’t an adversarial relationship either. India has always kept the U.S. at arm’s distance, and we know why. They (you) have fiercely maintained non-alignment and independence. But despite this coolness in relations, we have also had a basis for friendly relations, the Indian-Americans. The sons and daughters of India that have become Americans strengthen both of our countries and our friendship.
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  7619. Except they’re closing down vaccination sites, criminally preventing vulnerable people from getting vaccinated.
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  7620.  @theondono right?
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  7621. I know, right? 😂
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  7622.  @TheIslingtongirl  in general, are these lvl4 labs located in mostly one part of the world? Or are they evenly or randomly distributed?
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  7623. Hahahahah! What was your major while you were definitely not attending clown college? Honestly, you’re better off saying you were incarcerated for killing a baby than that you worked for the Trump administration.
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  7624.  @pleaselikeandsubscribe520  ah dude, I had some spicy berry jam and something like pineapple jalapeño jam. Sooo good. I gotta go back to that store.
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  7625. I’m not sure when I’m going to get vaccinated in Mexico, so I’m considering flying back to L.A. or San Diego when it’s safe to fly. Of course that would set up many other problems, such as setting up my own quarantine and all the expense that entails (or go camping alone in the San Gabriel Mountains for two weeks). It might be better to wait it out until I can get vaccinated here.
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  7626. Too many people fapping off to disaster porn, looking for new material. Unnnhhh, banks are failing, uhhhhnhhn, systemic collapse, ugghhhhhr 🤤💦
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  7627. They might be fascists, but I didn’t see the protesting Trump supporters doing anything wrong or fascist in the video.
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  7628. Jenn smith Did sue call Walmart shoppers deplorable or Walmart prices unlowerable?
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  7629. Neil Stone true, and GOP candidates showing some spine should be praised.
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  7630. below me SHOUT MOAR, BRAND NEW ACCOUNT
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  7631. Does lying help you cope?
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  7632. It’s Huawei or the highway.
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  7633. It depends on if she’s willing to hang in there until the convention. She could be lashing out in desperation, but she might also think Trump or his campaign is on the verge of collapse and won’t make it to the convention. For example, what if Trump is disqualified? She’s the last candidate left standing. I wish she had spoken up sooner, but maybe she has timed this right. If this gets as brutal as I think it might, she’s not going to endorse Trump. What I am waiting to see is if she takes on Trump’s many surrogates and calls them on their hypocrisy and B.S.
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  7634. You’ve got Stockholm Syndrome. You should get it checked out by a professional.
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  7635. Interesting questions. The answer to your question is on the billing statements from the firms. Don’t merely count the lawyers sitting at the tables. Those lawyers have junior lawyers on their staffs. Every hour of every employee working on Trump’s cases is accounted for and billed at the appropriate rate and according to agreement. There might only be two attorneys sitting at the defense table, but there could be 50-100 people working to support them.
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  7636. Using all that manufacturing capacity that fell apart when Russia shifted to being primarily an oil export economy? Building those new designs with components that they can no longer buy due to sanctions? With machine tools they can no longer acquire? Maybe the Russians can build these new weapons systems directly out of petroleum. Imagine petroleum based silicon or petroleum based steel. It’s going to be great! History isn’t guiding you. You’re thinking of one specific instance, and you seem to be forgetting that the Soviet Union was being supplied by lend lease with not just tanks and planes, but machine tools, ball bearings, transportation, etc. to keep the Soviet war industries running behind the Urals. Russia has Iran and North Korea for its lend lease partners. If I might be so bold as to offer you advice, don’t let history be your guide when you don’t really know the history.
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  7637.  @knightsnight5929  GULAG gradually ended and was officially terminated in 1961 (iirc). Russia still has prison labor, but nowhere as extensive as GULAG. I’ve read my Solzhenitsyn, so I know the claim that Russia’s economy was built on the backs of political prisoners’ slave labor, but I’ve read others that claim the efficiency was so low that this has been overestimated. And I’ve read a bit of Hannah Arendt, who says that the real point of GULAG was Stalin’s power of life or death over the populace. It was an extension of the Great Terror.
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  7638.  @JinKee  Well, OK, if you have some expertise with carbon fiber materials, polymers, reinforced ceramics and whatnot, maybe you have an idea of whether Russia already has manufacturing capacity and whether it can scale up and maintain this capacity rapidly with the tools it has. For example, does Russia already possess the capability to spin the fiber? For example, carbon fiber ceramics need precision machining with tooling that wears out rather quickly. Russia has been cut off from these machine tools. For example, does Russia have the tools to make the molds used to form carbon fiber reinforced polymer parts? Do you see what I mean? It comes back to whether investments were made in manufacturing, and investments were not made in manufacturing because more money could be made investing in the energy sector. Domestic manufacturing would be undercut by cheaper imports of carbon fiber materials. I realize I could be way off, but I have great doubts that Russia can reconstitute its Soviet era manufacturing capacity any time soon. Another question, more for the finance-econ people, is: will Russia see direct foreign investment after this conflict is over? I have great doubts about that, too. There’s an idiomatic phrase in English that describes Russia’s current situation, “Trapped between a rock and a hard place”.
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  7639. In case any of you reprobates wonder why he would tell his mother . . . He was proudly telling everyone!
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  7640. Where has this video been for the past month and why wasn’t it used in court already? Because attorneys get punished for proffering false evidence. There’s no credible corroboration of this incredible evidence.
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  7641.  @daverok1113  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  7642. Jejune.
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  7643.  @mikeyrose4183  afaik, she’s not a gringa at all, is she? She has a very good U.S. accent, but I don’t think she’s American.
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  7644. He’ll be fine if they let him wear his “true love waits” ring.
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  7645.  @andreadalcortivo747  The hardest part of war is the peace that comes after. If the war in Ukraine devolves into a counter insurgency, Russia still won’t win any more than the U.S. did in Vietnam. War crimes don’t win wars.
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  7646.  @DfromSD  More likely a Russian troll. They’re not just trying to influence the election, they’re trying to exploit divisions and sow chaos in the U.S. They play both extremes. This account was created a few days ago.
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  7647.  @runrau9275 JD Vance is Sofa King good.
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  7648. Who among us hasn’t been 5150?
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  7649. Wrong video.
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  7650. They were in a black SS SUV, not the limo known as “The Beast”.
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  7651. Judge Dearie is doing something even more deep. He is setting the Trump team up to either provide their version of criteria for determining document status (classification in the non-national security sense) or to fold. “Speak now, or forever hold your peace.” He is saying, I’m going to set the criteria for judging the material and I’m going to base it on National Archives policy and practice. If you oppose this, show your specific objections or alternative criteria. Remember that the Trump’s team tactic to avoid specificity was to claim that doing so would prejudice Trump’s future criminal defense. This is the next step in nailing down Team Trump. If they insist on taking no position, they de facto accept Judge Dearie’s determination (probably based on National Archives policy and practice). If they still wish to challenge Dearie, they can appeal to Cannon or the 5th circuit. If they appeal to Cannon and she finds for Team Trump, the DOJ can appeal that decision to the 5th circuit. It’s very slow and methodical, but it gets the job done. I don’t think Dearie wants out of this case. I think he sees his job clearly, even if it becomes moot at the appellate level. His job is to clear up the muddied procedural waters created by Team Trump and Judge Cannon.
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  7652. At the start of the conflict, Russia had 20x the artillery. How about them apples?
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  7653. It’s the solution of people who failed P.E.* * potential energy
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  7654.  @DanielFrost21  It’s like Lucy and the football. He promises to behave himself this time. Then he waits for his moment. The judge in this trial probably won’t be the judge in the trial for assault and battery on the attorney, anyway. The current judge would be a witness in that case.
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  7655.  @darrenblake2362  is this submarine mentioned in Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson? Among other plot devices of the novel, there is Nazi gold hidden in the Philippines. Iirc, the gold was delivered by a long range u-boat.
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  7656.  @idkitsprobablysuntzu9530  Until he does, check out LazerPig’s video about the Moskva. Also I think Perun did one on Russian Navy. Both are worth watching, although they have VERY different presentation styles.
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  7657.  @devawnbledsoe462  climate resilience is why we need to “buy” Greenland. I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Trump about anything, but a lot of habitable land will be revealed as Greenland’s glaciers melt. That doesn’t make Trump’s statements completely rational, mainly because Denmark doesn’t own Greenland. But as other parts of the world become less habitable due to extreme weather and climate shifts, it makes sense to stake a claim and warn off others that really do have imperial ambitions. Trump expresses himself as a click-whoring boorish jackass, seeking attention. But the idea of Greenland becoming part of the U.S. is not entirely absurd.
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  7658. ☠️ to Putzis
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  7659. Or V for victory ✌️? That’s the old Winston Churchill thing.
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  7660. The bottom line is that this is a scam, and his target audience is people embracing grievance culture who feel personally victimized by Biden. You know, the ones who send money in the hundreds of millions to a certain politician’s legal defense fund. If 1,000 people who say it venmo-ed him $5, he’s already cleared $1500 above the amount he claims he owes. I suspect the amount he’s made is higher than that. If he can avoid or beat criminal fraud charges, he has a promising career in politics.
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  7661. Astrology.
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  7662.  @JW-qf2fx I hope that keeps you up at night.
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  7663.  @LMB222  “Under capitalism, man exploits his fellow man. Under Socialism, it’s the other way around.”
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  7664. Or it’s sarcasm.
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  7665. How is this objectively a leftist thing? Turning everything into a partisan issue is going to kill you and your family. Plus, this was a clever idea. Are you really saying cleverness is something conservatives should avoid? That’s bullshit—and it shows how much reacting to liberals is buying into their bullshit.
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  7666.  @wd1501  <— Liar
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  7667.  @MilitaryHistoryVisualized  Make America Golf Again
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  7668. He’s going to Epstein himself.
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  7669. lol, it’s like when a fuse keeps blowing an some genius decides to hardwire a jumper.
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  7670. Just for clarification, what are the rules for “forage”?
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  7671.  @KlodianHysi  Pooty 🐷
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  7672. Lol, you’re halfway around the world from the U.S., my Chinese, Russian, or North Korean friend.
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  7673. The bright side is that they’re quickly finding those infected or exposed. You don’t have ideologically motivated idiots trying to hide the facts or downplay the threat.
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  7674. ⁠ @fredflintstone8048 Two things should be done by an outside agency. One is to check that there isn’t a pattern of the police using their powers to harass people or abuse their powers and discretion as political favors. The second thing is to stop this police abuse from becoming a pattern. That means some form of consequences. I’m not part of the outrage brigade that wants to throw everyone in jail, but there should be consequences for the police.
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  7675.  @johnmartin7158  El Puto Grande fights shirtless.
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  7676. If she had concealed the crime in any way, then no. Did she lie about it to her previous employer? Apparently, from the story, she was forthcoming about the matter.
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  7677. It could be that the numlock key is stuck.
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  7678.  @notfakenews382  Part of the problem here is that’s not actually a red pill you’re trying to swallow. It’s a red pillow from Mike Lindell, and you’re going to choke on it.
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  7679. “We’re married.” Your identification lists two different addresses. “We’re married, just not to each other.”
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  7680. This is terrible news for people who conspire with others to create violent situations. How are they supposed to communicate their violent intentions and get in contact with violent people if their free speech is penalized? It’s almost as if speech has consequences!! But seriously, imagine if criminal gangs and mafia bosses could successfully argue in court that giving an order to murder someone was protected as “free speech”.
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  7681.  @herbertotto4725  Herbert, the fact that you (and I) are doing what we can is what is important. It’s a good thing you’re able to draw inspiration from Gates, but don’t denigrate your own dedication to the world. Don’t be discouraged. Now more than ever your contribution matters. You probably don’t even realize it because you’re a modest person, but you might be a model and inspiration for others. Cheers, brother.
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  7682. Nobody in the house did, but can we be sure that nobody was bitten? These were unregistered snakes, after all.
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  7683. Not true. If one of them cooperates and assists the prosecution, they might get a reduced sentence.
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  7684. Are you willing to compromise on any of your liberal and/or progressive policies to get those 5 republicans? How about the Dems back a more moderate Congressperson from their caucus to be Speaker? It gets complicated if you want to form a coalition that pulls your party towards the center.
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  7685. I thought the channel had been hijacked and the workers’ revolution had begun.
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  7686. Unfortunately that will have to wait until after the inauguration, because you can’t prosecute a sitting president. There are other reasons you can’t prosecute a president for vetoing legislation, but your heart is in the right place. At least you’re intelligent enough to realize the spending Trump now objects to is spending he already approved of or even asked for in his budget proposal.
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  7687.  @GreatYue  Tell us how your civil war in China worked out.
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  7688.  @a.j.patron9214  FOX is going to try to settle out of court. Their position is indefensible. They’re canceling Dobbs’ show because (I’m betting): One, he is not going along with their strategy, and two, they’re worried that he’s going to damage their case on the air. He could damage them so badly that not only would the two companies not want to settle, a jury might award treble damages.
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  7689. Lol, MAGA
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  7690. To avoid confusion, use UKR.
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  7691. I think Pete underestimates Russia’s security fears. Russia won’t feel safe until they’ve taken Spain and Portugal.
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  7692. He actually said 3%, not 3x. And he explained the reason for the 3% difference. 15:55
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  7693. Trump and Biden have already met once, so Biden has presumably briefed his successor on matters like this. And presumably Biden’s Department secs and assistant secs are briefing their incoming counterparts. This is what normally occurs during a transition. Biden might be passing a hot potato to Trump, but it won’t be coming as a surprise. And it’s not like Trump didn’t pass a hot potato to Biden (Afghanistan). The biggest problem is the expertise of the incoming administration and whether they understand any of the issues put before them. I feel very solid about Marco Rubio, but I’m worried about Tulsi Gabbard (for a number of reasons).
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  7694. Hello friends! Disclaimer: I’m agnostic. First of all, I think the Trump Bible is ridiculous and the idea that Trump is a Christian is a laughable lie. But aren’t there precedents for altering the Bible, from choosing which writings are included to rewriting via translations from the original Greek and Aramaic? I know there are controversies over whether different translations are faithful to the sources or not. I guess I’m undecided on this issue. As an agnostic, I’m not entirely sure which Bible translation or version is “correct”. The main reason I wouldn’t buy the Trump Bible is I wouldn’t give that criminal a dime of my money.
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  7695. WHHOOOOOHOOOOO! And right after, let’s shove martini olives up our butts and stick bobby pins in our pee pees! You know, all the things us MAGAs traditionally love.
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  7696.  @persist_123  That’s a weird xenophobic fantasy. Second and third generation Mexican Americans identify as Americans. No one is eager to reconquer former Mexican territory for Mexico. That’s a daydream/nightmare of the extreme right (Lou Dobbs) and the extreme left (a handful of kooks calling themselves the Aztlan movement). (And I think the left got a new hobby: trying to add “x” to Spanish words to degender them. 🤣) But there was a cultural conquest of the U.S. by Mexico. It’s called the taco. Viva Mexico! 😋
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  7697. What’s interesting is that these “mothers” are women that attend these meetings with Putin. They’re all connected politically with the Kremlin. Putin trots them out whenever he wants to show interest in whatever is the “hot topic” for Russian women. They’re actresses.
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  7698. Now do the same with Facebook.
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  7699. Good luck with that.
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  7700. Is wingtip spiral a fancy name for orbiting over the target? Flying in a circle?
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  7701.  @BigSkyCurmudgeon  Apparently a lot these tanks don’t have explosive reactive armor to defend against HEAT rounds. They have the ERA boxes attached to the hull, but the boxes are empty or filled with cardboard. Oh, Russian corruption, you’re soooo naughty!
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  7702.  @foreverhungry84  or open field maneuver with large masses of tanks. But the Russians seem to stick to the roads, like they’re afraid to take the tanks cross country.
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  7703.  @Myemnhk  4000 meters is pretty damn far. It’s almost —[takes out calculator, pushes a few buttons]— 4 kilometers? 😄
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  7704.  @4700_Dk  Good. Then we only have to develop time travel, go back in time with an RPG and kill the tank’s mother.
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  7705.  @edgarsalinas6408  He’s not even as good at this military stuff as a failed watercolor artist.
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  7706.  @chiron13  No, dude. No one literally buries a tank when the crew dies like this. They have to send someone inside with wire brush, a scraper, and one of those dirt devil automotive vacuums, and then they pour the ash and the uncooked bits into a regular wooden coffin.
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  7707.  @BegoDan  When the support infantry saw the Ukrainian position they were supposed to take, they charged forward, waving white flags.
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  7708.  @mepp_rider7221  Yeah, those paratroop units choppered in were supposed to be reinforced immediately and relieved within 72 hours by those tank columns that got stuck on the road. The reinforcements got shot down because Russia never managed to establish significant air superiority. You’ve heard of the WWII operation Market-Garden? Let’s just say that Russia’s initial plan was “an airport too far”.
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  7709.  @oldmandan3692  I don’t know, it kind of looks like a duffel bag with boots growing out of it.
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  7710. He’s done longer public presentations. The videos are online if you search for them. The two that I have seen were slanted to a petroleum industry audience. The slant doesn’t make them wrong or biased, it means they’re coming from a certain viewpoint and addressing people with a certain viewpoint. I’m not going to slobber over Zeihan because he’s soooo insightful. He’s giving an educated, expert opinion based on his understanding of the facts. He could be wrong sometimes. The likeliness of his being wrong goes up when he starts getting out of his lane. But I like that he mostly keeps his bias out of his analysis and is straightforward. It’s ok if he’s wrong sometimes if he is an honest broker.
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  7711.  @deplorablefederalist7908  That’s because Russian is your native tongue, Ivan. Go back to your Kremlin cubicle.
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  7712.  @Mr.T-SI  Interesting counterfactual with some merit wrt Cuba. However, Iran was and is 100% hostile to the U.S. since the Shah was overthrown.
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  7713. She ships seashells from the seashore.
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  7714. Really it was worse than ad this suggests. Trump will lose the election if the votes are counted. That’s the big question now. What will happen when Trump attacks the democratic process itself on Election Day?
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  7715. Wash, Reince Pribus, and repeat.
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  7716.  @martymarl4602  I believe the 11th circuit indicated how it was going to rule with its ruling on the limited appeal. Trump hasn’t even named any documents in which he has a possessory interest. So 41g doesn’t even apply.
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  7717. What do you mean? She was indicted.
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  7718. I had a layover there when traveling from L.A. to Japan and China. This was in the 80s. The airport was barebones and boring (in comparison to major metropolitan airports). I was allowed to smoke on the tarmac while waiting for the plane! We walked maybe 50 yards to board it on stairs. Haha! I’ll note that there was expansion/construction going on and I’m sure the airport is no longer podunk.
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  7719.  @BenRabinowitz-1 These are morons that repeat what they hear without understanding it. They don’t realize it’s an acronym. They have never seen the word in print because they don’t read. Possibly they don’t know how. If they were in the Donner Party, they’d be clamoring for Hannibal Lecter to lead them out of the mountains.
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  7720. It wasn’t a design flaw. It was a manufacturing flaw. Some of those T-34s made with brittle, over-hardened steel were quite drafty.
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  7721. @UCBC22c-XrS4Wkpu4iUvTICw MEDICAL DISINFORMATION As always, consult your physician before taking any medical advice from the Internet.
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  7722. Loeffler and Perdue have made it abundantly clear by their actions that they support Biden’s fraudulently stealing this election, even as they mouth platitudes towards the President. The only course forward for Republican Patriots is to BOYCOTT this election and all future elections. To do otherwise is to support crooks that care more about themselves than the president! What sort of traitorous communist puts themselves ahead the President? Perdue and Loeffler, that’s who. BOYCOTT! (Hey, libtards: 🤫😉, don’t 🍆 my 🎣 of 🍊 👑 🧟‍♂️ 🧟‍♀️ 🧟.)
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  7723. What about exemptions on income taxes?
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  7724. Sure they would. The more money you have, the more freedom you have. These people are buying the freedom from social responsibility that they cannot afford at home. What will be funny is when they discover the limits of their “freedom budget”.
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  7725.  @shawnmurray9964  Pandilleras? In Mexico? 😲 OK, There’s a possibility of that if they do stupid things like walk home drunk late at night. Less chance they’ll have a run in with the Feds or State Police if they’re not doing anything illegal.
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  7726. Did you run out of Seconal?
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  7727.  @CAP198462 Urine trouble for being a wiz-ard.
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  7728. I agree, although the genetics strongly point to a single or (at least) main ancestor group. I can imagine how population pressures might encourage some of the more adventurous to head off to find new lands—even if contact was later broken, there might have been an oral tradition of these sons and daughters who went east and south, and then others might follow when there was again population pressures.
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  7729. It’s been going on since the start of the war, believe it or not. All sorts of appeals to the Russian soldiers. I think the ones having the most effect are the Ukrainian-Russians, the ones that the soldiers were told they were saving, are demanding they leave. You probably won’t find a fiercer defender or patriot as someone who has decided to immigrate and become a citizen. With a few exceptions, ethnic Russians in Ukraine are rallying to their adopted country.
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  7730. That’s utter bunk. It was time travelers. The only mystery is, were the time travelers from the future or from the past. Pseudo-science hasn’t yet established an accepted pseudo method of determining that.
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  7731. Serial killers are missing out. Planning on how to dispose of the body is one of the best parts of the job.
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  7732. Give it a rest, Ivan.
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  7733. There’s already one trash island in the pacific. Can the earth support another?
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  7734. @Dan Beech 100% correct, Dan. Like Russia’s current war, the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war was based on a false pretext. However, there was at least one element of truth! The NVA and the Viet Cong were actual communists, and their leaders were committed communists. That much was true at least, although the threat they actually posed to anyone else is doubtful. Looking a Vietnam today, one can surmise the “Domino Theory” was horsecrap. (That said, comparisons between Russia’s invasion and the U.S.’s getting involved in the Vietnam conflict are also usually horsecrap beyond the broad truths.) Russia’s anti-Nazi pretext for war is utterly laughable. The Kremlin is filled with more Nazis than all of Ukraine, and unlike the Nazis in Ukraine, the Kremlin Nazis have real power.
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  7735. I really like his cope, but I’m not sure how effective it is against Javelin missiles. Maybe he should put some reactive armor inside. 🤯
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  7736.  @hodaka1000  You leave Bob Dole out of this.
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  7737. Isn’t that the great irony? The fraudulent claim of election fraud.
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  7738. Shannon Kohl, your gut is telling you the truth. The “existential threat” isn’t to Russia, the threat is to a criminal organization which is clinging to its former status as an empire. Worse, they are clinging to a delusional dream of greater empire. “Imperial Russia” is like a shark that must continuously swim forward or die. And it’s been restrained from swimming forward ever since the end of the Soviet Union. It been dying for 30+ years and is in its death throes, thrashing out (and receiving a thrashing, ironically). Russia as a nation can potentially survive this thrashing, but the worse off it will be the longer it’s government clings to power and it’s dream of power. So you’re 100% right on that score. Anyway, I think you just said as much but in different words, from a different perspective. Some people view the larger geopolitical conflict as a clash of two empires (or three, considering China as a separate empire than Russia), but the U.S. was not an empire. It was a hegemonic power, to be sure, and it did benefit from its status as hegemon as the European colonial empires declined and dissolved. Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. was called “the world Policeman”. You might even think it was a corrupt cop in this role if you continue this analogy. But it did manage to keep a lid on the communist empires while avoiding World War III. Along the way the U.S. made a lot of mistakes, propping up dictatorships and intervening against wars of national liberation. But it also shared power with likeminded nations, hence “the Free World” and “the Western Democracies”. Hence NATO. But I also think it is more than willing to step back and relinquish hegemonic power to other democracies and other regional powers (as long as those non-democratic powers stay in their lane and don’t try to destabilize their region).
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  7739. Waging a war on civilians is Putin’s military policy, not a matter of a few undisciplined soldiers raping and pillaging.
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  7740. It’s impossible to negotiate with someone who won’t commit to negotiations. We’ve seen how the GOP negotiates in bad faith over and over again.
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  7741. But there are a few, fwiw.
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  7742. Yes, there were peaceful protestors. There was also an army of thugs that headed over to Congress, vandalizing, looting, attacking the police, and (worst of all) trying to disrupt Congress from doing its constitutional duty. As bad as antifa might be, Trump’s brownshirts make them look like pikers.
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  7743. It sounds like he was insane. That doesn’t mean he didn’t understand what he was doing, which is the underlying basis of a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity defense. An insane person like Riley is suffering a delusional break, but knows full well what he is doing. The one difference of opinion I have with Sheriff Grady Judd is that the fictional narrative of Riley’s delusions were completely made up by Riley. Anyone paying attention to the mania of conspiracy theories gripping many people knows exactly where Riley found the components of his evil fantasy of saving a sex trafficking victim.
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  7744. I don’t think it’s feasible with Spring Training almost upon us.
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  7745.  @OceanFrontVilla3  <— Troll
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  7746.  @bobbytookalook  Don’t get me started on the topic of California. 🤬
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  7747.  @andrewallen9993  <— Never set foot in the U.S., has never met a Marine
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  7748. Whose bulge? In hindsight, it seems like the Nazis marched straight into their own killing cauldron.
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  7749. If I’m not mistaken, it’s landing in Oaxaca, so flooding in Oaxaca. It’s one of the poorer states, but not the poorest.
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  7750.  @two02ful  lol, look at you, the keyboard wolf warrior. Your belligerent stance is so silly. The western aligned democracies are happy to co-exist with a China that plays by the rules and extends stability. Temper your ambitions with patience and you can achieve your goals without plunging into a war that nobody wins. China will recover from its recession. The U.S. and its allies will also recover. Both sides will cooperate when they can for the benefit of all. You so-called wolves are really guard dogs that think too highly of yourselves, barking and growling at shadows. Chinese party leadership needs to focus on domestic issues right now, anyway.
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  7751.  @jerryjansen5325  Why do you hate America?
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  7752. Because he’s desperate and knows he’s going to lose. When he loses, he will need excuses and someone to blame.
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  7753. Cope
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  7754. I think there are twin Piers Morgan. One is a third rate journalist, but a journalist nonetheless. The second Piers Morgan is a vegan chef who’s specialty is tossing the salads of right wing politicians.
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  7755.  @TransgirlsEnjoyer never
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  7756. Some people who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 are washing their hands of Trump and walking away. I assume some will vote for Biden and others will sit out the election. Abraham Lincoln famously said, “You can fool all of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Eventually people, including those who initially supported Trump, see that the Emperor has no clothes.
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  7757. For Covid or are they using it as they always have, as an anti parasite treatment?
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  7758. That’s why it’s targeted, and it’s why some want it more narrowly targeted.
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  7759. Not anymore he doesn’t. He committed suicide. He doesn’t no anything.
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  7760. Trump isn’t a billionaire. He’s always been leveraged.
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  7761. Hitler: Can you quickly build me coastal defenses! Todt: Totes, dude!
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  7762. I’d use Russo-Sino over Russo-Xian. I understood you, but X is sometimes used as shorthand for “Christ” (example X-mas), so it could be read as Russo-Christian. 😊 I wouldn’t put too much stock in the “natural” alignments. Each of these nations have very separate interests. I think India and the U.S. have a stronger basis for cooperation, but India has a natural interest (and history) of not wanting to become a client state of the U.S. The same could be said of Russia vis-a-vis China, but Putin has painted Russia into a corner. I think that at the very least Russia is going to lose its influence over its Central Asian clients to the Chinese. Do you think India has an opportunity here? How would it stop China from gaining influence in the ‘Stans? Maybe that would be another basis for cooperation between India and the U.S.
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  7763. That would determine if a body was possibly buried there, or perhaps a weapon. It wouldn’t find small items, like teeth or a small piece of jewelry. It could be all for nothing but they have to be thorough.
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  7764.  @doncody8465  That worked out really well in Vietnam, didn’t it? Or WWII? How much of its gains did Germany retain when it finally came to terms with the allies. I believe you’re thinking of how Russia gobbled up countries at the end of WWII and installed puppet communist governments. The Fait Acompli. Everyone remembers what they did, the Ukrainians most of all, and I don’t think the are as willing to accept such terms.
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  7765. How would we know if he was Dunn?
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  7766. It’s a slippery slope. If we allow homosexuals the right to marry other homosexuals, pretty soon homosexuals will demand the right to marry non-homosexuals. That’s just as bad as cats marrying dogs.
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  7767. So! Great video, thank you!
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  7768. Antifa didn’t break into the Capitol.
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  7769. @@willschrank How about Warren Buffet? Bill Gates? It’s not the getting sued that’s the issue. It’s getting sued and losing because all the evidence shows that you committed fraud.
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  7770.  @taskcasburn6086  Those suits aren’t over fraud and falsifying business documents. If a suit against a business is frivolous, it gets thrown out. If the business is at fault for wet floors, they pay someone’s medical bills.
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  7771.  @taskcasburn6086  Those records are evidence in the case. They’re publicly available on the court docket, so go get them yourself.
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  7772. Stop LYING, LIAR.
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  7773. Matt Gaetz looks like a caricaturist’s drawing of a stupid guy.
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  7774.  @jyin475  You should join us. Once I decided to only believe Trump, everything became a lot easier. I no longer have to read or listen to the news. I don’t have to take in unpleasant facts, or examine my assumptions. In short, I no longer have to learn. I can turn off that unquiet part of my mind that was used for critical thinking, and devote all my mental energies into hating President Trump’s enemies, whoever they happen to be that day. Yes, swallowing the red pillow seems difficult at first but it becomes easier over time, just as when you are asleep and dream you’re eating a giant marshmallow. I’m much happier now, despite my anger. Perhaps happy isn’t the right word. I know. I’m much more smug and self-satisfied, now that I just believe President Trump and nothing else. MAGA!!1l!!.
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  7775. Gwendolyn Gardner I asked a CCP functionary what he thought the difference was between capitalism and socialism. He said, “Under capitalism, man exploits his fellow man. Under socialism, it’s the other way around.”
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  7776. Gaddafi wasn’t just killed by the mob. They murdered him by literally tearing his body apart. For Putin, getting thrown out a window would be a blessing.
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  7777. You love your country so much, you say it thrice?
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  7778.  @jocelynstuff1947  I believe that the advice not to take OTC pain relief has been reversed. There just wasn’t enough evidence to support the theory that it will hinder your immune system build up.
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  7779. If you’re a Christian, why do you worship the demon Maga? You’re worshipping false idols.
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  7780.  @smillner771  I don’t know how legitimate that grievance is, because much of it has been generated by Russian intelligence services. Regardless, if there were a legitimate negotiation about the separatist provinces in Donbas, it should be between the separatists and the Ukrainian government. (And I believe both sides are closer to sitting down to seek an arrangement than ever before.) The idea that all ethnic Russians in Ukraine want Ukraine to merge with Russia is belied by the evidence. Only a minority want this, a minority of a minority. Many Russian Ukrainians heroically resisted the invasion from day one.
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  7781. Get out while the gettin’ is good.
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  7782. That’s a stretch, but I do agree that Putin has a streak of Naziism in him a mile wide. That’s why I call his followers “Putzis”. You see someone glorifying the Russian military and their invasion of Ukraine, they’re probably a Putzi.
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  7783.  @wboyle9721  Have you had any luck persuading these liars and disinformation agents to stop? The Markus Maximus account is among the collection of trolls and bots plaguing this channel with lies and disinformation.
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  7784. So now it’s up to Batman to keep Gothamville safe.
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  7785. It’s pretty bad, but I had the impression that most gun owners were so proud of owning guns that they made a point of bragging about it and challenging others to try to take the guns away from them. What’s that thing they’re always saying? “Mole Labia”? I think this is potentially worse for liberal Democrat gun owners, who will now have to explain to their lib Dem friends why they own a “scary” gun.
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  7786. Yes, it’s the social contract. What’s new is registering the social contract on the blockchain.
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  7787.  @justaawake6273  Agreed. So far, no group has claimed responsibility nor have there been communications from the bomber(s), as far as we know. It’s a holiday weekend, so if a written statement or recording was sent out to the media, it might not arrive until Monday or later. We might start constructing a profile of the sort of person that would do this, but it’s all highly speculative without more details, and guessing the person or persons’ political ideology is pure speculation. Here’s mine: the bomber is an anti-5G nutcase (based on the possibility they were targeting the ATT building).
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  7788.  @americanpeasant7000  So you think T-Mobile is behind this? Have the 5G Wars begun?
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  7789.  @learneroftruth8025  That doesn’t make it less of a terrorist act. It doesn’t excuse the act or its perpetrators. It was intended to terrorize. Why is that difficult to understand?
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  7790.  @brucehuddler7518 don’t talk like that to ‘Four-Leaf’ Tayback.
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  7791. What you don’t seem to understand is that the problem is a feature for the maga party. It’s their biggest campaign issue. They have to make a big show about solving the immigration problem, but they can never actually do it. So long as they satisfy the sadistic emotional needs of the maga base by going after a scapegoat, they’re safe. But if the issue gets solved, they won’t be able to excite the base around election time.
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  7792. Which post-Cold War NATO members have “nuclear missiles pointing at Russia”? None. Nor does every NATO member have NATO military bases. You’re repeating tired old propaganda talking points.
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  7793. What percentage of your portfolio is allocated to “normal savings”?
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  7794.  @silent_stalker3687  What a load of horseshidt. Russia has announced that it intends to take the south and eastern parts of the country as their immediate goal, since their original goal of decapitating the Ukrainian government failed. If they were to succeed (which I doubt they can), they would create a new separatist region to provide a new excuse to attack whatever remains of Ukraine. There’s no real difference between Russia wanting to take over Ukraine vs Russia wanting to take over MOST of Ukraine.
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  7795. The thing is, we don’t know if it doesn’t work. We see the successful hits that have avoided the nets. We haven’t seen those times (if any) where a drone got hung up in a net. Look up “survivor bias”. It’s a well known pitfall in fault analysis. The gist is that you can’t do fault analysis with an incomplete set of data.
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  7796. G.D., I had no idea Sully had such a majestic voice. Why isn’t he doing movie trailer voiceovers and raking in tue cash?
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  7797. If it’s “economic insecurity” and not extremist right wing politics, explain why in the U.S. so many of these “young” are well off professionals in their 30s to 60s.
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  7798. It would have happened if Q followers had MORE FAITH. It’s not Q’s fault. It’s time for all Q believers to double down on their faith in the Plan. The “Storm” was a test of faith, and its failure to materialize was due to people having doubts and staying home. No? OK, I got one better. The Storm was successful! Satan worshipping pedophile Democrats were rounded up, are imprisoned in a secret location, and are being tried by tribunal right now. There’s been a huge coverup about the true state of affairs by the FAKE MEDIA, and Trump is unable to communicate with us from the White House because he was banned from Twitter. If you’ve read this far and need me to spell it out, JUST KIDDING. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if Q crazies actually use these arguments.
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  7799. I think the term you wanted was “closely held”, not privately owned. HTH, Sal. Thanks for the video.
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  7800. Stingers. That’s all I’m saying.
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  7801. There was a deal that Trump blew up because he couldn’t take credit and because he needed the border crisis as a campaign issue.
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  7802.  @coastaldiva  [Narrator] She was already out of her mind and had been so for quite some time.
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  7803. Your bow tie is magical
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  7804. The attack came at night and 8 people died—security guards and maintenance workers. I don’t know if the mall was open for business during the daytime, but I don’t think it was being used as a shelter. Nor do I think it was being used as a military depot. If weapons and ammunition were being stored there, we would have seen a chain of secondary explosions, but we did not. All we see is that Russia continues to bombard civilian targets based on high Yelp ratings.
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  7805. Well, however they’re billing it, Qualcomm isn’t leapfrogging Apple. They’re catching up—and let’s give them full credit for that. The margin is narrower. Also, this is going to open up the technology for sectors where Apple doesn’t directly compete, areas outside of general computing. So whether or not Qualcomm beats Apple isn’t as important as the fact that they’re in the performance ballpark. All sorts of industries will benefit from these developments, industries in which Apple has no interest.
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  7806. Did you mean the 21 pound tank you commonly see on RVs or grills? That’s what I use with my smaller Mr. Heater.
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  7807. Republicans are notoriously weak on military matters. They didn’t use to be, but they have been for the past seven years. It’s probably because they’ve purged those Republican politicians who had a strong understanding of nationality security in favor of simpletons, grifting populists, and “culture warriors”.
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  7808.  @Lak02gwa  Some of his rants/lectures are directed at his misinformed “Uncle Billie”. 😄
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  7809. Membah?
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  7810. I think at least one of the destroyed IL-76s was the tanker variant, possibly loading up with fuel for that day’s operations. I’m just speculating, but the video I saw showed fire on the ground all around the destroyed aircraft.
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  7811. If it’s just hypnagogic hallucinations as you drift off to sleep, I’ve learned that’s normal for many people. The sudden waking on occasion might also be within normal range (I’ve experienced it!), but if it’s happening all the time, maybe I’d talk to my doctor.
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  7812.  @Danster82  You’re correct on your last few points, but I don’t think you understand what the Federal Reserve System is or how it works. Its independence (or semi-independence) is a good thing. It is not subject to the expedient short term whims of politicians. It is the most transparent of any central banking system, making its decisions and the reasoning behind those decisions public. It regularly publishes the data it uses to reach those decisions. It has specific goals, the overall goal being the stability of the system. The two target benchmarks (or sub goals) it uses are low unemployment and stable pricing (i.e., moderating inflation and deflation). It also is a lot less powerful than you think. It can only nudge the economy one way or another with a handful of interventionist tools. The Fed doesn’t really control the economy, it affects it to the degree that it can. Maybe someday the Fed can be replaced with a computer program, but we are not there yet. I like to see capitalism as a social technology, and I agree with you that we, as a democratic society, get to decide what social goals capitalism should serve and how it can be adjusted to serve those goals. This is currently the case, but through apathy and ignorance we have set goals that serve the few and we have adjusted the engine of our economy to serve the few. The problem is that we have been too apathetic and ignorant to set better societal goals. We haven’t really answered the question, who is society for? Instead, we’ve defaulted to serving the wealthy no matter what. I’m a conservative and I say conservatism has had its run and we’ve gone too far in that direction. The fiscal policies promoted by conservatism are tools that were useful for a period, but its past time that we used other tools to tweak the motor of out economy (which is capitalism, if you’ve been following my analogy). As a democracy, we get to decide the purpose of our society and we get to decide how to modify the engine to suit that purpose. We get to decide if society should be a race car, a luxury sedan, a form of public transportation, or some mix. Where do we go, how do we get there, what safety features are part of the system are among the important questions we should be answering. We should be addressing those questions instead of engaging in this authoritarian culture war crap and maga populism.
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  7813.  @ErikDayne  Yup. And this is why the minimum wage provision is being stripped from this COVID relief bill. Rightfully so, I might add. Manchin might be able to get the bill to focus on those most in need. There’s more than one way to target relief. For example, those with incomes under $50,000 get $1,800, those with incomes $51,000 - 75,000 get $1200, and $75,000 - $1000 get $800. The actual dollar amounts can vary, but this is a more sensible way to target relief payments.
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  7814.  @kelat32  Yeah, it’s domestic politics. Whoever gets elected, they will re-open airspace after the election.
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  7815. I don’t know what video you watched, but in the one I watched, the passenger was given a ride home.
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  7816. This isn’t a NATO operation.
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  7817. Pathetic and a little bit tragic. I had a lot of respect for Senator Graham at the start of this decade. I guess that was all a front; he’s turned out to be a craven lickspittle. How far he has fallen! I wonder if he takes solace in the fact that Giuliani will leave a bigger and deeper impact crater.
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  7818. Can we at least get legislation that would force Republican congresspeople to watch Trading Places?
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  7819.  @michaelpettersson4919  I imagine they’re used as supply trucks where necessary.
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  7820. Wagner lives . . . Uh, wait. Let me start over.
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  7821. China doesn’t have the blue water capability. Not yet, anyway.
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  7822.  @cglavin  Your argument has some merit, but the way I would put it is that the American Center politics has always been to the right of the European Center politics. It’s a problem with the concept of the Overton Window: is there a correct position for it? Where is that position?
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  7823.  @tomk3732  Your main mistake is not recognizing that Russia is playing the role of Germany in the current war, engaging in a war of conquest based on a weird mystical nationalism that doesn’t even amount to a coherent ideology. You also clearly failed to watch the video.
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  7824.  @prometheusjackson8787  What say you today, September 3rd 2022?
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  7825.  @Omega0850  Get him to say “Instagram” and they will double his sentence.
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  7826. Get yourself a c-stand. You won’t regret it. It was built for the way your mind works. They’re generally so heavy duty that you can buy a used one without worry.
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  7827. @DbH Yes, Boomer. You’ve pulled off that neat trick of being UN-self-aware while being utterly self-absorbed. If you think GenX is self-absorbed, it’s because we stopped paying attention to you.
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  7828. What do you use for a tongue scraper? It occurred to me that a copper scraper might be effective, but I haven’t yet made it acquired one. I know that some people use simple popsicle sticks.
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  7829. So you want to interfere with property rights? If I own the surface rights, mineral rights, and water rights of a property, it should be within my rights to unbundle those rights as I see fit, and sell or lease them to others. This benefits society as a whole, because it makes property less expensive—you just buy what you need. You don’t have to pay extra for mineral rights you don’t need. Some people want the peace of mind and will pay for extra rights. That’s also their right.
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  7830. How is your happily welded wife?
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  7831.    You’re going to want to jot this number down on a scrap of paper and keep it with you: 1-800-273-8255. It’s the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. You might need it when Biden wins the election.
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  7832.  @nobodyherepal3292  bawlz
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  7833. Not really Mark’s fault. You probably want to talk with Vladimir Putin about the loss of human life.
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  7834. That was last month. Seems to have come back a bit since the end of September.
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  7835.  @ramsesrodriguez1049  Is he talking about Fernando Tatís coming back to save the Padres?
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  7836. You don’t need to suspect. You can get a brief overview of the Mayan calendar on Wikipedia.
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  7837. If they can slip back to mainland China, their spy careers are effectively over.
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  7838. I’m curious as to why this was put to a grand jury, and not handled internally and/or a citizen review board. I get the need to investigate officer involved shootings, but a grand jury is a level up from an internal or external review. Still, there might be reasons to use a grand jury.
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  7839.  @DerekHarkness  Yup. I don’t think most people know that this is a thing. It’s written into the contracts.
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  7840. The video of the strike showed no secondary explosions, as one would expect if the mall was being used as some sort of military depot, as Russian trolls are claiming. It’s possible that there were a few military vehicles parked there at some point, but what of it? They were doing nothing wrong if they got their parking validated. Soldiers need to shop, too.
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  7841. ⁠ @Ivan-bw6iw I’m a conservative voter, formerly registered as a Republican. I’ve never been a member of the Democrat party. The people who vote for the likes of Matt Gaetz and MTG are delusional fools that should be ashamed of themselves. They seem to be incapable of shame, however, even as they burn down the GOP. Ultimately they are to blame for the GOP disarray in the House of Representatives. There is no need for sane people to coddle these moral infants so as not to alienate them. That’s how we got to this point—a craven political class that never gave their moron constituency the hard news and always told them what they wanted to hear. You really don’t need to worry about alienating the “Dumb Voter”, my liberal and progressive friends. They could have voted for more serious problem solving conservatives, but they voted for firebrands for the entertainment value. For the entertainment value! You don’t want their votes. Maybe you want the votes of the people adjacent to them, people who are capable of remorse and who are capable of returning to reason, but you don’t need the idiot nutjobs. That’s what got us here in the first place—the GOP is hostage to extremist because they DIDN’T rein in the crazies and imbeciles. We (the GOP) used to expel people like the Birchers and discredit them with ridicule. Go ahead and laugh at the GOP clowns and rubes. They’re already making themselves the butt of a very sick joke. You do not want to become reliant on their votes in any way. Edit: I just realized you’re the leftist equivalent of the right wing moron voter. Have a nice day.
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  7842. The Mr. Heater can use propane tanks with an adapter. Years ago I used an oil radiator heater that I liked very much, but gas is the way to go if you want to keep costs down.
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  7843.  @ftboomer1  So you say. But can you offer any evidence? Where are the serious candidates? The Euro? The Yen? The Rupee? The Euro and Yen have taken their places as trading currencies, but are they traded enough to realistically be the main reserve currency? Here’s the thing if either the Euro or Yen were to overtake the Dollar: it wouldn’t really matter. It would probably be the same with the Rupee, which one day might be a serious exchange currency, if you’re looking at much longer timeframes. It wouldn’t matter because the central banks that control the currencies act as the Federal Reserve does. They act transparently and telegraph their moves month a head. The closest we have to a viable replacement currency is the Euro followed by the Yen. Their volumes are orders of magnitude less than the dollar. So what about the Yuan? The Yuan is a non starter for two reasons. One, it is actually a double currency that holds wildly different values depending on if you are inside or outside the PRC. YOU CANNOT use a two-tier currency as a reserve currency. Second, no one can really trust the Yuan because of the lack of transparency. If you adopt the Yuan as your reserve currency, you giving up the transparent valuation of your own currency. You could hold a billion yuan and you don’t know what it’s really worth because you don’t know what the Chinese government or central banks is doing. The Yuan is not a serious candidate for a reserve currency. Now please talk about BRICS so I can laugh hard enough to piss my pants.
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  7844.  @johncalla2151  Pete dances around immigration a great deal because it’s a hot button political issue in the U.S. While his paying clients want to be startled by contrarian insights posed in a saucy manner, they don’t want to be associated with anyone wading into the bitter controversy surrounding immigration policy. I don’t fault Pete for being careful with his words. As far as fungibility of immigrants, Pete is using big data sets. It’s really the big numbers that matter. Prioritizing certain job skills or professions don’t make a dent in the overall trends. As far as using demographics to help predict consumption, I fail to see the problem. Remember, he combines his demographic curves with purchasing power.
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  7845. Your ignorance is deeper than the ocean.
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  7846. I need to stop the video and say that you can get precise targeting data from a single drone thanks to Trigonometry. The drone does not have to fly directly overhead, which would be a dumb thing to do. The drone merely needs to fly a very short distance perpendicular to the line between it and the target. Alternately, two drones can triangulate and plot the target. The heroes are the software engineers that created the drone software that works in conjunction with the overall targeting system (which can also integrate starlink data and human collected data (F.O.). Edit: good video. I think that the software is homegrown, not imported.
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  7847. And the “RINOs” have spoken, it seems. You’ve purged the non extreme Republicans as RINOs until you’ve become a minority. Old school conservatives want their party back.
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  7848.    You’re like a bad racist penny, always showing up with the other racist small change. You’re probably another fake account of one of the racists posting other comments, thinking that multiple accounts give you some sort of credibility.
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  7849. Among Trump’s many great accomplishments is that he rendered James O’Brien speechless with incredulity.
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  7850. Did you watch the video? It answers your questions. You could watch it or you could continue in ignorance. Your choice.
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  7851. How about the Pandemic Blues, “You can’t use the car cause you won’t wear a mask”.
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  7852. Chavez then and Maduro now, weren’t and aren’t socialist in anything but name. They are a mafia. The famine is artificial and is used to punish all but the most enthusiastic supporters. If you want to eat, you attend the United Socialist Party rallies.
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  7853. The dumbest crap I’ve heard in a while.
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  7854. Don’t be disparaging blurred out tiddies.
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  7855. Put down the bong. You’re overdosing on your medical marijuana and you never had the wit to employ sarcasm effectively, even when you were sober.
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  7856. Good for you. If you carry out your decision, please a take gun safety class and train yourself to use your firearm. Even if you feel confident, take the class as a refresher and then keep your skills honed. Hopefully you will never need to use a firearm to defend yourself or your family from violence, but it’s obviously important that you don’t accidentally hurt yourself or others with a firearm. Heck, I even recommend non-owners take a safety class and learn how to shoot. Too many people have an irrational fear of firearms through complete ignorance. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s a duty that each person know how to shoot, but it might be in their best interest if they do.
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  7857.  @davidhimmelsbach557  To be fair to Adolph (good lord, what am I saying), the allies in WW2 also used bombing of civilian targets—often with the thin excuse they were going after industrial targets. Heck, look at the two atomic bombs. Except for the last instance, going after civilian targets has little effect in degrading enemy capabilities or morale. It might even have the opposite effect, stiffening resistance. Which is why we don’t do it anymore. In point of fact, NATO/U.S. doctrine is to go to great lengths to avoid civilian death and a lot of resources have been devoted to developing weapons to minimize civilian death and suffering while maximizing effectiveness against the enemies war fighting ability. Still, your Adolph comparison is apt, given all the civilian atrocities Putin is committing. In a way Putin is even worse than Hitler. At least Hitler loved his soldiers. I’m still left with wondering why would Putin do this if we know it’s not an effective tactic. Why be unnecessarily cruel if it’s not going to help you win a war, and might even help you lose it? The only thing that occurs to me is that it is cruelty for cruelty’s sake, the perverted pleasure of inflicting pain as the ultimate exercise of power over other people. It’s a taste of the totalitarian dream of a boot eternally stomping a victim’s face.
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  7858. If it’s at that point, all you can do is confront her. It might or might not be useful to do this with the father or other concerned friends/family, or to do it alone. Some of the meth delusion stories I’ve heard are amazing and weird. One friend told me that she imagined her parents were vampires, but that isn’t the oddest part. Their vampiric nature would become more apparent and powerful the deeper she was in her house. So when she was at the entryway, her parents were completely normal. But with each step into the house (her bedroom was at the back of the house) they would become more and more vampires and less her parents. So she’d always try to interact with her parents at the doorway or in the front room, and then make a dash for her bedroom.
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  7859. You’re with the Acme Detective Agency?
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  7860. Agreed. I think you should get Russia’s seat after they are removed.
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  7861. “Trust me. I’m a Republican.”
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  7862. Bullshit, man. I’ve seen references in 100+ year old documents to wireless.
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  7863.  @DragonTamerCos  I need to upgrade my text card. The lag on this MUD is killing me. Of course I upgraded to 1200 baud. That was the first thing I did. ~~ Guy logging in from home
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  7864.  @martensjd Literally continuously? Have you called Guinness yet? No, not the world record people, the beer company. Because you need to drink beer until you pass out.
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  7865. When used correctly, it’s a light tank with organic infantry support OR infantry with light tank support.
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  7866.  @OAlexable  You’re delusional. Even the ethnic Russians, the Russian-Ukrainians are united against Putin. Turns out that they are also patriotic Ukrainians. There are very few pro-Putin Ukrainians left after the invasion, and they are paid in rubles. Putin buys their loyalty, but the pay is becoming worthless.
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  7867.  @brunxcardster  I feel sorry for you. Not just because of your ignorance of geo-politics and economics, but both your current and future economic situation. Your pay is worthless. Your savings are worthless, if you can even access it. Your banks are shutting down, your food will run out (you will soon be paying 120 rubles for a potato on the black market). You’re under economic siege, and it’s self imposed. Russia only needs to leave Ukraine and the damage will stop. Oh, well, your gas prices remain low. Maybe you will learn to eat and drink petrochemicals. Your “friends” will have difficulty propping you up. The support will slow to a trickle, and most of that trickle will go to the oligarchs, not the Russian people. Not to you. Truthfully, the Chinese are already pissed. This invasion is already messing with their plans to expand their own influence. Xi himself is angry with Russia and Putin, and help from him will be minimal. And what help he does give will not be free. Venezuela is a joke. Maduro is only a threat to his own people.
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  7868. @Sal Spencer Our military is actually smaller in numbers, but we don’t need as many as Russia. Most are conscripts, and most need to stay at their posts throughout Russia to control the population. But you are right that we are better equipped and have the technological advantage.
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  7869.  @Amauvy  The Russians will enjoy eating their energy, I’m sure. They’ll find a way to make the human body metabolize gasoline, and they’ll get their vitamins from natural gas. Good luck with that.
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  7870. I’m thinking that McConnell isn’t all there either. He (or someone in the Senate) pulled off a real win against Biden and the Dems with the border/aid to Ukraine bill, only to have it come crashing down around his head.
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  7871.  @KasumiRINA  you might be surprised by this, but oil is not included in the sanctions. European countries still buying oil are not breaking sanctions. Those countries that have reduced consumption of it or cut it completely (mostly Poland and the Baltics) have done so voluntarily.
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  7872. Your comment might be correct, but it might be misdirection.
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  7873. His own campaign owned up to it.
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  7874. It’s amazing that 90% of Republicans are actually RINOs and out of step with the 10% majority of real Republicans. Did I mention that I was a math major at Trump University?
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  7875. “Danger, murder/suicide area”
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  7876.  @maybeso1547  You’re over generalizing, and lumping in the vision impaired with common criminals who watch too many movies. If you have mere seconds to respond to a threat, do you want to get a shot off in the general direction of the threat or do you want to waste time messing around with your bifocals and getting them lined up with the sights and the target? I opt for the former. My friends and family have learned to dive for cover when ever there’s a loud noise that might startle me.
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  7877. That bear’s name? Fa.
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  7878.  @kurt1391  It was and by all reports, it’s gotten even worse under Musk. Free exchange of ideas and open inquiry are great and all, but “flooding the zone” with bullshit is now acceptable to the new ownership. This happened under the old regime, too, but at least they tried to keep it under control.
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  7879. Easy for you to say with your cushy job at the Kremlin.
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  7880.  @Samanthax1221  STOP TRYING TO KILL PEOPLE WITH LIES
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  7881. Patrick, have you seen Colin O’Malley’s comedy special “Stand Up Solutions”? It’s on YouTube. I think you’d enjoy it. The basic conceit is applying AI to standup comedy. Also, O’Malley is a madman.
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  7882. FlakeTillman And soccer goal nets.
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  7883. No me digas tonterías. Seriously, this comment is chain mail BS and should be deleted.
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  7884.  @hvacexplained9341  You’ve connected so many dots that you’ve gone dotty. Put down the Qool Aid.
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  7885. This is a good gloss for the most part in this series of 5-minute summations of recent presidential administrations, but it really doesn’t do justice to the Bush administration’s foreign policy and the huge errors made by those that conceived and executed the policy. I hope Pete fills out the complicated history at a later date.
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  7886. So you aren’t willing to step up? You want others to do all the work? What sort of campaign volunteering have you ever done? What things have you done to get out the vote? It’s not the leaders that are the real problem. It’s people that think that they’re doing democracy merely by going to the polls. Democracy requires that ordinary people organize and motivate each other to vote. If you expect your Democrat Party leaders to do all the work, maybe you share some of the blame.
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  7887.  @niataylorcolino  Aren’t there organizations in Texas whose purpose is registering people to vote? If so, have you considered volunteering for a few hours every week?
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  7888. You realize that this came to bite the Trump administration in the ass in the Supreme Court recently?
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  7889. Term limits on leadership positions inside of political parties? You realize the chairmanship isn’t a public office? Of course you wouldn’t know that—you’re not an American.
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  7890.  @reconx86  This one time I was driving with my girlfriend, and we parked in a quiet place to make out. While we were kissing there was a news bulletin on the radio. Some psycho had escaped from the local mental hospital for the criminally insane . . . Wait, I think this is the wrong video for this story. I forgot how it’s related. . . Oh, yeah. The police caught the psycho, but my girlfriend gave me a venereal disease that night. It burned like fire when I peed. That’s why the video reminded me of the story. It really burned.
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  7891.  @hairyairey  To be fair, someone thought it was possible. And the people who’s job it is to think about possible threats didn’t. Funny story: after 9/11, CIA convened several meetings/working groups of writers to brainstorm unlikely but possible threat scenarios to close that imaginative gap. I don’t think it was a wasted effort.
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  7892. The “fast talker” is also the guy trying to bamboozle you by talking faster than you can register and take in his words. This fillip lettuce guy is trying to slip past objections by talking too fast. It’s not that he’s over excited or emotional, it’s that he’s trying to get his audience to react emotionally.
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  7893. Both born with silver spoons in their mouths.
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  7894. But not for many years. I’d be surprised if they’re still at it in another year.
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  7895.  @tomterrific9459  That didn’t happen. Why do you lie. There was concern because Trumps political appointees were placing unnecessary political pressure on their agencies to approve the vaccine. It wasn’t just Democrats that shared this concern. I say unnecessary because the agencies tasked with approval were working as quickly as they could without the pressure.
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  7896.  @TheHoff4K  Apparently you think everyone in Georgia is corruptible? Project much?
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  7897. The value of the assets are sufficient to cover the liabilities. The problem is that the assets can’t be quickly converted to cash without losing that value. So the deposits can be covered 100% by someone willing to swap cash for value. This is why SVB’s crisis was liquidity.
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  7898.  @Zarkil  Kicking the disposal can down the road is still better than climate change. Our grandchildren are going to curse us either way. Likely they’d find something to curse us for even if we solved both the nuclear waste disposal issue and the climate change crisis. 🙃 And when they do, I’ll do what I always do: blame it on the Boomers. 😂
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  7899. During my (rebellious) adolescence, my parents sent me to a psychiatrist, who prescribed hypnotherapy (he had a hypnotherapist on staff). While I question how much long term help the therapy gave me for my behavioral issues, I did learn how to self-induce a hypnotic or meditative state. It certainly helps with insomnia. The therapy was this: I’d sit in a room in a reclining chair. I’d listen to a hypnotherapy tape with the lights dimmed. The hypnotherapist was having work related issues (he joked about them), and it sometimes showed in his work. My appointments were at 1 o’clock, and twice he was late coming back from lunch. The second time was noteworthy. The receptionist went ahead and put me in the hypnotherapy room and had me put the headphones. I put myself into hypnotic state (or it was triggered by the environment?). About twenty minutes later I realized that no one had put on a tape. I got up and confronted the therapist, who said he would give me a full session without charge. The next week, the psychiatrist called me to tell me he was changing my therapy to biofeedback therapy. He didn’t really explain why this would be better or more appropriate than hypnotherapy, other than it would be “better suited”. I asked him what happened to the hypnotherapist, and the psychiatrist told me that he had left the group for other opportunities. Luckily, however, a biofeedback therapist had just joined the practice, etc. It was a sales pitch. I told my parents I didn’t want to go back—clearly there was some basic ethical issues going on. The next therapist wasn’t much better. He was a child psychologist who later went on to become a famous crime novelist. Our sessions was generally me talking for 15 minutes and then him reminiscing for 30 minutes on his teenage and college years. I saw him for four or five sessions before telling my parents I didn’t want to go back. They didn’t insist. We put up with each other for 3 more months and then I left home for college and never moved back. I didn’t used to think I was actually damaged in any way by this malpractice. However, I was turned off to therapy for quite a while, and didn’t seek help during several crises.
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  7900. It’s obvious you’re trolling when you use multiple accounts to post the same comment word for word.
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  7901.  @miniskunk  Not according to the laws regulating mineral rights in this case. Sorry, but you really out to watch the video before resorting to your “common sense” based on lack of information.
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  7902. That’s what is scary. Imagine Trump had a competent crew trying to engineer the coup.
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  7903. Keep the light on, but don’t wait up.
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  7904.  @WALTERBROADDUS What about the teeth the tooth fairy brings me?
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  7905. Tanks are a useful component of Combined Arms, but not as useful if one of those arms are chopped off. Iraq lost all air support previous to any coalition forces setting foot in Iraq. Given this fact, plus the fact that Iraqi forces were fighting a defensive war, it makes sense that Iraqi tanks would get buried up to the turret to make a pillbox. As a pillbox, they maybe had a chance to take a shot. Maneuvering, they’d be taken out before coalition forces were even within range of their guns.
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  7906.  @mattm.8252 Make America Golf Again
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  7907.  @dougwhitaker7229  Citizens aren’t saying one thing. It’s a few social media posts that triggered it, the first one was from a woman posting what she had heard THIRD HAND. That woman has since apologized. You’re just making stuff up and bearing false witness. So why are you worried about my making a comment about Christians failing to aid their neighbors? You are clearly not a Christian, and your intent to deceive puts you in league with the Devil. We know who you think is your savior: Donald Trump. I hope that more and more people open their eyes to the trick you and your fellow devil worshippers are playing on us, pretending you are Christian and exhorting us to do evil in Jesus’ name. I’ll tell you what, Doug, there’s still time to repent, but do it now because there’s no telling what signs and wonders that tomorrow may bring.
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  7908. Not just by members of Congress, but the congressional republican leadership has said as much. Either the crisis on the border isn’t as big a crisis as they are claiming (and it’s always been a big crisis whenever there’s a democrat in the White House), or it is a big crisis, and the GOP is willing to put national security at risk for the sake of electing Trump.
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  7909. OK, Ivan
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  7910. A cog in the wheel? I’m not familiar with this mixed metaphor.
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  7911.  @melinagoranson  You’re forgetting that, due to the logistics problems, there aren’t enough driver diapers to go around. When the next driver gets attacked and poops in his pants, they’ll have to pull over and clean up.
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  7912.  @ivanramos1809  There was also small arms fire coming from the side. I’m not saying it’s the same video, but it’s possible the driver was struck by rifle fire and that’s why he drove off the road.
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  7913. How old?
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  7914.  @essanjay8604  You’re insane. If “they” (whoever they are in your fevered imagination) wanted to fake a vaccination, they would just inject a saline solution. I’m sorry to put it so bluntly, but you need help.
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  7915. A lotta people saying that in these comments. A lotta people haven’t really looked in the mirror in a few months, either.
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  7916. Mac user here. I think another consideration is the software used by one’s school. Sometimes the operating system doesn’t matter. Sometimes it really does matter, and in most cases when it matters, it favors Windows. So Ryan’s advice to this student is solid. It used to be true that doing graphics work (or in my case, video) was better on the Mac. It’s not really true anymore. I prefer the Mac because it’s what I’m used to and comfortable with. Another myth that should be dispelled is that Macs are overpriced. You get what you pay for. By the time you spec out a comparable windows machine, you’re not saving money. Even the astronomically priced Mac Pro is a good deal for its intended customers, the high end businesses and professionals that will save time and make money with the capabilities they can’t get elsewhere. (YouTube influencers, not so much.) I’ve been retired from the film and video business for more than a dozen years. I’m literally waiting for an M2 Mac Mini to replace the 2014 Mac Mini I’ve been using for almost nine years. Nine friggin’ years. How many of you windows users are using nine-year old computers?
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  7917. I think the Taliban leadership does want us out of their hair, but it should be recognized that the Taliban is made up of factions. The Taliban of 20 years ago was more unified, but to survive they had to become a coalition and cut deals with other groups. As a side note, this is what we fail to understand, that the taking of Kabul and the fall of the Afghan government was more of a deal-making victory than a military victory. But now that the Taliban is in power, what does that mean? It means they have to deal with competition between their internal factions and external challenges to their power. They don’t (at least not yet) have the same level of control they had 20 years ago. The leadership in Kabul might control the airport there, but a different faction might control the airport in a different city. This complicates and delays negotiations. Countries trying to get their people out must negotiate with the leadership, but the leadership then has to negotiate with their sub-faction, which is (possibly) using foreign nationals as a bargaining chip to negotiate their own power in the government. Yes, it’s a huge clusterfluck. But it would be a lot worse if the country was plunged into civil war, which could still happen.
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  7918. It would be awesome if he was caught by a van full of teenagers and a talking dog.
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  7919. What judge? He wasn’t released by a judge. Your knee jerk reaction is not based on facts, it is based on your easily curable ignorance. Here is how to cure it: watch the video and PAY ATTENTION to the words spoken. This will give you information. When and if the information is incomplete and you still have questions, the information will help guide your research. The important thing is to have questions to ask, something you didn’t do because you assumed you already knew everything. It took me all of five minutes research to figure out who released this murderous felon, and who appointed them to do it. It was the Indiana Parole Board, and they were appointed by Mitch Daniels, Mike Pence, and Eric Holcomb, the two previous governors and the current governor.
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  7920.  @tomhalla426  There is a lot of evidence of arboriculture. Perhaps it was the dominant form of food production. There was also aquaculture.
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  7921. What period of time are you wondering about? The Amazon is vast. It’s hard for the mind to take it in. It took the caraval expedition a year to travel down the river. So even though there were many settments, some city size, these were surrounded by vast rainforests.
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  7922. You must not walk if you’re chewing gum. Only one thing at a time.
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  7923.  @JMoore68 Racism is a maga virtue.
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  7924.  @ThePowerLover he unzipped his pants and there he was in his hand.
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  7925. Didn’t watch the video, did you? That was not the Lincoln Project’s response.
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  7926. I imagine every day for the past month has been like the bunker scene on Downfall.
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  7927. OK, Ivan.
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  7928.  @alexjgilpin  This. I think the strategic importance is to guard the mouth of the river and open up transport from Mykolaiv. It’s like clearing the banks of Scheldt so you can use the port of Antwerp.
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  7929. Bill has the steady hand.
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  7930. Have you ever experienced the fear that someone or some group meant you harm, and then told yourself, maybe I’m being paranoid?
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  7931. May I ask what dosages you and your family are using? Thanks! I’m considering supplying D3 supplements to about 60 people that live on my street, so minimal effective dose is information I need.
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  7932. Hasta . . . nunca jamás!
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  7933. Into the ground.
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  7934.  @crackedking2238  What does this mean, Russophobe? It sounds like Jews during the Holocaust being German-phobes. A phobia is an irrational fear. Fear of Russian aggression is completely rational. Accusing someone of being a Russophobe is just gaslighting of the sort one might expect from Nazis and Fascists. It’s like someone is in the middle of being raped and you accuse them of being a penis-phobe.
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  7935. No creo que sea un problema importante en la CDMX ni a nivel nacional. Son los ricos locales los que se quejan de la “gringoficación” o gentrificación por parte de los expatriados, porque los extranjeros se están beneficiando de un sistema que los ha privilegiado durante tanto tiempo. ¿Dónde estaban los ricos que protestaban cuando colonias como La Condesa estaban siendo tomadas por ricos desarrolladores inmobiliarios? Es cierto que puede ser un problema a nivel local cuando la vida tradicional de las pequeños pueblos sufren por una avalancha de expatriados, pero también puede haber beneficios, con más empleos y oportunidades. Veamos el ejemplo de las ciudades con una industria turística. La verdadera amenaza es cuando los ricos comienzan a expandirse desde sus colonias hacia barrios vecinos que son más pobres. La siguiente parte está en inglés, porque es algo que los estadounidenses y los canadienses deberían saber. As far as the pinche gringos not learning Spanish or adapting to Mexican culture, that is their problem and their loss. In most cases of refusing to adapt they will move on after encountering obstacles and frustrations when they don’t get their way. Many give up and return to the EEUU or move on to more English friendly countries like Costa Rica. In other cases they are rich enough to afford English speaking helpers to navigate Mexican society. That’s more jobs and more money for the Mexican economy. The point is: bring lots of money if you can’t adapt. 😅
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  7936. Maybe his militia is named the Ranger Marshalls. “I never said the U.S. Marshalls in Texas.”
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  7937. I wouldn’t have been surprised that 90% of Steve’s audience is naive, but I suspect the number is higher.
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  7938. I think it’s an exaggeration. The “other” category of thefts are under Shoigu’s umbrella. He gets a percentage. Putin gets a percentage. Shoigu is a capo, a boss. Putin is the godfather, the boss of bosses. His underlings in the Kremlin even call him “godfather”.
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  7939. An anti-maga bot is still a bot.
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  7940.  @thecancelling2870  The ways in which one chooses to mock or shock still says a lot about a person. Someone who casually chooses a screen name like VWE is comfortable with such identification on some level, regardless of the intention to “troll the algorithm”. This isn’t a right or left political thing, it’s human behavior. Bad behavior.
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  7941. We don’t have to imagine. Or was that your point. Unfortunately, ex-president Trump had made it clear he won’t be installing people like McMasters if he is elected a second time. Trump has made it clear that he will be installing loyalists in these positions to co-sign his BS and do his bidding, not give advice that might be contrary to his whims.
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  7942.  @sandrawhitted3493 How can you tell it was white supremacists? Easy, the affray started with 10 white guys jumping one black guy. They was whooping it up until the cavalry arrived. White supremacists are both cowardly and stupid.
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  7943. Apparently, a large part of the crowd were cardboard cut outs to make the stadium look more full.
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  7944. That’s not the issue. The issue is that the company violated the rights of the mineral rights holder.
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  7945. Don’t you mean tomorrow?
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  7946. I think he admitted to the FAA that it was a stunt to on the advice of his lawyers. If he tried to lie, he would instantly escalate the case into a serious criminal matter (beyond any criminal liabilities he’s already incurred). WRT to the parachute, I think he packed it into his ass. In case of emergency he will just fart it out. When Trevor reapplies for his license, the FAA will be taking a look at these videos he’s now releasing and seeing how he’s making a joke of the punishment. I also think the “settlement email” is fake.
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  7947. Special Message to Trump supporters: BOAT for Trump is a BOAT for America. Get out there and BOAT, Trump supporters. Boat like your lives depend on it.
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  7948.  @samizdat113  we can vote for tax increases to pay for more cops on the streets. And while we are at it, give them better training so they don’t mistakenly shoot people who aren’t a threat to them. That should make everyone happy. The problem is not lenient judges or DAs, not mainly anyway. The problem is people don’t want to pay taxes. They just want to complain about crime. You can blame both dems and republicans for creating this problem.
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  7949.  @JamesPyle  What are you, ten years old?
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  7950. Modestly budgeted. I think his biggest expense is the value of his time that he spends creating and providing these videos.
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  7951.  @brianeleighton  Truly horrible. A real fashion faux pas. Who knew grown men could be such frikkin’ divas about clothing?
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  7952. That’s not undisciplined soldiers. That’s just how most Russians live.
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  7953. I’m waiting for the GOP to finally claim they’re the Marjority Party.
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  7954. There is the question of government mandated behavior and compliance/resistance, and people changing to safer social behaviors of their own accord. So you might see relaxation of restrictions but people still avoiding unnecessary activities, and being more careful when engaged in necessary but risky activities. More people have begun to take the pandemic seriously. I think (well, I hope) that many with a natural tendency to distrust the government are taking a better-safe-than-sorry approach, especially as they see some political compatriots going off the rails. (Perhaps they’re applying the same skepticism they have towards government to the people that are telling them that “masks are a symbol of slavery” and that “vaccines contain microchips”.) Anyway, I hope this is the case. There’s some evidence that people will sensibly put aside politics when the safety of their families, communities, and their own selves is at stake.
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  7955. A cumstained fried calamari, but it’s not calamari.
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  7956.  @Kenneth_James  what about sustainment?
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  7957. In the 1970s, I had jeans that were more flared than that.
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  7958. YouTube will go down on you like Bobby Brown.
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  7959. A lot of militia sympathizers in these comments. Probably afraid the domestic militants will be next.
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  7960.  @gregb6469  it is illegal to impersonate The Batman. 😉🙃
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  7961. Check a map of the old studios against the location of your kindergarten! 😂 But seriously, if not hand-me-downs from a studio, then some stage carpenter must have thought, “these would be really cool toys for the kids” and built them for your school. Just curious, was your kindergarten in the Valley?
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  7962. That was the first lie! 🤣
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  7963. Let’s be honest. B.S. is our greatest export. But the Post (either NY or Washington) does not represent the views of intelligent people.
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  7964. 4. The Stroke-Strike in China.
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  7965. Putin has fallen victim to believing his own propaganda. One could broadcast a detailed plan of attack to exploit any of Ukraine’s weaknesses, and Putin wouldn’t believe it.
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  7966. They love cruelty and are entertained by it.
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  7967. ⁠ @geraldn.6871 lol, you think Brandon has his hand up Matt Haetz’s bum and making him do and say things by wiggling his fingers? Y’all need to make up your mind if Biden is an evil supergenius or a feeble minded old man.
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  7968. The only conclusion I can come to is that Putin is no longer the head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (And several board members have been assassinated within 24 hours of each other.) Has Xi assumed the Chairman of the Board position? The other possibility is that this is a body double Putin is trotting out while he hides from anyone who might depose him.
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  7969. I’m not getting up out of bed this morning because of the moral hazard. Goddamn, if the moral hazard of depositing money in a bank account is the equivalent to the risk of investing, things have gotten very bad.
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  7970. Conspiracy theories or false marketing from people trying to sell you gold or virtual coins?
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  7971. Yes, interesting point, but there’s also the possibility of a completely different virus, not a variant of SARS Coronavirus 2, might come along and take us, the COVID hosts, down. If this hypothetical X virus takes enough humans out, Covid D won’t have a medium in which to propagate.
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  7972. From Putin’s perspective, it’s a civil war. There are no Ukrainians, just misbehaving Russians.
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  7973. I had a tree I grew from a pit. No fruit for ten years. Then one year, a bumper crop and every other year after that.
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  7974.  @isaacwhyt287  Actually, daggs is a white supremacist QAnon troll. These people love Putin because he embodies their love for violence and destruction against less powerful people.
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  7975. Hello Putzi. Don’t drink too much of your cope juice or you’ll embarrass yourself at the Putin Nazi Party meeting. A good Putzi is supposed to hold his vodka, comrade. Heil Putin.
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  7976.  @tamlandipper29  There’s never guarantees, but I have little doubt that the Ukrainians are at least capable of another one or two offensives, likely more if necessary. I think Crimea will be a very tough nut to crack, though.
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  7977. I like to put “WORDS” in between “QUOTES”.
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  7978. Give it time.
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  7979.  @LoireValleyChateaux  God named the neighborhood?
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  7980. No they didn’t. You are a liar. The timeline: The Lakers qualified for the Payment Protection loan of 4.6 million and received the money. Their business had been shut down at that point while the NBA was figuring out its next steps. When there was an outcry because of the PP program being depleted of funds, the Lakers returned the money and withdrew from the program so that businesses with more urgent needs could be assisted. The Lakers’ need wasn’t AS urgent, but the money would have been helpful in keeping people on the payroll, especially considering that at that point they didn’t know if there even would be a season. “Returned” is a misleading term, because they hadn’t yet actually received the money, but that’s how it was reported so let’s just go with it. So let’s examine your statement. “they got the money” – FALSE. “and didn’t need it” – partly FALSE, the didn’t need it as urgently as other businesses. So you’ve told one and a half lies, making you a liar and twister of the truth. Maybe you’re a natural liar. Maybe you lie to yourself, and tell lies to support your self deception. (You might tell yourself that it’s OK to lie because “everyone does it”, another example of self justifying your self deception.) Whatever your motivations, I urge you give up this habit of casually lying. Ultimately, it hurts you. It will twist you as an individual. It’s a descent into your worst self.
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  7981.  @johns9969  You’re crying and moaning about the cushion because you’re ignorant to how hard you might hit without the cushion. You’re blaming the weather on the people handing out umbrellas. When you don’t understand the cyclic nature of the problem, you’re not going not solve the problem.
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  7982. Pre?
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  7983. So you don’t value your time, apparently.
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  7984. You’re Qoo Qoo.
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  7985. Why can’t he? You don’t have to accept the criticism, or you can deflect it as ordinary partisanship. But there’s not a conflict between criticizing a leader while praising the troops. Honestly, I find this sort of partisan sniping to be refreshingly old fashioned.
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  7986. Right now (or a few months ago, given that the trial date has passed), the defense attorney and the prosecutor are working out a plea deal. I doubt this went to trial. That’s the game: hit the defendant with maximal charges so you can knock off some charges for a guilty plea. The defense is thinking about the penalties and how to minimize them. The number of charges is not as important because the penalties (jail time) usually run concurrently. This case is going to be tough on the defense, because everything seems pretty clew cut.
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  7987.  DrJamal Jackson  THE PRROOOF IS THIS RICK NASTI VIDEO NECER GON GIVE YOOYUP
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  7988. It takes more than a few months. If you’ve been watching this channel, you might have heard the word logistics. Having heard the word, you might also have heard of its importance. Having heard of its importance, you might still be ignorant of what logistics entails. If you think a new weapons platform as complicated as a tank can be incorporated in a few months, you are revealing your ignorance. Logistics is a nightmare, always. Even a well run logistics system is one big crisis away from a breakdown. This is why logistics keeps logistics managers up at night, even the successful managers.
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  7989. Belligerent idiocy is one way to put it. Another way is to call it moral/ethical childishness. Antivaxxers and antimaskers are behaving like toddlers, putting themselves, their families, and their communities at risk for . . . temporary convenience? Temporary comfort? Or even worse and just as childish, some are lost in a childish fantasy world of make-believe politics.
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  7990. Well, maybe don’t install a preschool near a pre-existing strip club, and you won’t have this problem. I really wish you liberals would respect the rights of private businesses and quit trying to socialize all aspects of life.
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  7991. @KEEPIT ALL THE WAY FUNKY🎄 Just keep the mower between you and the snake and you’re good.
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  7992. General Burton Reynolds was the commanding officer at the Battle of Cannon Ball Run, Scott. Get the full name right.
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  7993. Possibly. It would have undercut the Tribe’s strongest argument, but it’s not the only argument that the tribe could make.
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  7994. He said that you, Peter, are taking more pills than anyone else. Watch the video again more carefully.
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  7995.  @nw1858  we can’t say it didn’t happen, but we can expect you to show proof that it did happen. You make the claim, you show the proof. An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.
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  7996. What carbon capture do they use, if any?
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  7997.  @nat9909  The root cause was the Sioux saying “Not in my backyard”, the same maneuver that rich folk perform when a transit project impinges on their community. The eco-freaks were recruited to help the cause, but at its heart was the same NIMBY politics used by conservatives.
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  7998.  @nat9909  The root cause was the Sioux saying “Not in my backyard”, the same maneuver that rich folk perform when a transit project impinges on their community. The eco-freaks were recruited to help the cause, but at its heart was the same NIMBY politics used by conservatives.
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  7999.  @Duskraven67  We are probably seeing both cases. I also imagine that more experienced tank crews (the survivors) like to send the inexperienced crews ahead (reconn by blundering) to find mines and ambushes. “Go ahead, we’ll be right behind you.” Better you than me, tovarish. Do you know the story about the old guy and the new guy that come across a pile of dog crap? The old guy demands the new guy smell it. The young guy resists, but the old guy forces him to smell it. “It smells like crap.” Then the old guy forces the new guy to taste it. “Taste! Taste or I kill you.” The new guy hesitantly tastes it. “It tastes like crap.” The old guy shrugs and says, “Good thing we didn’t step in it.”
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  8000. Maybe, but it’s also a cybersecurity topic that applies to many people. Ryan has discussed cybersecurity in the past on this channel.
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  8001.  jo shmo  OK, Ivan.
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  8002.  @robertcarlclayton7724  It’s ultimately up to the voters of Wisconsin to hold Johnson’s feet to the fire and demand he keep his promises. If they don’t care, that’s democracy. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  8003.  @robertcarlclayton7724  I’m not excusing him. He’s a piece of garbage. But that’s not the topic of discussion. We’re talking about term limits.
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  8004. This better be about metric bolts.
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  8005. To the Russian way of thinking, it’s all the same vast conspiracy acting against it. Putin has climbed so far up his victimhood butthole that even offering him friendship must have ulterior motives and must be a covert attack on his power. This is why to the Kremlin, the EU and NATO are synonymous.
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  8006. It really seems like a desperate act by Russia.
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  8007. Thank you for stripping out the saxophone music in the original.
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  8008. The Democratic House wanted 3 trillion. The GOP senate offered 1 Trillion. Democrats counter-offered 2 Trillion. The GOP’s response? 300 Billion? That doesn’t make any sense. It looks like the GOP Senate is the obstruction here.
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  8009.  @TheHarvestchef  You’re not lying, but you’re exaggerating un poco. Just a little bit. Still, Mexico has a way of smacking you in the face. I think half these people will give up and move back before five years has passed.
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  8010. The Chair of the RNC isn’t a public office. Any politically aware American would know that. I doubt you’re an American citizen.
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  8011. What colonies does France have in Africa?
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  8012.  @JaguarPriest  I suppose you’re right, love can blind you, especially if it’s thicker than your arm and just as long. That’s a big big love. They might have had longer range plans, but once they got to America’s most romantic city, Cincinnati, they shacked up and lost track of time as they made love like ferocious crazed weasels. And probably with weasels if there were any pet stores nearby. Seriously, they could have made the Mexican border in 14 hours or less. The U.S. customs and border control officers don’t check people leaving, and the Mexican authorities would just wave you in. Maybe they were heading for Canada because they didn’t speak Spanish.
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  8013. Not really effective against cities. That said, it’s very effective against buildings in cities.
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  8014. D MO Interesting point, but that wasn’t the strategic object. It was all about the canal, and not letting it fall into the hands of drug trafficker/drug addict. The Panama Canal has a huge strategic importance. Now, I fully believe that Noriega was paid by the CIA for various things, but he became unreliable. A threat, really, to CIA shenanigans in Central and South America, if Noriega was threatening to expose what he knew. So when an ex-CIA director became president, it was time to clean up some messes that would have been very embarrassing to the U.S. government in general and the CIA specifically. There’s a lot of circumstantial evidence for this (including the fact that Noriega was making the threats publicly), so I’d count it as the second objective of the campaign. Still, #1 was protecting the canal.
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  8015. There’s something that happens when you promote based on loyalty and only surround yourself with loyal people. You lose the competent people that will tell you the truth, the people that could have confirmed that anything he saw on western media was true. Putin was lied to. But what is worse, he wanted to be lied to, to have his insecurities and anxieties soothed and smoothed over. That is the other half of the story. He demanded that his inner circle tell him only good news and flattering lies.
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  8016. How does it feel to discover that your dad would be considered a dangerous criminal in Florida? 😂
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  8017.  @iamalongusername  intelligence! 😛 But to be serious for a moment, let us take one of the main tensions of society: the rights and prerogatives of the group vs those of the individual. The group (or collective or whatever you wish to call it) is composed of individuals who give up absolute liberty for the benefits of being in the group. The tension is between the collective well-being and individual well-being. To simplify, imagine this relation between the group and the individual as being a line. The center is a balancing point (although it’s not a static point, it will always be shifting according to conditions), but on one side of point is the needs of society and the other is the needs of the individual. I’m on the side of the center point that favors the individual, but I recognize that there must be a balance. The needs of society must be given their due. Absolutist notions of liberty are the childish dreams of libertarians, power-crazed billionaires, and criminal warlords.
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  8018. Or a steadycam, handheld, or dolly shot. That said, aesthetic choices should never take priority over safety. If the shot is going to be unsafe, find a different way to do it.
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  8019. The reparation is removal of the construction and legal costs.
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  8020. That’s old school right there. He wasn’t disrespectful to Biden, but he was critical of the President. He’s not casting Biden as the Antichrist. I’m glad you can spot the difference. We still have hope if we know the difference between normal party politics and the monstrous political dung heap that is MAGA.
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  8021. Brass for bras.
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  8022. You’re ignoring the long term utility of having a large fleet of capable multirole aircraft like the F-16. This move signals that the West is in it for the long term, even after a peace deal is struck or if Russia gets pushed out, as it will sooner or later. I suspect large numbers of U.S. F-16s will be joining the planes from Denmark and Netherlands in 2024, a head of the U.s. November elections.
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  8023. Stop lying.
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  8024.  @ashleylittle8403  The sonic boom is heard at the point that the sound barrier is passed (broken). The missiles are fired from within the Soviet Union. I mean Russia. I do think they were used. But I also think you are correct that there are a limited number of them, and Putin is wasting his limited supply. I also think that the use of such “wonder weapons” is yet another parallel that Putin shares with Hitler.
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  8025.  @Deezcutz2024 70 cents on the dollar.
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  8026. What are the chances that his evangelical followers will actually read it instead of thump on it like a drum?
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  8027.  @fuckgoogle2554  That’s the big joke, no? The big boss of a criminal syndicate plans the ultimate heist: to steal an entire country. But the plan falls apart when the big boss discovers that his criminal organization is riddled with . . . . criminals.
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  8028. But did they go to great lengths to cover up the corruption? Or were the higher echelons just not asking questions because they were getting their skim? If Putin was getting 5 or 10% of the vig, where did he think it came from?
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  8029. You’re posting the same nonsensical comment to every video. Troll much?
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  8030.  @BuryOurHearts ”the left” isn’t a party, you non-American disinformation bot. Don’t they train you guys anymore? Who writes your material?
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  8031. He’s flushing them out. It can be difficult to discern a foreign bot from domestic or a bot from a delusional homegrown American Golfer (making America golf again), so this also performs a taxonomic function by keyword. To separate rational opinion from bots and delusional RW golf fanatics, “Not paying attention to Tucker puts you into an echo chamber” and similar reveals who they are. Associating Pete with the CIA = foreign bot, Russian origin Associating Pete with the M.I. complex = Chinese bot Anti-Israel = foreign bot posing as a leftist (very few actual leftists watch Pete) Pushing conspiracy theories = homegrown idiot 50%, foreign bot 50% LATE STAGE CAPITALIZATION = homegrown horseshoe moron, leftist leaning, possible golfer Make America Golf Again = moron FJB = homegrown moron or foreign amplification bot servicing golfing moron campaigns Trump + Current Year = ditto Talking about OIS in an intelligent manner = worthwhile person, guided by truth, and really sexy. I mean really really devastatingly sexy. 👉🔥 🍑 Szzzzzzzzzsexy If Pete is “working” clandestinely here, it’s for the OIS community. This kind of video creates a rich data set in the comments section. The bots making the comments can be traced and associated with one another, and in this way the OIS community surfaces disinformation networks.
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  8032.  @니뽀옹시이벵  Hey, Ivan. You should demand a refund from whatever English school you attended in Moscow or St. Petersburg. I doubt your French or German is much better.
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  8033.  @bjorngve  You were part of an effort to prevent Real War, and should be commended for your contribution, even if you were just a kid doing fuck-all.
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  8034. No, that’s not what it did. If you think so, then you already believed it and this didn’t expose anything to you. This just confirms what you already believed.
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  8035. What is Biden supposed to do if Congress won’t fund it? Before you judge Biden’s performance, you need to look at the politics surrounding it. 1) The border crisis is so pressing that Republicans demand that Ukraine aid be tied to it. After initially resisting, congressional democrats give in to the demands and begin negotiating with their counterparts. 2) Trump orders the Republicans to not pass any legislation to resolve the border crisis because it might make Biden look good. The Congressional leadership acknowledges this directive publicly. Look, every time a democrat is in office, immigration becomes a crisis. It’s been a big Republican campaign issue since Clinton was president. Either the Republicans are crying wolf again, or (if there really is a crisis) they’re willing to put national security at risk to win an election. I don’t love Joe Biden, but I love the modern GOP even less. And I was a Republican for over 25 years.
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  8036. On a side note, where do you get your spelling advice?
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  8037. Racists and Culture Warriors don’t even have a definition for “woke”. The closest thing they have to a definition is “anything that liberals are in favor of” or “anything that promotes fair and equal treatment for people different from us”. Debunking that a fictional threat exists doesn’t make them happy because they aren’t actually interested in safety. They are interested in accumulating and maintaining political power by leveraging cultural/racial/social prejudices and fears amongst their ignorant base of activists. Debunking of a lie or conspiracy theory doesn’t deter them because their world view incorporates debunking into their false narrative. In their minds, the debunker is merely revealing themselves as part of the “woke conspiracy”. Debunking is still important for informing the public, but don’t expect it to make any headway among the weird authoritarian extremists intent on hijacking political power.
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  8038.  @themalacast  Oh, look, there’s a cultural warrior now! When was it that you abandoned conservatism in favor of moral panic?
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  8039. Ironically, Kuzma was killed by a Metallica attack, not Anthrax.
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  8040.  @Mark_87  Not really. Look up “mens rea”. There’s no criminal case here. This is negligence and human error causing a tort, plain and simple. People make mistakes, and the company is liable for those mistakes, but there wasn’t criminal intent (according to the story). If a prosecutor could prove criminal intent beyond reasonable doubt, there might be a criminal case.
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  8041.  @ViceCoin  Nope. There are supplementaries to cover the exclusions. This was covered in a previous episode, iirc.
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  8042. Blowing up civilian power plants that aren’t playing a tactical role is a war crime. It would not be considered a war crime if, for example, Russia was making an assault on Kharkiv and taking out the power plant would put the military defending it into disarray. Clearly, Russia is in no position to assault Kharkiv. The attack on the power plant would be considered an attack on civilians in an international court.
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  8043. Putin isn’t high on the list of moral monsters, but he’s the moral monster of our time. He’s a genocidal maniac, but doesn’t have the power to murder tens of millions like Stalin, Hitler, or Mao. (Assuming he doesn’t use strategic nukes against Western Europe or North America, which is still a small possibility.)
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  8044. I don’t think of chiles as a spice. I think of them as a vegetable. The tastiest vegetable.
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  8045. The funny thing is that the evangelical right will see this video as pro-Trump.
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  8046. That’s not accurate. Seventeen days after the initial German invasion, while Poland’s armed forces were busy fighting the Germans, the USSR occupied Poland as per previous arrangement with Nazi Germany. Hitler and Stalin divided up Poland, and the USSR continued to provide Nazi Germany with steel, oil, strategic minerals, and other resources until Hitler’s operation Barbarossa took Stalin by surprise. Basically, the Soviets were supporting Hitler’s war machine until that war machine was turned on them.
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  8047. Stunt, or cruel prank? The dumping of people to MV or to the Vice-president’s house seems like a very mean spirited prank even more than a political stunt. A stunt might actually make a valid point. A prank is meant to score points and make the prank’s victim look like an idiot. It’s cruelty for cruelty’s sake. This is the MAGA model of governance—governance by prank, make the victims look foolish, and in the process, victimize innocents.
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  8048. This isn’t a trend, it’s a constant. Don’t panic. 😅
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  8049.  @bentnickel7487  Better off, not necessarily fine in the longer term. But I don’t want to be overly pessimistic, either. Diminishing expectations? Check. Reason to panic? Not so much.
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  8050.  @SwissSicilian  It won’t be easy nor fast, but it’s already beginning. More broadly, we are seeing diversification of imports and imported inputs after the pandemic. Trade agreements can solidify this diversification.
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  8051. Loefler and Perdue are trying to have it both ways and save their jobs. They’re criticizing the November election and attacking Republican election officials. Yet they’re not truly supporting the President because they’re not acknowledging the probability that the run-off election will also be rigged—they’re trying to protect themselves while throwing President Trump under the bus. They’re already turning on him and privately saying Biden won. Bottom line: Georgia Republicans, True Republicans that fully support the President and his claim to a second term should boycott the election and reject opportunistic grifters like Perdue and Loelfler. Don’t support a corrupt election system and don’t support fair weather friends like Perdue and Loefler.
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  8052.  @mananimal3644  You wrote Jill Stein 2026. Is that the year when Hamas makes Stein the President of Gaza?
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  8053. Where the hell is Rudy? Did they forget to pick him up from the Hospital? No, but seriously, he might be on his deathbed. C’mon, kids, there’s only one way to save him. Clap your hands and shout, “I believe in evil”.
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  8054. If you’re my age (and a Californian), you know and love Steve Garvey AS A BASEBALL PLAYER. But I’m not going to vote for a Republican. I’d consider him if he ran as a Democrat. I’m an ex-Republican and a current Dodger fan.
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  8055.  @wendygerrish4964  Heat rises. Most studios have metal grids suspended under the ceiling, out of sight from the camera. These grids are filled with hundreds of studio lights that get quite hot. If there isn’t constant ventilation, the studio becomes unbearably hot, like Arizona in the summertime hot. There is usually air conditioning attached to the intake of outside air, at least in the warmer climes where I’ve worked. When the outside air is too warm, the AC kicks in to cool it down before pushing it into the studio. Without ventilation or air conditioning, the makeup would melt off the faces of the talent and workers would get heat stroke.
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  8056. Good point. It would be better to say that he wouldn’t be charged under the espionage act if he had declassified them—but the burden of proof is on him to show that he declassified the documents in his possession while still president. That’s the problem with using your presidential mental powers to declassify: they don’t leave a paper trail. 😂
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  8057. They’ve also sent out an email to the crew stating that they intend to continue the production. “Tone-deaf” doesn’t begin to describe the mentality of whoever decided to send that email.
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  8058. Eight Sleep isn’t just redefining sleep. They’re disrupting it!
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  8059. @Alex There’s only proof that eight prototype T-14s exist. Eight on parade. Not quite as illusory as the T-95, but it’s a reasonable guess that the eight prototypes are it.
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  8060.  @jonny-b4954  Experienced salesmen also know not to waste time or effort on non-buyers. Trying to cultivate non-buyers into buyers is for rookies.
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  8061.  @robo1p  No, wasting time like responding to your comment, sir.
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  8062.  @TaoScribble  You just need to work at it a little harder. 😉
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  8063. Sure! You never heard of the Fafa?
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  8064.  @Lessenjr  It doesn’t mean “at random”, it means according 1) choice or decision based on whim or desire rather than on system or reason.
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  8065.  @markhall6306  But that is untrue. You’re twisting your ignorance of historical events to justify invasion, war crimes, and potential genocide by Putzi Russian military. The Cuban Missile crisis was resolved peacefully without an invasion or threat of invasion. Get bent, Putzi troll.
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  8066.  @blueocean-me1ns  I expect he’ll spend some time in a funny farm, then some more time on a work farm.
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  8067. If there is a cuckoo’s nest in Tupelo, this guy flew over it.
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  8068. Wrt to Bizarro NATO, first of all would it be led by Russia? I think China is the obvious choice. Anyway, I think I saw this in Police Academy. Or maybe it already exists as SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion). Surprisingly, it is not led by Putin, but by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. I’m doubtful that BIZARRO NATO or SPECTRE would have an Article 5. Really what we’re more likely to see is a trading alliance that probably won’t include India, South Africa, or Brazil. Call it RICK.
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  8069. Boarding for what purpose? I’ve got a good one: for the purpose of inspections. Not just for contraband, but for seaworthiness and safety. In other words, for law enforcement purposes, not military ones. The military needn’t be involved at all, except in cases where a ship refuses to yield. This comports with international law because it’s within territorial waters. The fact that a heavy and stringent inspection regime would strangle shipping into and out of St. Petersburg is just an unfortunate side effect. So sorry, Muscovy, that you can’t get your oil products shipped in a timely manner, but there’s been a rash of tankers having mechanical problems. I’m afraid we’ll have to inspect and catalogue every defect in maintenance and every piece of equipment not operating correctly. If you can reduce shipping into and out of St. Petersburg by (just to make up a number) 25%-50%, you’ve got a 50% effective blockade without the risks of war.
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  8070. They had a multi-cycle calendar. They also had a 365 day solar cycle that ran simultaneously.
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  8071.  @macmedic892 when all you got is shit, make shit-ade.
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  8072. Trumpland Trumpland Uber Alles
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  8073. Russian military selects civilian targets by Yelp reviews.
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  8074. In that case, it would be wise for China not to upset major pork exporters.
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  8075. That isn’t actually happening.
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  8076. Maybe for all y’all in Russia, Marek. But your definition of treason is different from ours, too.
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  8077. Trump was combing through the documents, removing what he wanted to keep or what he didn’t want the FBI to know he had. There was a shit ton of bankers’ boxes containing the documents, and apparently they weren’t organized.
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  8078. Used in a sentence: Practice safe secs or you might get the Hermès virus.
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  8079.  @neuconmachinery  Those Mexican-Russian menonitas make the best cheese. I had a heck of a time finding cheddar for a reasonable price until someone recommended queso menonita, which is a good analog.
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  8080. @UCj7FdTg_IvMG71pLnn3uQzg That was debunked. The incident occurred behind Russian lines. The Russian soldiers involved, both the shooters and the ones shot, were paid a bonus. The ones shot got to go home.
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  8081. No, you’re lying and there are satellite photos that prove it, Putzi.
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  8082. But the windmills!
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  8083. Remind me again why they get to even vote or work outside of the home. It’s not like the old days, when we lived in caves like God intended.
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  8084. What does your question even mean?
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  8085.  @starrgod7671  Sure, that is a possibility. There are mechanisms within the judicial branch that they can use to find improprieties and incompetence. In some cases, they will refer the matter to Congress for impeachment and removal. But unless there is solid evidence of a bribe or some such, there’s no crime.
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  8086.  @MoireFly  She should be impeached, but there is no solid proof that she took a bribe or intended to obstruct Justice. Such accusations need to be backed up with real evidence. Maybe that evidence is out there, maybe not. Until such a time as we can be shown such evidence, chants of “lock her up” are no more based in reality than “stop the steal”. Please don’t fall into the same emotional trap as the MAGAs. As the Klingon saying goes, “Revenge is a dish best served cold”. That doesn’t mean wallowing in your anger nor does it mean suppressing it. It means channeling it in positive ways to throw the bums out this November. Voting is only the bare minimum. There is so much more you can do to turn out the vote.😊
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  8087. But why the reference to your mom in the suicide note?
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  8088. If they’ve drawn blood from a patient for any sort of testing, there’s a chance that they’ve preserved the sample for further testing.
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  8089. God protect you, your family, and your people.
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  8090. OTOH, it’s encouragement to get vaccinated when it’s your age group’s turn, which might happen within two or three months in the U.S. Vaccinations are on track to exceed Biden’s goal.
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  8091. Trump grabbed who by the Pence?
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  8092.  @talldreamyopposum  Wasn’t Audi Murphy was acquired by Volkswagen Jones.
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  8093. So, you want government to hand out jobs, not temporary cash assistance in a period of high unemployment? Are you a socialist?
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  8094.  @haventstopped6641  They didn’t show evidence that the voting machine problems caused Lake to lose. Machine malfunctions do not prove Lake would have won or that anyone was disenfranchised. People could still vote, it just took longer, which created longer lines. If Lake supporters didn’t want to wait in line and went home instead, then they didn’t vote. They are not counted. Sorry, those are the rules and thems the breaks.
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  8095.  @j.dragon651  Come now, your GRU cubicle farm can’t be that disorganized.
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  8096. It’s spelled amore, darling. 😘
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  8097. Guadalajara is in the Bajio? That’s quite creative. And wrong.
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  8098. Barnes needs to work on his skills. Good on him for being able to protect himself.
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  8099.  @EconLessons  More like Chainmail than D&D, really.
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  8100.  @hemaccabe4292  lol, yes, a spam bot. What’s your excuse? Is this how you cope these days?
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  8101. How many generations back would you have to go to find that Vietnamese ancestor? Bisbisbisbisbisbisbisbisabuelo?
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  8102. I wouldn’t give 2 bits for the Ruble’s prospects.
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  8103.  @deborahhebblethwaite1865  Judging by a documentary I saw, contract tracing was probably not a tall demand and they were able to quarantine traveling wizards. lol, hobbits!
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  8104. What are you using to disinfect the air? A mechanical filtering device?
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  8105.  @goattalk3670  What a ridiculous counter example. Mexico itself wouldn’t tolerate it. You have some really weird ideas about international relations.
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  8106. There is no mechanism understood by science that would enable an anti-parasite neurotoxin to become an effective antiviral. These are entirely two different classes of pathogens that operate at different scales. You might as well ask if there has been an update on how effective bullets are against the coronavirus.
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  8107. Maybe Putin is literally invested.
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  8108. It’s terrible. Local economies are dependent on tourism, so you find many workers willing or forced to take the risk. Then the tourists come in and are very sloppy about following health protocols, because of course they don’t take the threat seriously. I’m witnessing this first hand. Many think they are safe because the customer facing workers are wearing masks, but they don’t see that the rest of the community can’t afford to keep everyone masked. I’m witnessing this firsthand. This is beyond economic privilege. It’s a sort of careless casual genocide caused by psychological infants. And the justifications are insane.
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  8109.  @paulfranklin4276  Poor orphans with terminal diseases. Their last wish was to party on New Years Eve in Cancun.
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  8110. Good job!
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  8111.  @Allangulon  The nation of India has nothing to do with this case. These people with the mineral rights aren’t dot-on-the-head Indians, they’re Native American Indians. No wonder you’re all over the comments posting nonsense. You don’t know your rear end from a mining operation.
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  8112. I don’t think Trump has anything on him. It turns out that Graham was always a suck up to authoritarian power.
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  8113.  Tord Pettersson  You have a fair point, but on the other hand, Ukrainian claims can be fact checked because the Ukrainian government doesn’t control the media and hasn’t banned a free press. Independent reporters from around the world can investigate and report from Ukraine without fear of violence or imprisonment. Because of a free and independent media in Ukraine, the Ukraine government can’t get too far from the facts if it wants to maintain credibility. They might put a spin on the facts, but they cannot shamelessly make things up like the Kremlin does.
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  8114.  @andrewweber2010  lol, that’s not going to happen.
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  8115. He’s got collateral, so I think he will eventually find someone.
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  8116. If you were a judge, you’d follow sentencing guidelines.
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  8117. These aren’t fines. These are damages awarded to the plaintiffs, to the tune of $26 million. I’m not sure how the damages are apportioned to the various defendants.
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  8118. Class notes: A couple things that Adam strongly implied, but didn’t quite say explicitly (or maybe I’m assuming to much) are (1) when you start to spend “real money”, get good measuring/marking tools. Real life examples I can think of: if I’m cutting lumber for set flats, I can get by with a sharpie, measuring tape, and a combo square. If I’m making cabinets, I need much more accurate measuring and marking tools. (2) when you have a tool that “feels better in the hand”, you’ll be able to work more effectively (and in the case of the scribe, also more accurately). Adam is describing (for us mortals) ergonomics. Sorry for this unnecessary breakdown. My goddaughter just started school and I’m trying to teach her to take effective notes. Just trying to get back into practice!
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  8119. zapa1pnt Nah, no worries. I’m trying to get into the mind set of extracting the important information, so I can help her learn. Probably you and I have the ability to break something down into chunks or components without having to writing it down, but it’s a learned skill. She’s already dealing with a firehose of material: Chemistry, Math, Spanish, English, etc., and it’s all lectures through Zoom, with class discussions in WhatsApp. It seems to be helping and she’s doing well in the class discussions.
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  8120.  I'm  I agree about Judd being a good man, but I do deny that your a good person with good intentions. You’re making up lies about the vaccines and spreading disinformation. You have a malevolent agenda.
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  8121.  @killawofe  OP claims to be from England but is probably an immigrant from a dictatorship who doesn’t understand the laws of his adopted country or the laws of the U.S. I’m not trying to excuse him—he’s a blowhard offering his opinion on a subject about which he is ignorant.
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  8122.  @july8xx  or the junior level lawyer (the underling) thought he was being put on the hook to protect more senior lawyers, and it didn’t have anything to do with his feelings about the client.
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  8123.  @FireMageLayn  I’m thinking along your lines along with, “I’m not going to be disciplined by the Bar to protect one of the partners. I spent considerable time and money on my law school education. Why risk it? I can always get a job at another firm that puts a higher premium on ethics and professional conduct.”
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  8124. Two things that Professor Clarke touches on are worthy of further thought. Clarke says one of the reasons for the civilian bombing campaign is to make Putin and his inner circle “feel good”. I break this down into two things: 1) Cruelty for cruelty’s sake, and 2) destroying another country in order to be COMPARATIVELY superior. Inflicting cruelty is an exercise in power. On a day to day basis, someone with “absolute power” of life and death over others needs to check the extent of their power. The tyrant must constantly test his boundaries to see if they are expanding or shrinking. The tyrant wakes up in the morning uncertain about his power today, and this insecurity leads him to commit atrocities to prove to himself that he can still impose his will on large swaths of humanity. However, the would-be Tyrant must take care not to push too far against his own people if he doesn’t yet have total control. Instead he tests his power against a “them”. In the current case, Russia is Putin’s “us” and Ukraine (and NATO by extension) is “them”. And of course Putin’s domestic power is now being undermined because he is now sacrificing his own imperfectly subjugated subjects. The second “feel good” factor is akin to the childish proposition, “If I can’t have it, nobody can”, but the larger component is, “If I hurt you more than you hurt me, I win”. Putin feels that damaging Russia’s economy, degrading its military, and undermining Russian society is worth the cost if he can destroy Ukraine’s ability to function as an independent democracy. This is why he goes after the electrical grid and other civil infrastructure, but it is also why he murders civilians and bombs Cultural targets. It is why the Russian Army loots and rapes. With regard to signs of Putin being removed from power, we are only seeing palace intrigues that will reshuffle his subordinates but that will not threaten Putin himself. Those that criticize him directly will become object lessons, as they have in the past.
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  8125.  @josullivan5189  Oh, great, now I suppose you want me to keep a dictionary by the computer so I can learn adverbs and whatnot.
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  8126. lol, strike averted and a new pope all at the same time.
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  8127. I know what BRICS is, but what is BRICS PAC?
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  8128. Has Philippa been cleared of charges that she is a Doctor Who Companion?
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  8129.  @carolharris2357  it’s part of the compensation package. If you get medical insurance (or any other benefit) from your work, does that make you a freeloader? Or maybe you just get an hourly wage and no other compensation. If that is the case, maybe you should go find a better job instead of complaining about other people’s work benefits.
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  8130.  @user-cg6fd4in1d  It is illegal to fire a person for trying to organize their workplace. If you feel you were wrongfully terminated for organizing, contact your state labor board and the department of labor. You should know all this already, labor agitator.
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  8131.  @juliemunoz2762  Thank you. All the government should do is prevent employers from retaliating against collective bargaining. It should not negotiate on behalf of anyone.
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  8132. What a strange thing about which to spread disinformation. It’s administered by the Nobel Foundation, the same organization that administers all the other prizes. The prize money is put up by a Swedish bank, of which almost no one outside of Sweden has ever heard. If the bank is leaching prestige, it’s not getting much value for its money.
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  8133. I think there are other arguments that could be used (and might have been used in court), but this was the strongest argument that won the case. It’s seems very clear to me the company unambiguously violated the rights of a rights holder.
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  8134.  @webaazul2500  It’s worse than doing nothing. It’s sleazy companies stealing $ while doing nothing.
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  8135.  @kennethpereyda5707  If Biden was disqualified from running, then yes. But that’s not the question that will be before the Supreme Court. They will be asked about Trump.
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  8136. You’ve got a sane approach. The one thing I would point out to you is that the suffering is not left in the past. Another thing I would point out is that it’s an academic theory currently in fashion. It’s “under construction”. I wouldn’t even call it an ideology. Anyway, Ryan gave a nice primer, clarifying some of the important basics. It’s not complete. There are some gaps. It will help you muddle through.
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  8137. I doubt more than a handful of people in the CCP are aware of Pete, mostly in the propaganda dept. because they probably consider him a fellow propagandist.
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  8138. Guys, it’s a sporting goods store.
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  8139.  @briangasser973  How do you think Halloween lovers feel?
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  8140.  Peter Mortensen  the rain
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  8141.  @patverum9051  Exactly. It’s very hard to hide. Do these pro Russians imagine cash transactions? Money has to go through the exchanges. Those that aren’t controlled by the West are still monitored, even cryptocurrency exchanges.
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  8142.  @zoren1900 It’s not something you learn, like a skill or gathering information. It’s something that develops during normal human maturation. It’s something you lose. Pity him for losing it, and pity him more if he never developed it. If it’s something he lost perhaps he can regain it. If he never had it, it’s likely too late.
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  8143.  @elcheapo9444 Those weren’t fibs. The knocking sounds were me and your wife. Sorry you had to find out this way, buddy.
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  8144.  @David.124 I’m imagining a zero.
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  8145. If we’re going to be serious for a moment, the correct response to that is not to jump out of your vehicle and fire shots at a fleeing vehicle. It’s very difficult to make a claim of self defense when the threat is fleeing. You will note that I’m not criticizing the man for arming himself. But arming yourself doesn’t mean you need to take the law into your own hands, especially if you’re upset or frightened. Gun owners need to watch this video repeatedly. It’s good example of what not to do.
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  8146. Can we trust the numbers coming from authoritarian states such as Russia, China, or Florida?
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  8147. @Spider Bloke I hope folks realize I’m making a joke.
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  8148. I think sending the Abrahms is a non-starter. It’s just not going to happen. WRT to training on other platforms, it’s possible. But it will take considerable time, even to bring an experienced pilot of one aircraft to full combat effectiveness on another aircraft. Indeed, this is an issue with the Polish MiGs. They share the same airframe as the Ukrainian MiGs, but cockpit layout, avionics, capabilities, etc all need retraining that would take months, if not years. The same goes for western aircraft, but even more so. (And this is why the Polish MiGs can’t be sent quickly to Ukraine. They need to be reconfigured as Ukrainian MiGs which takes time. That is to say, if this is being done. Who knows? 😉)
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  8149.  @warmike  I don’t remember that going through, but if it did I stand corrected.
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  8150. I want those channel locks! I needed them just last week. I ended up using a borrowed chain vise grip. Yesterday at the hardware store I also saw something unusual. Mini-chain vise grips. The chain was half the thickness of normal sized ones. One more thing for the list of tools it would be nice to have.
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  8151. Why would he do that? What is he supposed to say about it? You’re asking him to comment on a subject outside his expertise. Why?
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  8152. Good one, Ivan! No, I’m just being polite. Google translate needs a complete overhaul.
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  8153. You’re ignoring the fact that domestic terrorists don’t give a fuck about democracy or elections and are only too happy to use violence to achieve their political ends. Therefore your reasoning is flawed.
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  8154. Why, how much Russian state TV do you watch?
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  8155. If I am remembering correctly, they have found plumas de papagayo in ancient archaeological sites in New Mexico, EEUU. Possibly cacao también, but my memory is hazy. So that trade route went North as wells as South! There’s a fascinating book about the pre-European invasion Americas called 1491. by Charles C. Mann. I’m not seeing an edición español on Amazon unfortunately.
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  8156. This would make a great question at the debate: Do you still think that John McCain and the thousands of other soldiers, sailors, airmen that died or survived as POWs are not war heroes. Do you still not like them? If your opinion has changed, will you apologize to them, their families, and the American people?
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  8157.  @liamsdad33 Famous crime and western Novelist Elmore Fudd isn’t running for office.
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  8158. Sadly, it cannot and should not, or the government’s operations would come to a halt. So enjoy it while you may! 😂 The common wisdom is that the Dem caucus should stand back and watch the comedy unfold, but they could kill Jim Jordan’s career by supporting him. People would think he made a deal with the Dems, and the Dems could encourage this by saying, “No comment”. Get one of the leftists firebrands like AOC to say, “We look forward to working with our colleagues across the aisle”. The MAGAs would lose whatever shit they’ve managed to hold onto.
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  8159.  Nadeer John  You need to find a better way to cope with the humiliation of Russia’s invasion forces. You Putzis look ridiculous blaming Nazis.
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  8160. Is it a boy or a girl? No, Mrs. Smith. It’s a lost city! What? I’m going to give birth to a lost city? I’m afraid so. The sonogram doesn’t lie.
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  8161.  @Crybaby-cz8et  Direct deposit for most recipients. If you haven’t already set up direct deposit, it might take a while. I’ll keep checking my bank account, but it might until next week.
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  8162.  @crelgen1588 So there is no correlation between announcing substantial layoffs and the substantial drop in stock price that followed. Because investors don’t react to news. 🙄 Back in the day, stock price would rise when layoffs were announced.
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  8163. ⁠ @geheimeWeltregierung  Pompeo wasn’t that different from Bush or Obama, both of whom had a policy of improving barriers near the major crossings. Trump’s plan of hermetically sealing the border with a Great Wall was and is ridiculous, whoever pays for it.
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  8164. Romney didn’t try to sabotage the relief bill. (Neither did Spector, for obvious reasons.)
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  8165. For measuring days, weeks, and months? I agree. But not hours and minutes. Clock towers are an abomination and a blight. J/k 😅
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  8166. Two years would have been better, considering that she was busted for DUI while out on bail. But 15 months is also good. There is not much time off for good behavior in federal prison.
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  8167.  @NoName-vq3zo  She’s young and physically fit. The money will be owed until she pays it. If she doesn’t, she will be hauled back into court—that should be sufficient motivation.
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  8168.  @t2dev  That’s not the case for federal sentences. At best you might get 15% reduced, and the good-behavior requirements are tighter as well. She will probably serve the full 15 months, less time served. Or more, if she gets into trouble in Federal prison.
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  8169.  @benvasilinda9729  Oh, I doubt that. I would assume that she got an extra 3 months for the release violation from the DUI. And just to be clear, the DUI is a separate STATE charge. She will be tried separately for that, in state court, and possibly serve time in a state facility in addition to the 15 months in federal prison.
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  8170. I keep forgetting that you’re a monarchy, not a democracy.
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  8171. Either Ukraine has developed and is field testing a new ballistic missile capability or Russian ground based air defenses shot down Russian ballistic missiles launched from naval vessels in the Caspian Sea. While I would like to believe that Ukraine is bringing online undisclosed long range missile capabilities, the more likely possibility is that Russia is shooting itself again.
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  8172. You are probably confused from a lack of interest in history, current events, or both. Russia failed to conquer Ukraine in its first offensive. The Russian army was forced to retreat from the area near Kyiv. Now they are trying again.
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  8173. A lateral question: is there a legal reason preventing a Republican Senator or four from threatening to caucus with the Democrats if these seditionist Senators don’t stop wiping their asses with the Consitution? I’m not saying that they would switch parties, only that they would join with the Democrats to select a new Senate Majority Leader (making Mitch McConnell the Minority Leader). This would instantly cut the power of Senate assholes like Ted Cruz (who should know better: he’s a frickin’ constitutional scholar). I realize this is a wild scenario. What if Mitt Romney and Ben Sasse and whomever else were forced to carry out the threat? Would this literally fracture the GOP into two factions? Clearly there’s a lot of downside for any Republican Senator that split from the Trump GOP, but there could be a lot of upside as well (besides just protecting democracy from a party bent on a dictatorship). What upside? They could push their agendas and force Democrats to negotiate compromises with them. They could demand committee assignments. No, they wouldn’t have control, but they’d have a say in the governance of the country.
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  8174. Fascism has a new name. It’s now called “Muscular Republicanism”. This rebranding is effective immediately.
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  8175. Why do you hate him? Can’t you see he loves his job?
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  8176. I think you misunderstand the intended effects of our broken system. The goal of our broken system is to create fear among a subset of of the voting population so the fear mongers can keep getting elected. It’s working perfectly. There have been many attempts to reform our immigration system that have had bipartisan support, but a faction within one of our political parties has blocked that reform every single time. And now they have control of that party. Peter joked that the only way to stop people from coming to the U.S. was to shoot them, but there are quite a few that think that’s a serious proposal and are in favor of it.
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  8177. Thomas, this piece hit me unexpectedly. It engaged me not merely as an entertainment, it engaged my mind as a prompting of many thoughts. I had to keep pausing the video and going back to catch points you were making because I was distracted by my own thoughts about whatever previous point you had made. Or I had to watch some other piece of cinema to position my understanding of something in the video. For example, the scenes from Top Gun: Maverick (which I haven’t seen) that you used to illustrate hyper modernism that had a American flag backdrop reminded me of the opening scene of Patton, where George C. Scott does the Patton speech. The one about Americans being natural killers. I had to go watch the scene immediately. Something similar happened last night. I watched a documentary about the cinematographer John Alonzo, the Man Who Shot Chinatown. Immediately afterwards I had to watch Chinatown, which I thought I would watch analytically to see Alonzo’s technique. I even watched it dubbed in Spanish to take me out of the story and maintain analytical distance, but to no avail. I got sucked back into the story. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m not sure what this has to do with my reaction to this video. I think I’ve digressed into a stream of consciousness. Anyway, where was I? Seriously, I’ve lost my train of thought. I’m sure it will come to me later. I’m planning on watching this video again. I’m sure I’ve missed something and my reaction thoughts are racing with concatenations of possibilities so quickly that I’m going to forget what I am thinking about it all. I also enjoyed your playfulness throughout. Even the frustrating ending, where I expected a strong summation, tickled me. It invites a response. Thanks for making this.
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  8178.  @andrewalderman9489 Plunge both of your small thumbs into the seventh planet.
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  8179. At least they won’t have toilet paper shortages.
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  8180. I don’t think Trump is a puppet so much as wind up toy. Putin wanted one specific thing from Donald, removal of the sanctions on various Russian Oligarchs, Putin’s backers. Trump has failed to deliver, and Putin is in hot water himself. But this is a side matter. Putin helped place Trump in power (as did others, so I don’t give the Russians sole credit) mainly to be a chaos agent. And boy-oh-boy, Donald has fulfilled this in spades.
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  8181. That might also solve other problems they’re having. 😂
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  8182.  @valerieroberts8241  The GOP doesn’t think the border is a pressing issue. They say they can wait until next year, when they hope Trump is president and they control both houses of Congress. The bill fulfills all the Republican demands, but they’re killing it? I don’t get how you can be happy they’re killing the bill if you really care about the border.
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  8183. I don’t feel emotionally invested, but who doesn’t like a multi-billion dollar train wreck? Anyway, it’s less morbid than an actual train wreck involving death and injury.
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  8184. At least one of his lawyers got a million dollar retainer up front.
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  8185.  Combat IQ  Hey Varnik, isn’t there a better way to cope with your fears of being conscripted and sent to die in Ukraine?
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  8186. ⁠ @alexguolo5872 at a certain point you cannot lower interest rates to spur growth. All the juice has been squeezed out of the interest rate naranja. What you need is a new orange filled with more juice. You get such an orange by raising interest rates for a period.
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  8187.  @lucasholy7821  Your comment is the equivalent of “Your mother wears army boots.”
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  8188. Who’s butt do I have to sniff to get out of this dog park?
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  8189. Is this merely a brawl or low intensity conflict?
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  8190. The weirdest thing about all of this is the idea that customers deciding to go elsewhere because Twitter/X doesn’t meet their needs is somehow a boycott. Musk is literally paranoid or doesn’t understand what a boycott is.
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  8191.  @coryturke7336  But when AI equals “biological”? I suppose you mean when it reaches human intelligence equivalence. I don’t think you can assume it will happen, at least not within our lifetimes. It might not be possible at all, because the mind/body problem might never be resolved to the point where we can implement what we have learned. Simulating consciousness does not a conscious being make.
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  8192.  @RinslerRR  even Google kept its name. It just named its holding company Alphabet. Same thing for Facebook. The product/subsidiary stayed the same, but the parent company was renamed to Meta.
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  8193.  @JeffreySmith7777  Yes, we’ve heard about you getting paid to post sexual comments about Kamala Harris. Reporters are still in the process of tracking down who is making the payments, and after that they’ll probably track you down as well.
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  8194.  @t.h.8475  *constituents I realize that was probably an autocorrect error, but I hope it’s helpful. Damned 🚙 🥕.
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  8195.  @genniferbaston4529  He’s still a Senator. Only if he wins will he need to be replaced. If he doesn’t win, he still has 4 more years to until the next senatorial election.
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  8196.  @Lightcyclerider at least they’re not claiming its secret government weather control technology.
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  8197. To be fair, he’s withdrawing from the debate on 5th amendment grounds. Voter instructions should include language about candidates taking the 5th is their right, and not an indication of guilt. 😂 (This is a joke, but I’m sure that self-incrimination is one of the Trump team’s concerns about the debate. Or any time Trump opens his mouth.)
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  8198. Maybe they’ll find their conservatism down there.
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  8199. That seems odd that an SSRI would be prescribed as an anti-anxiety drug, although I could see it might be prescribed for someone suffering from a combination of anxiety and depression. WRT to menopause and hot flashes, I cannot comment as I have no knowledge whatsoever. With regard to the other comment suggesting herbs and spices, they might be helpful for some with light symptoms, but people who give such advice to others with neurochemical deficiencies are doing them a disservice, even being hurtful in some cases. I don’t want to deny that there is a place for natural remedies for some illnesses, but “Nature Fetishists” sometimes take it too far.
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  8200. Same thing happened in California, more or less. In California, county authorities can still opt for more restrictions, but of course, people don’t restrict their movements to their own counties. My brother-in-law has a job that allows him to work from home (he’s an administrator for a university network, and 99.9% of the work can be done remotely). In normal times, he has a one hour commute that takes him across three counties (home, transiting county, and work county). He and my sister live an hour’s distance from his work due to home prices. He is lucky that he can work from home. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Californians must still travel to work, and a sizable number are commuting across county lines, potentially spreading infection from less restrictive counties to more restrictive counties. It’s untenable, but there is some evidence that people in the less restrictive counties have enough sense and self-discipline to practice more restrictive safety measures on their own, and have done so as California’s infection rates began to skyrocket. I hope that the vaccine availability and distribution issues gets sorted in all our states ASAP, as they re-open. And I hope that more conservatives realize they can maintain their conservative principles while maintaining the safety of their communities, their families, and themselves. The basic principle of rational self-interest needn’t and shouldn’t devolve into infantile selfishness that ultimately harms your individual self—that’s why the word “rational” is there. The extremists would have us believe that active concern for our communities and less fortunate among us is a form of communism, and that taking collective action is a form of collectivism. Perhaps they are, but then they have always have been, and wasn’t seen as a negative before pandemic. How is it that, pre-pandemic, actively working for the health of our communities was seen as a positive, and now is considered a slippery slope towards socialism? I think and hope that conservatives are waking up from the anti-social bad dream and the childish delusions that are killing us. I hope we are returning to our senses, and seeing the noisy few extremists for the absolute lunatics that they are. Side note: although the topic here is obviously gets into politics, I’ve avoided mentioning individual politicians, and I’ve avoided pointing out the well known hypocrisy of liberal politicians. What-aboutism is counterproductive in the face of a pandemic. It’s being used as a convenient excuse to deny the seriousness (or the existence!) of the pandemic. If the liberal governor of a populous state says one thing but does another, he’s setting a bad example and being a hypocrite. This isn’t justification for ignoring one’s own safety! Its just how (some) liberal politicians have always behaved. This is business as usual. It’s not shocking evidence of a nefarious global plot. (And if we are honest, some of our politicians are no better. So let’s just stop with the haggling and quibbling of “what about liberal politician X”.)
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  8201. The issues are very regional because the previous government had no national vaccination plan, nor did it provide resources for states to implement their own plans. Each state was left to sink or swim on their own. “Operation Warp Speed” was effective at saving time in the testing and approval process, but HHS distribution of vaccines as they were being delivered was basically to just hand them off to the states and washing their hands. The new government is trying to fix the mess, but is having problems with the opposition party blocking or delaying legislation that would fund more vaccination sites and supplies. That said, some states are having considerably more success with their vaccination programs.
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  8202.  @MSNBCult OK Ivan.
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  8203. It’s not a contradiction. To bring the country together, we have to deal with the anger on both sides. We need to understand it and its sources. We have to examine those sources under the clear light of day. I suspect you and I share a political bias. We must temporarily set those aside and listen to the other side with an open mind to get at the real source of their anger. It’s a bit like therapy: we hope that the other side will finally understand the underlying cause of their anger. And we must be open to the possibility that they are justified in whole or in part! Anger is part of the human condition, but we can feel anger and still behave like adults. If we cannot, there is no “bringing the country together”. The anger expressed in the attack on the Capitol was the anger of people psychologically stunted to the level of a cranky 4 year old who isn’t getting their way. But it’s an anger that many Americans feel, even if they don’t express it violently (and childishly).
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  8204. @uPtrade No one you would recognize as an expert because you are a Putin supporter. You probably disbelieve that Russia’s airforce has failed to achieve air superiority or that Ukraine still has an airforce.
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  8205.  @somerandompersonontheinter656  You mean in Russia itself, don’t you? All the fascist messaging seems to be coming from the Kremlin. Putin has embraced Naziism after removing the raging anti-semitism and replacing it with “normal Russian light anti-semitism” (in which Lavrov might blame the “self-hating Jews” for the Holocaust). Yes, you’re right. Russia is fertile soil for fascism. It has been for 20 years.
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  8206. Shouldn’t redundancy catch that?
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  8207. It’s a great anti parasite med, but not effective against viruses.
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  8208. The Japanese sure have a deep and abiding love for Italian food. I love Italian food, too, but I wouldn’t invade another country under the banner of a meatball.
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  8209.  @LaFonteCheVi  AI is just one component of automation. Automation is better, more efficient tools, meaning you need fewer workers to accomplish the same task in the same amount of time. With me so far? Fewer workers mean fewer consumers meaning less consumer demand. Less consumer demand means . . . what? What are the implications for the economy and for society? These are the real questions. “We will always need construction workers, linesmen, road workers, and robot repairmen” is the answer to the wrong question.
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  8210.  @Mary_Hubbard24  Nope, I’m pretty sure evil rev’s president is Putin or whoever succeeds him now that he’s gotten Parkinson’s.
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  8211. Amphibious NASCAR?
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  8212. Were there fights breaking out between protestors?
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  8213.  @wadedavies3924  Sure, who knew about the Sexual Military Industrial Complex?
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  8214. This falls under the Slugabug exception. See the Supreme Court case Mom vs Sally and Bobby, where the court reversed the lower court decision that “if you kids don’t knock it off, I’m pulling over and you can walk home”.
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  8215. Elon Mux.
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  8216. Tell us, what pork? What did you find objectionable?
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  8217. He always brings a larger message of public safety, too. A good part of this press conference was devoted to how parents can and should protect their children from online predators.
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  8218.  @leeneon854  Canadians, for the most part, helped train the Ukrainians.
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  8219.  @02markcal  That’s very unlikely. The risk of capture would be too great.
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  8220. @ch01 <— this effin’ troll is posting the same thing in every comment.
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  8221. Willy Peter, make you a believer.
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  8222.  @hectorruiz6070  Thanks for the official Russian opinion, Ivan.
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  8223. It’s really amazing and a testament to the perilous times we are in. In a normal election, NBA coaches don’t make advertisements endorsing presidential candidates. It’s not in their self interest or their teams’ interest. Rivers and Kerr are patriots.
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  8224. BRAIN WORM FOR AG
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  8225. If I understand you correctly, the NBA and the NSA are the same organization.
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  8226. In my neck of the woods, telera is the flat one (still qualifies as a bolillo), but normally when you ask for a bolillo, you get the pan frances type. What I would give for a sourdough boli! I’ve eaten whole wheat bolis, but I’ve never seen sourdough.
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  8227.  @thehumanityoflife6460  Did you take a poll?
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  8228. I hope you’re not betting.
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  8229.  @barrylafleur8526  If it’s a campaign ad for Biden, RFKJ wrote and produced the ad for him. Probably RFKJ is a bigger threat to Trump, given RFKJ’s appeal. So really this is a pro-Trump campaign advertisement.
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  8230. No it doesn’t. You can’t have watched the same video I just did. The dermis does not produce ivermectin after exposure to sunlight, for starters.
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  8231. I think he was referring to the Super Bowl Party attended by 25,000 people. I heard that the Buccaneers even showed up, but not the Chiefs. 😉
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  8232. There is, but I have not yet heard any significant details.
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  8233.  @튜브개십  SPAMMER
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  8234.  @matthewn1805  THANK YOU for this solid and credibly sourced information.
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  8235.  @VSisR  THANK YOU also for this solid and credibly sourced information and for bringing up the topic.
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  8236. They didn’t apply it while the dog was working.
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  8237.  @simonjohn9525  The truth wrt to the issue is that it’s difficult to tease out the causes when there are these factors at play. At best (afaik) you can create different models to match results, and then try to form predictions based on those models. It’s much like hurricane prognosticators trying to determine the course of a storm. They make their best guess.
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  8238. Heartwarming, but Jomboy Media would have done a better breakdown.
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  8239. Wow! I hadn’t seen this vid. Thank you, B, for sharing your personal experiences. My take away is this: despite the other negatives, national service forges social bonds that help hold a democratic society together. It can also help you get your shit squared away (become a responsible adult). I’m writing from the perspective of a U.S. expat in 2020, watching my society get ripped apart by a fascist political party, against a backdrop of the pandemic and environmental disasters. The bonds that held our democracy together, that united us as a people, are looking increasingly fragile.
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  8240. 😄 Do you ever watch Jomboy’s hockey breakdowns? Usually short, like 2 or three minutes and they are 🤣. He also does baseball, football, basket ball, and unusual sports. His specialty is baseball, but he’ll have a go at anything.
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  8241. Where do you live? Obviously not the U.S., or you wouldn’t need to follow a weird chain of reasoning. You’d have at least a rough idea of local politics in L.A. If the accused was a councilman in San Diego or a city in Riverside County, the local news there wouldn’t find it especially noteworthy if the politician was Republican. Everyone in those areas already know.
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  8242. What goes on in these echo chambers? What is it that echoes? Rhetoric.
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  8243. I see what I was doing wrong. I was using the oversized tap wrench to hammer the tap into the hole. Tappy-tap-tap. I guess I was unclear on the concept of threads.
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  8244.  @user-sv9oh9bk9h  That is a lie. A big lie. I don’t know what lying gets you, but you should stop lying. The spending that you object to is in the spending bill that will keep the government operating through the new year. (If that bill isn’t passed, the government shuts down on Monday.) The amount of the spending is NOT 90%. It’s LESS than 1%. It’s a fraction of 1%! Less than 1/10th of 1%. It’s also spending included in the President’s own budget proposal. Trump is blocking the bill after it passed with his approval. Why? The stimulus payments? Why weren’t his negotiators holding firm at $2000? Why wasn’t he personally pressing Congress behind the scenes for more. Is McConnell not taking his calls? Or is President Trump afraid to call McConnell? What happened to the Art of the Deal?
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  8245. In the matter of KRAKEN V. THE PEOPLES OF PENNSYLVANIA, GEORGIA, ARIZONA, AND WISCONSIN OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLROFLCOPTERSLOLOLOLMAOLOLOLPMPL
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  8246.  @zyzzyx3160  That’s clever, using your chromosomes as your screen name.
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  8247.  @RabJ208  There is no such thing as an “Art PhD”. Did you mean a PhD in Art History? Otherwise, you’re again lying (you probably have no friends) and displaying your ignorance.
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  8248. Yup. And the mythical “good guy with a bowling ball” was nowhere to be seen.
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  8249.  @SohailKhan-wt7gd  I always fly economy on my private jet. I’m not made of money.
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  8250.  @swamp365  I thought that was only true for the commissioned officer, not for non-coms and below. I guess this deserves a visit to Wikipedia, at least.
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  8251.  @joelbusald6416  I hope I’m wrong on this, but because Brock is retired from the Reserve, he’s not under the jurisdiction of the UCMJ. At least from my reading up on this topic. If he was retired from Active Duty, he would be subject to UCMJ. I’m not an expert, so take this with a grain of salt.
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  8252. This is your opinion, but what do the numbers say?
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  8253. So you’re saying this guy is sober?
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  8254. The multilayer set of protocols that could have prevented this is normal procedure. Multiple safety checks were bypassed out of expediency or incompetence. The last safety check was the AD, but there were multiple violations of safety protocols before then, starting with not keeping the firearms under lock and key and allowing live ammunition anywhere near them. If there was some reason live ammunition was needed on a particular day, there would be additional protocols to secure it and prevent it from being mixed in with blanks and dummy ammunition.
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  8255. So have the dancers do the deliveries. This is a no-brainer.
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  8256.  @oldhickory4686  No, demonic possession isn’t a real possibility because demonic possession isn’t real.
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  8257. Why is it hard to understand that securing rights, permits, and permissions is a normal part of large scale developments? People are acting like this is bizarre, and it’s not. What is strange is that the wind farm company refused to secure all the necessary permissions, deciding to fight it in court rather than pay money to all the rights holders.
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  8258.  @Khronogi You’d think a blue dog would be able to find a clue, wouldn’t you? Apparently not.
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  8259. “America First” is a silly slogan intended to pull the U.S. out of multilateral alliances and push it into sketchy bilateral agreements that would financially benefit the MAGA-masters. It’s much much easier to conceal side deals between corrupt dictators in bilateral deals.
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  8260.  @SiliconCurtain  Or leased to China by a cash strapped Russia.
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  8261.  David Ward  It can’t hurt, can it? I’m taking 3000 iu, although I still get plenty of sun. The dosages at which it might cause problems are very very high.
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  8262. Finally!!
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  8263. Yes, that is a good argument. The argument that won the case was that the wind farm company had engaged in mining operations during the construction of the wind farm.
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  8264. IT’S INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK!!!
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  8265. In the comments of some other video, the Trumpers claimed it was “police entrapment” because they were not allowed to leave for a period of time and they felt trapped. You cannot make shit this stupid up!
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  8266. Or an airport, which often does feel like a form of incarceration.
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  8267. I was really keeping an open mind about the WHO investigation until I heard that. It’s still within the realm of possibility, but so highly improbable that frozen fish were a vector that ONLY affected WUHAN initially and nowhere else. If frozen fish were the initial vector, it is highly likely that epidemics would have sprung up in multiple locations. This didn’t happen. It shouldn’t be difficult to trace the frozen fish to their point of origin. By “point of origin” I mean the freezing and packaging plant, and not the ocean! I suspect the frozen fish case is being put out there to push a different conspiracy theory to blame the Western governments of a nefarious plot. Fish (afaik) are not a virus pool for Coronaviruses where the novel coronavirus would develop. We know the most likely pool is bats. If the WHO is compromised, we will need to create a new global health organization. G.H.O. has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?
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  8268.  @hjk3927  There’s also something called “vicarious liability”. It’s a legal term common in civil law that also has criminal applications—for example, when a person sends someone to intimidate another person, and that someone kills the other person. The instigating person is “vicariously liable” for criminal charges. This applies to the President and others who spoke at the rally, and possibly other “peaceful” riot participants.
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  8269.  Teutonic Nordwind  Ah, you NeoNazis. Hope you’re compartmenting and practicing decent opsec. If not, oops. You’ll probably get run down like the rabid mangy dog you are. Talk to your Russian cohorts at the IRA about opsec and make sure you’re doing it right.
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  8270. Nobody “put” them in Springfield. They moved there because there are jobs that don’t require even a high school education. They entered the country legally because there was an earthquake followed by an ongoing civil war, between the government and organized criminal gangs.
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  8271.  @jayfelsberg1931  “Escape from Crimea” was the name of that movie?
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  8272. Lol, and Kurt Russell is a million times better than Russia’s most famous movie star, Steven Segal. Better in every way.
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  8273. Some of us are hoping for something like the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, with Russians pinned up against the river.
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  8274. As the character Ed said, in Shaun of the Dead, “I’m sorry, Shaun. [It’s OK, Ed] No, I’m *sorry*.” 😭
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  8275. It’s because people are reporting it. I usually report either misinformation or (when warranted) promotes terrorism.
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  8276. It’s true that there was no air raid. But it is also true that the air raid warning sirens are sounded whenever a large number of Russian war planes take off from their bases. So the sirens are daily or almost daily, and apparently Russia did launch a large enough number of aircraft to trigger the sirens.
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  8277. Eh, the prosecuting attorney didn’t testify. A post victory press conference isn’t witness testimony in court.
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  8278.  @tomnicholson2115  It’s actually one troll talking to itself with multiple accounts.
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  8279. That’s a bad idea. What happens if the box is in use and you need whatever is in it? Just make an apple box and another box for storing things. You’re defeating the two purposes by trying to combine them.
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  8280. And that about wraps it up. Stay tuned for the evening Spurts Report, right after this word from our sponsors.
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  8281. The NAFTA enabled automotive manufacturing in Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. deserves a video of its own. It’s truly a cross border manufacturing system, with parts and components crossing the border back and forth several times before final manufacturing/assembly. If you buy a car in either the U.S. or Mexico, a large percentage of your car will have been manufactured across the border. Plastics is another growing cross border industrial sector that deserves attention. Well, pretty much any industry that makes products from hydrocarbons. There’s also a growing aerospace industry in Mexico that supplies components to U.S. aerospace companies. The NAFTA story which has created wealth and opportunities across the North American borders would be a really good video topic.
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  8282. Not quite. 2018, 2020, and this Georgia runoff election have proven that democracy works when the electorate is active and votes.
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  8283. but we’re still not sure if there is intelligent life.
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  8284. Then you’re only half playing attention. ATGMs make tank operations much more dangerous, but so do rotary wing and fixed wing gunships. Tanks are still being used. Some of the tactics are changing and tank doctrine is adapting to new conditions. Tank design will also adapt, and then we will see anti-tank development adapt, and so on and so forth.
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  8285. The interviewer certainly asked the right questions to bring out the answers. I don’t think it contained (no pun intended) anything new to regular viewers of this channel.
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  8286. You can go to iFixit if you want to go the cheap route. Apple is doing exactly what the “right of repair” asked—providing the specialized tools that they use. You apparently want something, but you don’t want to pay for it or look into how to do it yourself. You could save yourself a lot of righteous indignation by just take it into the non-Apple repair shop while not actually having to lift a finger to educate yourself. Or maybe the whole point of this exercise is for you to feel that juicy and ripe indignation.
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  8287.  @som3oneMw  Thank You, Matt. I think these are people that get high on self-righteous indignation and false grievance. First guy doesn’t even want to go the non-authorized route to save money, but is completely unaware of his actual DIY options. He’s not interested in putting in the effort to learn how to fix his phone, he just wants to be mad. It’s like a drug for some people.
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  8288. The Wild Squaking MAGA, doing what he does best: farting in a bathtub. Tie your shoes, Steve.
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  8289. Can she get her case separated from the other defendants?
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  8290. This isn’t a bill.
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  8291. Advert for “Train Manager 2024”. 😂
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  8292.  @tuvoca825  and Greenspan saw the problem, warned about it (irrational exuberance speech), but only took half measures. Maybe it seemed effective at the time, maybe the incremental increases in productivity were enough to allay deeper fears. All that said, Peter tends towards the doom and the gloom and worst case scenarios. He’s not plotting a middle course trajectory. And he’s not considering all the inflationary pressures: increased transportation costs and cost of war. Another thing he has not talked about is the dead boomer money. When a rich boomer dies, their assets don’t just disappear. The assets go to two places—the government and to the heirs. This could dovetail into the housing crisis in a positive way, but it’s going to require tweaks to government policies at all levels, especially at the zoning board level.
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  8293.  @leepiper4621  This is true. Thank you for pointing it out. But if we are going to reform policing, we need to be precise about who does what so we can make the right changes. Prosecutor agencies need reform as well, but it’s an entirely different type of reform. I wish more of these commenters had taken basic U.S. civics.
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  8294.  @YouMakeItHappen  That’s not the point of my comment. My larger point is really that if you don’t know how the system works, who does what and what legal mechanisms they use, you won’t be able change or reform the system. If there is fraud, it will be harder to detect if you don’t understand how the system works. All it takes is a basic civics class to get a grasp on the nuts and bolts of the legal system. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you just might end up with worse.
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  8295.  @Dan.Solo.Chicago  Correct, according to the original comment. But the original commenter says that Chief decides who gets prosecuted, and that is incorrect. And they make the strong implication that the Chief is also the arbiter of facts, which is also incorrect. District attorneys don’t work for small town PDs, and the chief of police isn’t their boss. If the chief of police is also the judge, you’ve got bigger problems, mixing together the judicial branch and the executive branch.
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  8296. The Neptune missiles skim the sea closer than the Russians expected. In the attack on the Moskva, only two missiles hit it, but the launch vehicles normally carry four tubes. I expect that four missiles were launched, and two missiles were hampered by normal sea swells of 1-2 meters. That’s how remarkably close these missiles hug the surface. Two out of four hitting the target is pretty good and gets the job done.
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  8297.  @justletmepostthis276  That’s the truest thing you ever said: YDK.
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  8298. It’s our Xtian duty.
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  8299. Yeah, I read about that. Not only did Cuban get him back on his feet, he looked for West and went to talk to him personally, for hours. That’s just as important as writing a check, showing you care personally.
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  8300. It’s a tough nut to crack. How does Armenia reach a settlement with its powerful neighbors without losing autonomy?
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  8301. This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes again. The end. The banker awoke before dawn He put his boots on He took a Benjamin Franklin mask from the ancient gallery And he walked on down the hall. Fed Chairman? Yes, son? I want to de-dollarize your reserve currency.
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  8302.  @JJthename55  You’re so thirsty.
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  8303. The wind was actually driving the fire downhill, down into canyons and into populated areas. There really was convection behavior you describe wasn’t as much of a factor here. Wilderness area fire strategy is generally to contain the fire, let it burn out, and dump lots of water on it when it approaches populated areas to keep communities from burning. The firemen can concentrate on the houses on the edges. In this case, the fire was everywhere all at once within a few hours. We don’t usually get this strong a Santa Ana in January. And we’ve had little rain in the past 8 years, in fact So Cal has been suffering drought conditions for more than 20 years, with a few wet years here and there. The underlying fact is that we’ve been experiencing shifts in the climate, and our fire season has gotten longer. When I was a kid, fire season was summer to early fall. Now it’s late spring to the middle of winter, and some are saying we now have permanent year around fire season. These January Santa Ana winds were anomalous for both intensity and time of the year. I worry that the anomaly is the start of a new weather pattern.
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  8304. As a copraphile I am disappointed.
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  8305. “Balloon knot. . . . . . balloon knot . . . . . .”
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  8306. 😂 I followed this case at the time, and I thought he would get nailed for destroying evidence. This result couldn’t happen to a nicer more deserving guy.
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  8307. Viable third parties have been attempted many times and have failed. The time might be ripe, or it might be premature while even a remnant of the GOP exists. (I think the GOP is destroying itself, and I couldn’t be happier.) Until that conservative third party arises, conservative politicians in conservative states might find a home in . . . the Democratic Party, of all places. There’s historical precedent for a conservative faction in the Democratic Party; the Democrats have always been a coalition party, the Big Tent party.
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  8308. If it’s been well covered, it’s not likely you’ll get a personal response. But here you go: D-3 supplements likely help with overall immune response, because many people suffer from vitamin D deficiency during the winter months (due to lack of sun). The specific mechanism of how it works can be found by searching. In my opinion, it falls under the “can’t hurt, might help” rubric. If you can’t obtain or can’t afford the supplements, your body can manufacture it for you if you expose your skin to sunlight, which might be beneficial in other ways if you are also taking exercise and fresh air.
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  8309. Develop the ability to predict the future.
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  8310. Thomas Lightningbolt WOW, it’s so rare finding a racist in YouTube comments these days. Did you escape from a zoo?
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  8311. Chris Jones are they allowed to operate on BLM and National Forest lands? Honestly curious.
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  8312. You probably want a constitutional republic rather than a constitutional monarchy. It will be hilarious if Boris becomes the new PM.
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  8313. “WHAT DO WE WANT?” TREASON!!! ”HOW DO WE GET IT?” TREASON!! Absurd moment, from the QAnon Shaman: “Hey, you in the red hat, can you take my picture?” Chilling moment (among many): during the prayer for God’s White Light, one of the prayer leaders gives a Nazi salute.
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  8314.  @egonanderson8869  GOP ?
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  8315.  @BuddyLee23  Many Republicans outside his district seem to hate him, too. He’s most notably despised by a majority of his fellow Republican congresspeople. He’s still being investigated by the Republican controlled House Ethics Committee. If they had something on him, they’d put out a report on it—the Dems on the committee would insist. That they are still investigating the charges without producing results either way means that Republicans in Congress want to punish him. That’s what they do with these years long investigations. I have no doubt that Gaetz has engaged in skeezy behavior unbecoming a congressperson. He’s a horrible POS person, more interested in TV appearances than in doing his job, and he attacks other Republican Congresspeople. They hate him. But they don’t have anything solid on him.
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  8316. Im going to take a wild guess before I watch the video. They got advanced astronomical knowledge by careful observation?
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  8317. If he had carried a parachute, he might have made bail.
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  8318.  @maximilianUTU  This doesn’t answer your questions directly, but the N.E of the country has much lower numbers of the B.1.1.7 variant, compared to states like California and Florida. This was in a map in the video.
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  8319. Good question! Is there a federal agency with jurisdiction over the railroads? Does it fall under DOT, Homeland Security, or DOJ? And then there is the question of security in Mexico.
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  8320.  @brettbuck7362  Worth noting that prototype cost can be much different (upward or downward) of production cost.
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  8321. Tell us all about your extensive experience with copyright and native Americans.
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  8322.  @mdmn8160  You’re so off base it’s not funny. You’re drinking the Putin Koolaid if you think NATO created this situation or its existence justified Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine.
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  8323. Mouthwash. Can’t hurt, might help. I think it might help a lot of anti-maskers who object to the terrible shit smell they suffer from wearing a mask, but most of them would also benefit from using a toothbrush and toothpaste.
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  8324.  @alainpannetier2543  Following Sar’s logic, you could go take her house with violent force, and that’s life.
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  8325. What does the EU have to do with Russian railroad bonds?
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  8326. Nah. This is what makes them happy. Whether or not the “elites” are exploiting this doesn’t address the problem that happiness for some is hatred and violence and hurting others. They are happiest when they’re at their cruelest. There might be intersections between racism and capitalism, but socialism does not magically cure racial and religious hatred.
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  8327. It was an emergency revocation to immediately stop him from piloting an aircraft. The FAA has not made a final disposition of the case. There might be additional fines (the only ones mentioned are for not surrendering his license to the FAA). I am not sure whether or not they can enact a ban against him for longer than a year. In an egregious and willful case like this, he’s been flagged as a hazard. The PPL is a privilege and the FAA can deny him that privilege if and when he reapplies. I’m not extremely worried he will be flying again a year from now. I think it’s probable that Trevor Jacob kills himself accidentally, doing something else incredibly stupid and dangerous, before he ever gets a pilot license again.
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  8328. But apparently there is no complete cure. The poor worm will always have RFKJ.
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  8329. Duncan pretty much committed career suicide out of patriotism. He still had a lot of road in front of him as a Republican politician. That sort of commitment to democracy is on par with Joe Biden’s sacrifice. Maybe greater, because Joe is at the end of his career, and Geoff Duncan is in the middle of his.
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  8330. No tickee, no army!
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  8331.  @CampfireGorl  It really is a genius strategy. She will have to do at least one in-depth interview eventually, but she doesn’t need to do it right now. I think she has a valid reason, too. She’s too busy on the campaign trail and preparing for the DNC, having got a late start. When she does do an interview, I think a bold choice would be a conservative (but anti-Trump) interviewer that will ask her legitimate hardball questions and hold her feet to the fire, not someone liberal who will throw her softballs. She can handle it and defend her ideas, and I think voters will respect that.
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  8332. They still have gas stoves, no? It doesn’t matter if it was debunked.
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  8333. I wouldn’t overestimate it either. Jared got thrown his bone and with that the House of Saud has paid its debts to the House of Trump. The Biden administration seems to be putting the bad blood (journalist blood) behind it and is re-engaging with MBS. The point is, there’s no loyalty here. It’s all transactional, based on short and long term interests.
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  8334. OK, this is an interesting point. I don’t know whether I accept your reasoning, but I can’t summarily dismiss it either. What I’d like to see is more data with regard to change or lack of change in behavior, over time, and among different cohorts. Data on other variables are important, too. Population density and interaction among cohorts come to mind. I hope this data is being collected, or can be collected, because it could be very useful when formulating our response in the NEXT pandemic.
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  8335.  @orverge1  People in Kent: the Canterbury Variant, actually. People in Canterbury: We prefer to call it the Ethelburt Road Variant, thanks. (I just picked out some semi random locations off a map.)
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  8336.  @am-bushgaming4811  Well, dammit, where’s the video called “Soothing Dan H’s frayed nerves and changing his diapers”?
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  8337. That’s pretty dumb and inefficient when you can just get the U.S. State Department talking points from the U.S. State Department’s website. It’s sad that you have a fundamental incapability to understand what journalism is in a free country. It seems utterly beyond your conception.
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  8338. Person #2 was arrested for possession of a small amount of marijuana, a misdemeanor. Sheriff Judd did not indicate that there was any evidence at this time that Person #2 participated in the robbery or was aware of the plot. Unless that can be established, she should not be charged with the murder of her sister.
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  8339. Loch him up! 😂 (felicitous autocorrect error) But is this really a “Trump Tribute”? How is this different than the raucous parliamentary debates we’ve seen for decades? I don’t claim to understand UK politics, but these sessions have always seemed to me like a cross between a lively debate and a celebrity roast. I think going after Jeremy Corbyn is fair game. The U.S. Republicans still attack Obama. Eight years into Obama’s presidency, the Democrats were still complaining about Bush (and then missed him dearly when Trump took office). I suspect the Democrats will get a lot of mileage from Trump’s miserable leadership for decades. Anyway, Corbyn is fair game, but he never led the country. Why don’t the Tories go after Tony Blair as well?
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  8340. You’re incorrect and obfuscating the fact that while the entry might have been legal, these immigrants from Asia overstayed their visas, making them just as illegal as someone who crosses the border.
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  8341. If you’re already doing this, I think it falls under, “Can’t hurt, might help”. The one thing I’d be cautious of is the alcohol content. With normal use, say once or twice a day gargling, the alcohol content won’t really cause a noticeable effect. At the extreme end, however, you could become inebriated. I heard a story from a recovering alcoholic who kept relapsing by using listerine 3 or 4 times an HOUR! 😆 Three times a day should be fine. 😬
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  8342. My HOA fined me form thinking about loud music.
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  8343. Buried in 11,780 landfills and unmarked graves, then dug up and eaten by 11,780 family dogs, then the dogs were abducted by 11,780 aliens. Trump has hired time on JWST to look for the aliens, but the 11,780 galaxies they returned to went missing.
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  8344. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. I bet there’s a Russian equivalent to that, eh, Ivan?
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  8345.  @jbaumbz1262 Here is how it works in the West (I don’t know what rules of argument you use in Russia or China or Florida): The person making the claim has to support the claim with evidence. If they are unable to provide evidence for their claim, it is perfectly legitimate to point out that their opinion is fact free.
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  8346. Trump isn’t tough, he’s a Mean Girl. That should be a campaign message. Imagine K.H. calling Trump a Mean Girl when he starts calling her names. Trump is the Queen Mean Girl. Stephen Miller sounds like he needs a diaper change. I want to hear from some focus groups about straws. That seems like an issue of national importance that could have real traction, something you could build a campaign around. I can see the ad now. “The Last Straw”. Anarchy in the streets. The economy craters. Nuclear war. Because paper straws were the last straw.
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  8347. Spooky was the name of the gunship based on the C-47 transport plane (AC 47, naturally). I think it was also named “Puff the Magic Dragon” which was the title of a popular folk song and also because of the way the gunship rained down fire on the enemy.
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  8348. What I got from this video is that the statistical numbers, the datasets, back up your experience. This is good, because there is a natural human tendency to put a lot of stock in anecdotal evidence, i.e., these stories of success that we share. The numbers and the histories are mutually supporting, unlike the miracle cures, where the miracle cure proponents resort to fabricating numbers, false associations, bad science, and when asked to provide better evidence, blame the lack of evidence on government and corporate conspiracies. Thank you for sharing your experiences. May I ask what dosages you and your family are using?
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  8349. Jim Cramer is a finance clown. He’s a non-serious person.
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  8350. Putin is a stable genius.
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  8351. Michael Che, is this you? Cant resist slagging Jost, can you? 😄
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  8352. Obvs. Did any of you know that there was an “iMac Pro” in that original form factor? The color was “graphite”, not space gray. Look up “iMac DV SE” if you don’t believe me. 😄 It was basically the same as the fruity slot loading iMacs, but came standard with more memory and storage. It was pitched at “serious” DV video creators. Lol, DV, aka digital video was once a new and amazing thing.
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  8353. Except for the times when he was doing squats on the carving knife. Sure, Kamala tore him a new @*hole. But Trump gave himself one or two more.
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  8354.  @lorimav  “Some doctors”. Exactly. Those are *some* doctors, all right.
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  8355.  @thecook8964  Report the original comment as spam. Don’t reply to any of it, although you might tag it if you can catch it early.
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  8356. REPORT THIS AS SPAM / UNWANTED COMMERCIAL CONTENT
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  8357. There’s two types of lost money. One is “leaving money on the table”. For example, because Apple prohibited GS from selling customer data, GS considered that losing money they should have been making. The other type is operating at a loss—it costs more to sell a product or service than the product or service is bringing in. I suspect that the first type is the case here wrt the Apple Card. GS was making money, but felt it was forsaking profits that other credit card issuers commonly make.
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  8358. Fair point. Also, no fly zones are established AFTER air supremacy is established. For NATO to establish a no fly zone, it would need to attack targets in Russia. THAT is why NATO is abstaining. It’s not a provocation, it would literally trigger WWIII by directly attacking Russia. So, as you say, the Ukrainians are doing very well at establishing a “dangerous to fly zone”, which is the next best thing.
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  8359.  @bekstalasch1543  That’s pretty much oversimplified anti-West BS, trying to sow doubts. The truth is complicated. A no fly zone can’t be established without attacking Russian military assets IN RUSSIA, which would trigger WWIII. The migs are configured differently from Ukrainian migs and wouldn’t be ready for a month or more to be flyable by Ukrainian pilots and be combat effective. NATO is doing all it can do short of launching an attack on Russia. When Russia and NATO start shooting each other, the nuclear missiles will fly. Given Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons, NATO is doing all it can.
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  8360. You don’t know what you’re talking about, and I suspect that your ignorance has at least two sources. The main source of your ignorance is your lack of curiosity about the larger world. Your second source of ignorance is your reliance on breathless news sources that profit from generating fear. (And I would argue that this reliance is due to mental laziness, which is related to the first cause.) You do not understand immigration laws, or you would know that many Venezuelans that are entering the country qualify for political asylum. Coming from Venezuela, they at a minimum can apply and be allowed to enter while the process begins. You also didn’t really watch the video, did you? Like I said, you lack curiosity.
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  8361.  @markmarcas6523  You sound like a juvenile delinquent and the liberals that coddle them. “I blame society for making me do dumb things.” Sure, people need to be held accountable. But what happened to personal responsibility?
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  8362. If they did it for Trump, they’ve thrown away their lives for less than nothing.
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  8363. Your 24/7 “politics is everything” schtick is boring.
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  8364. He appeals to the Bernie “anti-Zionism is cool” Sanders camp. You know who I’m talking about? The Marxists that don’t even understand Marx.
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  8365.  @Jk-tk4bc  Uh, he built a legal career on being anti-vax. Normally I’d say you’re just misinformed. But I think you’re actively spreading disinformation. You’re a liar.
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  8366.  @Jk-tk4bc  oic. You’re a bot, lol
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  8367. The lieutenant went into slightly more detain on the driver, but other than that, he said the same thing as the chief.
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  8368. Maybe young people can wait a month or two? Is it too much to ask? It’s not exactly like it’s 2 years of military service. It might not be fair, but the virus isn’t “fair”.
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  8369. John Boehner for speaker!!
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  8370. Someone broke the first two rules of Chinese-Indian Fight Club.
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  8371. The ship was originally named the Slava (It’s the basis of the Slava class) then renamed The Moscva. When are we going to address that it’s bad luck to rename a ship? I think that’s the main reason the cruiser was sunk. I think Ukraine launched 4 missiles (the launch truck has four tubes), and that two missiles were lost because they are so closely sea skimming. The swell that night was about 1-2m, which helped conceal/obscure the radar signature, but it would also sink a missile that hit a swell too low.
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  8372.  @onetwothreeabc  Let’s hope for the best. I’m more worried about Spring Break and Easter/Passover than I am about St. Paddy’s day.
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  8373. Life is just too complicated for a childish mind such as yours.
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  8374.  @bked1159  And your dictator has the answer? Nah, no thanks.
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  8375. This is funny!
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  8376. Do you think oil refineries and tank farms are in secret locations?
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  8377. Keep using your imagination creatively. You might hit upon an original idea that also matches the facts! The initial attempt at Kyiv was to topple the government and install one friendly to the Kremlin. End of story.
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  8378. It would be so fantastic for George W. Bush to endorse Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Maybe Michele Obama can go talk to her buddy—she seems to have the greatest rapport with George than anyone else on the planet. It would be fantastic, but I admit it’s also a fantasy.
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  8379.  @paavobergmann4920  If that were to happen, you weren’t using your TD correctly.
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  8380.  @youtubewatcher2  lol, came here to say that! NAFO: expansion is non-negotiable!
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  8381. Who knew leaving the porch light on could be such a brilliant stratagem?!
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  8382. You’re going to love your summer vacation in Canada at Camp Concentration. Come off it. Don’t travel internationally if you are unwilling to fulfill health requirements. I have family members still alive that spent time in concentration camps, and your suggestion that a quarantine hotel is a concentration camp is beyond silly.
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  8383. Ron Duh.
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  8384. Watch the video and be enlightened.
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  8385. In high school, we used to get In-n-Out Burger bumper stickers, and we’d cut out the B and the R.
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  8386.  @masstv9052  the same people that claim the UN is trying to enslave the world are so disappointed to learn that the UN is 99.99% about talking.
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  8387. I wouldn’t say it was good for Ukraine, but at the very least there is a silver lining, and for sure this is a defining moment for the people of Ukraine. It is a mistake to say any war is good—war is a failure of politics and diplomacy between two or more countries. Civil war is even worse. But such wars can be defining moments in the life of a country. They can redefine regions and even the world order. The chaos of war often leads to unintended consequences and unexpected results. Putin intended that this war create a new order in Europe, and he is getting his wish—just not in the way he intended. The naked aggression and criminality of his regime have had the opposite effect, galvanizing the NATO countries instead of disorganizing them, and motivating other countries to join NATO where previously they wished to remain neutral and friendly to Russia. Putin has increased European cooperation instead of dividing it. In hindsight, these seem to be good results. But the actions that led to the results have killed thousands of innocents and caused billions of dollars in damage. There will be other unwanted consequences to the world outside of Europe, such as starvation and economic downturn. People far away from the conflict will suffer.
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  8388. No, you want to go to SAM’s Club.
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  8389. Israel started it. No, Hamas did.
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  8390. No, you did. No, you did.
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  8391. No one is saying that societies were not in contact and were not sharing information and culture. What is being refuted is the idea of a far advanced “Lost Civilization” for which there is zero proof.
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  8392. It happened in the late 90s—he got racist and beyond crazy about immigration. It got worse during the Bush years. Before that he was a solid conservative journalist and news anchor. He’d say the most outrageous things about Mexicans and Mexico, and then claim he wasn’t racist because his wife is Mexican. He used to be one of my favorites, and it’s truly sad how he turned out.
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  8393. There was a sitcom about a family that had immigrated to America from Munster. Oddly, the grandfather was from Transylvania.
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  8394. The Venezuelan community are Venezuelan-Americans, many who were born here. Maybe it’s you who should go back to where your ancestors came from?
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  8395. She started making a very interesting point about the recommendation algorithms used to populate our media feeds, and Lemon blew right past it. There isn’t any one single key to unlock the puzzle of how so many have been captured by QAnon, but “the algorithm” is an important one. Sometimes it’s useful, sometimes the results are poor. Example: I started watching Jomboy’s sports breakdowns because they are comedy gold, not because I’m really into sports. The result is that YouTube is recommending videos from many other sports vloggers. There must be thousands of them. But that’s one thing. More insidious is what began happening when I began watching a lot of WWII history videos. That’s when the recommendation algorithm began feeding me neonazi and conspiracy based “secret history” videos. One can exercise a bit of control by selecting “don’t show me videos from this channel”, but I wonder to what degree the algorithm can be manipulated by search engine optimization techniques.
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  8396. I want to see that fingerprint card, with the tiny little prints surrounded by big white empty spaces. 3:19 omg, what a rogues gallery. I hope someone makes trading cards.
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  8397. It’s uncertain at this time, because there is not enough data.
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  8398. @Реми ньютон it’s strange. Your propaganda used to be more effective. Now I don’t think you’re even convincing yourself. You can see the truth for yourself, you don’t want to embrace confusion and lies even as you peddle them. And you are realizing that you’ve been breathing the lies and living in confusion as the nature of your leaders becomes clearer. That’s why your efforts at propaganda and disinformation are weakening. They’re weakening you.
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  8399. They’re not actually stuck as individuals. They’re just stuck as a group, unable to get a plane ride as a group back to Canada. They can easily buy their own tickets as individuals with a regular commercial airline. It’s likely that the charter jet company is refusing them a refund for the cancelled return flight after trying to reach an accommodation (which the group refused). (I’d say the charter company is on firm footing here.) They could rent cars or buses to get back to Canada. These aren’t helpless children being held in Mexico against their will. They are immature idiots that caused complications for themselves (and for their fellow passengers that were not behaving badly).
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  8400. Mann was reporting on new archaeological research in the Amazon and in the Peruvian lowlands in his book 1491. I really enjoyed reading about the evidence of sophisticated aquaculture and arboriculture in these areas, which countered the European bias of agriculture being a foundational requirement for civilization. (And he also talks about arboriculture in the NE corner of North America.) And he does indeed cover how the probable ravages of old world diseases left various groups in “savage” existence that European explorers understood as their natural state. (Although maybe he goes into that in his sequel work, 1493? It’s probably been 20 years since I read those two volumes.) Anyway, this video is a nice update on the research from 20-30 years ago about which Mann was writing.
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  8401. Which vaccine are you talking about?
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  8402. Anders, is one of your grandmothers Italian? I don’t think I’ve ever noticed you talking with your hands like you did in this video.
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  8403. Watching this in November 2020. It’s like watching something on VHS! Same great content, but the presentation has improved 1000%
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  8404. You first, and good luck with that.
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  8405. This case isn’t about a spy. It’s about a lobbyist. A lobbyist for a foreign country is called a foreign agent and must register with the State Department to do lobbying for a foreign country. This woman didn’t register, but worse, it appears she tried to conceal that she was working for Russia.
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  8406. I’m so happy the band is getting back together.
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  8407. NEXT WEEK ON “THIS OLD SPG”, Tuesdays at 8:00.
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  8408. Just guessing, but it #s might depend on capacity. So if you have a 100,000 seat stadium, they might allow 10,000 fans. A 50,000 seat stadium would allow 5,000 fans. Provisions might be made to insure social distance. I have no idea of what ratio they’d use, but you get the idea.
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  8409. Pucker factor.
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  8410. They’re on contract and they’re not of as much use as you seem to think because the winds are preventing them from working. In addition, these are water dropping aircraft, which are much less effective than fire retardant dropping aircraft. The water just evaporates due to the dry conditions and the heat of the fire, so it’s not much use in fire containment. The Canadian air crews are good neighbors, but they’re well paid good neighbors. And while we appreciate the assistance, they are not assisting much when on standby due to the windy conditions—nor should they fly in such unsafe conditions.
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  8411. What in the heck is Ect? Are you saying you need electroconvulsive therapy? You’re probably right. Or maybe you meant “ect.”, the abbreviation for etcetera. Is that it? You still need ECT. Ask your doctor for a psychiatric referral.
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  8412.  @Ulysses.S.Grant.For.The.Union.  Keeping his eyes shut is his coping mechanism.
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  8413. Let’s see if we can identify what you got wrong, Gregor. “entire west” — no “turned Iraq into ashes” — no “Indiscriminate bombing for a full month” — no The other stuff seems irrelevant. Sadam Hussein could have avoided invasion of his country by honoring treaty requirements to allow for weapon inspections. He broke the treaty. Ukraine broke no treaty with Russia. It’s weird of you to bring up the terrain that the invaders faced. Maybe Putin will be a little more careful selecting who he invades, next time. But back to the first three errors. No the entire west was not part of Bush’s coalition. No, Iraq wasn’t turned into ash. No, there wasn’t indiscriminate bombing. There was an air campaign to seize and maintain air supremacy, to disrupt and destroy Iraqi command and control, and to degrade fighting capabilities of Iraqi units. The bombing was the opposite of indiscriminate. The coalition went to great pains not to hit civilians—it certainly never targeted them. There is plenty to criticize about the occupation of Iraq, including the rationale. But you didn’t do that. You ignorantly tried to use one invasion to make an other invasion more palatable, on a channel devoted to military history. What are your people thinking, sending you to do a man or woman’s work? If you are any indication of the quality of soldier recruited by the Russians and thrown into battle, you’re confirming everything in the video.
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  8414.  @ArchOfficial  It’s part of the myth that the U.S. killed a million civilians in Iraq. No, the civilians were killed by insurgents, blowing up mosques and stuff. The U.S. bears responsibility for unleashing the forces of sectarian violence, but very little civilian blood was shed by coalition forces.
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  8415. You might get more mileage out of some type of “Adam Smith for Dummies” book. But it you want to read it, I think it’s on Project Gutenberg.
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  8416. I’m not in Tesla’s target market because I am not interested in luxury cars. I don’t care about Musk’s political leanings. I don’t care if his engineering genius is overrated. I don’t care if he’s made Twitter worse—it was already a garbage pit. What I do care about is his erratic behavior, his immaturity, and his attention seeking. I’m looking forward to his Howard Hughes phase when he lets his toenails grow out and disappears into his penthouse for months at a time. Cross a Kardashian with a trash fire and you’ve got Elon.
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  8417. EAD. Fighters and strike-fighters need EAD aircraft to clear out space in the adversary’s air defense.
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  8418. You’re marinated again.
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  8419. She used to be pretty funny on TGS with Tracy Jordan.
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  8420. Maybe it’s also time to get an inexpensive smart phone. Remember, you don’t have to commit yourself to a smart phone “lifestyle” (or you can ease into it). You can use a smart phone minimally, just for calls and texts, calendars and contacts. And photos, of course.
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  8421. I’m glad they’re also demanding that Hamas release the hostages. They’re doing that, right?
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  8422.  @dl3650 *actual cannibal. The Republican Party is becoming the Donner Party. They’d elect Hannibal Lecter to lead them over the mountains.
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  8423. Nuking one city in one country gives your adversary the opportunity to retaliate. Don’t you think it likelier that Putin will launch a full scale nuclear attack on all his enemies?
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  8424. The problem there is that progressive Dems are about as closed-minded to conservative Dems as the MAGA are to moderate Republicans. So they’ll get immediately primaried. GOP won’t primary them if they’re in a swing district. (Assuming the GOP has learned a lesson from 2022.) The Democratic Party’s Big Tent isn’t as big as it used to be.
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  8425. Russian electronics engineers have just announced a breakthrough 1 million nanometer die process. Russia is effed. The suffering Russian people are doubly effed. Hope they can excise Vladimir A. Polyp and recover.
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  8426.  @thefowlyetti2  imagine the resurgence in spirituality after people start turning into moths! “Go to the light . . . the porch light.”
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  8427. Good luck! It’s not straightforward at all, especially the Revolution. There’s layers under layers underneath the history that school children learn.
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  8428.  @xm377Moyocoyatzin  While you have a point about using Mexican sources, what makes you think those sources aren’t “woke”? What is “woke”? It’s a weaponized word you use to attack anyone who questions the use of race, identity, or class as weapons, something that has been going on since before the nation’s inception. To even bring them up is to give away the game. To investigate how race-based policies formed the nation is an anathema to those who benefit, hope to benefit, or enjoy feeling victimized by equality. I’m a conservative, but one of my conservative principles is an adherence to the facts. Objecting to pronouns and the use of -x is just a strategy to avoid looking at the facts. Maybe it’s younger generation nonsense, maybe it’s not. To me the pronoun business is a non-controversy. If someone wishes to identify themselves using a certain pronoun or suffix, it doesn’t take much effort to be courteous and respectful. I might make mistakes, so what?
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  8429. I’m not 100% on this, but I think there are more Armenian-Americans in the U.S. than there are Armenians in Armenia. This is partly due to asylum policies under Carter and Reagan that allowed Armenians in the U.S.S.R. to flee religious and political persecution, but also an Armenian diaspora that has seen bolder and more entrepreneurial Armenians immigrating all over the globe for centuries. In a way they were the first globalists, setting up their own trade routes between far flung outposts. Anyway, I would guess (based on what I know, but no hard data) that Armenian-Americans consider themselves Americans first. They might feel strong loyalties to their mother country, but they have even stronger loyalties to the U.S.A. That said, they embrace and will fiercely defend their ethno-cultural identity, including their ties to Armenia.
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  8430.  @marthareis5873  Teeing off, you say? Make America Golf Again.
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  8431. McConnell or one of his apprentices did some amazing political maneuvering to get 80% of what they wanted by tying immigration to Ukraine Aid. It was a high risk/high reward gambit. But the conference fell apart when Trump opposed it. What should have been a Republican victory became another Trump inflicted humiliation. McConnell ran circles around the Dems, but then couldn’t hold his own conference together because the damn cowards are so frightened of Trump.
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  8432.  @KevinJohnson-cv2no  Agreed, the publicly available evidence is strong (if not overwhelming) that he was compromised before he hacked and retrieved the secret info. To be fair, he might not have known he was working with the Russians, but he most certainly knew he was working for someone. The most lenient thing one can say in his favor is that he was manipulated by his handlers. The whistleblower cover is complete BS, because there are proper channels for whistleblowing. The “malfeasance” he “stumbled upon” was specific information that he intentionally went looking for and exfiltrated. At least one of his journalist “handlers” (Greenwald) used some sophisticated and coordinated methods to smuggle him out of the West and into Russia. It’s also notable that the other journalists involved have since reported that they retrospectively believe that they were unknowingly taken in by the ruse. I initially believed the whistleblower cover story, but the circumstantial evidence is too strong. Snowden was a spy.
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  8433.  @ricksterling7944  ivermectin is a neurotoxin that attacks the nervous system of tiny parasitical critters like lice or worms. The effective dose to kill these parasites is far below the threshold where it might be dangerous to humans. Your doctor probably realizes that there is no known mechanism by which it can affect viruses (other than to kill the host). I take it that your doctor has a black sense of humor and wasn’t actually recommending that anyone take a lethal dose of ivermectin! 😳
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  8434. How are they going to negotiate peace if they can’t mention the war?
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  8435. Most of the mask intolerant would get over their intolerance if they also learned to use a toothbrush an toothpaste. Just saying.
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  8436.  @thinktankdonahue  It’s always the rich who previously pushed out the poor that complain that they’re getting pushed out. La Condesa is a prime example.
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  8437. Michael Pitney is a card. 😄
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  8438. I want to know which Congresspeople asked Trump for a pardon, and why!
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  8439.  @abrahamdozer6273  I’m sorry, I don’t think I made myself clear. I’m not saying to retake Bakhmut. I’m saying draw a line from Bakhmut to Rostov-on-Don. I don’t think it’s probable, I’m just saying it’s possible. And one thing our dear friend Prigozhin showed the world is that there aren’t many Russian Forces between Bakhmut and Rostov. Or between Rostov and Moscow. 😉
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  8440. Rogan: Did you hear about this terrible thing? Someone check on that.
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  8441. Do you know what’s even more “in porten”? Grammar and spelling. You wouldn’t own a gun without taking the time to learn how to use it, would you? Of course not. It’s the same deal with your words. Learn how to use them and to spell them correctly. Start with punctuation and work your way upwards gradually.
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  8442. The biggest difference now? We’ve endured 4 years of Trump and we don’t want 4 more.
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  8443. You need to watch the whole Day 1 of the public hearing. It’s about an hour and a half, I think.
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  8444. Woke up and wrote what turned into a frikkin’ essay. It’s too long to read, really. Not appropriate for a YouTube comment. But I want to put it somewhere it will be seen. Thanks for indulging me. Polishing a Turd and Putting Lipstick on a Pig These two picturesque phrases indicate in similar ways the idea of dishonesty trying to improve the appearance of something of no or little value. The first phrase, however, indicates the futility of making a turd shiny (and thereby attractive) because it will still be visible as a piece of shit. The second phrase, putting lipstick on a pig, offers the idea of beautifying something, making it more attractive than it is to a gullible person, such as touting a worthless stock as being valuable. The idea is that the lipstick applier is concealing the true nature of the thing he is trying to sell. I was thinking about these two phrases this morning, as they relate to Donald Trump and his followers. Our current crises have been either created or made worse by Trump and his administration henchmen—and he’s gotten away with it by using the two techniques of turd polishing and pig beautifying, just as he’s gotten away with all manner of scams his entire career. And you’d think by now, his base would have figured out that they’ve been kissing pigs and eating shit. Obviously, some supporters have learned this, some quite recently, and have left the fold. But those that are staying? Will they ever be convinced that Trump is a bad man? Will they ever realize that they’ve been lied to along? Even if we can stop Trump now, is there hope that these ultimate victims of Trump’s duplicity can be recuperated? I’m thinking no. These are people that cannot be brought to reason for the simple reason that they LIKE to eat shit and kiss pigs. In fact, their favorite thing to do is getting fucked by lipsticked pigs and their favorite food is shit. Look, I don’t want to kink shame. I don’t want to judge. I’m a live-and-let-live type of person. The problem here is that we’re not safe from these shit eating pig fuckers because they also want to force everyone to eat shit and fuck pigs, and they expect us to like it. Or else. Or else we can die face down in shit, our corpses humped by pigs.
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  8445. Walter Cronkite never called a torpedo a drone.
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  8446. Toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash, and flossing for 99.9% of the mask intolerant. They’re only intolerant because their breath stinks like unwashed sweaty ass during an Alabama summer.
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  8447. Medieval times. That’s a knights helmet. The part he pulls over his mouth is supposed to be a visor to cover the eyes.
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  8448. What would the basis be for a travel ban?
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  8449. Legend.
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  8450. I’m sorry to inform you this, but criminal defendants don’t just get compensated when their cases get dropped. Also, I think you’re exaggerating when you say, “The police nearly destroyed his life”.
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  8451. So, like Kevin Bacon, the guy who cuts the lawn and does yard work at my Dad’s house, and . . . you? You and everyone else are “remotely connected” to Trump (probably via Kevin Bacon).
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  8452. I don’t know enough about the story to know the duration between the attempt to pull the driver over and when he complied. If there was a lengthy pursuit, it wasn’t mentioned in the video. At what point did the driver know he was being stopped? Was he looking for a safe place to pull over? There are questions not answered by the video and without answers, we can’t know the driver’s culpability for creating the situation, if any. But regardless, the driver HAD pulled over and was complying with officers’ orders to the best of his ability (while officers were yelling conflicting orders). The real culpability lies with the K-9 officer and his employer if they didn’t provide him with proper training or if he had any pattern of sadism and abuse that had gone unaddressed. But let me suggest that you might have a victim-blaming problem if your take away is that the victim brought the dog attack on himself.
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  8453.  @jeffw8218  That’s a lie. Brush clearance is actually legally required around houses and other structures. Your lie is so bald faced, I must ask you something. Are you a Russian?
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  8454. Evans could have saved himself embarrassment by calling the FBI and turning himself in. (It might also help him legally or politically, but don’t tell anyone I said that.)
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  8455. Do you think you might spare a few $ or £ or whatever for your gran to see she gets her D3 in the meantime? Just saying . . .
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  8456. Liquidate your investments, use the money to buy pennies, and shove them where the sun don’t shine. Congratulations, you now have substantial Buttcoin holdings.
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  8457.  @berrytrl1  San Diego and Tijuana have this thing called the Cross Border Express (CBX). The Tijuana airport is built right on the border, and CBX is a pedestrian bridge between San Diego and the Tijuana airport. Going through customs in either direction is a breeze, and domestic flights inside Mexico are much cheaper. I generally take the train from (or to) Los Angeles and then take a shuttle to CBX, but one could also take a shuttle from San Diego’s airports. Depending on when I travel and how far in advance I buy the tickets (I usually wait for a sale), I’ve saved $100-$150 vs flying from LAX. (But my main motivation is that I avoid the hassle of LAX, tbh. I’m adding a few hours by taking the train, but I enjoy the train ride.) The point is that the CBX concept could be replicated at various other points on the border, such as El Paso-Juarez or Laredo-Nuevo Laredo.
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  8458. Sad? He was already pathetic.
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  8459. That’s a lot of discarded tuna cans!
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  8460. 1:56 I heard it as it was coming out.
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  8461. Like he might secretly wish he was a club DJ? Yeah, I get that vibe, too.
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  8462.  @mr.bnatural3700  Loud Ef’n Amen, brother or sister.
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  8463. Hahahaha! It feels so good that this pestilence is being removed from the White House.
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  8464.  @janetvandenassem8401  Yeah, but it’s Trump. Trump might have been lured to the spot by a guy pretending to be Loomer. It could have been an assignation assassination.
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  8465. Unseating the local government seems absolutely crazy as well. Did local elected officials enact the policy? Are they involved in the daily operation of waste disposal? Probably not. That doesn’t mean elected officials shouldn’t be pressured over this absurd enforcement, but “throwing the bums out” over this issue seems like a huge overreaction. Sadly, it’s apparently a common reaction.
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  8466. Austerity-lite.
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  8467. 1) It reduces people giving in to the urge to socialize. During daylight hours, if you need to work or run an important errand, you take care of business and then go home. 2) It’s a compromise: you’re cutting in half (roughly) the number of hours that people are at risk of exposure. This is less than perfect, because obviously more people are out during the day. 3) It’s mild social control. If you’re out after curfew without a reasonable explanation, you’re likely one of those jerks that doesn’t comply with health regulations when people’s lives are at stake. So enjoy the fine and the talking to you’ll get and stay home next time. Temporary regulations during a deadly crisis don’t mean we are sliding into totalitarianism. They’re not going to last forever; we even have a ballpark idea of when we’ll be past the crisis, IF people take the vaccine, and IF they maintain other safety protocols for the time being.
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  8468. “What’s he building in there?” Tom Waits https://youtu.be/04qPdGNA_KM
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  8469. Send yours to me if you don’t want it.
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  8470. are, not is. Direct payments will be targeted at those who use correct grammar.
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  8471. Same here. I hope the soldier makes it through this deployment and then faces discipline and social consequences. His behavior reminds me of the cretins that invaded and trashed the capital building, the biggest difference being that the cretins had no legitimate justification for being there. Maybe the soldier is a MAGA Republican who’s trying to trigger the libs. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  8472.  @brittajohnke1616  Not in the U.S. There is a non-profit organization (the USPA) that issues licenses, but they are not part of the government. The licenses are part of their training system, based on skill and experience. But a person without a license could still legally skydive recreationally.
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  8473. His name. 😖
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  8474. Gracias, José.
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  8475. 98 that Chavez was elected, and his “reforms” failed and caused problems, but I don’t think it was until 2010 that it really became clear what was going on and how bad it was going to get politically for the country (under Maduro especially). It was like a slow take over by a mafia.
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  8476. Perhaps the newspaper and reporter could bring a civil suit, but why? What result could they achieve that couldn’t be more effectively achieved with the power of the press? Are you thinking monetary damages? How much harm to their reputation occurred, and how much is it worth monetarily? I’d say none at all, but even if there was, its monetary value would be very small. If you feel that the governor should have some consequences for making false statements, that’s what elections are for. Just because you can sue doesn’t mean you should sue.
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  8477. Are you suggesting that Leopard tanks be used as scarecrows to frighten the minimal forces in Transnistria? Or used symbolically on the Belarus border? I question your intelligence.
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  8478. Stop lying.
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  8479. The Hamberdler
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  8480. @Anuradha Graphics you’re talking about different types of corruption as if they were the same and had the same effect on military capabilities. The U.S. mostly suffers from Access Corruption; people pay bribes to have access to the people in power. The Russians suffer from theft, fraud, and embezzlement corruption, which is far more corrosive to society in general, and the military in particular.
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  8481.  @tube.brasil  <— Bolsanarista
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  8482. Your body is more than blood. Who needs blood? You could easily survive with a pint less blood (permanently because transfusions are now illegal).
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  8483.  @WESSERPARAQUAT  This. There would be no conventional war between NATO and the Russian Federation. It would last 45 minutes of them getting their ass kicked and then nuclear Armageddon.
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  8484. Did you even bother to watch the video?
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  8485. Good old Tom! Tom, if you read this, thank you and have a great day! If you’re not the Tom mentioned in the video, just have a great day. 😄
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  8486. Toes crossed!
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  8487. Remember to tell them that Trump can still win if Georgia Republicans boycott the January election.
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  8488.  @RussCR5187  Maybe medical topics are not the best place for WWJD questions. The answer you want is “He’d be kind, considerate, and caring,” but you’re more likely to get, “Duh, He’d just heal Hisself”.
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  8489. I’m sure AMD and Intel will land on their feet like chip giants Motorola and IBM.
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  8490. Covid doesn’t respond to placebos. Any boost that a placebo might provide to the immune system is not by itself sufficient to prevent or cure infection.
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  8491. Or ongoing slow refill.
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  8492.  @houseofbonnets  How can you not see it?
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  8493.  @skyethebard  They need goods and services, which Mexicans will be happy to provide. Mexicans are used to carencitas as long as they have money to spend.
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  8494. This is going to give “ammo” to anti-2A people if there are incidents. Just saying. I’d rather that people carrying in public had training—and 8 hours doesn’t seem like enough. But whatever, 8 hours is better than no hours. I think the tax free safes is a good idea. Part of responsible ownership is securing your weapons.
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  8495.  @deadLEE15  if there’s more than 11% pro RFKJ, it’s bots or other people with Brain Worms.
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  8496. Seethe more.
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  8497.  @timothyhouse1622  Remove the ideological camouflage (marketing) and Russian Communism is similar to Nazi dictatorship in many ways. In both cases, the foundation of either’s ideology is might makes right, and power is the pure objective of politics and war. The distinctive feature of the Nazis was its antisemitism/racism. Putin is a “communist” that has dispensed with the communist window dressing in favor of Nazi style Nationalism. Russia’s communist part was always a parasite class, sucking the blood of the Russian people and chewing up their corpses. Putin’s cronies don’t seem to be objectively different.
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  8498. Valuing the life of the unborn is meaningless if we don’t value the lives of the born.
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  8499. Putzi troll.
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  8500. The good news is that one of the two teams competing didn’t show up. 🤣
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  8501. They weren’t white supremacists. The membership was mixed race. Is the NRA ignoring this or are they offering words of support for this group?
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  8502. Trump doesn’t take office until January 20th.
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  8503. I don’t think so. First of all, where is the I? The script is completely pulled out of the collective A of some writing room, and I’m not using ‘A’ to mean artificial. I quit watching that show about five minutes into episode 3, and nothing I’ve heard since tells me I didn’t give it a fair chance. There’s got to be at least a simulation of intelligence if you want to call something AI. Rings of Power is the dumbest and worst written p.o.s. I’ve ever seen.
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  8504. I misread the title. I thought “Thief on the roof” was the name of a popular and effective elderly nun trap.
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  8505. Still recovering from the last baba man deb video, I see. Me too [hic].
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  8506. I’ll be 60 next year. Things don’t go “sideways”. Some things get harder, just like they did for you as you aged from 40 to 50. Biden isn’t suffering from senility. I’ve got a family member that actually does have dementia, and Biden doesn’t show any symptoms of it. Criticize him for his policies, not because he is old.
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  8507. I don’t agree that the war is based on religion. For most of the history of Islam and Judaism coexisting, they’ve coexisted peacefully. The war is based on Hamas and Netanyahu each clinging to power. Behind Hamas is Iran trying to destabilize the region and undermine the Sunni/Israel alliance.
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  8508. We all know you’re just trying to trick Florida into leaving by itself.
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  8509. This isn’t about cruises, it’s about the cruise ship business.
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  8510. I bet it was Anthrax. Or Metallica.
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  8511. You’re making the common mistake of thinking that all Christians worship Jesus. They worship Christ. For some Christians the teachings of Jesus are important. For others they’re secondary. But the most important aspect of Christianity is the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. It’s right there in the name. There are many good Christians that do use Jesus as an example for their lives. But it’s not the belief in the crucifixion and resurrection that makes them good.
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  8512.  @jkrogs1843  I think it’s wonderful how you Trumpies have normalized treason to the point where you think patriotism and upholding an oath to the constitution is “embarrassing”.
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  8513. I still think they should meet. It’s a progress report, a reference point of how far we are behind the curve, how little is being done, and how detached the politics is from the science. If there has been insufficient and incremental progress, meetings like this provide the record. And speaking of the politics, it sure highlights the fact that our political representatives accurately represent our ignorance, obliviousness and our own short term thinking. It’s not the politicians that are failing, it is humanity. The majority of us don’t take this disaster seriously. Perhaps the scale of the problem is so overwhelming that we don’t want to think about it. The world isn’t going to end, and civilization is not going to vanish. What is going to happen is that life is going to get a whole lot shittier for everyone and extremely brutal for some. The good times are over. We thought they’d never end, but we were wrong.
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  8514. To be fair, it’s his family asking for help. Granted it’s sadly ironic that his family has become a burden on society due to his bad choices. He utterly failed to provide for them—I hope he knows this and is tortured by it, if he’s sitting in hell.
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  8515. Watch the video and you’ll have less need to ask dumb questions.
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  8516.  @russiansarefilthyapes1660  I understand that sentiment. But I pray that the Russian people wake the eff up, grow a spine, and throw out Putin and all his Putinistas. If they do not, they are just as responsible as Putin.
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  8517. I’m digging Edelman and Cohen. Great podcastvideothing.
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  8518. Hahaha, right? At least we know the video isn’t recycled footage from Syria.
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  8519. PRC simp
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  8520. We need you to campaign. By yourself, you bring one vote to the ballot box. But if you campaign, you might bring 2 or 5 or more votes to the ballot box that might not make it there otherwise. It’s not always about persuading someone to change their vote to Kamala. It could be persuading them to vote. It could be energizing them to vote and helping them past lethargy. It could be giving someone a ride to the polls. It could be making sure that everyone on your street’s voter registration is up to date. Yes, vote blue. But online activism is not going to win the election. Enthusiasm alone will not win this election. Turning that enthusiasm into ACTION will win the election for Kamala and Walz. It is WE who must give her the victory. Don’t be a spectator for the next 10 weeks.
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  8521. I call him “President Eleven”.
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  8522.  @janp1088  Do watch the Weird Al Yankovich video “Foil”.
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  8523. Was he plate-of-spaghetti-flinging mad or not?
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  8524.  @wvpatriot3077  LOL, no. Unless you mean that keyboard warriors are patriots, and that their staging areas are living room couches and the seats in front of their computers. LOL, your revolution is online, and more of a revolting masturbatory fantasy than an actual revolution.
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  8525. There are conservatives that appear or identify as “moderate conservatives” because the GOP has gone so deep into extreme right wing fascist John Birch cloud cuckoo land. You are right to recognize them as conservatives, but I also hope you recognize they have more in common with liberals than they do the fascists that own the current GOP (and I mean literally own it, despite a handful of dissident Republican office holders). The bedrock of American conservatism is the same as that of American liberals and progressives: Constitutional Democracy. Call conservatives whatever your want, but understand that many of them are with you in the fight for our country.
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  8526. It’s funny how you’re an expert on Spain’s diplomatic relations with its former colonies. This is another case of “I’m not aware of something that I never bothered to research so it must not exist”. I’m sure you’re competent at something. I’m sure you have expertise in some topic. But why do you feel compelled to comment and offer opinions in those areas where you are ignorant? Do you enjoy looking like a buffoon? Also, dude, gets doesn’t have an apostrophe. It’s a verb.
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  8527. How do immigrants “poison our nation’s blood”? Is this something they’re doing literally? Or is this racist talk about racial purity?
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  8528.  @vinny_G_2003  I’m pretty sure Trump didn’t qualify it at the time he made the statement. If he meant illegal immigrants, he would have said illegal immigrants. But either way, what does he mean by the nation’s blood? Are immigrants doing something to the supply of bllod at blood banks and hospitals? Or is this racial claptrap he’s pushing and you’re supporting?
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  8529.  @sebastianliebmann6014  Less targeted relief allows the individual to decide where to stimulate the economy. That’s the basic principle of market based economies, in contrast to command economies you’re more likely to see in socialist countries. I’m not against more targeted measures, but the fallacy to your thinking needed highlighting. Broader stimulus allows the marketplace to decide which sectors deserve to be stimulated. If the politicians and/or bureaucracy have too much control over relief money, they can potentially play favorites (for example, Ted Cruz funneling PPP money to his biggest PAC contributor).
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  8530. Connoisseurs? Don’t you mean aficionados?
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  8531. Where is Jimmy Stewart when you need him?
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  8532. You like the Louisiana Kennedy?
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  8533. Bing!!
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  8534. Because it would be redundant.
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  8535. Nice try, Putzi. Your propaganda has lost its effectiveness.
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  8536.  @thebigr201  The main problem with food stamps and wic for service members is the social stigmata. If the money was channeled through the military as allowances for military families, it wouldn’t have that stigmata. Or even better, just give our soldiers a pay raise and let them decide how to spend it. But I think it’s awesome that your trans kid is serving. I’ll give the Army credit for being open minded towards trans people.
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  8537. That’s if he didn’t order the hot on her.
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  8538.  @sladjanasimic5486  it’s a good thing that you are too small and insignificant a propagandist to be carbombed. Count your blessings and keep your fingers crossed that you won’t be held accountable for spreading disinformation.
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  8539. Put down the wine glass and sober up, Pepe.
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  8540. Do not hope for quick victory over Russia, rather hope for certain and complete victory over Russia. It will take as long as it needs to take. I have faith that the Ukrainians will hold up. I do not have faith that Putin is a rational actor.
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  8541. He’s referring to the 1 week gap in unemployment benefits caused by Trump’s delay.
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  8542. Under the Confederate Acts of War, they’d be shot after court martial for failing their mission and causing their commander to lose the battle. 😆
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  8543. Pete doesn’t shy away from getting out of his lane, but why do you think Pete has anything interesting to add to that discussion?
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  8544. Pro-business until businesses have the audacity to disagree with his policies.
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  8545.  @jaredsmith112  Send them to a neutral country like Poland for detention until hostilities cease. Or Spain. I guess Poland is already doing a lot and we should ask another non-combatant country. So, yeah, Spain would be pretty good.
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  8546.  @PunishedRalph  This is an excellent comment. Thank you. Adding to the inertia is how in some countries, the very existence of the pandemic has been questioned and politicized, confusing the public and interfering with the functions of their health agencies. There’s also the question of resource allocation for research when political leaders are (fraudulently?) pushing cures with no known antiviral mechanisms. (I’m thinking of the anti-parasite medications here. There is no scientific explanation how a medication designed to kill parasites might somehow also be an antivirus. What is the mechanism? Time and resources are being wasted on pseudoscience like this.)
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  8547. The purpose of the law is not to address the moral shortcomings of corporation executives. What sort of legislation are you proposing that would “end corporate greed”?
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  8548. “Tankies” was a pejorative applied to communist sympathizers that continued their support of Stalinism even after he used tanks to put down popular uprising in other countries.
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  8549.  @auntiez4917  let’s put it this way: they have no shame, but they can suffer humiliation. And imho, the Jim Jordans should suffer such humiliations that they go skulking off.
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  8550. They’ve got something up their sleeve. The iMac Pro was long in the tooth, and Apple could have just upgraded the specs. We’re pretty sure Apple is on the verge of releasing new iMacs. We know Apple excels at market segmentation. The question is, will a high end Apple silicon AIO (aka an iMac) fill the product category or will they introduce a monitorless mid tower? Something expandable like the Pro tower, but with fewer expansion options, is what I’m thinking: fewer bays, fewer RAM slots, fewer expansion slots (one for graphics card, one open slot). The iMac Pro was a sweet spot for many users, for whom the Mac Pro tower was overkill and too expensive. So I think it’s possible Apple will release a mid size or mini tower for this segment of the market. My biggest question is more about under-the-hood considerations, specifically how will Apple handle expandable unified memory? Or will they just not allow user upgradeable RAM on Apple silicon products?
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  8551. The loss of Avdivka is the fault of the Republican congressional conference. If Ukraine falls (god forbid), the Republicans own the blame, not just the politicians but every single voter that has put a Republican into office.
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  8552. You could argue that, but you’d need to make up a different definition of encirclement that didn’t include, uh, circles. Besieged or pinned down might be better words to use than to try and torture the word “encirclement” into submission. You mention Operation Uranus, which is an actual encirclement—German forces were surrounded completely and cut off, unable to move. Contrast this with how you described the situation of the Russians: they were not trapped on one side of the river, and were able to move back and forth across the river. If you’re not trapped, you’re not really encircled.
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  8553. Are Walz’s and Harris’ positions on Gaza any different than Shapiro’s? Or are they just perceived as different because they are not Jews?
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  8554.  @michaelchristophergutierre7244  Is that a studio apartment or a roommate situation?
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  8555. That’s a very good point. Also, the U.S. isn’t threatening to invade either neighbor. The bullshit analogy of Russian military aid to Mexico would make sense if the U.S. annexed the Baja California Peninsula, fomented rebellion in Tamaulipas, and then invaded all along the Northern border to support the fake rebellion. So far that hasn’t happened, nor has the U.S. threatened it. With regard to invading Canada, that’s completely out of the question. Canada is a member of NATO. The U.S. would experience the full wrath of NATO if the U.S. attempted to invade. History fans will remember the last time the U.S. invaded Mexico. It was during the Mexican Revolution, and one of the revolutionaries, Pancho Villa, had been raiding border towns for arms and supplies. In 1916 the U.S. sent a contingent under John Pershing to capture Villa, chasing him around the desert fruitlessly. However, they did manage to kill some of the men under Villa’s command, and some of his subordinates. Pershing’s forces withdrew in 1917. Anyway, the point of the story is that the last time the U.S. military was on Mexican soil, over a hundred years ago, no attempt was made to annex any territory. And given the chaos of Mexico during the Revolution, it would have been a perfect opportunity for conquest because Mexico was so divided. So no, it’s not the policy of the U.S. to invade Mexico. 😂 It really wasn’t the policy in 1916, either. It was a necessity because bandit revolutionaries were attacking border town, but no territory was taken.
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  8556.  @why-jw3od  Happy anniversary. Your account is three months old. Your mom must be so proud.
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  8557. It’s Mitchell and Web. There’s a million clips. May I suggest one titled “Are we the baddies?”
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  8558. The problem with this sort of testimony is that it’s she said/he takes the fifth. 😉
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  8559. More Goofus and Gallant PSAs.
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  8560. What are you talking about?
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  8561.  @khiem1939  Do they do the refining in Russia or in Europe?
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  8562. IT’S. AN. IMPACT. DRIVER.
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  8563. They left her to find their based fascist promised land and got stuck in the mountains, where they are now resorting to cannibalism. The GOP has become the Donner Party.
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  8564.  @britishrocklovingyank3491  Trump doesn’t believe in policies. He believes in power. He’ll do or say anything to attain, extend, or maintain that power.
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  8565.  @suzeaa  I was joking that he might be an anti-5G nutter last night, so I’m not exactly shocked if it’s true.
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  8566. FUN FACT: Caracas is the Silicon Valley of South America * FUN FACT: All voting software worldwide is developed in Venezuela * FUN FACT: All Democratic politicians secretly have dual citizenship in Venezuela * *not actually a fact, but arguably fun
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  8567. Her job is to prosecute criminal cases, but the workload is such that a DA needs hands, i.e., assistant and deputy DAs, to do the work. Imagine if your job required you to use your hands. Now imagine you intentionally chop them off. You are no longer competent to do your job, and should resign.
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  8568.  @J4k7193R  I have questions about the scale of operations, and how much revenue is being lost due to the composting activities. How much compostable material does this woman gather each month? What amount of energy revenue would this represent to the waste disposal company? After these questions are answered, we can then talk about externalities like air pollution one one hand, and lessening demand for chemical fertilizers on the other. Once we know that, we can come to a determination of what the vermiculturalist’s activities are costing local government, damaging society, and impeding the generation of electricity.
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  8569. Salt water was used to as a firebreak. If you check a fire map of the palisades fire, you’ll notice that the fire did not spread further south than Pacific Palisades.
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  8570. Criminals.
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  8571.  @everydayguy3737  <——LIAR
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  8572. Jefferson Davis was never tried for his crimes, but he was disqualified from running for federal office by section 3 of 14th amendment.
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  8573. Their reptilian origins makes chicken taste better.
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  8574. Nope
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  8575.  @Gwaycee  That is possible. The important thing is that they have identified the traitors, even if they don’t have direct evidence. Their neighbors will know and they will be shunned. In the meantime, they will be watched and they don’t dare offer any further aid to the enemy.
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  8576.  @NanaRMC  This. They have the moral and spiritual development of a two year old, but the bodies and rights of adults.
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  8577.  @pasofino9583  no importa porque. Es importante a saber cómo lo hizo: su papito pagó las morditas a la aduana EEUU.
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  8578. Is that true? Where would I find that documented? Or are you just commenting for the sake of commenting and you don’t really know what you are talking about?
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  8579. Alien squirt guns.
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  8580. Nice job, Sal. You’re not done with your introductions but I can already tell this will be great.
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  8581. What we are learning is that your tank platoon’s infantry support must be very good and far out ahead of you and to the sides. An effect of this is that your tank platoon is now less effective in supporting the infantry. The range on these modern AT weapons is similar to the range of modern tank guns. I’m not one of those saying tanks are useless and obsolete, but their role is going to be much more limited as breakthrough and assault weapons. The Ukrainians are fighting a mostly defensive war, and that is favoring infantry with AT weapons. Not to be a pessimist, but the same thing favoring Ukrainians on the defensive will be against them when they launch a true counter-offensive to expel the invaders. However (and as you probably know), the Russian military inside Ukraine also suffers from a raft of other problems that will be difficult to solve, especially the structural problems that are inherent to their system.
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  8582.  @xXsakkelaoXx  This video will get smuggled in to Russia, despite your attempts to block foreign content you don’t want the Russian people to see. And when it is circulated among the Russian resistance, hopefully it will open people’s eyes to the crimes committed in their name. And someday there will be a reckoning. Your name, your identity, probably your photo, are in a database. Your active participation in covering up these crimes will be exposed. And your own people will punish you.
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  8583. That brief moment when PDA didn’t mean Public Display of Affection. I never had a handspring phone, but I did have a palm pilot. 😄
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  8584. Desantis is younger. But where is the intelligence and charisma? I’m not voting for Trump, but I’m sure as hell not voting for Desantis either.
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  8585. “Searchlight” not flashlight. A flashlight is handheld. A searchlight is mounted on a truck or trailer. Hope this helps.
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  8586. Nah. You can pile a lot of charges onto Kissinger’s plate, but China’s collapse will be its own doing.
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  8587. I didn’t think Ukraine could or would try a river assault against the left bank of the Dnipro, but now I am not so sure. Ukraine probes everywhere, looking for opportunities.
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  8588. It’s also related to perdition . . . damnation, losing one’s soul.
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  8589. What I enjoy most is the people bragging about Californians fleeing to their state turn around and complain about Californians moving to their state. The second best is conservatives who move to escape “teh libruls” discovering the hard way what it’s like to live in a conservative state.
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  8590. It prepares for other actions, like removing Russia from the security council.
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  8591. Let it go. There is no evidence that the election was corrupted. Any such evidence only exists in the fevered imaginations of cultists.
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  8592.  Peter Mortensen  Sounds like the U.S.
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  8593. This letter from the FAA is an emergency revocation of the Private Pilot License (PPL). It is intended to immediately prevent Trevor Jacob from putting the public at risk by his piloting of an aircraft. AFAIK, there has been no hearing before an administrative judge and no final disposition of the case.
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  8594. “There I was, exercising my Constitutional right to look at titties, when all of a sudden . . .”
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  8595.  @pippinhill7650  C’mon, what are the chances he loves anyone or anyone loves him? I suspect a good number of Antivaxxer/antimaskers in these comments are secretly rooting for the virus, hoping that climate change and other problems will be solved if more people die. They are probably vaccinated, but don’t wish others to get the vaccine. They’re the ones that arrive on this channel within minutes of a video being published. They’re the ones that reveal their “cull the herd” of the weak and the sick attitudes, like Mac here let slip. (It shouldn’t be surprising that these folks are eugenicists.)
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  8596. Hi! Thank you for this great video. Did you manage to measure the light output before the power supply broke? I’m trying to imagine how you’d use this in a practical application. Maybe mounted on a crane? :D
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  8597. You are blessed with child-like naïveté.
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  8598. Long term, F-16s are a security guarantee against Russian aggression after the current conflict ends. Anders is correct.
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  8599. You never know what they’ll get up to with those rascally Habsburgs.
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  8600. What are the local laws regarding right-of-ways and how they become established? The plaintiff might be worried that he will lose some property rights if a right-of-way is established. A parcel that is impinged by a right-of-way might be objectively less valuable.
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  8601. Says the Russian bot. Lol, retired Air Force? What kind of Mig did you fly. 😂
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  8602.  @charlesoyibo9536 lol, we can tell you’re lying because we can’t hear you typing.
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  8603.  wtfx5757 They don’t count part time jobs in the report. These are 300,000 new full time jobs added to company payrolls. You should start looking for a full time job that pays better, because the job market is heating up and workers are in demand.
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  8604. It’s been confirmed (by Russia) that it sank before reaching port. So they can’t even scrap it!
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  8605.  @patelk464  Isn’t metal too heavy? Probably better to attach the rope to wood or styrofoam. Or I know! A balloon!
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  8606.  @nonadeplume1145  The phrase of which you’re thinking is “form over function”, not fashion over form. It’s a fairly common phrase that you might have misheard. Function would mean the structure’s practical function as a house (or whatever its purpose). Form would mean the aesthetics. FLW’s work has been influential within the world of architecture, but it wasn’t “fashionable” by any definition. You can readily apply the word to the California bungalow, but not one of Wright’s structures. As far as the building materials being “esoteric” as the other commenter suggested, FLW used concrete. He used a lot of oak. These aren’t rare or little known or obscure materials. I think the commenter doesn’t know the definition of the word. Back to form over function: Some of FLW’s structures are notorious for issues with flooding, as was the case with Hollyhock. Assuming that’s what you meant, I am in full agreement.
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  8607. It’s not.
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  8608. A virus does two things. 1) It enters a cell and uses that cell to replicate. 2) It spreads. If it replicates too effectively, it can destroy the host before it can spread. There is a “sweet spot” for the virus between virulent replication and transmissibility. Higher transmissibility actually raises the ceiling on virulence.
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  8609. An A-10 would last A-10 seconds without air superiority. The Russians don’t have air superiority, but they still have a lot of planes in the sky. Sorry, but it’s just a masturbatory fantasy.
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  8610. It’s been decades since I read them, but I do remember enjoying Theodore White’s books very much. White was a war correspondent that was on the ground in China during WWII.
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  8611.  @tybarnes895  Good points, but I think public support for Putin’s war is thin, but widespread. The Kremlin could deepen that support if buildings in Moscow start getting blown up. It could lose that support if Putin orders full mobilization. The sanctions are already beginning to wear down the public’s patience. I’m thinking about what happened to President Lyndon B. Johnson. The conflict in Vietnam and subsequent draft wore down the public’s patience, and he decided not to seek a second term. Contrast this with GWB at the point of the 2004 election—he had taken steps to avoid the appearance of public sacrifice for the Iraq war, even giving out tax breaks to gin up short term prosperity.
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  8612.  @davidgoodwin4148 yeah. How many f-35s is $363 billion going to buy you? How many capital ships? How many tanks? How many parts and stores for all of the above? I’d feel pretty good if 363 billion was the R&D budget. And I wouldn’t consider it a waste because I know that Silicon Valley is the child of military R&D.
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  8613.  @mikegurney9278  Yesterday and earlier today I was furiously watching news videos and reading news stories. I’d already felt the relief that Joe had won and would be president, but I was still wound up and feeling conflict in my chest. You know what I mean? It’s like a physical feeling. Watching this video, seeing the contrast, realizing: it’s really a new day, a new start. The bad days are over. No doubt we will face hardships together, but the burden feels 1000% lighter. These nasty trolls that would annoy me and even anger me are like fading illusions. They’re not real anymore. I wonder if they ever were. (Lest you think I’m becoming daft, I do know there are human beings behind these malevolent presentations, but their creations have no force, no meaning.) Blue skies, Mike. May your skies be sunny and blue. We’ll make it through this winter and make the world better.
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  8614. @Craig Steddy You’re not giving him enough credit for is amazing skills. He shines their shows while also gentle resting their balls against his chin.
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  8615. Previous video covered home testing your serum levels for vitamin D3.
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  8616. @Fepper Yes, we just listened to Peter. What’s your point? That there is one American that thinks about other countries?
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  8617. The strength comes from the closed structure. If you make it open it won’t take as much weight or be as rugged. If you want a box for your stuff, just make a box for your stuff. That said, the thickness of the plywood could be 3/8th” to 1/2”. The 3/4” stuff Adam is using is overkill unless you really are putting the weight of a car on it. I’ve even seen 1/4” plywood used, but I wouldn’t recommend it. There are videos here where people get needlessly elaborate, using expensive Baltic birch plywood and such. One guy even used his domino to make the joints. I guess if you spend that much on a tool, you find any and every excuse to use it. But the best way to go is how Adam did it, glue and 18 gauge staples. The staples act as clamps, allowing you to knock these out quickly (as opposed to waiting for glue to dry on one set of boxes because you don’t have a million clamps). I would avoid using wood or drywall screws. Not only do they look bad, they’ll take a lot more work drilling pilot holes and countersinks. Might as well use a $900 Festool domino, like that other guy.
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  8618. How’s that low information diet going? Feel any skinnier?
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  8619. It was an exaggeration, but please remember, politics were different then. The two parties weren’t mortal enemies. There was give and take, Republicans and Democrats reached compromises. Reagan met weekly with Speaker Tip O’Neil. Those that wanted more government intervention and those that wanted less might get hot with their rhetoric (even jokingly, as in your campaign quote from a Presidential debate), but Reagan never vilified his election opponents as communists or radicals. Reagan was far from perfect. If you think he was the worst President until Trump, I won’t dissuade you. As the years have gone by, I’ve found less and less to like about him. I only ask that you put him and his quotes into proper context.
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  8620.  @LimeyLassen  😂
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  8621. Napolitano is one of the most credible legal pundits, regardless of what network he works for.
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  8622. Show your goo, wanker.
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  8623. What about mental pardons?
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  8624. Good comment. Pharmaceutical companies engage in shady marketing practices. Not enough people know about this, but it doesn’t amount to a giant conspiracy. Wrt to large expensive vitamin studies, the vitamin supplement industry could afford them, but it’s not in their interest to do so. While they cannot make unproven medical claims about their products, they are not banned from suggesting “beneficial properties”. Nor do the vitamin supplement companies avoid their own shady marketing practices. They don’t have to make claims, real or bogus, about the benefits of their products. They can incentivize others to do it for them. A legitimate study might disprove the efficacy of their products, so why would they want to fund one?
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  8625. Judges can decide what evidence is allowable. A prosecutor cannot decide on behalf of the defense what evidence is relevant. That’s the first basic principle that was violated. But the kicker is that the investigators working for the special prosecutor took action to hide the evidence. I’m not an expert but an educated layman. It seems to me that the investigators, including the crime scene technician, have opened themselves up to criminal charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to commit obstruction.
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  8626. No, we just want the accuser-in-chief to show us proof. He’s got nothing. What a sore loser!
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  8627. On the other hand, that’s one Russian tank that won’t be pulling up in front of an apartment building to kill civilians.
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  8628.  @zach6360  With all the nuclear saber rattling of Putin, there’s a chance those Russian mothers will be reunited with their sons sooner rather than later.
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  8629.  @johndoe-ss9bz  I think the Western countries should explicitly offer political asylum to Russian soldiers that surrender or desert.
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  8630.  @ringobeck9613  One thing the West can offer that Russia can not: an all expenses paid vacation at Disneyland in Florida.
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  8631.  @CIA_Is_aTerrorist_Orginization  That’s not happening. Invent a more plausible lie next time.
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  8632.  @ringobeck9613  No, not really. The West will recoup the cost of this war by selling off Oligarch’s yachts. The last one seized was valued at $700 million.
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  8633.  @aidenaesthetics1916  That’s why surrender is preferable. They’ll be sent to a safe area and finally get a square meal.
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  8634. In that case, I’d last about ten minutes in Ukraine.
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  8635. LOLOLOLOLOLOL, what are the prophets of Baal predicting now?
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  8636. The lawyer misspoke, but I think I can explain. Out of 1000 clients, 900 will keep their mouths shut, 99 will try to keep their mouths shut, and 1 will defiantly speak even when their lawyer is begging them to shut up.
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  8637. Are you keeping score? Three arrived in purgatory, the whereabouts of the fourth is unknown. Both Heaven and Hell have confirmed that the fourth person that died has not arrived at either location, nor was he scheduled to arrive.
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  8638. The documents don’t each have to be read in full. There is already a list of the documents. All the Special Master needs to do is check that a document matches the description on the list. If Dearie is correct and the work can be completed by October 7th, his assistant will get paid $40,000 for 10 days work. That is peanuts. The part that hurts Trump isn’t the cost, it’s that he’s just been called out for his long history of payment shenanigans, of cheating people and ripping them off. It’s a well deserved slap in the face. Dearie knows how to humiliate Trump using soft language. Trump knows he is being humiliated. He knows that people are laughing at him.
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  8639. I think Lukashenko has enough problems staying in control of his own population. If he attacks Ukraine, he won’t have enough soldiers left to put down the opposition. Say what you will about this brutal dictator, but he’s not a dummy like Putin. He will let Russia use Belarusian territory to launch strikes, but he won’t send his troops across the border.
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  8640. When did the U.S. push for Ukraine to join NATO? Up until the invasion, the U.S. line was it wasn’t going to happen. Did you uncover a secret plan heretofore unknown?
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  8641. “What’s a nice fashion doctor like you doing at a Lagrange Point like this?” 😘
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  8642.  @jcrguo  Also investigate Tile. There’s another company whose name escapes me at the moment that is going to incorporate Apple’s “Find Me” into their doohickey. They already make a tag device. The big differences with Apple’s product from the others (from what I can tell) is more precise search in a room, and the ability for other iPhones to identify a lost/misplaced thing. The reason that the Air Tag might not be a viable option is that the Air Tag will chirp if it gets too far from the paired iPhone. At this point, your uncle might notice it and remove it. Your best option might be to get some cloth tags embroidered with your contact info and sew them onto his clothing. It’s not a high tech solution, but it would help whoever finds him identify him and get a hold of you.
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  8643. We get the potential for a functional House.
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  8644.  @timewarp1994  Well, for starters, she’s not white. She should work on that. Also, she wasn’t born a man, so she better not get any ideas about being President. [and I’m sorry I need to type it, but for the slower readers: this is sarcasm]
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  8645.  @튜브개십  SPAMMER. Reported.
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  8646. Thank you for mentioning your dosage. It’s important information.
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  8647. I think we (you and I, anyway) were fooled by high tech Russian military bling into thinking they were technologically advanced and if not equal to NATO capabilities, they were nearly equal. It’s fairly clear now that they were investing in prestige projects, not the basic nuts and bolts of either modern air war or ground war. It’s clear that the Russian military wasn’t prepared for this war. We made the natural (but incorrect assumption) that they were prepared, or they wouldn’t have invaded in the first place. Remember, this wasn’t a matter of Russia gradually being drawn into a conflict as happened to the U.S. in the Vietnam War, where escalation occurred slowly over the course of a decade. The Russians decided to mount a multi-point surprise attack with almost no preparation, as we soon learned. Air superiority requires not only technological capabilities, but highly developed coordination. It requires wielding your entire air force as a single weapon. I think we made a bad assumption that Russia had this sort of capability, as Russia has never given any indication that they have it. I think they also assumed they would magically achieve it. This is a problem in a disinformation society: believing your own bullshit.
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  8648. Well, for one thing, one cannot join if they’re in the middle of a war with another nation.
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  8649. This is the first intelligent thing you’ve said of all your other comments.
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  8650. The Dems could nominate her and back her with their votes. Are they willing to form a centrist coalition? Can they form a centrist coalition without ripping apart their own party? If Cheney is a serious Dem proposal, you’re asking the Dem minority in Congress to take on huge risk. It’s much safer for the Dems to sit back and watch the GOP fall apart.
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  8651. Do you plan on boycotting future elections? You really should boycott, if you believe in and support the President.
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  8652. My first babysitter was a Spanish speaker, someone in the neighborhood’s abuelita. I don’t remember her because I was too young, but I grew up knowing that manzana, naranja, and plátano were the Spanish words for apple, orange, and banana. I didn’t learn Spanish in school until 7th grade, but I’d already heard it more or less daily, growing up in Los Angeles. By the time I graduated high school, I had pretty good “Spanglish”. But it wasn’t until I really immersed myself in Spanish that I gained any fluency. So I agree with your proposal (the earlier the better), but I would add a semester (or more) abroad component. I’d also recommend Mexican grandmother babysitters, but I’m not sure if that’s really practical. 😄
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  8653. I saw the thumbnail, but haven’t yet watched the video. Does he mention anything about the Putin regime bringing back GOSPLAN?
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  8654.  @MikeyLightbringer  You fell for Daniel’s trick. Now he’s drinking your beer.
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  8655. 14th Amendment.
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  8656. It would backfire if it were implemented, but it won’t be. This is an extreme fringe addressing real problems with extremist solutions. The actual dividing lines on the issues is whether one thinks they exist or not, or whether they’re important enough to be solved. If you acknowledge that they exist and need to be addressed, you can debate which are the best solutions and you can discard harebrained schemes like segregated med schools.
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  8657.  @rogerbing5314  Cope.
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  8658. If he was spreading crabs instead of the Coronavirus, it would be a violation of the Crotch Act.
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  8659.  @kaitykaity I guess you should read the book! 😅
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  8660. In an earlier video, Campbell discussed how, for one vaccine, 12 weeks for the second shot was optimal, and too soon decreased effectiveness. I can’t remember off the top of my head which vaccine that was, but I’m guessing that’s the one you received. Congratulations. Not only are you protecting yourself, you are also helping to protect your community. I think that message gets lost, that getting vaccinated serves the larger purpose of protecting our communities and society at large.
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  8661. What does substantial mean? Please provide data on what percentage of J&J they own, total number of shares they own, and current dollar value of those shares. Thanks. Edit: Your comment is highly misleading. Merck owns no stake in Johnson and Johnson, let alone a substantial one. What was announced yesterday was that Merck has been contracted to manufacture the Janssen vaccine, and has an agreement in place with Janssen and HHS. The situation is actually the reverse of what you are falsely implying. J&J will be profiting from Merck, not the other way around.
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  8662. Watch the video.
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  8663. So if the omicron variant is 3x as infectious but with 50% of the severity, shouldn’t we still be seeing a significant rise in hospitalizations as compared to what we saw with the delta variant?
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  8664. Nothing really stops them from working with Democrats. They only need a half dozen moderate democrats. The reason that they don’t is that they lack the intestinal forward to defy the extremists in their party. They don’t know how to govern themselves.
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  8665. From the body cam footage released, I don’t think the SLC cops can be faulted, but you are correct. All the body cam footage needs to be reviewed and the investigation completed.
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  8666.  @ILikeFreedomYo  He lives in a shack in the woods, as any Real American Patriot does. He weaves his own cloth from American cotton and wool and doesn’t use electronics. He drives a 1970s Ford powered by his own farts.
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  8667. Air resistance, you say? That’s a drag. 😫 What’s even more tragic is the long term damage Putin is doing to the Russian space program.
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  8668. @MarcosElMalo2 I can’t believe the misquote is getting more votes than you, self.
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  8669. No, you’re not.
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  8670. Paul Simon needs to update his song.
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  8671. Dang! The Russians were planning on eating that oil after they ran out of food.
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  8672. Is this a significant fact?
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  8673. The next meeting of the countries giving military support will get this ironed out.
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  8674. ball some Mario
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  8675. It is clear now that NATO would control the airspace and suppress air defense against a Russian enemy, should it ever come to that. It’s not clear that we could do the same against the PLA.
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  8676.  karen I  OK, Ivan. Typical Russian Troll with a newborn YouTube account.
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  8677.  @seaoftranquility7228  Karen already lives in Russia. She doesn’t need to follow Trump anywhere.
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  8678.  karen I  Nah, you’re all in Russia. Stop making threats you can’t back up.
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  8679. It’s like ships leaving a sinking rat.
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  8680. The newest improvement to reactive armor filler is sheets of rubber. The theory is that shells will just bounce off a tank protected by rubber armor. I swear, I feel like I’m watching a Roadrunner cartoon, and Russia is the Coyote.
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  8681.  @E4439Qv5  Was that an intentional pun and not a misspelling? If a pun, it was a pretty good one.
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  8682. How is Taiwan the victim of U.S.-China relations? Taiwan is threatened by PRC dreams of hegemony.
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  8683. Nah. But maybe they should not be seated in Congress if they don’t recant. The appropriate response to the rioters is criminal prosecution. The appropriate response to the political abettors is political. Although I wouldn’t mind if both the rioters and their political sponsors went into exile.
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  8684. Kyle Hartley Depression is unrelated to sadness. If you’re feeling sad, you’re probably not depressed. Be thankful that you’re feeling anything.
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  8685. I’ll just say that even if you can sue doesn’t mean you should sue. A newspaper has a powerful weapon in its editorial pages before needing to litigate. A lot of people are quick to recommend litigation when it’s not the wiser course. And litigation is not easy or cheap.
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  8686.  @richardtodd6843  Your first point is very good. There’s a difference between having an axe to grind and the normal adversarial/keep-em-honest position of the press towards politicians. Engaging in unnecessary litigation might even get the reporter removed from reporting on political stories. It turns the story into something beyond straightforward reporting—which I guess is fine if you’re writing a Hunter S. Thompson type piece about your legal battles with a politician.
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  8687. It’s a legal requirement in his jurisdiction to disclaim the nature of his visits to the museums.
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  8688.  @OutSideTheBoxFormat  Your 24/7 “everything is politics” shtick is tired and boring.
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  8689. As a non-signatory, the U.S. isn’t bound by treaty to arrest and extradite anyone to The Hague. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. can’t do so if it wants to. So, no, Putin isn’t theoretically safe traveling to the U.S.
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  8690. Back in the day, I had no idea JCVD was such a bad ass. This movie is ridiculous. The writing is the worst, but Van Damme is a comic genius.
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  8691.  @hewhohasnoidentity4377  It’s time you just visit a proctologist for your butthurt. It’s chronic and the symptoms are disproportional to the original irritant.
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  8692. What info were you expecting?
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  8693. Low blood sugar.
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  8694. He might not make it the 2 weeks remaining. Article 25 or impeachment might be coming in the next few days. Wouldn’t that be wild, if he was impeached with less than 2 weeks left to serve?
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  8695.  @rogerstarkey5390  “Sorry for shitting on the back seat of your cab. For a moment I thought you were a doctor and I was giving you a stool sample. Here’s the cab fare, sorry it’s also covered in shit. But you ran out of loo tissue.
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  8696.  @RabJ208  <— TROLL Don’t engage with him. He wants the attention.
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  8697. To what are you referring by Pandora’s box?
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  8698. I believe you’re holding back your true feelings towards WSU out of politeness and civility.
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  8699. The contact that ended the pursuit wasn’t much if a PIT maneuver. It looked like a T-Bone.
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  8700. Poland loosening its necktie, loosening its collar. “Nervous? Who’s nervous? Hey, is it hot in here or is it just the neighbors to the East and West?”
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  8701.  @icestationzebra8636  Hello, Putzi. How’s everything with you and the other Putin Nazis? Coping OK? Not running out of cope juice, I mean, vodka?
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  8702. That could work if you were using King Kong sized butterfly nets.
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  8703. Pete had the brilliant insight that it’s better to deepfake yourself before anyone else does. Now what are you waiting for? Go deepfake yourself.
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  8704. I don’t think it’s rational, but it’s baked in to the Russian leadership’s mentality.
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  8705. Have you considered taking the addd step of watching Steve’s video?
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  8706. In Federated Russia, pooch screws YOU!! Nah, the Kremlin is the one that screwed the pooch. Good thing that NATO is a defensive alliance and a non aggressive, non belligerent Russia has nothing to fear. The best response Russia could give to Finland joining NATO that would best serve its own interests would be to immediately withdraw from all of Ukraine and cease acting like a criminal state.
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  8707. OK Ivan
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  8708. The Eaton Fire came down into the flats south of the San Gabriel Mountains. These aren’t canyons surrounded by forest and chaparral. These are wide two lane streets with commercial/retail buildings and residential side streets. (Although there are canyon neighborhoods on the north side of Altadena that are also burning.) I have friends that live in a canyon neighborhood immediately northeast of JPL. Their neighborhood has been surrounded on three sides during past fires on a ridge or mesa between two small canyons. They’ve installed fire suppression equipment on their house to spray fire retardant foam on the roof. I’ve been watching aerial footage from yesterday morning, and I see that the fire is burning a tract of McMansions across the canyon. It’s possible that their house is still standing, especially since the upwind terrain has been previously denuded by earlier fires. The spread of the fire into an urban area is unprecedented, and unlike the Palisades Fire, the families living in Altadena are primarily working class more than upper class. I’m really shocked by how far south the fire has spread.
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  8709.  Doctor Blome  When is that going to happen? In January? February?
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  8710. Surprised you’ve never seen Tucker Carlson.
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  8711. How so? We aren’t at war with Gaza.
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  8712. The basis of agriculture is genetically modifying plants and animals. That’s how plant raices and animal breeds were developed and improved. You’ve been eating genetically modified food your entire life.
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  8713. Yes, covered in the Q&A.
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  8714. Probably if there are repeated instances of non-compliance, leading to fines, and then refusing to pay the fines. This doesn’t mean it will rise to criminality, but that it could.
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  8715. @Evil Rev I’m glad I live in America and not your fantasy fascist country of America-period.
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  8716. Stick to criticizing the Duma, Ivan.
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  8717. Yes, ATACMS could be put to use relatively quickly. It’s good for the long term that Ukraine is getting the F-16s, but even if they start this winter, the roll out will be slow. I suspect that the initial batch of planes will be used to protect the Ukrainian cities in the western half of the country from Russian missile attacks. When they get more, Ukraine will start to wear down the Russian SAM systems, taking out their radar. Even when Ukraine has received the full complement, it might not be enough aircraft to challenge Russia for complete air supremacy. The most important function these and additional aircraft will serve will be after some sort of peace agreement is negotiated. They will provide deterrence against future Russian aggression.
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  8718.  @LLL-zt3fz  What do you think the next delay will be? The case is cut and dried, BUT Trump has not been indicted. We are still in the pre-indictment investigation phase. This was Trump’s shot at delaying or shutting down the investigation. Absent new bombshells, the special master’s activities will be done in a few weeks. The 11th circuit has tied Judge Cannon’s hands: if she doesn’t follow Dearie’s recommendations, the DOJ will file another appeal with the 11th circuit. The 11th circuit has demonstrated they will work with all dispatch in this matter.
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  8719. Back in 2016, I suspected Trump could have been bribed to drop out of the Republican primary.
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  8720. Was the shooter a man? “Nikki” doesn’t sound like a man’s name. I think she must have a clean record, or there would be no chance that she’d be granted bond. I’m not going to say that tattoos are a sign of criminality, but that guy was covered in tattoos, including his neck. I don’t buy that the judge is a liberal. This is Texas. When was the last time there was a Democrat governor appointing liberal judges to the bench in Texas?
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  8721. Why bother? You make it sound personal. It’s not personal. It’s business.
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  8722. What is the state of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and India? Is there any cooperation between their militaries? I think that India and Saudi Arabia have the greatest common interest in the security of shipping in the region. Together they could deter Iranian aggression.
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  8723.  @death_parade  Diplomacy is always preferable. But what does India do when diplomacy fails and another Indian crew is held hostage or worse? Wrt to a coalition, I think it would be a bad idea to let America lead it. The U.S. has a bad record (mixed at best) and a lot of reputational baggage. If the U.S. is involved, it should be in a support role. Truth be told, I think the U.S. would be happy to turn over security responsibilities to our friends in the Middle East and South Asia. But it doesn’t want to leave a power vacuum to be filled by bad actors.
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  8724. There’s a ton of crime, including murder, in some parts of Mexico. There’s corruption. There’s kidnapping. But the police (Federal, State, and Local) are still operating, even in those bad areas. The trash still gets picked up and water/power is up and running just fine in these areas. So yeah, crime is really bad, especially in the “plazitas”, the border cities and other ports-of-entry. But they don’t fit the definition of a failed state any more than Florida or other states. I’m pretty sure the U.S. will respect Mexican sovereignty, and I’m just as sure that Mexico is not going to invite the U.S. military to intervene.
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  8725. What reaction is Russia trying to provoke? And why? This seems like an act of desperation.
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  8726. Agreed. I don’t want to “both sides” the extremes. Clearly one extreme has gained control of the GOP. But embracing the other extreme isn’t the solution. Both extremes lead to dictatorship. Maybe we should stop thinking of our politics as divided between two poles with us in the center, pulled in either direction. We should thing of ourselves as the center of power. We haven’t yet lost the tools that give us centrists our power—our constitutional government, our democratic institutions, the rule of law. They are being eroded, but we can still use them to halt the authoritarians (of both sides).
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  8727. I never knew the history either, although I vaguely knew its roots were in the civil rights movement, and that (like many family holidays) it was related to culture and heritage. And holidays, heritage, culture, and family means one thing more than any other: FOOD! 😋 I’m my mind, I associate Kwanza with pie—like the best pies you’ll eat all year. That pecan pie baked by your friend’s auntie that causes you to angle for a Kwanza invite every year. Or it could be a sweet potato pie or cherry cobbler brought by another auntie or cousin. (But it’s Aunt Mable’s pie I remember these many years later.)
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  8728. It depends on trade policies going forward, and the trend is towards more protectionism and towards regional arrangements. Globalism won’t end, but it’s poised to retract. When Pete talks about all these blue collar jobs, we have to keep in mind automation. The coming blue collar boom is not going to be like the WWII and post WWII boom. It will be a fraction of that. Some is going to get farmed out to Mexico, following the model set by the automotive industry under NAFTA. What do I mean about trade policies? Mostly tariffs, but there are other protectionist tweaks that can keep domestic production competitive with imports. This isn’t exactly new, either.
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  8729.  @peni1641  Look up the term “advise & consent”. The short version is that senators don’t nominate a President’s cabinet. Please learn a little bit about government before posting ignorant garbage.
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  8730.  @13bustah  yeah, most people missed that because it didn’t happen outside of the fevered imaginations of a delusional few. The negotiations between Mnuchin and Pelosi were in good faith on both sides, and they were getting close to a deal before torpedoed by McConnell. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to a handful of recalcitrant senators, but then he sabotaged the bipartisan deal while it was in progress and getting close.
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  8731.  @Wisdomabovegold  Stimulus checks didn’t go to illegal aliens. In fact, American citizens married to legal non-citizens didn’t get checks. Just STFU with your lies and attempts to gin up racist fears. And at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if 1% of the checks go to fraudsters and undeserving if 1) The stimulus saves American families from suffering and 2) (the most important part) the money is spent, thereby stimulating the economy. This is why they’re called STIMULUS checks, because ultimately the goal isn’t just to help families avoid starvation and eviction. The larger goal is to keep the economy on life support during a health crisis. Your wisdom is lacking. It doesn’t even rate above Fool’s Gold.
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  8732. Birds aren’t real.
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  8733. I’m sure you can if you try. Think about how you would feel if this was happening to you. There you go, you’re imagining! Not only that, you’re getting the side benefit of exercising your empathy skills.
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  8734.  @dowgy177  The Troll farms are hauling their oldest bots out of storage.
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  8735. This is your brain on Cofeve.
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  8736.  @StainsStainsStains  You believe that nonsense? He or somebody on some conspiracy website made that figure up. They just pulled the number out of their butt.
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  8737. How much daily human trafficking is normal for the UK?
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  8738. It’s never been more clear than Republicans killing their own legislation that would have gone a long way to addressing border issues, AFTER they were told to by Trump. Passing the legislation would have been very good for the party itself, but it deprived Trump of his one “real” issue. The Senate Republicans maneuvered the Democrats over a barrel and extracted maximum concessions. It was a masterclass in hardball politics and represented a major victory for the GOP (in addition to being good for the country). And Trump snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory. 😖 Because he needed the issue to run his campaign. Once again, the maga GOP disgusts me.
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  8739. Only fair really. There are 2 million Americans living in Mexico + all the tourists.
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  8740.  @Rebecca-hc5ju  Drug-crazed or not, this is the war policy of Putin. These are not aberrant crimes committed by undisciplined soldiers. Putin is not winning militarily, so he makes war on the civilians. The Russian soldiers and mercenaries are supposed to rape, murder, destroy property, and steal anything not nailed down. Death to the Putzis and other supporters of Putin Naziism.
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  8741. They got more than a boop, although they did manage to avoid prison (assuming they adhere to the conditions of their pleas). They’re both convicted felons. They’ll be able to get on with their lives, but their lives will be circumscribed for a good long while.
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  8742.  @swtgrl2no Isn’t it amazing? No link? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  8743.  @casper191985  When did MAGA go off the rails and lose touch with the simple message of Make America Golf Again? Making up weird conspiracy theories about God-knows-what is not helping to promote Golf. Arnold Palmer must be spinning in his grave.
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  8744. BOY meets ARM. BOY loses ARM. BOY gets ARM back.
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  8745. He was flying over populated areas. Do you think shooting down a plane over people is the best idea?
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  8746. They would have used snow boots, obviously.
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  8747. Rubio is the single good choice of which I am aware. Pam Bondi is fanatic, but at least she has experience, unlike Mattey Gaetz. RFK, Gabbard, Ramiswami, Hegsmith, Oz, Muks, are all dangerous clowns.
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  8748.  @rogerstarkey5390  That’s a Porfiro Diaz quote, in reference to the Mexico/U.S. relationship! lol 😆 More of a metaphor along the lines of the butterfly effect.
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  8749. They haven’t acted yet. They might not act at all.
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  8750.  @skeptic_al  That’s pathetic if true.
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  8751. Precisely why aid to cities was not included.
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  8752. “Woke mind virus” is gibberish.
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  8753. If you could develop viagra for tanks, you’d have defense contracts up the wazoo.
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  8754. The Dems have to win control of the house and hold onto the Senate if there’s to be a hope of removal through impeachment. And I’m afraid that the extreme left is undermining the chances of the Dems in Congress by making Gaza a bigger issue than Women’s Rights. The extreme left doesn’t want liberal democrats in power. They want the MAGAs in power to speed up their revolution.
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  8755.  @drjothoms  So what tracking apps will run on an 11 year old Android phone running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich? I mean, if we want to make a direct comparison with the iPhone 4S. The oldest model of iPhones able to run the current iPhone OS are the 6S and 6S+. They can run these tracker apps. These models were released in fall of 2015, making them 5 years old. Are there android phones released that year that can run tracker apps? Do they need to be updated to the current android OS. Does the manufacturer offer an easy way to do this, or is it for experts only? Incidentally, refurbished 6S iPhones can be purchases on eBay in the $100-150 usd range. As I said, they still work with the up-to-date current OS. I’m not claiming that iPhones are the best and one should purchase them instead of Android. I’m just saying your stated reason for not buying an iPhone is based on bullshit, and if you’re advising anyone on what phone to use for Covid symptom tracking based on inaccurate information, you’re not helping anyone. On the contrary, you’re being of disservice and not particularly honest.
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  8756.  @manzoku106  That’s the dodge being used by the man who said that he “takes no responsibility”. The fact of the matter is that the Federal government has a lot of avenues for an emergency federal response to a national crisis that have been ignored or underplayed. Hopefully the new management will change that soon. The 10th Amendment is a very important amendment, but it doesn’t prevent a muscular federal response to a crisis that doesn’t respect state borders. (I rank it 3rd in importance, after the 1A and 2A.)
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  8757. Why is he telling me this? I didn’t Aksum. Great episode! Thank you.
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  8758. He’s a congressman from South Carolina unhappy with how Wisconsin runs its elections? I guess states rights aren’t important to “conservatives” anymore. Apparently, he hasn’t read the 10th amendment, either.
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  8759. If they show trigger discipline and don’t sweep me, I’m fine with it. My biggest issue with seeing public displays of firearms is not knowing the safety skills and overall competence of the possessors. The security company owner claims the guards are well trained (with continuous practice). I hope this works as a deterrent and the guards never have to fire a shot.
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  8760. America always does the right thing after it’s tried everything else.
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  8761.  @Brommear  It’s a Churchill quote, the context was the U.S. entering the war.
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  8762. What’s the deal with the goats? And the guy on the pillar?
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  8763.  @rogerstarkey5390  It’s possible, but use of the military to distribute vaccines or perform vaccinations, even states’ National Guard units, is touchy in the present moment. By touchy, I mean that 15%-25% of the population suffer from anti-government paranoid delusions that in normal times would require at least 72 hours observation in a psychiatric ward. Military involvement would trigger millions of mentally unstable people.
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  8764. Did Biden use false information when he applied for a loan?
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  8765. That poor Putin look-alike, unable to control his bowels. He’s suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome.
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  8766.  @geekedmaxx  You either believe the COVID pandemic is real or you don’t. If you don’t, you’re delusional and not worth arguing with. If you do believe it’s real, and are taking the position that “the cure shouldn’t be worse than the disease”, what you are saying is that your job is more important than the lives of your neighbors, your family, even yourself. Get it? You think your job is more important than your own life! Don’t you think that is crazy?
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  8767.  @tombragalone7250  I posted this on someone else’s comment, but maybe it’s a better suited response to your comment. You either believe the COVID pandemic is real or you don’t. If you don’t, you’re delusional and not worth arguing with. If you do believe it’s real, and are taking the position that “the cure shouldn’t be worse than the disease”, what you are saying is that your job is more important than the lives of your neighbors, your family, even yourself. Get it? You think your job is more important than your own life! That’s just crazy. Measures like this package are what will keep the economy alive, and will make a recovery possible in the next year. Government measures limiting the economy, mandating masks, social distancing and gatherings limit long term economic damage as well as deaths to hundreds of thousands of Americans. Denying that the pandemic exists is delusional. Believing the pandemic is a government conspiracy is delusional. Agreed? I hope so, because debating the contents and structure of the relief package is futile if we don’t agree on basic reality.
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  8768. Don’t worry, the House Republicans will block it.
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  8769. Engines overheating because the soldiers are drinking the anti-freeze in the radiators.
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  8770. Remember, this was before feng shui and declutterring was a thing.
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  8771. Music was better in the T-80s.
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  8772. Aren’t COLAs already built into most contracts?
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  8773. 9:49 Keyword: Reveal. Some of my favorite writing is “exposition by reveal”, where we are fed information to help us solve the puzzle presented by the story. We’ve been given questions, such as “Who are these people? What do they want? What are the obstacles? What is going on?”. As we receive the information, we confront new questions created by the exposition. The puzzle expands, sometimes in surprising ways. A good story (or a type of story) contains mystery and intrigue. We might be receiving clues (the revealing exposition) at the same time as the protagonist. We might be given information before them. But the answers to the questions raise new questions. This serves moving the plot of the movie forward. Or rather, it IS the plot.
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  8774. We don’t do big parades with tanks and missile trucks in the U.S., either. Only one U.S. politician in recent memory wanted that sort of thing, although it’s unclear if he had a hard on for military equipment or a boner for Putin. Anyway, he really really wanted a big military parade and almost got one. Before you say “obviously Putin”, let me point out that this politician said he knew what Vietnam was like because he had gotten sexually transmitted diseases. He definitely has some association with war and sex.
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  8775. Although I think Russia will lose, you don’t seem to be geographically literate. Re-examine maps of the region and you’ll see that even without Crimea, Russia has access to both the Sea of Azov and to the Black Sea.
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  8776.  @prometheusjackson8787  You didn’t actually watch the video.
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  8777. Requires isn’t the right word. “Best practice” is the phrase I’d use. What you really want to avoid is having the weight on the opposite side of the stand, but sometimes you have to set it up that way. You just bag the snot out of the big leg. Righty-tighty is covered in the first 10 minutes of grip school.
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  8778.  @scratchnoff7609  Plus they get a student discount.
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  8779. I’m pretty sure they were recruiting criminals from long before the invasion in 2014. Apparently they’re running out of free criminals and are now recruiting imprisoned ones.
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  8780.  @ianbelletti6241  We’d have to look at the plan or plat to determine if the easement was established. We also don’t know if there is a public right of way established sometime before the current owners took up residence. We don’t have a full report with all the relevant details.
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  8781.  @moogs  How about you be quiet when the adults are talking?
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  8782. It was part of IBM’s reconfiguration from a hardware company to a services company.
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  8783. lol, you are arguing based on wishes, not facts.
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  8784. “Creating” absolutely crap content on YouTube is a viable business model. Meanwhile, YouTube is actively discouraging (demonetizing and restricting) quality content while at the same time hiding its guidelines from those content makers behind the curtain of the mysterious and all powerful Algorithm.
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  8785. From the Lincoln Project’s lips to God’s ear.
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  8786.  @MsZeeZed  I don’t know if you count this as a significant difference, but the people in the Kremlin pre-1980 actually believed in their socialist bullshit. Nowadays they’re trying to invent a new form of b.s. with this Russian Mir thing that sounds an awful lot like Hitler’s ideas about Germany’s destiny. I’m not saying there wasn’t all sorts of corruption under the communists. And clearly the oligarchs are the spiritual children (and sometimes literal children) that inherited the corrupt communist fiefdoms.
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  8787.  @catholicpog7183 You’re not a Catholic, you’re a troll.
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  8788. I’m not sure whom you mean by “they”, but the MAGA-led House of Representatives is disgracefully backing Tuberville at the expense of our national security. It’s ultimately a meaningless gesture while the Democrats control the Senate because it needs to pass both chambers. Tuberville is taking advantage of a Senate procedure that allows any Senator to challenge an Federal appointment, thereby holding it up. You could have 99 Senators approving the appointments, and Tuberville could halt the appointments.
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  8789.  @rosemaryhill8804  Can you imagine what it might be like to be so politicized that every element of one’s life, every waking moment, is political? Information rejected or accepted depending on how it affirms your political view? I’m horrified by these people.
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  8790. If they’re threatening violence, sure.
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  8791.  @lamarlamarlamar  ivermectin costs pennies. Think of the expensive funeral you’ll be able to afford saving all that money! 😉
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  8792. This video is giving me that in-and-out urge.
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  8793.  @wgowshipping  Yeah, but in this political environment? Oy vey! 😂
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  8794. Check out the Polk County Sheriffs Office YouTube Channel. These press conferences are routine for all manner of criminal investigations. It’s part of that department’s transparency and public education. What you’re asking for is well beyond the scope and jurisdiction of Polk County law enforcement, unless an actual crime was committed in Polk County.
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  8795. You might be right. But here’s why I think you’re wrong. 😉 The Democratic Party is already a coalition of factions (which is why there’s always, ALWAYS been so much infighting). If the “green-progressive” faction can deliver more votes in upcoming elections, they’ll have correspondingly more power. If they can cooperate and form alliances with other factions, they’ll share in more power within the party. You might think of the Democratic Party as a quasi parliamentarian system in this way. The “third” parties in the U.S. have been mostly inconsequential. If you consider yourself something along the lines of a green progressive, you might consider joining the Democratic Party and supporting the green-progressive faction within it. Just a thought!
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  8796.  @travisadams4470  You first. 😛
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  8797.  @renaissance17  are there no urban hunter/gatherers in your society?
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  8798. The people using it in the media generally don’t know either.
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  8799. It’s your damn iris making automatic adjustments without telling your conscious mind how much it’s opening up or closing down. If we had some sort of read out, we could get accurate measurements from the eye. (You’d probably need to get your eyes calibrated periodically.)
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  8800. The Union’s continued existence was a threat to the Confederacy, the fact that the Union had an Army and a Navy was considered an act of aggression. Not unlike a current type of American, who feels existentially threatened by the mere fact that not everyone supports his particular leader, and can only be soothed by the act of buying firearms or coughing on babies.
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  8801. Gerald Friend At the time the lease was signed, the U.S. had beaten the Spanish in the Spanish-American war. Without the Spanish colonial masters, Cuba was free and independent. Decades later, after Cuba was taken over by the communists, Castro wished to break the lease. No international court has invalidated the lease, afaik.
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  8802. What have you been hearing or reading about it? They were discovering it right before Newsom eased the lockdown, then the news was all B.1.1.7.
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  8803. Additionally, it’s no brainer to rebalance your portfolio when you vest, so you don’t have your eggs all in one basket.
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  8804. It’s really too bad that Hillary didn’t have sixteen years (2001- 2016) to redefine herself and push back against the image that Republicans had created of her. It’s so unfair that she was never given the opportunity. 🙄 I voted for her in 2016, pinching my nose all the while. It’s true that lot of things that happened to her during the 2016 were unfair. But being the victim of unfairness, even of skullduggery and ratfakking, does not win elections.
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  8805.  @firingallcylinders2949  I propose we start calling the Russian President “Herr Putin”.
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  8806. I wish people would stop misusing the phrases “3rd World” and “1st World” if they are discussing economic development of a country or region. If you want to discuss economic development, just use “Developed”, “Developing”, or “Undeveloped”. Or use whatever schema that corresponds to economics, material prosperity, or lack of it. “Third World” was a political label given to non-aligned countries during the Cold War. There was the First World, the Western Democracies opposed to the Communist Bloc. There was the Second World, the Communist Bloc that sought to overthrow capitalism and the Western Democracies. And there was the Third World, which were those countries that didn’t want to take sides during the Cold War, that wanted to pursue their own interests. The obsolete phraseology has picked up a lot of racist baggage over the years, used to describe non-white cultures, societies, and countries disparagingly. This is why certain white politicians will call Miami “like a Third World Country” (I think it was Pat Buchanan that said that during his run for the GOP presidential nomination). If a person is racist, they should stop hiding behind words. Just be racist. Show the courage of your racist convictions instead of cowardly using code words. Trump gave you permission to say whatever stupid dumbass thing popped into your pea brain. To be fair, I hear this misuse of language from socialists and progressive democrats all the time, too. It certainly undermines my confidence that “their revolution” will somehow magically solve racism.
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  8807. Is it, though? The comedy roast-style parliamentary debate has been a feature of UK politics for years, no?
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  8808.  @fedorbutochnikow5312  Nobody with an understanding of monetary policy and global exchange is talking about “BRICS replacing the dollar”, other than to debunk the idea. There is not even a BRICS currency that could replace the dollar and very little prospect that there will be, due to mistrust among the members. The BRICS “central bank” that was established is at best a mid sized investment bank that has issued some yuan-based bonds. The simple truth is that most members (the B, I, and S) do not trust the C, and the R has no choice due to its own bad geopolitical decisions (*coughcoughUkraine*). The Chinese Central bank is totally opaque and at the beck and call of the CCP. It’s not independent, it doesn’t announce what it is doing, it operates a double currency (domestic and international trading), and whatever it is doing in secret is subject to the Chinese government’s expediency of the moment. Trading in Yuan is high risk, and that’s not the basis for a major reserve currency or a reserve currency backed by the Yuan. Contrast this with the transparency and independence of the Federal Reserve System and similar central banks.
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  8809.  @thepaintingbanjo8894  LazerPig has posted what, three videos about Ukraine?
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  8810. Tankies and fellow left revolutionaries: Does not compute! Does not compute! Initiating cognitive dissonance self-deception sun program in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 . . . . MAGAs: this is 13th dimensional chess . . .
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  8811.  @lugardboy  Are the Russians going to eat gas?
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  8812.  @rustyshackelford3371  get back to your pocket sand
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  8813.  @Any-qo3xh  your freedom isn’t being abridged by mask or vaccine mandates. You are free to live your life as you wish, you must can’t force your bizarre behavior and beliefs on others, who are free to live as they wish. You’re not fighting for your freedom, but for some weird desire for convenience and irresponsibility. True lovers of liberty understand that their rights do not supersede the rights of others.
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  8814.  @aaronhorsman1396  Nah. First of all, you’re not an American. Second, schools have enforced dress codes for many decades, and vaccines have been mandatory for decades as well. There is nothing nefarious about any of this. What is nefarious is people like you posing as Americans to push your death agenda.
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  8815.  @Wright1331 The signers of the Declaration of Independence were well known people. And they published the declaration. It wasn’t a secret. This “Plan de San Diego” was written and signed by 9 nobodies and was never promulgated on either side of the border. Every other plan issued by a revolutionary faction during the Mexican Revolution was publicly declared to rally support. They’re statements of intention. Why is this one plan such a secret? Only one guy had a copy of it, and he was turned over to the authorities.
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  8816.  @JustGonnaStepHere  There is no evidence that there were more than nine men involved. And even that evidence is shaky. It could have been just the guy that was caught. The Declaration of Independence was a public declaration of intent. It’s the same with the various plans issued by the different sides in the Mexican Revolution. The Declaration of Independence would have to be a secret document to compare it. What we know for sure is that a dork or maybe a group of nine dorks approached a friend of Pancho Villa looking for support. Probably it was a con job, and the Villa supporter turned the guy in. And later it was used as justification for lynch mobs and white terrorism.
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  8817.  @JJthename55  You’re the guy who brags about being a Russian bot?
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  8818. This is 100% incorrect. The U.S. pulled out of the ABM treaty. Russia withdrew from START II. It was replaced bilaterally by the SORT agreement. You are distorting the facts, either out of ignorance or intentionally lying to spread Russian propaganda.
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  8819. He’s going to annex portions of Ukraine, and use that as a pretext to use nuclear weapons. I’ve heard two different rumors about the referendums. 1) soldiers going door to door to collect ballots, and Russian citizens being allowed to vote. This presumably includes soldiers and anyone they care to bus in (even as they forcibly remove Ukrainians from their captured territories). Short of mass murder of Jews, Putin is following the Nazi crimes against humanity playbook.
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  8820. I’m sorry to correct you, but it’s pronounced poto-SI. Poe-toe-SI, if you like. This is properly written as Potosí in Spanish. Pronunciation deserves to be remembered! 😊
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  8821. But the socialism/Marxism window dressing for a corrupt mafia, which the Venezuelan government is. They haven’t implemented a single socialist program that hasn’t been used to funnel money to the inner circles of the ruling party. The populist part comes from throwing crumbs to the poor who support Maduro and the party. The opposition has been crushed. I think all such regimes end up this way, even when they start as genuine believers in Marxism. Look at China, look at Cuba, look at Nicaragua, and most of all, look at the Soviet Union and its remnant federation. The origins of Russia as a Mafia state go back to the time of Lenin. But make no mistake. The leaders can cling to power for a looooooong time.
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  8822.  @keith6706  Yup. And you’re right that it was bad terrain. The German advance was delayed at multiple points by small units, giving the allied forces enough time to organize a defense and counter attack. There was really no way the Nazis were going to make their timetable.
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  8823.  New World Order  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  8824. @David John You somehow did your research without understanding the basic science of genetics.
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  8825. If you mean the House of Representatives failing its duty, you’re correct.
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  8826.  @johmyh14  coloidal silver is a very common treatment for disinfecting water where I live. $10 for 6 months sounds right, maybe a bit high. I buy liter bottles, and I can’t remember the peso price off hand. Concentration is 0.05% silver in the bottle, recommended dose is 7ml per 20 liters for drinking water, higher concentrations for food washing. To be 100% clear, it’s an anti-bacterial. It may have anti-viral effects, but those are not proven. Sadly, it turns carrots purple, but it hasn’t turned my skin blue yet. I’ve been using it for 10 years now.
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  8827. And what states or cities are you looking at for your next move?
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  8828. They have no idea what it’s like to put tables on our families.
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  8829. They already have begun to seize assets. They started this during the first week of the war.
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  8830. 100% this.
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  8831. When ever I see Tucker Carlson speak, I hear high pitched squeals and giggles at about the range of a piccolo.
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  8832.  @OliversElevators  Trini Lopez was born in Dallas. Sadly, he recently died from Covid. Not sure if he qualifies as a jazz great, but he’s a famous musician from Texas.
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  8833. “Deer in the headlights” I always thought she looked like she had been run over multiple times, but they never could find a smoking car.
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  8834. Surprising as gloves are protocol (or should be) for any type of injection. Every time I’ve gotten blood taken for lab tests, the nurse or P.A. wore gloves.
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  8835. Did Pete just accuse us of living under Iraq?
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  8836. What do you think he should do?
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  8837. Congratulations, you made a wooden box, not an apple box. Yeah, breaking down sheet goods on a table saw is no fun. You’re much better off using the circ saw and a guide, or ideally a track saw. Even a chalk line. Just cut to a larger dimension and then use your table saw or job site saw to cut the pieces to your final dimensions.
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  8838.  Denise Skinner  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  8839. That might be difficult to apply eminent domain if a sovereign nation or different political entity owns the mineral rights, as is the case here. The state of New York cannot seize property in Texas under eminent domain.
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  8840. 99% of “anti-politically correct” people merely want the freedom to say or do abhorrent things without repercussions such as other people thinking that they have bad opinions. Maybe 1% care about actual free speech issues. The majority of anti-PCers don’t care about freedom of speech, they want freedom from consequences.
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  8841. Nope, you’re lying.
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  8842.  @mballer  it’s always a conspiracy with you people. Don’t ascribe to malice what is clearly incompetence.
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  8843.  @mballer  Yes, you blamed the programmer’s incompetence on “the deep state”, a conspiracy theory. As far as who “you people” are, did that hurt your feelings? The “you people” in this case refers to adherents to the alternative reality of conspiracy theories. What did you think it meant? If you’re not a conspiracy nut, and meant “an out of control government bureaucracy” or “big government”, say that instead of using the vocabulary of lunatics. If that’s all you meant, we might actually be in agreement. If you misspoke, my apologies.
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  8844. I heard in another story that it was pence who gave Miller the OK to send in the National Guard, because Trump was “reluctant”. Reluctant to answer his phone, probably.
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  8845.  @sELFhATINGiNDIAN  So hard that he takes his penis for granite.
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  8846.  @karlgmeiner1180  lol, the CIA? He’s like an American Granola James Bond? You conspiracy nuts really overestimate the capabilities and activities of the CIA.
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  8847.  @OmegaSupremeWCheese  NATO Pravda? Tell us you’re Russian without telling us you’re Russian. Your frame of reference is very limited and it shows. No wonder Russia is a little power.
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  8848. What were the disadvantageous terms in their agreement with Apple? That needs to be spelled out. As far as “low interest rates”, that is not true. It depends on your credit history and credit score. My rate is currently at 26.74%. You can bet I tightened my belt and paid the card down to zero! On the other hand, GS has been overly generous in extending my limit, when I didn’t ask. I could see how cardholders might get in trouble with that, especially first time cardholders incorrectly estimating their ability to make the monthly nut. As far as the card itself and how it works with Apple’s Wallet app, my experience has been excellent. The easy to use interface has kept me on top of my spending and my payments. I like that it is easy to determine how much of a payment I make will move the dial on my monthly interest payment.
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  8849. This is the most cogent argument I’ve seen. Thank you. Counter-argument: a passport system need not be perfect if it helps to slow the spread, and you’re determined to relax social protocols and mandates. I think you’d need to continue to test and to improve contact tracing to nail down small outbreaks.
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  8850. That’s the thing you seem to have missed. The banks are being allowed to fail. This is not a bail out of the banks.
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  8851. That’s not survivable. If Russia wants to recover the bodies of the tankers, they’ll need to bring a wire brush and a scraper.
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  8852. Invisible ink wins again!!
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  8853.  @MrKakibuy  Sure, we know what Russia’s state owned media will try to do, but surviving Russian soldiers will return, dead or alive, and will tell the truth (again, dead or alive). Russian mothers will have questions, and the Russian state owned media’s answers will wear thin.
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  8854. The most damning proof was that Putin’s taste from the embezzlement was light.
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  8855.  @alphawealthgame  The truth. Thank you.
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  8856. That’s so funny! Did you think of that yourself?
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  8857.  @wesleyswafford2462  Wouldn’t it be great if your employer, your clients, your family, and your neighbors found out what an incredible racist and anti-Semite you are online? You’d no longer have to hide it!
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  8858. 24:16 The punchline 😂
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  8859. Thank you for creating this and posting it. I saw the Tate collection in Los Angeles in the 1980s when it was on tour. It was on display at the “Temporary Contemporary” annex of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA), a warehouse sized space converted into a gallery. The display space was a series of rooms that were created within this larger warehouse space, much like film set is constructed in a movie studio, according to (we were told) the artist’s specifications. This included the low levels of illumination—a very knowledgeable security guard told us is this when a member of our student group asked if the lights could be turned up in one particularly dimly lit room. It was the security guard that invited us to view the paintings up close, as close as 18”, so that we might fully experience them, and it was the security guard that told us the whole set up was meant to evoke the sense that we were in a temple. The paintings really are best experienced in person. The effects I felt were like nothing before or since. Although I’ve never experienced Rothko’s work again in person, the feelings the paintings evoked have stayed with me and I can recall the memory of the sensory experience quite clearly. The only other artist that has had a similar effect (creating an emotional reaction that stayed with me) is Motherwell, although the effect was not and has not been as strong. I think Rothko would have been pleased that the security guard, a working man, had taken such an interest in his work. I had a brief chat with him and ascertained that he was indeed a security guard hired locally to watch over the work, “just some guy” as he put it, and not a museum docent. Discussing Rothko and the Tate Collection was not an official part of his job duties, but he had done his art history research on his own time, something he had never done with other artists. Rothko would have felt vindicated that his work had escaped the rarified world of fine art and had engaged a member of the working class.
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  8860. You seem to be unaware that most of the Republican Establishment is still falling into line with Trump. Those that have been cognizant or are just now waking up are still a minority.
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  8861. Anything you want, Mr. Shaft. Seriously, it’s pretty awesome when someone demands something that was going to happen anyway.
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  8862. Pro-Palestinian protest or anti-Jewish pogrom? After centuries of pogroms, are we to believe the Russians suddenly care about the Palestinians?
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  8863. This doesn’t alleviate the drought much. The big thing that helps the drought is snowpack in the mountains that slowly melts over the spring and summer, entering the water table gradually, and flowing to lower areas. A flash flood in the desert doesn’t get absorbed. It gets channeled into washes and arroyos, seeking a lower level. It finally makes it to a river and then to the ocean. There’s really no point where it can get absorbed. The standing pools you see in the reports will just evaporate.
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  8864. What do you expect him to say that hasn’t already been said?
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  8865. No. It’s not time. Maybe that time is coming, but it’s not right now. Maybe wait until we have a new President in office, and hope like hell that there he has a senate majority, or you can forget it. If you want to advance your cause in the meanwhile, I suggest you work your ass off to get those two Georgia Democrats elected to the Senate. If that doesn’t work, there’s the 2022 midterm elections. No doubt those campaigns will be starting over the course of the coming year.
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  8866.  @tonisodano5472  He grabbed the GOP by the __________, but he did it in stages by appealing to people’s worst impulses.
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  8867. The presidency is the executive power. Congress controls the funding and makes the laws. Congress cannot order the President to hire more border guards without also funding the salaries. Right now, Republicans are demanding that President Biden do something, while the Republican controlled House of Representatives is preventing him from doing anything. Donald Trump has told congressional republicans to not pass the required legislation that they’ve been negotiating with democrats, and this past week, Republican congressional leadership acknowledged that they were following Trump’s strategy. What’s even worse is that Republicans had just successfully demanded that Ukraine aid be tied to the border crisis legislation, not because they’re related in anyway, but to pressure Biden. (Trump also recently said he hopes the U.S. economy crashes soon, before the election. Just to give you an idea of how politics has taken precedence over our national interests with the GOP. This is why I left the Republican Party and became an independent voter.)
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  8868.  @튜브개십  SPAMMER/DISINFORMATION
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  8869.  @wboyle9721  but what effect does cod liver oil consumption have on the poor cod? J/k 😄 I’m not from PETA.
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  8870.  @lisa408t  and he’s a spammer. Report him for unwanted spam.
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  8871. Is Sauli a fella? #NAFO
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  8872. What did you see specifically, and what was your time frame? It’s easy to predict rain every day and proclaim your superior intelligence when it finally rains. It’s also easy to predict the end of the world because eventually it will happen. Pete presents a case and he presents a time frame. He shows his work. Predictions without data and analysis are wild ass guesses. You can also make a correct prediction based on a bad model. If I predict that the sun will rise tomorrow morning but my model is geocentric, I’d still be wrong. It’s important HOW you arrive at your conclusions, and if you can’t demonstrate sound reasoning you’re just another S.O.B. with an opinion and a hole for excreting solid waste.
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  8873. Hold up, I gotta go get my shot glass and a bottle. 0:03 😅
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  8874. “He’s not a rude asshole, he’s Dutch.” Something I’ve said in defense of a Dutch friend.
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  8875. Some denominations of Christianity actually embrace the teachings of Jesus and have empathy for the suffering. I know a lot of Mormons who are good people, and by and large they care about those that suffer and do their part to give succor. It’s not long ago that their forefathers were persecuted by other Christians and had to flee west to Utah. However, the humanistic values of Mormon Christianity seem to be eroding as evangelical maga Christianity gains a toe hold in Utah. Four years ago, the majority of Mormons weren’t having what Trump was selling. These days, I’m not so sure.
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  8876. Thirty or forty years ago, there was the idea that Homo sapiens outcompeted the Neanderthals because of superior cognitive abilities. It’s right there in the name, in fact: sapiens. The latest data support the idea that Homo sapiens outcompeted Neanderthals because of a more efficient metabolism—we needed less calories to survive.
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  8877. Masturbation Sensei says, “Why are you asking me this question? Can’t you figure it out for yourself? Use your fucking imagination. Literally.”
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  8878. @Don't Fear The Reaper He can’t leave. He’s not here. He’s in St. Petersburg, Russia trying to make his trolling quota or he gets sent to die in Ukraine.
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  8879. Why don’t you enumerate the damages to the builder and monetary value of the damages? Then we can see if it would be sufficient to establish a retirement fund.
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  8880. Innocent of crime, but arguably still a coward.
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  8881. Linus is famous for being easygoing and open to trying other people’s ideas. He’s ingratiating to a fault and somewhat of a push over. 😂
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  8882. He’s monitoring the various court dockets, so he knows instantly when there is a new filing.
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  8883. If they stab the President in the back by backing down, Georgia Republicans need to BOYCOTT the run-off election. They need to stop pretending that the run-off election isn’t already rigged and do something. Instead. They’re trying to protect their jobs by talking out of both sides of their mouths. The path forward is clear: Boycott the election to show you truly support President Trump. 😉
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  8884.  @Daniel-yl8y their cavalry rides emus.
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  8885.  @katiehettinger7857  in geopolitics, nothing is free. The phrase I’ve heard is “vaccine diplomacy”.
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  8886. This video is one big “of course”, peppered with all the “of course” details. Of course.
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  8887. You must be missing the point—the woman was discussing what led to her change in thinking. Some of her so-called friends were discouraging her from getting surgery because of their weird beliefs. The silver is a reference to coloidal silver—which is an effective anti-bacterial (it’s a very common method of disinfecting water), but has no efficacy against viruses. (You see a similar thought process behind the ivermectin craze, which is effective in both animals and humans as an anti-parasitical medication, but has scant evidence that it has any antiviral properties. But I digress.)
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  8888.  @commonpike  I report as spam.
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  8889. It is stolen valor in a looser, non-criminal sense, but I don’t think it’s prosecuting or worth prosecuting. Let him lose the election and return to his miserable wretched existence of compensating for his inadequacies.
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  8890. Trump is like a boxer who doesn’t want to fight the third round. He’s a baseball player that doesn’t want to take his third inning at bat.
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  8891. So it’s possible they were on the payroll but didn’t act at the start of hostilities in February 2022. My understanding was a lot of these corrupted “agents” were surprised by the invasion. Actually carrying out the plots was not on their minds. Just the same, they’re corrupted. It’s better to be safe than sorry.
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  8892. Protest organizers asked participants not to wear MAGA hats to the protest, or to bring Trump flags. That’s probably a clue.
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  8893. I’d rather think about what I’ll be doing when you’re at work and I’m hanging out with your wife.
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  8894.  @campbellpaul  You and what army?
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  8895.  @MrFusselig  depends. Are they using parachutes when they jump? Legitimate target. 😜
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  8896.  @vladkudrya9615  Just until pay day, and then they can go back to using rubles.
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  8897. Fa vs antiFa
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  8898.  @rodneyoneil-kb1xk  do you know who else is without shame? Russian (or other) bots positioning themselves to foster more division and extremism.
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  8899.  @rhondasmith7413  I was thinking of that, but obviously that wasn’t the only purpose or why do it where it will draw the most attention and not look like an accident?
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  8900.  @Ubique2927  Not atomized, but literally blown to bits if the explosion is powerful enough. They used to make dog kibble by feeding dynamite to horses.
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  8901. You know your doctrine. The thing I found interesting about the gunships is the technique of orbiting/loitering over a battlefield, and circling above the target, pouring on the fire until the threat is gone. Super useful if your position is under attack.
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  8902. There are rational reasons for doubts to form (which should motivate more and better research) but I wonder if the irrational hatred is being spurred by nation states with a vested interest in the outcomes. I’m thinking primarily of those nations with well known and established disinformation agencies, well practiced in mass manipulation.
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  8903.  @apexdc3473 or you vill pay, schwine
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  8904.  TheAnimalsBand spot the white nationalist
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  8905. Not to mention the logistical requirements of getting those reinforcements and then supplying them during the encirclement attempt. But if one looks at the map, one doesn’t really need to think to hard about this. Stalingrad was at one end of a salient, a salient which was later broken and engulfed when the Russians did their own encirclement. You are correct to point out the weaknesses on the flanks. Basically, the Germans could have used another Army Group (and sufficient supplies and transportation ) to take Stalingrad, hold it, and cut off the Caucuses.
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  8906.  @trev0074  Denise has let it slip that she’s a White Supremacist. She couldn’t help giving a nudge and a wink to a fellow fascist in a comment on another video.
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  8907.  @forestreematters5406  We really have no idea. There are a number of possibilities, but it’s all speculation until we learn the generals’ identities and their responsibilities. Least likely, but worst case, is that they were spies. More likely, but unproven, is that they were engaged in some form of corruption. It’s also possible that there is a lot of circumstantial evidence, but the generals are innocent of treason, although I put small odds on that. But I’m just guessing.
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  8908. There’s worse places to be stranded. They could be stuck in Florida.
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  8909. The armorer is supposed to keep firearms under lock and key when they’re not on set. They shouldn’t leave the set if they’re not in her custody. Crew are not supposed to borrow ANY props, let alone firearms. So there really was no reason for them to be bringing in live ammunition to the location in the first place.
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  8910. Give Pelosi credit for solidifying the support for Kamala so quickly, making her the presumptive nominee.
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  8911. My you’re thirsty, Chinese simp.
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  8912. Don’t believe everything you hear about California. It could be you’re listening to political nutcases with an agenda.
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  8913. HES NOT RETREATING HES ATTACKING IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
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  8914. You seem to have difficulty coping. Do you need someone to talk to?
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  8915. They were caught before they had a chance to execute their plan. That’s the difference.
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  8916. This is my favorite episode of Friends.
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  8917. If at all this year, then probably WWDC. That’s my guess. If that happens, I imagine we’ll see an iMac Pro, maybe a 16” laptop.
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  8918. It’s better for us to do our own studies and share that information. Big companies are studying all sorts of obscure folk cures and rare plants—with a mind to patent them. Yes, plant genomes, even those found in nature, can be patented.
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  8919. Nice try, Putzi. You’re not in the U.S. and you’re not an American. Worry about what the sanctions are doing to your rubles.
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  8920. The answers to your questions are in the video that Steve recorded and posted. Have you considered watching it?
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  8921. Apparently, the strip club was in the strip mall first. You can’t expect a legal business to move like that, just because you decide to put your preschool or daycare near it.
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  8922.  @volodymyrv5897  That training will serve the dead Russian soldiers well. Or perhaps you mean that Russian generals will be better trained in pinning medals to their uniforms? That training will be important after they’ve been pushed out a window. Maybe you’re right. Maybe Putin is a necromancer creating an army of undead.
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  8923. But why? What actual harm did the reporter or newspaper suffer? The obvious remedy here is to vote the governor out of office at the next election, rather than run to litigation at the first opportunity. If the newspaper wants to fight back, they have plenty of arrows in their quiver before resorting to the litigation arrow. It’s less work and less expensive to publish editorials and analysis pushing back on the governor’s unfair and unfounded criticism.
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  8924.  @LARamsEmpire  It’s not insanity, it’s a foreign influence campaign. Nadia is not an American citizen. She (he/it) doesn’t even live in the USA, and Nadia is just one “identity” among dozens or hundreds of accounts being operated by some person sitting in a room in St. Petersburg, Russia. I’m not saying all magas are Russian bots. But Nadia is.
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  8925. He’s taken the time to educate himself and is trying to pass that education on to you, so you can make better decisions. If you don’t accept his expertise, the intelligent alternative is to check out what other experts are saying, or to become an expert himself. The dumbest thing to do is say “I’m going to do the opposite because muh free-dumb”.
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  8926.  @eliterun6214  Crimea would belong to the Crimean Tartars, had Stalin not removed them from Crimea by mass exile and extermination.
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  8927. How and why did you guys introduce interlacing into this video?
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  8928.  @mustypipes6602 The effectiveness of a political leader can be measured by how much he or she is hated by the other side. Pelosi and McConnell were both effective and are still utterly reviled by their opposite parties. (I know Mitch is still the Senate Minority Leader, but he probably isn’t long for this world.) We are going to miss their leadership.
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  8929. That was 3-4 days ago. Obviously, Ukraine must be careful. But they’ve already begun attacking. More news will trickle out over the next few days that will tell us if the attack is successful, but so far signs are 👍.
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  8930.  @AveryMilieu  Be that as it may, tamales is plural, tamal is singular.
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  8931. OK, but Operation Pettycoat must have come in second. No? Top five?
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  8932. Estoy preocupado de ADN de serpientes.
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  8933. I was thinking about this. Currently there’s somewhat of a barge traffic jam.
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  8934. That’s about the size of it. In Western militaries, it’s not uncommon for a general to visit close to the front for a limited time to get a better sense of a situation, but they’re not exposing themselves like these Russians apparently are. They don’t try to micromanage the battalions. That’s what their subordinates are for.
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  8935. The issue isn’t so simple. For example, I want a water proof or resistant phone. I can buy one from a variety of manufacturers. I want finger print ID secure my phone. Again, available from a variety of mfgrs. I currently have such a phone. If I want to replace the battery, it’s only $30 if I take it to the mfgr’s retail store or send it in. I can opt to repair that battery myself for around $15, but in opening it up I might ruin the water proofing seals. I’ve bought older used phones and replaced the battery. I even had a fire once because the battery was difficult to remove and the battery package tore. Honestly, it’s worth the extra $15. Plus, I don’t have to worry about the seals. I don’t have to worry about something happening to the finger print cable. And I’m going to be a little pissed if phone manufacturers are prevented from making phones with the features I want, to make it easier for some 10% or less of consumers to repair their own phones. I don’t want my phone’s manufacturer to use larger components to make repairs easier, or bigger cases so there’s more room for the DIYer to work with. I have been doing self repairs and DIY all my life. Usually, I like buy a quality product that will last, take care of it, and if necessary, do maintenance and repair. But I don’t want a worse product so some other DIYer has any easier time of it. If there was really a big market for DIY friendly phones, someone would be filling that demand. Probably someone is. But please don’t limit my choices for your right of repair. Please don’t restrict mfgrs’ ability to innovate with stupid rules. Make well thought out ones so I can still get what I want, and a DIYer can repair their own phones.
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  8936.  @markhill553 Was she in the Olympics?
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  8937.  @robertgehrig1631 Lincoln’s Republican Party was a reformation of the Whigs. The non-Republican former Whigs were still Unionists and many probably ended up voting for Lincoln. The other parties were regional parties and never amounted to much. At the end of the day they were about as effective as our Green and Libertarian parties.
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  8938.  Denise Skinner  <— ANTIVAX TROLL
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  8939. Watch the video. It will answer your questions.
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  8940.  @jaredkennedy6576  I’ve got a really great orthopedic surgeon, but you’ve probably never heard of him.
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  8941. One of the great joys of reading the comments on Steve’s videos are watching the uneducated and ignorant vigorously express their opinions on subjects far outside their area of expertise. “Criminal charges need to be brought . . .” If only your sense of righteous indignation alone could help you figure out specifically which charges need to be brought. Sadly, it won’t. To figure that out would require taking the time to learn something about criminal law. That would require effort and not give you the same emotional satisfaction as wagging your finger disapprovingly.
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  8942. I’m glad you’re back and feeling better.
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  8943. Green background: spring or summer. I’d say late spring.
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  8944.  @Probe253  Racists generally think all Latinos are Mexican, unless they’re courting the Cuban vote.
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  8945. If that. Their LARP would last a couple of hours for most of them.
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  8946. @Winston Smith Begone, Troll.
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  8947. Not true. They can keep passing stopgap extensions to keep the government running. The link between the government shutdown and the relief package is purely fictional. They’re trying to create the effect of a ticking time bomb, but there’s no real urgency if they can keep resetting the timer indefinitely.
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  8948. I’m convinced the tank was part of a recon or screening element. Tanks don’t get sent out all by their lonesome selves without another tank or infantry to perform overwatch. Or is that what the drone was for?
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  8949. He needs to mend some fences before he tries to buy new cows. But let’s be honest. Putin can’t afford new equipment.
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  8950.  @ljmarino1  How can you tell if he’s smiling or not? His head is a basketball.
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  8951. Well, every tank does, it’s just that Russia uses the more convenient Popov turret.
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  8952. lai-OWN
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  8953. The “insane governor” in Indiana happens to be a Republican. Indiana has been controlled by the GOP for most of this century. These are the politicians that appointed the parole board.
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  8954. If the GOP gets a small majority, Kevin McCarthy needs votes from kooky Putin-loving QAnon MAGAs like Marjorie Taylor Green to become the Speaker of the House. This is how bipartisanship gets derailed. This is the cowardly way that the GOP has allowed a handful of complete nut jobs to steer the party.
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  8955. The air raid warning sirens go off when a significant amount of Russian jets take off from their bases. As to why they did that, you’ll have to ask the Russians, but my understanding is that the air raid warnings are almost a daily occurrence.
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  8956. Hunter Biden should resign.
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  8957. It probably won’t until early February. This has been discussed in previous video.
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  8958.  @SylvanFosters  The bots are out in force. They are even outnumbering the actual maga posters on this story.
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  8959.  @TheDaveRout  Specifically, the middle name tells us all about him/her/them. I’m surprised they could take the Hamas D out of their mouth long enough to comment.
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  8960. How would Casablanca fit in?
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  8961. Don’t cook your tide pods in nyquil.
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  8962. I don’t think Trump can beat Biden. Nikki might be able to, but she’s not going to get the nomination. I think Nikki is making a stand now not because she has a chance, but to establish herself as the best candidate in 2028. There’s a lot of Trump’s base hating on her, but other people will remember her fighting to the end.
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  8963. Which vaccine, or which vaccine operating system? Ask the vaccination center for a bootloader, and download one of the Open Source VOSes based on Linux. The latest version of CoronaVirOS is 1Bourbon_1Scotch_1Beer. It’s supposed to be pretty good, but the intestinal user interface can cause gas.
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  8964. The jets launching the missiles never fly into Ukrainian airspace. They shoot the missile from Russia.
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  8965.  @tophatv2902  They haven’t taken Kiev yet. They haven’t been able to surround it. But it sure seems like Putin has given up on the idea of conquering Ukraine and just wants to destroy it.
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  8966. The Scandinavians?
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  8967. They should be deported to whatever country will take them. They are anti-Democracy and would tear up the Constitution, wiping their asses with the shreds. They don’t love our country. Let them find somewhere else to spread their filth.
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  8968.  @尖嗓  You don’t know what slavery is. You should just stop trying to communicate your fuzzy thinking and try to learn.
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  8969. He wasn’t up to the job. He was weak and didn’t push back against the political operatives undermining his organization. When you rise to that level, fighting for what’s right is part of the necessary skills. Gag order or no gag order. His diminished reputation and his being replaced is completely justified. If you’ve ever heard of the “Peter Principle”, Redfield is a good example of it.
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  8970. It’s Xitter, and the x is pronounced like “ch”.
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  8971. I’m saying this in other comments, but our banking system makes money laundering very easy. You can address the demand side alone (either through enforcement or liberalization) but neither will be effective if you don’t go after the money laundering—the banks.
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  8972. It’s too early to tell. If it’s not too late, get travel insurance that will allow you to cancel or postpone your vacation. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you (and for me) as I’m already here, and the pandemic is hitting us pretty hard. Eight dead in my immediate neighborhood, others gravely sick or have been sick. Some recover completely, others suffer from ongoing health problems. My landlord recovered but has respiratory issues. He’s essentially bedridden for most of the day.
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  8973. Kari lake is certifiably something.
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  8974.  @domtweed7323  You really don’t know what you are talking about at all. Your political agenda mixes with your ignorance to concoct a perfect blend of jackassery.
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  8975. It’s a quasi legal means of buying influence. You can gain Trump’s favor and attention if you make a substantial purchase. Want a presidential pardon? Buy $10 million in Trump Liberty coins. Is your company being investigated for toxic waste dumping? Twenty million dollars of Trump Liberty Coins will end the investigation.
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  8976.  @TheNicii  Whether the contract was voidable is something that should be resolved in civil court. In the meantime, the cops can take the goat to the court and say, “here, you hold on to it until the matter is resolved”. (Or they could have said, “we located the goat at the Napa Goat Center and they’ve agreed to take custody of the goat until the matter is resolved”. The police do NOT decide whether or not a contract is voidable or legitimate. That’s not within their authority. So those were at least two of the mistakes the Shasta County Sheriffs made. The course of events suggest that the county fair official made a false report. I would say that the sheriff’s detective that took the call made a mistake by not questioning the official about her report of a crime. That’s the third mistake, and I hope they prosecutor is looking into the false report (if one was made). This isn’t a case where the sheriff’s hands were tied, and the deputies had to follow the law. This is a case where, among other things, the sheriff’s department made very bad decisions and didn’t follow the law. They used “self-help”. The problem is compounded by the department not checking the report and not questioning the person making the report. Isn’t that what a detective is supposed to do? “What were the circumstances of the theft? Where was the goat stolen from and who stole it?” Are these not questions that normally get asked when there is a report of stolen property? I’m not going to give the sheriff’s department a pass here because “they were just doing their jobs”. They did their jobs poorly and not according to the law. I don’t think they’re the main culprit, but they are not far behind.
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  8977.  @TheNicii  I’ll agree to your stipulation while maintaining that the cops could have done a much better job.☝️ 😸
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  8978.  @madmaximilian5783  or in this case, they could have kept the goat under civil asset forfeiture. At least then the goat might still be alive.
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  8979.  @brt5273  If the pet goat was stolen property, wouldn’t the goat be held as evidence while the case was being investigated? Or why would it be returned to the people reporting it stolen if it was decided by the sheriff’s criminal investigators that no crime was committed?
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  8980.  John Grigg  Well, we’re almost to the middle of May and we are seeing a modest counteroffensive around Kharkiv. Russian forces are being pushed further away from that city and closer to the Russian border. We are seeing some gains elsewhere by the Russians, but at great costs. Attempts at encirclement are so far failing. It’s been a bad week if you are a pontoon bridge.
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  8981. They’re immune to reality checks. Haven’t you noticed? The GOP needs to be exorcised out of politics.
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  8982. There’s more than one kind of weird. If this was just the mean girls picking on the unpopular kid, that would be one thing. Nor does it mean the positive and charming eccentricity of the neighbor down the block with a waxed handlebar mustache who keeps a pet crow. The weird we are associating with maga, Trump, and Vance is the uncanny feeling you’d have upon learning that one of your coworkers was John Wayne Gacy.
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  8983. Your delusional version of history is based on fiction and propaganda.
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  8984. There’s some important political details regarding Abolition, Lincoln, and the Civil War that are missing. Sadly, these often don’t get covered in U.S. History classes before college, and I’m not sure how deeply they’re covered in introductory college courses. First of all, the Republican Party was not unified on the question of slavery, and among those that favored abolition there was a variety of opinion on how to accomplish it. The moderate view was that it was on the way out—as long as it didn’t spread as new states were admitted it would become gradually less economically feasible. They were happy with the status quo. There were those that wanted compensation for slave owners. And there was a faction known as the “Radical Republicans” that wanted immediate abolition. The majority of Republicans did not. In the election of 1860, Lincoln promised that he would not support abolition. Abolition was not part of the Republican Party platform. Lincoln was sensitive to the politics in some swing states where slavery was still legal, such as Maryland and Delaware. Despite this, the South seceded, and did so violently. They fired the first shots (most famously in Fort Sumter, but also throughout the South were there were Federal bases and civilian installations). Lincoln’s reassurances weren’t enough. The Southern Democrats wanted to extend slavery into the new territories in the West. They wanted to roll back abolition in those states that had abolished slavery by preserving the “property rights” of slave owners who traveled with their slaves in abolitionist states. And they wanted to preserve the right of slave owners to catch escaped slaves in the North (cf. the Fugitive Slave Act). With Lincoln elected President, their chances to accomplish these goals were much less, if not impossible. Another matter that few people talk about is what would happen if the South had been allowed to secede and recognized. War between North and South would still have been inevitable because of the South’s expansionist goals. The South wanted the Southwest U.S. and they wanted to expand into the Caribbean. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not become the law of the land. It was not within Lincoln’s presidential powers; only Congress could enact such a measure. The E.P. was a military order that only applied to those states in rebellion because Lincoln did have the authority to issue such a command. This is alluded to when Ryan mentions Maryland abolishing slavery in 1864. Anyway, I think these are important details to understanding the Civil War. Some of the details are beyond the scope of Ryan’s topic, but others should not have been omitted. Other parts of the presentation are also incomplete with regard to Jim Crow, but I think Ryan hit the facts most pertinent to soldiers’ voting rights.
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  8985. I blame the liberal governor, the liberal attorney general, and the socialist controlled state legislature. Maybe W can be persuaded to run for governor again.
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  8986. Why do you think that?
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  8987. You should really do a show where you’re drinking shots every time you say Bab el Mandeb. Show us how salty you are!
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  8988. $2 gas? тролль duende ‎القزم 巨魔 ‎גַמָד chơi khăm peikko トロール ટ્રોલ Troll
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  8989. Not to mention the zombie apocalypse! But seriously, let’s rise above and look at the 100,000 meter view of electronic Armageddon. Any estimates of how many people die and how quickly? Can society be rebuilt to our current levels and how quickly? I guess we’ll find out if/when it happens. Meanwhile, I’m not sure how a society prepares for that. Living on the “fault line”, as you put it, is unlikely to change. We know that “The Big One” will hit the West Coast someday in the future, but that knowledge hasn’t caused people to move to another state. Maybe a Carrington event is so far out that we will have learned how to harden our electronic infrastructure against it. Maybe not.
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  8990. I got to hand it to Miguel. I would rather report from a war zone.
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  8991. A little 3-in-1 oil did the trick for me. 😉
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  8992.  @random2829  Russia has been doing all it can to seem strong, so it must really be weak. But now they’ve become suddenly strong, because one report might have been leaked or might be fake, but nevertheless confirms the evidence before our eyes?
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  8993.  @HashknightGaming  1) Guerrillas. Yes, it can be hard to spell. Think Guerra (Spanish for war) + illa (Spanish diminutive). But in normal English conversation, it does sound closer to “gorillas”. 2) I can prove the existence of a bio lab just a few blocks away. Shocking, I know! They operate under cover of being an ordinary medical lab, testing various blood, tissue, and stool samples, but really they . . . Actually I don’t know what they’re really doing because all they seem to do is ordinary testing work like a normal lab. That’s what triggered my suspicions, actually. 😉 3) But seriously, whisper Maskirovka to any QAnon idiot worth his ivermectin, and you’ll trigger an infinitely regressive chain of “but I know that you know that I know that you . . .” worthy of the Great Vizzini (Princess Bride). I also remember when the Art of War craze first hit the U.S. public in the 80s. It was considered a must read for . . . . corporate America. It topped the charts of business best sellers. The way these people talk about it and quote from it, though. 🤦🏻 Yet another must read for YouTube strategists.
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  8994. More like from 5-10 yards away. Which actually makes visibility worse, because they’re right up on the smoke and dust kicked up from their shots. 😂 As I keep saying, at that point the Russian boys had already missed their chance to surrender. All they could do was hope they survived long enough to get another chance to surrender. It’s a really bad idea to surrender while a tank is 20’ away, blasting the snot out of your position. I don’t think anyone was waving a white flag because what sort of idiot jumps out of the trench at that point?
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  8995. This conscription is ordinary and happens twice a year. The conscripts whose terms have expired, i.e., the ones with the most experience, are released. Basically, Russia is losing its most useful conscripts and replacing them with completely untrained and inexperienced conscripts.
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  8996. Side question here 🖐️! Isn’t Toluca the capital of the state of Mexico (Estado de Mexico) and (my real question) is CDMX considered separate from Edomex? I know part of it is the Distrito Federal (DF), but is the whole of Mexico City outside of the State of Mexico?
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  8997. You’re hearing wrong.
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  8998.  @guidoulm1559  if you don’t see the difference between your statement and the UN Charter, you’re too dumb to benefit from an explanation. You’re comparing tricycles to swordfish.
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  8999. Did you know that there are bank failures every year?
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  9000.  Jerri McFly  Radical Left Terrorist Zombies? We already know what their conversations are like. 🧟‍♂️ “Brainsssss. . . . brainssss . . . . I’m a zombie living in a red state and I’m starving . . . why are there no braaaaaainsss?”
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  9001. Good point, but if you ask many of those so-called conservatives about “the old guard”, you’d be told they’re “Republican in name only” and pariahs from the conservative movement.
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  9002. Gripping video. The PIP of all three tracks were in the corridor? That’s got to be potentially hairy for the civilian aircraft.
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  9003. You are apparently totally ignorant of basic U.S. laws.
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  9004. A-10 is fine at a distance, using its missiles. In fact, strafing is undesirable if there’s even a hint of SAMs or MANPADS in the area. Just because you might survive doesn’t mean you want to roll the dice. Honestly, after being an A 10 fanboy for many years, I think its day is past. Also, it’s a sitting duck without air superiority.
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  9005.  @georgehugh3455  These anti-government types want to abolish the U.S.
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  9006. Once the hull was breached, the stresses on the carbon fiber rapidly dropped until it was negligible.
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  9007. Real men burn the hair off their nuts with a zippo.
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  9008.  @jaminova_1969  And they said Desantis was the competent Trump. Desantis isn’t man enough to fill Trump’s orange jumpsuit.
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