Youtube comments of Comm0ut (@Comm0ut).

  1. People who do not understand what Fascism means should not use the term. Indigenous Europeans defending THEIR land from outsiders is no different than indigenous Americans defending theirs own. Conquest by any method remains conquest.
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  2.  @ky9933  Legalize it and the profit motive for organized crime vanishes as with beer and wine. The ONLY thing making the sale of banned products the PUBLIC widely purchase profitable is the law against them because what is outlawed cannot simultaneously be taxed and regulated by the state. That is demonstrable globally. Of course Korean laws will not change so the gangs will remain profitable.
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  3. Selling shiny rocks to vain people is absolutely brilliant marketing.
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  4. The US has the best government (donor) money can buy.
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  5.  @rodshop5897  No, that's CUSTOM not LAW, and everything public is actually free to film. Time to stop pretending underage humans have any potential that justifies hiding them. An FOIA request could get their names.
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  6. If you don't want advice don't vomit your personal life onto the internet. People who put their business IN the street are FOR the streets. Real men prefer woment with dignity.
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  7. Why would anyone have expected a different outcome? What's impressive is how long the collapse took.
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  8.  @ynwa3476  100 meters of heavy concrete tetrahedrons as used on breakwaters certainly could stop a ship by grounding it well away from the bridge. Barrier methods can be DISTANT from the bridge and not connected to it. Large as it is that ship couldn't go 100 meters up a beach even at full throttle.
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  9. Growth ruins dreams because growth only benefits developers, so I chose an area with very slow growth and zoned agricultural. My taxes are low, traffic is light and I have few neighbors. That let me retire affordably and I am loving it!
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  10. A skilled educator can make any subject interesting. Sal on point as usual and each video is a useful lesson.
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  11. Just Democrat things. They will elect another just like Adams.
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  12. That evacuation time was a magnificent display of self-mastery by the passengers and crew. Amazingly well done.
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  13. Nice to see India understand it needs to be a MARITIME power despite its large land mass. India would benefit by developing a strong shipbuilding industry to compete with it's geopolitical rivals. BTW is harboring a vessel stolen by pirates an act of war? Somalian government de-facto suppor of piracy should be actionable, not that there is much to do to a permanently failed state other than gunboat diplomacy.
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  14. The smile reflects "dupers delight" which his invariably simple worshippers are unable to process.
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  15. If he's smart he'll escape NYC and not look back.
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  16. The Russian practice of putting defendants in cages should be universally adopted. The US system is so overly gentle it's absurd.
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  17. You just answered your own question.
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  18. The purpose of the mission is a political gesture, but also useful to highlight lack of US naval preparedness. Efficiency is completely secondary. Washington is pretending to care about Palestinians to offer plausible deniability to our frenemies (who don't care about them either and certainly aren't insane enough to import them). The show of expensive activity will likely serve its purpose. Meanwhile Israel can finish its punitive constabulary mission in Rafah. The important part from a US military perspective is to show (the public feel, they do not think) US capability is constrained by decades of neglect and that our Navy desperately needs a collective overhaul before war breaks out over Taiwan. Beijing is watching and will see how UNprepared the US is even for a small feelgood mission. The CCP will watch and learn.
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  19. For nations with enough money for serious bunkers a couple of tunnel boring machines (and storage area for the removed spoil) could permit tunneling out making exits not visible from space until they penetrate the surface. Exits could be pre-tunneled leaving sufficiently thick protective caps.
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  20. Got a source for that? Most German (and Japanese) industry was destroyed by 1945. One difference is Germans and Japanese are famous for caring about quality and efficiency. Marshall Plan aid won those conquests to Western-style economics but it was THEIR workers who did the actual rebuilding of their countries. Easy to see why since German and Japanese factories in the US are also highly productive using American workers. The US had plenty of money but ignored modern concepts of quality (W. Edwards Deming is a hero in Japan but was ignored in the US for much longer). American businesses exist only to enrich stockholders, not preserve anything long term.
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  21. Your post was better than the video.
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  22. The awkward part is that no real American has the slightest legitimate reason to visit Venezuela. Like Iran, none of us belong there.
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  23. The US does not have that ability so the point is moot. Only the grossly militarily illiterate would imagine it does.
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  24. They had nothing to fight for and were generally neglected by leadership.
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  25. Any decent dealer has zero problem hooking employees up. The used car dealer I wrenched for used to swap trade-ins for all the parts we could fit in a truck bed (him and the salvage yard owner were bros) and after I pulled what he needed what I pulled for myself was zero charge. I got trucks at their cost too. That was a bargain for my boss because it got him motivated loyalty.
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  26. THAT IS THE ROMAN SALUTE. It predates Germany and Austria by thousands of years. Cultural appropriation by a Bohemian corporal does not change that.
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  27. The kid would obviously be VASTLY better off adopted. Not his kid, not his problem and the kid didn't need that environment.
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  28.  @spacecatboy2962  Rural kids got up early and weren't helpless.
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  29. Jamming only degrades GPS. Jamming does not affect INS but INS as fitted to supplied JDAM kits is only yields ~30 meter CEP while GPS yields ~5 meter CEP (per public release anyway). Reducing effectiveness is not the same thing as rendering supplied JDAM "useless". In the perpetual electronic race expect both sides to invest in home-on-jam missile systems for SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defensed). Jamming and countermeasures constantly evolve. Glavset and friends naturally prefer absolutist assertions which make better propaganda given their non-technical audience. Tabloid media in the West are equally silly but the simple masses demand simple assertions or their eyes glaze over.
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  30. Then you had better know how to be highly self-sufficient and have source of revenue and have a reasonable retirement strategy. When the people who lived there for generations bail that's generally a hint an area is untenable. There is a considerable amount of cheap land much closer to the east coast that's obtainable but one needs more than cheap land to self-sustain.
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  31. ​ @jbradley8659  The correct answer is "the NUCLEAR TRIAD" of which the bomber force was a key component. The more the Soviets had to defend against the more it cost them and the eventual result vindicated the triad which is maintained to this day. In a nuclear exchange pilot lives don't matter, they're not even drama when millions are immolated. Bombers permit gestures that missiles do not. Instead of just considering hardware, read Herman Kahn and learn about how complex (and real) nuclear war theory and doctrine really are.
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  32.  @Melior_Traiano  The Russians did not start the war and their enormous civilian and military losses were not some accident. It's a wonder they left survivors. People who have never been exposed to the unprovoked genocide of their homeland should not be eager to judge.
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  33. There is NO legal requirement not to name juvenile criminals so the media should stop hiding them.
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  34.  GrumpyNCO  Rifle types don't win or lose modern wars. They're on the winning SIDE which is different. Artillery and mortar fire topped the list for casualties as usual.
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  35. What sane car dealer would ever buy a car on CREDIT? None of those I worked for ever bought new because they preferred to BE rich than LOOK rich to impress dummies. They'd buy at Copart but if someone made a profitable offer they pulled the dealer tag and sold their ride than got another. Nobody NEEDS a new personal vehicle. New personal cars and trucks are toys. I find this hilarious because not being stupid I never buy new cars or trucks. That's why I live in a paid off home with ample discretionary income. Nobody HAS to push out their loan. Drive a chitbox and keep your cash. Man up and learn to wrench (you have Youtube for that). I don't waste money when times are good so when other peoples times are bad, my times STAY good.
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  36. Correct that to a "non-classic" Harley. My Panhead, Shovelheads and stroker Ironhead long predate whatever Wokely-Pervertson are doing. 🤣
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  37. "Forgetting" what you did is not absence of guilt.
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  38. This is 3D concrete pouring which is referred to as "printing" for ADVERTISING purposes. Precast concrete is old news and arguably a much better system which is why it's in wide use. The printer is basically a CNC concrete extruder.
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  39. My sympathy is for Ukrainian victims of Russia, not its hired barbarians who when at home prefer panga parties to building a safe, free democracy. If a volunteer comes back in a bag he won't threaten innocent fellow Africans. If one comes back with combat experience he'll be another tool of local oppression and banditry. The Soviet Union did immense damage to Africa by not genuinely supporting "liberation" but rather the despot du jour. Soviet weapons will be killing Africans for another century. It's horrible...
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  40. Europe has the right to protect indigenous European people and culture (or not) as its people vote.
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  41. Senior citizen who chose to lead a carefully planned life here. Most people are fools. Don't be one. Do not live in cities unless you are rich. Do not go in debt for expensive homes. Do not buy new cars. Do not buy anything for "clout". Do not "buy" condos because UNLESS you own your entire home and the lot it is on, you don't really own anything.
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  42. My boss had a brilliant way to get his "repos" back before they became repos AND it got him many more sales. He told customers if they couldn't pay to bring the car back and he would not hold it against them when they finally got money for another ride! This was pure genius because we rarely had to repo and he sold cars to multiple generations of the same extended families. Tom Henry (RIP) taught me much so I'm passing this on. He also never "financed" purchases which is a ton of paperwork. Vehicles were sold for a flat price with no bonus for early payoff (though he would cut folks a break if they were reasonable people) so he technically was taking payments but NOT extending credit.
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  43. Squatting in a private residence should be considered home invasion and lawful to evict by force of arms. The right to private property is basic to personal freedom.
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  44. If Adams does women like he does the taxpayer that assault must have been savage.
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  45.  @cin806  There is little comparison and this has happened before. US recessions after the Great Depression kickstarted modern labor protections have been dead easy by comparison. The trouble with Americans who never leave the place is they imagine we have it bad when a "bad" day in the US is often heavenly compared to most of the world outside modern industrialized nations (Russia is not really either, even at the height of its heavy industry Soviet leaders had to almost completely sacrifice consumer goods and quality of life.) Today the Russian Federation (nothing like the USSR Putin wants to cosplay) doesn't have the Warsaw Pact and Ukraine (the old industrial heart of the USSR) to carry it. It will work until it doesn't, but structural flaws of reliance on resource extraction (the US does not and US manufacturing is enormous, just not a lot of consumer crap) the oligarchs prefer because it's easy to grift is deadly. Russia had the educated worker base to be another China but leadership robbed the ignorant public blind and will do so forever as historically normal.
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  46. That sort of thing is why I learned to wrench. It's paid off for decades. I rotate my own tires (tools and jacks are cheap compared to shop labor) of course. I have never had a dealer touch my vehicles because I buy private party then sort them out myself. It pays off very nicely and no one will care about your ride like you do.
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  47. Not in those hoods that destroyed themselves. Presidents can't fix fools.
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  48.  @teru797  Then you have no concept of the First Amendment, young troll.
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  49. I prefer expensive, quality crickets which are much more crickety than budget crickets.
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  50. The butthurt over CFC (so many years past its brief impact) is hilarious. Most of what got scrapped was no loss while providing MANY donor vehicles for salvage to keep other machines running. People outside the salvage industry don't tend to know how it works. CFC yielded many accessories, body parts, whole interiors (great for fixing Copart buys which is what I did when I worked for a used car lot), front clips, fenders, truck beds (beds are not cabs so those were fair game and we got our share) wheels, suspension parts, rear ends and more. A few desirable machines got zapped but most went to salvage yards (who were entitled to buy them provided they snuffed the engines and crushed the hulls) thereafter to be profitable parts sources. Nearly EVERY old vehicle meets the shredder. If you're too slow to score what you want through poor planning that's a USER error.
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  51. Buying things you don't need for survival is a GLOBAL trap. Buying cars on credit is a very common mistake and to be avoided. If you want to save an amazing amount of money learn to wrench, never buy new cars, buy used cars for cash from private parties IF you must have one, and ONLY care about reliability and maintainability. Anyone can do this and learning skills that save you thousands the best entertainment.
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  52.  @Black____  However they do tolerate it from others and there is no social censure for doing so. A disproportionately large minority DO act that way and their first victims are their own people.
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  53. Just add enemy or parasite or other modifiers.
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  54.  @Ass_of_Amalek  You clearly missed US history. Colonists moved to escape tyranny and to own land, not to lay pipe. There was nothing in the wilderness to bang.
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  55. Everyone "loves" healthcare workers but expects them to work for free. Those against the strikes tend to have no personal connection to health care workers and imagine they're rich.
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  56. Israeli civilian failure to be armed is now a national disaster. That anyone next to an enemy border would fail to have ready weapons is bizarre. Security forces cannot be everywhere and must mass to be effecitve. Like American innocents in the LA riots Israelis are ON THEIR OWN.
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  57. You just "dry snitched" on that woman and such posts are the reason comments should be turned off. Viewers have nothing to contribute to this video and if the content creator reads this in time should delete them. Why did you imagine you should say that? NK is literally a prison state and you just dropped a dime from the safety of your distant keyboard.
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  58.  @andygreatfield  Bhuddhist tradition is one thing, crazy is another. In the West that gets you laughed and rightly so.
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  59.  @ArtU4All  In the so-called "good old days" farmers frequently unalived themselves tipping and flipping tractors which lacked ROPS. Some still do and the old small tractors tend to be owned by hobby farmers lacking any formal training. Reaching too close to spinning shafting is another classic agricultural accident cause.
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  60. The Ottomans stabilized the Middle East, a feat impossible for Eurocolonialists despite the best efforts of Sykes and Picot. The locals require a harsh master else they promptly revert to their favorite sport of hacky-choppy. Simple people require simple systems suiting their tribes and superstitions. Best to leave them to it and not stick Western noses where they do not belong.
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  61. Only for the stupid. It is never OK to be foolish because choices have consequences. I never met a junkie or drunk who wasn't a waterfall of nauseating self-pity.
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  62. Expose them too. Booze can be replaced by other booze.
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  63. CHRISTmas is about Christ not consumerism. Folks who confuse consumerism with love have issues. Kids want to know they're valued, and teaching them wisdom by example and explanation is a gift that lasts for life.
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  64.  @draneym2003  Are you proud of childish snark? Do you imagine that remark witty and insightful? Good for you.
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  65. The first sentence should have read "in LIEU of" not "lie of". Proofreading matters.
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  66. In an era where most medical care was useless or worse, pain relief matters and self-evidently most users didn't become junkies.
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  67. Russians are NOT A RACE. Russia is a highly diverse imperial construct ruled by Moscow but containing a great variety of native peoples.
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  68.  @SRFriso94  One doesn't need much for gravity nukes and a few fighter bombers to deliver them. The delivering aircraft and crew don't need to survive past weapon delivery. Ukraine would only need enough nukes to make invasion not worthwhile, not enough for a complete counterforce strike. The ability to erase major Russian population centers would have been sufficient.
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  69. Each has its own roles. Ukraine v. Russia is not a war between modern armies, it's a war between POOR countries with each having modern systems.
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  70. Walgreens service is horrible and they burn out their pharmacists. That loss is self-inflicted.
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  71. But they do not save junk from being junk. Mechanic since the 1970s here.
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  72.  @blockheadgreen_  Anyone not familair with Eric Brown should learn about him if they're an aircraft enthusiast. No other pilot came remotely close to the variety of airframes he tested.
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  73. The phrase of course has NOTHING to do with race but ignorants make everything about race which WEAKENS the impact of things that are about race. Ask any random person what the Great Depression was and what year it happened.
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  74. Why are they attending a liberal school in the first place? That's giving many thousands of dollars to their enemies. They should have their tuition refunded so they can seek education free of risk.
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  75. Loans are the STUDENTS choice. I did not take any and have none to repay.
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  76.  @shannonkohl68  Shipping a whole vehicle is far less labor intensive than cannibalization in place then packing and shipping multiple parts which also requires much more and more detailed communication and logistics management then bringing everything worth using of a type to a central location.. Tanks are simple (in many cases simpler than modern automobiles!) but heavy and best moved by rail which is highly efficient.
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  77.  @JewTube001  You mistake what the term "regime" means. In Russia's case it's analogous to "administration" and does not imply positive change is Putin is removed. The Russian people are highly supportive of the war and eager to destroy Ukraine. Only economic exhaustion could defeat them since Russia has never valued its expendable soldiery beyond the lip service of propaganda.
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  78. Not at all. Strategy matters more than childish emotions and Turkey's location makes it far more strategically important than Sweden. Administrations come and go but geography is of overwhelming military importance. Locking Russia out of the Med is vital. The first part of the Cold War was won without Sweden but Turkish participation was and remains vital. Emotions are for the weak and contemptible. Adults think coldly in strategic terms. Erdogan won't live forever and a nationalist Turkey is the only stable country in the region.
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  79. Smart seniors never UPsized in the first place but instead paid off modest properties we can afford to live in with hardly any overhead. Every current senior had DECADES to get their act together but they chose to be silly. My parents were Great Depression kids who lived wisely and I listened. I don't have much but because I always planned for adversity I'm in great shape. I would NEVER live in the expensive hood I grew up in. I have several rural acres and my alarm clock is a rooster.
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  80. "Dream homes" tend to be traps that don't really make your life better. They especially tend to be in places where you have no freedom. Inland is always the way to go. I retired debt free at 47 because I put personal freedom before shiny objects and having two modest homes and shops on my 5+ acres with total property tax under 900 bucks/year is magnificent. No HOA and few neighbors (neighbors are useless creatures only tolerable if they also own their property and mind their own business per rural custom) is icing on the cake.
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  81. Your cousin is a rare REAL patriot who cares for his American brothers and sisters mortally endangered by enemies foreign and "domestic". Americans united are unstoppable but the masters want us divided to ensure we give them power. Your cousins gesture of unity is not just noble, it's large enough to be genuinely useful. There will be appeals by the government or other shenanigans if Luigi is freed by his first trial.
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  82.  @cherryq91  They are still justified. They are there to fulfill their part of financial deals with the governments and the efficient way is use Chinese. Watch Empire of Dust to see the process in action when Chinese contractors attempt to use local labor.
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  83. Tucker managed to disgust even Putin enough to make fun of him despite how useful Tucker is to Russia.
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  84. Most people watch for the cat content which is key to algorithmic success. More cats would be a wise choice because Youtube is primarily amusement not information, and the kittehs draw people new to tech and Right To Repair issues. The cat clearly earns its keep!
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  85.  @Kiev-in-3-days  This is Youtube were the average technical and military illiterate imagines itself intelligent.
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  86.  @atomicwedgie8176  Music is not INFORMATION. Save the music for MUSIC videos. Non-fiction videos not about the subject do not benefit from music. Consider it a learning experience as many people lack social intuition. The idea everything should be crammed in with everything else is why most of Youtube is terrible. Otherwise your video is fine!
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  87. Classism ensures lack of available land and housing. As in the US the rich get richer and the rest fight over hind teat. As in the US democracy is a failure because both publics lack the intelligence and education to improve their societies. This is not the new normal, it's just normal and the best both peoples are capable of. Not insult, just observation. Modern life is beyond individual understanding leaving the field to demagogues who affirm mass ignorance.
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  88. Europe can afford to have naval power projection and is immensely wealthier than it was during the early Cold War. Vacation time is over.
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  89. I don't need anyone to buss my tables, serve me coffee etc because eating out is a waste of money. The USPS is tax funded and private carriers can either pay enough or shut down. Teaching is another government job which can either be appropriately compensatied or there will be no workers. Alternate option (for all the rich new arrivals) is out of state boarding school. Not everyone needs to be able to live everywhere, and smart people plan our lives to be mobile. If an area is popular then that's a warning to leave when you can cash out for a profit. I do not live in popular areas because growth ruins them for everyone who isn't rich. If your entire live isn't systematically devoted to economic survival you're doing it wrong, and that includes planning LONG in advance to not live in areas which WILL become expensive. Wyoming didn't happen overnight. Life is war, a long grim struggle demanding exhaustive planning. Of course I don't live in Wyoming for the same reasons I escaped New Jersey decades ago. This reality will not change so instead of pretending that's practical best to save your own bacon.
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  90. Most import consumption is trifling waste in the first place so the less of it one buys the more money available for useful things. Imports mostly fund ENEMY societies like mainland China so the less the better.
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  91.  @grgspunk  That statistic is MAN hours BTW, not "17 hours unavailable for sorties". Hours include ALL repair, inspection and maintenance not just flightline. It's easy for an F-16 unit to maintain more flyable airframes than the aircrew have crew rest to use. Been there done that (engine troop later crew dog on A/B/C?D/CJ).
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  92.  @EXROBOWIDOW  RVs tend to be a heinous ripoff which is why this mechanic has zero interest in one despite ability to rebuild it axle-to-axle. RV quality decline is indeed a major customer complaint. Buying an RV is like paying for a hotel every day one does not use every day. I'll skip the RV and let someone else clean up the hotel.
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  93. The humans who made the informed adult choice to steal these citizens money have names. Why are they not personally the object of lawsuits?
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  94. Not nearly as effective at range as Ukraine demonstrates.
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  95. NYC appeal is pure ignorance. Hicks imagine it's big and shiny and a land of opportunity. Cities exist for economic reasons but if you aren't wealthy are best avoided.
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  96. Russia can afford to squander cannon fodder in the short term but this war does considerable demographic damage to an already damaged society. Vladimir Putin is greatly aiding that process by feeding hordes into the Bakhmut grinder. Troops can easily dress for winter but logistics remain vulnerable and difficult to hide from overhead surveillance thanks to warm engines and hot exhausts. Cutting off units in warm weather has far less impact than cutting it off in winter. Troops require much more food in cold weather and units which cannot rotate troops from the front will lose many, especially those in poor physical condition.
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  97. Any geographic/strategic choke point is inherently a liability. The Canal is now a more costly obstacle.
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  98. Why are they able to walk today?
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  99. At least he solved the problem and will not be a drain on society. Crazy is only curable by death.
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  100. Know and understand as Kurdish leadership know and understand that the absolute strategic necessity (because geography matters) of Turkish support to contain Russia as it did previous versions of its historic enemy means any relationship with the Kurds MUST be transactional. The permanent problem with the Middle East is the locals cannot get along and everywhere Kurds want to claim is also claimed by others. The prospective Kurdish state would be landlocked by local stakeholders who also want the land. Europe is the center of secular democracy which itself is a European invention native to no other cultures and which required a breathtaking amount of bloodshed over centuries to get the weak and constantly contested hold it has today. Alliance with Europe is mandatory for US economic and strategic global advantage. This reality is unalterable for all practical purposes and to defend Europe requires Turkish cooperation. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few especially when there is zero practical way to attain the needs of the few even if the needs of the many were compromised. Reality is not always nice. Nothing can be done as the Middle East is run by its peoples and they basically hate each other for reasons which don't belong in this thread and cannot ever change for the better. All civilization can do is contain the barbarians who will enjoy their traditional amusements and will NEVER care what anyone else thinks of that. Russia is the existential enemy of European civilization which the Soviet Union invested its entire society in defeating. Fortunately it failed but a respawn must be prevented by NATO unity including Turkish support because Russia has always been a threat to Turkey and its interests. The Kurdish issue like the rest of the Middle East is hopeless and the Middle East does not belong to NATO. It does belong to the locals for good or ill. It should be left to them except when absolutely strategically necessary and rustic US political culture ensures everything we attempt there will backfire and by a Pyrrhic victory at best (Iraq is probably not even that). OTHO Ukraine is a European nation (Turkey is not excepting a few percent of its land) which is threatened like the rest of eastern Europe by the NeoSoviet resurgence Putin so desperately wants. There is every strategic, tactical, social, cultural and political reason for Europe (traitors excepted) to unite against the permanent Russian menace. As in the early Cold War (which never ended, merely changing) necessity requires secondary considerations be set aside. Without the survival of a strong, united Europe there will be little hope for global democracy over time and even less for the Kurds whose transactional relationships at least bought them time to consolidate.
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  101.  @gwynjames2077  Unless you were there you never know. No one rises to power in a nation where the two parties are wings of the same bird without being connected, especially someone from the northeast financial class.
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  102.  @darylyost7273  BINGO. I copied success and planned ruthlessly. My HS peers also often went into the police, Post Office, and armed forces. I chose the Air Force and fully retired before most of them. What's hilarious is I've civilian friends who also own their own land debt-free but they only have SSI disability because they really are too disabled to hold a job, but that didn't stop them from buying cheap chitty lots no one else wanted, having a used trailer dragged in then slowly fixing it up. I probably know more poor country boys who are debt-free than well-off city folk. I was born in an expensive suburb and hated it (too many rules). Today my alarm clock is a rooster.
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  103.  @duckmercy11  We do not need a FLOOD of manual laborers. We already have too many. Demand is not infinite and there is no upward career path because the US middle class is dying off which means most will remain poor. Let them fix HAITI. They broke it.
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  104.  @liberalismisaids9564  Where in the rail industry do YOU work and if not why do you permit yourself an opinion?
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  105.  @AsukaRstudios  His intention is irrelevant. His mission was to destroy their culture by replacing it with his own. They voted against being invaded. The land was not his.
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  106. IF they had any sense they would have left the metro area decades ago as I did. The writing has been on the wall SINCE THE 1960s! There was never ever ever any hope of positive change.
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  107.  @Jupiter-td4kw  That was an adult MAN not a boy and when someone is insane risking yourself so they can potentially take you out is absurd. No one knew if he was packing or had an IED and there was no reason to risk getting closer to him. He made the INFORMED ADULT CHOICE to self-immolate.
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  108.  @blauskie  She chose to do that thus abetting his actions.
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  109. That was always the case but the failures were accepted because alternatives did not exist. Nature is competitive. Chimps (humans are just shaved apes), lions, elephants etc fight for dominance and the losers lose.
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  110. To be realistic all interceptions to to a black market is make the surviving shipments more profitable, the reason no version of "prohibition" works in practice. Demand reduction is much more complex so many nations, especially those preferring punitive methods on ideological principle, will never use them. Capitalism is adaptable and when one chemical is less available something else, often worse, replaces it.
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  111.  @philbrooks5979  That mess shows they don't care about themselves. Most of the homeless are NOT good citizens having a bad day. I've met more than my share.
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  112. What has Japan actually done? (crickets)
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  113.  @Schmidty1  You are watching war videos. It's on you to make some minimal effort to understand the subject if you are interested. MANY civilians know all these terms. If the subject doesn't interest you then enjoy the show but posters using specific military terms relevant to the discussion don't have time to type a complete glossary. You have the internet to fill in gaps. The libraries of history are at your fingertips. I find it bizarre you would not just search those terms as they come up, the established method even in pre-internet days of dead tree encyclopedias. That's so basic schoolchildren knew and know to do it. Not self-educating doesn't make you a bad person but it's quite lazy.
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  114. Chiraq doesn't care enough about crime to stop electing Democrats. Anyone with a future would be wise to flee because things will only get worse. There are plenty of welcoming American communities which would be glad to hire professional law enforcement officers.
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  115.  @stevejette2329  Of course trees re-grow which is why timber companies re-plant to speed it up. The softwood industries in the US and Canada are enormous.
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  116. Preach! Americans come together overseas but decay in CONUS.
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  117. The aircrew have by far the most demanding tasks to learn. Maintainers will love life compared to fixing fossils. F-16s are easy to learn how to maintain and to work on in austere conditions. Anyone transitioning from older airframes with much more labor-intensive systems will have an easy time converting as I did from fixing Phantoms. Proximity to European bases means parts won't be difficult to ship and items requiring back shop or depot repairs will be simple to truck or airlift back and forth.
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  118. Seldowitz acted according to his religious ideology which as it must informs his politics. Religion dictates choices of believers.
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  119.  @papysambi695  Then Hungarians should ally with Moscow since they stand for nothing. Orban can be the Kadyrov he really wants to be and NATO assistance better spent on actual allies. Hungary owes NATO nothing and this begs the question why it joined in the first place. Hungary is an enemy of NATO for whatever reason so they do not need each other. It's silly to continue the charade.
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  120. Speaking as one who has launched hundreds of FAC (Bronco) and fighter (Phantom and F-16) sorties that feature was trivial. Old aircraft required so many maintainers having a fireguard (a very good idea with early engine fuel controls!) didn't divert anyone on the line from anything useful. The pilot would still be ahead of the game to get in the cockpit (which if he was on alert he should have previously set up to his liking including seat adjustments and switchology) while the crew chief handled the rest and the fire guard kicked the last chock when the pilot signaled ready to taxi. Aircraft require enough support troops there are plenty to TCOB during launch and recovery.
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  121. What are the laws in that specific location? (Citation needed.)
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  122. Osprey has a lower mishap rate than Harrier, Super Hornet, F-35B, or CH-53E Super Stallion but military aviation is dangerous. US losses in combat are so small because our troops train hard and that means flying many thousands of sorties which mean some level of Class A mishaps. RIP to the fallen. Their work is far from easy, they just make most of it look that way.
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  123. Most of the problem is chasing competent men away from primary school education because they're assumed to have ulterior motives. My high school teachers were often WWII and Korean conflict veterans and uniformly excellent. Male students need male role models in the classroom because they often have no positive male role models in their life.
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  124. Replace them with patrol boats with fire hose monitors.
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  125. Who supports and follows those leaders? Locals have always had agency there, especially in areas never effectively colonized. No corrupt leader has an army without corrupt followers, nor support for that army without a local population to recruit from. Tribal rivalries long predate the modern era.
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  126. Democracy ensures the voters get exactly the government they deserve.
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  127.  @alexsilent5603  Finland and nations southward may beg to differ, however much Glavset shills protest...
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  128. They can't force people to choose Windows in the first place. My machines exist to serve ME.
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  129.  @Jason-fm4my  Yes, tanks can easily be stored outdoors a they are designed for that but WORKING on them outdoors is slow, awkward and in Russia, cold and wet. Any covered shelter can be used to keep weather off opened engine bays, hatches etc while giving a team of mechanics a comfortable place to wrench/
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  130. When something truly doesn't move most dealers send it to auctions like Copart and it goes back into the food chain elsewhere.
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  131.  @broccolidiego2053  The world is only somewhat peaceful because of US military hegemony, but the US primary education system is completely broken and a modest majority of Americans only read (which confines their thinking to) below 8th grade level. Without the US armed forces the US economy would tank because the dollar would not be the global reserve currency. How did you manage not to know this? I know. US primary education.
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  132. Intelligent reasons did not exist to avoid proven designs. Intelligent reasons did not exist to use those materials. Intelligent reasons did not exist to avoid hiring engineering talent with demonstrated success. The fool built a contemptibly stupid toy only impressive to technical illiterates. Accomplishment in unrelated fields means nothing. Mere wealth demonstrates one is good at making money, nothing else. The accident did have considerable value as an example of how to do everything wrong. There is zero excuse for amateur incompetence when innocent lives are at stake. The childish compulsion to see rusting junk when museum ships exist drove adults to ignore personal due diligence when they should have stayed ashore. Ignorance is not innovation but at least Stockton Rush won't hurt any more fools.
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  133. Huntsville has techies who are why it's different. Aerospace investment pays off.
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  134. That in no way is certain they had expertise to know thus no reason to defer action. Perp asked for it, perp got it.
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  135. Air Corps studies changed how the military considers damage. It's not the ones that make it back with holes that identify weaknesses, it's indeed the pattern of what flyable holes do NOT include which does.
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  136. Why is UK society so yielding and submissive? Opinions from members only please because I don't understand why there is no serious demand for law and order. Self-discipline is a product of imposed discipline. The criminal classes only understand brutality and overwhelming force.
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  137. Everyone who does that should consider making a short video stating why. That would make the issue widely visible to many more people
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  138. Kids who can't behave should be expelled so the good kids have a chance to learn. As a kid I despise those who interfered with my education. It's wrong to mix motivated students with future jailbirds.
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  139.  @orlock20  Should that mean anything? WWII casualty rates were MUCH higher too.
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  140. Russia bombed ISIS in Syria, lest we forget, and the Kremlin's history of oppressing domestic Muslims (including expending them it its wars) is long and distinguished.
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  141.  @marymclendon1756  We're full and the Industrial Revolution is long over.
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  142. Good. No Humans Involved so no problem.
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  143. Sending the older generations off first is wise demographic strategy. Too bad most Youtube viewers know nothing of history (because they don't read or take serious interest in anything but trifles) but Ukraine is preserving it's youth thus its future. We didn't hear any ageist butthurt from US drafting young adults or enlisting young volunteers (like Audie Murphy). I find it amusing that the US used to stand for freedom but thanks to the collapse of primary education our public are as ignorant as my chickens. It was an honor to defend civilization against the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact but the average mook on the block doesn't even know what those words mean.
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  144.  @subliteral  Do you own a home or rent?
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  145. How employable are ORDINARY graduates TODAY who didn't get into the field years before they were even born? You're old and experienced in a field that (used to) reward that. Most "art" in a commercial sense is precisely the kitsch AI does so well.
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  146. I haven't felt a recession since 1981 despite not being rich. I laughed at the dirtbag who offered me an ARM in 2007. BTW there are affordable homes and land but people insist on living in expensive coastal cities (like the one I wisely escaped) or other expensive areas. What I find hilarious is my poorest friends own their homes free and clear because they bough cheap rural lots, then bought cheap used singlewide mobile homes and built onto those DIY. All a house need do is provide safe comfortable shelter and be reasonable enough to pay off. Aim lower and win. If Americans followed examples from the Great Depression they'd learn useful things. The economy is never going to be safe so use the few good times to prepare for the normal bad times.
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  147. Women collectively chose their fate so feel no guilt.
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  148. Pay what the market will bear or tough cookies. There is no worker crisis, there's a GREEDY EMPLOYERS WANTING SERFS CRISIS and they can nug my huts. Any "crisis" won't bother me because over decades of fun I learned every trade I need to the degree I need it and more. So should others because it's awesome and you don't need to be the best to be plenty effective. Community college courses can be outstanding. I took welding and machining after retiring from aviation to use in my home shop and they were so much fun I volunteered then worked there (CCs hire from within to get known qualities). Blue collar workers can be had in any desired number if you EFFING PAY THEM. Same as trucking where everyone expects you to martyr yourself for free.
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  149.  @brentsenior7830  But you still CHOSE to begin. No one forced you. It's all your fault.
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  150. Containers leave time to abandon ship. I'd rather see than than be on an LNG tanker afire in the middle of the ocean.
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  151. How common IS maritime incompetence? Are there any notably bad carriers?
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  152. If New Yorkers wanted honest government they would vote accordingly. Metro area politics are always amusing.
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  153. Densely storing vehicles is generally a bad idea but desperation is the mother of invention.
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  154. Condos used to be a SCAM but that scam was a delayed scam whose damage hit decades after they were built. I never fell for the condo scam because I'm not mentally helpless. If you do not own ALL the structure you live in and ALL the land that structure is on you taken enormouse risk. Friends don't let friends buy condos.
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  155. Which is more abundant, competence or stupidity?
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  156. The point of wealth is being able to choose your neighbors, and that is so throughout history. Blocking "affordable" housing in an area one worked hard to enter is quite pragmatic because (no matter what race, color, gender or ethnicity) concentrations of poor people inherently include MANY who are poor because they're mentally and/or socially defective and not in good ways. Poor areas are places to ESCAPE (nearly all non-forced immigration to the US was to escape poverty. I'm white and don't want white trash neighbors but since there is no practical way to filter them the only remaining filter is economic. That keeps the meth heads away so I'm fine with it as a matter of personal survival. Anyone who genuinely wants human garbage for company can have them at will, but those who don't have NO CHOICE but exclusion. You can't have a good safe quiet hood with low crime unless you use economic filters! It does not happen so why should people who work long and hard to escape the shitbags be forced to share space with them? Poor folks of all backgrounds who remain poor tend to have serious personal defects. If you want them for company that's fine. Others do not and choose their hoods accordingly.
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  157. So what? Japan started the war and refused to surrender unconditionally. Anything conditional is not unconditional. I'll gently remind modern weebs that Japan began the war, genocided China and slaughtered its way across Asia. Ask Chinese about Unit 731. Japan under Hirohito was monstrous and fortunate to have lost so few in a war Hirohito chose to start. The new cult of Japan-worship ignores everything Japan did under Hirohito, not least because the US allowed most Japanese war criminals to get away with murder because Japan was required to contain Maoist China. Read about Nanking, Manila, Burma, india etc before weebishly praising Japan for starting the war and being sorry they lost. Mark Felton is internationally respected, so here is his account of Imperial Japanese Army chowing down on Indian prisoners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63R2aBqwsPg Unit 731 in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1odMnxoKKWc Getting captured didn't work out well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfWmO9BJaOA Nanjing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-q68ReSY4 Manila: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRHBbhJ1KMg and https://niemanreports.org/articles/an-orgy-of-mass-murder-in-a-new-book-james-m-scott-nf-07-investigates-world-war-ii-atrocities-in-the-philippines/ ANZAC prisoners: https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/burma-thailand-railway-and-hellfire-pass-1942-1943/enemy/treatment-prisoners Japan still pays tribute to its sadists at Yasukuni shrine though their former victim countries are not thrilled. Modern Japan (other than those who pretend these things never happened) of course considerably different, but what MADE modern Japan different was just punishment followed by a very benevolent Occupation under General MacArthur that reshaped its society. However "face" is everything so revisionist are working hard including constant shilling on Youtube where most viewers are completely ignorant. Japanese atrocities against Koreans long predate WWII: https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2021/10/25/un-remembering-the-massacre-how-japans-history-wars-are-challenging-research-integrity-domestically-and-abroad/ http://www.cgs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/download/cgs03_01_yamada There is much, much more.
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  158. The tank was mobility killed so unless Russia can retrieve it under fire with another tank (a very slow process even for experienced troops) it will be finished off afterwards. That's how AT mines can end ANY tank. There are no mine-proof tracks.
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  159. Cannibalization management requires at least one cann jet per unit to buffer Supply anyway so if that one has some battle damage no big deal. In fact it can be completely torn down if the airframe is beyond economic repair and that work is fun! The USAF Cannibalization program is a key maintenance strength. I was in before it began and hangar queens were common where documentation was lost and maintainers often harvested parts on the down low to meet the flying schedule.
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  160. Being lazy I buy cheap black sockets, cut 'em in half with a zip disc then weld them back together. Now you have that powered lathe chuck you can make it look pretty and concentric! I use mine for leaf spring bolts but it's been handy elsewhere. For that clamp though it would be cheaper and less work to weld a piece of tubing to each nut then a nut to the top of each tube. That way your extensions are permanently attached to your clamp and can be run down with any wrench or socket that fits the nuts, or even a pipe wrench applied to the tubing if your wrench is MIA.
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  161. Vehicles make for impressive fires even without battery or fuel tank! I worked salvage long ago in the cutting torch era in Jersey City and if spatter ignited an interior there was much entertainment, especially if it lit off after the hull was deep in a horizontal stack (think "dominos"). Vehicles are basically built to burn.
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  162. She was obviously a diversity hire inflicted on the German armed forces by their internal opponents. What other damage did she do? The German army of today is not the Bundeswehr of the early Cold War (who were a joy to serve beside when I was stationed at Sembach).
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  163. As bad was failure to cover the border with pre-zeroed artillery and rockets to instantly interdict border intrusions. Failure to properly fortify checkpoints for a full 360 degrees against nation state attacks, failure to ignore holidays and FULLY MAN the appropriate installations (remember the first YK war was also a holiday surprise), failure to train reservists to high standards, and other contributing screwups will have ugly career fallout on those responsbile. Also worth noting is a tiny state like Israel simply CANNOT have defense in depth without a heavily armed Jewish population with ready access to at least the battle rifle loadout common to about 20 million US AR owners and millions more of other models. Israel does not have US crime issues and is thus freer to arm the good guys. That was under recent discussion and now scenes of helpless victims hiding from Hamas with zero self-defense prove the point.
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  164. I'm reading this on October 9, 2023. Israel is paying in blood for their childish gun laws, but some lawful gun owners shot back.
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  165.  @tonydiesel3444  Because playing it SAFE is the way to retire young, not dreaming risky dreams. I did similar and fully retired at 47. Freedom is not having to work, not chasing a bag for life.
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  166.  @42NewGuy  Suppressive fire wins because seeing enemy behind cover is problematic.
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  167.  @The_DC_Kid  Sane Americans left that area decades ago because its doom was obviously inevitable. NYC is fine if you're rich. I'm not so I knew I would never have a future in that area and left long ago. You do know things have been getting steadily worse since the 1960s and nothing you could ever do will change that, so why live there?
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  168. Tolkien was no pacifist. That's a naive hippie problem. Fending off evil requires technology be it sword or drone. Disarmament is surrender is suicide because harmlessness has zero defensive value.
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  169. Freedom implies the right to do some things which are amazingly foolish. Some people exist to serve as examples to others.
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  170. He should have used a kitchen knife like other truckers do. People should not overthink this. It's just two suction cups and if you're parked near a store knives are cheap.
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  171. Because this war is a war between POOR countries who cannot afford to deploy Desert Storm-tier large armored forces. They didn't begin the war very competent at combined arms though Ukraine seems to be learning a bit quicker. Now they don't have the arms to combine in large numbers thanks to attrition. Massed armor is amazingly expensive. Russian money went to yachts and Ukraine didn't have it to begin with so our entertainment will be different.
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  172. There were no "buses" in the 1850s and no non-local travel was trivial. There was very little rail either. You should know better than to so imply.
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  173.  @dinamosflams  Vatnik detected. There is no such thing as too much detected. The core problem is Americans forgot why we opposed the Soviets and are easy to manipulate because the average American reads therefore thinks at an ~8th grade level. I was alive when igorance was shameful but that was a long time ago.
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  174. A bar has no legal right to detain guests who are not breaking the law.
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  175. Then give me everything you technically own.
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  176. Agreed. Fortunately the West has BDA assessment capabilities dwarfing the (excellent) commercial satellite providers. Russian systems can be tracked from their base to destination and software can supplement or replace the Mark 1 Eyeball of human imagery specialists. Abandoned equipment implies many crew egressed on foot. Those interested can poke about Telegram channels as mass media are so heavily censored. Russian troops are often cold and too lethargic to dodge dropped grenades. They fail to prepare overhead cover, a basic soldier task since the WWI era to avoid being seen then struck. They often leave their buddies for the dogs. WIA care for survivors won't come close to Western standards while malnourished exhausted troops are vulnerable to disease. Russian field sanitation is terrible with trash and spoil highlighting their trenches from a distance.
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  177. The newsies reported the irrelevant boiler inspection because like most moderns they wouldn't know a boiler from a baseball bat. We don't know what dislodged the pipe or if it burst due to corrosion, manufacturing defect or installation error. These ancient buildings need a wrecking ball but many people forget how very old they really are. No outside visual inspection of standard steam radiators would detect internal failures but they can be fitted with steel radiator covers to prevent direct contact and deflect some steam. (Such covers were common since many years ago but are mostly used for decoration.)
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  178. The corsairs attacked US flagged vessels. Not a US vessel? Not our problem. Companies which flag their vessels with joke third world nations to avoid paying taxes deserve to lose their ships. The US is the US business, not parasitic foreign flagged shipping companies.
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  179. Some troops in any military are dumber than the proverbial bag of hammers. They may manage their tasking well enough yet be utterly lost in the outside world. This has always been the subject of G.I. humor, much of it too offensive for Youtube.
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  180. Most of my fellow computerheads use Brother. HP was once gloriously well built until Carly Fiorina murdered it.
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  181. Adults failing to exert due diligence IS stupidity because it is an adult choice to be negligent. I've met many very nice, decent people who haven't a clue that they haven't a clue. If I were considering oil investment I'd study your videos because they are the most COMPREHENSIVE operational education available outside living that life. Thanks for the oil field history too!.
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  182. MAKE A VIDEO of the rupture.
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  183.  @randomuser5443  F14 is ancient history. A10 is obsolete but it will take this war to demonstrate why. Warthogs are GOOD shrapnel sponges (I was hot refuelling F-16s next to their ABDR location at KKMC) but Desert Storm is ancient history in technical terms in 2022. Meat in the seat looks cool and gives autspergies something to dream of but UAS have been able to execute even aircraft carrier landings for several years. One day riding an attack aircraft will be as obsolete as a kamikaze riding an Ohka (which was borderline even then but Germany could afford gyroscopes).
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  184.  @snave59  I do the same but do nearly all my own wrenching and since I chose to live were there's near zero rust I can drive my Ford and Chevy trucks as long as I care to. The newest is a 2000 bought used. When I like a vehicle I buy one (or more since at this point my bros and I give each other the used trucks we accumulate cheap) just like it that needs work and already own my "next" daily driver for very little money. I could afford a new truck but that's a waste of money. I ain't rich but retired debt free at 47 because I plan, plan then plan some more. (And by plan I do not mean the scummy scammy "financial advisors" who defile these threads.)
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  185.  @bcluett1697  The Soviets were (internally) open about why they left and that was because they considered the Kabul government unreliable clients who would never be self-sustaining. The Kabul government outlasted the Soviet Union by a few years but folded similar to the ANA under pressure. Ukraine OTOH is not distant Afghanistan and Russia historically considers every inch of prior Russian empire to be theirs. One thing is not like the other. Russian nationalists dominate current Russian thought and are likely to install Putin's eventual replacement. Russia is socially incapable of producing a modern democratic society because that would disadvantage "boyars and monarchs" of every era. The oligarchy has money to fund ultranationalist units like Wagner and power to fill them with convicts the Russian state has power to create. It's a popular mistake of the unstudied (who often feel emotionally obliged to consider all humans interchangeable) to consider mentioning cultural differences "xenophobic" when it is actually specific and only applies to specific societies. In this era doing so enrages many leftists no matter who brings it up. Given the average low IQ and primary education where there is any that's understandable.
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  186. The Harley board who hired him needs to go and the whole company has been corrupt for many years. (I've followed the industry since the 1970s)
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  187. Today is different because Putin's assault forged Ukrainian identity, reunited NATO and accomplished what no amount of political activism ever could.
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  188. How many container shops or homes have YOU constructed? It's fair to say they're over-rated by anyone lacking extended personal experience modifying and using them. I quite like my shop containers but I weld and fab so they're easy for me.
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  189. Of course the real issue is resentment of merit which is why highly accomplished Asians are thrown under the same bus.
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  190. Buy less than you qualify for. LEARN TO WORK ON THINGS. If your entertainment does not make you more capable or save you money it's a waste of time. Learning to DIY let me and millions of others buy cheap old homes then fix them inexpensively. Anyone can do this since my wife did most of the interior renovations while I worked. A home is part of a life package. Do not buy vehicles for any reason other than reliable efficient transportation until your home is paid off. I practice what I preach (not hard) and retired young by not copying trifling people (which are most of them). Learn to inspect homes YOURSELF. You have nothing more important to do in life than improve that life and every such skill pays off large. No one cares about YOUR money more than YOU do.
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  191. We have geolocated tank and vehicle kills in the thousands and those tanks and vehicles were part of units badly mauled. OSINT means we need not rely on partisan sources and NATO militaries have 24/7 overhead surveillance and global intel. This isn't a matter of observers in barrage balloons guesstimating through the smoke of battle.
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  192. US weapons production is not a constraint, it's opportunity. So is South Korean weapons production because it does not come with a political leash. SK learnt the hard way about Communism and built a motivated, professional armed force with the factories to support it.
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  193. The phrase is designed to appeal to mental infants who think in memes, which is why it's near universally effective. It sounds fancy so chumps repeat it to seem sophisticated. I'm an artisan so that makes my last defecation "artisanal".
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  194. Since when is 20,000 tons a "behemoth" by 2024 shipbuilding standards? A Panamax freighter can carry more than twice that in freight. Clickbait over vaporware.
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  195. Nothing will change until the enemy is afraid to disobey public will. They forget many old people with nothing to lose may choose to go out like a boss.
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  196.  @CraigTheBrute-yf7no  Russian shill bringing irrelevant events in to chitpost detected.
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  197.  @patriot9455  Aluminum is far too light. If you want something interesting get a turret lathe (they're cheap and make many useful things) then you can make solid copper projectiles precisely and quickly. Home machine shops should get more love since they support everything serious men do and they're also huge fun. BTW welding tungsten penetrators are VERY easy to make (outdoors) with a variety of simple fixtures like a collet holder and motorized grinder of your preference. You can machine your own molds for casting quite easily, make gun parts, make car and truck parts and have a jolly old time if you're technically inclined. Gunsmithing is a lesser subset of being a machinist so that will be easy meat.
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  198. No, ADULTS made the informed choice to buy there. If you're rich you can afford to lose homes now and then in return for pretty views. A grade school child should know enough basic geology to figure out that location is terrible for everything but the views.
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  199. Learning in combat in small wars is MUCH cheaper than surprise sinkings in major wars.
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  200. Those needs are local. FL has many hotels.
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  201.  @FutilityOfReason  That's not running cover. That's fact because actuaries don't go by feelings, they go by cold hard numbers. High unsecured debt reflects low intelligence and poor judgement therefore higher risk. Smart humans are lower risk customers. Debt is an informed adult choice. People without ruthless self-discipline had better be rich so they can afford to be foolish.
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  202.  @chrislastnam6822  That is a very good reason NOT TO LIVE THERE because living where you cannot effortlessly afford to live is childish foolery. I don't live in LA and if I did I would cash out and be gone like a rocket. Money enables freedom so money comes first. Sentiment is for the senile.
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  203.  @bigalsnow8199  Smart people more than stand a chance because we have RULES and do not crave affirmation from prison trash.
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  204. The US proved it can easily build much, much more and those weapons systems exist to fight Russia in the first place! Ukraine is doing God's work with them.
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  205. Why do you still live there? Welfare?
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  206. Everything in the US is by the choice (inaction is a choice) of the American people. The American people relentlessly elect incompetent, venal and corrupt politicians who then do exactly what any sober observer expects they would. The beauty of democracy is voters get exactly what they vote for. Democracy requires a genuinely educated electorate (said education need not be confused with formal schooling, but most people are not autodidacts) because people who know nothing of a subject cannot evaluate subject matter expertise. The American people chose both directly and indirectly every aspect of their government. The results demonstrate democracy doesn't scale well. It's fine for small communities but the US is too large and complex to be run by ordinary minds. The public's savage, proud ignorance forces EVERYONE seeking office to pander to that ignorance and to compromise in order to get funding without which they cannot run a competitive race. The American people are too lazy to have much concept of civic duty, while at the same time feeling entitled to competent government by people who do without any effort on their part. This is a nation which thanks veterans "for their service" while refusing to learn foreign policy and confusing supporting "the troops" for supporting every strategically indefensible constabulary war they're sold by the hacks they elect. The people relentlessly reinforce the system they snivel about, unable to realize democracy means they did it to themselves at the ballot box.
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  207. ^Excellent post especially for future use by people who don't think that way but should.Topo maps and flood maps are the first thing I look at before buying property. I'm not rich and can't afford to make a dumb choice. I refuse to live downstream from dams or flood paths, in a flood plain, on the coast in hurricane zones (that's the entire southeast and Gulf region, it's not hard to drive to the beach instead), in any area reliant on levees for protection etc. Just a few miles makes a huge difference.
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  208. Israel was distracted by internal politics. That was a choice. Never conquer what you do not subsequently exterminate. To preserve any of your enemies is to fight their successors forever. Empathy is a mistake, and the cause of every failed attempt at conquest.
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  209. Confirmed for not having a clue about military professionalism. Stick to fantasy.
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  210.  @coya8coy  I have decade old cotton wash cloths that faded but work just fine.
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  211.  @CarsonDouglas  MY wash cloths last that long and I'm a mechanic! A quality cloth is good for many years and mine are proof. They're faded but scrub just fine. I haven't bought new bathroom wash cloths in a decade. I launder them after use like anything else.
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  212. No, it just looks like it. No sane mechanic who wants to make money and avoid comebacks would touch that thing. Parting it out makes far more sense so parts can go to deep pocketed rebuilders who can afford the risk. There is nothing to admire about that engine. German engineering ceased being elegant decades ago, now it's just bizarre.
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  213. I escaped a major city metro area in 1981 and don't miss it a bit. Too many people stay trapped in expensive areas. My poverty level $70K/year retirement income would not buy gutter space in north Jersey. OTOH since I live in the southeast I only need to spend about half that to live comfortably and I'm debt-free. Instead of renting garage space (common in the Northeast) if I need another I build it myself and either of mine are bigger than most apartments.
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  214. So many boxes but no pallets beneath. No pallets beneath because no forklifts or other Western style muns handling equipment. Break-bulk shipping has been generally obsolete since the invention of the shipping container and later handling equipment like PLS. Those muns were too much trouble to pick up and would delay the escape of the unit. This is hilarious.
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  215.  @durgan5668  The point was to get one over, not drive it. The usual "Lemon Lot" cars swapped between G.I.s for many tours handled most of that. In the 1980s some bases had their own small salvage yards (just a parking area) where G.I.s could harvest parts for free. A nice arrangement all around. Of course German standards are geared to coerce car replacement so a bit of otherwise irrelevant rust served that bureaucratic purpose, and AAFES sold many new rides in Europe or delivered in CONUS.
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  216.  @Wolf-yw7en  You'd be wise to put those bits back together or find someone who can as that's either a nice family artifact or an easy sale for good money. Alternate option, donate to an Australian war museum and someone will put it back to period condition.
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  217. Buying unwisely puts them in debt. I prefer to own my tools so I can have everything the way I want it, I've wrenched since the 1970s on a wide variety of vehicles and machines. I consider what I spend on tools a bargain and even have a decent home machine shop bought the same way a small business does, a piece at a time.
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  218. Houston is wealthy and should fund professional policing including sufficient personnel. Why anyone would want to work for that department is another question because there are much better places to live and work in for police. When you don't get enough high quality recruits it's time to pay what the market will bear, not what you wish it would bear.
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  219. They lost me when they killed off the mom'n'pop dealers were told to go in massive debt for the new Taj Mahal dealerships. "Flip the patch" and FTF are far from new.
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  220. ​ @SuperNolaguy  WRONG. Upstate used to be thriving and full of both farms and industry. The industry left thanks to Washington destroying the working class and so did the jobs. I was alive then and witnessed the decline of US suburban manufacturing back in the 1970s in the NY, CT, NJ area.
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  221. That's why I tell everyone I meet who likes wrenching to do it for a hobby (saving many tens of thousands of dollars over a lifetime like it has for me) and join the Air Force for a CAREER. Following your passion off a cliff is questionable but once you vest a government retirement you can afford to explore other jobs (and if you played it wisely won't need to). Show me a line mechanic job that lets you retire at 47 (I enlisted late in my twenties) while your peers have to wreck their bodies and deal with horrible retail customers in the auto mechanic world. There are too many people who work cheap and undercut everyone else which has always depressed compensation. I've spun wrenches on industrial machinery, cars, trucks and more but never considered a career outside military aviation. If you work until 65 then you only have a few unhealthy years left before your dirt nap. Choose wisely!
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  222.  @Specialcowgirl69  Even better is physiotherapy since you don't have the hassles nurses do. No one dies for lack of PT/OT so there's far less stress and less liability. My sister is raking in bank working in a high end hospital on the west coast. Medicine will remain wide open so never stop building your skill set. There's no reason a competent nurse couldn't retire young and well off if they use wise financial management. (Key to early retirement is living BELOW your financial means which also gives you an emergency cash cushion.
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  223. Ancient IT just saved Southwest from Crowdstrike. It's hilarious but points out the value of heterogenous IT systems because when everything runs the same OS then some vendor pushes an update a fecalstorm ensues.
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  224.  @Moneyline_Mitch  How hard are you seriously trying to move out? An OTR trucker is instantly mobile and can stack enough (drive for a company and let them take the financial risk) to buy in elsewhere. Anyone young can (if they're serious) find a gig that's mobile, from the Merchant Marine and other maritime gigs to the armed forces. People have been leaving the metro area for hundreds of years because they manned up and took action. The younger you leave the better but the lower costs elsewhere mean your assets go farther. Immigrants leave their country and have since long before they got paid to come here. Americans are mostly just afraid of change and use other excuses to stay until they get forced out like in Newark or Detroit after the riots.
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  225. Why would anyone who has a choice move to a CITY? Cities are bad, all of them and land is cheaper in the country where people also still have old values like dignity, shame, self-reliance and self-respect?
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  226. Wise men don't buy unreliable, unstable, rapidly depreciating assets that are expensive to dispose of, they rent them.
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  227.  @TheTardis157  Old people (everyone if we live long enough) become senile. Cognitive decline is real and extremely unpleasant. Compulsive behaviors set in and it's typical for gummers to be unable to understand WHY the make choices. I cared for my elder parents and have many older friends so I learned to watch for symptoms.
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  228. "Sense" was never common. People are just differently silly and resent thinking outside their lane. This includes many high intelligence but highly SPECIALIZED people who can be awesome at their skill and helpless outside it.
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  229. You forgot to mention industry is generally more fun and interesting, and that when you are the only person who can keep their ancient cobbled-together junk they refuse to upgrade it can make you the last guy they lay off. I enjoyed it.
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  230. There is no reason for a vehicle interior to be dark in the daytime. We use night vision-friendly lighting at night, so why not bright interior lights during the day? LED are cheap enough and low draw.
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  231. It's easy so why not? You can keep an old version of Windows in VM or spare PC if useful. No one is obliged to run one OS.
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  232. RAILROAD REGULATIONS NEED TO BE ADDRESSED. Businesses won't regulate themselves and own the finest politicians money can buy! Kudos to the crews rerailing them and cleaning up the mess. They'll always have job security and it makes great videos.
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  233. The addicts aren't the problem. The laws are the problem because addiction is (effectively) criminalized and will remain so. The US has failed LAWS but Mexico is a failed SOCIETY across the board whose government is completely co-opted by the cartels like the pre-Castro Cuban government was co-opted by the Mafia.
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  234. That ship wasn't Israeli.
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  235. That was NOT strictly true as multiple mutinies and MANY executions attest. The museum has to keep old people happy and has no place for serious military history. Soldiers were considered expendable and thrown away by the millions. That isn't even close to exaggeration. Study some WWI history and you will be surprised and likely angry at how soldiers were treated.
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  236. Wise are those who PROMPTLY get titles to everything they buy and get a hard copy in hand when they go to DMV. Store the hard copy in case DMV loses the data from their system. That saved my ass on a classic BSA. I've seen many unhappy people who put title transfer off then life intervenes and they can no longer get title though they were totally confident they could procrastinate. That's why I warn everyone when the subject comes up. Thanks again for all the useful info in your videos!
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  237. I carry an ammo can or two for my loose tools and have a variety of sizes. Ammo cans are gasketed tough storage and work a treat.
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  238.  @Colinpark  Which makes it more than worth it since a mere training exercise would be ignored. Never forget for a second most people are completely incapable of understanding anything but drama. Intelligence is neuro-divergent so emotions must be used to guide human processes.
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  239. It's hareldy strange that Poland wants to develop its own arms industry rather than rely on potentially unreliable foreign suppliers. Ukraine was a wakeup call not to depend on outside support. The Turkish arms industry success proves that strategy can work very well. Building at home keeps more money in the small Polish economy and a developed arms industry can sell to foreign clients improving the trade balance. A military industrial corporate complex (done right) is absolutely necessary to modern war.
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  240.  @basscoversimulation3167  Too bad that's a militarily illiterate proposal not least due to lack of water, but also due to tunnelers ability to compartmentalize and drain. The tunnels of Cu Chit in South Vietnam are examples of how gas and water-tight sections can be sealed off by simple design.
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  241. Boeing can pay them with the billions it saved by the Max instead of a clean sheet design.🤣 Another once great US company destroyed by MBAs...
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  242.  @rayharvey1330  Only extremely old people imagine these are "kids".
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  243.  @annabodot962  Why should it pay for a KNOWING, DELIBERATELY stupid choice of location?
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  244. Want a life of automotive ease? Learn to wrench. I buy broken vehicles then fix them so there are no surprises. I've had most of my vehicles over 20 years and the money saved helped pay off my property.
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  245. Talibs began with almost nothing and fought until victory using classic Maoist tactics. Outsiders tend to ignore how utterly worthless their opponents were as a group (individual valor is irrelevant as it does not win wars). The Kabul government squandered every advantage and deserved to lose. They were amazingly bad at everything, even worse than the government the Soviets left behind (because it was also worthless, the Soviets were not driven out by force contrary to myth and left in good order). Outsiders ignore that Sharia has worked for these cultures for hundreds of years. It is their way and their land belongs to them. Those not liking the arrangement are free to outfight and outlast those they disagree with while replacing the order they offer their traditional societies. So far the Afghan tribal societies have ejected every foreign interloper from the British (twice) and Soviets to the Coalition. It's time for outsiders to find another hobby.
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  246. The wise live below our means and have no bad habits to adapt. The smart live well below our means when times are good and do nothing but prepare for inevitable bad times. I learned from my relatives who came up in the Great Depression. Many, many Americans are doing just fine but we don't make the news.
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  247. The ANG can be a great deal. I was warned by (successful shop owner) mechanics in the 1970s not to wrench cars for a living though I'm good at it. Joining the Air Force was pure win (but sensitive people should avoid aircraft maintenance and preferably the armed forces so no one has to hear their whining!) and retirement is Very Nice. If a career doesn't have a government-guaranteed pension and benefit package no ordinary mechanic job beats it or even comes close. I've wrenched commerically for toy money at my bros shop but would never want to depend on that.
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  248. If a dam overflows it can fail and do MUCH more damage. The moral is never live downstream from a dam (so I don't). Never live in a flood plain (so I don't). Never live in an area reachable by storm surge (so I don't). Before you buy property check the geography, see if it ever flooded before (if yes, don't live there) and thoroughly study everything about the area. Far too many people don't check public records though if they did it could save their property, loved ones and their own lives. Caution and planning are free and learning how to live safely is priceless.
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  249. The location and design are much easier to secure against civil unrest. They should have named it Ozymandias. The MoD distance and separation further isolates it from potential unrest originating at the mosque. A change was needed but better planning and awareness that there is time to build out more slowly would save a lot of money. Failure to build housing is telling. Poverty coerces large families which aggravate general poverty but profit comes before the Egyptian public.
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  250. This is now the soundtrack for (many) Ukrainian drone videos.
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  251. I find the whole thing hilarious and would enjoy seeing similar happen more often. Light beer is a contradiction in terms so nothing of value is lost. Support your local craft breweries instead and keep your money in your community producing quality product.
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  252. It's a medical term and worth looking up.
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  253. Why should people give up THEIR PROPERTY rather than be governed as they prefer? What makes lines on a map sacred?
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  254. Most people are ignorant and silly. They're their own worst enemy.
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  255. Artificialy reefs are wonderful for aquatic growth and fishery support. It had its day but in 2024 it's nothing but scrap shaped like a ship. Now it can entertain (its purpose was to entertain passengers after all) divers for hundreds of years.
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  256. If one part fails the engine and perhaps the aircraft may be destroyed. Engines are interesting fun to work on because they're so demanding. Study how cooling air protects internal engine parts from heat which would otherwise melt them to slag. Jet fuel doesn't just "melt steel beams", it melts superalloys unless they're protected by an invisible and complex cooling air system which uses the (many, man tons) of air flowing through the engine.
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  257.  @Myatalanta-l4x  I'm biased against people who made the OBVIOUS choice to live in a location anyone with a decent grade (not even high school) school location was pants on head stupid. I worked hard for what I have and made sure to buy land wisely. No mountainous locations, minimal fire risk, not building in a flood plain, not living where a levee or a dam is the only thing keeping water from washing what I earned away etc didn't cost me a dime.
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  258. Zero pragmatic reasons exist to differ from successful, PROVEN construction methods a billionaire could easily afford. His passengers despite being educated men failed in their due diligence. Fools died but their example is a cautionary tale to others that the worst thing one can be is silly. The played a stupid game and won the prize.
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  259. No, they don't. That's a myth because they'd get the sale either way, Small businesses can include the fees in all prices and customers will never notice. It's when they do silly sheet like having cash discounts etc that customers start doing the math. Smart small businesses (including individuals at flea markets etc) make the effort to take plastic. A USB card reader is dirt cheap.
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  260. DUI should mean a permanent ban from ALL public employment, local, federal and military. Drunk drivers don't care who they kill and are fundamentally irresponsible.
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  261. Omnissiah will understand.
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  262. That near-gibberish absurdly generalized comment reads like ChatGPT drivel and lacks specifics. "Relevance" to what precisely? Why did you post such vague nonsense? Everything idiot boy did wrong was already exhaustively understood by the engineering talent who designed Alvin and other submersibles. I defy you to list anything of value from this clown show except as an object lesson not to be stupid and vain.
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  263. Seems 1956 is forgotten. Hungarians embracing their former oppressors suggests traitors are dominant.
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  264. M113 FOV hulls are aluminum alloy, mostly 5083. The alloy armor was tested and found more effective for the weight used than steel. APCs were a fundamentally bad idea since their light armor made them dangerous while their cross-country mobility coerces their use in AFV roles.
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  265. Worse than my ex-mother-in-law on a hot day.
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  266. Government responds to voters and voters don't care about individual issues, voters just vote by party and rarely engage politicians. The public complain but most never even email their congressperson.
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  267.  @bobmcnelis3648  I worked Phantoms at Moody and would rather have worked Skyhawk. Avionics on F-4s was more work than engines on Vipers. Tough birds though.
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  268. Russia is Hungary's natural ally despite the 1956 mistake fomented by the CIA. Hungary should leave NATO and the EU to be free of US domination. Hungary does not need the secularist, anti-traditional anti-religious EU for anything. It's future is with its Russian friends and its general opposition to the EU does nothing useful for that group either. Separation is best for all concerned.
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  269. Her VOTERS think she does. Democracy ensures voters get exactly what the deserve however hilarious to spectators.
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  270.  @bostonrailfan2427  People are punished for getting caught. Many a fragging was never solved if we want a land-based comparison.
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  271. Now I want to find that classic.
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  272. Europe should be restoring its navies to Cold War levels. Order requires control of the sea which like everything else Europe supposedly values was neglected to save money. This is primarily a European and Asian problem because the US does not depend on this trade for national survival (economic disruptions would provoke all the right things like insourcing and new trading partners perhaps in the undeveloped parts of the Americas). Europe and Asia should pay to solve it.
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  273. The worst drawback of club life isn't what most outsiders imagine. It's internal politics, not major drama. It's about rules and strict conformity, not freedom. Your uncle was wise.
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  274. Yes, because competent combined arms forces will have anti-drone systems that work. Backwater poor countries like Russia and Ukraine use what they can get and that is not the same thing.
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  275. There is no excuse for failure to say ANTI-JUDAISM instead of "anti-Semite" which ignores every other Semite. To imply no other peoples are Semites is ethnicist and racist. Of course no one in TYT management reads the comments and this insulting error will not be corrected. Precise speech matters.
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  276. The solution to that is parts get paid for in advance with labor due on completion. We did that in the motorcycle business for many years. If your customers can't pay you have the wrong customers. Fixing commercial fleets and specialty work is the way to go.
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  277. That's not how it works. Consulting Norway and being Norway are as different as watching an aircraft fly by vs. building aircraft from scratch. Consultants are typically hired to tell their employers what they want to be told. Consultants are hired as affirmation dispensers to validate policies the client wants validated.
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  278.  @sugandesenuds6663  Why does taking money make a person bad but if they perform the exact same actions for free or as a member of a national service it's fine? Life is cheap and war is a necessity which is why humans evolved to wage it well.
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  279. It's no accident most of those states really are educationally therefore culturally backward. Centuries of adult choices by the voters are not accidents, they're INTENTIONAL. Another problem is importing even more helpless people. When the lifeboat is full the choice is row away or founder. New York is an interesting case because people really can leave the metro area but everyone seems to think they're the proverbial "temporarily embarrassed millionaire". Being wise than them I left decades ago. Not everyone should want to live where their situation WILL NOT get better. BTW you make good points on trade schools! My comfortable life is thanks to learning multiple trades (the more technical the better). The US neglecting trades education is why trades pay off, and seniority in trades is a major edge because experience is irreplaceable!
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  280. Gaza have the option to surrender but they prefer to hide among civlians. They built tunnels with construction aid, build Qassams with water pipe, and their civilians helped because massive projects requiring collective effort don't happen by magic.
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  281. She has to actually break a law and she was elected.
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  282. Nothing was fine. Reasons do not exist to want that hull design because proven designs have existed for decades. Reasons do not exist to build manned deep diving submersibles without testing to the same safety margins as military submarines.
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  283. Displaying pattern recognition is haram.
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  284. Having seen Western moral collapse, Beijing wish to avoid a similar fate.
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  285.  @ryelor123  That presumes the cargo will liquify and escape quickly enough to pose a problem.
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  286. If you consider people to be your enemies the best thing they can do for all concerned is leave. Not being part of Baton Rouge means no influence there which completely frees residents of "new" Baton Rouge to fix everything wrong with that city. Mr. Martin should be delighted.
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  287. Define "worked" as the issues in play are very complex.
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  288. SA and the US do not need each other in any way so separation is progress, especially for SA which can avoid interacting with the racist US.
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  289. Opiates have one extremely compelling medical use for which there is no substitute, pain mitigation. Areas without accessible medical care now as in the past have no choice (quite like my late friend who was too poor for insurance and eventually OD'ed on street fentanyl which he was NOT doing for pleasure) but to do what allows people to function. That's a generally ignored but important aspect of the opiate trade. BTW my late friend deceased in upstate New York. He was in agony from getting rear-ended ended while stopped at an intersection which ruined his life (chronic pain means no useful sleep and opiates do not promote REM sleep). The problem of pain management is far more critical than recreational use by addicts, but gets near zero press coverage because it's insufficiently dramatic.
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  290. DOES IT WORK? What are the MEASURED outcomes? It would be interesting to know the actual results.
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  291. No, that is a CUSTOM which is not the same thing.
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  292. I have a variety of Tektons as does my bro. We use them hard and often in self-service salvage yards and like them. Both of us ran and outfitted USAF toolrooms and have decades of experience with a wide and always growing variety of tools for our personal shops; I would buy anything Tekton makes as they're good value and take abuse well.
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  293. Most of the bridge weight was on the channel bed not the ship which only supported the short section severed by demolition. That's why the bridge section to which it was attached didn't drop much.
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  294. Make the penalty for escape life without parole.
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  295.  @evilemuempire9550  That's quite true though the boredom doesn't mean there is nothing to do, just nothing interesting to do. Policing any base and keeping it orderly is vital to field hygiene, sanitation and having a safe comfortable work area. EEFI (Essential Elements of Friendly Information) can be deduced from unclassified sources (an important reason for field trash disposal by fire but that's incredibly toxic to personnel so other methods of destruction are being pursued.)
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  296. If we knew the background of those "juveniles" it might be easier to help them, but that's a SECRET.
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  297. Preventing a NeoSoviet respawn attempt with a bonus of (for a change from idiotic futile constabulary operations attempting to inflict secular democracy on permanently unwilling hosts) fighting for real secular democracy while spending couch money is a fantastic bargain. The idea the Cold War ever ended is as delusional as the idea Russia somehow became tradcon (Lenin's shrine and much more argue otherwise). Russia is the permanent Asiatic enemy of European civilization and secular democracy worldwide. It is desperately important to delude contrarian dimwits to believe otherwise, and simple people are easy to manipulate by affirmation. Russia is guilty of spawning the entire global Left (the real Left). Russia helped inflict nearly every US and NATO military casualty since WWII. Russian history is literally nothing but savage attacks on Europe of which it is not culturally part. This war is necessary, strategically wise, and dirt cheap especially compared to GWoT futile nonsense to which ignorants compare it. Russia will not fall, but its empire can further shrink and because the Kremlin is a violent toxic master it alienated every nation and people it invaded. Ask anwhere from Finland south if in doubt.
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  298. What does the contract INCLUDE? This may be incredibly difficult for those outside aviation to understand but aircraft require long term maintenance, support, spare parts and more. It's not like Bubba buying a bass boat.
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  299. Hollywood is exactly like him, ghey and insane. He'll find rich friends....
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  300. Attrition happens. In ancient times (ancient retired multi-AFSC maintainer here) when the Air Force planted roughly a squadron's worth of tactical airframes (from a much larger fleet) the Safety folks accurately predicted loss quantities and causes. What they can't predict is WHICH birds buy the proverbial farm.
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  301. Rich people problems. People want infrastructure but infrastructure requires space, just like the original bridge. They should certainly be compensated for not only fair market value but the cost of relocation.
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  302. Which Lebanese group? Lebanon is lines on a map drafted by Europeans and the area is too divided to be governable. There is no single Lebanese people nor was there ever, just the usual tribalism.
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  303. Buying requires money, downloading requires bandwidth. Backup provides data security. If your entertainment is only entertainment that time is wasted because it can be spent improving your knowledge and useful skills like DIY (which pays as well as every task you no longer pay someone else to do).
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  304. Who taught them to blame externalities? Choosing to make things worse is not an adult response to anything.
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  305. The law of unintended consequences is strong in this one. OTOH it does encourage technical literacy. Users cannot be identified reliably by their device because all the can be spoofed. This will encourage technical literacy so it's not a total waste.
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  306.  @MrErizid  You don't need to be "rich" to build a small home. Nobody NEEDS a McMansion and small affordable homes are easy to have built when you own the land. I don't care what 90% of other people do because most people are silly. I bought ag-zoned acreage with run-down old buildings on it (were it bare I'd have placed a workshop and lived in that like my uncle did while he build his dream home) then built what I wanted at the pace I wanted. This is surprisingly common in areas where people don't choose to be helpless for life.
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  307. A video on Russian sortie generation and aircraft combat turn concepts in theory and practice would be fascinating. They seem to be flying very low sortie rates (else the war would have ended a while back) but generating effective combat sorties is the very purpose of an air force.
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  308.  @congerthomas1812  The common person hates education but knows every football stat or what their favorite influencer had for breakfast. Ignorance is a choice and an incredibly costly one considering its social and political impact.
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  309.  @totogogocc5526  You nailed it. The problem was obvious before WWII.
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  310.  @markmilitant  Not hard for me becase it used to be expected for young men to go seek their fortune not rot in their home town no matter how nice it was. My parents planned wisely since the whole point of making one's living in the metro area used to be cashing out then getting as far away as practical to affordable, peaceful space with lower crime, less traffic and vastly lower taxes. They followed my example and retired comfortably many states away. O
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  311. The real solution is get rid of zoos. Animals belong in nature, not jail. Zoos like circuses need to go away. Anyone wanting to see anything can do so via computer.
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  312. That would be the intelligent way to do the job if access could be got to the pumping station or other access point, but doing that without workers knowing about it would be problematic since oil industry folk aren't generally idiots.
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  313. No lube is a (repeated) maintenance failure. Grease should be applied (unless tech data otherwise directs, that caveat would matter but I've not seen nor heard of same in decades fixing fighters ) until it displaces old grease out the pin/trunnion interface.
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  314. Just a continuation of the old Soviet efforts under another flag, and a very old strategy. Since only very old people know anything about the first part of the Cold War because firstly we lived it and second it's not pop culture entertainment it's easy for Putinist shills to believe pro-Putinist assertions especially those affirming their existing ideology. Defunding Russian Federation efforts by reducing their local military footprints is an affordable tactic for Ukraine. I find the proud Russian responses so detached from reality quite refreshing because they're just like the early Cold War. They conveniently disremember how containment worked out the first time against a vastly larger and wealthier USSR + Warsaw Pact whose residents know what Russian rule is like by experience so they aid Ukraine today. Russia is interesting in that Muscovite rule doesn't improve the lives or economic status of the conquered but the opposite (which is why Ukrainians fight for self-determination). Russian supporters today cannot imagine why (now much more prosperous) eastern Europe doesn't miss being drained of resources or having its economies managed by a hostile occupier who had to build a physical wall to keep people from fleeing to the West and shot those who didn't move quickly or stealthily enough. I served in West Germany on the free side of the Berlin Wall (and quite enjoyed it, Germans in the 1980s were delightful hosts) so no speculation needed. Watching the USSR implode due to inability to run its economy and subsequent consensual evaporation of the Warsaw Pact alliance was quite satisfying. The same corruption gutted Russian Federation military sustainment and saved Ukraine, and Kremlin purging of Russian military reformers ensured incompetent battlefield performance including the disastrous failure to seize Kiev in the first days of the war. I don't fixate on casualties however since Russian military losses have no home front impact that matters being mostly from non-Muscovite regions whose losses strengthen Kremlin advantage over them. Westerners should remember Moscow is the center of gravity and non-Muscovite losses are a feature in Kremlin planning not a bug, removing fighting age males who might otherwise pose a threat like Chechen rebels once did before Kadyrov pragmatically sold out. Putin's dollar store desert storm failing to capture it's smaller neighbor will go on a while, but like Afghans wearing out the British, Russians and Americans (Afghans are a tough lot) time is on Ukraine's side. I never expected to see Finland join NATO or Sweden even consider it, or for lazy Europe to rearm after mistakenly gutting its forces when it hallucinated the eternal eastern threat was no more. Containment took from 1945 to ~1992 and the cultural basis for conflict is permanent.
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  315. Sounds like the US needs to REinvest in (grossly) neglected capabilities preferably before our forces lose blood, treasure and quite possibly battles due to political leadership neglect (including everyone who declines to make a stink for career reasons!). Question for Sal, what would you like to see their REPLACEMENTS incorporate? That speed alone is a liability sailing against opposition. Being three vessels deep in a key capability is not a good look. How many and what configuration (to be loss tolerant) should the US consider? We cannot expect not to lose vessels. The post-WWII honeymoon ended with the cheap missile and drone age for which our most likely opponent builds many of the parts. (Fun fact, the US trade deficit with the country owned by the CCP is vastly greater than their entire war budget.)
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  316. Avoid the marriage trap.
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  317. Nothing is sillier than risking your life to play in water, because most of the world is covered with it. There is zero need to go to a failed narcostate merely for fun. The victims made the desperately naive mistake of thinking they have rights outside the US. No one NEEDS to go to Mexico except diplomatic personnel or others who are issued or can afford a PSD for protection. CA has no shortage of surf and keeping your money at home supports many small businesses who are struggling in today's economy. If you want to play overseas Australia is a fine option.
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  318. The US didn't leave SAMs this time (there being no reason to do so) and the rest of the gear is obsolete like HMMWV junk light trucks. It has symbolism to Bubba but the US has no need for that gear which is why it got FMSed in the first place. JLTV is the replacement for HMMWV and remedies the faults of a weak NATO liaison vehicle never intended for direct combat and very bad at surviving attack (as demonstrated from Mogadishu to present day).. I actually DO remember and have studied both wars. Operation Cyclone was a bargain against the Soviet Union and carried out by competent operatives. What should never have happened is "nation building" which is a direct assault on local culture hence doomed to failure.
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  319. EVERYONE? You mean the lost, clue-averse and voluntarily helpless who blame their own failures on externalities while they fail to improve their personal competence. Meanwhile those who choose not to be ignorant can easily do fine. It's easy to drive inexpensively but requires (shock, horror!) putting in work to do for yourself instead of paying other ordinary people to do what most anyone can learn. It's easy not to live in expensive areas when you have a lifetime to break free. It's easy (and fun) to continuously learn useful skills instead of wasting time on useless trifles.
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  320. The voters knew what they wanted and I'm proud of them for getting what they chose at the ballot box.
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  321. False accusations should carry the same punishment as the crime and more.
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  322.  @hyren690  A TRULY remorseful person would EMBRACE their punishment and not lift a finger to shorten their sentence. They would be grateful to be punished for their adult choice to sin. Drunks have no excuse. They chose to be drunk. Don't drink. I don't. Not hard.
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  323. The health care situation is not only separate, but the US spends MORE for health care than nations with better outcomes due to insurance companies and drug companies running the medical industry. The DoD is not at all why. Lobbying is but that's an emotionally attractive meme which the people REALLY responsible for expensive health care like for-profit hospitals benefit from maintaining.
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  324. Video is useless without context. Newark is the hood, not Gaza. Was he perhaps active against gangs? Were there internal quarrels? Was there money involved?
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  325. Stay off the property and it's not a problem. It wasn't an "eyesore" when it was operating. The supposed problems are not well explained by the video. What SPECIFIC issues are there and why does a cave-in roof matter?
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  326. Business as usual in Jersey and why I escaped long ago.
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  327. It's been that way many more years than it hasn't. Compared to the 1970s today is cake. Best to search places you may potentially afford to retire in for as many years as practical. The best way is to live there so I did.
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  328. It's way easier than silly dramas make it look. I learned from my (rich because he was so good to customers they brought their relatives) boss how easy just being polite makes most repos. We had customers bring back what they couldn't finish paying for and instead of wanting the balance my boss accepted the vehicle back and told them he'd been through hard times too so not to be shy about coming back when they can try again.
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  329. I would never support human suffering by adding more humans to suffer. Pets can be quite reasonable if their owner isn't crazy and is an ethical steward of their animals. Some like my chickens make delicious eggs which are a net profit for me vs buying expensive tasteless store eggs.
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  330. Making life miserable for homeowners by blocking the road and making noise.
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  331. Russia is proficient at granular abandonment of many things from armor to its own troops. It couldn't be bothered to casevac!
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  332. ^Someone gets it. The war has been of immense strategic advantage to the West but few of the public can tell you the difference between strategy and tactics. The Soviet empire mostly joined NATO. Putin drove Finland and Sweden to apply which is a major strategic loss ensuring NATO control of the Baltic. Russia has always been a strategic threat to Turkey who now have a famous aerospace industry whose reputation is built...killing Russians.
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  333. Great way to isolate the centers of those blocks from rapid emergency responders, logistics and construction vehicles. Cities are not static and even if every pedestrian walked that doesn't move heavy objects.
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  334. You mean about five decades. Check the signatures on NAFTA to see where the money went and still goes.
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  335. How about actual CONTENT? Fire the intern who composed this video.
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  336. Both stores specialize in crap no one needs and if they want it they can order via internet vs wasting time and money and vehicle wear fighting traffic. What many forget is how much of the US economy relies on wasteful consumerism. Brick and mortal retail doesn't get my tasks finished quicker. If I have to spend a half hour each way plus search time plus waiting in line that deprives me of time I can usefully apply to other tasks. Home Depot and Lowes are doing fine because they sell what people need to repair and maintain our homes.
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  337. Jammers may themselves fly. Jammers need not be man-carried. Jammers can be mass-produced.
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  338. Not at all because GOP voters overwhelmingly approve. It doesn't matter what actually happens. Politics is theater.
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  339. That's why I do (all) my own maintenance. I've saved so much I can buy any tool I want then keep that tool for life. It's easier than ever to learn (I started long before the internet) with videos while online shopping and delivery means far less physical shopping at brick and mortar stores.
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  340. Flip tip dealer style: I worked for one who never technically "financed" but charged X price then took payments. That completely gets around finanicial regs because you are simply NOT financing (lending money at interest). If you set up a small dealership but with ample storage for auction buys and organ donors that does not come under "salvage" permitting rules because you never sell parts to the public (and I do mean never because Uncle Sugar loves taxes). Then after you've stripped out your donor vehicles and have the usual 100 car minimum you call in a portable crusher to get paid for the scrap at the time of your choosing. Call the cat buyer first because they pay cash off the books and do all the removals. Never store cats where outsiders know their location. The shop did their own repos but they didn't have to do many because the owner told buyers he knew life happens so if they returned a car they could not pay off he wouldn't dun them for the rest of the debt but would sell them another ride when they got on their feet. He had GENERATIONS of customers from the same families.
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  341. If so-called Christians led by righteous example they would truly honor the Bible they supposedly love.
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  342. You can run liability only or self-bond in many states.
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  343. Herringbone gears doing what they do best, limit lateral loads. Slick and classic machinery design. Straight cut gears would be cheaper but not last near as long. Those boxes are really elegantly designed and executed.
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  344.  @vjrei  None of these immigrants are from the Middle East, they are from the Americas. They are not leaving in response to any US military action. They fled their own misgovernment but don't let facts stop you. Interestingly the immigrants from countries the US did invade tend to work out well because they have Muslim self-discipline, a trait unknown in Central and South America whose cultures are all economic failures.
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  345. Police and good citizens should have left forty years ago. Move to a red state where we don't hate police. CA needs to enjoy its VOTERS choices.
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  346.  @JamesCat-qx6sb  I'm near Manning and did the same while my taxes are cheap. I'm a mechanic so not only do I not want a new car, I despise working on them and refuse to own what I cannot personally maintain. SC has many folks like ye and me. Even my disabled bros managed to buy cheap land, drop in a used singlewide then DIY over time to upgrade and add outbuildings.
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  347. BTW a flap disc can make very shallow, flat cuts on surfaces like that exhaust port. (They can also deglaze flywheels.) Every mechanic should have an oxy-acetylene torch but for some reason moderns (unafraid of cooking or grilling!) seem afraid of them. OA cuts, torch bends, shrinks, flame straightens beams, gouges, brazes, solders and as we see here washes off your nuts. I usually use longer torches for that sort reach/obstacle situation or use a heating tip if the cutting head is too bulky. While a good combo torch is ample for most mechanics, used high quality (need not be pretty) US-made torches go cheap and the longer your torch the further away your hands and torch body can be from the work.
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  348. The moral of the story is don't move to a high growth area because growth INEVITABLY ruins everything you move there for. Don't buy too much house. Don't buy in dangerous weather areas (if it gets many hurricanes, don't live there). BUY A HOME TO LIVE IN, not to resell. This will profit you MORE over time by lower expenses. My lower class income (under 70K net/year) due to being crippled isn't a problem because I bought a home in a cheap area with several acres then easily (because it's a small single storey old ranch) because it needed work which my wife did most of personally (ANYONE can DIY so do it!) while I brought home the bacon in the Air Force. When you live in an area zoned agricultural you get much more freedom and no HOA plus few neighbors. We planned all this because the best way to win is not be a lemming. MANY Americans do this but we don't make the news.
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  349. Move to a RURAL area.
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  350.  @Boris82  Why should your concept of property apply outside your lands laws? Their land is not yours therefore they've no reason to welcome cultural invaders. Every such culture that did got destroyed or enslaved then destroyed.
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  351.  @iangreenhalgh9280  Source for the Ukrainian diesel situation? Russian logistics vehicles have entertained arty and drone operators by burning throughout this war and Russian expedient commandeering of civilian vehicles is famously photogenic...
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  352. That Jeep ain't rusted out and the pans are an easy fix so a frame-off complete scatter and overhaul makes PERFECT SENSE. There are tons of driveline options but what's there is fine in real life. The three day idea is bound to have issues vs. getting your buddy to do the same thing with you in your nice nearly empty shop). If you really want to speedrun the build it would be wise to buy everything in advance so there will be no waiting , and don't forget replacing the electrical system because that mistake bites even veteran wrenches in the butt.
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  353. Your lack of social interaction is in fact by choice because you have agency. That's fine but too many people who choose to be socially unlearned (social skills are learnt, not innate) demand their co-workers return to office for such selfish reasons.
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  354.  @delallegood5799  Those characteristics define Russian culture under every ruler, which has a surprising amount to do with the geography of a large, lightly populated empire of many subjugated peoples.
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  355. Sell and leave for freedom! Condos are a scam and you can buy land with detached housing in GA or SC cheap. I did and love it.
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  356. Because of course they know Haley is Lesley Graham in a skirt.
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  357. Utter border defense fail. The lessons learned report will be an embarassment.
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  358. Because manned bugsmashers are obsolete in nation-state war and drones are a far better deal for any war due to not requiring CSAR (watch Bat 21 for a famous CSAR disaster which would not have happened had drones been available), vastly lower sortie costs and much more rapid development cycles. The US provided disposable manned birds to A-stan because it suited their primitive needs which are drastically different from US needs. Turboprops cannot be stealthy because of the props radar signature and MANPADS keep improving as Russia found out the hard way.
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  359. Their idea of professionalism is not the same as Western ideas of how to run an air force which is a bit more complex and demanding than it looks from outside. They're ideal for classic offensive actions like those led by T.E. Lawrence but an air force requires many, many technically adept troops whose training and practice maintain their skills. Those countries could consider minding their own internal business, but if they were smart they'd not be weak and frequently incompetent.
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  360. Brazil is not a stable partner. Nothing below the US/Mexico border is stable. Tucano is fine to hand to client nations who are going to lose them anyway, but not for long term US use.
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  361.  @LeoMetalTraveler  Not ideologically. Replacing mere buildings in an era when construction was easy should not be overrated.
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  362.  @icerwby  Precisely HOW do YOU AssUme THAT flight was actually for THAT purpose? Military background CV please TYVM. Your wording doesn't sound military.
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  363. NATO bridging equipment can sort that and if both tanks are sent then used appropriately the combined firepower would have greater effect. Where tank weight is an issue they can be used defensively until opportunity offers itself. US forces crossed Euphrates and other rivers with little fuss. It's a solved problem if the right systems are sent.
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  364. They fly very different roles at very different costs. A-10 was a flak sponge back in Desert Storm where I worked next to them at KKMC. This is 2024 not 1974.
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  365. That was PURE recovery operator error. It wouldn't be the first vehicle jacklegs who think they bought a brain with their truck ruined. Teslas do NOT have conventional frames. The AAA towing guide professionals know to use cover how to tow everything and of course Tesla publish instructions (I just checked). That car should have gone on a rollback which is what most modern tow operators run. Plenty of vehicles can go on the stinger or wheel lift but not that one.
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  366. Why go at all? What motivates Americans to enter lesser countries?
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  367. Fast food is luxury food but McD's is nasty. Americans can eat healthier cooking for ourselves.
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  368. SC has plenty of property for those choosing wisely. That's one reason I like it here. Rural lots are still easy to find outside cities.
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  369. Educated men failed at the most basic due diligence because they permitted themselves to think like children. Rush had more than enough money to copy successful designs, but he chose to beta test with other fools. It is arguable given prior record that every one of them was grossly negligent. They were educated accomplished people who forgot plot armor isn't real.
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  370. You need to MOVE. I moved for far less. The US is a mobile society and that means you can have distance given some planning.
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  371.  @ryanjg87  East Germany's Berlin Wall was to keep people IN and prevent them from escaping. Those who fled were shot and and sometimes killed. I served in West Germany during the early half (it never ended) of the Cold War. The free half of Germany were delightful hosts and welcomed their fellow escaping Soviet rule in the Warsaw Pact.
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  372.  @Westcoast3d2a  Study nuclear warfare deterrence theory. Russia doesn't have 500 major cities so a countervalue strike still ends it.
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  373. The unvaccinated are keeping lifeworthy patients from getting care. If you object to science, you should walk the walk and decease at home.
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  374. They have nothing in common. Why do people who haven't a clue about either system have opinions?
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  375.  @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER  The 90s is when I saw "J.B Hunt party hats" graffiti on a truck stop condom machine.
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  376. If we are considering the impact of colonization remember that Islamic invaders arrived long before there even was a British empire and many affected peoples objected and object. See also Iran where Persians were conquered by Islamists and suffer to this day. Religious wars last centuries flaring up and receding.
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  377. Anyone who failed to convert away from home heating oil DECADES ago had it coming. The OPEC crisis should have been a hint and that was half a century ago.
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  378. Why do you imagine those are competing priorities rather than being an enormous tech industry and research boon?
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  379.  @greg7811  Contentment is found in wisdom, not in making others rich.
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  380. I left the metro area in 1981. The future was obvious then but people prefer to play silly games so they win silly prizes. That's their right but they should not object to the future they chose.
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  381. Indigenous Europeans matter as much as any indigenous people, but most have been turned docile by social programming. Remember that you do not have to be a sheep and there is no healthy logic to support current anti-indigenous European policies. Anti-indigenous policies are the product of over a century of subversion by the Left. That Left thrive under mistaken tolerance the public are free to unite against. You owe nothing to cultural enemies. Cultures not willing to compete will be destroyed which is why subsversives teach submission.
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  382. Good for you The general concerned should have stayed in his lane but at least he's not in charge of ground wars.
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  383.  @truehappiness4U  Better yet, only admit the rich and educated and COMPEL them to integrate or FORCE them to leave what never belonged to them in the first place. They have their own countries and should fight for them like Islamists do for theirs.
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  384. Do you prevent them from eating songbirds (cats are invasive species) and have them spayed/neutered so they do not continue damaging the environment by making more excess predators? Good stewardship respects all animals.
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  385. Who told you science was marketable? How did you come to that conclusion or sustain is as a scientist who presumably lives in a world of cold logic and pragmatic reason?
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  386. Reinvent the INDUSTRY? Smells like an advertisement however good the product. BTW the government used to have a much larger in-house arsenal system but that didn't pump enough money into Wall Street...
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  387. Toxic hoods are toxic by choice of the humans who make them toxic. The only escape from bad people is to leave, but while we have refugees who walk or swim to another country for a new start far too many Americans cling to the doomed sh1thole they were raised in for zero good reason. Scrape it off and beat feet if you want a better life. That's been a US urban tradition since before we had cars but some folks are just too weak to walk away. There is nothing about the NY metro area worth staying for unless you are very, very rich, so I bolted long ago. Only gentrification can fix toxic hoods by breaking them apart because only dispersal weakens toxic groups. That awkward truth makes people who emotionally bond to a sinking ship unhappy, but it is what it is. The Bronx has been a bad place longer than anyone reading this has been alive.
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  388. Bones aren't people and their disturbance does not affect the deceased so why pretend it does? Everyone dies.
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  389. Yes, it always has been but was a better place when the Mafia ran most of it.
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  390.  @neila7169  He knew he could defect and request protective measures from any important Western government, the UK or US being obvious examples. It's easy to disappear someone who cooperates. He wasonly easy to find because he made himself easy to find.
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  391. Sane celebrities should stay as as far away from young people as practical. For example smart rappers have their crew filter the waterfall of thots and some have them sign consent forms because NO ONE can be trusted. Anyone who wants to get personally close to a celeb wants money, fame or sex, there being no other logical motives. Guilty or not guilty it's utterly stupid not to curate who you allow in your space.
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  392. I grew up long before the internet and much prefer today. As for electronic reading material I sail the high seas for that as I owe our rich masters nothing.
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  393. That's not a problem for Trump. To his supporters Trump outranks Jesus.
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  394. Don't pay until a job is complete and inspected. If you cannot get those conditions do not deal with that contractor.
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  395. All complex systems operate at some level of dysfunction. Inspection and maintenance are easy and tempting for unprofessional management to ignore, even basic work if there aren't enough personnel who know how to do it right and/or specialty parts, tools and equipment. 2025 is a long way from 1991 when the USSR dissolved by mutual consent after the Warsaw Pact voluntarily dissolved. Without an empire to serve it (including the industrial might of Ukraine) and looted by its own leadership, funding and human resources have been severely constrained since. Mansions in London don't buy themselves. A senior technician of 1991 is an old man or deceased in 2025. Complex system operation and maintenance has many aspects not taught in books, especially how to keep systems going without ideal support. Not everyone can SAFELY bodge tired systems to get more use from them. Learning those skills is based on experience and mentoring. (That's also why defense industries like shipbuilding take many years to reconstitute to high quality performance levels.)
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  396. Learn how fires work. Fast burning grasses and brush light off quickly while trees unless densely packed are more difficult to ignite. Most homes ignite from fire impinging the bottom of siding and walls. No mystery at all but people refuse to take hardcore precautions because they foolishly like plants as decoration.
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  397. Growth is bad because the area was overcrowded sixty years ago. The tax base can be fixed by taxing the rich corporations who are the problem in the first place and require NYC offices because of location.
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  398. They would lose. The Egyptian military is a jobs program, a business and a way to control the Egyptian people. Egypt has no external enemies that matter. Egypt has no power projection, no suitable logistics, and the distance is much too far.
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  399. Were they civilian workers or exceptionally wetoddid Airmen? Normally the red line IS the red line and there is no "too close" so something or more than one was off if that went as described. SecFor can respond quicker from their usual ground locations so where were those troops?
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  400. The brass have exactly what they enabled.
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  401. You seem confused about the geography and players. Syria is not Lebanon is not Gaza. There's a lot going on.
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  402. Those neighborhoods ARE the criminals.
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  403.  @comradeurod9805  That isn't what breaks fighters for the most part. They're interesting systems and most wear is anticipated but a consequence of high performance, like engine hot section parts. Modern fuel controls generally ensure the operator won't hurt the engine but making that much thrust at competitive weight means parts wear out much faster than on airlifters.
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  404.  @mandatorym_y_o_c_a_r_d_i_t_i_s  There are MANY red state communities glad to have them with room for more! Business owners in CA should learn there is money to be made on the east coast especially in the affordable southeast where many new Mexican, Indian and Asian restaurants and other businesses revitalize dying old mill towns and everyone wins. Staying in high cost CA is leaving money on the table.
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  405. If you make big money send them to out of state boarding schools. Public education in the US is something to escape..
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  406. SSI was not intended to be enough to live on, but reality is investing is far too complex for people of normal (low) intelligence and abilities. SSI was intended as a floor for those who failed at life but today that group is much larger with the displacement of wealth to the rich elites who own the country. The average American stopped learning in high school rendering them angry sometimes but politically incompetent. The French take Liberty seriously while Americans are conformist superstitious slaves by choice with predictable results.
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  407. The electricity waste alone is my dealbreaker. I'm far from rich but roughly half my income is discretionary. Meanwhile people making several times my income live hand to mouth.
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  408. Why would they when they're doubtless all criminals themselves and proud of it?
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  409.  @GeFlixes  True, but the US has a free press for very good reason. Sunlight is a fine disinfectant.
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  410. Democrat voters invited this.
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  411. += for your EPIC nick. I salute you good sir.
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  412.  @CHMichael  Those were mostly minor constabulary wars of choice in strategically irrelevant backwaters. The US has had zero peer or neer peer opponents but we're prone to leadership failures both political and military which lead to unwinnable conflicts or Pyrrhic victories of zero value to our public.
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  413. That's why I use kittens instead. They're free at the SPCA, absorbent, self-cleaning and make their own replacements.
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  414. Land basing is vastly more robust than any carrier most of whose systems exist to sustain it rather than put warheads on foreheads. When a runway takes a 2000lb bomb Civil Engineering fills the hole. When a carrier deck takes a 2000lb bomb the ship is disabled or worse.
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  415. Fools got what foolishness deserves and thanks to documentation every stupid mistake can educate others. Getting excited over a wreck that's already been done to death is goofy when perfectly good museum ships go begging for funds, but the public crave drama more than information.
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  416. New York always sucked. I'm 64 and left the metro area in the early 1980s. There are plenty of rural towns in Red states which are still the old USA and well worth serving then retiring in.
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  417. The German choice to embrace the permanent Asiatic cultural enemy of European democracy as an energy source was a betrayal and social treason by the (mostly Ossi) sellouts who adore Putin. Russian subversion is perhaps the one thing the Kremlin are consistently effective at and it shows, Germany will of course adapt as economic speedbumps aren't permanent but every energy policy which puts you at the mercy of your enemies is a terrible idea. That terrible idea isn't confined to Germany For example all the blood and treasure squandered by the US in the Middle East could have gone to energy independence rather than supporting the corrupt murderous journalist-dismembering House of Saud. Most petroleum resources are held by evil governments in fundamentally anti-democratic cultures. That's arguably worse than the pollution problems because it perpetuates evil, toxic sometimes genocidal regimes.
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  418.  @trollmastermike52845  Hydra are older than dirt and when used in combat it's rightly presumed the enemy will snag a few which malfunction. Not everything is exotic.
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  419. Water cooled MGs work fine for continuous fires for which they were designed. Firearms are such highly refined small machines there isn't much left to develop in mechanical terms and no air-cooled MG can sustain the same ROF without burning out barrels.
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  420.  @CursedAmbition  Urban areas are bad (all of them) and they get worse (all of them). Condo owners "own" a tiny piece of property they cannot CONTROL. Bad idea and it was such an obvious scam I never fell for it.
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  421.  @orion7741  WHERE do you work and on what? Wrenching cars in most places is a race to the bottom.
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  422. Why would hatches and everything else not be completely secured in port every time? What special kind of idiocy would defer that action until a vessel was underway? Have regs changed to address that? The only possible non-excuse might be the labor involved. Can anyone clarify?
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  423. The more to feed the dandelions and while Russians are infinitely expendable they require equipment and vehicles which are not. We already see them immobile in their trenches (Telegram not Youtube is the place for that and it's quite amusing) too cold to dodge airdropped frags. They're not dressed for this venture.
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  424. That comment is more based than their videos.
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  425. Jock sniffers are a global phenomenon. People who are not intelligent have no frame of reference to imaging being intelligent, but anyone can imagine being stronger. I respect those who make money from sports because that is their purpose, to entertain for profit, but sports fans are beneath my respect.
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  426.  @ssl3546  Technicality is one thing, but reasonable presumption based on reality is another. The fix is legislation banning ALL alcohol consumption after an incident UNTIL the person has been tested. Being a drunk is a choice not a need and there is no excuse for wanting booze shortly after an incident except to conceal prior booze consumption. Humans are a scurvy lot who must be monitored and credibly threatened with harsh punishment to keep malefactors in line. That has never been different nor can it be. Trust but verify and leave no place to hide.
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  427. Their VOTERS elected them so in fact they are. Their voters aren't the brightest lot so why don't they deserve to get what they made the INFORMED ADULT CHOICE to vote for? The PUBLIC did this. The public will continue to vote Democrat just as I continue to be amused by their choices.
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  428.  @truthteller5521  Upstate is beautiful, has less traffic by far and much more room. Still expensive compared to other states but not a bad deal by east coast standards. Upstate was where the NYC wealthy had their summer estates since the 1800s to escape the crowding, smog and crime of the city. It's a different better world like rural parts of any other state in the Northeast.
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  429. Assad is out but there are many contenders so I expect conflict to resume after a short period of confusion.
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  430. That warning needs repeating. There is zero reason to want to live in a city unless that makes you personally rich. Why did you stay? You had decades to see the future just like me. The future was obvious fifty years ago.
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  431. Stugna has advantages over both especially remote launch capability. Javs are better mounted on vehicles due to size and awkwardness while NLAW is ideal for urban shoot and scoot. Horses for courses. Each is different.
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  432. Trucking school teaches drivers to stay in their lane when braking no matter what. Great job by the rescuers but he doesn't need to have a CDL.
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  433. Kissinger didn't order the bombing Cambodia nor was he even in position to command troops Please hire historically literate copy writers. The phrase "his bombing" is not ambiguous. He supported the policy during a global existential conflict with the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact and Maoist China. Mistakes were made but erring on the side of deleting Communists is no vice. Like it or not most of the policies he shaped were useful in stemming the expansion of Soviet and Maoist proxies in a war with global thermonuclear stakes. His generation saved Western culture and secular democracy from Soviets and Maoists.
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  434. Apartments are individually owned structure and have ALWAYS had age issues in NYC because they are PRIVATE property. The solution is a wrecking ball because those old hulks were never built to last over a century.
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  435. Property taxes on NON-COMMERCIAL property are regressive. The Florida Homestead Exemption matters greatly.
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  436. Also remember LOCTITE ACTS AS ANTI-SEIZE by excluding moisture intrusion. It resists vibration too which is why I use red gel on my air compressor NPT threaded connections. Rust strips and breaks hardware.
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  437. India has lost thousands to Islamists. My respect to the Hindu nationalists especially because they understand the permanet Islamic threat.
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  438. FOMO buyers became FAFO buyers who are SOL.
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  439.  @arvypolanco  What is your conception of conscripts vs. professional maintainers and for how many years did you maintain combat aircraft? Not hatin', just curious to get other perspectives. "Conscript" does not mean less trained but inherently means less experienced. Any fighter can be maintained by conscripts (WWII airframes were far more labor intensive and engine work for example as or more complicated at field level) but optimal combat sortie generation benefits from professionals as a rule because their experience (maintenance is a perishable skill) does not require refresher training and working daily on the same airframes with the same people greatly facilitates speed and efficiency. For example US fighter units have troops with more time on training exercises and deployments than modern conscripts have in total service. Sweden doesn't need that level of experience for its deterrence missions making the Swedish model sufficient for flying safe missions to deter the Russian threat. Horses for courses. It would be a waste of money and humans for Sweden to damage its economy by over-militarization. (My background is avionics on Phantom and Bronco, F-16 engine troop and crew chief with Red X/IPI signoff orders on all systems, run qualified and the rest of the usual stuff. Time in CONUS, USAFE, Korea, Incirlik, KSA and Al Dhafra during Desert Shield/Storm. All huge fun I'd recommend to any young person including women as my wife was also a skilled CH-3. OV-10 and A-10 crew chief.)
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  440.  @eliot5220  You nailed it. What we do not own we can not control.
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  441. I thought he was guilty as hell but those speech patterns are carved in stone and should not be construed as deceptive.
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  442. Soviet Russia no longer exists because containment succeeded. Enough with those stupid memes. The former Warsaw Pact are quite vocal (Hungary excepted) about not wanting that era back. The Russian Federation could not carry the Soviet Union's jock strap.
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  443. Turtle tanks are a questionable way to transport troops riding desant since they ride between the predet shield and the tank hull. Instead of shooting at gaps, the first drones should hit where most troops ride desant. Infantry playing the role of rubber sheet in reactive armor may help save the hull by dying but die they will. What any success of turtle tanks indicates is lack of ATGW on the Ukrainian side.
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  444. Not strange when you know how powerful dealers are politically! They can afford to buy politicians and we have the finest governments money can buy!
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  445. With whose donations? Other museum ships go begging for donations as it is and every addition thins the donor pool further. How much are YOU prepared to donate? How much have YOU donated to other museum ships? People love spending other peoples money. It's just a relic, that era is dead and gone, and the remaining people who remember it will be likewise in the next couple decades. Ship preservation is staggeringly expensive. Now the sea will be its grave and divers can amuse themselves while marine life and fish thrive in their new artificial reef.
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  446.  @rebeccasantos1161  Sanctuary status is a choice by individual DEMOCRATIC mayors.
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  447. Leopards can comfortably carry ATGW and MANPADS with locally welded (simple work) mounts. Training time could be intensified by 12 hour shifts and no days off, easy stuff when one is not doing other unrelated military tasks. I would MUCH rather have German mechanics preparing my vehicle then some of the neglected Russian junk I've seen on video. (I'm a career jet mech and more so the details are obvious and fun to pick out.) Tanks are simple enough any real mechanic can quickly learn to work on them given tools and tech data. Were I in Ukrainian Leopard unit I'd want to carry ATGW for their sensors as much as their firepower and would seek to add supply racks (more easy welding) for extended operations in Fabian defense as well as offensive ops.
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  448. The containers on Dali are dry freight containers not tank containers. East Palestine was a train of liquid tank cars not ISO containers. One thing is not like the other. All HazMat would be listed on the ships cargo manifest so the contents are not some mystery. They are so listed so cargo can be appropriately distributed when container vessels are loaded. Image search "intermodal ISO tank container" for what tank containers look like, typically a rectangular ISO standard box frame suspending a cylindrical liquid tank in the center. The rail tank cars at East Palestine were a mix of types including DOT 111 tank cars which are old and in gradual phaseout.
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  449. I am not livestock. The world is grossly overpopulated and perpetual growth is foolish. Child-free here at 65 and wouldn't change a thing. There will always be plenty of breeders so I don't need to be one. Producing crotch fruit is not an accomplishment any more than my Golden Comets laying eggs.
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  450. Because Lebanon harbors an enormous Iranian-backed group of armed forces.
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  451.  @earlysda  Who are you to say they have no hope when their culture is older than yours by thousands of years?
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  452. Nice to see someone else gets it. The desperately naive and childish are not able to do that.
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  453. Until the public have ethical standards for who gets their vote this will continue and no mere party or administration can stop it.
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  454.  @tnoi  Housing is a finite resource so the more people competing for it the more expensive it gets.
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  455. Why do you imagine their motivation is anything but resentment of Russian military failure? Why do you imagine everyone who opposes Putin is not WORSE due to being more competent? Every one of those pols rose through the Russian system of government as predation.
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  456. The US Navy is simply too large and inert to reform. Remember every bad choice was made by senior leadership. EVERY choice had a human originating the idea and others refining it. The public over-trust the armed forces because military affairs are too complex for a single person to fully understand the system. Weight growth is a choice by senior uniformed leadership. They are not going to reform themselves. No possible SecDef could do it and no possible POTUS would have the decades of relevant experience.
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  457. Average IQ was always pretty sad. Intelligence is neurodivergent!
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  458. Wood is for furniture and bonfires. Any replacement should be of steel and concrete.
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  459.  @opensprings  Designers! They insist on overly complex systems which suck to maintain and repair. I'm a lifelong mechanic with much love for OLD, QUALITY German machines like the BMW Airheads I owned, but even with my free, skilled, competent labor and a capable home shop I don't see anything compelling about modern German vehicles and it appears I'm not alone.
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  460. However a dying battery can overload a charging system especially when it has a shorted cell. As a motorcycle mechanic (where batteries tend to be undersized for obvious reasons) I've seen that fairly often. I load test my batteries (load testers are cheap being basically a resistance wire, switch and meter) and marginal ones get recycled. Batteries are expensive but charging system parts are brutal and regulators/alternators never fail at a convenient time.
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  461. German cars are such garbage the used car lot I worked for refused to buy them even at cheap Copart prices. We did take them in trade after which the boss traded them with a local salvage for parts he needed.
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  462. How do you and your upvoters manage not to understand WHY Egypt keeps them out? Cairo does not need to import an outsider army. The first duty of a nation is to its own people. Look up Black September etc for why Cairo doesn't want to be a third front in that war.
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  463. People should stay with their own to build their own institutions, not run away where they do not belong. Africa needs motivated people to stay and make it strong.
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  464. Internet banking is adorable but I keep cash and paper checks because I predate the craving for convenience. I also use online services but those are compartmented (no debit cards, Visa can afford better lawyers than I!). I get paper statements so I've records in case of need. There really is no coldly pragmatic reason not to have multiple ways to access my money and what is not coldly pragmatic...is silly.
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  465. No adult would entertain such absurd fantasy but whatever floats your boat.
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  466. If it were "my home" I would have left decades ago. These old firetraps have been a plague on the Bronx since before anyone living was born. They should not exist. They are not designed to last centuries. They cannot be improved to last centuries and are not precious cultural artifacts any more than my garden shed. Laws should focus on gentrification because ONLY gentrification makes bad areas into good ones. Determine a reasonable age after which a building should be removed and replaced then give tax incentives etc to make it happen. NY real estate is worth enough to replace worn out buildings. NYC should look like Tokyo and other genuinely modern cities, not some movie set from the Great Depression (this building was erected two years before the market crash!).
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  467. Worth noting is the Soviet Union should never be confused with the Russian Federation, and that Federation lost its Warsaw Pact captive nations most of which joined NATO. Ukraine WAS (caps or emphasis) the industrial backbone of Soviet war production. Putin is doing his best Saddam Hussein imitation, demonstrating why civilians without either SPECIFICALLY RELEVANT military COMMAND experience or professional military education should not run their nation's wars but learn to delegate wisely.
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  468. In spring, summer and fall. Winters are an acquired taste but do look like the old postcards.
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  469. Humans without weapons or ability to command violence are slaves. BTW those interested in security have many, many hours of study ahead and remember nothing outside your personal computer is in your control. The best way to communicate info you want kept secure is NOT TO USE THE INTERNET.
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  470. Yemen was fighting the spectacularly incompetent so-called armed forces of Saudi Arabia whose nepotism and incompetence are famous among those tasked with attempting to train them. KSA has a culture of "face" which prohibits building competent forces (but not chopping up dissident reporters).
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  471.  @itrytobeanonymoustoo5289  You can escape it by locating in red states and (this is key) NOT in cities which in the US are intrinsically bad. The wise move is choosing an area with very slow or no growth and unified socially stable demographics, so I did.
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  472. Chinese social ethos were formed during Maoist era famines and the Western concept of quality never penetrated there (unlike Japan where W. Edwards Deming is a national hero).
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  473. I built and sold used cars for my bro and you are quite correct. People eagerly buy vehicles they don't need to impress people they don't really care about. Expensive phones are paid for via credit but adding them to the phone bill makes that seem painless when it's not IRL. (I buy used flagship phones opportunistically every five or so years.)
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  474.  @ray_donovan_v4  As a mechanic since the '70s I have zero use for any conventional RV because they're giant money toilets normally used a few years then parked to rot. When you drive your home and it needs work you're not equipped to to that forces your home into someone else's shop. RV money will either buy property or a nice chunk of one if the buyer chooses wisely. If I had to drive my home, say for road work like working industrial shutdowns etc I would at most buy a fifth wheel trailer and tow with one of my trucks which I can swap out easily, and likely refit a horse trailer as they're rugged and easily fit motorcycles (I don't believe in ever being one-deep on vehicles).
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  475.  @Noah-357  One people according to you or them?
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  476. You had life choices. What put you on the street? As a veteran I expect other vets to be better at life skills than neverserveds.
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  477. It would be horrific if anything of value was lost, but those deleted are no different from the rest.
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  478.  @SoloPilot6  So what? Eagles are far more capable. It's fine to like something that looks cool because it looks cool, but better to admit that's the only real reason. That extra engine is why F-15 pilots joke about single engined aircraft being an "in flight emergency" due to being shy an engine. When you operate over water as Air Defense must on the coasts being able to RTB on remaining engine is Very Nice. We caught one at KKMC during Desert Storm whose pilot shut down one engine near the Turkish border but easily made it to KKMC. Not everything is a desperate struggle to save money especially given the very long lives of most US airframes.
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  479. The US has a very long history of successful Ukrainian, Polish and Baltic immigration since the 1800s and there are many very old US communities where they fit in. They are fleeing NeoSoviet invasion like their predecessors fled Soviet and earlier Tsarist Russian invasion and misrule, but they are educated for the most part so they blend in well and most importantly do not try to CHANGE the US into a third world impoverished disaster. Too bad we cannot trade our lower classes for more of them. European immigration fueled US industrial growth since the 1800s. They are not a bunch of illiterate vodou worshippers.
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  480. The PUBLIC are who consume cannabis. What is legalized can be regulated. Black market product cannot. We already had the mistake of alcohol Prohibition which made the Mafia rich. The Founders of the US did not outlaw cannabis. That was a much later idea motivated by racism (those who have not read the relevant material should not have opinions) and political careerism notably that of Harry Anslinger who wanted to be what J. Edgar Hoover became.
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  481.  @JonDecker  It's easy to build an attractive home that is never directly impinged by fire though rock or cement (or the asbestos siding on my home which I will never remove since it's not friable) are wise choices.. Defensive berms and fireproof perimeter walls (which are easy to erect over time which saves money) easily deflect inbound wind and fire. It's the same principle as a military revetment (all these problems have been solved for centuries). Gabions can be very attractively blended with their surroundings by using them as the stabilized core of a berm. Fire isn't going to cut sideways through tons of earth.
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  482. This era is remarkably peaceful compared to the early Cold War. Calm down and carry on.
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  483. ​ @TurboNFRStwoK  That makes sense. Could be the brake rider wasn't covering the charge handle, couldn't move their hand to it in time, and was distracted by events. I notice Navy wheel chocks are polyurethane with a (good idea) sliding bar but most polyurethane is a bit slippery. My F-16 unit tried plastic chocks (no bar, just conventional) on land and mere rain on the concrete ramp (let alone snow and ice in winter) was enough that they could slip dangerously. OTOH woods ability to conform to thus grab ramp surfaces made it much more reliable chock material. (That's also why placing wood between forklift tines and load reduces load slippage when moving steel, machine tools etc.) Given the short distance between main gear and the deep blue sea how long (guesstimated seconds) in your opinion does a brake rider have to react then apply the brakes? I've ridden brakes many times on other aircraft, mostly F-16 and just accepted I'd headbutt the HUD in an emergency stop but my hands stayed where they should be because there is so little reaction time if chit goes bad. Of course I inspected the tow bar before entering the cockpit no matter who else looked at it first.
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  484. Depends where you buy and how handy you CHOOSE to be. Tenants pay someone else's mortgage.
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  485. The silly part is ITEMIZING the fee. Raise prices across the board and there is no problem. Separate charges need not exist and it's foolish to itemize them as surcharges when you can just increase menu prices. If three percent hurts you have no reason to eat out in the first place. Grow up and save money instead.
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  486. Men can AFFORD to play the field so you go bros! The shoe is on the other foot and good for you. Get that money. No shame in that game. Old women don't want obese old men who can't service them.
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  487.  @johnnyreason4262  Russia is not the USSR whose center of military production wa UKRAINE. The USSR no longer exists and the Warsaw Pact are now mostly NATO members. Yours is an obvious Glavset account but they're not good at history and presume readers are also ignorant. Russian demographics will take a delightful hit worse than the last recession and many Russian intelligentsia who fled conscription will not return (this pattern dates to Tsarist times as many free Russian expat communities in the EU and US attest).
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  488.  @michaelrmurphy2734  Also note those breaking yards are pretty much the only source of steel for their regions. Unless resale of used ships were forbidden most will end up there for simple economic reasons. The workers rights issues are a matter for those backward third world governments. Human life has no value in those countries and never did. Their cultures, their rules which of course are completely predatory.
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  489. So who pulls all these triggers? Amish? Mennonites" Seventh Day Adventists? Hordes of invading suburban Karens?
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  490. Not enough but the equipment does matter. Russian life is historically cheap and since they don't value it neither should anyone else.
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  491. Quality is an alien concept in mainland China and it shows. Compare to the early Japanese auto industry adoption of quality methods. I find this hilarious.
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  492.  @ErrorNull403  You can stop paying them and they can't do jack about that. People are far too submissive.
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  493. Gasoline is a refined product (which is not "pumped from the ground") and like its production local power generation is ample for dispensing. I suggest not having opinions on technology you do not really understand. Learning is useful and fun. Ignorance gets expensive. Grid interruptions for example do not take out local generators which do not use the grid for anything.
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  494.  @joserolandonovelonieto3127  What was that sentence supposed to mean in English?
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  495. Fuel gas poweplants are vastly lower maintenance than coal. That's a key reason those not familar (I learnt it as an aside during welder training) assume coal competitive with natgas. Exporting the mess to China and getting paid for it is a bargain. In the US fracking killed most of the coal industry (specialty coals excepted). Natgas doesn't leave tons of residue in tailings ponds to pollute drinking water when it eventually escapes. You're likely too young to remember "killer smog" but those were impressively foul and the more recent variety best confined to geopolitical enemies which a high tolerance for collateral damage. Exporting pollution to eager customers is a win.
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  496.  @shawnr771  European prepositioned stocks existed since the end of WWII, and the later stocks in the Persian Gulf were used in Desert Storm. Everything the US fights with must cross an ocean so the logistics got sorted long ago. Troops can be airlifted but no nation has the airlift capacity to quickly move an entire armored division. RO-RO ships are slow and vulnerable to attack.
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  497. I demand my reacharound!
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  498.  @carwyngriffiths  Their assets were taken from the people hundreds of years ago. Why is all that land not in the hands of the people?
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  499. "Spoks"? What grade school dropouts compose these headlines?
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  500. ​ @ahshari  This may be extremely difficult to understand. but there is no practical way to hide construction of large surface vessels from surveillance as they require an enormous web of supporting infrastructure to supply parts, tools, equipment, chemical products, POL and so on. Shipbuilding requires so much effort there is no way for even wealthy nations to conceal dry docks, the few northern European underground bases in Norway etc excepted.
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  501. America has much more comfortable, affordable areas to live where an ordinary person can own property and not be taxed to death.
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  502.  @ExestentialCrisis  That is NOT how the burden of proof in debate works. It is on the person making an assertion to support it. "Onus probandi" dates back thousands of years so this is not new. When I make an assertion I supply citations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)
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  503. Most people are not very intelligent, even those who happen to get rich by luck or a narrow ability.
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  504. Rich EV buyers can afford any towing bills their insurance may not cover (read your policy instead of assuming). No way this lifelong mechanic would own one until the technology matures to become a COMPLETE functional replacement for ALL my use cases. When I want more range I bring a few G.I. fuel cans or my transfer tank.
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  505. How remarkably degenerate.
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  506. Cartels are DISCIPLINED, ORGANIZED, and so effective they are the local government in many areas. They survive under the footprint of a similarly degenerate central government and against competing warlords. Cartels are skilled, adaptive and they are above all successful. The ANA have nothing to fight for and it shows. The cartels have survival to fight for and it shows.
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  507. Don't bother with relationships when you have one foot in the grave unless you're in a hurry to fill it.
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  508. I love my family but they dont get to dictate where I live, and my choice to live in a freer affordable place is why I was able to care for my father in my home in his last years. My parents were both lucky my sister and I GTFO our home town as my sister cared for our mother and I cared for my father when they no longer could care for themselves. Being intelligent they encouraged us to seek our fortunes.
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  509.  @Human_Earthling  Why "buy" mere entertainment? That's a waste of precious money and expensive space to store it. I never expected in 2025 that so many people would refuse to become highly proficient with personal computers. For example everything you see on Youtube can be easily downloaded on a personal computer. Linux is free so any old machine can still have a current, reasonably secure operating system and Windows is easy to safely pir8.
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  510. German technologists are perhaps ideal for making such systems work, but acceptable quality varies by culture...
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  511.  @Pete292323  Total time to maintain is not the same as "easy". For example a system may require MORE HOURS of what may or may not be easy tasks. Troubleshooting electronics is easier than airframe maintenance (I'm prior avionics, crosstrained to engine troop then merged with crew chiefs).
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  512.  @Tommykey07  So as POTUS you would have disregarded the deadline agreed to by President Trump?
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  513. That applies everywhere in transportation including aviation. "Good enough" really means "marginal".
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  514. While LAUGHING at them is rude it must be remembered "poor" adults are more often than not simply incompetent, trifling, and worst of all, SILLY. Never do silly things. Never respect silly things. If you don't end every day better informed than you began it that day really was wasted. IGNORE most popular culture because the reason it's popular...is the typical audience are trifling, silly people. If all your interests and hobbies do not have financial benefits (like DIY, especially auto repair which slashes personal overhead amazingly) scrap those which do not.
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  515.  @pxatm  Much of current retention is poor pay and that's calculated since if the problem were considered serious Uncle would fix it with MONEY. These things are cyclic and far from new, dating as far back as the USAF and USN aviation existed. Today manning is not a national priority. When it becomes that SRBs are the usual fix and skyrocket. The manning battle is always a "compensation vs. procurement" funding battle and procurement always wins, with bonuses and the economy greatly affecting retention. Any competent maintainer in 2023 can get good civilian or DoD jobs without being in the military so many do. There is nothing new under the sun and it was not different before I enlisted in '81 or after I retired in 2007. I consider the current situation a "Hollow Force" era like that after Saigon fell ('75) through the early Reagan administration buildup, but we're not at the "buildup" phase yet.
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  516.  @MagpieMalone  Yes, you can, just use a USB DVD burner. The sooner you choose to LEARN tech instead of just USE tech the more fun you'll have! Ripping DRM from media is easy given the very low effort required, and learning should be more satisfying than mere consumption. Master the basics of computers by practicing on whatever's cheap or free (millions of usable machines are discarded every year) then you need never go without. Just decide to learn how things work then use the internet to self-teach. Knowledge is power. I've never paid a computer or phone tech in my life.
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  517. Was the shooter Amish? Mennonite? What were there notable physical characteristics?
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  518. The majority of humans were NEVER good with technology. There are many reasons not everyone was a blackmith, potter or carpenter and that "service stations" existed when autos were very simple machines. The era you and I (I'm likely twice your age) remember had more capable people because the BARRIER TO ENTRY filtered non-enthusiasts. Tech proficiency requires native aptitude plus enthusiasm. Most people are not wired to understand tech only use it.
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  519. Go for it! That's the perfect way to beat vendor lock and would be a boon to the community.
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  520. Jet mech of decades here (USAF in various AFSC, I'll spare ya my CV). Grease oozing out the joint between shaft and trunnion bushing means the fresh lubricant properly displaced the old grease in a perfectly normal manner. When you are not an aircraft mechanic it would serve you better not to express a non-professional opinion but look for information instead.
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  521. Then do the REALLY wise thing and do not buy a new car. Nothing makes that economically wise since it's always better to let the first buyer suffer the extra fees, sales tax, higher property tax etc.
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  522. The logistics train has existed for decades and Fedex/DHL/etc deliver globally. Supporting three or four squadrons worth in austere operating conditions is little different than supporting any of many prior deployments. Maintainers are not difficult to train at accelerated rates in existing tech schools and existing Field Training Detachments. The aircraft are designed to be easy to work on (which I did for over 20 years, the others spend on Phantom and Bronco) therefore high sortie rates are a breeze to maintain IF parts arrive on time. Life for "armorers" (load toads on the line, Ammo in their MSA) is pretty comfy even at high sortie rates. I was an engine troop later merged with crew chiefs (easy since most engine troops were already trained), Red X all systems yadda yadda. Viper maintenance processes are long refined, easy to teach and easy to learn.
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  523. I and many others find citric acid a digestive boost in drinks where the flavor is a deliberate choice. No dye should be used though since that's deliberate customer deception.
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  524. Parents DEMAND the situation and teachers have no power to change anything. Most Americans don't know or forget all the power is with LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS.
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  525. Yet another though niche reason to avoid two-storey homes which also require more and more expensive maintenance and repairs due to height. Even worse is silly old people (I'm old but not silly) forget stairs GUARANTEE eventual falls if you use them long enough. That's why many oldsters gradually stop using their second floor. Stairs also interfere with moving furniture. The ideal home from a functional and safety standpoint is single-storey and it's not as if AZ lacks land. Anyone reading this should really think through the disadvantages of multi-storey dwellings without flippantly minimizing them because housing mistakes are not cheap.
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  526. You missed the history of the European Cold War which is not the same as third world constabulary operations.
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  527. Mental illness isn't courage. As for covering him anyone can be a threat and for all anyone else knew he could have worn an IED or been carrying concealed. Adults have every right to end their own lives. He was far too weak to be in the armed forces but they cannot afford to be picky since political leadership refuse to pay what the market will bear to attract better people which means competing with current civilian compensation. Veterans and senior active leadership have seen the US armed forces deteriorate from within but the public (veterans and active duty excepted) would rather be entertained than ensure quality national defense. Two decades of senior leadership (in and out of uniform) lying to the American public about strategically counterproductive misfought wars should have been a wakeup call but will be forgotten as swiftly as (actual details of) the Viet Nam war.
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  528.  @harry-eto  Now compare KINDS of fire. A rare fire you cannot personally extinguish vs. more common fires you can is the question because not all fires are the same.
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  529. Truckers have different fuel tanks designed to easily handle that flow rate. On autos that would be a disaster since their tanks must fill through restrictive filler necks with anti-rollover check valves and fuel nozzle restrictors (though leaded gas is mostly a memory except for racing and generaly aviation).
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  530. My computer, MY paid-for bandwidth, MY rules. Adverts easily carry malware and waste my time. Those this stance offends are cordially invited to gargle hobonuts.
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  531.  @tsugumorihoney2288  That presumes either turret or internals remain available.
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  532. Jersey style, nothing unexpected.
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  533. Income taxes are less regressive and they could be a pure homestead exemption like Florida which is doing far better than Michigan.
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  534. While unfortunate there is a lesson from the Battle of Britain and other actions. That lesson is civilians are less FUNCTIONALLY VALUABLE to a war effort than enemy equipment (in the BoB example, ground radar and aerodromes) so attacking them is (generally, war workers and logistics folks excepted and are lawful targets) not merely wasteful of munitions but diverts those munitions from combat. Civilians to put it bluntly are cheaper than bombs, one reason large peasant forces (Viet Minh, Muj of any generation) can outlast modern opponents until domestic will to war ebbs. Killing innocents is also perfect propaganda fodder for the survivors who are generally energized against the invader.
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  535. F-16s can do that too and they're not delicate. I spent a couple decades as an engine troop and crew chief working on and deploying with them including Desert Storm. Gripens are cool, there will never be enough so they're not worth discussing.
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  536. Home Depot DELIVERS. I bought my recent load of roof coating online and it showed up with no effort. I buy lots of DIY supplies I used to travel for from HD and service is excellent.
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  537. No. Wars are historically normal. This age has been quite peaceful compared to last century with most wars taking place in backwaters. The idea the sky is falling is reflects historic illiteracy.
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  538. For the love of all that's holy learn to maintain your own vehicles and you'll save absurd money over time. I buy used then keep mine at least 20 years (granted, I don't live in the Rust Belt but that's deliberate too). Owner forums (inherently best for tech interaction which is not the same as video push content), videos (ideal for showing details of each task) and aftermarket service manuals (Clymer, Chilton, Haynes) will help you learn to get the most out of your vehicles. It doesn't take long to enjoy it and get good after which your operation and maintenance costs can be easy to manage. Just looking after basic fluid changes etc can make your ride last many years, and even when you don't do advanced work yourself you can understand enough to avoid being overcharged.
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  539. Reddit is EXACTLY what 4chan thinks of it. Exceptions prove the rule.
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  540. The elegant German engineering of old is long gone in the vehicle world so no surprise here. Compare and contrast classic BMW motorbikes with current models or vintage Mercedes diesels with today's. Even better, ask mechanics who work on both.
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  541. The "no space" meme is a myth because when the only game in town was a full desktop or tower those fit the same dorm rooms just fine! I was alive then and will so testify under penalty of perjury. Even a tower only occupies a couple of cubic feet at the most and they can be placed or hung anywhere. Space is an excuse to mask desire for minimalist esthetics and function be damned. Most "students" are conformist adult children who follow the currently Apple-centric herd. Moving a reasonable size workstation is simply not difficult and for a notebook to be much use one needs a proper external monitor or two and external peripherals producing a similar result. All those things (including heavy CRT monitors !) were routinely carried to LAN parties.
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  542. Why did this "good" man promote killing other Americans and spreading disease?
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  543.  @jameschan1791  The Nurglings chose their fate, and their (incidental) anti-vax stance is merely a symptom of racist fascism. These are not good people misled, they are social saboteurs actively seeking to infect the innocent by their grotesque behaviors. Division between good and evil is just and right. They are Taliban in polyester, unworthy to exist in America or anywhere else and the more of them who voluntarily self-delete the better. They are pro-COVID and deserve what that gets them. "He who harden his neck shall be struck down without reproof" as they would put it.
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  544. Over ten in and ya didn't hang for twenty? That's a very large amount of money to leave on the table even if you tired of your particular service. (I served with many escapees from other branches in the AF except Coast Guard who apparently have very high retention.) The only reliable retirement is a vested government retirement. BTW the AF Guard or Reserve is one way to finish out to get retirement credits. There's also Federal civilian retirement plans.
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  545.  @GKP999  It is in California and things will continue to get worse by the free adult choice of the Democrat majority.
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  546. You don't get Youtube views for telling the truth. Clickbait does.
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  547.  @remqb  What? Blocking never left and improves every year. Blocking is more useful now more than ever. I barely see adverts since I use a PC which are vastly better than phones and mostly lock down my phones since the UI and ergonomics of phones are terrible except for portability. People who want to control what we pay for only use MSFT and Apple out of rare necessity. The mainstream don't care and deserve what that gets them. This is 2024 so tech ignorance is inexcusable at any age ( I'm a real, chronological boomer).
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  548. Unlike Charleston, Savannah got state support for appropriate expansion and has a nice lead it should expand. Charleston NIMBYed itself which should be a warning to others. Zeihan should cease commenting outside his wheelhouse. He's an entertainer.
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  549. Bolshevik drivel. Russia brutalized all Eastern Europe from Finland south. Feel free to ask any surviving victims why the Warsaw Pact evaporated.
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  550. Industrial monocultures end badly. Detroit also failed to diversify its business base. Some locations are simply obsolete. The steel industry killed itself through spectacular management incompetence but innocent workers were still hurt. When negotiating tax breaks cities should require continuity of operations for X years in return.
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  551. One word: kompromat The US is a business, not a country and stands for nothing though it never really stood for more than power conferred by geographic advantage.
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  552. Reality caused them to move to the burbs. The reality of those who didn't leave fast enough is a matter of record.
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  553. I split the area over forty years ago. Those who don't know better stay because they're afraid to change
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  554. Cite the case. Assertions should contain supporting evidence assuming we still practice Western civilization. The burden of proof, onus probandi, is always on those making assertions and including proof bolsters their contention.
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  555. Boeing was ruined by merging with McDonnell-Douglas. Aviation companies should be run by aviationist engineers, not mere "managers".
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  556.  @DanTarrant1  Compare and contrast outcomes. There aren't a lot of rock'n'roll or jazz fan drivebys.
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  557. That's a crazy family member problem not a captive bolt problem.
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  558.  @soheil527  Chechnya has been abused by Russia for centuries. People don't revolt for nothing, especially over such a very long time.
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  559. Making the Baltic a NATO lake is a major defensive boost against the eternal Russian enemy. It will make Kremlin preparation for future wars even more expensive. Russia is a cultural enemy of Europe and because that's politically incorrect the truth meets deep opposition. Remember when Putin was supposed to be a rational Russian? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
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  560.  @billiamc1969  Parents are not permitted to control their little mistakes.
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  561.  @rubiconoutdoors3492  Boeing in SC might hire her or Lockheed in Greenville, NC.
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  562. Ship losses are socially interesting. If the same body count were the product of a bus crash it's briefly news, but put them in a tin can or an aircraft (much worse because it triggers the phobic) and it's a question for the ages. Given the vast number of vessels built since 1900 it's a wonder more don't sink, not that some sink in entertaining ways. Titanic tops the crop for sinkings whose entertainment value to humanity dwarfs the minor human loss with the obsessed like Stockton Rush sometimes joining the original dead pile.
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  563. Tell us you know nothing about the Schutzstaffel without telling us you know nothing about the Schutzstaffel. Name calling is fun but at least be creative.
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  564. The wise choice was to leave many years ago.
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  565. Most people read therefore think at 8th grade level and follow herds to unwise locations. It's easy (and costs nothing) not to live in a flood plain so I don't. It's easy to prepare for fires and storms by removing fuel plants around one's property, so I do. It's easy not to live on the coast thus avoiding storm surges (Hurricane Hugo taught me that). Take a walk around your property and look for dangers you can eliminate.
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  566. What makes the emotional reactions of people without aviation knowledge worth anything at all? I get Fox is an online tabloid but you can do a little better. Technology and the armed forces are magic to most outside it. What's next, interviewing toddlers?
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  567. Baiting Russia to throw cannon fodder into kill boxes is hilarious because it works.
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  568. Many Americans do in fact hate cities and I'm one of many millions of them. Rural life is AFFORDABLE, offers personal space and is much freer than living in the equivalent of a jail where an apartment the size of my garage costs thousands a month. People move to cities because they're hoping for work, then they cash out to retire and live elsewhere.
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  569. Military aviation is risky even in training. The aviation-illiterate tend to have a Hollywood fantasy concept of aircraft but reality is different. If the helo did a CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain) there may be no intact electronics to indicate location. Things used to be much more dangerous. For example during the 1980s USAF Safety folks accurately predicted the loss of roughly a fighter squadron per year worth of tactical aircraft losses and accurately predicted most of the causes. Crashes today are less common but some inevitably happen. Those curious can visit each services safety sites and learn more about Class A mishaps. It's interesting stuff. (Retired fighter fixer here.)
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  570. If the US is sleeping Canada is comatose, but it's got other concerns to which national security is irrelevant.
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  571. Horses require constant care or they deteriorate quickly. Lock one in a barn next to a Ford for twenty years then see which starts easier.
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  572. It would be interesting to see some WPS for military vehicles of that era and learn what welding rods were used.
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  573. As an experienced Engineer what sort of equipment mods in your opinion would prevent recurrence?
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  574. Most Americans read at an 8th grade level and have no idea what the Establishment Clause means or that churches were once taxed.
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  575. Probably not but the idea makes our desperately naive public feel good. The Americans who built our ships sixty years ago are deceased or retired. Our public ignored trades education because chumps dreamed of office work (forgetting how easily that's outsourced). Modern manufacturing is not labor-intensive so the old model of employment is also deader than a pickled herring.
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  576.  @Mountain_Lake_Adventures  No need for a vocalized pause when the speaker can simply wait to compose their thoughts or in this case write their response to refine it then speak. That's basic professional communication.
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  577. No US citizen has legitimate interest in Africa unless present under diplomatic or military orders. Not being there and, even more importantly, not attempting a coup is a reliable way to avoid legal problems. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  578. Not mine. Wise humans buy the LEAST house they can afford on the most land they can afford, and they do not live in expensive coastal cities or want to.
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  579.  @jeckjeck3119  Our media are run by mental children who show shiny aircraft but meanwhile US artillery is constantly developed because it does what aircraft cannot. Artillery is organic to ground forces and available 24/7 in all weathers while an air base can be neutralized briefly or longer by bombardment. Artillery is local. Air is distant. Artillery can instantly respond to contact vs. waiting for a JTAC to clear aerial bombardment which can and has often been denied due to unavailability, ROE etc. Rocket artillery is relatively bulky making tube arty space-effective because mobility matters. Light portable high angle artillery reach where line-of-sight weapons cannot. Air power is not ubiquitous and US birds cannot be on station everywhere. (Operation Red Wings failed due to absence of loitering fixed wing attack aircraft besides the foolishness of sending a tiny force fighting at parity with the locals. The subsequent Marine operation cleaned up the mess by doing the job properly.) Much love for air power which I spent a happy career maintaining (Phantom, Bronco, F-16 A/B/C/D/CJ) but it does not replace artillery which is why our Army and Marines still field it.
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  580. Except the Russian government mostly does. Beware of wishful thinking. Russian culture has opposed secular democracy since Tsarist times. That brave fellow is an EXCEPTION which proves the rule.
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  581. My firearms are regularly lost in boating accidents. Water be like that sometimes.
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  582.  @PerpetuusTenebris  I've personally cleaned several system boards with tap water but I DRY them afterwards by leaving them in a warm truck cab with the windows rolled up for thorough even heating and dehumidiication. It's a very old trick.
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  583. In the real world many are above the law. Laws are words on paper which may or may not be enforced depending on who is in power in a given country.
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  584. Let them fight. It's a leftist campus anyway and hilariously has nothing to do with the Gaza problem. UCLA has been marxist since the 1960s so nothing of value is lost.
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  585. Lawfare is civic duty. Putting questionable acts to legal tests is a vital function of the justice system which in modern times demands a team effort.
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  586. Jobs may need specific training but in the US most college courses are just filler. That's why they're so often automated using online courseware so schools can get paid while outsourcing actual work and turning instructors into mere test proctors. Tradies would be wise to take community college business courses because most small businesses fail because of avoidable business mistakes, not lack of skill. I never met a good auto mechanic who didn't have more work available than they could possibly do, and if you're smart you don't STAY just a mechanic but take initiative to move up into your many options. Another excellent career can be the military (NOT in combat specialties which are for young person fun not a methodically planned career). I retired fully at 47 from the USAF and my many, many fighter fixer vetbros did similar, often moving to second careers (not jobs, there is a difference). The wisdom of the ages is to get a government job because those are vital to keeping society running and have commensurate benefits to retain skilled people from a wide variety of fields. My wastewater treatmentbro had so many job offers he only served one enlistment, an example of jobs civilization requires but few think of.
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  587. Large numbers of systems which are old and were poorly maintained while stored can be a considerable burden. The US stores its vehicles in desert and other climates which don't promote corrosion. (I've been to the AMARC at Davis-Monthan and the tracked vehicle storage area at Camp Shelby during my USAF career.) We've satellite pics of how sloppily Russian stocks are kept. Old vehicles require experienced mechanics and technicians. Those require several years to become truly proficient. The Russian military is famously theft-prone at all levels and it happens that the lubricants, hydraulic fluid (armed force use immense quantities of hydraulic fluids), small parts, larger components with dual use and larger components profitable to sell and easy for those with access to steal. Photos show their tanks etc were often maintained indifferently. (Their naval vessels ditto as we see from the leaked Russian reports on Moskva's condition.) When a tank won't start because it's batteries are ancient it may not be recoverable, and Russian recovery tracks are notably absent thanks to their strategic emphasis on rapid offense by expendable units. No wonder Ukraine gets so many "gifts".
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  588. They're interchangeable with Britain in that respect. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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  589.  @zane62135  Private employers are free to fire employees and to decline customers. Private parties are not the government and owe their business clients nothing not spelt out in their contract or other applicable law. The First Amendment ONLY applies to government.
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  590. It's a PEOPLE problem because areas with decent people are awash in firearms but have low crime rates. These communities don't have criminals, they ARE criminals and proud of it. Anyone wise would leave if they had to walk out on foot.
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  591. If people with nothing to lose choose to act, applause is not illegal. As a veteran I don't mourn enemy casualties, foreign or domestic.
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  592. Even worse was the utterly fookin' stoopid design choice to use a hydraulic kickoff switch in the first place! Ford then made a second foreseeable mistake instead of changing the design to a brake pedal-actuated mechanical switch. That switch used a diaphragm membrane of Kapton which was found to be dangerously faulty because it becomes brittle but on top of that Ford ran an "always hot" wire to the switch so when the Kapton failed it shorted the constantly hot wire! When caught early it just burned the engine compartment (a burned circle in the hood above that switch is the telltale but only when the fire is rapidly put out. Typically it destroys the cab at minimum but owners have lost garages and homes because the fluid can ignite when the owner is elsewhere thanks to the always-hot switch. That idiocy totaled many trucks which were never reported as switch-related fires but I've seen them in salvage yards where the shop I worked for sourced parts. I like my Fords but I don't use cruise anyway so I disconnected them (I do not consider their fix sufficiently reliable because it's a mitigation not complete failure proofing. Ignition switch fires were also common going back before the cruise switch fires. Other makes of course have their issues but the public should never forget profit renders humans blind and stupid, especially if they themselves are technically illiterate which is the case with most non-technicians. Replacing Kapton is now a very big business but only on aircraft. Since assertions without supporting facts are worthless, here ya go! "https://www.autosafety.org/ford-cruise-control-deactivation-switch-recalls-and-history/ Ford Cruise Control Deactivation Switch Fires On April 25, 1996, Ford Motor Company recalled 7.9 million vehicles for defective ignition switches that could short circuit and start fires in parked vehicles with the engine off because the switch circuit was hot or powered at all times. In a virtual replay on October 9, 2009, Ford Motor Company announced the last of its six recalls for defective Cruise Control Deactivation Switches that suffered from the same failure mode as the earlier ignition switch – an electrical switch in a continually powered, non-fused circuit. (In both cases, the suspect switch was made by Texas Instruments.) This latest recall in the series brought the total number of vehicles involved to 14.9 million. The switches, which run continuously even when the vehicle is not in operation, are prone to fail over time and cause electrical fires. One side of the switch is electrical and the other side is flammable hydraulic fluid, a combination conducive to fire. Fires in these vehicles have caused numerous house and garage fires, and resulted in deaths in several states.    Ford had knowledge of the cruise control switch defect for many years before 2009. The first recall related to these switches (99V-124) was announced by Ford on May 13, 1999, pursuant to NHTSA investigations PE98-055, upgraded to EA99-006. Ford agreed to recall 263,000 1992-93 Lincoln Town Cars built from November 4, 1991, through November 30, 1992, and the 1992-93 Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis built from February 5, 1992, through November 30, 1992. More than 100 complaints were identified by Ford and NHTSA during the 1998-99 investigations, yet Ford continued to use the same switches in vehicles though model year 2004 vehicles. "   Kapton is used on many aircraft and IMO should be the subject of more than one class action suit. (I'm a retired fighter fixer working avionics then engines then crew chief) and wrenched cars/trucks/motorcycles/machinery since the late 1970s. I encourage any curious gearhead to read more about recalls and why they happen. My switches are unplugged at the master cylinder and will remain that way. "https://www.interconnect-wiring.com/blog/aircraft-kaptontm-insulated-wire/ Which aircraft have Kapton™ insulated wire? First line fighter aircraft, as well as patrol, ASW, attack, transport, and helicopter aircraft are all subject to wiring problems because they possess Kapton™ insulated wire. Some aircraft involved on the military side include F-16, F-14, F-15, F-18, F-4, S-3, E-2C, P-3, EA-6, SH/UH-60, AH-64, and AH-1 models. Some examples on the commercial side include A310, A320, A330, A340, B727, B737, B747-400, B757, B767, DC-10, MD-8x, MD-11, L-1011, G-II, G-III, HS125-700, 212, 214, S-61, S-70B, S-76. Now, why is this important? It was discovered that the older the Kapton™ wiring gets, the more brittle and vulnerable the insulation becomes. Cracking and embrittlement of Kapton™ wiring harness insulation is widespread and has caused short circuits in key aircraft systems. For these reasons Kapton™ wiring is being phased out of use in many new aircraft types. Unfortunately, countless aircraft are flying today with cracks in the insulation of wiring harnesses down to the metallic conductors, and are only replaced when the problem occurs as a result of this dangerous situation. The only really safe solution to the dangers posed by the use of Kapton™ is the replacement of ALL older aircraft with new ones not utilizing Kapton™ wiring."
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  593.  @mrharry448  When imaginary friends fail to deliver that proves they do not exist.
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  594. With respect to Bolsheviks the Admiral was of course correct.
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  595.  @TheRealObama420  If possible go military (not the Army or USMC who are always misused in strategically pointless constabulary operations) and retire at twenty of hang for the pay bumps. I haven't felt a recession since 1981 and am retired debt free like many G.I.s who planned wisely. USAF has best quality of life by far. With your experience you should (study first anyway) smash the ASVAB in areas relevant to technology. People tend to get odd ideas about the armed forces so ask recent retirees. Guard and Reserve can be good deals too but retiring at 20 under the current blended system also allows you to invest in TSP. Full retirement is the rational goal of every career. In ancient times the first and only thing wise men considered was vesting retirement which is still quite doable in the armed forces and after civlian contracting you'll find the military easy and generally well organized. Full disability protection is a huge bonus. Then do the smart thing and use the education benefits (looks good for promotions since most troops are too slack to compete).
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  596. The purpose of education for anyone who is not already wealthy is to MAKE MONEY and if your degree fails to TURN A PROFIT it's $hit and you're an absolute fool for wasting your time. Money makes freedom usable.
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  597. He's not "lionizing" but observing which is different. One may compare and contrast without it being a moral endorsement. Wording should be especially specific as Youtube like all mass media has a majority of low-literacy viewers and many non-US viewers whose limited understanding of nuance misinforms them.
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  598. Hungary should exit the EU and NATO and return to its historic friend, Russia. As long at Hungary remains in NATO it will be politically enslaved to Washington. Orban rightly appreciates the justice of the Russian cause and could begin rebuilding a new "Warsaw Pact" against the West which never represented Magyar interests.
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  599. Blue cities knew what they freely signed up for. Not my circus, not my clowns, not my problem.
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  600. That's a very old trick mechanics have independently figured out over generations. Hydraulic force doesn't apply shock loads or small point loads making it ideal for freeing seizures. My mentor used a grease gun (he was too cheap for a porta-power) with a gutted plug shell welded shut then drilled and tapped for a Zerk fitting to free seized classic motorcycle top ends. Works a treat of course.
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  601. Modern Oz is dangerous too. My bro took us munter hunting and we barely escaped with our lives when the pack queen charged me. I was terrified but he was a loyal wingman who took one for the team.
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  602. If you fail to own the entire structure you live in and the dirt it sits on you're setting yourself up to be a victim (of others or just circumstance). I refuse to own property not zoned agricultural. Neighbors are worthless and HOAs mean surrendering MY autonomy to others. If you do not own the entire structure you live in and the dirt it sits on you really own almost nothing and all of what you own or not is at other people's mercy. Don't want HOA problems? Don't live there. Don't want to be hammered by high insurance costs? Don't live where insurance costs are high. Don't want the suffering aand financial damage people who follow the herd invite? Don't follow the herd. Don't want to be at the mercy of other condo owners incompetence? Don't live in one.
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  603. Love the clickbait! It didn't strike much fear this Yom Kippur because defense is more than expensive machinery. This is relevant because the Israeli border wall was poorly manned and lacked INSTANT pre-zeroed arty on hand to smoke anyone approaching it. Teen boys of all ages love exciting hardware but adults see them as systems in a system of system. As current events highlight there is a hole in the IDF SHORAD world which should be ubiquitous along the lines of "Shilka but better" with radar guided multiple use tracked flak pieces, and where practical laser systems. Dual use SHORAD can have droll effects in urban combat for example in Grozny the second time.
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  604. A hybrid Wiesel-sized ATGW carrier would have stealth loiter and ability to move BENEATH foliage tanks crush. Ukraine already uses quads end e-bikes for that. Tanks are vital but one is no substitute for the other especially given the utterly desperate necessity to avoid been seen by enemy UAS. Wiesel could carry cannon sufficient to kill drones if given the right sensors. Ubiquitous light SHORAD will be as necessary as ubiquitous terrestrial AAA was in WWII. In severely muddy conditions modern tanks are essentially roadbound. Wiesel, quads and other light vehicles can go where they cannot.
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  605.  @Xelatheshep  "corpse puppets hanging on strings and forced to dance even as their bodies rot away and fall in heaps underneath them" is a fine premise worthy of a series. I like your imagination and a mashup (easily managed in fantasy universes) could be hilarious! Corpse Puppet Wars would be an epic fanfic.
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  606. Haiti is incapable of self-government and there being not only no cure but no palliative it's wiser to let the locals do their thing. Haitians freed themselves long ago. Their decisions are why their country is as it is, compared for example to its same-island neighbor Dominican Republic.
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  607. WHERE can he not afford a house?? I'm a USAF retiree and took great care not to live in a growing area because growth only benefits rich developers. The smart play (I did this twice and still own both properties free and clear) is buy over five acres in rural land zoned agricultural which gives me maxiumum freedom. Next smart play is buy much less house (not land, more land is good) than you can techncially afford so BAH etc pay a useful chunk of your mortgage. Cities are bad. I escaped on by joining the Air Force and was proven wise by the cost of living in north Jersey which skyrocketed after I left. Rural life is good and the fewer neighbors the better. Air Force retirement covers all my overhead with plenty left over.
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  608. 1986 is ancient history in technical terms.
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  609. "Ruined" implies Russia could produce anything decent or moral at scale, which has never happened in its history. Russia is not a Western or civilized culture, but a permanent Asiatic menace to its neighbors of whom it's killed, genocided and enslaved millions. Its first victims are its own intelligentsia. Russia's most common victims have always been Russians. Wise Russian youth will escape to the West to join their centuries worth of predecessors (the many old Russian neighborhoods predating 1917 are examples). There was never hope for positive change so best to flee to a better life. Good luck to those who escape and repudiate the evil culture which drove them away from their birthplace.
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  610. There was nothing honorable about Russian policy and Western concepts like honor is not a concern to Russians even when dealing with each other. Russia is NOT EUROPEAN in culture nor was it ever.
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  611. Lock them in mental facilities far, far away.
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  612. AI has barely started. If we want people to have money, give them UBI. Automating kitsch generation makes it conveniently available for its many uses instead of restricting kitsch consumers to dealing with kitsch guilds. Modern "art" is already lazy wank demanding nothing of its entitled manufacturers. The best of it is at least useful for money laundering. Art for its own sake is free. Art corrupted by economic motives tends to be crap which naturally lends itself to automated production, like nails or toilet tissue.
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  613. Softwood demand led to heavy logging recently and consolidation makes sense. Softwood in the US is plentiful but cost depends on location. Lumber companies can painlessly shut down and restart because time is on their side. The renewable "crop" is pine so low demand just means more time for growth to feed the next cycle.
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  614. The smart play is get the best price buying financed then pay your new toy off in cash the next day. Business is war. Be devious because your opponents are.
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  615. The real opp is in office, not on the block.
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  616. His replacement may be competent which is worse. What civilization needs is more Russia defeats, more zinc boxes and more damage to the enemy which is the Russian people not just Putin. Noobs unfamiliar with Russian history often see Putin as the problem instead of a mere sympton of the Russian cancer which killed millions of innoncents (including other Russians). Russia is a rare, intrinsically evil society and culture. Russia enslaved its serfs, fought against secular democracy until the 1917 revolution then fought to install Bolshevism. Everything that matters about Russia is toxic by the choice of centuries worth of vatniks.
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  617. Back in the day they also had detectives doing mob hits and tried to whack Frank Serpico.
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  618.  @HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings  False equivalence - fallacy
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  619. "We" don't "know" any such thing and Chinese construction is famous for cutting corners such that there are many videos on "tofu dreg" construction.
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  620.  @feralkittens  He was an ADULT not an infant. Adults are reasonably expected to handle their business and he had broken no law.
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  621. If you want to wrench run away from doing cars for anyone but yourself (which saves mad money so I do). Aircraft are easier, cleaner and you aren't competing with desperate bottom feeder auto shops. Best wrenching life for me by far was the USAF because near zero non-government jobs have an attainable retirement with medical benefits which is extremely important such that not putting it first in your career selection is likely a mistake. I've wrenched cars, trucks, industrial equipment (fun but no career progression) and other systems but while the right person CAN make a career of wrenching there are other ways to turn a dollar. If you don't build your own business (risky, expensive, exhausting) then there is no upward path.
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  622. God struck him dead. Reconsider who you admire and why.
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  623.  @ProjectFarm  Make the test even more interesting with aluminum pipe wrenches. Most ferrous handled wrenches can take more abuse than is reasonable but alloy wrenches are far easier to work with overhead and for people smaller than my 6'2"/220lb self.
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  624.  @kingace6186  Crimes are secondary to national strategic interest. They're an excuse to do what should not be attempted because the locals instantly define the US as the enemy. Rwanda was a EUROPEAN problem, not a US problem. No war was waged to stop the Holocaust or the Japanese colonization of China. Those were benevolent side effects WWII was waged as self-defense by the Allies. History is interesting. I suggest you read enough to know more than the average ignorant.
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  625. Technically, wouldn't that be an Achilles uterus?
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  626. You certainly can if you choose to vacation in civilization. Places like Singapore are delightfully safe!
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  627. Stop migrating and there is no problem. Stop encouraging migration and start DIScouraging it. These specials always highlight non-Americans but ignore the people they displace and the other effects on border and other communities flooded with them. Why is this guy more important than immigrant crime? His killing is a Mexican problem. Lock down the border like the Berlin Wall, not in the current ineffective manner.
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  628. Only to military illiterates and children. Tanks are to be used in COMBINED arms operations including SHORAD to take out drones. This war is like the Iran-Iraq war, a few innovative systems and masses of old systems designed for a different era. Russia uses cope sheds because it doesn't have enough hard kill Active Protection Systems. Tanks with their high load capacity and low ground pressure will remain necessary (for the same reasons bulldozers etc are tracked) to carry heavy defensive systems to go with their heavy offensive systems. No one accuses wheeled vehicles of being obsolete for obvious reasons but they're even more vulnerable without SHORAD systems and (heavy) APS.
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  629. Why are you still there if you were born in 1967 per your nick? If I knew my location would poison me I would find something better. I left my home state for less.
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  630. Laws exist to protect criminals from good citizens. We could have a near crime-free nation given the will to act. I could walk down an open gold souk in Bahrain without risk because they don't play when it comes to crime. The US needs Quranic justice with less empathy.
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  631. After enough decades doing technical tasks and being generally inquisitive it's common to have an epiphany where nothing really intimidates you. Zach is clearly on that level. Many multidisciplinary people are like this and it's often associated with mild ADHD (the good kind) where new problems are very much opportunities for fun and juggling multiple technical activities is completely natural. We're also the type who enjoy his style videos because they're a fine practical education.
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  632. What amazingly silly commentary.
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  633. Disney was always trash for simpletons. I find this hilarious.
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  634. Drag chutes work superbly. They educe brake and tire wear (both important to mission readiness because fighter wheels are small and heavily loaded) and of course landing distance. It would be interesting to fit modern RATO bottles to F-35 hardpoints to learn how much those could slash takeoff distance. You'd lose a couple of hardpoints but Alert birds could launch much faster.
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  635. The lifelong mechanic completely agrees with you. I buy used and prefer to buy broken so I know what needs attention then save buckets of cash.
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  636. Precisely why would that matter to an adult?
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  637.  @ravenbarsrepairs5594  Don't like policy? Vote.
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  638.  @leelowefreespirit  Bacon don't expect recorders so the phone can distract them while you record them with another device. Dash cams are a very good idea too.
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  639. "Should have been thrown away" is a pretty stupid way to describe the equipment. It was held in reserve because it works.
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  640. @Ronnie.D. Some filter out the squids by saying that.
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  641. Not a good idea if that accident involves an external fire. Adding complexity like that tells me you aren't a mechanic and therefore while well-meaning haven't a clue about unintended consequences. EVERY choice that adds technical complexity adds more points of failure and increases cost, maintenance cost, and crash repair cost. A simple manual door latch works amazingly well.
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  642. All the drivel about morality is as always a smokescreen for preference. Outsiders with no skin in the game choose sides based on ideological preference but these days it's haram to admit that because everyone is expected to amuse fools by virtue signalling. Islam like any supersition demanding theocracy conflicts with the fundamantally WESTERN idea of secular democracy. Right and wrong are completely subjective proof being they vary by culture. Human suffering is secondary. This is a cultural conflict to be fought as such and unlike the West, Islamists fully understand this. The Western Left is a product of over a century of successful Russian subversion and as such is not culturally authentic. Leftism is a virus best dealt with as such but that must wait until acceleration is sufficiently provoked. The rules we're taught to cherish merely protect our enemies. They're lies by (often well meaning) "rabbit people" (a fine Jeff Cooper term) too mentally and emotionally weak to deal with the Hobbesian real world.
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  643.  @deltaxcd  "they are now producing new stuff at the surprising rates. " Evidence please? Assertions made without evidence may be dismissed without evidence.
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  644. Nice to see ya saving big bucks doing your own machining. That's got to save absurd money and time besides getting exactly what you want. Knurling a shaft is an old timey repair so it may have been done long ago. It seems odd for an old US manufacturer to knurl an undersized part (though it lasted many decades) when it's so quick to machine another simple shaft like that one. Knurling was also a common way to make piston skirts a closer fit in worn cylinder bores and to make stock OD valve guides fit a loose guide hole in an engine cylinder head. (Do not confuse that with the much more common knurling the INSIDE of valve guide.) Knurling a bushing can improve a press fit too , like the common cheap spacer bushings pressed into riding mower idler and tension pulleys.
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  645. The world is large and maritime accidents common. The public have no use for the information since no one not a maritime enthusiast or worker has reason to care.
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  646. Japan has a very effective police and prison system and strictly controls immigration because a nation does not belong to outsiders.
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  647. A rig welder will have that or more in truck and equipment easy, but those guys pull MUCH more than singlehand welders let alone mechanics (and can do all the side work they like when they're off the road, my instructor shortened and lengthened truck frames when at home on his ranch.
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  648. FEAR OF CHANGE. NY used to be a place where people entered the US then spread out but many always got stuck just off the boat.
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  649. That's standard in every service with Clothing Maintenance Allowance (however named) being a baseline then more uniforms and permanently issued equipment being issued for things like deployments and special duties. Many Airmen used to make a modest profit off the clothing allowance in the OG 507 etc "green fatigue" days since those were so inexpensive. (I liked them for hot weather as much as HWBDUs). BDUs were about break even for fighter fixers. I wore those to the last when I retired in 07.
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  650. When you dispose of an item you relinquish title to that item (which is why investigators can dig through trash without a warrant). Disposing of items neatly next to dumpsters should fulfill directions to dispose of product....
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  651.  @Malikav0311  Too bad so sad harden up, princess. I'm grinning too and don't have kids. Stop blaming externalities. Plenty of modern humans make it but in ANY era most don't do especially well. Those who do by their own efforts know this. Crybabies are not men. Toxic masculinity is actually real masculinity vilified by those too weak to compete or too resentful of the outcome. College BTW is basically free if you do as I did and go the community college route. People YOUR age succeed so cease identifying with the soyboy faliures. Real Men fight adversity and make their futures. BTW the rich elites dictate the economy, not "generations" (which are a fiction because reproduction is not confined to discrete time periods).
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  652. Reasons did not exist for a billionaire to avoid copying successful proven designs like Alvin in use for decades. Rush like his foolish passengers had a pathetic craving to visit scrap metal on the bottom of the ocean. Meanwhile museum ships on the surface get no love because the childlike public prefer to drool over wreckage. Fortunately for rest-of-world Stockton Rush is now a joke, a memorial to hubris whose relentless arrogant stupidity got what he asked for. Rush could have paid for a DSV Alvin equivalent designed and built by adults, but that would mean sharing credit.
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  653. The moral really is leave CA for a red state where you have rights. Only criminals matter in CA thanks to the enormous pro-criminal and criminal population. Keep voting Democrat.
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  654. Always did, always will.
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  655. Who says his goal wasn't bribery in the first place?
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  656. They have serious economic post-colonial interests that make it a nationally profitable venture to remain engaged.
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  657. Sufficiently large bunkers can be have their mining equipment left in place and in an emergency if they have suffificent space to store the spoil digging out is an option. Rescue tunnels can be bored beforehand than packed with sand to resist shock. Some US missile silos were so equipped with tubes connecting to a suspended crew cabin. It's a very old idea.
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  658. US driving skills are frequently bad, but if we live long enough we ALL are doomed to cognitive decline. The FAA doesn't let airline pilots fly forever because they are realists. Of course loss of license is frightening but US driving tests are already so pathetic there is zero excuse for not passing. I'm old too but I don't pretend experience reverses cognitive decline and when I can no longer safely operate motor vehicles it will be time as we all eventually do to check out. Testing should not worry anyone who can still see and react.
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  659. A common cutting oil used for old machinery is the high sulfur oil which protects machine tools MUCH better than water soluble coolant. It's no contest. However any oil that flows decently will do since cutting oil is for COOLING blade teeth not so much lubrication. You've been around more than long enough to guess accurately what works. A manual or powered rollout wheel/welding lathe is common in the oil patch. Powered welding rotators for bevelling pipes are commercially available that work like what you built. If you take an old steady rest and make a mount you can attach that to a stand (or some pipe held in a tristand built or bought) to rotate pieces of any length you like. Your rig welder buds will have cool examples to copy if you want a portable version with adjustable angle. Of course a rest will make shaft buildup by welding go slick and easy. You can mount a cutting torch on a removable arm if you want to bevel pipe with that machine. No requirement for a straight torch if ya make a holder, and that also applies to plasma torches.
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  660. Keeping it real, ODs solve more problems than they create. Every less junkie makes the world a little cleaner. Decent sane people refuse to become junkies in the first place. Proof are millions of legitimate pain med patients.
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  661. Good for them. Cities are just jail with extra steps. Rural life can be healthy, relaxing and comfortable in ways urban life can never be.
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  662.  @rebeccasantos1161  Because THIS mayor is perfectly free to sign a NEW executive order rescinding that Democratic mayors mistake. Of course he's to blame along with every other mayor who did not rescind that order. He could end sanctuary status with the stroke of a pen but voters are too stupid to press the issue.
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  663. Containers of flammable materials could easily carry an internal fire suppression system appropriate to the cargo but that would (mostly) be too expensive vs. the risk of cargo and vessel loss. I use 40' High Cubes as machine shop and vintage motorcycle garage space and can inert a whole container with the industrial wheeled CO2 extinguishers I scored at auction. I placed them just inside my (added) personnel doors for that purpose. I can slap the lever, close the door and walk away but of course containers for shipping need an automatic system. CO2 is cheap and carbon neutral in most of its production so returning it to the atmosphere it came from is NBD. Automatic fire suppression is a long-solved problem for restaurants who mostly use food-safe agents. Maritime fire suppression is interesting so maybe Sal will grace us with a video on that and civilian damage control.
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  664. I can afford most new cars for cash because I will never waste money buying a new car under any terms. I much prefer my paid off homes to pi$$ing away cash into a disposable depreciating asset. Savings let you retire. New cars mostly prolong the misery of working for a living. (Learning to wrench makes having more rides than you need cheap and easy.)
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  665. I did the courthouse route because both of us thought a childish ceremony is a waste of money we could better spend on useful things. People love dumb rituals...
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  666. Client relationships between governments are not moral statements, they're purely business. Relationships change over time and useless or inconvenient clients may be discarded or downranked.
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  667.  @patx35  So he goes senile instead of quitting on a high note and liquidating the company.
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  668. Let this old Boomer remind all concerned that the OBJECTIVE OF WORKING IS...RETIREMENT! You are not your job (though i greatly enjoyed most of mine). They pay you to work because most work is not what you would be doing for fun. Work is a cost center for all concerned, not just employers. Too many people lack the imagination to live without a job to structure their lives. I do not have that problem. I'm highly skilled and enjoy using those skills for myself in my happy retirement. I methodically planned my life to have a short career (USAF) then retire fully and debt-free. Why should I be counted as UNemployed as if I were deprived of something? Men not working isn't freaking "everyone" out, but screeching about it gets views. The fewer men working by choice creates upward compensation pressure on employers. Work is not altruism. America is a business, not a country. Pay what the market will bear, or not.
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  669. Nothing shows on Waze either, and users can post warnings there (I don't use Google Maps, Waze is owned by Google but is far better). The original developers company dissolved so the current private OWNERS should be sued. No one claims internet maps are suitable for driving without looking ahead so it will be a tough court battle likely ending in a settlement to end the publicity. The property owners could have put a berm, a couple of posts with some Armco cut from the wreckage, a pile of rubble etc and blocked the road in an afternoon for a thousand dollars or less. The locals know to look where they're going and would swiftly know the bridge is out that being a low-speed road, but most people don't really look where they're driving.
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  670. Russian shills out in force I see...
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  671. Looks like a lot of not my problem. Buying a new vehicle is normally financially foolish so I don't (and paid off my mortgage instead). I learned from the used car dealer I wrenched for for to be absolutely cold blooded about vehicles.
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  672. This is one of the special channels where users willingly accept increasingly clickbaity wording because we want to see Project Farm make even more money for services rendered. That is real status. BTW since there is a farm in Project Farm that's an opportunity to show your personal preferences in tools for the many common repair and maintenance jobs.
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  673. By aiding Russia Iran is de facto ATTACKING EUROPE, not the US.
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  674. Good video, silly title. Nice internal component shots. That post-Normandy particle separator (now common on helicopters) may be the first of that style.
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  675. A healthy FOSS ecosystem doesn't need any one contributor in the way society doesn't need any one human.
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  676.  @mikelemoine4267  Preach! Gullible aspirational chumps buy used German cars in 2022. The glory years of mechanical injection Mercedes diesels (and Airhead BMW motorbikes) are long gone. I worked at a used car lot where we never bought them at auction and if we got 'em as a trade they went to salvage.
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  677. You clearly never served and know nothing of military aviation nor do your upvoters. Rotary wing missions have always been higher risk and with so many thousands of sorties a few don't come back. We lose over 30,000 civilians to car crashes yearly and drive to the funerals, but if an aircraft digs a hole suddenly it's a "conspiracy". Do you really expect aircraft never to crash? No one who flies or fixes them for a living does.
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  678. SHARE it, like it, forward it!
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  679. Nobody NEEDS a new personal vehicle but their mistakes keep the used market stocked.
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  680. Find your local small pharmacy and patronize them instead. Chains run by MBAs do not care about their workers, normal for they US whose culture abandoned the concepts of integrity and shame.
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  681. Those Amish and Mennonite drivebys are brutal. When you hear horseshoes on pavement take cover.
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  682. Russian has always been enemy to civilization of which it has never been part. It's record of murder, genocide and oppression in easter Europe is unmatched even by the fellow with the toothbrush mustasche. Russian support helped kill and wound nearly every US casualty since 1945. Russia is not tradcon or even close though Glavset are good at duping some gullible bottom-feeders to hallucinate otherwise. Russia delenda est along with every one of it's vile supporters.
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  683. Every Harley mechanic should have one!. I can remove compensator nuts slathered in red Loctite using one hand with perfect control.
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  684.  @tyleroreilly8195  This conservative left the NYC area in 1981 and is happily retired in a red state.
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  685.  @paulmcgrory5165  The US loses constabulary operations. It did not lose Desert Storm. The US loses against Maoist insurgencies where the client is so degenerate they cannot be saved even by US efforts. The US doesn't lose in combat. Know the difference as wars are not interchangeable. The US could easily afford to make its idiotic mistakes in SEA , Iraq (Pyrrhic victory but not a loss yet a useless win) and shrug off the cost which is only a few months of GDP and already forgotten.
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  686. Humans have always been and remain stupid savages at heart. In one way this is fortunate as their deaths are not more than a sentimental loss swiftly forgotten. Beasts kill each other, water is wet and the sun rose in the east today.
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  687. No wonder skilled capable people are not attracted to education. Hiring standards are already low and it's still hard to fill teaching slots with US-born teachers. I don't blame them a bit. I wouldn't want co-workers like that fraudster either.
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  688.  @lscorpiusl605  Nice to see someone else knows this! Not every society is the same. Each version had its Tsar and Boyar equivalents below whom the rest were serfs equivalents.
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  689. If anyone reading this sees something similar do not call the police, call the fire chief or fire inspector and if you can find them the companies insurance company.
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  690. There is little reason to care about salving such a trivial vessel vs. getting into lifeboats quick as possible. Drowning for some rich corporation would be senseless.
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  691. Buying a new vehicle in 2025 is for the very rich or financially incompetent. No one NEEDS a new car which is fundamentally a toy purchase. Unless your home is paid off and your retirement invesments so fat you can retire in comfort today, expensive toys are foolish and repo rates bear that out.
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  692. Lousiana is a land of cheap labor and few worker rights so it's not much of a change. A permanent location next to that much oil is well worth having.
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  693. The US has billions to buy offshore junk. It can certainly afford better wages for the American workers handling those products. As for "productivity", there is no avoiding those ports so what makes "productivity" relevant for either side when management and labor are under zero competitive threat? Access to the US is most of our trade and higher wages are much better than tariffs because they are not perceived the way tariffs are.
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  694. This is why wise veterans live in red states which don't have POV inspections. Too late for him but others should remember Democrats are enemies of the US armed forces by virtue of the policies their group supports.
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  695. On what personal professional technical experience do you base that belief? I enjoy hearing from experts.
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  696. So edgy.
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  697. I worked in the used car business and my bros would correctly think me a fool if I went into debt for a TOY. I dry any tears over lack of bling with the deed to my house. Respect to my repo driver bros earning their keep! As for not keeping cars "forever", I do and it pays off.
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  698. Putting Airmen anywhere but defensible dispersed tent cities ware grossly negligent. Never forget that US troops had ZERO reason to live in a facility with such a close perimeter. We used to look DOWN on it from the dorms they were so close to the fence. The previous Beirut disaster and Khobar Towers both reflected the profoundly stupid preference for luxury over dispersion. (When I deployed out of SW to KKMC we lived in those buildings and the idiotic inexcusable perimeter was commonly discussed among enlisted maintainers.) Valid reasons do not exist to billet troops in force-loss multiplier structures. Given Beirut, Khobar should not have happened yet it did so I mention this in case some young future officer gets the hint. Americans died, were wounded and suffered PTSD because fools wanted comfy billets. Yes, I'm bitter. Every base in reasonable conventional attack range should disperse living quarters. (North Korea knows every structure in South Korea and its purpose from decades of overhead and other intel. That includes dormitories. They also know how UN-hardened US facilities are and how few bunkers and HAS exist to protect vital assets other than aircraft themselves.) Unless leadership (and everyone in position to remind them...) are watchful the temptation to choose comfort over proper dispersal will remain if not in the ME then elsewhere.
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  699. Houthi and similar actors have the advantage of expendable systems and humans. Western systems are not yet where we could deploy 24/7 loitering CAPs of expendable drones to smother enemy efforts. Conventional air dominance is prohibitively expensive to maintain over large areas even without firing a shot. Conventional air dominance is so costly even normal accident rates are expensive and CSAR a political disaster even if it succeeds. We need a way to smother enemy systems affordably with ubiquitous expendable assets. Even then only the West (and mainland China) could afford it. However high their quality other NATO navies are pathetically tiny and the best Sailors in history cannot be in two places at once. Rearming to "late early Cold War" levels is long overdue. Disarmament invited all these dispersed global problems because harmlessness is not a defense.
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  700.  Look_What_You_Did  This is Youtube and most Americans read therefore think at below HS level, yet they permit themselves opinions...
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  701. Old people don't need sex and there is no reason to bother with other people for mere companionship. It's much wiser to run out the clock free and solo. We won't get less dead by having company, and as I've attended the dying I do not want that drama when I croak
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  702.  @swizzamane8775  I lived that history and unless you were lucky or rich it was certainly not (except for the music scene which was outstanding). If you're that old how do you not remember walking past stripped cars, the constant arsons, and the Bronx especially being so bad that it was barely lit at night except for street lights? Kitty Genovese ring any bells? I didn't get messed with but I'm 6'2", looked intimidating and had proper street manners (give respect, get respect). The rose tinted glasses of nostalgia for one's youth don't change the normal reality of those days. Remember the Guardian Angels (Curtis Sliwa is still at it, bless him) and why they were considered heroes? I do.
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  703. Does CBS not train spokesmodels to avoid vocalized pauses? Move the prompter closer too so she won't have to obviously squint to read content.
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  704.  @john_nip_nop  I'm a child of GG parents (they never liked that term since they'd lived through WWII and the Great Depression and knew better). They bought US, British and one Toyota. My father was a WWII Army vet and bought a Toyota Camry because the US auto industry chose to build junk.
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  705.  @Engine33Truck  Guess what has no accompanying visual reference for size? Any vessel at sea without other objects in sight.
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  706. That's almost odd as in my neck of the woods there are plenty of felons who owners have no problem with. It's the rural Southeast though. The gent I worked for on the side had done time too.
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  707.  @Coyoteluvr  In fact the attack was to destroy AL QAEDA not the Taliban and nation building nonsense came later. Too bad no serious number of Americans will study the details. The Talibs offered to negotiate because they didn't want the headache of their AQ guests, but of course "we don't negotiate with terrorists" and that was that.
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  708. DIY is why I have plenty of disposable income. It's not hard to learn and I encourage adult education as a solid start. Auto mechanic courses easily pay for themselves and can often be free or close to it with student aid. Those teach fundamentals of many useful systems which apply to much more than vehicles.
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  709. If that happened to me I'd sell my home to Blackrock out of spite and leave anyway. There is NO reason for "honest working class citizens" to voluntarily remain in California. I left my home state for similar reasons and don't miss it a bit. I visit friends and family of course and pity the ones who aren't preparing to cash out and move out (which used to be the standard).
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  710. "Useless" is pure clickbait, ignoring the deterrent utility of the nuclear triad and why the manned bomber fleet existed and exists today. Not flying conventional combat missions is irrelevant to the strategic nuclear mission and the triad forces prospective opponents to defend against submarines, land-based systems, and the (much more technically diverse and more quickly EVOLVING) airborne systems which unlike the other two may be recalled. No study of nuclear bombers is complete without mentioning real nuclear war doctrine. Atmospheric testing proved limited nuclear war practical and did so by detonating the equivalent of a modest war above ground, much of it in the continental US! Hustler was suboptimal and nuclear doctrine evolved such that it was not worth keeping. The design, testing and operational experience gained OTOH paid off. Turns out the ideal "bomber" is a standoff weapons platform with a heavy payload (B-52 with nuclear ALCM etc during the first half of the Cold War which never ended).
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  711. Makers blame unions for their own greed. Run the numbers over time and see how wage stagnation works. (I knew organized labor had no future in the US except for key effective unions so I enlisted instead. Americans want everyone else to work for free.)
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  712. It will go faster over time and given the internet to study (but get the service manual anyway, they're a bargain) if you make wrenching your new hobby you can save enough money to buy any tool or piece of equipment you want. Ordinary humans work on every piece of civilization and I guarantee you're sharper than many of them.
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  713. That is a false choice fallacy because the US spends more on privatized health care per capita than successful nations do on their free healthcare programs. Thanks to our wretchedly neglected primary education system it's popular to point at once cost implying that expense prohibits other useful spending. The US ALREADY spends more than enough money on health care but the public don't understand where it goes because details don't interest people who read therefore think at ~8th grade level.
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  714. Save copies for Bitchute or other uncensored platforms since Youtube is never safe.
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  715. The best praise is opposition! Liked and Subscribed..
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  716.  @BionicPig95  Someone missed the Chosen People part.
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  717. If you rent like everyone does, no sense putting money into your residence.
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  718. Visiting forces agreements should be modified to suit. That's a correctable problem if politicians have the will to act.
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  719. Make all the bridges over such vital connections out of steel where they cross the road and mandate they be designed like military bridges so they can be removed, repaired, replaced and maintained easily. Were that a mobile bridge it could have been removed in hours and immediately replaced. Designing things for easy and rapid maintenance is not rocket surgery. Mobile bridges from WWII still serve around the world.
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  720. Overpopulation has consequences everywhere, none of them good.
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  721. Search engines, what are they? 🤔
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  722. If you're rich why are you sailing into storms? The Med has full weather radar coverage and your yacht should have radar too. If you're a "tech entrepreneur" you should be delighted to master those systems yourself. (Prior avionics here, it's FUN.) Sensible rich folks (not everyone is helpless outside their one profitable skill) can afford safer vessels like coast guard cutters but those gents don't make the news by drowning.
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  723. Thurst, ignorance and wishful thinking. They'd be better off with a self-hosted avatar.
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  724.  @JonathanNation  Many mechanics quit that field because of low pay per hour worked (the dealer or shop makes the profit while tech pay hasn't come close to tracking inflation). "Welding" is mostly fab shop work slinging a wire welder on the low end of the pay scale. The structural and pipe business is much smaller and a young man's game. (Mike Rowe is a rich actor paid to make people feel good.) The reality of the trades is not some waterfall of money (for the workers). I'm a lifelong mechanic with machining and welding background, but I was smart enough to join the armed forces to vest a reliable retirement. The auto mechanics including shop owners I knew as a youth told me to avoid the field...in 1978. They were right. I enjoyed industrial mechanics but the companies I worked for left my hometown and/or no longer exist.
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  725. Argentina's location ensures it would never become a "superpower" but that title is great Youtube algo clickbait. It had potential to become wealthy but there are no socially competent cultures south of the US due to Spanish and Portuguese colonial practices. Those ensured technologically backward areas would remain that way so they are. Humans are too proud and too fiercely anti-intellectual to change so there will be no improvement.
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  726. This American remembers and would prefer our democracies become closer. Pakistan ensured military aid would flow to the Taliban. Islamabad helped terrorists kill both Indians and Americans! Pakistan like Russia is no one's friend. OTOH India does not fund Jihadist terror but is a victim of Pan-Islamist violence. India produces many high quality auto parts, motorcycles and more making it an excellent trading partner. Friendship and mutual interest in containing Chinese expansionism are strong arguments for closer ties to the benefit of both peoples. India should reolace the Chinese Communist Party (Chinese government and industry are one) to benefit world democracy.
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  727.  @David-sx4hp  "There is no way it is going to fail. " What is your civil engineering background? Hearing from experts is useful. BTW removal was considered in 1972.
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  728.  @bngr_bngr  So what? There is plenty of freight to move and plenty of other companies. No trucker with a good driving record has a problem getting hired. That's why striking made sense.
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  729.  @roseeze166  OTOH if you're not a silly person you ruthlessly organize your life including living where you can pay off inexpensive property (no one NEEDS to live in expensive urban areas, wants are not needs) then paying it off early and enjoying many decades of very, very low overhead. Renters are helpless in every way.
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  730.  @the6ig6adwolf  McRib was originally made from gray whale so when the population recovers we can eat heartily!
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  731. Good for them and nothing about this is a "crisis" because perpetual population growth is utterly foolish. Why get married unless you're a religious fanatic? Rings are no substitute for love and don't do a thing to hold relationships together.
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  732. No, they don't because it backfires. The first time a salesperson tries that they'll lose the sale. (I did and did for an experiment and I'm quite diplomatic.) Stupid people tend to be aggressive. I sold used cars for a bit and the experience gave me greater respect for dealers and NONE for most customers who I concluded are basically insane. Customers tend to be "aspirational" buyers who crave vehicles they imagine impress other dolts. The coldly pragmatic smart customer are quite rare because we usually buy private party not via dealers.
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  733. No negotiations that do not restore Ukraine and permanently relinquish it! Putin is a mere symptom of the intrinsic evil of Russia.
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  734. What makes having seven children responsible even if you're a nice person and dedicated to them?
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  735. IGNORANCE. Most of the US reads (THEREFORE IS LIMITED TO THINKING) at about 8th grade level. They don't want to know how to do it right. Be glad you are smarter and wiser than that. I've bought and sold many vehicles (mostly classic motorbikes) and always get a clear hard copy title which I IMMEDIATELY transfer then get the new hard copy in my name on the spot at DMV (because computer systems are not perfect and having correct hard copy title saved me once with a BSA Rocket 3).
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  736. Every fit Israeli should be armed. They were not on this Yom Kippur and the result was a disaster. Ignore US gun crime. We all know the root causes of that and Israeli Jews are far more civilized than US bottom feeders.
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  737.  @Дэн-п2я  Emigration is historically a very wise move and being multilingual will serve you well. I'm fortunate my ancestors escaped from various parts of Europe in the 1800s (life at that time gave every reason to flee unlike today). It doesn't pay to go down with a sinking ship while the world is full of opportunities. Become as widely skilled as you can, including hands-on skills like mechanics which makes anyone more capable and independent. If you can claim (as would be reasonable these days) refugee status Canada would be a fine destination but simply getting out buys time to locate optimally later.
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  738. Greek owned? Where is the Greek Navy? Liberian flagged? Where is the Liberian Navy? Fortunately one or several ships = drop in a bucket. No defense will be 100-percent effective and if the major players truly cared about maritime trade they'd quit hiding under US skirts and invest in naval power. Failure to do so means no one else should care when they lose hardware.
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  739. ~$400/ton is a bit more than twice #1 scrap steel buy price at scrapyards or "absurdly low".
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  740.  @richardross7219  If you find a clean southern vehicle (worth the effort for those in the rust belt) that matches yours (which is from a good era) the existing van can be used for parts.
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  741. To commute is to pollute. It wastes time, trillions of dollars globally, fuel, tire wear, vehicle wear and is a pure burden. Tech workers who are VALUABLE will be able to COMMAND (caps for emphasis because some don't get the distinction) remote work. Drones may not and that's most workers. Managers need their little empires to justify existing so until age and wiser CEOs take the opportunity to cull that herd we can expect pushback.
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  742. A good subject for another video would be using your torch to "wash off" large nuts from bolts and studs without trashing the threads, melt suspension bushings for easy removal (I keep a short piece of broom handle to push with) etc.
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  743. NOLA voters get what they asked for, and the location is terrible because that city should be INLAND or dispersed. Only the seaport and French Quarter have reason to exist.
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  744. Russian Federation is not the USSR. That point bears relentless hammering because most people are and will remain far too ignorant of things military to form an opinion.
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  745. The US should encourage (much) more Filipino immigration. They're great to work with, pre-assimilated and remarkably positive people. Most of my experience was in the USAF and I never had a bad Filipino Airman. Not one. The US needs emigration to maintain the internal age balance. The US primary school education system is broken by local choice and that's not going to be fixed, and neither is entitled domestic American culture. Ask anyone in US community college workforce training programs. It's hard to get applicants even for free courses. That creates opportunities for young, motivated immigrants to participate in the American dream (which as their success demonstrates remains accessible!). Come on in and bring your friends! Everyone wins when Filipinos become American citizens.
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  746. TOR browser solves that. Computer literacy is fun and the people who take genuine interest are techies who can easily route around problems. The general public just watch cat videos while drooling on their shoes.
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  747. One less Belize-flagged tin can is interesting but not a serious problem. As for cables the sooner REDUNDANT technological solutions are deployed the better and this event is a useful trigger since it's far away from civilization. The more imports to the US cost the better for local insourcing of jobs which the rich deliberately exported. Change is opportunity to be exploited.
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  748. Smart lads would have nothing to do with a freak show of any sort.
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  749. My classic HD machines long predate this woke drivel, but my 1969 T150 and 1972 Miles Engineering framed T150 approve of your message.
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  750. True, but that does little for the public. The US is a hyperpower but cannot afford to fix infrastructure or provide public medical care. Superpower status really just benefits the wealthy exploiter class who invest in convincing the public to pay for military adventurism. Be careful what you wish for.
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  751. Residents complain but they will still vote Democrat.
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  752. Viet Nam was fundamentally an act of Lyndon Baines Johnson's political vanity. While cunning he was a typical ignorant hick of the lowest order who got tens of thousands of American Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and civilian support personnel killed, maimed, PTSDed and otherwise damaged and was still forced into not running for a second term. This is now forgotten because the public have no interest in facts, they just want to fap to delicious drama. When the last competent veterans with SEA experience departed government service the US promptly repeated a similar strategic mistake by invading a country to kill one key enemy terrorist. Baiting the US into A-stan was the worst damage any post-SEA opponent inflicted on the US yet no careers were harmed. (In contrast Israeli revenge for Munich and other terrorist attacks up close, personal, professional and precise. The US needs a proper Mossad-equivalent but refuses to build one.) Not conent with one fvckup, Rumsfeld and friends (who wanted to invade Iraq in the first place instead of A-stan) doubled down invading Iraq which denied US A-stan forces those assets. Of course we supported utterly corrupt client governments in all three cases. Nothing was learned and the US will do it again in another ~three decades. I was alive when Americans imagined our public and leaders would learn from Viet Nam, enlisted later and served in Desert Storm which was the one war we got right by not invading Iraq. (No one could bomb the US out of being Christian yet the US imagines it can bomb others out of their religion which is far better designed for the long war.). Nothing has been learned from A-stan or Iraq either. All the public see is ANA equipment which our worthless clients lost to the real nationalists. The public do not care about why the US relentlessly repeats strategic mistakes because our primary education system does not teach military concepts citizens must understand to advocate intelligent policy. The American public do not care about their civic duty to be informed so they thank us vets for our service out of just enough guilt for regret but not enough guilt to do THEIR duty at the ballot box.
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  753. The drill chuck attachment is really best for turning the angle grinder into an angle die grinder. Welders have been making those for years, self-included.
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  754. No because it was always an act.
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  755. AWACS roles in any air force are not as a "recon plane" but for command and control.
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  756. What is your professional marine salvage experience and why would it be worth the risk in a combat zone and what makes this ship worth salvage?
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  757. Condos are a terrible financial risk. If you don't own the entire structure you live in and the land it's on you are helpless. Miami problems are easy to solve like I did New York metro problems. I don't live there so no problem.
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  758. This video doesn't mean anything until actual batteries exist with an NSN one can order from Supply. All these battery stories are really clickbait because NONE of the info in them is useful.
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  759. One thing also driving the crisis which gets near zero attention is lack of accessible, affordable medical care aggravated by pain doctors afraid to prescribe effective medicine. Opiates used for their medical purpose are irreplaceable, but the innocent people like myself in chronic pain will have nowhere else to go when they cannot get effective pain meds. While I'm covered thanks to Tricare most Americans have job-contingent medical insurance so they're walking a tightrope. There are pain levels which compel even dangerous action to counter them, which after all is the evolved purpose of the pain reaction to stimuli. Given sufficient pain over sufficient time (often years) anyone would take any risk to reduce it.
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  760. Kindness can be degenerate.
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  761. I'm conflicted. I'm vaccinated but score great bargains at estate sales.
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  762. Modern Class A mishap rates are far lower than they used to be, but flight like all travel has risks even with excellent maintenance and trained aircrew.
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  763. They're delicate toys sold at absurd markup. Buying a new car is almost always a bad idea even if you have the money because it is not a wise use of money. I am far from rich but could buy a new car for cash for the simple reason I would and will never buy a new car. I paid off my house early by not being silly. I retired early by not being silly. I have no house or car loans by not being silly. Sense a theme? Anyone can do this. Let someone else buy new then snag the thing a few years later for vastly less.
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  764. Today "thank you for your service" REALLY means "I have no idea what you do but feel slightly guilty for ignoring my civic duty in a democratic Republic to advocate for intelligent foreign and military policy I will never care enough to understand so I conflate supporting strategically counterproductive misfought constabulary operations with supporting the troops". The PUBLIC are NEGLECTING their civic duty to demand a professional, effective, ethical armed force because it's easier to feel their ignorant lazy feelings than engage the SAME PEOPLE THEY VOTE FOR to reform the armed services. The voters elect leadership and bear responsibility for that leadership. The Army has never been the service of choice if you want a career unless you know nothing about the Army (or score a tasty Guard or Reserve deal, there are many ways to serve). Even in WWII the Army Air Force got the higher IQ recruits by choice of senior leadership. I was born to a WWII ETO Army infantry vet father and grew up when the workforce was full of WWII/Korea/SEA vets. Not one of those men suggested anything other than the Air Force though they were proud to serve and this was LONG before modern woke nonsense. (It was however when the draft era armed forces required the rather large brig and jail system which no longer exists and goes ignored online because it's not a sexy part of armed forces history!) If recruiting were perceived as a real problem then Uncle Sugar would be defecating money to fix it instead of waiting it out. Money really does fix recruiting and retention but ya can't do it for pocket change. Anyone capable of being an effective Soldier, Sailor, Marine, Airman, Coast Guardsman etc can easily get a variety of good jobs if they make the effort. Military compensation is the price spectators pay to delegate war. That said all these eras are cyclic including varieties of "woke". Ask really old SNCO veterans (over seventy or eighty) about verbal quotas on promotion boards long before the personal computer era when it was easy to do anything on the down low. This isn't the first Hollow Force era either but the same realities that keep the armed service population young ensure they're nearly obvlivious to what came before them unless it's on a promotion test.
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  765. They do if they become board members like my bro did. Most people are too lazy.
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  766. Work is compensated suffering.
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  767.  @connor_flanigan  Buying new is normally a poor financial choice so I'd consider that a bonus.
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  768. The city made the deliberate choice to be flooded with migrants so it should help them in every way possible. The VOTERS chose their sanctuary city status, NYC is immensely wealthy and can afford it by raising taxes if necessary. Every bit of this overcrowding is self-inflicted but no one wants to own it or stop it. American VOTERS have decided there is a moral imperative to give away the entire US to outsiders for zero return, massive overcrowding and social displacement of our own lower economic classes. The immigrants just want a better life like the immigrant ancestors of present Americans (even Native American ancestors crossed the land bridge from Asia). The informed adult choice to invite the world into NYC means New Yorkers get to pay for what they voted for (and are free to vote against in future).
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  769. Our public are not competent to demand thus produce competent legislators because the nation is collectively ignorant and proud of it. The quality of American society has declined since the 1960s. We have entertainers not intelligentsia so other than tiny specialist communities (like this one!) there is no understanding of important issues.
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  770.  @dont-want-no-wrench  Please list the effects with proof not feelings. All aspects of the US auto industry from cradle to grave are exhaustively measured.
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  771. Subscriptions are a waste because fictional entertainment is a waste. Reject all that, cut the cord and keep the internet for continuous self-education. Popular entertainment monetizes fools. Simple internet access put the libraries of history at your fingertips. If I need tech info for everything from a hand drill to my vehicles or home someone else, usually many someones, solved that problem.
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  772. Ireland fought to be free of the British Crown. Indigenous Irish people are right to resist ALL invaders. Their land does not belong to the world, it belongs to the Irish. Will modern socialist brainwashing persuade them to surrender it without firing a shot? What would the men of 1916 think of this? There is no obligation to give your children's birthright to savages.
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  773. Motorcycles in the US are TOYS and no one is forced to buy them. HD is not the company it was and the people it chose to insult have a great variety of options. The Japanese firms Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha never insulted their customers let alone advocacted for third-party access to their customers children. I support independent American mechanics who keep ALL brands going long after their parent companies abandon them. No needs the Motor Company any more.
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  774. All? What is solar power? Time to seriously study technology. There is ZERO excuse (because knowledge saves so much money) for failure to constantly study useful things you can learn to do for yourself.
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  775. Don't want to get exploited is more like it. Any time I hear "nobody wants to work" I ask "DO YOU if you didn't have to?" Employment is PURELY BUSINESS and a job is not a gift.
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  776. The American AVG "Flying Tigers" were very well paid mercs and heroes to the Chinese they defended against Imperial Japan.
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  777. I stopped buying their otherwise excellent phones because of all the non-removable Samsung bloatware.
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  778. ChiCom shill detected. Beijing remains an enemy of the US. The sooner it goes after Taiwan the sooner its US assets can be nationalized but every little bit helps.
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  779.  @jonjacob1962  The problem is not that they go TO prison, it's that they're above room temp when they get out. The US is far too tolerant and Norway culturally different, at least for now. The US is circling the drain albeit slowly.
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  780. You aren't forced to unless you choose conventional financing or a contract requiring insurance as a condition.
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  781. No tank is ATGW-proof. NATO vehicles mostly succeed in reducing crew losses (not a surprise since much of this gear is Desert Storm era) but no tank is hard to mobility kill. Ex-Soviet systems are designed a bit more casually but Russia can afford infinite casualties which is built into their doctrine and supported by inexhaustible stocks of ComBloc surplus. Expending undesirables (like the Wagnerites and other convicts) makes those casualties a net social positive as any previous criminal careers are thus interrupted. Russia could afford to lose more ground forces than Ukraine has population and withstood tens of millions in each of the world wars. This war is a mere skirmish by comparison with no effect on the domestic front. It could go on for decades like other Cold War squabbles.
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  782. Peaceful methods did not work against either Assad, Putin or other monsters so why should they work (they do not) against enormously wealthy evil doers? Nothing is horrific about enemy casualties. I save my empathy for the injured innocents, their families and others damaged by the system which is the enemy of the American people. I do not advocate force, but nothing else will ever change this corrupt system. The ballot box never worked against that much money.
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  783.  @jdogdarkness  Congress mandated it to ensure the industrial base would exist, not to "enrich defense contractor". Why do people who don't understand manufacturing express opinions on the subject? Low rate production is the only way to preserved the specialized workforce required to expand production. One does not simply take unskilled employees and throw them into producing vehicles which are as complex as many aircraft and use many of the same production and manufacturing methods.
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  784. It makes perfect sense for colonial legacy populations to leave as SA returns to continental norms. What expats returning to their ancestral nations leave behind will return to local circulation. Colonialism is not truly reversed until colonial demographic legacy is completely reversed. Indigenous peoples are now free to choose their government for good or ill. Democracy is a sword with a very sharp handle.
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  785. The idea that losses make tanks obsolete is as absurd as the idea losses make infantry obsolete.
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  786.  @LightingJedi  Because vicarious dreams of someone else's glory pacify the sheeple.
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  787.  @AliceBowie  TVs, Jordans and appliances are delicious.
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  788. They're afraid of being SWATed. (runs)
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  789. Because they're not noobs, shotgun ammo is heavy, range is limited and their targets tend to have body armor and/or be in cover that shotguns won't penetrate.
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  790. Bitchute, post on proxy channels etc are creative options. Youtube is not the only venue and an unmonetized channel can redirect elsewhere.
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  791. Suggest that to Fel-Pro. That could work well for them.
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  792. The US could use Japanese management. W. Edwards Deming is a hero in Japan but ignored in his home country. US "quality" manufacturing still exists but not outside weapons manufacture and aerospace companies like SpaceX. Our formerly amazing aviation industry is being murdered by the MBA class who are destroying Boeing. Nothing will be done so plan wisely including not living in vulnerable communities no matter how attractive.
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  793. What observers ignorant of history neglect is that even if Ukraine loses the net effect would be similar to that of the Soviet repressions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. NATO could then close ranks, end trade, end Nordstream and resume the (proven effective!) containment strategy that helped defeat the Soviet Union. Russia only has the approximate GDP of New York state and that would drop precipitously if the West grew a spine and cut trade (and expelled Russia from SWIFT). A sufficiently bloody invasion would damage Putin as the (quite affordable by Russian standards) Soviet war in A-stan did the Soviet Union. War is just a component of overall policy.
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  794. Those old vehicles were pretty but trash in engineering terms and every possible corner was cut by manufacturers as any experienced mechanic can show by examples. Single master cylinders were the worst but drum front brakes were garbage (and the reason every serious grade had at least one brake shop in the valley, you can still find old signage on the ruins if you look). Body counts per mile don't lie. They were impressive and remember in that era medical care was almost useless and mostly confined to setting bones and crude surgery. Ambulances may as well have been hearses painted white as they were poorly equipped and typically based on cars not trucks.
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  795. Airhead detected. When you're pushing fifty and act like you're in high school, you ARE your problem.
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  796. Nothing about that building was affected by presidential policy. You must have gone to public school. That building was built in 1927, two years before the Great Depression.
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  797. I find your fear hilarious. Make sure to use even more capital letters next time.
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  798. Someone needs to warn new immigrants to AVOID poor cities completely. Unlike much of the world, poor people in the US mostly did it to themselves and are best avoided completely. No one is harmed by not offering yourself as a target.
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  799. Many people are de-facto above the law, but that naive saying is too adorable to let go.
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  800. White cops should abandon Blue communities for Red states. Mob deep among people who want law and order.
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  801. Which POTUS imposed the deadline?
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  802. Citations needed. Why would anyone believe anything from the heirs to the USSR who so desperately want it back?
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  803. There was nil opposition when it was just expendable Buryats, Chechens and convicts dying because Russia as a culture is incapable of moral objection to Russian imperialism.
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  804. Even if tariffs shrink the overall economy our domestic industries should be put above chasing the lowest prices.
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  805. Name the legislators who voted for this so the public can duly appreciate them.
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  806. That audience screaming is revealing. People who lack impulse control are their own worst enemy and they have no idea why that is.
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  807. Note the external tanks still installed instead of jettisoned. What ballz! On another note a history video on Zulu Alert where select unit kept live gravity nuke loaded and the aircraft ready for immediate launch would be interesting. Those nuclear tripwires (their bases required nuking to neutralize them) were a vital deterrent to war.
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  808.  @Gustavo-vs6qy  They should not have believed in those institutions in the first place. The idea a nuclear nation would self-sacrifice by engaging in nuclear warfare to support an ally is absurd, but that idea was deeply cherished for economic reasons. You either own nukes or choose to be at the mercy of those who do. Disarmament is renouncing the ability to defend oneself.
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  809. Fortunately the US will never have to deploy to Europe again nor visit littoral areas so armored cars will do just fine. Given that we won't have to cross anything wet. What could possibly go wrong?
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  810. If it's not STEM it's a joke because education is for profit else borrowing to pay for it is a terrible choice. Fund useful education only, not "recreation" so the taxpayers get a capable workforce out of the deal to fund their Social Security. What the economy does not demand should not be gifted. Loaning someone who is months out of childhood and has no job that much money for anything else is absurd.
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  811. Learning computers is free and that gives you informed choices. It's easy to download music without adverts using the right tools.
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  812. The wisest choice I made in my life was learning to wrench. It's never too late and there is no better hobby because wrenching saves absurd amounts of money over a lifetime while greatly expanding your options far beyond vehicle repair. Wrenching cars and motorcycles made learning industrial maintenance and repair easy which made working on aircraft easy (cars are miserable compared to fixing fighters for Uncle Sugar) which made working until retirement interesting fun. Never buying a new four wheeled vehicle made paying off my modest homes and acreage easy and I do all my own work on those homes and shops except electrical inspections. SO CAN ANYONE READING THIS. (My wife was a skilled CH-3 helo crew chief.) My newest trucks are 2000 models, one Silverado built from body and frame donors where I used to work and various F150s (at this point self and bros GIVE each other extra trucks) all bought used and cheap. (I prefer broken vehicles because I know why they were sold and many owners just want them gone.) If you're new to wrenching start with something popular with a large user base and aftermarket support. Have faith and patience with yourself. Ordinary people built your vehicles after all.
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  813. They are not standing against authoritarianism. They object to this particular mission. They spent decades under Putin supporting his government in other respects. Spectators are a credulous lot...
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  814. True, but every less Russian no matter who does the deed makes the world a better place. Their record of unmitigated savagery against every Eastern European nation is flawlessly consistent over time. It's no accident their victims unite against Russia today. Finland joined NATO because it fully understands Russia is an eternal enemy to European civilization. It's an enormously bloody tragedy Curtis LeMay wasn't permitted to nuke it to ash before Stalin got nuclear weapons. Even if Russia is contained it will never reform because it cannot be different. Putin is a product of Russia, not some calamity from outside.
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  815. The Ford 300 was magnificent and used in industry (aircraft tugs, generators, pumps) long after it left truck use. The 4.2 that replaced it is a piece of shit due to hydrolock (never truly fixed!).
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  816. The damage was sufficient but not dramatic. The cure for low volume of PGM fires is more PGM, of course including tube arty but also missiles, rockets, and UAS and other delivery systems. In contrast Russian arty doctrine reflects poor accuracy and is terribly inefficient.
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  817. I think you mean MORALLY unfit. This who circus shows why Americans desperately need a functioning primary education system.
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  818. In the end that's destructive however appealing it looks early on. Unwise spending is very common, like poor folks wasting money wearing someone else's hair or buying expensive vehicles on credit. I used to fix cars for a used car lot and that destroyed any respect I used to have for consumer intelligence. Except for farmers and tradies buying work trucks most folks really are mindless consumers who buy toys they don't need to impress people who don't care about them. The smart folks don't stay poor for long but most people waste time entertaining themselves with trifles instead of constantly self-educating.
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  819. "Surplus of ground moving equipment" sounds like a bad auto-translation. The term is "surplus military vehicles" but while the classic 45" flatheads were common serious bikers wanted and got larger machines (45s were and are dog slow, and being geared for use on the march not fast street work didn't help). Used bikes were cheap so 61 c.i. and larger Harleys and Indians were preferred. Someone with the right friends should do a good video on early post-WWII black biker culture before the very last of the men of that era pass on. Their style had major influence nationwide, often imitated by bikers who had zero idea where it came from. Sugar Bear of springer fame is an example of a great craftsman whose work bike mags featured but conveniently never posted his face or race.
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  820. What world war? Military ignorance and emotionalism are not insight. The "world" has little skin in this logistic inconvenience.
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  821.  @PeTHiRoTH1992  I've never been talked into anything remotely close to that stratospheric level of stupid because I wisely regard stupidity with contempt. I wouldn't volunteer for that clown show even if I knew one was legit, because personal dignity is infinitely more valuable than clowning.
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  822. Tell us you know nothing about engineering without telling us you know nothing about engineering.
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  823.  @avengemybreath3084  OP didn't suggest living in the hood. It's never worth living in the hood even if one was born there because everyting about that environment is bad. Cities are bad so I don't live in one. No matter how much or little one makes it goes further in rural and semi-rural areas.
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  824.  @Palmstreet-u7x  Lubricants are rated for their use. One cannot get "too much grease in a confined space" in a trunnion pin/bushing interface. Any excess pushes old grease out the sides. "Heat" is not an issue in the very slow speeds (a landing gear trunnion pin never turns even one RPM because it's in a fixed position) involved but galling due to not being lubed/lubed properly can be.
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  825. Because it's a fine 1930s car but not a fine modern car. They're easy to rebuild in primitive conditions, but not long lived. The liquid-cooled A1 era Rabbit etc single cam four cylinder is a vastly better engine in every respect. Beetles act like sails on windy days, are slow, their heaters work poorly and they're deathtraps in a crash.
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  826. MUCH more detail is needed which should come out at trial. A 17 year old (of normal mental capacity) should be expected to understand traffic and not be in the road. A driver should be expected to watch where they are going. It's quite possible both made errors because ordinary people lack self-discipline.
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  827. That bloody disaster was the product of UTTER SENIOR UNIFORMED LEADERSHIP FAILURE for which no careers were harmed. No US armor support. just pathetic HMMWV utility trucks (fortunately our clients had AFV to help with the rescue). The AC-130s were sent home. Helicopters are delicate and easily shot down when they get in ground fire range (see Ukraine for current examples) so they were. The lessons learned reports are far from flattering. The great personal courage of the US forces mitigated a disaster made by their own leadership but no careers were affected. Senior officers who knew better refused to buck their superiors and men they were responsible for died. From the linked Air Command and Staff College research paper: "But what about the military leadership in Somalia? Why did they simply take no for an answer? The military leadership should have shown enough nerve to hammer the point home with General Powell, and if this still did not produce results, then they should have terminated the hunt for Aidid until they were able to receive the armor they so desperately needed. If TFR would have had tanks, even with the ambush, they would have gone in, knocked over the mud huts, put a steel cable around the tail of Super 61, and pulled the thing out." A previous MH-53 kill meant they knew the risks, but did less than nothing. Light trucks and urban combat mix badly. The "gun truck" lessons of Southeast Asia were forgotten until well into the Iraq occupation when civilian armor kits were needed then fielded because the Army and USMC previously made zero effort in that respect so G.I.s were forced to fab "hillbilly armor" for their vehicles. Worse, accountability was never a serious issue (nor has it been in other constabulary disasters since) because the US social climate is one of blind worship of our armed forces. (Veterans usually excepted having sustained direct personal experience of the good and the bad.) CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON THE DEFEAT OF TASK FORCE RANGER by Major Clifford Day will be of interest to professional readers. It's under fifty pages so others may give it a go: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB63/doc10.pdf More informed military professional commentary from the excellent Small Wars Journal: https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/somalia-20-years-later-%E2%80%93-lessons-learned-re-learned-and-forgotten "Lessons Forgotten Strategy formulation. As a nation, no operational or tactical events are powerful enough to overcome a lack of comprehensive strategy for a situation, nation, or region. As the U.S. deployed into Somalia in 1992, not enough strategists put thought into "...and then what?" There was little talk of the Horn of Africa as a whole, but only of ameliorating the famine in Somalia itself and making those images of starvation go away. This lack of a regional approach is sometimes seen today, as in Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, and in other areas where "fixing" a singular nation is clearly not the total answer. An end-state with a realistic transition into the future must be designed from the start." Since Mogadishu military leadership failures have cost many more American lives. The heroism and bravery of US forces is not honored by ignoring military leadership failures which get my brothers and sisters killed, maimed, TBIed, PTSD, poisoned (burn pit health hazards were ignored for decades), diseased (like Gulf War Syndrome, which I luckily missed but others in my squadron did not) and whatever new afflictions have yet to be uncovered. The American public need to understand that "thank you for your service" while a nice warm fuzzy is no substitute for the civic duty to press our legislators and Presidents to wage wiser foreign policy including military reform. (Reformers exist but tend not to make general officer rank.)
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  828. If my career were that bad I would change my career. It's better to be a truck or other mechanic than an operator and the work isn't hard to learn.
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  829.  @neutrino78x  Widower of many years here who does NOT go to bars for anything other than motorcyclist social events (and those are very much a BYOB1tch affair and always were). Bars are not for finding relationships because barflies are lowbrow alcoholics on a good day. In other news I don't troll AA meetings or insane asylums or prisons seeking social attachment. 🤣
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  830. Leftist subversion hates competition. Stock up on popcorn.
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  831. Russia never changes for the good and has been remarkably consistent since Czarist times. While Germany and Japan had toxic governments, their cultures also have deep democratic inclinations (for example the pro-peace Japanese politicians who supported ending WWII). Russia has never produced a decent society for anyone but the boyar class and its masters. It is not logical to believe it ever can. Russia has exiled, imprisoned and executed it's intelligentsia going back centuries. Its empire is far from finished and until that happens Russia will remain existential enemy of European civilization. It's not "politically correct" to point this out but facts care nothing for feelings, even those of Putinist sympathizers. Russia delenda est.
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  832. Hypocrisy is necessary to prevent giving the enemy even more advantage. I would never advocate the public taking righteous, richly deserved vengeance against public enemies no matter how much better the world would be without social parasites. We must all submit to and grovel before our Wall Street owners who so loyally serve Mammon.
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  833.  @susanwangcfa3685  Insulation is the point of obtaining money and moving where you can have an optimal life. It's the American dream
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  834. USAF retired (avionics, later engine troop and crew chief) here who taught workforce training classes in SC. The state is ranked 43rd in education and it's primary school system is hot garbage. Nice people, salt of the earth but ignorant as the day is long by CHOICE (and will instantly rage when that's pointed out because ignorant people are fiercely proud). We had to teach adult high school graduates how to read a tape measure. While that was inland it's not far from Charleston and they have the same local "talent" pool so no wonder Bubba and Methany did manage basic houskeeping like VACUUMING FOD OUT OF FUEL CELLS. JFC that's insanely negligent. Locating in Charleston was fine for Boeing executives but except for a few veterans with serious aircraft experience the locals are just not technical people and that really matters. (The decline of farming pretty much ended tech competence among local youth and many school shop classes were dropped because they're expensive and academics look down on anyone not them.)
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  835. AIPAC and the religious right.
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  836. There are MANY videos on Tsushima. It's been done to death but is interesting for those not familiar.
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  837. Gangs who can flash tens of pounds of hundred dollar bills will have zero problem staying armed. Fix the culture so they stop killing each other! BTW measured by LOCAL area (not States but the actual concentrated areas of violence) Chicago is quite like other Blue cities which refuse to address the issue of WHO is doing the shooting and insist on blaming externalities.
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  838. Organic artillery will remain vital to nation-state war, even for a superpower like the US (which has neglected its tube arty but wisely invested in rockets and missiles). Towed arty is obsolete except for air delivery which is really for constabulary operations (otherwise it's going to be a bloodbath like obsolete contested beach assaults) so donating serviceable equipment to Ukraine is a fine way to use it for its original purpose....destroying the Red Army.
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  839. Indirectly contributing to vast social damage is a moral crime too new for law but not too new for lead.
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  840. I was alive when the USSRs tankie fan club were certain of Soviet victory. I was stationed in West Germany when the Warsaw Pact was expected to crash through the Fulda Gap. CIA incompetence gave the US disaster after disaster and missed key events like the Iranian Revolution. I am not impressed with them any more than US military senior leadership who gave us decades of deception re: GWOT (for which no one was punished).
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  841. Not enough to fight like Taliban to get rid of it. Grumbling means nothing, only violence. Iran could shrug off the mullahs as easily as it shrugged off Pahlevi. That is not happening.
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  842. Calling him a "vigilante" is incorrect. He punished no one but Americans are barely literate. He did NOT take JUSTICE into his own hands. He merely made a loud noise. Don't live in NYC. I left the area long ago because its future was obvious. The moral of this story is mind your own business like they do in prison. Don't help people because you WILL be punished by the state. He's going to prison for years unless he gets lucky. His life is ruined!
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  843. Greenfield sites in warmer areas near seaports make sense, so that's where new factories are built. Foreign companies (BMW, ZF, Continental Tire) do fine employing American workers, but who would voluntarily locate in the frozen hell of the Rust Belt now that the Industrial Revolution is ancient history? Detroit as it was became obsolete. The US is vast and does not need it. The solution for old buildings is a wrecking ball. They served their purpose and need not exist.
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  844. End immigration of unskilled people. We have too many useless eaters already. Nations have no obligations to outsiders. Those contending otherwise are traitors.
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  845. Civilized nations like Germany regard scams as scams.
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  846. Find a lawyer to articulate how that could actually work.
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  847. The entire east coast is not "crippled" . Importing Chinese consumer crap is not survival. Exaggerating for views is not cool. The employers (often foreign owned) can afford to pay the contract but choose brinksmanship. This was coming for YEARS.
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  848.  @markojovanovic9651  They've broken no laws and the consumer is perfectly free to choose different hardware. Apple knows most users consider computers magic and would never upgrade RAM or storage even if that were an option. They get rich serving those customers so no one else should be offended, just amused which I am. Apple target the luxury market quite effectively and their customers are delighted so I see no problem. My choices are unaffected by Apple.
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  849. No because Russian culture is not at all like German culture and cultural differences are real. Germany was invaded and the Third Reich destroyed. Russia cannot be invaded and cannot be governed by outsiders because it has nukes and because of its vast geography. That means ONLY existing internal power blocs will contend for future power. They've over a century of snuffing their competition since 1917. Unlike Germany which had a unified culture with strongly held preference for hard work and community service, Russia has been the proverbial bucket of crabs since Bolshevist purges made everyone a potential threat, often lethal. Western secular democracy is a EUROPEAN cultural outcome, not a Russian one (Russia barely overlaps some of Europe). Russia has no democratic culture or traditions, merely replacing tyrants with other tyrants from Tsar to Bolshevik to Stalinist all the way to Putinist today. All economic aid would be stolen by the same people or their successors. Any Western involvement will be the focus of opposition so the West should (THIS TIME) stay out. "Shock therapy" was a disaster because the oligarchs looted the entire USSR. Germans had a previous taste of electoral freedom in the brief Weimar Republic, were defeated by democracies, and were freed after a benign, protective Occupation (which resulted in many marriages and great goodwill in general). OTOH Russia is eternally savage with the Muscovites sending poor Boyars, Tatars and other minorities to die for the Kremlin as did the Soviets and Tsars before them. There is no mutual goodwill in Russia and it shows. That is no basis for recovery. There are no reliable institutions of law, media or anything else, not even those the state values.
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  850. Self-storage thrives off American ignorance, compulsion and stupidity. It's not some sad grasp at a "dream". A majority of Americans read THEREFORE THINK at an 8th grade level or lower and make zero effort at self improvement. They refuse to equip themselves for success then wonder why they make bad choices if they wonder at all. Objects are either tools or trash. Things one does not use are money ALREADY wasted so spending more to cling to them is idiotic but people still do it and they are not going to change. People who refuse to be responsible adults get what that invites. They crave entertainment instead of learning to be entertained by self-education. They ensure self-storage will be a solidly profitable business for eternity.
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  851. Oh really? Did a long containment benefit the (now gone) Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact? You shills are working hard lately.
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  852.  @darrennew8211  Most non-technical people haven't enough clue to know they haven't a clue.
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  853. China and Russia REMAIN enemies of Western civilization. Social media is garbage and if something replaces TikTok it won't be missed as its mindless users will go elsewhere.
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  854. The Americans who sold out our nation are an existential threat to Western civilization. That's why pointing that out is punished.
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  855. Just say no. No one forced you to be what you chose to be. America is not the problem. the CHOICE to be a junkie is the problem. OWN IT.
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  856. Where are all these fantasy Gripen supposed to come from?
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  857.  @kenmore01  Battery capacity is relevant. Those heavier batteries DISPLACE PAYLOAD and the added weight reduces off-paved road mobility. Not every department is urban LA.
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  858. I cannot imagine greater cruelty than inflicting life on an innocent being by producing that being. I do not regret ending my line even slightly. Others will breed or not, but that is not my problem.
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  859. This would a wise time to request more US military aid. There is plenty of appropriate equipment in storage suited to the terrain including many MRAPs, M113 family of vehicles (which can be uparmored easily to Bradley thickness and fitted with ERA), artillery (tube arty is always useful and never really goes obsolete), trucks and the many necessities required for a military buildup. The equipment is sound and fit for purpose but not "expeditionary" which missions require different hardware to counter Chinese operations in nation-state war.
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  860. The moral of that is not to live there since development ONLY makes life worse. What we do not own completely we can not control.
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  861. The real tragedy is Ireland NEEDS a "far Right" movement to take back Ireland for the Irish. How long will people consent to be ruled by tantrums, let alone by cultural enemies of Western civilization?
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  862. The burden of proof in debate is on the person making the assertion. What precisely is your evidence?
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  863. Only one? At least it's a start. The system is owned by the rich elites immune to law but not lead.
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  864.  @orlock20  They can be HERF'ed, CIWSed, and SHORAD is a thing in modern armed forces. Forces which cannot afford ubiquitous SHORAD will be disadvantaged.
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  865. Lease don't buy unless YOU are a mechanic (which is large fun and makes your wallet go much further).
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  866. Depends on the auction but they only need to make a NET profit on their entire vehicle flow.
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  867.  @lyndasmythe2692  Cost to complete depends on local conditions. How many container shops or homes have YOU personally constructed? I suggest building yourself a container shop first as that will facilitate whatever you decide to build on that property.
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  868. In other news the ocean is wet and the sun reliably rises in the east.
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  869.  @velierengogebakan3352  Russia has always been at war with Western civilization and has not evolved morally since the Bolshevik takeover. The former Warsaw Pact have no use for Russian masters so they aid Ukraine.
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  870. Only an idiot would believe a tiny warhead or few at that height was a credible attempt at assassination, but most of humanity are of low intellect and that's who propaganda targets.
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  871. Most Warthog kills in DS were Hellfire shots and they still got perforated by enemy SHORAD. Their ABDR troops were next door to me at KKMC and did a magnificent job but it was obvious even then A-10 were best used in counterinsurgency not nation state wars. Gun pods were previously tried on Phantom with similar results. Heavy aerial cannon other than in COIN are long obsolete and getting close for CAD/BAS against opponents with modern defensive systems is begging to get shot down. Fortunately modern controllers can use anything that carries ordnance for battlefield air support including strategic bombers.
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  872. The US should adopt Koranic justice because it works. Our system is an utter failure. In contrast you can walk down a Dubai gold souk and see hundreds of kilos of gold jewelry on open display because anyone shoplifting would be dealt with appropriately.
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  873. Mangione realized like most of us do that there is no hope for peaceful change which is why it does not happen at scale. The only difference is he chose to act in the only way our rich masters understand. They brought this on and because there is more money involved than any illegal drug cartel generates they will just hire security and continue robbing the people legally using the best government (their) money can buy. There is zero hope of legal change which is why things continually get worse.
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  874. M113 was a NATO battle taxi designed for the nuclear battlefield so no surprise it was terrible at urban combat and it's only advantage in Southeast Asia was light weight made it mobile where other machines could not go. APCs themselves are a mistake because their capabilities COERCE use in direct combat where they do not belong. That's why APCs are mostly known for being destroyed in mediagenic ways. This nonsense goes back to the M2 halftrack in WWII which were known as "Purple Heart Boxes". M113 have been upgraded due to poverty by many foreign users but the sooner they're expended or made into artificial reefs the better. Like HMMWV, it wasn't very good but it was all there was for its assigned roles which were mostly not what it was designed form. IFV good, APC delicate soft target.
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  875. State borders are lines on a map. Simpletons fear change because they're unintelligent. Enemies should not share dirt. Enemies should not pretend they are not enemies. Leftists should WANT to exclude Rightists and Rightists should WANT to exclude Leftists. We have nothing in common and separation is better than war. Leftist urbanites should be delighted at the gift of enhanced political overmatch by redistricting (states are merely legislative districts without truly distinct cultures in the manner of European countries). Unfortunately Leftists cannot tolerate anyone wanting to escape them so they insist on making armed conflict inevitable. Their weakness is they don't want to do their own combat but to have whatever Kremlin they elect handle liquidating "kulak" rurals. Unlike the rest of the world, Americans anticipated Soviet subversion and won't go quietly.
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  876. ^Wisdom right there.
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  877.  @alexandermackie7621  As an early Cold War (which never ended) I am delighted to see old systems my taxes paid for long ago finally used to actively defend civilization against the NeoSoviet menace. I spent a happy long tour in USAFE doing my bit in very welcoming West Germany which it was an honor to defend, and seeing Ukrainians fight for their freedom against their genocidal (both then and today) Russian assailants warms my heart. The only decent Russians are in the Russian Legion and while the quest to reform Russian culture from within is of course doomed their courage is magnificent, like that of the White Russians against Bolsheviks.
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  878. Russians were always good at espionage, subversion and propaganda (the poorly done propaganda is targeted at simpletons, other propaganda and subversion is much less visible). They created nearly the entire modern Left (Maoists of course did their share), attacked NATO energy independence via "green" movements and easily chilled opponents via Novichok and open windows.
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  879. There are good states where police are appreciated. NY is not one. Choose wisely.
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  880. The USPS is Constitutionally mandated and this is why.
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  881. A visit from a Ukrainian sea drone may be in order. Yantar is a valuable enemy asset best sent to Davey Jones locker along with the personnel it contains to deny the enemy both vessel and skilled operators.
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  882. Career Viper fixer here who disagrees on the operational end of maintenance and support. Running foreign students through USAF tech school courses has been done since before the Air Force was a separate service. Any farm kid (those still exist in eastern Europe) can make a fine jet mech due to tactile familiarity with machinery. It's easy to retrain troops who worked on older birds (every senior maintainer in the early Viper maintenance community worked something else beforehand, I came off Phantom and Bronco) which required more mechanical adjustments and had complex, primitive avionics and comms. Before the USAF kept maintainers mostly on one airframe the diversity of experience IMO made better technicians. Any car mechanic can make a jet mech and many are both. I could teach a rock to work on one and all Ukraine needs is the equivalent of DEPLOYED US squadrons with the rest left inside NATO for safety. For example engine and avionics back shops could sublocate to Poland and be supported easily via existing NATO units and other resources. POL is old news for any armed force and quite easy to learn. Any fuel truck with an SPR hose can fuel one and connecting those is simple plumbing. POL for hydraulic oil and lubricants. is a simple task of ordering the correct NSN then having it shipped through the usual channels (Fedex, DHL and UPS make the DOD world go round). Fuel is ordinary tanker truck logistics not requiring military tankers so long as a pump etc is available at the receiving end. While the OVERALL feat of supporting an F-16 squadron is enormous like any fighter unit, the PIECES of that puzzle are refined over many decades and not difficult for any individual to perform which is of course the point. Most of those pieces can be managed from far, far away as the US does on deployments. Ukraine doesn't have to reinvent every wheel and perform every task. They do need to get good at a select few but tens of thousands of other humans did so easily with far less motivation. Today we have Zoom and other comms so a factory tech rep or maintainer from another air force can if desired talk a Ukrainian through troubleshooting including tricks and kinks not covered in job guides. Technical Order automation means any number of copies are instantly available (and no hapless airman has to A-page paper manuals).
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  883.  @skycloud4802  Most common drug causing that is ALCOHOL. Weed, not at all and only the refridgerator is in danger.
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  884.  @wildfire9280  Of course since young males worldwide are basically the same the tribal fratricide between indigenous Americans was also epic. There are no "good guys" just winners and losers in the same games.
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  885.  @Bradymcbridhe8304  Why isn't self-determination "responsible" when oversized nations cannot be governed in a way that really respects LOCAL concerns? Nations the size of the US and Canada require oppressive federalism to function. The larger the population the less value one vote has.
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  886. How energy efficient is shipping used pods for recycling, counting all the steps?
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  887. Turns out "toxic masculinity" is the only defense against rule by tantrum.
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  888. I get a ticket about once every 20 years and pay them. I can't snivel because I was speeding. Don't like tickets? Drive wisely then pay your "road tax" when your foot gets heavy.
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  889. NYC returning to historic normal. I'm amused anyone doesn't know this. I escaped the metro area when it was much more violent (at least the music scene was decent) forty years ago. This is a normal urban cycle and smart people LEAVE to avoid it. The traditional way was to make your money in the city then cash out and retire elsewhere, even better if you live in the burbs and commute. Unless you're making serious money there is no intelligent reason to live in urban America. You can't fix normal social cycles but you can cash out and enjoy the rest of America.
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  890. Those who can should hang out for the pay bumps after 20 if you can because you will be doing something either way, and max out TSP if you have it.
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  891. Build more and expand the Indian military shipping industry. The Indian Navy will have trade to protect as shipping conditions become increasingly risky. India must become a maritime power to defend itself. Don't neglect support vessels, floating drydocks and the vast support carrier battle groups require including missile cruisers. Carriers are increasingly vulnerable requiring defensive pickets, ASW ships and aircraft, and of course submarines.
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  892. That won't last and gets way too much press. Trucking is competitive and businesses will always be able to book loads. Most people know little about how that industry works.
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  893. Escalation doesn't favor the Dems, but if they want to FA they will hilariously FO.
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  894. WHY DOESN'T the title say CAR JACKING?
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  895. Beware of oversimplification. UPS drivers are expensive. Amazon and USPS contract drivers are cheap. Examine which jobs see layoffs and most of them aren't important to the actual function of the US. My car and truck mechanic bros have plenty of work, ditto my HVAC and welding buds. The oversupply of people who may not be awesome at tech means heavy culling now and then. To be REALLY good you have to be an enthusiast since childhood, not just go to coding bootcamp and think the sun shines out your posterior. The US workforce is varied and enormous so WHO is getting laid off and who is not is relevant. The Georgia Pacific mill down the road from me is running full out and logging pine plantations is heavy because there is so much demand for the physical objects made from wood. Managing data is not the same and highly vulnerable to improvements in efficiency.
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  896. Hungary being pro-Soviet should be ejected from the EU. Too bad it cannot be traded for Ukraine as Hungarian love for Putin is impressive.
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  897. Israel should cut off water to Gaza. Israel got lazy and that fence (it's not a wall except in short sections) should have been picketed with artillery. Every Israeli should be armed 24/7 but they stupidly failed to have a gun culture. There is no excuse for a nation under permanent seige to not totally militarize every aspect of its society. The alternative is losing.
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  898. What are you doing to CHANGE careers? Adult education is awesome and thanks to Pell grants, lottery money and other student aid can be very close to free. Short term ways to get paid include getting a CDL and hitting the road. If you're not too old the military is a great instant career (bonus, it got me out of Jersey). Choose to be versatile and do things impractical to outsource.
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  899. Canada failed to eject the Crown and chose to serve monarchy instead. That mindset is deadly over time because it inculcates statist thinking. When the state eventually becomes your enemy you have no options. Leftist thinking teaches everyone else matters but you do not, and that YOUR PROPERTY (the commons) is not for your own but for the rest of the world. Those giving away YOUR commons are advantaged by importing your cultural enemies. You've been taught your culture does not matter. You've been taught you are worthless. You've been taught your country must grow population at all costs though that only benefits the rich elites.
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  900. Based on precisely what? What's the economic model for buying and maintaining them? Low acquisition cost isn't enough.
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  901.  @blackpowderriflehunter7573  M163 radar isn't suitable but a mobile modern CIWS on a vehicle which can carry a sufficiently powerful generator would provide track-mobile anti-drone and ambush busting like M163 did in ancient times. The power pack on M113 FOV doesn't provide much current being traditional generator sized to the Detroit truck diesel powering most of them. The US could certainly build something much more capable on a Brad chassis.
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  902.  @Call8129  "Semis" are strictly tractor-trailer outfits (running sans trailer is "running bobtail"). A "straight truck" (can be flatbed, dry van, reefer etc too) is one piece with no hinge in the middle and considerably different.
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  903.  @jeremyj5893  Ammo has some advantages though I was not one. I would absolutely take Ammo over SF. That's no contest and the isolation in the bomb dump is a very good thing since the politics is mostly elsewhere. IYAAYAS is the last politically incorrect slogan the AF tolerates.
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  904. Cities exist for economic reasons and when those reasons cease to exist the city becomes surplus to requirements. There is no fix which is why most of the positive verbiage in this video is vague. The individual fix is to leave even if you have to start walking because the humans whose presence IN the community keeps crime down wisely fled. Wise businesses have enormous choice near east coast seaports with superior everything compared to flyover country so they locate accordingly. Businesses desperately need a literate socially functional workforce so they choose accordingly.
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  905.  @zfunk9  Programmers (I'm into computers but don't code) tend to understand logic and logical thinking is delightfully portable!
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  906. Mangione did nothing wrong except getting caught. Jury nullification should be discussed.
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  907.  @crushingvanessa3277  A torch could do that easily and more but exposes the operator. Ukrainians with standard portable torches could easily drop all sorts of towers if they can get to them but explosives are faster, safer and permit partisans to escape.
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  908. F-16 needs a decent runway which are easily cleaned by common inexpensive FOD sweepers and the usual FOD walks. They can ingest considerably sand and all that does is clean the fan and compressor (I've borescoped many a Pratt and GE). F-16s have launched from roads and it's not rocket surgery. People lacking personal deployed experience constantly regurgitate memes.
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  909. Land reform caused more than one revolution. Today land reform means access reform and home accessibilty to the masses.
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  910. Putin has considerable experience destroying Moscow apartment blocks. I find it hilarious that Russia hasn't build revetments or HAS despite DECADES to prepare for war, but yachts aren't cheap. Equally hilarious is supposedly tradcon (in the minds of their tankie supporters) Russia has a city and air base named after arch-Communist Engels.
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  911. Shop online. I do. No wasted driving time, no wasted walking time, no wasted fuel and no problem. I do not reward businesses I want gone. For food I support my local supermarket and farmers markets.
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  912.  @armankordi  They'd be long gone anyway by now. 700K may impress Bubba but in industry terms it's not much.
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  913. Aviation is glorious (retired fighter fixer here). I like most of my bros do all my own work (and took care to live where there are no inspections so I don't lose days every year driving/riding my collection to get smogged).
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  914. Their customers (celebrities, drug dealers etc) will buy them for clout. Buyers are rarely coldly rational people.
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  915. Russia has a long record of depopulating Ukraine by direct or indirect coercion. It is fitting Russian demographics are impacted (yet again) by inevitably toxic Russian government. Russians seeking freedom left Czarist oppression, Bolshevik oppression, Soviet oppression etc and today quite logically flee Putinist NeoSoviet oppression. Civilization would be better off without Russia, whose record of tyranny, murder and genocide surpasses that of the Third Reich. While the former Axis powers were merely afflicted with bad governments, Russia has never and will never produce a good government. Decent Russians should leave as there is no hope in a nation which has imprisoned, jailed and shot its intelligentsia since Czarist times.
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  916. Rather sad fuel consumption as nothing about turbines makes them inherently thirsty at idle. Fuel consumption at idle and full power being the same indicates poor fuel management, perhaps due to inadequate fuel control design. (retired Bronco/Phantom/Falcon fixer here)
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  917. Homes and other structures do not burn without adjacent fuel. (9:54 shows how fuel foolishly allowed near structures ended them.) Is there a compelling pragmatic reason not to cut sufficiently large firebreaks around structures? Another option is earth-filled gabions (Hesco are famous) which deflect blown fire upward and do not burn. Using flammable material for homes was a terrible idea in California as proven by recent fires. Fireproof concrete shells have ample thermal mass (one reason hardened aircraft shelters and bunkers are pleasant to work in) and can completely protect contents and people. No replacement structure should be at all vulnerable to wildfire. No leaps of technology are required to make that happen. California also made the repeated mistake of building flammable structures and suffered the painful consequence. Outlaw flammable building materials new construction and require standoff walls/berms/gabions with zero flammable plant matter permitted for say fifty or a hundred meters around buildings and there will be nothing to burn. Every new home should be a fire shelter too. More durable structures would be a bonus. Steel buildings work nicely too and galvanized surfaces reflect sunlight. Underground living is safe and has comfort advantages too with famous Coober Pedy being an Australian example.
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  918. Of course prohibition is not about the Bible. Man makes pharmaceuticals. God made cannabis and man used his gift for thousands of years. Christianity is a fine idea more honored in the breach than the observance. Apparently burning tax dollars prosecuting victimless crimes is acceptable when it "pwns the libs".
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  919. This career USAF veteran of many deployments calls bullshit. While it takes most of a year to train an F-16 maintainer (I was one for two decades) and longer for a pilot, other equipment doesn't require slow leaking. Ordnance, vehicles etc are far easier to pull out of storage, that being the point of the way they're stored. ATGW and MANPADS are especially quick to learn.
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  920. Those wanting to change that situation are free to do what every other small grocery does, do it themselves. There is no requirement for large grocery chain stores which are mostly a post-WWII phenomenon. Locally owned and operated small businesses employ many people than large chain groceries and can locate nearer their customers. BTW fresh food is often best sold in farmers markets by multiple small vendors and those offer low income folks a way to make money. Big chain stores are not your friends and killed off many "mom and pop" community businesses. As for health risks, the CHOICE not to drink soda (any soda) and not to eat whatever tastes good is on the individual. There are plenty of monstrously obese rich white folks who can afford any food they might want, but they refuse to make wise choices. Most humans eat unwisely by choice, not circumstantial coercion.
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  921. That approximate price point worked great for my late boss who retired very well off. He also bough for cash (mostly) and did great every tax season.
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  922. I've no idea why anyone found Linus remotely appealing, but I'm an adult.
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  923. How many years did you work on, with or fly Vipers and in what capacity? They aren't integrating into the US combined arms network they're integrating into their own established network with their own controllers etc. Ukraine is used to much more awkward, primitive systems while Vipers are quite user friendly. (I've roughly 22 years working A/B/C/D/CJs and four previous on Bronco and Phantom for comparison.)
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  924. WTC was considered excessive when it was constructed but opponents lost. The dense urban model should be rejected because NYC is already overcrowded. Like Robert Moses neighborhood-disrupting roads, enormous non-residential structures are a waste not least because PHYSICAL COMMUTING is a polluting energy waste. Workers go to NYC to make money not out of pleasure.
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  925. They exist but most of those people are skilled welder/fabricators like Andrew Camarrata who enjoy industrial space. If curious and you have the space I recommend doing what I did and buying a one-trip grade 40' High Cube (the height makes considerable difference, standard height containers ventilate poorly while HCs have room for overhead storage hung from the ceiling tiedown hooks which easily support thousands of pounds). Make a workshop out of that and you'll learn enough to fab a house if you want one.
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  926. Root cause analysis is the focus of mishap investigation. Clearing the channel without causing more problems is the focus of the maritime demolition crew. Accuracy is far more important than speed in both cases. Once the ship is freed and moved where it can be examined and repaired all its systems will be available for technical forensics. Right now the important parts need to be operable.
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  927. Cool tech but crappy video.
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  928. Pakistan is a permanent, existential and untenable threat to India by choice. Pakistan sabotaged the Coalition efforts in Afghanistan because it prefers the Taliban to any freer government in order to leverage Pan-Islamism against India. Now domestic "Pakiban" have Afghan support and a government in Islamabad as bad as that the Talibs overthrew in Kabul. If it is not possible to neutralize its nuclear weapons when the government collapses India may be forced into a counterforce strike...
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  929.  @i4ofjaodfivnagjioaweitj  Depends on where you choose to live. I grew up in a very nice north Jersey suburb but those are totally restrictive ( I find the idea of renting a single garage bay obscenely ridiculous) so i left that overtaxed expensive over-regulated corrupt place. I bought cheap old homes needing work in NC then SC over the years and did the work (which is simply like most things a matter of DECIDING to learn ho then making the effort) which saves absurd amounts of money. If you need a new personal capability then choose to add it. Perfectly ordinary people do nearly every task in civilization which means others can learn them too.
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  930. Apartments are prisons like "condos" (a fancy word for apartment) and as that building deteriorates your fees skyrocket. The whole condo concept is a scam and that it works for a few doesn't make it wise when you own a proper house and enough land for to buffer against neighbors (I live on just under six acres). When you do not own the ENTIRE structure you live in you really have nothing because you are at someone elses mercy. Instead, make sure your property is easy for you to care for. For example if you have overgrown trees cut them down before removal gets really expensive, and cut down every tree in falling range of your home. Most people forget to look up then get hit with brutal arborist bills in their old age after what used to be a comfy esthetic feature turns into a threat. Replanting away from structures gets a nice visual barrier far enough out to be safe.
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  931. What might those places have in common? Bangor, Maine was pretty quiet.
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  932. Much more importantly, the Jones Act supports American strategic sealift and helps keep shipyards available for future wars and other disruptions.
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  933.  @Alwayswilling  Post your expertise dealing with Palestinians and why you imagine there would BE any qualified Palestinians familiar with deploying those specific systems? Why do you ASSUME they would do it right? What is that idiotic babble about "real and lasting value" coming from? Contractors like KBR deliver value consistently building whole bases overseas. Think about more than GOP vs Dems for a second if that's even possible. Palestinians are Jihadist enemies of the US so letting them near US equipment just feeds that enemy more intel and offers opportunities for suicide bombers etc. Why would you want the enemy crawling all over US equipment? As a vet I'd want them as distant as practical. Also remember terrorists can infiltrate the Palestinians so hiring them is a security failure.
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  934.  @KrisD007  Old engineering data was not stored like data is today. Many items they may have specs for would still be long out of production by companies which no longer exist. NASA doesn't make most of its own part just like the Air Force does not make aircraft. When experts retire their skills retire with them which is far more than makes it to print.
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  935.  @mikesteelheart  The Silent Generation ran the US in the 1970s. Boomers were too young to be in power but the WWII generation was firmly entrenched.
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  936.  @gregorymalchuk272  They should have known Scouts were a very niche model vulnerable during the gas crisis and subsequent economic disaster. Great trucks though and if they'd galvanized them would still be here in droves.
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  937.  @DarkCrimson1999  Merely selling it to an informed buyer should NOT be outlawed. I saved tens of thousands doing all my own repairs because I bought homes in poor condition. Before most Americans turned helpless it was expected people would learn enough DIY to take care of many or most of their own problems.
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  938. Things haven't changed much. You may not be aware of the Anschluss which was well known before US primary education was gutted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement Ukraine is an analog to Czechoslovakia where Europe greeted Hitlers demands with legs akimbo.
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  939. WHAT? How did you miss out on WWII? The Soviet Union got vastly more. So did the Iraqi government and failed constabulary mission in A-stan (a vastly different war).
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  940. They have or should be issued radios. They don't need phones on premises. Why does anyone imagine otherwise? The military don't let trusted soldiers take phones into secure classified facilities. Prison staff don't need them either.
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  941. Why in your opinion were Dolton voters so foolish? Do you plan on escaping this doomed community?
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  942.  @tjobrien4486  Probably because no one who would is smart enough to manage it.
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  943. They will never be safe living in an enemy culture. Christians in safer nations should work to take them in as refugees which is completely legitimate because the threat to their lives is thousands of years old and will not change for the better so there is no use pretending otherwise. Likewise their enemies should be banned from Christian nations because charity does not include importing people whose belief mandates destroying every other culture.
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  944.  @suyashsingh6976  Russians would have generated far more sorties if they took pilot training seriously. Instead they could not conquer their next door neighbor. There is little evidence of Russian air force skill and to judge by the fat old pilot shot down over Ukraine they don't even prioritize physical fitness as the US does. Combat aviation is a HIGHLY athletic pursuit.
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  945. How long have you been a diesel mechanic and on what systems?
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  946. Flag of convenience users are really just tax evaders. Global shipping should aggressively increase regulation to level the financial playing field, for example charging higher port entry fees with the difference paying into a "superfund" (to borrow the US term) to cover damages caused by parasite carriers in general. FOC nations are poor because they're incompetently run so they have no economic leverage and may be treated accordingly. One way would be appropriate fines and perheps impoundment of unsafe vessels.
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  947.  @PhilLesh69  The Army and other depots are why when I was in USAFE in the early 80s we had no noticeable supply disruptions and so very importantly could take for granted we'd have parts to support exercises like REFORGER. The Soviet Union had nothing to compare in that respect but their break-bulk logistics were wisely not publicized by NATO though they had to have been obvious. Never interrupt one's enemy when he is making a mistake.
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  948.  @despectablebosshandlemantle  That would be an absurdly niche, highly inefficient and rather useless conversion vs. running a much lighter less complex petrol-engined scooter in the first place.
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  949. Over a century of Russian subversion, wars and operations other than war is the first reason. To create the preconditions for Communist requires Bolshevik methods because Communism cannot tolerate individuals or groups opting out. Worth noting is neither mainland China or Viet Nam are Communist except by name.
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  950.  @attilakovacs6428  Then please advocate Hungary leave NATO and everyone will benefit.
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  951. Congo still has chattel slavery too, in many cases of child workers. https://freetheslaves.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Congos-Mining-Slaves-web-130622.pdf
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  952. Most Americans read therefore think at 8th grade level. The public are too ignorant to elect competent government and too proud for self-improvement. Proverbs 16:18
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  953. No one needs a new HD since the old ones at least are lifetime machines. The new ones are too complex for that.
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  954. MLSR and ASM and UAS would be more valuable than jets, but asking for jets to get those instead is good policy. Aircraft are horrid resource sinks with vulnerable basing and valuable crew. A meatbag riding a jet should be seen as backward compared to weapons that self-deliver and often feed video to home station. The West should saturate Ukraine with missile systems capable of medium range attacks to reach where ATGW cannot and to complement drones.
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  955.  @auntierain444  Who are you to define culture? Why is "culture" carefully always portrayed as positive even when it's patriarchal?
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  956. The gap is temporary. Ukraine is not a modern war, it's a war with some modern devices between two poor backwaters. Tanks ideally suit their purpose of heavy mobility including carrying SHORAD. Jets can be stored in HAS rather than left on the ramp as Russia does, and they fly well above cheap drones while being able to jam and kill larger faster systems.
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  957.  @winstonwho  Post a direct connection to that bridge rather than random blaming. This is a specific incident with a specific history. When did a GOP vote affect the construction of that bridge in a manner to prohibit fenders?
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  958. Why "female" gets views is due to thursty desperate losers but whatever feeds the algorithm if it puts this war in front of more eyeballs I approve.
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  959. Refugees come to the US with nothing and make it, but many Americans are afraid to leave bad locations so they waste their whole life living in one place.
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  960. This is the reason the war between the states was a long term mistake. The US is too large to govern fairly. Two smaller nations would offer the enormous benefit of not having to live with each other. Absorbing the CSA ensured eternal and widespread national resentment because neither side can be free of the other. Existential enemies should not share dirt.
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  961. The CCP isn't going anywhere despite all the astroturfing otherwise.. It can afford incompetence as it afforded famines and the Cultural Revolution which are now just memories. Collapse is just capitalism adjusting periodically. It's amusing to watch from a distance though.
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  962. No. People with money can be relieved of that money, especially when it's hidden in their selectively opaque system.
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  963. The public elect the system. Unfortunately most people are ignorant by choice and not very bright.
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  964. They probably do know better but Russian infantry are so expendable this doesn't pose a problem. Stalinist methods broke the Wehrmacht despite the grossly disproportionate K/D ratio. Most Russians are from socially expendable groups and that really does matter. Wagner and non-Muscovite losses are a feature not a bug.
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  965.  @kirkpalmer1709  Don't forget property tax!
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  966. He came to destroy their culture like so many others before it. The Sentinelese acted in cultural self-defense. History is littered with the corpses of people who made the mistake of welcoming cultural enemies.
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  967. Samsung could greatly improve customer experience by making its bloatware uninstallable. Great hardware but the shovelware is a waste of space.
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  968.  @therabbi9848  The US military failed in TWO constabulary operations when it invaded against popular will. What about Mexico doesn't advantage the dispersed defense in a land whose geography is as bad for outside control than A-stan or Southeast Asia?
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  969. Chasing historical comparisons is lazy thinking. Our situation is itself. Don't seek to simplify, seek to know what is. Nearly no one seriously studied Weimar in the West in recent decades and the popular version of pretty much everything is worthless feelings. The details of Weimar matter....to Weimar. That's a very dead era and while fapping to fantasy dystopia is fun for some it is also not analysis.
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  970. Perpetual growth population growth just makes lives worse. Life is so nasty humans had to invent imaginary friends and imaginary paradise to pretend things can get better after we croak. Population reset is not big deal except to our owners. I refuse to give the elites more victims.
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  971.  @jeffk464  That is NOT what that really means. What it means is aircraft are so complex they need a vast variety of parts such that no Supply system can keep up without cannibalization from the line to backshop. (Cann'ing to chase stats OTOH sucks moose balls and I'm not a moose so not a fan!)
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  972. Beautiful moneymaker for the salvage company! Those tanks are much less expensive as open-tops but there's no reason they couldn't be capped with basically a flatrack with fireproof gaskets if they needed to be moved without spillage. The open-top boxes are common for road accident response though and may have been available from stock. Dragging those junkers through populated areas requires extra precautions in case of re-ignition so the tub containers are a good call. Modern recyclers can quickly disassemble those vehicles for scrap but there may be additional processes required for legal reasons.
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  973. It's been that since the colonial era. US drug prohibition paid to destroy the Mexican government and many other countries south of the border. The American people read therefore think at ~8th grade level so the US is not equipped to intelligently debate drug or foreign policy. That prohibits having intelligent drug policy so the problem is permanent and the "solutions" chosen by politicians will invariably be wrong no matter which party they come from. The American public do not at any effective level care about these issues. The are limited by low literacy to the understanding of children and are too fiercely proud for humility sufficient for change (despite what the Bible says about pride).
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  974. Time to greatly increase separation. That costs nothing. Aviation enthusiasts do not need to see anything more than the most basic flypasts to be entertained.
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  975. Then they have no reason to be in NATO and should exit.
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  976. Because it fails as a utility vehicle due to side entrance doors and tiny cargo capacity and lack of trucklike virtues including ability to take inserted campers etc. The end. HMMWV is a long obsolete ancient NATO utility truck for rear areas. (I was serving in West Germany when they were new.) Using it wrongly got many G.I.s maimed, killed and TBI'ed yet no ones career took a hit. HMMWV replaced the CUCV. It was never intended for direct combat. The US SHOULD have learned from SEA gun trucks for urban combat but of course were mongtarded. Let's not excuse lack of armor as being due to some "need for speed". It was pure bean counting negligence that never should have happened. NOW everything that matters will be armored after many killed, maimed, burned etc for no decent reason.
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  977. Retired aircraft/vehicle/industrial mechanic here who also never met a poor electrician, including the guy who signed off my inspection for $400 after connecting two wires from the pole. Trades chosen wisely gave me a very nice life.
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  978. Californian VOTERS are responsible for who they empower. They imagine themselves better than the rest of the US so zero empathy here. The old days are long gone and today was completely foreseeable and often foreseen. The voters will continue to vote hard Left, forever.
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  979. GOOD. People with attitudes who think they're free to disregard laws in nations which in NO WAY belong to them merit harsh correction. There really are no legitimate motives for tourism in these areas so the locals already know foreign tourists are there to buy pleasures legal or otherwise. They chose their fate.
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  980. Have you set up your own well or leased drilling rights in a suitably profitable manner? Specialty lawyers exist to draft contracts protecting the rights owner. A steady supply of your own oil and gas is the ULTIMATE prepper/SHTF move because wells can be powered without reliance on the grid or fitted with backup power (see "oil field engines").
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  981. Russian leaders were and are to Eastern Europe as Winston Churchill was to India, but it was easy to permanently buy Indian allegiance with weapons shipments. Indian worship of the Kremlin is permanent and uncritical making that a spectacularly effective investment. BTW the Russian Federation is not the Soviet Union, which imploded due to economic and social incompetence and whose former Warsaw Pact conquests do not mourn its passing.
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  982. There is no "revolution", that wording is just SEO. The research is worth doing though because compressed air has so many uses beyond transportation.
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  983. How dare you refer to legal adults as children?
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  984. China is the historic imperialist enemy of Viet Nam and the world needs periodic reminding, especially the clueless West. Both nations must live together but in order to be taken more seriously Viet Nam must arm itself sufficient to be a credible defensive deterrent. (That means not buying Chinese weapons so they cannot cut Viet Nam off militarily.) Vietnamese can develop their domestic arms industry, perhaps in partnership with South Korea and other modern nations also threatened by Beijing.
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  985. The US has piles of DPICM because DPICM is awesome (as Iraqi forces invading Kuwait found out the hard way). Expending them to turn NeoSoviets into dandelion food is righteous revenge for over a century of subversion (responsible for nearly all the global Left) and Russian aid which helped kill, maim and wound nearly every G.I. casualty since WWII. Russia in every historic form was and remains enemy to secular democracy as living survivors from Finland south to the end of the Med personally experienced. Warheads on NeoSoviet foreheads are a beautiful thing to be encouraged.
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  986.  @tylerdurden4006  Glavset shill or tankie detected.
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  987. When deployed to such areas the first sorties flown tend to be for local familiarization AKA "training". That's far from new and for example my squadron did so after landing in Al Dhafra deploying for Desert Shield.
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  988. Zeihan is what stupid people think smart people look like. He is a mere entertainer but most Americans read therefore think at an eighth grade level so he's popular.
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  989. I did what you are doing and it worked beautifully. 15 years flies by one way or another. You are on the right track.
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  990. It's German so neither. Sell it to some "aspirational" buyer as we did when I worked a used car lot. The further either are away the less one hears the screams after the owner gets their repair bills.
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  991. Do not have a home built. Current quality is terrible. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise, then buy an existing home after exhaustive inspection.
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  992. What "reasoning" can come from such a defective mind? People don't listen to radio to think critically, they listen for affirmation and comfort, which every popular talk showman dispeneses with skill from Walter Winchell through Paul Harvey to the modern lot.
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  993. Who is an outsider to decide "worth" from a position of wealth and comfort? If there were better jobs available the workers would obviously apply for them.
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  994. Most of the replies are pabulum spouted because they make the responder feel good. The real answer should be doing whatever WORKS MOST EFFECTIVELY. The "bad guys" don't lose because they're "bad" and often win. The "good guys" lose frequently, not least because they are naive. There is no coldly pragmatic reason for petty violence, but when it is time to destroy rather than preserve one should destroy. The Allies did not beat the Axis by conventional ethics DURING the war, they beat them by putting them to the sword and in the case of Japan, by nuking to underline our sincerity. If Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved net one Allied life they were worth it because enemy life has no intrinsic worth. Hippie sentiment does not beat the enemy to their knees. Victory was SECURED by ethical occupation which is different. Bomber Harris etc did give the former Third Reich an appetite for peace as Curtis LeMay's fire raids gently reminded the Sons of Heaven that actions have consequences, but their salutary POST-war effects were not why those campaigns were waged. Ethical post-victory behaviours, the "good cop" to the wars "bad cop" DO secure victory against SOME (modern nation state with something to lose hence incentive to comply!) opponents. Opponents are objects to be manipulated int he most effective way possible. Different cultures require different methods. Wars are not fought for moral but strategic reasons. They are MARKETED as moral crusades (which also makes withdrawal politically difficult thus prolonging them because crusades and sunk cost fallacies are emotionally compelling to the simpleton masses) because the public can't understand anything else or different. In the case of Gaza there is no way to conquer that defended fortress/city without destroying it. That was understood in previous wars so cities were destroyed and that was that. If you cannot destroy the city then you cannot defeat the enemy therein. Vast tunnel networks require destruction of the surface to get at the tunnels. I defy anyone to pose a different viable, non-fantasy strategy.
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  995. There is no reason it should.
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  996. Because Putin is a mere symptom of Russian culture. Russia is not some innocent nation with a bad government. Russia is collectively relentlessly evil from the bottom up. Putin rapes or shoots no one, ordinary Russians do. Putin doesn't loot captive states, Russians do. Russian exiles are fleeing to avoid going to war, not because they object in principle. They're nearly always economic refugees and there will be many spies among them. If you're old enough to have lived the 1950/60s through the Wall coming down this will seem business as usual because it is. New escapees (not really exiles) mostly bolted when the invasion went bad.
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  997. Change isn't crisis, it's inconvenience for some. The world was a far less crowded place in the 1960s compared to the Hobbesian dystopias of 2024. Populations always adjust to resources and because everyone dies (for a species death of the individual is a feature not a bug) fresh humans in some quantity will remain available. Growth is only worshiped by the greedy rich who monetize it and those the brainwash. The global lifeboat is full. We don't need to keep growing and local population declines are not some tragedy, just CHANGE, so adapt and get over it.
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  998. Good. Real bikers used to nearly all be wrenches. No one will care for your machine like you will and if it malfunctions on the road you can fix it. I'm the last vintage British mechanic in my area in order to maintain my rides but have zero desire to deal with the public. I also do Harleys but if it's not very recent their dealers won't touch them. There are so few high volume Euro bike shops in the US it just makes sense to wrench your own, and most of the rider community are pretty cool.
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  999. Most people are silly and ignorant. People broke today had years to prepare and learn how to be versatile, live wisely, and to never waste money buying junk they don't need to impress people they shouldn't care about. Don't be like most people because most people are trifling.
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  1000.  @wishiwasaneet26816  I'm thoroughly entertained because the clowns in this clown show don't even know they're clowns. Dolton will elect another Democrat too.
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  1001.  @theprimechuck  Only insurance companies can do that which is an insightful idea.
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  1002. Sounds like a shipper problem to me. Add a protection tariff to shipping transiting the Red Sea. Don't pay the toll and it's between shippers and Houthis.
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  1003.  @carver9312  The sooner acceleration leads to decisive conflict the better. Things have gone beyond recovery.
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  1004.  @michealbaker8216  Do you know the differences between the (dead) Tsarist empire and the (dissolved) USSR vs. the current Russian Federation? I suspect your account is the usual Glavset trolling since no sane adult would make such an embarassing analogy in 2023. A key piece of both defunct empires was Ukraine whose locals appear tired of Muscovite oppression.
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  1005.  @lovevioletflowers3442  Still not anyone else's problem. Contacting the airline for another flight is an option.
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  1006. Attack helos exist to put warheads on foreheads, but the warheads are getting good at that on their own. Meatbags in attack rotorcraft are becoming obsolete because rotorcraft are FORCE-LOSS MULTIPLIERS. Keep the meatbags in the rear with the gear and you don't lose their years of training, skill and experience to a MANPAD or RPG or small arms fire or missiles or drones.
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  1007. Men raised by women turning into heifers...
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  1008.  @GFS695  Most people are just weak, indecisive and afraid of change. Their ancestors were not or they would not be in NYC in the first place. Anyone can PLAN AHEAD to leave, it's not just jumping in a car and randomly driving, so I did.
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  1009. CROWDSTRIKE GROSS NEGLIGENCE just broke a billion Windows machines. No one will be punished and nothing will change, but many lulz are had.
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  1010. If there were legal ways to hold our owners accountable that WORKED.....but there are not.
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  1011. Titanic is DELICIOUS! Nothing is more romantic than the protracted chilly death of Gilded Age rich people so Titanic gets much more public interest over a century later than the subsequent bloodbath of the First World War. Interpretations of such exciting anguish will be repeated forever, and the money that moves in Youtube views alone is considerable. It's not about anything but emotion and Titanic's casualties gifted hundreds of millions of vicarious spectators with the endorphin rush they crave. It's so emotionally attractive people die in submersibles trying to get close enough to pleasure themselves directly and that yields even more delectable suffering to the waterfal of ghouls. The wealthy no longer travel in such delicate poorly engineered junk (some Boeing flights perhaps excepted) so we may never see the like until space tourism inevitably goes awry.
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  1012. Fund SSI and national health care from taxing the rich not the working class. Offloading taxes downward is a constant problem but no one is doing squat about that. Most humans are stupid without regard to the (artificial distinction of) generations. Stupid parents will make stupid choices including having kids in the first place which is PURELY an act of vanity and contributes only burden to an overpopulated world. If you want to fix the trust fund TAX THE RICH at the marginal tax rates of 1960 and stop letting the elites rob everyone blind. The average boomer had and has NO influence on anything because like any average drone they mean nothing and do not make policy. If you would focus your anger do so on those who make leadership choices for YOU, that being the politicians YOU elect.
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  1013.  @bobbob3834-j8r  PROTEST has a collective effect.
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  1014. If insufficient damage is done to Russia they will resume sooner than otherwise. Few moderns have the slightest clue about the history of the permanent Russian threat to civilization in Europe, the surviving victims in eastern Europe of course excepted. Ukraine and the rest of civilization benefits long term by doing as much demographic damage to Russia as practical so it becomes too weak to hold on to not just Ukraine but other areas like Chechnya where typical Russian savagery was ignored because most Chechens are Muslims. This war is not an isolated event but part of the permanent Russian drive for conquest which is its only national identity. The war must end with a strong intact Ukraine. Those who never experienced the early Cold War tend to have a very shallow understanding of what's at stake.
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  1015.  @michaeltarno2979  The first "stovebolt sixes" were in the 1930s and certainly not turds for their era. (I had a '37 Chevy pickup with a 216. ) They were good for the thirties and forties but there is no reason to confuse the great inline stovebolt engines with anything earlier or later. The 292 was as rugged as the 300 Ford and torquey enough that my bro towed a 40 pax International Loadstar schoolbus with his C-30 rocking a four speed and 292 over 150 miles on the interstate. Dangerous but the engine didn't care.
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  1016. Ford invested globally in the early part of the last century and profited immensely. TSMC is doing the right thing for stockholders by thinking long term. The US can never beat Taiwan's labor costs so there will be no reason for the company to exit it's home nation. If Taiwanese want something to worry about I gently suggest its hostile and envious mainland neighbor. Taiwan has a strong, PROFITABLE response option. Expanding the defense budget while increasing domestic manufacture can leverage Taiwanese design and manufacturing to eventually produce arms and equipment to defend Taiwan and sell to other democracies like India. Taiwan is not hamstrung by politically motivated export restrictions like Europe and the US while the military ISR and strike market needs and will continue to need drones and much more. Taiwan could seize that opportunity (the US is at capacity and severely hamstrung by politics) and by export help fellow democracies contain threats to Taiwan's freedom in ways merely defending itself (which is a cost center) does not do. Taiwanese industry can contribute even more to its defense and be paid to do it.
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  1017. Having a monarchy is absurd but it makes the simple and senile feel better. I find the US fascination with royals particularly scornworthy and ignorant of history.
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  1018.  @danhtran6401  Life is war and war is messy. There will always be casualties but letting the pursuit of perfection be the enemy of "good enough" is not useful. All systems have corruption. Worse cases look like the Russian Federation but China elevated more humans to a modern standard of living in a shorter time (since 1948) than any other nation.
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  1019. Santos people are happy with them so unless they choose to recall him he should stay. Americans deserve everyone they vote into power.
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  1020. Call them LAWBREAKING IMMIGRANTS.
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  1021. The WWII generation knew about them since the Red Ball Express was key to victory in the ETO, but the public today know little about history. The Red Ball Express were FAR more valuable to the war effort (armored warfare doesn't work without fuel and food!) than the Tuskegee Airmen. If every Tuskegee aircraft were shot down it would have been a statistic. If the Red Ball Express had failed the Wehrmacht would have prolonged the war and cost hundreds of thousands of Allied casualties.
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  1022. Seems a shame our primary education system is so broken we have people who don't understand the current situation yet permit themselves opinions.
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  1023. Q began as an amusing way to troll fools, and because there are so many fools it succeeded. Q is a inerrant idiot-seeking missile. What if you could PROVE millions of people were the fools you know they are by their own actions? The trolls who started then spread Q did exactly that with such spectacular effectiveness it became self-sustaining.
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  1024. Of course, but remember that almost always works in Russia on its intended credulous simpleton barbaric audience. That is good in some ways because ONLY demographic decline can usefully weaken Russia. Russia cannot reform because no Russians have a vested interest in secular democracy vs. their preferred bucket of crabs mutual predation. Compare and contrast mainland China which is a magnificent success and one of the winners of the early Cold War with Russians robbing each other blind in a story straight out of 1800s Economist articles! Muscovites are glad to be rid of Buryats and Tuvans they dupe and coerce into enlisting, and of course were glad to consume convicts until Wagner looked like a possible coup threat. Russians don't care about other Russians or their own veterans. Fortunately for civilization to which Russia is an enemy (and apes poorly but with the predictably intense vanity of the barbaric) Putin is doing more to (re)educate the world about the true nature of Russians while bleeding them out. Given that war with Ukraine was inevitable due to Russian nationalism it's far better Russian troops die and are maimed in quantity while their economy, tech sector and demographics crash and burn. Ukraine will rebuild. Russia should be left to its own scavengers which could not happen to a more deserving bunch.
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  1025. I never install firmware so-called "updates" because I have zero reason to. I avoid other firmware so-called "updates". HP have been trash since Fiorina ruined the company (at least Agilent escaped the disaster).
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  1026. It was painted gray but was hardly a warship in the sense of being able to give and take damage. In fairness NZ doesn't have a real navy, just a few decorative vessels for utility work. It's far too small to defend itself or even be a useful partner (why it ever made Five Eyes status is a mystery).
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  1027.  @marTn3  They chose their fate by impeding lawful travel by innocent citizens. Good people have had enough of that nonsense and some take action.
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  1028.  @je862  Too bad pay in many of those trades (I enjoy machining, wrenching of all sorts and retired as a jet mech) SVCKS. That gap is the only leverage to fix that so long may the gap continue. Collective bargaining is dead EXCEPT for collective disinterest.
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  1029.  @timothydana2726  No. Hollywood nonsense is best avoided.
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  1030. I don't look for how MUCH I can afford, I look for how LITTLE I can spend to get a useful result. I live below my means and life is good.
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  1031. Do thyself a favor and bring a small oxy-acetylene rig and leave propane-air baby torches for soldering. You'll save serious time and money. Those nuts would have been red hot in minutes then your impact would have snatched them. I wash off my nuts (well, the machine's nuts) off completely with cutting torch if they're really bad. With a little practice you can miss the bolt threads and it's fun to show people who didn't know what a torch with a small cutting tip can really do. About 12 psi acetylene and 30+ on the oxygen does the deed but different welders like different settings. Heating the nut then applying penetrant as it cools is also an option. Every mechanic should practice nut removal before they need to do it on a workpiece. Used cylinders are cheap (I collect them at auctions and have more industrial gases than many welding shops) and easy to score in quantity so ya never run out on a weekend. Used quality US-made torches are cheap online and rarely need attention. Any common US regulator is easy to rebuild yourself with a kit but they're cheap to send out to and then someone else cleans them up.
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  1032. Junk consumer drones are not all drones and all navigation is not by GPS and GLONASS.
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  1033. Wanting to avoid the draft is not necessarily pacifism, but it drains the enemy economy and the US has taken millions of Russians since Tsarist times who became good citizens and most importantly, strongly anti-Soviet! The NeoSoviet empire Putin wishes to respawn must be interdicted and hospitality is a fine way to gain loyalty.
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  1034. Fascism is a violent immune response to social failure. So is Communism.
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  1035.  @simonjusticier333  There are no battleships outside of museums.
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  1036. Some groups are protected classes who can get away with resistance. Juveniles are among them.
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  1037. Need and want due to managers wanting to justify their positions and office empires are very different. Many companies who hire serious talent who demand WFH (commuting is a polluting time/life waster and enormous expense over time) do well. OTOH some humans just aren't intelligent enough to work without an overseer, but hiring that sort is a mistake because bad employees poison group productivity.
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  1038.  @echohunter4199  Consaguinity is a real and major issue. DNA is hard to hide...
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  1039.  @MirzaAhmed89  That doesn't mean the rest of the structure does. What masonry or construction trade do you work in?
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  1040. Much love for Winnie but he was better at politics than military strategy. His military incompetence, previously costly at Gallipoli, squandered tends of thousands of casualties in Italy. The idea Germany could somehow be effectively attacked from the south was not sane.
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  1041. Flaunting wealth makes you a target. Buying chit you don't need to impress people you don't need to interact with is goofy. "Clout" is mostly for bottom feeders mental and social.
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  1042. Standing seam modern steel roofing is inexpensive, MUCH easier to install and lasts much longer than the usual asphalt shingle trash. My home was built in 1965 using much older reused barn metal. Not even hurricane Hugo bothered it.
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  1043. Do you have any citations for that since they're "loud"? Sounds more like unions howling about reduced labor. Castings can be welded (properly) and modern collision repair has found ways to join materials like (NHTSA tested) adhesives which are also used in new vehicle construction.
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  1044. 250K views makes plenty of money. Our views are ample recompense.
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  1045. I commend Italy for calling "armored cars" what they are. So are LAV, Stryker and all the spiritual descendants of WWII German large armored cars.
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  1046. Typo should be "Spahn ranch".
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  1047. Re: Training Ukraine on "complex" equipment. Training is complex for the providing agency but far less so for the trainer or trainee. Maintenance fears are almost always exaggerated and field maintenance of for example electronics involves troubleshooting of line replaceable units, not (emergencies excepted) opening up gray boxes and doing board level repair. Task and Purpose would benefit from finding a grizzled old tank technician (retired military contractor preferred or someone else with thousands of hours experience to assist an episode on how AFV and wheeled vehicles REALLY are (no clickbait outside the title, no excitment, just info from someone genuinely skilled. NO OFFICERS, technicians only not their supervisors. While mechanical systems impress those who do not work on them as next to magic, most of any TM or other pub is necessary reference material rather than steps of an actual task.. Military training is designed to turn rather average people (and Ukraine would logically send their most adept and quick learners) into effective maintainers in months. Modern AFV are very like aircraft without wings and the same companies make their electronics, sensors etc. A turbine is a turbine on a helo or a tank (and those are replaced with the assembled power pack in the field which is quick) and designed with rapid maintenance and repair in mind (though engineers do fuck up). I fixed Vipers for a living, trained many others in my turn, and training can and does turn anyone off the block and not completely retarded into a useful troop very quickly. The main drawback of ground vehicle maintenance is unlike aircraft they get the shit beaten out of them and the field working conditions are nasty with heavy filthy greasy parts, but that's not a tech issue. That's a don't be a little b1tch issue. Wrenching almost anything is fun or don't be a technician. I expect Ukraine sends volunteers first and people with prior experience on mechanical systems take naturally to working more modern stuff. Ukrainian enthusiasm is obvious and THAT is what makes a technician.
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  1048. I sold used cars for years and wrenched since the 1970s. There are many ways drivers can save money so I do. First is choosing a (proven make and model with a the most reliable drivetrains) used vehicle with low insurance costs you buy with only one concern, mechanical reliability. Most car buyers do no research and are "aspirational", buying cars they imagine impress other people. The less your vehicle books for the less collision insurance costs. Saving money on your vehicle means controlling all the O&M (Operation and Maintenance) costs throughout ownership. Be both informed and ruthless about money if you're not rich. That's also the way to (eventually) have plenty of toy money on a very modest income.
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  1049.  @Zoltan1251  Agreed. In your countries (I follow custom motorcycling) bikers rewind generators, alternators and motors which would be discarded in the West. I'm an old style mechanic/technician who took lifelong care to have broad, diverse experience. I repair and maintain nearly everything I own because it's so much fun and saves money I can enjoy buying more motorbikes.
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  1050. Better to keep the land unless you really need the money. If they want to farm or pasture horses they can rent it at whatever friendly rate suits you both.
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  1051. Deterring Serbia is an obvious part of the original deployment. If the US gets distracted they may get froggy.
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  1052. Condos are obviously a sucker play. Buy detached housing instead as I did. If you do not own ALL the land you live on, someone else does.
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  1053. Renter and Squatter are NOT the same thing.
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  1054. Sentence should include penectomy because anyone can take readily available male hormones. Delete the gun and the ammo.
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  1055. EMT and other responder personnel don't get paid extra for equipment deployments because they don't work on commission. They're just employees Standard procedures exist for reliable repeatable results obtained as rapidly as practical.
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  1056. It bears reminding Ukraine is not a modern war, it's much more like the Iran-Iraq war with a sprinkling of modern equipment. Neither side has a decent air force by modern standards because both Ukraine and Russia are too poor to field them. War requires Carrying Heavy Stuff over awkward terrain including defensive systems like SHORAD and APS. That's why the APC (a terrible idea in the first place because their capabilities force their use as AFV out of necessity then they get smoked) era is ending with AFV offering far superior protection replacing them. AFV are fine for troop transport but tanks carry far more firepower.
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  1057. For large fasteners that's not an issue. Most precise torque application is for "torque matching" patterns of fasteners as on cylinder heads, aircraft gear box flanges (I'm also a jet mech) etc. If in doubt torque to the middle of the specified torque range. Heavy equipment mechanics are major torque multiplier users but I love them for Harley compensator nuts because they offer control no other method does and do not do rude things to crankshaft bearings or crankpins when breaking torque for removal.
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  1058. Malls are an expensive time-wasting tedious way to get merch so good riddance, but what really killed them is thugs who wrecked the experience for the remaining people who still cared about going there. The point of living in suburbia is not having to share space with losers who break into your vehicle, rob you and even on a good day are worse than animals. Malls in the US are thug magnets so the more getting repurposed or demolished and replaced the better. Construction is relatively cheap and land valuable. Malls work in disciplined societies like Singapore but do not suit the US where the lower classes are brutish and proud of it.
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  1059. Vasectomy is freedom. Offspring are a horribly expensive hobby prone to backfiring badly. I got my vasectomy for MY benefit. All juice no seed no offspring no problem. My fellow G.I. and vetbros feel the same way and most would have done it early had they known how easy it it. I wouldn't do it for ANOTHER person but knowing what I do now I'd have done it twenty years earlier.
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  1060. Generous use of modern sea mines could make a real attempt interesting.
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  1061. Much of the southeast IS cheap but the vast majority of people are ignorant (ignorance in 2024 is a choice) so they cluster in formerly desirable areas thus ruining them. Humans are basically lemmings by choice but we can do better. It's really quite easy to not live in vulnerable locations by doing the most basic homework so I did before buying my homes. Mountains are pretty but as we see with Helene have many disadvantages notably fast moving water (which is what carved out those areas in the first place) and too many logistics issues which can make finding work difficult. Appalachia is poor for the same reasons it's purty so I don't live there. Flood plains have no advantages except for farming so I don't live in one. Coastal areas are hurricane bait and vulnerable to storm surge so I don't live in one. I live well inland and can drive to visit the ocean at much less expense. Useful locations inland are often easily affordable because the lemmings don't live there. Areas not far from transportation arteries are often affordable, quiet and have affordable land. A wise choice is buy land zoned agricultural so you have more personal freedom to build and do what you prefer. Neighbors are mostly useless but farmers tend to be competent people who don't bother others. Buying land in a very slow or no growth area is wise because that makes eventual retirement affordable. My property taxes are under a grand per year, overhead is dirt cheap and money I'm not forced to spend for nothing means more discretionary income. I planned decades in advance by learning what not to do from other peoples mistakes. I'm far from rich but retired at 47 since my military pension goes a long way in the right location. My alarm clock is a rooster and life is good. Anyone with a bit of determination can do likewise but fortunately for me and millions of others who live inland, they don't.
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  1062. Good for Poland! To the extent a nation takes in its cultural enemies it will become like them. A nation is the PROPERTY of its people, NOT the property of the world. The only reason subversives demand the EU gives its peoples birthright away is to destroy European culture. The Left who adore every outside culture and despise their own are the problem. Russian subversion promotes destruction of Europe by flooding it with cultural enemies. It is long past time for aggressive self-defense. There is no reason for Poland to suicide.
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  1063. What do you imagine those people do that is not redundantly covered by other key personnel? Ambassadors are decorative and mostly political appointees. The Navy chain of command was designed long before anyone reading this was born to function even with heavy casualties. The carrier groups are self-contained and can defend themselves or carry out national directives on their own.
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  1064. Nice to see someone else gets it. The addicts and no one else are to blame.
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  1065. Because Democrats love criminals and let the insane rule the streets.
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  1066. He was bad and everyone dies. All death does is limit the impact of most of the dead. He just limited his own impact. He was a POS and anyone who cared for him though like him and like him deserves to suffer FOR UNDERMINING AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH. Traitors the lot and to hell with them. If they deserved better they would be better.
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  1067. They can cry me a river. Even the ignorance of the American public and its tolerance for abuse have limits. I've never overpaid for a new vehicle because I am far too smart to buy one and paid off my home instead. Cars are disposable, houses bought to live in are for life. The vast, vast majority of new truck/SUV purchases are TOYS not necessities. Americans cannot afford these grossly overpriced unreliable toys. Good riddance. SERVE THE CUSTOMER or close.
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  1068.  @OpenCarry2024  Luigi Mangione was right. The enemy understands nothing else, and their choices invalidate their humanity thus every moral obligation to them.
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  1069. As a CISHET White male I am amused and entertained when different varieties of "feminist" squabble. Not my circus and not my monkeys.
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  1070. How many years do you have in aviation be it civilian or military and in what capacity? Cute sayings are not insight.
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  1071. That does not however address design deficiencies. I get at least two decades out of my trucks which I buy used after a few years of production but still had to replace a hydro-locked 4.2 that supposedly got the factory fix.
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  1072. If you can document this along with other builders that can help with a class action suit.
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  1073. If you repair a vehicle using another cluster always check the block indicating odometer reading is not actual mileage. I ignore odo readings and inspect the vehicles I buy but unless you are a mechanic or have one you can trust that's problematic. Given how much people spend on vehicles unless one is rich it's very good idea to study basic mechanics and if at all practical take a community college auto shop course early in life. The money that saves you will more than pay for the education. BTW a vehicle can have an accurate odometer reading but be repaired after crash damage without a paper trail. If you really want to be sure you need to either inspect it properly or have it inspected properly for wear, damage, signs of repairs like areas being repainted etc. Or you can do what I do which is buy beaters, sort them out myself and not have to care. I found something far more desirable than a nice car. That was the deed to my land and home. Cars and trucks are depreciating assets bound for the recycler sooner or later.
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  1074.  @basspig  The US is huge. Don't live in NYC! So easy. I left that area years ago. Since when should everyone be able to live where they cannot afford to live? That's absurd.
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  1075.  @nursynikki  When you have years of your life to leave, you can leave if you are dead serious.
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  1076. Projects and progress cost money. Best to get over that and build infrastructure.
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  1077. I don't see those as spectator sports are beneath me. Once we understand they are pacifiers for inferior minds we can discard them from our lives.
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  1078. Does Israel own sufficient shipping to transload cargo at ports distant from incoming rockets and missiles?
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  1079. Leftist infighting is hilarious.
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  1080. Spectator sports keep America distracted and ignorant. Watching someone exercise is like watching someone eat steak. Go DO something useful instead.
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  1081. Choose a different job. If you don't get interviews why are you still trying to get into that field? Why do so many people INSIST on learning non-marketable skills? I've never been unemployed because I always choose fields I KNOW will have openings. Pell grants, Lottery money and other student aid make retraining either free or sometimes even slightly profitable. Your choices are your problem. Stop wanting to do IT (or just IT) and use your computer skills to find job openings outside that overcrowded world. I don't follow the herd. You did but you have time to be different. One way to buy time is getting a CDL. Most trucking isn't fun but work is about money and that CDL can make you desirable in other fields. Consider the military if you're not physically, mentally or criminally disqualified. That's an instant career with early retirement and such a structured environment you have to choose to fail. Think outside your personal box. Boxes are imaginary and may be discarded.
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  1082. Why should the Navy care about foreign vessels sinking far away from the US? This is not a US problem nor should US divers be risked to bother with it because it is of no importance. It's only a cargo ship and few less years of service is of zero importance to the American public.
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  1083.  @Elyfairy  Living on the coast is always a bad idea unless one is a fisherman so I don't. Developers milked customers as the jersey shore was developed heavily after 1945. It took decades for Sandy to arrive but that's inevitable for coastal areas. While I escaped the Democrat-run taxation hell long ago my folks hung on until 2000 then cashed out and bolted for Virginia.
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  1084. The Irish used force to chase off the Crown. If they can muster one teste between them they can chase off treasonous politicians the same way. What would the men of the Easter Rising do in this situation?
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  1085. That fuselage structural integrity is impressive.
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  1086. Excellent kits exist for Indians. See Indian forums to find which best suits your use case.
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  1087. Most of the public SAY they want /thing but if the slightest effort or performance hit is involved
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  1088. Could be he was into something he shouldn't have been.
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  1089. America does not demand professional law enforcement nor is it generally willing to fund it.
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  1090. A large standing modern force is required and that means PAYING a volunteer force with or without supplementary conscription. It takes years to grow an effective modern force, not a mere year or two because war changed long ago. For example it takes four to six years (approximately) to grow a truly competent aircraft technician. Many must then be retained to train others. (I use that example because I fixed fighter/attack birds for 26 years.) If you care about defending your countries, defecate the money if you must but there is no proverbial free lunch. A National Guard and Reserve system like the US uses is an effective option provided they are fully integrated with the active duty force.
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  1091. Russo-Japanese war all over again but with even less competence.
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  1092. Maybe in 1999 manually configuring X or being unpleasantly surprised by having to buy a hardware modem (one of the first things I used Linux for was sharing a dialup connection reliably) but today Linux is easy to install, easy to use and EASY TO MAKE SUIT THE WORKFLOW YOU WANT. I use Windows as little as practical because I find it more annoying every year. I find Windows exasperating to deal with and (except for conveniently running some proprietary apps for which no FOSS alternative exists) and its software ecosystem much more limiting than otherwise. I don't game because I've no desire to waste time pretending but do have constant interest in learning. Linux and FOSS in general suits that well. I was fortunate to have techy bros who suggested I try Linux while still a computer noob because it demanded user engagement coercing users to learn how things work. For me Linux offers control, freedom, consistency, variety, zero cost and an enormous software base. For me OS exist to run applications so I run whatever serves me and Linux makes a solid VM host OS where I can use any OS I like, try anything which interests me, and revert to a snapshot if something breaks. (VM are a handy way to use Windows because when an update breaks something recovery is a reboot away.)
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  1093. That anyone has to explain what Russia has always been (an ontological enemy of civilization with a body count matching or beating the Axis) is unfortunate but the early Cold War is far enough in the past the average ignorant needs a refresher. Europe should fully rearm to 1980s levels and remain that way. Dreams of a peaceful world are always foolishly dangerous so the usual cycle repeats. If not for Ukrainian resistance Europe would remain uninspired, weak and at the mercy of the Left all of whom are Kremlin pawns witting or otherwise. Russia must be imploded with due care and it's remaining satellites allowed to chart their own destiny free of Kremlin influence. Russia was never good and cannot be allowed to respawn the Soviet Union.
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  1094. Bridges should be replaced by tunnels because if a tunnel fails shipping is not interrupted.
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  1095. If you cannot afford to live in an expensive urban area, don't live there. If you're wealthy, no problem.
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  1096. I've been a mechanic since the '70s (motorbikes, cars, trucks, jet fighters yadda yadda) and they most assuredly DO (Ford cruise control kickoff switches, various makes ignition switches etc thanks to long runs of permanently hot wiring harness) go up in flames without user prompting BUT that typically starts small enough to extinguish with a common extinguisher. The KIND and CHARACTER of BEV fires prevents control by most people including most first responders. I refuse to garage any motor vehicle in ignition range of my house and my two bay garage is all-steel down to the foundation perimeter surrounding the slab. However even that could not contain a BEV fire so if I get one to play with it will live in my open field.
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  1097. Vehicles should carry ONE license number for life as done in the UK. No temp tags etc. The US has many accumulated absurd laws.
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  1098. I found a financially efficient way to save tens of thousands of dollars and pay off my homes and acreage early. It's called not buying new vehicles. Dealers are just expensive rent-seeking middlemen trying to justify their existence.
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  1099. Why do you assume all drones are effectively "jammable"?
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  1100. MIT is not responsible for Gaza so disrupting an institution they do not own in order to protest policy MIT does not influence is absurd. MIT is PRIVATE property, not that these young anarchists recognize that concept. Expel them so the majority can get on with education, research and the other real purposes of college. Protest on campus is tolerated out of (IMO weakminded) tradition of letting mental children (however academically gifted or otherwise) experiment.
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  1101. UAW raises reflect NOT keeping up with inflation over time. If your pay doesn't match the rate of inflation every year is a pay cut.
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  1102. Do not buy mobile homes on land you do not own, ever. There is no law against silly choices but you don't have to make them. Trailer park life is a trap if you own the trailer. People who don't understand this are why trailer parks exist. If you're reading this and consider buying a trailer on land you don't own, run the hell away. Don't try to talk yourself into it. ignore anyone who does. It's fucking stupid on a good day and that's putting it kindly. BTW trailer parks will not "happily" pay to relocate used trailers because that deteriorating housing stock (the only people who contend mobile homes are garbage are invested in making or selling them, I've enough experience working on the damn things to know better!) becomes their problem. Trailers are a special kind of "housing" because they DEPRECIATE. That's why the new trend for landlords is building muliplex apartments which make better use of land for less work per unit. Keeping up with a trailer park is an expensive asspain and tenants are amazingly destructive to rental trailers (and often their own).
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  1103. Remove the SS tax cap. The rich (who OWN the US, let's not pretend differently) get away with murder in the US because the public are drooling incompetents who only care about sports and "influencers".
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  1104. Their culture, their choices, their rules, their dinner. One cannot say anything of value was lost because it never existed.
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  1105. How many casualties were a loss to society? Criminal fratricide is a feature not a bug provided they keep it to themselves.
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  1106. Counter is a drone swarm with more drones than you have rounds, ability to loiter until you are forced by human defects to rest/eat/defecate, and ability to simultaneously attack from different vectors including angles of attack optimally difficult for humans to counter like straight down and do so from BVR.
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  1107. Why do you imagine him to be "mad"? It's silly fun to call names but evil does in no way imply or require "madness" (words mean things). Putin was a trained KGB operative intimately familiar with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact he wants to reconquer. Calling people who are cold, calculating and (not that anyone studies the USSR any more because the public has the attention span of a gnat and only ancient people care about the earlier innings of the Cold War which BTW never ended) whose methods REPEATEDLY SUCCEEDED for other Russian leaders a "madman" is purely childish because it does not do his level of calculating premeditated evil justice. Putin also knows Russians AGREE WITH HIM and many are so nostalgic for the USSR they miss Stalin and Lenin.
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  1108.  @redbullsauberpetronas  Anglo intervention in Iran and elsewhere were very much crimes against humanity. Churchill's policy re:India killed millions by famine and they were part of the British empire at the time.
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  1109. Tank refurb gobbles consumables like oil, hydraulic fluid, solvents and specialty lubes so losing a refinery or two could slow it down even more. Batteries will be another bottleneck because those are perishable and easy to sell like truck tires. None of those tanks are going far without (many) fuel trucks. Barely trained crews will be wiser to abandon their vehicles than brew up.
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  1110.  @SpiritGirlSF  All life ends then new life consumes the leftovers. Keeping suffering peoplealive because you are too weak to do your duty is weakness not strength. Wise humans put our last directives in writing so those we assign medical power of attorney are able to fulfill our (no one else matters) specific last wishes. For example my parents, myself and my late wife made complete wills, assigned executors and made our last directives in writing and had them properly notarized so there would be no doubt what we wanted. My parents died peacefully with self and sister attending. My wife died in hospice with me confirming her written directives (neither of us wanted to be hooked to tubes for perhaps years). Duty is not about what we want, it's about honoring what others want and not confusing life with quality of life.
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  1111. All five Edge users are offended.
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  1112. Stalin had a family. So did Saddam Hussein. He helped KILL other Americans with disinformation and not just volunteers.
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  1113. Wise observation re: ILA using Fecesbook! Facebook has absolutely the wrong audience! That venue is for the least intelligent general audience (niche groups and Marketplace excepted) and it shows. ILA should engage younger more tech and socially current members to help modernize the message and more importantly promulgate it to less reactionary audiences. Of course the US public will blame the strikers for taking action rather than strikers for acting. The US unions are regarded as enemies by non-union workers in our permanent bucket-of-crabs so they'll get little help moral support or otherwise.
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  1114. Manned ground attack birds do not need to exist because their sustainment costs are absurdly high, even your beloved A-10 (it's OK to like things because they're cool but don't pretend otherwise) giving poor bang for big bucks. Meat in the seat requires much larger squadron manning, stunningly expensive aircrew in an era of pilot shortages, and CSAR (because every now and then the US fights people who can and do shoot back). A-10 has low loiter time and a large deployment footprint. The REAL considerations of combat air power are too boring to add to video games. SHORAD is now so dangerous neither side in Ukraine can attain air dominance, merely local air superiority. A-10 was designed in the early innings of the Cold War where high losses were rightly expected. Aircrew are not expendable in 2025. A-10 took frequent damage as far back as Desert Storm (where I worked F-16s on the same ramp at KKMC next to the impressively talented CLSS troops who kept most damaged A-10s flying) and 2025 is far more dangerous then the ancient 1990s.
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  1115.  @mandasity  Any place that suits your skills or willingness to get new ones. There are many ways out but it varies by the individual. Young people can choose from mobile jobs most don't think of like the Merchant Marine, trucking (not easy but it lets you travel then decide where you want to live since it pays well enough), the armed forces, or the trades (community college is basically free, I attended, volunteered at and worked for one). For women nursing and other medical fields always need workers.
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  1116. The most profitable "hobby" for vehicle owners is doing your own maintenance then learning to do your own repairs. The tools are normally paid off at the first job. I've wrenched since the late 1970s professionally and personally so this is not speculation. Once purchased you have the tools for life and can use them at your convenience. BTW nitrogen tire fills on anything but aircraft are basically a waste of money but are sold to owners who don't know better. However owning a nit cylinder to pressure test AC systems is cheap (I buy industrial gas cylinders cheap used then have them filled at my welding supply) so if you want to it's very easy to fill your own tires. Most tires either dry rot on the outside or wear out so nitrogen makes no meaningful difference on the street.
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  1117. Study why Strom Thurmond switched parties. An 1800s Democrat and a 2020s Democrat are vastly different.
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  1118. Aluminum heads on diesels are a profoundly stupid idea just to save a few pounds (and be easier to cast and machine). None of those things help the buyer. BTW the moral here is if you're going to live on the road tow a second vehicle because your main ride WILL eventually require shop time one way or the other. Ever being one deep on vehicles is unwise if it can be avoided. If your backup ride lives in a box trailer you can camp in the box trailer (I do at swap meets so I can watch over my merch) with your ride outside. If you have live-on-the-road money then you ought to plan it like a deployment. My bro tows his car to hot rod meets in a box trailer behind his RV and loves life.
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  1119. Not my problem because I go in the opposite direction from the herd. Buy on the crash, not before.
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  1120. A problem HE helped aggravate by choosing to be a Democrat.
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  1121. People are INDIVIDUALS, not slaves to the clickbait idea of "generations" (which are BTW an imaginary but popular concept). If you believe you are helpless you'll stay that way. If you follow the herd that's a sucker bet because the masses anywhere are not educated, clueful or wise. If what you do isn't working, stop doing it. If where you are isn't working, leave before any self-inflicted traps like marrying young ruin your life. Have zero useless hobbies or interests and use your time to learn constantly. Do a variety of things because there is no general answer for everyone. Discard all fashionable social beliefs but keep pretending to believe them because hypocrisy is required to usefully manage idiots. (If you still lack a healthy contempt for humanity, embrace realism!) Do learn DIY skills which are a financial effectiveness multiplier that improves as you go. Anyone can as I'm nothing special. The more you do for yourself the less labor you burn money on. Learned helplessness is deadly but it's also a choice. Study every vehicle you own or want to, including bicycles, e-bikes etc. Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity or other local org so you can learn while human networking. The more positive smart people you learn from the better. Do not live in a city. That's just prison with extra steps. Most humans are lemmings which ruins their odds by competing with a large pool of job seekers whose jobs are easily outsourced or destroyed by automation. Copy success, coldly. Embrace drastic self-change.
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  1122. Voters getting what they asked for never ceases to amuse.
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  1123. Why the hell would you or they want to do that? At least stay away from urban areas and popular beaches. If you aren't from Florida find a better destination (which means not Florida). There are plenty of beautiful places to experience in the US which are not overwhelmed with goblins. Better yet, go to Europe and save your German family the disappointment that is modern America. (I was stationed for two happy years in West Germany and would gladly do it again.) The dollar should go far in say a Mediterranean vacation you'll both enjoy. Spain, Portugal etc are highly affordable. Europe has culture so established many towns have wineries older than the US. There is nothing to admire about the US in 2023. We are rich thanks to geography not moral virtue.
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  1124. Canada doesn't really HAVE national interests in the Indo-Pacific because its population is tiny and distant. Any actions there are hobby politics not national necessity. What Canada wants from India is to poach as much talent as it can manage. Of course that talent is then denied to domestic Indian development.
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  1125. They're easy to maintain. I did for ~22 years as a motor toad and crew chief. As long as parts are available it's easy to generate more mission ready aircraft than aircrew can use. I also worked F4 Phantoms which were very maintenance intensive, an important reason for their retirement because it required so many maintainers.
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  1126. Private businesses cannot be trusted because money overrides integrity which is homeopathically rare on a good day. Rolling stock should be maintained to aviation standards and if that cannot be managed, tough shit, take it out of service. That was a sad looking repair to this retired jet mech. Railroad safety regs are written in blood. Railroads should be FORCED to properly man their equipment or if they cannot do so, operate at a level they can support. If they go out of business someone competent can buy them out. Leadership should not have authority to under-man operations. Humans are not disciplined by nature. They require firm but hard imposed discipline to develop self-discipline. Safety agencies should appropriate orders then crush those who disobey them. Lives are at stake. BTW pipeline is vastly safer than rail but pipelines are far easier to block by political action.
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  1127. Why do these immigrants insist on locating in hoods that don't look like them? Does no one warn them they are targets? This happens all the time with many groups when there should be an honest effort to deter it for the benefit of all concerned. The government dumping immigrants where they do not fit is thoughtless enough without adding to it.
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  1128. Entitled whiners. Not your road, not your rules, eatabaggodix. I love the barrier method.
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  1129. Best to wait for the crash. I do very well in recessions because I live to prepare for bad times (because that's the only wise use of good times!).
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  1130. A1 series single cam VW four bangers easily go over 400K like my '81 Scirocco. Manufacturers only care (slightly) about getting past warranty today.
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  1131. From which country the US invaded did US companies obtain significant oil? CITATIONS needed, not memes.
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  1132.  @LuckyLopez777  Even if they weren't crazy, buying new vs. paying down your mortgage before retiring changes your life a lot more than a (briefly) new car. The longer ya have to work the longer you are not free.
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  1133.  @RustyZipper  Which is not of course a problem. At this point I could buy a new car for cash because I would never be silly enough to buy a new car.
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  1134. Democrats gonna Democrat. This is hilariously entertaining and the longer it drags on the better an example it makes.
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  1135. WHY IN DETAIL do you consider loss of an indefensible client port an existential crisis for any Russian government? Ports have two major uses, civilian trade through that location and supporting naval operations. The Med is basically a NATO lake and the Russian Federation navy can't defend a coastal target in a shooting conflict with NATO.
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  1136. Play stupid games, win stupid diseases. Not my problem.
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  1137. The Founders had no problem with cannabis. The REAL reason legalization was passed is not personal freedom in which NEITHER party believes sincerely (or their legislation would so demonstrate). Because cannabis is seen as a cash cow the prices are artificially inflated by taxes. Making weed illegal increases profits for the illegal economy but so does making it legal but overtaxed. This is difficult for graduates of US public schools to absorb so they don't elect politicians who understand that reality. Always follow the money. Weed used to be as legal as the grass on our lawns and that was not a problem. The history of anti-hemp legislation has everything to do with money (like Hearsts timber holdings early last century) and nothing to do with protecting anyone.
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  1138. Honors are mere tools to inspire desired conduct. They can be revoked as expedient or allowed to fade by non-renewal. The dead are dead and only "matter" to the extent they and their acts can be usefully exploited. Honor is a social tool necessary to leading the oh so very simple masses whose low intelligence is not a choice hence not their fault, but DEMANDS they be dealt with in ways they approve of. Humans demand affirmation so do what works. When what works changes, do that instead. Public memory unprompted is short. WWII is ancient history soon to pass from living memory so the way it is seen may be freely modified as expedient. Objective truth is for science. Expedient truth is for politics. Do note that necessity makes strange bedfellows and the USSR was at least as horrid as the Third Reich and its successor Russian Federation is genocidal to this day. That requires cold pragmatism for Western civilization to survive its nuclear nemesis.
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  1139. Hand grenades being CONSIDERABLY larger than little 30mm toys have great potential projected beyond manual throw range. Manual throw is severely limited in precision and distance.
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  1140. Meds. Now.
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  1141. The crew do not make the critical strategic choices nor see much or anything outside their work areas.
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  1142. All orders should be made using online tools then picked up at the store or delivered. I want brick and mortar stores gone so I get even better online services. Use the brick and mortar locations as delivery hubs and end walk-in customers. I would buy everything online if I could get same-day pickup.
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  1143.  @ghostwalk2446  That is NOT how that works (in non-Rust Belt states). Why do people who are not mechanics have opinions instead of questions? Inspections suck a work day minimum lost per inspection. Inspections burn fuel and time. Very few accidents are due to poor vehicle maintenance (I'm a lifelong mechanic) making them counterproductive for POVs (outside the Rust Belt).
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  1144. Enterprise LTSC 2021 has clean .isos with checksums out in the wild.
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  1145.  @matthewdonohue9667  Not viable.
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  1146. Physical commuting is a polluting waste of life, time, and money unless absolutely required. Commuting is an unfunded mandate.
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  1147. While they can and do sustain eye injuries from particulates torch cutting is not inherently high risk. Were I unfortunate enough to work there I'd get on the cutting crew because torch cutting is mostly fast and easy. The guys who are most abused are totally unskilled laborers who manually separate and carry scrap. Those poor fellows are pretty much defenseless.
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  1148.  Look_What_You_Did  < Botpost with zero content detected. Lack of building capacity is real and testable.
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  1149. Don't enter city property in the first place and there is no problem. If there were a volcano next to my land I would stay out of said volcano. He is at zero risk if he stays on HIS land and doesn't go near the slope. Not hard. Why should anyone else gift him a fence? He's an adult and has zero reason to be on their property in the first place. I stay on mine. It's not difficult.
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  1150. The government our foolish public elect have been rawdogging the US for centuries. Remember, kids, democracy means the VOTERS did this to themselves.
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  1151. In what ways was Nationalist violence greater or different than that of the Republicans?
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  1152. So what? Serious people WILL make or mod whatever we wish and the non-serious don't matter. Where demand exists it will eventually be filled. Industry churn is not an enthusiast problem. If the industry got swallowed by the earth local gearheads would do what they've done since the gow job days before WWII, make parts for themselves and if demand warrants make more for sale.
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  1153. Unrepairable machinery generates e-waste and consumes energy and resources. Waste is foolish. Repairable machines like older Thinkpads have such strong user communities that not only are board repairs and custom firmware available, but entire custom system boards are offered by specialists! Repairability is good for everyone because it does not reduce new sales most of which are to businesses who have every economic incentive to update to optimally performant hardware. "Fans" deserve to be exploited. People who emotionally identify with mere objects are unworthy of respect. "Fans" are not convertible to rational humans but they do provide amusement for their betters. They deserve to be mulcted. They choose their fate because that fate makes them happy. If they're making tech money the cost of any computer is a trifle (especially compared to say tens of thousands of dollars of tools owned by auto mechanics). If the purchase is a toy then they can afford it.
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  1154.  @joshs3229  Because oil is used for much more than energy.
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  1155. Calling the powerplants "props with jet engines" may confuse the clueless. It's fine to use precise wording like "turboprop". They were a delight to work on at Sembach (20th TASS) when they were the main NATO FAC in the later Cold War thanks to the Navy loading them with radios in order to tank the design. That backfired since the two FM-622 with relay capability were ideal for talking with ground forces, the 618T-3 HF for long distance comms (tankers, bombers, AWACS), the ARC-164 UHF for tactical air comms and VHF Wilcox 807 for utility comms. The loss of Bronco was objectively stupid since helicopter performance is inferior and their loss rate doesn't deter adoption. Bronco of course would have been ideal for A-stan because the US had ZERO loitering FAC/attack bird available for that war and Bronco unlike helicopters performs fine at those altitudes. Here's a fun question few people ask: Why didn't Operation Red Wings have LOITERING FIXED WING AIR COVER? Grunts in SEA had vastly more and more suited to COIN systems like Skyraider, Bronco, Skymaster (no ejection seats and no safe egress in flight means O-2 deserved to be retired), Mohawk and more. Bronco did well over Syria but at this point drones (which don't need CSAR thus avoiding disasters like that depicted in "Bat 21") are a better more precise fit for those operations.
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  1156. If more Americans wanted to be truckers wages would be driven DOWNWARDS. Do not encourage even more drivers because it only makes life worse for everyone. (If you want a stable life with less competition, become a truck mechanic instead. )
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  1157. AMERICAN VOTERS ELECTED the person responsible for the flood. The guilty should never be forgiven for installing Leftist leaders.
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  1158.  @gargoyled_drake  Denmark does not benefit from immigration and would be wise to end it unless cultural suicide looks like a good idea. Indigenous Europeans have been taught to undermine their own cultures.
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  1159. Same here but I don't miss that era since I exploit internet access to information, goods and services. I only pay for internet and phone service which is a net win as a hardcore DIYer. No one needs television or to spend money watching fiction which just wastes time better spent learning. In a pinch I can screencast a phone to my PC and drop internet service or use a phone plan with sufficient data. The way to win is watch how others choose to lose.
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  1160.  @kylecole7068  A-10 go brrt when on-station. A-10 is not organic firepower. A-10 took plenty of damage during Desert Storm (I worked hot pit refuel at KKMC and saw them taxi by while fueling F-16s). A-10 is fine against people without an air force and should be kept for a while but drones already do everything but brrrt (and most A-10 AFV kills were by Hellfires). For what vulnerable A-10 costs to deploy (not to mention training and maintaining aircrew and the rest of the stagnormous support tail for a squadron) the US could darken the skies with drones that loiter longer, have tiny radar sigs, require vastly less support etc. Much love for A-10 but it's survivable use case gets smaller every year. Russian Frogfoot is as good (except for lacking podded engines) and those are getting Stingered on the reg in Ukraine.
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  1161. Clearly multiple ADs.
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  1162. US academia fell to the marxist left in the 1960s long before current students were born. School protests are leftist infighting with no US patriots involved. Some leftists support Israel, others oppose it but none are fans of Western civilization. What both do want is American money, YOURS.
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  1163.  @chenyeanmingtakumi9033  No sane NK leadership would alienate China on which NK depends for survival. NK foreign policy gestures are merely that. NK is in no strategic position to annoy Beijing and a useful buffer state. Why do people buy the narrative that NK would be so foolish? The current arrangement suits all the players. SK would be severely damaged trying to socially integrate with the North and be drained economically. NK could never militarily challenge Beijing and win, and China is not strategically constrained by weak Western ideology.
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  1164. While this is a nice advertisement Amazon will continue abusing its staff unless their legitimate needs get HEAVY publicity. Business is war, not altruism. American workers have few rights because the US is proudly corporatist but a few of the public care enough to pressure for job safety.
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  1165. The sooner the market crashes the better since the industry needs a reality check. While people with Tesla money are so wealthy the cost doesn't matter, no one NEEDS a new car which is purely a luxury purchase competing with other luxury goods and vehicles.
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  1166. And nothing of value is lost. Their so-called food is nasty and I've avoided it for many years. Eating fast food is a CONVENIENCE choice, you're not supposed to live on junk. That wasn't a problem until junk got expensive. The prototypical cheap fast food success was really White Castle which was always unabashedly CHEAP. I can afford to eat out but don't do it often on principle, but when I do eat out it's not at Mickey D's. Even Taco Hell improved their quality which used to have quite a laxative effect.
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  1167. Hauling these auction lot junkers is inherently dangerous AND securing them is really a job for a mechanic. (Lifelong mechanic here, jets on down.) Car carriers are unsafe because their makers CHOOSE to EXTERNALIZE risks. Firefighters should take no risk to put them out. The US should require exporters to perform pretrip car battery REMOVAL. Warehouse tugs fitted with a front-mounted wheel lift as used on repo trucks could shuttle them easily. For now, prepare to lose those vessels and don't risk firefighters for them. Reduced exports should that happen improve the US used car and salvage market! Go hard with safety regulations and heed no snivelling. COERCE COMPLIANCE by vigorous enforcement (paid for by exporters) and fine generously.
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  1168. Columbia was MADE into a beacon of Marxism and guess who helped? Chickens came home to roost. Stop being liberal. Stop voting for Democrats. The people you pretended to care about are not your friends. The old relationship was transactional and it's OVER at least for the new Democratic party base.
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  1169. Best precaution is disassemble any questionable rounds then hand load them yourself. Toys are fun but not worth catastrophic injury. Anyone playing in these leagues can afford do to it right.
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  1170. The Jordan Peterson reference is of course pure clickbait.
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  1171.  @conormcmenemie5126  NEVER make that mistake because Russia has never been different or better. Putin is a product and symptom of Russian culture. Asserting an imaginary difference is useful propaganda in this politically korrect oversocialized age of uninformed naive misplaced compassion, but ordinary Russians are the people murdering and looting and bombarding their way through Ukraine. They were not different in the early Cold War nor were they different in the early Soviet era when they gleefully exterminated millions of their own countrymen, Russia produces its rulers and their boyars. They are not some different other. Real Russians promptly exile, jail and execute their own intelligentisa and have done so long before the grandparents of anyone reading this were born. Russian culture was anti-democratic under the Tsars too which begat their 1917 revolution whose victors instantly reverted to type.
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  1172. If it's not US-flagged then it's not a US problem. Any intervention is more a recreational gesture.
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  1173. They simply exist but should not be considered "marvelous" because they're just cheap. Wood was plentiful so everything got a (bulky) crate. Even internal logistics suffer when cargo volume is reduced by packaging. That increases the cost of getting those items to depot. Remember WHY the USSR collapsed. It died the death of a thousand cuts of economic inefficiency.
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  1174. I would not encourage any female to enlist though I met my wife in the Air Force. I wisely heeded the Marine and Army vets I grew up around by going USAF and saw nothing in my long career to make me question that choice. If you're female your physical disadvantages ensure permanent vulnerability. You are not physically strong enough to defend yourself no matter how fit you are and to assume command has your back is proven to be wishful thinking. Admitting females was required because the public demand it. That does not make enlisting an intelligent decision even if a few do well. It works for some but if you have the qualifications to do well you can do better somewhere else. The armed forces REQUIRE warm bodies to fill personnel slots and that means lowering enlistment standards to meet quota. Unwritten standards run any human organization and scraping the gutter has consequences. It svcks for the good troops who have to deal with the dirtbags because standards must adapt to use the "slowest common denominator". That's why so many good troops don't re-up.
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  1175. Dealers who want big bucks are vulnerable but dealers on the low end make money in ANY economic season.I learned that while wrenching for one If you're a customer you should buy private party in the first place. Let the chumps pay chump prices.
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  1176. That's good for everyone. Factory "food" doesn't need all these additives. Humans did not evolve eating them.
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  1177. Martin Luther was right.
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  1178. Pinoys and Pinays make great Americans but do warn each other NOT TO LIVE IN CITIES. This is not hard. Never move there, never pretend there is a reason to move there, then go see the rest of the US. Again for the people who may be a bit dense, US cities are bad. Most cities are bad. This does not matter unless you choose to be silly and live in one. I really don't understand why more don't warn each other. The US has enormous economic opportunities particularly near military bases (most of which are near affordable land) for new arrivals so go there instead (especially in SC so I can buy more Filipino food!).
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  1179. Printing interests noobs in CAD/CAM which of course makes learning machining easier. If you own a home it's surprisingly easy to buy and move your own mill and lathe safely without paying a rigger so I do. (I don't bother with firearms as they're commodity items...for now.) For the cost of a few "safe queens" one can gain a wonderfully useful new hobby and make or mod parts for vehicles, tools and much much more.
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  1180. This is very much a US problem so find a FOREIGN woman with traditional values. They want a green card and you want azz. That's a wonderfully pragmatic match and it should be noted the rest of the world does it that way for the same reasons the US used to. American women are not all women. Passportbros have it right and the world is packed with females desperate to escape third world hellholes and grateful to do do. Society will not change but that doesn't matter if you get yours.
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  1181.  @freetolook3727  "Useless" and "increasingly obsolete given modern alternatives which are far more robust because losing one is a much smaller force-loss multiplier" mean different things.
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  1182. That was before idiocracy irreversibly took over as democracy ensures. That doesn't make democracy bad, but it does limit how long it can last before the masses break it.
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  1183. Moskva says hi!
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  1184. Talking doesn't work any more. Explanations are really just lies and spin, including this video.
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  1185.  @williamjacobs  They have no excuse because they KNOWINGLY supported the policies which reward street crime. If they're baffled, they're socially stupid even if otherwise highly skilled. There is no excuse for believing what they believe about humanity.
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  1186. Reagan Republicans have mostly died of old age or have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. The MAGA GOP reflect understandable rage at the (predictable by anyone sober) utter indifference of Reagan and all other Republicans to the white working class. (Affirming the credulous works for both parties as the public crave affirmation but savagely resent political literacy.) Reaganites sanctified Ronnie because he was a great communicator but his real record was not just the (magnificent) military buildup and restoration of US power after the post-Nam Hollow Force era. The MAGA Republicans were preceded by the Dixiecrats who fled Lyndon Johnson's betrayal of white southern Democrats when he signed various civil rights legislation (not just the Civil Rights Act). Thinking the Reagan or any WASP (only extremely old people like me remember them) Republican gave a rats posterior about working class whites was of course a desperately naive mistake but no one ever accused the general public of being intelligent. The (accurate) perception of betrayal was reinforced by the completely bipartisan NAFTA and other actions gutting the US working class for the benefit of the wealthy as usual. The fall of the US steel and automotive industries are examples of complete establishment failure and deliberate betrayal of the American worker. The MAGA era coincided with the final implosion of the US education system and EXTREME right wing contrarianism driven by GOP/NeoConservative constabulary foreign wars waged with zero strategic (the only kind that matters to adults) justification in A-stan and Iraq. The betrayal of GOP voter trust by NeoCons whose lineage began before and was very much part of Reagan Republican policy (example, arming Iranian Jihadists in return for support of the Contras to route around both parties Congressional objections) combined with geopolitical illiteracy (like forgetting why the Cold War with Russian and China was necessary to save Western civilization) to produce the legitimately enraged but rusticly clueless (even American urbanites are rustic ignorants) MAGA movement. The GOP is too hypocritical, corrupt and intellectually weak (not that the the US ever had an intellectual class which it confuses with liberalism) to fight off the MAGA takeover its decades of anti-worker policies invited, very much including cooperating with Democrats to flood the US with cheap immigrant labor and destroy the (original) Christian American majority forever. The Great Replacement is very old and very bipartisan. None of the above reflects any preference for Democrats who have been Leftist pawns since the 1960s thanks to USSR subversion so effective it took on life of its own, but dissecting them is off-topic here. For purposes of understanding the US view of the Ukraine conflict some perspective is in order. The generations who lived the conflict with the USSR are elderly or dead in the US. Our education system is garbage by choice, very much the fault of local school boards only interested in preparing students for college at the lowest cost. Modern attention spans are conditioned by phones with many Americans not owning personal computers and most of those utterly indifferent to history or (real) politics. Influencers rule. Passion rules. Ignoranc rules and all the above are unopposed. Whole generations of Americans right, left and center ONLY percieve "politics as football" and because they bitterly resent studying issues separately instead adopt a "team ball" approach so they don't have to think. Remember the typical American reads (therefore thinks) at 8th grade level and even more horrifying is not ashamed to be ignorant. (It was not always thus...) They do not know things can be different because when your education has no depth you only live in the moment crafted by someone else's media in order to play on your passions. Because they are intellectually unable to question "their" football team Americans passionately embrace their party and regard dissent of ANY kind as haram. Polarization really reflects irreversible intellectual laziness. While Russian atrocities have some impact the MAGA types so want affirmation they worship former KGB officer Putin because their opponents (everyone else) oppose him. It really is that simple. All anyone wanting their support need do is pretend to be "tradcon" (like the Russian FSB puppet Orthodox Church) and they will be greeted legs akimbo. The weak, soft gutless remaining anti-MAGA GOP don't stand for anything but re-election which is why the only thing getting them any votes is Democrat incompetence. The general public are rightly enraged by Democrats enforcing de-facto open borders to gain more future voters. They want to punish the White House and blocking Ukraine aid is the only way to do that. Remember American Democrats are basically a "socialist internationale" who want to demolish US border control in order to make what Jean Raspail feared global reality. While they support Ukraine that's because they resent Putinist tyranny. Russia is no longer "socialist" so Democrats don't need it any more. US support for Ukraine will probably continue but Ukrainian leadership should have an internal discussion of how to engage US politicians and public the only way that matters, by AFFIRMATION. Reminding Americans Russia helped kill and maim nearly every US military and civilian war casualty since WWII is not out of place because the American public have forgotten that. The US right is so contrarian (angry people are easy to manipulate) that what was the fringe is now mainstream. Europe will have to work as a team and get good during the decline of US democracy, social and even military competence. (We make terrific equipment but do study why our culture loses wars by choosing badly. The subject is beyond the depth of our public debates.)
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  1187.  @mkunes2502  F'em. Businesses who refuse to pay appropriate salary don't need to exist. Neither do undisciplined weak silly incompetent self-centered vain reckless workers.
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  1188. This is nothing compared to past NY adventures but the title and content get views. If Mr Jordan believed it's finished he'd have left for greener pastures. NYC however has ALWAYS been a bad place if you aren't wealthy but people hilariously cling to it because they're simple and terrified of learning about the rest of the US most of which is far more affordable and has far lower tax rates. Nobody is FORCED to live there so no sympathy here. If you're not stacking Benjamins (a lot of Benjamins) what's the point in dying poor?
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  1189.  @rillyjo5810  People only respect what they fear and Koranic justice is the way. I can walk down the open gold souk in any Emirate and be safe. Lost wallets even make the news. Thieves who run out of hands are improved thereby.
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  1190. Pollution is a minor tradeoff for a functioning economy. End the EPA completely. It's become an obstacle to prosperity.
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  1191.  @Bob-t8l  DoD have vastly better satellites.
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  1192. These wars are simply too important regionally to stop. They must be fought by the protagonists so that is done. They are wars of necessity.
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  1193.  @lugardboy  Ukraine was part of the USSR thanks to brute Soviet force, not enthusiasm. In return Russia liquidated Ukrainians by shooting and starvation so they're understandably annoyed.
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  1194. NDI can easily intercept structural issues which can be addressed by airframe reinforcement as done in SLEP. Ukrainian and nearby Polish labor costs favor doing work as far east as practical.
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  1195.  @lqr824  Training "ground crew" is old hat since long before F-16s were designed. It does not take long to learn F-16 maintenance and be effective because I've personally done that and I'm not special. The "huge inventory" of spare parts does not need to be onsite at Ukraine for the same reasons it is not onsite for US operations. Parts are sent where required other than basic unit bench stocks and deployment packages. Cannibalization to buffer Supply makes the military aviation world go round and the US-style rotating cann program switches cann birds to they are not taken down too far. Storage in Poland with delivery to Ukraine operating locations would be most logical.
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  1196. Unless you're rich or never went anywhere else moving to NY economically foolish and incredibly expensive. It's ALWAYS been corrupt, crowded and limiting. No, the state does NOT have something for everyone. That's just being nice for Youtube views. Here's an example: My NY metro area bro lives in a small house built in 1951 on a tiny lot and pays over ten thousand dollars in property tax alone. I pay less than 900 on six acres with two homes, a two bay garage, a two bay shop I build and other shop space I fabbed using shipping containers. He can't make noise. I can shoot rifle practice on my own land. The east coast if full. Crowd it if you want to because I made sure that won't confront me.
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  1197. Who that lived through the OPEC crisis v1.0 believes that nonsense? Do some homework because what the average person thinks about everything usually varies with facts.
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  1198. Only fundamentalists are true believers, the rest are hobbyists wanting a social club. This is awkward for apologists on either side of the political aisle because it makes most of them uncomfortable. True religion is not weak and gentle except between the deserving faithful. The rest get the sword on their way to hell.
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  1199. Mostly on the internet but not in Real Life. Get out more.
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  1200. Cops don't get capital punishment in the US. He'll probably walk.
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  1201. The US forgot Viet Nam and is forgetting GWOT. We'll do it again in thirty years but I'll not live to see it. Some of you will because the American public are incapable of producing leaders good at much more than self-marketing or rewarding anyone better with power. Enlisting in this second Hollow Force era is a tough sell until the economy REALLY tanks. I'd enlist today as I did in '81, but I chose the Air Force on the wise advice of the WWII, Korea and Southeast Asia vets I grew up around and because I understood history. Youth today have little reason to bother with the tip of the spear because they saw those troops valor squandered. Washington doesn't care or it would defecate the money to pay what this market will bear.
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  1202. The military crushes the civilian mechanic world not least for the short career to vest retirement.
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  1203. This may be incredibly difficult to understand but this SOCOM bug smasher is not used in a fighter role. Other turboprop aircraft like Pilatus Porter do yeoman service in the roles it is intended for.
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  1204.  @matrinezkevin11492  I can confirm having been a mechanic since the late 1970s. Even my 2000 F150 is as capable as my 1976 F250 was stock (it's not stock any more...). Worth noting is no modern truck should be considered "harsh" in ride because they haven't been that in decades.
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  1205. It's possible to just keep pumping grease because the end goal during lubes is to force old grease out. I've done MANY landing gear lubes (mandatory after aircraft washes in the USAF) and while I'd be curious (and inspect the adjacent area as expected during all inspection and maintenance) if the tech doing the lube had no idea of the aircraft's history that would not be hard to miss for someone used to applying fresh grease than wiping off the extruded old grease.
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  1206. Do you support the Great Replacement? Yes or No? Banning abortion just to spite political enemies is anti-Caucasian racism no matter who supports it. Never interrupt the enemy when they are making a mistake.
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  1207. That troll can always lower its standards and her previous victim dodged a bullet. If it flies, float or fooks, RENT IT.
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  1208.  @edwardharrison9714  That's not a factual response but an emotional one. I defy you to list compelling economic reasons to live in an area where you cannot afford to retire.
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  1209. Mine are excellent but they all have traditional Southern manners. I've lived in the GA/NC/SC region since 1983 and gotten uniformly helpful, excellent service all around. Where do you live so I don't accidentally move there?
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  1210. If an event is held anywhere they can block egress then tow the vehicles. Cars cannot (yet) teleport.
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  1211. Better late than never.
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  1212. The story of why fools failed to armor logistics and utility trucks only gets worse the closer you look. Viet Nam birthed the highly effective "gun truck" which was instantly forgotten after the US withdrawal. Mogadishu showed lightweight wheeled junk dies in urban combat. The US military is good, but as any veteran has experienced it is not CONSISTENTLY thoughtful and doesn't remember history.
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  1213. No one in their right mind in Egypt wants that invasion. A nations ONLY duty is to ITS OWN people, the rest is charity. The fate of people not one's own is mostly academic. Outsiders don't care about Egypt, they care either about Israel or Hamas. Egypt saw what happened in Jordan and wisely does not want a repeat on its own soil.
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  1214. Crazy doesn't get better. The old asylum system was discarded due to cost. That was a mistake.
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  1215. The UN was a naive mistake and has no business in combat zones.
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  1216. MOST people aren't good at real life. That requires luck because it requires intelligence which is purely a matter of luck. Most people just get by.
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  1217. The US public have no desire to stand for ideals most no longer share. It's time for it to lose the benefits of hegemony its people are not intellectually capable of understanding. The relentlessly incompetent Democrats worked hard to elect Donald Trump, twice. The US has no intelligentsia by choice. NATO should eject the US or withdraw from NATO and reform immediately as something else suitably Eurocentric.
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  1218. Don't let HD get away with this and hold their corporate feet to the fire. Motorcycles are TOYS and no one in the US needs a (new) HD since there are vast numbers of pre-Wokely-Pervertson machines out there with a vast aftermarket. HDs core new bike market is helpless non-techy elderly boomers who are dealer-dependent, not any sort of real bikers. They just insulted that core market whose rich old people have MANY vehicular choices including trikes which better suit the elderly.
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  1219. That's historically normal Russian behavior but pointing that out is considered politically incorrect. Of course those supporting "political correctness" (an Orwellian term by its style) don't care about history, just their ideology much of which stems from over a century of Russian subversion.
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  1220. The Air Force got me out of north Jersey and an instant career from which I retired debt-free. I haven't felt a recession since 1981 and still have friends around the world from my career. I would joyously do that again.
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  1221. Keep in mind these vessels made all (survivng) concerned enough money to take the risk. What were common ore vessel wages for various ranks?
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  1222. The real problem is vain weak men who make baldness a problem. I'm bald. I choose not to care and find hair an annoyance.
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  1223. That foam is under investigation and everyone be they veteran or firefighter who came in contact with it should so report. For example it accidentally flooded the hangar where I worked (Building 1200 at Shaw AFB) twice. Military toxic exposure is history that deserves to be remembered because it kills, maims, poisons and debilitates. (The toxic ground water around many bases is a notable public health hazard costing billions to somewhat mitigate.)
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  1224.  @SSfighter909  It is and if you choose an older but sound body (sheet metal condition and lack of rust is more important to long truck life than current drivetrain condition) and either have a competent local (like my machinist who builds race engines with the timing slips and photos to prove it) shop overhaul it or buy a crate engine a good used truck can go decades more. I own nothing newer than 2000 and all mine are high mileage bought used. My Silverado as expected needed an overhaul on the 4L60E gearbox (good design, shit execution which is easily corrected during overhaul. My 1997 F150 needed a gearbox long ago and my 2000 F150 (which supposedly had the hydro-lock fix but that didn't save it) needed an engine so I swapped in a used one. No way I drop big money on vehicles. I buy clean southern trucks running or otherwise and sort them out at leisure. I only pay a few grand tops for trucks so I don't need credit, and doing my own wrenching (which saved me absurd money since I began with my first vehicle in the 1970s) gives me control and lets me take my time which most shops (I've wrenched commercially too) are under pressure not to do. The best hobby one can have is vehicle mechanics and all the young people working on late models prove it's doable. Gender matters not either (my wife was a USAF helo and fixed wing crew chief) and learning on an older truck while you have something else to drive is a great way to build experience. Even if you make mistakes (everyone does, it's part of learning) those cost less too. Paying off my homes early because I refuse to buy new vehicles is why I could now buy (most) modern garbage barges for cash which not being stupid I refuse to do because I'd rightly feel dirty. If you want decent truck (and SUV) years, early LS-engined Silverado and relatives and similar Fords (research on forums not just Youtube) are good machines. I own more than one of both (including a free F150 from a friend I helped with his Harley, which are also dead easy to keep running long after the original owner is dust. I'm crippled but that didn't stop me since learning basic rigging and lifting means I can move or lift whatever I like. So can anyone else.
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  1225.  @bl8388  It is however not necessary to live next to or below dams so I do not.
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  1226. Never build next to a river, downstream from a dam, in a flood zone, in a storm surge zone, in high hurricane "certainty" zones like the Gulf Coast (unless you're building a seaport or fishing etc ocean-related business) etc. I ran that "checklist" when buying my homes and chose sufficient elevation to avoid rain issues too. It's easy to do and "not making risky choices" doesn't cost a dime.
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  1227.  @Dgreen4154  That depends ENTIRELY on service and specialty. If you never leave barracks except to hit the bars you get what you get. If OTOH you rent on the economy and socialize with the locals it's common for G.I.s to retire in Europe etc after extending and doing repeat tours. Most G.I.s lack the initiative but it's easy to circulate (European mass transit goes basically anywhere so no car required though they're easy to get.)
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  1228.  @unc1221  You forget the military can and do request and get specific bases overseas then frequenly extend. Those without military experience should stay in their lane. Wise G.I.s take advantage of openings when crafting their "dream sheets" and don't hesitate to contact their career field manager to inquire about upcoming openings. There is plenty of "free will" in play since the services benefit from retaining troops who know local areas, like my unit Resource Advisor at Kunsan who spoke fluent Korean and was able to get multiple repeat tours. After he ETSed he stayed and taught English to supplement his retirement and lived very well.
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  1229. Ask Ukrainians why they don't want Russian masters instead of spouting memes.
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  1230. When worked at one (A&G on Bluff Road in SC, now many years closed as the owner deceased) they would rather not have to repo because that interrupts cash flow. The repos are a hassle because while most buyers let them revert without fuss (the owner I worked for made it a point to tell them if they brought the vehicle back he would not take offense and they could buy something else when they got money in future) they still require cleanup and repairs. Repos COST money and time. They are not a profit center.
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  1231. When the small hats don't need you it's over.
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  1232. How many have that option? I did at a community college (a decent gig but without much career progression) but individual examples of success do not invalidate enormous numbers who don't have my lifetime of good luck.
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  1233. Impact absorbing fendering was added later, but all bridges should be protected such that any misaligned vessels ground before they can impact structure. It's only money so spend the necessary. If cost is "prohibitive" do it anyway and issue bonds or use appropriate funding measures. If doing it right is expensive, doing it wrong is unaffordable. Cost cutting either causes or aggravates far too many incidents.
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  1234. "Female" in video titles reliably draws thursty losers but views are views after all.
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  1235. The complainers will continue to vote Democrat. They didn't stay poor by being intelligent. Why are they not demanding the mayor END the sanctuary city executive order?
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  1236. I don't see anything of technical interest in this video. What's next, complaining they're not wearing reflective belts?? Kinda looks like space filler (you don't have to post filler if there's nothing of useful quality available!) with little point and the best "content" is from the former armored crews in the comments. Dress and appearance as pointed out elsewhere is secondary to physical mobility and comfort. WWII tank crews didn't wear simple coveralls without reason. Tanks are basically "heavy equipment with boomsticks" and looking after them means getting dirty. Better to destroy a bunch of old civilian gear and save at least one decent uniform back at barracks. I'm not an AFV mechanic (I fixed fighters in service and all sorts of other systems before and after) but mechanics have the LEAST reason to give a shit what we look like because we're getting an oil/hydraulic juice/grease/coolant bath anyway. (I missed woodland BDUs because they hid stains better.) Wrenching is like sex, if you're serious it's gonna get messy and those guys have work to do. Kvetching about uniforms is for inspections not war. BTW "Parts exchanges" are referred to as "cannibalization" and vital to ANY fleet maintenance from first line combat aircraft to civilian taxi fleets. Cann management is an art because it can get out of control easily but done right it maximizes available systems. Kudos to the Ukrainian mechs (all of them, from trucks to aircraft and civil engineering too) because they have to know not just the formal fixes but all the (often very creative) work involved in BDR (Battle Damage Repair) with whatever materials are handy whether they're official parts or not. They have to be quick, skilled and turn out reasonably reliable work with expedient materials and that takes someone who really knows their shit. BDR is fun though and I encourage anyone who can take a formal course while in service to do so.
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  1237.  @andreaslind6338  I knew that generation (they were my parents etc) and in fact they did not. The baby boom success of the US was due to geography and being on the winning side of WWII (enormously aided by geography). The other Allies were bled to exhaustion by 1945 with gutted economies and millions of working-age males dead and many more wounded. Europe was in ruins and the UK economy drained so badly the empire it exploited was able to break free, finishing it off. WWII was the best thing to ever happen to the US economy (besides geography!). US society was however drastically smaller and it wasn't the average boomer who wanted unlimited immigration to permanently undercut the low end of the job market. Those choices were made by Wall Street and the governments banksters owned and still do So is the transfer of wealth to corporations by methods beyond comprehension of the average moron. The banker class and rich elites did it all and towards those oppressors your attention should focus because they'll rob us all blind while they draw breath.
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  1238. Same here, but since people despise learning history they get surprised when they should not.
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  1239.  @Redacted-Information  You laugh but beaters are a major reason why I could retire at 47 with my land and home paid for. I could now buy a new car for cash because I would never be silly enough to buy a new car. I've more trucks than I need (my bros and I give each other vehicles because we all wrench and get them for a song), a large classic motorcycle collection and several years income in reserve on top of being fully retired. I've lived through multiple recessions none of which damaged me even slightly.
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  1240. It will be a feast when the bottom drops out.
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  1241. Career Phantom, Bronco and Viper maintainer here who disagrees strongly that it's much of a problem since it's been done constantly for decades with other client air forces in USAF technical schools. Of course training is complex but the any modern AF can take someone off the block and turn them into an effective maintainer in several months of tech school.The tech schools already exist so adding foreign students or teaching bespoke classes is business as usual. The Ukrainian air force will only need flightline maintainers plus some small back shops because LRUs can be quickly sent to NATO locations for repair while replacement parts can come from a wide variety of sources. They won't need a full engine back shop for example, just sufficient forward spares. Training maintainers isn't one large problem, it's many SMALL SOLVED problems which is very different.
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  1242. The VOTERS elected that mayor and overturning VOTER CHOICE should be difficult. Stupid informed adult choices hurt sometimes. Anyone not afflicted with an extra chromosome would never vote for Henyard in the first place, but they had to have a Democrat and they will elect another one. Voters had a choice and they chose a convicted criminal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Tk8hYr0ZQ
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  1243. I want NON-REWRITABLE archival bootable non-magnetic storage immune to any malware I didn't accidentally write to it. I still use DVDs for key files but a breakthrough like this would be terrific for safer storage of important information. For example I used to boot live DVDs for troubleshooting and to safely view files which might have had noxious payloads. (One can do this by booting to ram and Knoppix even has a toram cheatcode but not needing that would be more convenient.) With much larger storage businesses and individual (using them properly) could be much more resistant to upcoming intelligent ransomware and other cyber-weapons.
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  1244. "Progressive" politics are why the problem exists. Leftists brought this on themselves by supporting immigration of enemies of western culture. They're incapable of understanding this and will continue to vote for Democrats.
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  1245. No American civilian has any business in A-stan and none should have been there unless they're under orders and with a large military unit. What special kind of idiot thinks they should go there? Why do other Americans not instantly condemn such negligent fools? Failure to know where you belong got the US into narcissist NeoCon nation building in the first place. If David Fox cared about his wife and kid he'd have stayed in CONUS. It really is that simple.
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  1246. That's an impressive amount of low quality parts and flammable batteries. eBikes are far more useful thanks to larger diameter wheels, greater payload and space to use it, etc which happen to be in the physical format approximating the most successful ICE vehicles in history, the Honda Cub family of vehicles.
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  1247. Issue them bus tickets to other states who have space. No one needs to live in CA.
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  1248. Many Dialarcs (and Lincoln Idealarcs) remain in commercial/industrial use. Most reasons for going inverter involve mobility not cost. BTW Dialarc, Idealarc and even monsters like my 340 AB/P will run off a 50A source but not maxed out. The old machines cost less used than a replacement inverter board. Used machines are cheap enough to have both. Also worth noting if you already have a stout RPC (rotary phase converter) they will run transformer machines. (Shop Floor Talk fora have some useful threads). I have an RPC to run three phase machine tools and air compressors. In your manual (Miller and Lincoln have them for free download so get one for everything) info on breaker size etc for various three phase connections shows why that's worth considering. When I built my shop I had a new service placed on a pole with a breaker panel so powering large machinery is NBD (and getting power before shop makes building the shop much easier and more convenient). If you want to run big rods or weld aluminum at high amps appropriate transformer machines are worth having. My old Miller will output 500 amps and the arc is delightful. It was 250 bucks because the seller saw a "three phase" sticker on a box mounted to it. I knew I could run it single phase because I download manuals BEFORE buying. It's the size of a fridge and weighs about 1300 lbs but those downsides only matter when moving it. Tip: A Tommy Gate can be "assisted" by a couple of ag jacks when (not grossly) overloaded for the popoff valve. It's easy to accumulate used industrial welders with some looking. I have lighter machines too because covering all bases pays off.
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  1249.  @tcmtech7515  Word! The only people worth listening to are experienced mechanics so I ask on forums. I don't buy new trucks like most mechanics because it's better to let rich folks beta test.
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  1250. Growth is bad for everyone who is not a developer. It ruins every reason people move to cities. They are free to live somewhere else. Nothing entitles everyone to invade everyone else's neighborhood. Crowding is bad. Packing people in like sardines is bad. If you don't like the living conditions imposed by humans who own property then DON'T LIVE THERE. The world is enormous. The US is enormous. I don't need to live in SF etc so no one else does either. When a place is full I don't move there. This is not difficult to parse.
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  1251. What makes that worth mentioning in this context? How is it relevant to Ukraine?
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  1252. ^This. It's like anti-2A activists threatening to boycott firearms.
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  1253.  @Boris82  They told him to leave as he was trespassing on what was not his. Americans imagine everything is their property including other peoples land. He was warned. He ignored the warning. The motive doesn't matter, a home invasion can be initially peaceful but he admitted he was trying to de-facto destroy their culture by spreading his superstition and given the track record of Western diseases could as well have killed them by accident. People who ignore that no means no get dealt with.
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  1254. Keep it from rusting and there's no reason you shouldn't get thirty or more years out of it. I plan maintenance and upgrades well in advance. I also buy my "next" used truck in advance and sort them out while my current ride is fine. Zero downtime for me and I can work at leisure.
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  1255. Robert Capa might have a word were he able. 🤣
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  1256. My roofs don't cost 20 large because I do them myself with steel roofing (shingles are trash while one of my galvanized roofs was installed in 1965 using already used barn tin).
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  1257.  @iangreenhalgh9280  Links to support your assertion re:diesel availability? Fuel in military operations benefits from rail but trucks can route around damage and pipeline is surprisingly easy to repair (examples of pipeline construction and repair abound on Youtube as pipe welders like to post their craftsmanship and gear).
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  1258. I find it hilarious so many in the US right no longer oppose the enemy CULTURE of Russia who inflicted modern Marxism on the world and would do anything to spite their Demublican opponents. Those too young for actual experience of the first part of the Cold War (which never ended) are easily gulled into thinking Russia tradcon and generally believe anyone who chooses to affirm their other beliefs. Only old people remember how it took decades of containment to implode the Soviet Union so if they don't see immediate results they assume failure. Near total military illiteracy doesn't help, I saw this coming when the Berlin Wall came down and the West instantly became lazy and indifferent to geopolitics. Russia is inherently predatory because that is the only model permitting central (Muscovite) control of its vast empty territories necessary to resource extraction. Wise Westerners read (videos are no substitute for the granular detail of text) Russian history to better understand the present. The waterfall of online shills do not affect texts written for serious people.
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  1259. For those not familiar the NY Post was clickbait before clicks were ever baited. Don't treat it seriously. Use government sites (like NOAA for weather) especially state government sites to keep up with local issues. Facebook is frequently updated by local users and searching for local groups easy.
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  1260. They had their whole lives to leave that city. Cities are purely bad so I don't live in one and that enabled me to retire at 47. Unless you are wealthy there is little reason to want to live in a city, and no reason for anyone to be in a city that's been going down hill for decades. Most people are silly, the worst self-betrayal a person can choose.
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  1261.  @TsarOfRuss  S-400 doesn't pose much problem for Israel. Ukraine may lose a few but it's war not Hollywood and there is no plot armor in real life. Just ordinary peacetime ops takes its toll in Class A mishaps but if you don't lose a few you aren't training (thus losing more in combat). For example at peak USAF strength during the Cold War our Safety peeps correctly predicted the fighter/attack community would plant roughly a squadron worth (~22ish) per year and by what cause (engine failure, CFIT). That's the cost of doing business. Successful economies can afford it.
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  1262. As an American partly of Polish ancestry I and millions like me are deeply inspired by Polish resistance to oppression from both of its historically genocidal neighbors.
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  1263.  @turdferguson4124  Finally someone besides me gets it. Most people who never worked in the salvage part of the auto business had no idea how that program really worked. US math education may as well not exist. The salvage business is critical to keeingp the over 250 million used cars on the road in the US.
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  1264. Aid to Ukraine is fundamentally European and American self-defense from ontologically evil Russian culture which has never produced a free society because it violently rejects prerequisites like personal and economic freedom. Aid to Ukraine is a spectacularly great deal for the American and European publics though many are too naive, and ignorant to understand the threat. Those who served on the free side of the Berlin Wall containing the Soviet beast knew the threat first hand and some saw their victims trying to escape shot down in cold blood. Germany is in a difficult position because it inherited pro-Soviet Quislings when it assimilated East Germany. (West Germany was a joy to defend, I did two years at Sembach and like my mates volunteered to extend.) They betrayed Germany by making it energy-dependant on it's historic enemy instead of honestly pushing for green, safe, non-petroleum alternatives. Reject oil addiction and defund Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and many more tyrannical regimes who rely on resource extraction because they cannot tolerate productive free societies. What's good for the planet is good for the economy is good for personal and national freedom.
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  1265.  @rutchjohnson  Day care is optional in two-parent families. Don't live where you need two incomes. I don't.
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  1266. Everyone not a worker wants logistics workers to do it for free. There is no working class unity outside unions but if union members (return to) demanding a fair shake they can get it.
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  1267. Simple cultures need simple systems and prosperity is much more useful than poverty under anarchy. Most government is badly run because most humans are unintelligent, ignorant brutes even in "advanced" nations. Democracy inevitably becomes idiocracy because for good or ill it lets the monkeys run the zoo. No surprise a properly managed dictatorship is stable and secure. This won't work everywhere because humans are stupid, but it's working in Singapore validating it in this specific situation. That said, the party would be wise to remember it like all governments exists by the consent of the governed and a sufficiently annoyed public can remove any government,
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  1268.  @Lex1uth3r  Chanute (which survived decades longer than needed after losing it's obsolete flying mission) is impressively polluted and would bear greater research. Forthunately it's in the middle of nowhere (a wise strategic choice so long ago) and the nearby town mostly evaporated when it got BRAC'ed.
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  1269. Tall ships are beautiful but far more dangerous than modern vessels. It's fortunate they're just historic curiosities today and that container freight obsoleted break bulk.
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  1270. Coastal areas are horrific for corrosion which destroys vehicles, ferrous and non-ferrous items and much more. Just flying over salt water frequently requires a post-flight rinse at USAF aircraft wash racks. Boats don't need to be in the water to suffer from salt air. I collect vintage motorcycles and refuse to live on any saltwater coast because as a lifelong mechanic I've seen what happens.
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  1271. For more fun pack some square cardboard boxes with sand, line them up the same way then shoot them. Sand does an IMPRESSIVE job at absorbing energy.
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  1272. She should change residence to Illinois to work for Tiffany Henyard.
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  1273. Lovely South Sumter! It ain't large and that's a GOOD thing. Accurate video ngl. Liked.
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  1274. Bring back the old asylum system where the mentally ill can be protected from their own unwise choices. It was shut down for economic reasons because unlike prison asylums were not Federally funded. That led to people needing mental health care being abandoned to the street or, if they got busted, tossed into the jail or prison system with even worse "care". The choice to scrap asylums was a false economy and millions of affected Americans suffer from it.
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  1275. I hauled ass in 1981 because the future was obvious. Crowding, taxes and high cost of living. There is no reason to live there unless you are VERY rich. I can easily afford ten acres in NC (only 800 bucks in property tax) so I do. Bonus, I get rational vehicle and firearms laws.
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  1276. Most people do not need more than a phone and a tablet offer. Most use is content consumption for which Apple devices are excellent. MSFT enjoy inflicting changes no USERS asked for (which is why there are so many utilities to customize Windows installs.
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  1277.  @user-or6yn8pm3c  It really wasn't and when urban manufacturing left there is no reason to stay. That was 40 years ago. NY isn't really "designed", but just "happened" like most old cities.
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  1278. Sweet! I've been ready for decades. Not rich, just wisely prepared (keep it small and own it all). If that happens I'll further outfit my workshop for even less money.
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  1279. The Soviet leadership who took away "choices" from underlings did themselves have a choice. Stalin and successors had power to order anything. The Soviet system THEY RAN was a direct product of THEIR SECRECY, LIES AND INCOMPETENCE. They are directly personally responsible for foolish economic planning. The most important lesson is that technically and scientifically illiterate humans are worthless at running their own affairs or anyone else's and should be looked down on not admired. Be they Soviet leaders of backward lower class stock or Western populists of backward lower class stock, the willfully ignorant are inferior the the knowledgeable and informed. They are lesser people by their choice to be ignorant but the Soviet system like all systems which initially attempted Communism exterminated their own intelligentsia or sent them to prison. The Soviet system like the Maoist system did enormous economic damage but China has much longer traditions of civilization than Russia so China won the Cold War while Russians methodically robbed each other blind. Russia is toxic to its own people and the world, while China however imperfect elevated the economic status of billions and Chinese society has never been better off.
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  1280. So nice to see Bradley doing what it was built for in the first place. I continue to prod my politicians to send more as it would be strategically stupid not to. My apologies for the contrarian strategically ignorant yokels who oppose US aid but they like the hippies before them are easily seduced by propaganda. Your success and dedication are your best advertisement! Russia remains an ontological nemesis to civilization of which it has never been part so keep stacking vatniks!
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  1281. Finland wisely appreciates Russia is an ontological enemy of civlization. Russia was their enemy under Tsar, Bolshevik, Stalinist, etc etc through Putin because the Russian people are enemies of civilization as a group. Russian leaders don't pull the triggers, commit the rapes (common in the Russo-Finnish War), murder civilians or enslave their conquests. The tens of millions of Russian people who did and do those things are the root cause of Russian savagery, and because Russia has nukes it will never be conquered so it can never change. Finland and the rest of Europe must never forget Russia itself it their enemy and everyone among them who favors Russia is a traitor and sellout. Europe should permanently end trade with Russia because detente was worse than a failure. Detente revived the Russian enemy via oil and gas revenues.
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  1282. Democratic leadership are self-inflicted. Move to good red states populated by real Americans and gather in political strength.
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  1283. Try whiteout correction pens as welding markers. They're brighter than silver pencils and more precise than chalk (I use those too of course).
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  1284. Professionals can do more with manuals. The industry relies on driver churn to depress wages so the less thought required the better. For little straight delivery trucks autos are fine across the board.
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  1285. The background music is mixed overly loud and adds nothing to an otherwise interesting video.
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  1286. Small businesses competently run can win on customer service. My local hardware store's owner welcomed nearby Lowes and Walmart because they draw traffic right past his location. His parking lot stays full and he doesn't bother opening on Sundays! He can afford better staffing by helpful workers which is part of his successful (since long before I first shopped there....in 1985. MANY so-called Mom and Pop stores in rural areas were/are ripoffs, often buying their small stock at retail then marking it up even more because they had/have a captive local audience. Dollar stores replaced them with lower prices and wider offerings and succeed because they're near to their customers.
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  1287. That is a feature not a bug. The US is enormous. NYC was really for people just off the boat before they moved into the interior or the burbs. There is no reason to live there so I left the metro area long ago. People are WEAK and fear change. Smart people made their money then GTFO to live their lives elsewhere. If you don't have money just skip to leaving for places you can afford. My alarm clock is a rooster.
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  1288. It's all obvious to anyone seriously interested in the subject. Part of deterrence is establishing credible ability to defeat enemy systems and given the terrain involved a surprise attack is impractical in 2025. India would be wise to manufacture high altitude drones to deliver smaller drones to take out enemy targets precisely. Pakistan hasn't money for effective SHORAD.
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  1289. I already have one, my military ID card. I'll update my drivers license at leisure. I don't need a passport as I've seen enough of the world that I am not a bit impressed.
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  1290. The US is far too large and ideologically diverse to be one country so that was forced by Federalists. Enemies should not share land. Pretending they're not enemies was always a convenient pretense. The natural fault lines cannot be pretended away. Federalists demand to control it all as one entity setting the conditions for freedom from Federalism. All minds are made up.
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  1291. That's the proper way to do it because a fireworks factory basically produces small munitions! Munition storage areas are dispersed and their contents limited to prevent fratricide.
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  1292. After selling used cars I learned consumers are utterly mindless, poorly informed and buy vehicles they do not need for more than they should spend. They chose their fate. Financial literacy is rare. Do not buy new cars. Do not buy expensive vehicles. Buy for nothing but reliability and low TCO, then do as I do and keep what you buy for decades AND use that time to carefully score your replacement before you need it.
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  1293. Humans are made for pursuit hunting not heavy lifting. Nearly everyone WILL have a bad back eventually no matter what their job but I make a game of building ways to lift and move basically anything from shipping containers (my home shop incorporates five 40' High Cubes) on down. The smart play is move upward and don't BE a 20-year mechanic. By then you should have moved up and or laterally.
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  1294. Don't test working folks. They have too much to lose to give it away to a robber.
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  1295. I haven't recommended Firefox in many years because their focus strayed from the browser into unrelated projects. Mozilla USED TO BE the standard recommendation to new computer users but that's long gone. Mozilla will not reform or change because they have no incentive to do that. Mozilla only need the browser to exist so sweet Google bux keep flowing. They will never see a dime from me because I don't reward incompetence. r/firefox is circling the proverbial wagons because zealots don't take criticism.
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  1296. The Left turning on those who helped install Marxism on campus is hilarious. How dare ANYONE forget why these universities are Leftist in the FIRST PLACE? They will not fire the bigoted president because of their demographic. Time for popcorn.
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  1297.  @nimrodszocs2795  "Completely right" from what perspective besides hurt feelings? A single assassination which was not a governmental act is not normally considered casus belli. The choice to war indicates the assassination was more convenience than provocation to war even by the low standards of the era. (I've no ethnic ties to the region thus no dog in the fight.) When nation states choose war there is always both pretext and real motivation, for the simple publics (they're ALL simple) must have emotional stake in the great game.
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  1298. Not mentioned is the elephant in the room. Israel only makes sense as an ethnostate because otherwise it's useless to the Jewish people.
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  1299. Automatic cable slack adjusters go back to the earliest car and truck parking brakes and are also used on aircraft flight controls. Shit's easy to fix if engineers keep a real mechanic on staff to keep thing real...
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  1300. "Scaring companies into spending more on security" creates two things, jobs and internal awareness they NEED to be protected from their victims.
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  1301. When I was at Sembach (early '80s) OSI busts wiped out the SP dorm floor and some fuel truck drivers. Bentwaters IIRC backfilled those slots. No surprise the cops thought they were safe.
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  1302.  @RattlerSSBN  Save the taxpayers money and get rid of MSHA and OSHA. Workers are free to quit if they don't like their environment. If they injure themselves by incompetence that's on them.
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  1303. I don't want a new vehicle unless it's free and then I'd sell it immediately. Your Silverado is now a classic and parts will be affordable until the sun burns out, same as my various Chevy and Ford trucks. I could buy a new truck for cash today because I would never be silly enough to do that in the first place. Your Silverado is simple, easy to wrench and easy to upgrade so even if the engine shucked a rod tomorrow you'd be wise to replace it and drive on.
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  1304. This is all about money and the only reason state government would hide it is corruption. Find them, name them and root out the grifters!
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  1305. Alternate option I've done for decades despite never being rich is to buy cheap land with a cheap home then go hardcore DIYing. One job often pays for my tools with thousands of dollars saved. Anyone determined can do the same because my bros do too. I don't need auto mechanics, carpenters, electricians (except for inspections), plumbers, roofers, computer techs, phone techs, or other related trades because what one human can do another can do (my late wife was at least as skilled). I bought cheap acreage to escape taxes and neighbors who I've no use for then built my own workshop and machine/welding shop which I couldn't have done as a minimalist. I make less than 70K/year but about half that is discretionary income. My bros do the same and own their homes too (we cooperate on projects since we find all this DIY huge fun).
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  1306.  @divitkarekar5803  If you want things to STAY that way then not turning Canada into the third world would be sensible. CANADIANS are why Canada is currently rather peaceful. Humans reflect their cultures and when you import people whose FAILED cultures drove them to flight they require EFFECTIVE ASSIMILATION by the DOMINANT cultural group. If you put one immigrant into a small town of locals, that immigrant is tacitly pressured by circumstance to become a good citizen with the mores of the dominant culture (that they chose to escape to). If you flood the same town the immgrants quite naturally cluster and are much less assimilated. This is natural adaptation. You like Canada the way it is so decide if you are somehow morally obligated to destroy what Canada is for the benefit of people to whom Canada does not belong. Not my country, not my concern because not my problem.
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  1307. Youtube is overwhelmed and scammers are cunning.
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  1308. Lean is horrible for stocking parts in the armed forces. Whoever thought bringing lean to the Air Force should get demining duty in Ukraine...naked with a sledge hammer. Wars are fought from stocks on hand and require serious front loading.
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  1309. Who is it, pray tell, that ELECTS these politicians?
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  1310. Successful anti-theft efforts attack the problem at the scrap yards. This is a solved problem with many examples. Busting the buyer works in the real world. My state is an example. If the voters objected they would vote differently. Criminals are not some category outside the general public. They ARE part of the general public so a pro-crime Democrat administration elected by pro-crime Democrat voters is de-facto inviting criminals to rob all concerned. If Californians were not utterly delighted with things as they are they would choose differently. The state has the power to crush organized crime with the total ruthlessness social enemies deserve. The state is controlled by the people and the people of CA choose their fate. It's easy to interdict scrap metal sales blocking the problem at its source. Require all scrap loads and those delivering them to show valid ID, be fingerprinted, and have their load photographed to save info for potential future prosecution.
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  1311. Orderly societies put bottom feeders in their place by force and don't confuse them with humans. I was alive before people mistakenly respected drunks, junkies, bums, crazies and other vermin and based on personal experience I have no use for them. I do not pretend that everyone is the same because that's a lie.
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  1312. Russians overthrew their government once and can do it more easily this time. If a Ukrainian boy can fight Putinists so can a Russian boy! Inaction is consent and we should remember the majority of Russians have always been fine with ultranationalism OR THEY'D NOT HAVE INVADED THE NEIGHBORS and genocided Ukraine in the 1930s.
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  1313. As if Jag could ever be relevant again. Enjoy past glories and move on.
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  1314. Five an hour does not even track inflation.
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  1315. Reconstruction should require firePROOF structures because there is no place to go. Concrete and steel also resist volcanic ash buying time to evacuates. Wildfires require trees and foliate to burn so reduce the amount of fuel by ruthless vegetation management. What does not exist does not burn. Large evacuation routes and shelters should be part of reconstruction so the next time won't be as bad. Wood is a terrible material for homes.
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  1316.  @TheCollapse410  Dude knew he was on video and played it smart just like the wise do with body cams. Smart move.
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  1317. Sociopathy when others deserve it is no sin. Good for Caleb for flipping the usual script and joining the tapaho tribe. A henhouse only needs one rooster. Tapdatazz and make some great memories! There is no such thing as bad orgasm.
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  1318. The old truck frame and bellhousing designs reflect the need for frequent maintenance and frequent in-frame maintenance. Most did not cross beneath the oil pan so you could drop the pan to replace bearings, pistons, rods etc without removing the crankshaft. Engines were low compression which besides tolerating crappy fuel was easier on the alloys they were made of. The hoist would have seen even more use removing long heavy cylinder heads than pulling complete engines as those inline six heads are heavy. Updraft carbs were less likely to flood engines if the float stuck or needle didn't seat. Old engineers were plenty intelligent but constrained by materials and manufacturing processes available. So were machinists and mechanics. Most large general machine shops in the 1930s era even had small foundries. Those elegantly simple cast parts Zach shows in the oil field were easy to cast far away from large towns and cities. The more features you could incorporate in your casting pattern the fewer you had to machine in an era before modern tool steels and long before carbide inserts.
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  1319. The Cold War never ended for there is no reason it should. NATOs catastropic disarmament (driven by the one thing the USSR truly did well, subversion) ensured Putin would believe he could do what he nearly did, seize Ukraine. Russia in any possible incarnation is enemy to Western civilization it apes poorly. The West can decide how much that matters but if we fail we will richly deserve to. The idea Russia ever ceased being an existential enemy is vatnik propaganda and its adherents traitors.
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  1320. Just posting words means nothing. Either make a coherent comparison or go be schizophrenic somewhere else.
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  1321. One is a small beginning but progress is progress!
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  1322. America does not have an intelligent public to recruit from. The average US reading level is ~7th/8th grade.
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  1323. Oil coolers (usually neglected on street machines) and automatic transmission coolers can have impressive effect too.
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  1324. NEVER take an interest only mortgage. Never sign an adjustable rate mortgage. STUDY finance FFS because it's vital to your survival. Nothing you learn will matter more.
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  1325. Keeping Russia from respawning the USSR is why NATO exists. BTW consider using an online translator if English is not your first language.
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  1326.  @wgowshipping  Nothing, it's another troll. Adults speak in specifics. This is Youtube home of bots and what's called "slide thread" posters. Thanks for your work but only people who are seriously interested in this subject can begin to benefit. Mental defectives are quite common among trolls.
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  1327.  @qadirtimerghazin  They're all bots whose operators are desperate (just not enough to fight on the front lines).
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  1328. Is that supposed to be insightful to anyone older than twelve?
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  1329. The Left are responsible and they occupy positions of power....for now.
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  1330. Building structures with wood invites destruction by fire as we just witnessed. Rebuilding them out of fuel is silly and not necessary but people are (mostly) such craven conformists they will insist on repeating mistakes while making excuses for it. Some homeowners think for themselves and use fireproof materials like concrete and steel. I get the appeal of cheap square footage but wood is self-evidently not fireproof so doing the same thing twice while expecting different results is questionable. The wealthy owners really have no excuse since artful designs like monolithic domes which are both fire and quake resistant are an option as is mimicing classic adobe construction using reinforced concrete. Steel roofing is lighter, easier to install, completely recyclable and available in a variety of colors including reflective white for lower energy use.
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  1331. That's why copying your purchases to YOUR media and ripping any DRM so you can play YOUR copy is vital.
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  1332.  @rebeccahenderson7761  That was not the point of observing what usually happens. Cheerleading on Youtube has no effect on the ground either. Only SOME Iranians are fighting the regime which lest we forget IS KEPT IN POWER BY A MAJORITY of Iranians who support the mullocracy. When people seriously want their government gone they do what the Taliban did (like them or not, they won their war) and apply violent force at any personal cost. Peaceful demonstrations only work on weak Western governments who have some concern for human rights, a concept alien to the Middle East excepting a minority of Westernized people. Democracy is a Western concept alien to the rest of the world and only capable of taking root in relatively modern cultures where religion is weak.
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  1333. If you have an illegally parked problem drop a dime and get the car towed. They will be too broke to get it back and won't be able to camp in YOUR neighborhood.
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  1334. Trucking like dock work is drudgery best automated out of existence. Truckers want automated docks but their own jobs are also better automated. No one is special and after deregulation there is little point in most trucking jobs.
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  1335. The Navy has multiple carrier battle groups for good reasons.
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  1336.  @ronnieitaquab1008  Everyone who voted Democrat DID vote for it. The beauty of democracy is when the people elect representatives the people are RESPONSIBLE for that choice.
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  1337. No one knows who she really works for or her real motive yet.
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  1338. Sure thing. Don't buy a new van. Do buy used from a private party who is also old with plenty of money. (I'm old too and experience shows in how one cares for their possessions.) Do exhaustive research and find MECHANICS (only mechanics can have useful technical insights on vehicles, ignore sales droids) to learn which specific makes, models and DRIVETRAINS they approve of. Never buy something for superficial reasons. If you want to live in a wheeled vehicle it's best to pull a trailer so drivetrain repairs don't mean your home disappears into a shop. reddit is a better detailed resource than Youtube and brand/model specific forums with experienced line mechanics are gold. Research is fun and so is saving money. If you buy anything with an extended warranty study the fine print first and not at the dealer, but leisurely over time. Salesdroids can't subtly pressure you when you're at home chilling out. Good hunting!
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  1339.  @LilyGazou  That was so long ago only the elderly remember it. The mid-1960s were the end and the '70s/80s' the worst in recent memory but it's only attractive to those who don't know better. People grow used to anything when they grow up in a region. Of course almost no one RETIRES in NYC because reality sets in so unless you're too poor to escape it's off to Arizona or the Southeast.
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  1340. The voters chose this and deserve it for being Democrats. Smart people who are not rich had the sense to leave long ago. Just leave the metro area. I did and so can anyone else serious about enjoying the rest of America.
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  1341.  @roman9762  I've got the money. No EV truck exists that's worth a dam as a real truck. I wrench and I'll have an EV on my terms when I feel like it, but my classic motorcycle collection is where the toy money goes.
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  1342. That would be Tehran.
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  1343. So does ignorance. Not everyone is or hires real professionals.
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  1344. The solution is don't live in tourist traps. People make the terrible mistake of wanting to live there KNOWING that costs will continue to rise and if they retire will crush them.
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  1345. The US abandoning its alliances was bound to happen and Europe direly needed that wakeup call. Replacing former ally technology, especially from neo-Hitlerite Musk is a vital investment because every thing Europe does for itself enhances its freedom of action. So does keeping US firms away from EU citizens personal data because privacy is long dead. Intel sharing is another vulnerability since the US can no longer be trusted with intel usable against it's adored new partner the Russian Federation.
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  1346.  @KSCPMark6742  FOD walks are standard procedure in any air force. Remember multiple airframes use runway and taxiways and that FOD isn't just about intakes but protecting aircraft tires. Running a towed sweeper down runway prior to launch is not at all complex. I find FOD fears hilariously exaggerated.
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  1347. Offing bad cops should only carry charges if there's nothing else handy to hang on the perp. Dirty cops betray public trust and are unworthy of public protection because they soiled the badge. Ending one is an unintentional public service to the majority who aren't corrupt.
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  1348. Haiti is a permanently failed state because it refuses to do what its neighbor DR does. Haitians are the problem. Haitian choices and actions are their responsibility. The place is too savage and primitive for democracy in the Western sense which requires an educated electorate, but noting that is considered rude so nothing will change.
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  1349. What's needed are a NO SELF SERVICE line of Dollar Stores which have armored street level windows (and airlock style merch doors) with no items picked by staff until the order is paid for. If the items picked are not retrieved in time, charge a restocking fee. No shopping carts needed or anything else but appropriate bulletproof frontage.
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  1350. Most humans are silly herd beasts who prefer not to think. Good for Starbucks cashing in on the inexhaustible supply of silly.
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  1351. Most people aren't intelligent enough to value learning and that makes them gullible targets for every kind of grifter. Ignorance used to be shameful but today nothing is shameful. However life is pitiless and people still get what their bad adult choices deserve. There is nothing to be done about it since zealots are unreachable.
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  1352. For equipment I bought a commercial grade Andis clipper with a #50 ceramic blade thirty years ago that works fine today. Blades last at least six years used on people and the quality crushes consumer clippers. I use it to shave my head too so it gets many operating hours. Commercial grade clippers are definitely worth buying because they save much more over time than they cost and ceramic blades save even more thanks to low replacement rates. Blade sharpening services exist (or if you own a surface or tool and cutter grinder you can do it yourself but I don't bother).
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  1353. America easily afforded containing Russia once already. I was stationed in West Germany at the time. The risk in the US is really not a matter of money since those opposing the war do NOT oppose the rest of the armed forces budget. It's very much a contrarian pissfight waged by clueless rustics who know nothing of history but would toss a toddler into a wood chipper to annoy their political opponents. If the Democratic party came out for Jesus much of the GOP would turn Satanist overnight. They're not capable of understanding the global Left they fear is a Soviet creation and that Russia is the reverse of tradcon Lenin's shrine is not maintained by accident nor is Soviet imagery and the WWII death cult.
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  1354. This lifelong mechanic agrees with you. Condition not mileage is key and good vehicles reasonably maintained last decades outside the rust belt.
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  1355. GOOD. Catering to bums and derelicts (the proper terms before lying about them became social fashion) ruins cities. New York should not be permitted to turn into Calcutta. Enough with the 'vulnerable' nonsense. Adapt or leave. (I left.)
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  1356. The people of Iran have two choices both of them bad. Either outfight and destroy their enemies or be enslaved to theocrats. The mullocracy will not go down quietly because humans who believe in imaginary celestial friends consider dying for their beliefs an honor and killing anyone who disagrees with them a joy. Outsiders cannot do much as previous interference is what eventually propelled the mullocracy to power. It is for Iranians to choose between civil war and surrender. Older Iranians are the problem and youth can choose to be the solution but there will be tens of thousands of martyrs lost either way. The world has too many greedy old men in power.
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  1357. Americans spend their lives isolated and as most people are not intelligent (which is purely a matter of luck). Our primary education system is broken by local greed so that won't improve.
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  1358. Tanks rely on COMBINED ARMS to be effective. Lacking that mutual support they're just metal targets.
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  1359.  @w3w3w3  Because of international treaties signed by your elected governments. If you dislike the current system you're free to vote differently. The Sentinelese vote with arrows.
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  1360. What people forget is an IFF error (the usual cause) can be fatal and has been in the past, for example the two helicopters dropped by F-15s.
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  1361.  @Tam-mp6gk  Nah,they know more about the system...
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  1362. I suspect the shooter was not Amish or Mennonite, but it's forbidden to count which groups commit a disproportionate amount of crime in the US.
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  1363. Civilians should not have opinions on military aviation unless they have genuine personal expertise on the subject. The armed forces fly an enormous amount of hours and that makes some fatal mishaps normal. In other news the US loses over thirty thousand people to car crashes but all their survivors drive to the funeral because risk is part of life. I sleep like a baby on military aircraft because I maintained them for a living.
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  1364. Do you not know that the local SCHOOL BOARDS run the show? Teachers have very little power. It's a horrible job only people who can't make profitable careers bother with. (College is much different and much better because participation is voluntary.)
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  1365. Have you actually worked in the auto sales industry? The few people who put practicality over shiny features aren't enough to support a profitable market. The average human considers technology magic and buys for fashion and features. There's not going to be a "crash" when demand outstrips supply. That whole idea is bizarre.
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  1366. Ukraine has nothing to do with that. Since history is not your strong suit I suggest asking Ukrainians online why they do not want Russian masters.
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  1367. This channel is turning into a view factory which is unfortunate but he might as well make that money since most Youtubers are boomers who can't figure out Rumble, Telegram (use a burner number) etc where most content originates.
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  1368. It's perfect for people who want to work in NY briefly then leave when they make their fortune which they assume they will. New Yorkers will put up with anything to live in New York so they'll go for it.
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  1369. Buy cheap, renovate yourself, pay it down quickly then when you get old you have no mortgage OR rent. Worked a treat for me because I don't need to make payments on some McMansion I would never own.
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  1370. So everyone else should knuckle under because you failed to make a profitable career? Why should people be "grateful" when a job is a CONTRACT not a gift? Grateful for boots to lick? Not I.
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  1371.  @thebrowns5337  All armies are capa ble of taking calculated risks but exaggeration is childish. If all troops are lost so is the action and likely more. War is complex, not simple and wanting to view it simply is just self-deception.
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  1372. Concern troll detected.
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  1373. Brexit will be vindicated. ALL those Leftist laws may be discarded. There is zero moral obligation to put enemy outsider parasites above INDIGENOUS Europeans.
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  1374.  @2MeterLP  Not all rents are NYC tier in rail commute range. There are other options too. NYC isn't the only place people have jobs and succeed. It's as if people forget the rest of America exists.
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  1375. SpaceX can easily replace NASA rockets for less money. We have eternity to play in space so there is no rush. Let the rest of the world put in work for a change.
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  1376.  @RobertMorgan  To enjoy MY life. Remember roughly a third of life is in old age so if you fail to stack a solid retirement package with AMPLE extra money that leaves you vulnerable. Why do I have to give what I worked for to anyone? I earned it, not anyone else. Good for you if you define yourself by your kids, but how dare you imply that's the only ethical way to live?
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  1377. There is no dilemma. That is a a false choice fallacy. US GDP is over 22 trillion dollars much of that due to the global stability our alliances foster. Aid to Ukraine makes flawless strategic sense for Russia must be contained. We fought this battle before with the USSR and won (China won in Asia thanks to detente and Western business greed).
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  1378. A good test of lineman pliers is what I used them for when running a welding school toolroom. We cut TIG filler in half before handing it out (consumables are costly so they were rationed) and that meant hundreds of cuts through 3/32 and 1/8 stainless and carbon TIG wire. While individuals could cut by hand no way was I getting carpal tunnel so I tack welded a Klein lineman plier to some plate and clamped that to the bench. I slid some stainless tubing over the other handle for leverage. I used that Klein for months before the contract ended and I moved on. It's still there years later. Lineman pliers kind of suck as pliers but do well as cutters. The models with splice crimpers on the inboard side of the jaws are much handier than the plain style.
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  1379. This is the NY/NJ metro area after all. Who got bribed to what personal financial benefit? Find then follow the money.
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  1380. All railroads have issues long predating the trifles of current politics. There are no "good guys" and rail in the US is still not a great public concern. This incident will fade over time and not much will change.
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  1381.  @cagatayaydemir3556  Both engines are long debugged (I worked on both as a USAF engine mech and crew chief). Pratts can have their FTIT limit raised for war by adjusting the fuel control as we did during Desert Shield if extra thrust is wanted. We had nil maintenance issues with that (I borescoped many for 50-hour and other inspections.)
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  1382. They leave when they want to eat. Not a problem IRL. My bro for example keeps goats in West Virginia where they clear the mountainside he lives on. Mowers cannot go there but goats are contented to shelter in the shade and devour brush. He uses "farm grade" UV-resistant hose (never buy consumer grade green garden hose for any use since it's all garbage which hardens and cracks) which he can drag where needed to fill watering tubs. I don't keep goats but do the same to have ready water for my chickens and to wet nearby areas before welding outdoors.
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  1383. Because meatless aircraft have been landing on carrier decks for years and a pilot is a limfac bug not a feature. Meat in the seat is absurdly expensive, frequently lost to accidents, tires, limits mission endurance, is subject to emotions and required horrifically expensive and dangerous CSAR. Aircraft are nothing but missile and bomb range extenders so the sooner they're simplified AND (by improved missiles) the need for them is reduced the better. Consider that most of an aircraft carrier doesn't kill anything, it just supports ordnance delivery which can be done in many ways. Now imagine if the money and space and humans spent on aircraft went direct to self-delivering missiles fired from arsenal ships and submarines.
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  1384. CNC doesn't guarantee precision if a monkey does the setup. Considerable manual work goes into making CNC-machined parts to spec, it's far from just pushing buttons. No one wants to be a machinist because the pay is typically shit. It's like the trucking industry bending over new truckers then wondering why they don't become old truckers. I enjoy machining but I didn't choose it for a living because being able to retire was far more important and job satisfaction doesn't pay off my house.
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  1385. Having studied Russian history I have zero empathy for a society so predatory it murders its own intelligentsia. Not all people or cultures are the same and Russia's track record of millions murdered is at least as high as Hitler's. The difference is Russia got away with genociding Ukraine.
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  1386. They're cheap to build, don't require short tracking when they lose a wheel, and troops HATE breaking track and love wheels. Tracks will come back if weight requirements for APS drive the need but these "armored cars" are good enough and most importantly affordable, FAST and comfortable for passengers. Most will be used in constabulary operations not modern nation-state war and wheeled vehicles are ideal because they don't damage paved roads enough to matter.
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  1387. Those implications are real and should be considered. Emotion is for those too weak to think clearly. These horrible countries are self-ruining however sad those on the losing side may appear. Nations are people and failed nations are failed people.
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  1388. Modern Christianity enslaves the US to Tel Aviv meaning money and arms must continue to flow. It was not always thus.
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  1389.  @gergelyszabo4572  Then leave the EU and all entanglements for your natural Russian master if you will not support freedom for others. Hungary benefits and so does the EU.
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  1390. This is what superstition gets you. Innocent trusting (but simple and unsophisticated, making them perfect prey) Americans GAVE their offspring into the spiritual custody of someone else. They crave priests because they are conditioned to weakness and not thinking for themselves. Child predators are naturally drawn and quite possibly created by that system. Giving someone else your child to guide is abdication of parenthood. People in the modern world are leaving the Church while it expands in areas so barbaric that it really is a social improvement.
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  1391. Be aware the only people who object to crime in these communities are the police as everyone decent wisely exited decades ago. The remainder object to police interrupting their criminal careers.
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  1392. Home invasions are rarely random. Gender makes no difference and there are plenty of female bangers.
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  1393. If any trees can fall on your home, those trees should not exist to endanger you and yours. Many people let trees grow too tall then face major arborist bills because they forget to look up or think their special tree won't take them out. Helene just killed many people due to tree impacts on homes. No tree? No problem which is why I dropped all mine having learned from Hurricane Hugo.
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  1394. Copeland CHOSE to publish the quoted pictures in full knowledge (as a pastor you don't get an excuse) that his conduct towards his congregation was hypocrisy. REposting internet content originally FREELY posted by the creator is no crime.
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  1395. He is still CONSENTING to serve Putin one way or another. He should have left for there was never a reason to want to live in Russia for well over a century. If he wants freedom he can delete his officers and surrender, also not a new idea. People who don't fight back are cattle.
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  1396. Welding valve covers is amazingly retarded. As a jet mech that speaks volumes. Wow....
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  1397. The Iraqi Air Force under Saddam were trained and equipped based on USSR standards and the results spoke for themselves. US technology has drastically improved since I was fixing F-16s at KKMC (and those F-16s are long retired, later Blocks being far different despite external resemblance to the novice). US flying hours per pilot have been drastically reduced to save money and fleet age is far older than in 1991, but training quality and ability to generate high sortie RATES remain. (Sortie rates should get more love but they don't excite spectators who don't really care about operations, just their shiny object fantasies.)
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  1398. Good. I buy used trucks so I don't care who buys them new because they not I eat the fees and property tax hit. Much love for other vehicles but I use my trucks as trucks hauling building supplies, steel and machine tools for my personal shop and much more. After working in the used vehicle business I'm firmly convinced most buyers are "aspirational" buying things they don't need in order to signal wealth. Fine with me since I lose nothing and gain much.
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  1399. Poland are realistic about the permanent Asiatic menace of Russia because Russia was a very bad master. That's why the Warsaw Pact evaporated. Russian culture IS imperialism, there being nothing else noteworthy. The humans Russians invaded tend to object to repeats so they have every reason to arm themselves. To favor disarmament is to trust the kindness of your enemies.
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  1400. MacGregor's record of trying to remain militarily relevant is instructive. As that avenue to influence faded (Puma sales to the US went nowhere) he opportunistically threw his hat in with the intellectually weakest but most passionate in conservative politics (classical conservatives sold out utterly and today are deader than pickled herrings). He was a fine armor officer DECADES AGO but that has nothing to do with issues above and beyond the specific scope of those military duties. Technophobia in a member of a tool-using species which would promptly die off without tech is intellectually degenerate. Failure to be a "techie" in 2023 by anyone in a position of responsibility or influence is dereliction of duty. If you choose not to be technical person your opinions are worthless because you refused by choice understand how the world works. If you do not understand why this is so, you're part of the problem. IADS do not sweep the skies today else drones would be ineffective. US SEAD is more than proven and it's not 1991 any more. Desert Storm is ancient history in technical terms. Systems with the same names remain but that only impresses the tech-ignorant. The Vipers I worked on are target drones today. Since no one of intellectual integrity would make the unsupported (burden of proof, onus probandi, is on the person making an assertion) he does the only motivation remaining is venal.
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  1401. Exhausted workers are inefficient workers, they merely convey the appearance of work. This isn't by choice, prolonged exhaustion is destructive (in my case from chronic severe pain, but when one is permanently sleep-deprived there is a cognitive toll either way so I understand). When you confuse time spent on the job with productivity that is delusional. An inspired team doesn't NEED a long time to get work done. For example even in the US Air Force working over 12hr shifts fixing aircraft happens but is discouraged because tired troops make mistakes. A wiser way to use employees for everyone's benefit is possible. W. Edwards Deming was a hero in Japan but ignored in his home country proving Japan can embrace useful outside ideas then integrate them at enormous economic benefit.
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  1402. Russian meat recce is cheap and we see examples of small formations getting droned in the act. Shooting at them reveals resistance at nil cost. Dead infantry don't need food and ammo making them much more expendable in fact than it may appear. They cease to consume logistics when they expire, a fire and forget munition with long historic precedent.
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  1403. Democratic cities get what they ask for. I am amused because I refuse to live there. Let Wall Street feed them.
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  1404. Russia has never been different and can never be different. The only way to delay the next and future wars is inflict as much damage on the Russian armed forces and economy as practical while reinforcing NATO against what must be acknowledged as an enemy society not a society with an enemy government. The anti-Bolsheviks who warned of Russian subversion were not mistaken. Russia is not a European culture, it is an existential cultural enemy of Europe which murdered millions of eastern Europeans over centuries from Finland south the the eastern Med. Russia is an enemy society not a society with a temporary enemy government (though the silly clueless have difficulty understanding that uncomfortable reality). Russia is enemy to secular democracy and European civilization. It is a successful subversion machine first infesting the Left and today infesting the contrarian right, both groups having ignorance as common ground. Putin never shot a single Ukrainian. Ordinary Russians delightedly butchered Buchans and other innocents for sport. The precedent of the Holomodor and Russian actions in the Baltics, Finland and Poland (Katyn is famous but not isolated). The few decent Russians never win because culturally authentic Russians murder or exile them. Putin is merely a symptom of Russian culture. His replacement will be at least as noxious because they will be installed by the same internal power centers. Russian nukes may require pretending his replacement isn't Stalin v3.0 but that should be understood as pragmatic hypocrisy, the necessary basis for diplomacy. Military conquest is the only Russian national identity which is why casualties don't matter (with some Muscovite exceptions) to the Kremlin . Racist Kremlin policies expend helpless poor rural minorities like Buryats first (though some are noticing the trick). Using convicts was perfect because it liquidates those the Kremlin prefers dead with zero social regret. Russia has lost expendable hardware and expendable Russians. Many, many more casualties and decisive economic damage might get their attention but they've fought long wars before.
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  1405. When Algeria was allowed to fall Frances fate was sealed. The formerly great colonial power is itself being colonized, and by that reverse colonization is hoisted on its own petard. The more socially liberal a nation the weaker its will to self-defense, for it considers the world entitled to walk in and take over. That of course is its right but actions have consequences.
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  1406. Most of what consumers buy is feces they do not NEED. The best "bargain" is not buying items which do not improve your life.
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  1407. The current Russian Federation could not carry the Warsaw Pact's jock strap, not least because most of the former Pact are aiding Ukraine which was the industrial heart of the Soviet Union.
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  1408. Bye Ron!
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  1409. The nice thing about affordable quality notebooks like classic Thinkpads is one can easily afford two or several of them and always have a ready spare while rarely needing it (I would never be one machine deep since one of anything is one away from "none" and computers are necessities) or have machines for multiple OS and because hdd can be quickly swapped there is very little downtime even over many years use. Upgradeability is nice too. My 96GB and 128GB P52s were ordered with the cheapest placeholder hard drive and least RAM so I could do exactly what I anticipated and the company knowingly provided for, buy aftermarket RAM and nice large drives for their three drive bays each. Lenovo HMM are excellent as is serviceability. Nearly all the T61 I assembled from donors still run today as shop machines for jobs like flashing GM computers or reading manuals and ordering parts.
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  1410. Since when does the US depend on Chinese imports for FOOD? Only LUXURY foods are imported. The US is a massive net food exporter.
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  1411. American culture wins nation-state wars but is doomed to failure against popular Maoist-style insurgencies because our public are most ignorant rustics (even the urbanites) and that can never be different. Conservative civilians tend to be blind militarist chickenhawks because most of them never served. Neverserveds imagine themselves wise but if you're not immersed in military life you cannot understand it, end of story. (Amazingly crappy artwork BTW. Whoever thought that was useful should be kept away from future videos....)
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  1412. How many years did you serve in which Stryker units? Why did the Army discard the MGS if you're wiser than they are?
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  1413. German energy prices reflect decades of German choices including the choice to be beholden to the eternal eastern enemy of Europe for LNG instead of embracing nuclear power which German engineers were more than capable of deploying and clean coal use which is not difficult for such an advanced nation. (The anti-nuclear movemen is a product of Soviet subversion including in the US. France proves competent operators can deploy nuclear power with little fuss.) Let US remember WEST Germany had the Wirtschaftswunder and was enormously capable without its eastern Soviet enemy and without East Germany. All changes since then were by informed adult choice. West Germany managed superbly (I quite enjoyed my service there) until reunification. Somehow half of Germany did magnificently containing the USSR yet reassembled Germany became reliant on an enemy culture run by a former Soviet intelligence agent. Somehow half of Germany supported freedom and democracy while today reassembled Germany depends on trade with a bitter enemy of those ideals (Communist China) when the rest of the world also needs high quality exports. What begat that fascinating CHOICE?
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  1414. America was not settled by people looking for social freedom. It was settled by colonialists seeking land and wealth and messianic religious fanatics. The British Crown wisely used the Colonies as a dumping ground for its religious opponents like the Puritans. This so affect US culture that even US urbanites are really quite rustic and our entire culture is prudish and fanatical about how each group DEMANDS sex be dealt with. The utter collapse of the US primary education system (already a joke by German standards, I was stationed in West Germany for two years and tried to extend) does not help as only some of the wealthy conceive of education beyond job training. Prudishness and ignorance are bedfellows. The implosion of primary education is why our current electorate read therefore think at about US 8th grade level. This drives the inevitable slide to populism by the terrified ignorant masses so don't expect improvement. Americans (G.I.s stationed overseas etc excepted) are anti-cosmopolitan and their discourse is at the typical Youtube comment level. Things are not improving as the US is bitterly anti-intellectual and has no intellectuals worth mentioning, just social media entertainers pandering to morons craving affirmation. Nobody really minds so this state of affairs is permanent. The American people can only care about technology and money. The exceptions know we prove the rule.
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  1415. That's why learning to human network is gold. When I took a structural/pipe welding course for fun I also volunteered and the school promptly hired me as they tend to hire from within. Social skills matter so I chose to develop mine.
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  1416. The last place I want to die is surrounded by entitled seniles so unimaginative they flock to bulk storage....
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  1417.  @TLBLibrarian  By what specific metrics did you determine they're "overpaid"? Assertions require evidence, not feelings. If a man believes a thing he should be able to prove it in court.
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  1418.  @thunkjunk  Both can be solved but acceleration is a required precursor so the uncommitted no longer have a choice but to defend their rights.
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  1419. The land will remain for those who wish to use it in future. It is wiser to leave it fallow than for example to destroy Spain by an "invasion". The mountains will be just fine without people. They were just fine before people.
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  1420. Putinists want a USSR and Warsaw Pact revival. Russians in living memory Gulag'ed, murdered and abused indigenous Latvians. Russians were settled in Latvia to displace native Latvians. None of those things are subject to reasonable doubt. Ever wonder why most of the former Warsaw Pact are ENTHUSIASTIC members of NATO? If you do, read post-1900 history of both Romanov and Bolshevik/Stalinist/etc Russian empires. Ask Latvians!
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  1421. Armies do not have admirals.
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  1422. Can it be less expensive to run a test pump by an oil field engine instead of running electricity until a well proves itself? How much work is it to reel in your wiring and tubing from wells you plug?
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  1423. Good. MSFT can afford to do it right and the jobs for skilled workers will be a major economic boost.
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  1424. I'm negative re: hydrogen because I know much more about industrial gas and vehicles than you do and have wrenched vehicles from jet fighters on down since the late 1970s. Your comparisons are silly and you are obviously not a mechanic so why do you have an opinion? Drawbacks include distribution which is by trucks carrying liquid hydrogen. Pipeline doesn't do last mile well at all. Another fuelling drawback is field refueling will be far more complex and require (to be portable) appropriate trucks with liquid hydrogen dewars, heat exchangers etc which most recovery companies won't bother with so running out of hydrogen will mean a rollback tow to a fuel source.
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  1425. Cashiers may not be experienced so I put on my "nice old man" mode and chat politely with them to show them parts they're confused about. Def get the manager and remember politeness is gold and saves money over time.
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  1426. Law and lawyers don't work that way and PAP have plenty of funds to develop policies that work but keep the less skilled out of trouble. They're no some backyard outfit who can't afford legal counsel. BTW you don't need an angle grinder with the right recip saw blades (which I keep cool with a bit of water, blades don't need lube they need cooling to protect teeth from being annealed by overheat. For example cutting frame sections (frames are crushed with vehicle bodies so not a problem and the staff at my local PAP thought the cuts I made were a slick idea when they saw them while operating the forklift removing the drivetrain). I started working for a salvage and scrap yard in 1978 when all most yards had was a cutting torch so this isn't my first rodeo. I use the same Diablo blades my local PAP issues to their staff. I've detached a complete truck front suspension severing two box tubing frame rails with one blade and not smoke the teeth.. Also round metal cutting blades exist which are not abrasive and they fit circular saws (and often make straighter cuts than floppy recip blades) but I've not found need for one in salvage. Carbide and diamond grit blades are available too.
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  1427. Interesting as my local PAP don't mind pics a bit and are a joy to deal with. I've spent several thousand bucks there but I'm a little fish compared to the guys who make serious money pulling several engines a week for resale. Something is fishy if a yard bans photos...
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  1428. It is NOT a "nice quality" to be trusting. The only reason people want it IN OTHERS is that comforts them. Trust no one. I remain unscammed because I am utterly beyond the reach of such persuasion. The "bank CEO" had the soul of a chump. Common enough. Consider the executives (horny old men) Elizabeth Holmes ripped off. They wanted to believe. Consider the executives Bernie Madoff ripped off. They wanted to believe. I am not impressed nor am I a victim.
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  1429.  @jerrylundegaard2592  Cherrypicking used items like a mattress and couch is a false choice fallacy. Buying big ticket items used saves so much money that the little stuff becomes affordable. I don't buy bedbug vectors like couches or mattresses used because that's foolishly unhygenic. I do buy other vintage and antique furniture because the quality crushes modern pressboard junk and even bad new furniture is more expensive. My home is mostly furnished in Danish Modern which was far from cheap new but I didn't buy it new. The economic way to buy electronics is knowing your hardware. I buy new displays because tech moves so fast and the performance/resolution/size is worth my while, but used computers are no big deal since they're so easy to maintain and work on (I favor business class notebooks but build my own desktops so I can continuously upgrade). I buy used trucks opportunistically and keep them at least twenty years. No truck note, no mortgage note and no other loans mean I don't have to work ever again.
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  1430. So what? UCLA has been a Communist institution since the 1960s. No Fox viewer should be anything but amused as I am. Patriots would never attend the place.
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  1431. False choice fallacy there. Replacing sets is silly so most machinists buy bulk packs of the sizes we use most. For example I buy cobalt alloy (I drill mostly steel) five and ten packs especially smaller sizes used for pilot holes. Sharpeners pay off on large, expensive bits. The failure modes of little bits (snapping, annealing destroying the tip) don't lend themselves to sharpening.
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  1432. So who does the Mexican Army traffic drugs for (today)?
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  1433. He's almost as clownish as the chumps who elected him.
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  1434. Solar doesn't really belong on roofs. It's placed there due to lack of space and esthetic reasons. When I get bored enough to add solar it will be on a jobsite style trailer not atop my home. Reason being that solar panels on roofs make roof replacment horribly expensive while disabling the solar system. Ground mounts (which can rotate for best angle to the sun) are easy to fab from steel, easy to maintain, and if you decide to upgrade you can fab the replacement then just swap them out. If you're not a hardcore truly competent techie you don't need solar.
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  1435. "Average" is generally terrible because the average human is incompetent at more than perhaps one specialty. Strive not to be average. Ruthlessly live BELOW your means such that you become highly efficient. Most people overreach and that's a trap. You need a place to live but buying too much house means a long brutal mortgage. ("Keep it small and own it all.") Do not consider lack of trifles a "sacrifice" and instead take joy in buying wisely. Make every effort to learn DIY so you understand more of your world. Get good and you'll save gobs of money especially over time.
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  1436. Machinery goes bang!
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  1437. Why buy the cow when milk is free?
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  1438. Fentanyl use is an adult choice. Fentanyl MISuse is an adult choice. How about "don't make then repeat stupid life choices"? I've been a legit opiate patient for many years and I despise junkies for making the lives of legitimate pain patients so EXPENSIVE (medical care is not free or cheap) and INCONVENIENT. US society need not revolve around its degenerates while ignoring legitimate needs of reasonable adults. There is plenty of weed for those wanting a relatively harmless buzz that won't kill you (unless someone drops a pallet on your head). Bring back forced custodial mental treatment and get these defectives out of the way of the innocent general public. Dumping mental defectives in prison doesn't work but it saved states money so the US mental health care system was dismantled along the lines of "rely on crazies to take their meds" then abandoning them. That's like letting toddlers play in traffic.
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  1439.  @david-dj8or  Motorbikes eject their riders. Vehicles without seat belts which retain their operators "stop" them in a crash by impacting them against the interior. Why do you imagine racing harnesses exist?
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  1440. ​ @joeylamp_holder2013  It thins the herd of id10Ts so I approve.
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  1441. Prayers do not work or the problem would be solved. Prayers are pathetic lies people tell themselves as an excuse to do nothing.
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  1442. The region is underdeveloped and needs massive road and tunnel construction. Mountains are a problem not a feature. They hold back prosperity by being obstacles to logistics.
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  1443.  @MrWizardjr9  Because EVERY precaution that can be taken to avoid getting hit must be taken and a mere aircraft is an acceptable loss. Why do you assume they were "overwhelmed"?
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  1444.  @Inkling777  How many years personal experience do you have in military aviation and if none why do you permit yourself an opinion? Aviation operations are not mountain climbing, they're a complex technical ballet even on land where an enormous number of things done by a large number of people and machines can go wrong. Carriers are immensely powerful and complex. In emergency necessary operational risks are taken. The loss of an aircraft impresses spectators but losing a few is the nature of the business. Be glad 1970s and '80s Class A mishap rates are not the norm. For example the Air Force safety folks reliably predicted Class A (which aren't just total loss of airframe but include that) causes and outcomes, but that's not the same as predicting WHICH of a given airframe will buy the proverbial farm. In those days (I worked on Phantom, Bronco and F-16s '81 to '07) losing well over a squadron's worth of fighter/attack airframes per year was not unusual but taking that risk was a necessity so it was acceptable.
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  1445. How did Trianon and its legacy affect current Hungarian fealty to Moscow? Does Viktor Orbán reflect Hungarian public support for Putin and if so what caused such a remarkable turnaround from 1956? Was it resentment at NATO not sending military support (of course an absurd idea given Soviet nuclear weapons)? How successful were Russification policies post-WWII and why?
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  1446. Russia imitates civilization without participation. The Russian people have been liquidating their intelligentsia for a very, very long time.
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  1447. If your local scrap metal outfit has XRF gear they can shoot material in minute then tell you what alloy it is (mighty important in the scrap industry). Knowing that may come in handy one day. BTW Crown Alloys make an excellent cast iron MIG wire (uses argon shielding gas like TIG). Not cheap but a lot cheaper than parts.
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  1448. Americans too young for the early Cold War tend not to understand Putin is NOT a tradcon saviour of the white race, he's an unrepentant Soviet fanboy who like his ultranationalist buddy Gulin wants to finish off the West. They never took interest in more than celebrities, jock sniffing, and celebrity jock sniffing nor care why they should. (Readers here should remember you're a sub-microscopic minority!) Cold War v1.0 in 2023 is more distant than the WWII was during the Viet Nam war. Foreign affairs hasn't interested the American people since the failure in Viet Nam which was largely due to public indifference letting fools mismanage that war. Our public are to blame for our failed wars because they don't care what our military is used for. ("Thank you for your service" really means "I have zero fucking idea what you do and don't feel quite guilty enough to remedy that indifference. Here's your discount!") Russian subversion is responsible for the anti-2A wacko Left the anti-Ukrainian US right hate. Now the Kremlin (doing the one thing Russia is historically competent at) are working the equally vulnerable ignorant rustic populist Right. The problem in both cases is the US primary education system died in the 1960s and was neglected in favor of nothing but minimal training to get often useless degrees. The kind of education required to produce genuinely engaged, informed voters suited to running their birthright secular democracy is mostly gone and it's not coming back because the ideal of an educated (not to be confused with holding a certificate of completion!) citizen is deader than a pickled herring. Once that ideal of the Founders (educated men when education was a hobby of the Enlightenment rich, ideal for producing that kind of inquisitive mind) died the Republic will continue to very slowly deteriorate, like the Roman Empire but with geographic insulation. Most US readers won't understand what i just wrote which is a tragedy. It's time for Europe to pick up the torch it dropped long ago and Ukraine is the spark it needed. Democracy is a fundamentally European, not American, idea which is why Americans are tired of it today. The Founders borrowed it but US culture has changed and most Americans haven't the slightest idea what the Enlightenment was about. When they quote the Founders it is mimicry without understanding invoke in quest of power. At least we're collectively rich and have great geography... ... I like your financial analysis even better than your military insights. More of these please. You're good at it.
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  1449.  @footballfactory2574  Poor individual financial management happened and everyone is not in that condition. Decades of prosperity changed peoples expectations so most plan poorly in the US or anywhere else. I make a median income and easily paid off my houses and acreage then retired early at 47. but I learned from my parents who were very good with money. Fools and their money are soon parted. I preferred paying my mortgage to buying baubles and through thrift and planning now enjoy a classic motorbike collection and no debt. I was an adult in 1980 and chose to plan wisely. The US population are immensely prosperous (come visit and you'll see why we have to limit immigration!) by global standards. Even our poor people are fat.
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  1450. Why anyone not forced to live there would pay to visit a failed narcostate is a mystery, but entitles airheads FAFO sooner or later Some of my fellow Americans are terrible at understanding that however little you matter in the US, outside it you don't matter at all. The rest of the world is desperate for a green card to escape such places.
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  1451. I use pantograph jacks by driving the hex head variety with my impact driver. Light, portable and for jacks like that Torin I cut off the loop and weld on a socket. I collect all the free jacks I can score and have about ten with various top plates welded on like channel iron. Now my big floor jack gets used maybe twice a year. Torin should sell theirs with a hex head.
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  1452. The entire state is classical organized crime, Russian style. Wise oligarchs should have disappeared quietly and maintained good relations. They did not rise by being saints.
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  1453. Increased import costs bode well for inshoring.
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  1454. It would make an interesting project to document school violence by demographics and body count.
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  1455. Next step is more work. Hold the new Administration to past and future promises to make sure there are no excuses for not ending BATF (an absurd combination of unrelated oppressive tasks for one agency) and removing other enemy artifacts FOR GOOD. An Administration owes its voters total obediance and its opponents nothing at all.
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  1456. Cute but limited payload and no protection make it better for constabulary operations than nation-state wars. Saving weight by not bringing armor is one thing but these dune buggies don't bring much else. SOCOM will enjoy them though.
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  1457. Few moderns know the US was trolling for contact (note the carriers were at sea) but the extent of destruction was a surprise. The years-long prelude included sending mercenaries (Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers fit that definition precisely) to fight for the Kuomintang against Imperial Japan and embargoing scrap metal and petroleum products. Unlike other situations the Kuomintang were no better than their Maoist opponents, grossly corrupt and unreliable which is why their survivors had to escape to Taiwan.
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  1458. Strong like three day SMO?
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  1459. Because our TECH-ILLITERATE public vote for human garbage. Democracy eventually guarantees idiocracy so here we are.
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  1460. Welcome to the Constitutional right of freedom of association (which inherently, because words mean things, included the right to free DISsociation.
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  1461. The best argument against pir8ing Disney are their products.
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  1462. Irrelevant to the war and there is massive demand for truck freight so the company is at fault. Trucking has always been hyper-competitive and a trucking company is a paper construct like any other. Trucking company mismanagement and abuse of their drivers is why experienced truckers leave. Then the industry complains about lack of drivers! Many companies including the one my wife drove for (Landstar/Poole) churned through new drivers because it's cheaper to burn through them than pay for experience. Check out some trucker channels on Youtube if you think I'm kidding. Truckers ain't shy about speaking their minds.
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  1463. The cat is worth tens of thousands of views and likely important to the algorithm so always have at least one onscreen. A (possibly surprising) volume of viewers don't care about content but watch for "pet ASMR" reasons to the more felines the better!
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  1464. Nobody NEEDS to live in a desert. Apparantly that's difficult to process.
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  1465. These videos are just AI clickbait for ignorants because the goal is MONEY from views, nothing else or different.
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  1466. Be aware that Epoch Times is a Falun Gong mouthpiece. Lots of elderly people especially are fond of it (I'm old too, just not asleep) so I suggest enjoying anything NOT to do with mainland China or Taiwan. (I have no use for either, my priority is AMERICA first.
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  1467. Note that Ron Dellums was a frother-tier Leftist whose comments only carried weight with other Commies. Dellums was always pro-Russian and would have been improved by liquidation as a traitor.
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  1468.  @chrislastnam6822  So DO NOT LIVE THERE. I don't and the reason I don't live in an expensive hood is so I can have more property for lower taxes and less money. Cities are bad and wanting to live in one (unless you're rich) is usually foolish. Because I do not live in LA or NYC etc I own my home and low taxes mean I can keep it.
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  1469.  @jt1559  The whole point even then was to buy a house then when the area got expensive sell the house, take the money and run. If you're old and you chose to live in an expensive area then cash out the house and enjoy a better life in an affordable area.
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  1470.  @chrislastnam6822  So DO NOT LIVE THERE or pretend you need to stay there. This is not hard. I don't live in LA proving no one else needs either. These childish comparisons by people who made awful life choices like living in CA after it turned bad are nauseating. I left the NY metro area for tax, crime and crowding reasons far less annoying than those plaguing LA because I'm too smart to be a chump. Rich hoods are for the rich so I leave them to their fun. That's a major part of why I could fully retire at 47 on paid off property with very low overhead.
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  1471.  @miahconnell23  Wise people locate where property tax is trivial. The economy changes over time and good times are for preparing for bad times.
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  1472.  @CheeseMiser  Just buy and inverter like I did and your truck becomes your power source. Great for emergencies and camping too, it's a VERY old idea. I have several inverters in various sizes.
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  1473. For those not familiar, angle grinders in welding use often work way harder than suits even good cordless tools. Since welders have power one way or another corded tools are not limiting.
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  1474.  @tonysheerness2427  Why am I leaving a tool for 50 years instead of making it pay off? I also have 50 years to solve any battery problems or replace the thing when it like all tools is expended. Serious use wears out corded, cordless and pneumatic tools. I have all three types in abundance because my tools exist to serve my convenience and be productive.
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  1475. It takes cojones to admit being a fool. Well done. There was never anything to admire about a system which killed more innocent Chinese people than the Imperial Japanese Army, though current Chinese don't seem to mind.
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  1476.  @gm1760  I could afford it but left where my money goes further. Civic pride with no other reason is pointless.
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  1477. New Yorkers voted for socialism so they should be delighted at the results. New Yorker voters voted to put failed foreigners above every American citizen including themselves and their children. New Yorkers WILL continue to put more Democrats in office because that never changes. New York Democrats WILL continue throwing poor Americans under the bus to give their money to new arrivals who are the future Democrat voting base. Flooding the already crowded (because people are afraid to leave their home town despite the US being enormous) NYC housing system with even more people keeps the landlord class wealthy and makes Blackrock a mint. Wall Street matters but the poor who Democrats constantly court then do nothing to help are ignored. Democrat New Yorkers decided they can take African-American votes for granted as usual. That frees them to expand their party to new arrivals who replace African-Americans in the job market and whose rapid population growth will displace them from their existing neighborhoods (which keeps them poor and STATE DEPENDENT). It's impressively evil even for the state that gave America Tammany Hall but no one will stop it from happening. The New York public did this to itself. NY made the informed deliberate premeditated choice to become and remain a sanctuary city. The voters are not demanding to change the law so they must be happy with the results. Inaction is a choice.
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  1478. Condos are the perfect scam because the people who buy them are too helpless to even manage an (equally or more affordable) typical one storey ranch house. The trouble is buildings age and if you do not own ALL of the structure you live in AND ALL the land it sits on you have no control worth mentioning. Unlike a ranch home that's easy to fix and, if suddenly impoverished, can be patched up one way or another, condos require professionals whose services do not come cheap. That is why I would NEVER live in a condo and if given one would sell it instantly. Living near the ocean only makes sense if you actually swim in it frequently and is otherwise also an expensive rip off. It's sad that many gullible trusting ignorant uninformed people are suckered into condos. Ignore realtors (they exist to take your money not improve your life) and anyone trying to sell you on the idea of group living of any sort.
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  1479. MRAP is getting the axe because it's not expeditionary. Worth noting is TRACKED vehicles can not only be vee-hulled but are far better suited to carry heavy hulls and less likely to roll over. HMMWVs are NATO utility trucks so of course Uncle Sugar sent them into combat rather than replacing them LONG ago. Viet Nam proved the gun trucks (there is one preserved at Ft Eustis) but as usual CRS syndrome ensured nothing was learnt. Then came Somalia where uniformed senior leadership failed to bring tracked AFV and sent AC-130 home. The US military needs reform but its too large for any one person, even SecDef, to make it happen so we get what we get. The replacement for MRAP should be tracked (not hard) so it can carry APS and other defensive systems. Wheeled vehicles are easy to field quickly so they're popular but tracks can be fast, they go where wheeled vehicles cannot (MRAP succeeded on hard surfaces, not SOFT surfaces). FCS was another moronic boondoggle. The Army failed to field new tracks because the people in charge are simply incompetent. Americans hate hearing this because the public think "supporting the troops" means not bothering to do their civic duty of oversight in a democratic republic. We'll still win wars but war is a spectator sport for everyone but the actual participants.
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  1480. We shouldn't feel anything for the vatniks. Ask eastern Europeans from Finland south.
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  1481.  old man strength  They're still a STATE functionary and these backward rural hellholes promote from within. That's why using every legal option to get outside Federal oversight is desirable. The technicality of using the local DA (who may be on the pad from criminals, it's not new) doesn't make their investigation trustworthy. IMO the only people who trust police are old white men who never see them in the first place except for traffic stops. That is not representative of all experience.
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  1482. Great location for a cannabis farm. They'd make (even more) billions of dollars.
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  1483. Nonsense, the Soviets killed roughly a million and left. Actions have consequences and genocide doesn't happen in a vaccum. Were it tried the enemy globally gets a vote and that would simply increase the size of the defeat. Study history and war instead of vidya games.
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  1484. Many of those romanticized small stores in impoverished flyover country were expensive and sold at such high markups they could and did often restock from retail stores in larger towns. Those were easy to out-compete because customers in poor areas are under pressure to minimize travel time and cost along with prices. HOWEVER as the video points out when dollar stores become local monopolies they can then raise prices just like the stores they replaced! There was never a convenience store near every trailer park but the power of dollar stores enabled serving those markets with ubiquitous facilities. BTW If the US want's better worker benefits (which it does not as the public are easily brainwashed) it could legislate them and workers could resume the struggle to organize labor, but that's not going to happen for too many reasons to fit in one thread. It's easier for employers to buy media and politicians therefore public mind share. This turns people functionally disadvantaged by labor policies into advocates for those policies. The only "solution" is individual escape and avoidance because the US economy is the proverbial bucket of crabs.
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  1485.  @jsd354  Better yet don't buy new vehicles unless you are absolutely debt-free, your home is paid off and you have enough retirement savings retire TODAY. I practice what I preach and don't use any of the scummy "financial advisors" who spam Youtube. I retired at 47 on just an Air Force pension and modest savings. It was not at all difficult.
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  1486.  @kingdingaling2469  Many US constabulary missions have little or no strategic (the only reason to wage war) justification. Entering A-stan to kill OBL and damage Al Qaeda is NOT the same thing as the later "nation building" nonsense where senior military and political leadership lied to the American people for two decades. Unfortunately the average idiot never cares to learn details (facts matter) of why Washington does what it does. I've met Americans who actually believe the Taliban did 9/11 not Al Qaeda and have no idea why the US forces were kept past their original mission in a futile mission to sell secular democracy to Afghan Muslims (which is like trying to force the American South to renounce Christianity and be governed by a foreigner-installed government).
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  1487. Stop regulating fishing and let the fishermen sort it out voluntarily If the fish get wiped out then that's on them. The US doesn't require fish to survive, consumers merely like it. No one is going to perish from lack of fish. America only needs seafood sales so those selling it can make a profit.
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  1488. Was Martin Luther correct?
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  1489. This shows why wooden gun carriages had to be built from stout wood.
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  1490. AI accelerationists desiring privacy should consider using AI-assisted avatars stripped (with AI help of course) of identifiable info. Forbes are vermin.
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  1491. Where where these 304s when I was a lad? Males (thanks to evolution, don't blame me) know copulation means nothing more between humans than it does between chickens. Back in the proverbial day other students if they knew would high-five the protagonist and leave it at that.
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  1492. What shipboard measures can be taken to interdict contaminants? If contaminants make it to the combustion chamber that process is broken. Since it's easier to control what you possess it would be optimal to process fuel shipboard with the goal of being "omnivorous" when fueling. Particulates and water can be removed so what else is getting through the fuel system and specifically why?
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  1493.  @achitophel5852  Explain precisely why you imagine that so, since the royals do not govern and are merely parasites.
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  1494. War is an evolved necessity like it or not and that will never be different so no need to waste effort dreaming. Harmlessness invites destruction.
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  1495. Why are we comparing such VASTLY different nations? Because each is a "country"?
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  1496. Most voters only truly care about social morality issues because they can't stand the idea of someone being different than them. They view difference as an insult to their lives they imagine exemplary.
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  1497. The price of nationhood is always paid in blood. Those who really suffer the most are the bereaved, not the dead whose pain is over, and the wounded (both physically and by what is called "moral injury"). It is those wounded I urge your compassion (and practical aid because prayers are never enough) for they will carry this war for more than a century in living memory. I urge Ukrainians to BE KIND TO EACH OTHER. Unity and love bonds your nation united as never before. This war is yours to win by refusing to lose. As every imperialist nation finds out, it is impractical to rule those who refuse to give in.
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  1498.  @CowboyMikeShow  That's insane and would destroy DR to no benefit for anyone. Why do you advocated such nonsense?
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  1499. Not "the world", just particular areas with special people. Most of the US is quite safe and the vast majority of firearms defend good citizens against the vermin.
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  1500. Decide whose culture is worth more, yours or theirs, then choose accordingly.
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  1501. Since when are there enough Marines for all those islands and what are they expected to accomplish on them? Chinese reach has no need to extend into the Pacific because they're not Imperial Japan. The US manning irrelevant islands just invites destruction of pickets (Wake Island in WWII was never considered defensible by War Plan Orange which won that war) and their resupply vessels. US trade with the CCP more than pays for their entire armed forces but no one has the balls to end it. Americans pay for every ChiCom weapon system and every soldier, sailor, airman and marine equivalent if they have such. Why are we defending parasites like Taiwan in the first place except for the chip fabs the US failed to build on our own soil at much lower cost than defending a nation which invests a tiny portion of GDP on its own defense? If Taiwan, Japan and SK want to contain the CCP they need to build nuclear weapons ASAP and stop pretending the US will commit nuclear suicide to save them. We can barely keep our Navy functioning due to incompetence (LCS, failure to build logistics ships and especially oilers) and barely have a Merchant Marine. Opposed beach assaults are a capability we must have to force enemy to invest in defeating them, but they're still suicidal and no vehicle that floats can carry serious armor. Amphibious vehicles are really for constabulary operation missions not peer combat. Vehicles are cool and fun but the best of them gets scattered by cheap AT mines, drones, arty, and of course ATGW.
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  1502. Numbers matter more than emotions. Cooper is as sloppy as SLA Marshall. It's the job of historians to be accurate not emotional. Sherman crew losses were surprisingly modest, their automotive systems were outstanding thanks to decades of mass production experience, and the Sherman WAS EASY TO SHIP GLOBALLY. Every US tank had to cross an ocean to fight in an era before modern logistics and shipping containers. Shipping was "break bulk", slow, limited, crude and done with primitive ships built in desperate hurry. BTW the real death traps were bombers and the 8th AF lost more men in the ETO than the entire USMC lost in all its theaters during WWII. Another scary place with decent odds was the LST. Noobs should not have opinions and stick to drooling on their shoes.
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  1503. How is FAILURE to speak the facts of WHO does WHAT not reverse racism? The important thing to liberals is not saving Black lives (when have their programs ever reduced Black on Black crime?) but political power. FACTS should not be hidden. White liberal Marxists will fight to the last POC from their homes in safe rich hoods. Crime is so highly localized it is not cities but AREAS inside those cities and guess who lives there? If Black Americans got their act together the Democrats lose their favorite issue set to exploit.
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  1504. Maritime accidents are common globally but the general public ignores all of that until one make the news then they react as if an incident is somehow exceptional. The US buries over thirty thousand Americans per year killed in car crashes and that is not only no surprise, but we drive cars to the funerals because American are FAMILIAR with cars. OTOH aircraft and ship technology and fleet sizes and accident rates are outside public interest (and they typical IQ is only ~100 which doesn't help) so these things surprise when they should not. Given the staggering volume of shipping the accident rate is impressively modest.
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  1505. Machinery requires RIGGERS to move professionally if the owners is the helpless sort. (I move my own by bolting to castered steel frames I fabbed for the purpose so nothing I move can tip over but that's mostly a machinist or fabricator thing though more people could safely do it with a little study.) Some wrecker operators can rig items like machinery but those are experienced or studious like I was. Not every operator will understand machinery moves beyond the simplest kind and securing machinery is a little different than securing vehicle casualties. If you own complex or top-heavy (milling machines, lathes, brakes, presses) machinery you must hire someone to move do a little homework first so you have a reasonable idea what they should be doing. Accidents hurt people not just hardware.
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  1506. Want to do something good for people? GET THEM OUT OF CITIES. Clinging to old hoods is always a bad idea because cities are a bad place to live by nature. Ever wonder why previous immigrants (including my ancestors) hauled ass OUT of the cities (except for those too stupid to leave)? It's because America is enormous and there are infinite better places to live.
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  1507.  @0x44_  Cops aren't civil rights experts either. Their perspective based on controlling behaviors by those who object to being controlled. Everything else is generally irrelevant to their education, training and experience.
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  1508.  @Silver_Prussian  Russians did every bit of the stealing which is why post-USSR Russia is a social failure while post-Mao China dominates world trade and lifted billions out of poverty. The mistake was trying to help Russia because Russian culture precludes any style of government but tyranny being effective. The barbarous Asiatic east is not European and immune to civilization it apes without success. Russia can only be ruled by tyrants because the Russian people naturally prefer a strong master like their national heroes Lenin and Stalin. Russia has wiped out or exiled its intelligentsia since Tsarist times such that anyone sane emigrates ASAP. (The US has many Russian neighborhoods filled by centuries worth of escapees.)
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  1509. "The protection of a main battle tank" varies a wee bit by manufacturer and its effects vary with operators. It's basically a SPAAG with ATGW and rather than produce enough of them it was more important to gopniks to loot their own armed forces. One delightful benefit of this war is AFV fetishists getting a flaming reality check.
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  1510. Radical Marxists took over in 1968 and today they are faculty. That's their right of course but I find it amusing the group who helped that takeover is now a target of the replacement generation. Unintended consequences are a bizzatch.
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  1511. In 2016 I got some magnetic sign backing (cheap online) and a couple of Hillary stickers then did the predictable thing to my bros truck bumper. He drove around for a week before he noticed them.
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  1512.  @CrazyWeeMonkey  That appears (to the tech-ignorant i.e most people) to minimize the term "recall" and most people are not highly literate let alone experienced technicians. One in five Americans is functionally illiterate and prose literacy is generally poor with many US citizens below sixth-grade level. That you know what OTA means suggests you're a techie but never forget most non-techies are technically helpless. Predatory businesses certainly know it and take full advantage.
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  1513. Revolutions do not happen when celebrities babble, they happen when the people run out of food (not freedom, especially not in any version of Russia) and those masses take to the streets. 2023 is not 1917, disposable convicts, Buryats, Tatars and other unfortunates Muscovites want dead are not the Kremlin's power base (Muscovites are and they aren't dying in quantity), and the trifling backwater of Bakhmut is not the Masurian Lakes or Tannenburg. NOTHING IS AUTHENTIC. The "elites" mostly aren't truly powerful. Discussion of "revolution" is by ULTRA-NATIONALISTS who are grooming the Russian public for full mobilization at the behest of the existing government whose organs as always will retain power. I suspect Priggy and Girkin are drinking buddies off-screen.
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  1514. Putin's replacement may be competent and that would be bad news for Russia can never reform into a free secular democracy. Russian culture ensures it will remain a mafia state run by the most powerful which means organized crime funded by resource extraction. The real Russians ensure this by exiling or killing their already microscopic intelligentsia. Naive (the polite term for imbecile) specatators unfamliar with Russian history don't understand Russian culture, not just an ephemeral administration, is the problem and there is no solution leaving containment now as in the Soviet era the only option. When Putin is replaced by another boss of bosses that boss will be an ultranationalist like Girkin unless there are enough adults left in the secret services to liquidate the problem. There is no reformist movement that is not controlled opposition or otherwise doomed. No loss since Russia contributes nothing to civilization (aping European culture gaudily with palaces and other toys is not innovation) but the West has many hopeful fools who will be easy to deceive just like the last time.
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  1515. Italian democracy is hampered by total corruption. Of course Fascism won't fix that but merely reroute the money. Italian political culture is as clownish as the USA by the choice of the people. It's cultural, it won't get better, so look out for yourself.
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  1516. A fool and their money are soon parted. Trust no one, if you cannot afford to set that amount of money on fire then don't hand it over blind. Learn how to inspect what you're considering and take anything expensive to a third party shop for inspection.
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  1517. I'm sure they'd be delighted especially on the coasts. The Northeast has many very old European communities so social acceptance is not a problem.
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  1518. They had time to move the buildings (if the buildings were worth moving), sell off the property etc but gambled and lost. I hope they had proper insurance but the only way to win this particular game is not to play.
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  1519. Open carry forfeits the advantage of surprise. That makes it foolish, end of story.
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  1520. He should consider having a custom bumper fabricated by a bumper fabricator who commonly do trucks. They can look great and take a hit too. He should have used converted SUVs with long production runs. Never ever be a beta tester! As a mechanic of many decades if someone GAVE me a Cadillac it would get sold fast enough to make a sonic boom. We didn't even fix trade-ins for resale since it as better to swap them to a specialty salvage.
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  1521. An aging population should know better than to WANT to go brick and mortar shopping in cities. I'm old too and shop online saving serious money, time and transportation cost. It's not 1970 any more so stop wanting that. There is nothing worth seeing in malls or stores, and I make my own coffee. I escaped the NY metro area in the 1980s and it's only gotten worse. Clinging out of habit is rather pathetic. Again, I'm old too but the wise adapt. If you live in the suburbs I cannot imagine reason to see the city as a place of interest.
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  1522. Look after your tires so you don't become a meat crayon! When I taught USAF MSF courses some students insisted their tires were not worn beyond limits because the centers weren't bald yet. I took a shop takeoff bald tire and had machine shop cut out a six-inch section to pass around. That got the point across. Angle grinders with abrasive cutoff wheels work nicely if you want a shop example (I left one where I part-timed so the owner had a visual aid for customers to fondle) or are curious how dangerously thin bald motorbike tires really are.
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  1523. Most of it is cheapass manufacturers chasing every possible economy. Makers know saving pennies makes them millions. They don't even care about their own dealer techs but they do care about skinning every penny out of the customer. Plastic welded assemblies, no access, timing belts running in oil (timing belts exist to be cheap) etc are all maker money chasing. BTW here's a tip: Salvage yards now use a pan piercer to drain transmissions so when you get one, run a step drill through the hole (AFTER) pulling the pan then weld in a bung (see Ebay, they're cheap) and you save the pan.
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  1524. Mark your equipment in a hidden spot with no one else watching, cover the mark with something discreet like a smear of epoxy (falls off when hit with an LP torch). Take CLEAR pics of your equipment when you buy it including every data plate and anything else with a distinctive number. Metal and other objects are ALL slightly different. If you own a trailer worth protecting, cut off the tongue and weld bolt-on flanges in the cuts so you can unbolt the tongue and wheels to take them home! The easy way I block up my trailers is using two steel rims per axle. I copy the pullapart salvage yards and weld two scrap steel rims together with one flat and one vertical. Those can be bolted to your axles or used as I do as stands since my deal is protecting my tires from exposure over time. That way anyone wanting your trailer has to put it on wheels then figure out how to tow it off, and for anyone who doesn't have a rollback etc that's enough azzpain they'll probably go elsewhere. If what I typed is gibberish to you show your welderbro this post and remember welders like to eat so you might get it done for barter instead of cash.
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  1525. What makes convicts supposedly better troops? The choice of Russian prison or a penal unit which Wagner effectively became is motivation but not training (making capable modern infantry takes time and combat is only a partial substitute for training which encompasses much more in modern wars).
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  1526. "Doesn't work" if you do it wrong. The old ways are proven longer than either of us have drawn breath, they're simple and only require determination and self-discipline. One option set hasn't changed in decades but it generally ignored because civilians are so out of touch with military reality. If you can pass a physical and aren't otherwise disqualified you can easily retire (young) exactly like I and hundreds of thousands of others did and do: Enlist (wisely choosing the Air Force) then do at least 20 but preferably several more for the pay bumps.. Buy land with a modest house well before retirement so BAH will help pay for it. If you get orders, rent it out (wisely). Retire and your retirement check covers at least your mortgage for life (if you bought wisely) and your probable disability by that age (because age destroys everyone without mercy) can cover all utilities, taxes and maintenance at minimum. Your and your family medical care are covered and if you do the same smart medical care consumer choices civilians do works fine since nearly all Tricare for Life care will be civilian-provided. Retirement is everything and total dead-eyed ruthless focus can get you there because I am far from special. If you have a degree become an officer and lead an even better life. It's a structured environment so unless someone is amazingly unlucky or foolish failure is unlikely. Other options to vest a government retirement (no other is as reliable) include LEO, Merchant Marine, Post Office and general government gigs. The Federal workforce is aging out leaving many openings. All the above is practical for far more Americans than take advantage of it. Many immigrant G.I.s become citizens (I always enjoyed working with immigrants motivated enough to serve and never had a problem from a single one in my 26 years) so if you need to do that it's an option. Retirement doesn't require getting rich, it requires RELIABLE steady money and health care.
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  1527. Canadians chose to elect leftists to destroy Canadian culture. The remaining Canadians who object are too passive to take their country back because that might hurt someones incredibly precious feelings. Canada voted to become Calcutta when the outcome was obvious. We'll see if anything changes but the lifeboat is already full of permanent holes.
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  1528. What is your maritime demolition expertise and for what specific technical reasons do you believe the job is being overly extended?
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  1529. Looks hilarious from where I'm sitting, but I love watching corrupt businesses like VW humiliated.
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  1530. Letting Russia be the bad guy while leaving what is an ISRAELI strategic problem to Israel to deal with beats occupying Syria. Americans are not obliged to die for anything not in compelling national strategic interest. Mere human tragedy is just drama and intervening in enemy Islamic cultures begs for what always happens.
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  1531. She doesn't need one at all because she's not worth any effort or expense to (fail to) help. Know who to write off. Mental illness isn't curable or effectively treatable so when the old, healthy way of disappearing mental defectives into a carceral system of insane asylums was abandoned due to cost the burden fell on prisons and public. Since that will never be fixed best to fob off the loonies with an AI "therapist".
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  1532. The more different sentences he gets the less chance some shyster will get him released. Pile it on so SC corruption (no way he's the only dirty player) can save him.
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  1533. That ship is not an American vessel.
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  1534. What are your skills? What are you doing to ADD skills? That you were laid off suggests it's time to expand your abilities. For example getting a CDL is an easy way to get work as a trucker. It may not be ideal but it's money. What local workforce training programs are available? Your community college is worth a visit (remember the Financial Aid folks don't get paid unless they find funding to students to keep things running). For example I've never met a decent auto mechanic who didn't have more side work than they could do in a lifetime. What one human can do, another can do. Are you young enough for the armed forces? Instant career, do 20 to vest then have a lot more income than raw pay tables suggest. Bonus, you get to leave and see the world (Europe, SK and Japan are large fun). Consider the Merchant Marine (most people don't even know it exists).
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  1535. Pics or it didn't happen. If they don't see an act of protest it's useless.
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  1536. One key problem is German engineering culture changed for the worse but in typical German fashion no one sees a problem. German cars and motorbikes (like the classic air-cooled flat twin BMWs) used to be elegantly simple. Today they embrace complexity for its own sake but that complexity isn't cheap to manufacture and is miserable to work on. Customers of course don't work on their own vehicles in any important numbers, but owners DO pay expensive repair bills for work done by dealers or private parties. Nothing will change but it's hilarious to watch such leadership arrogance get its just deserts.
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  1537. Why would eight hours be impressive in any way? On what modern fighting vehicles were you a technician?
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  1538. The UN never worked out for the US so what does not buy hegemony should be scrapped.
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  1539. Anyone who unironically expresses themselves in buzzwords is trash to me. Purism reeked so I never supported them.
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  1540. VOTERS ARE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY (FTFY). Politicians in the US don't elect themselves. The American public vote them into office. Our politicians mirror the Americans who vote for them.
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  1541. Taken a dark TURN? How did VICE miss centuries of culture and art not to mention behavior in occupied countries which is in living memory?
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  1542. Ukraine is better off the more Russians die and the more demographic damage is done on the home front because the conflict is existential and permanent. An premature peace just risks losing the inevitable next war. Russia is not merely a country with a temporary bad government, it's an enemy culture to European civilization as every surviving citizen of victim countries knows well. This war should not be seen as somehow "resolvable" but only capable of brief remission. Russia cannot want anything but eventual reconquest of the Warsaw Pact as a minimum. Russian imperialism defines Russian identity. Killing and enslaving eastern Europeans is the totality of Russian identity from Tsarist times to present day. That cannot change but Russian demographics can reduce its ability to wage war and the fewer Russians the better. Voluntary non-repopulation is a Russian choice to be situationally encouraged. Bosnian Serbs and Croats had something to lose but Russia does not. Russian casualties do not matter unless they reach millions. Dead convicts are a feature not a bug. Dead rurals from groups Muscovites dislike are a feature not a bug. Russia is not the West, and the homeopathically few decent Russians either escape or are destroyed by the majority. That has never been different because it cannot ever be different. Americans should remember Russia is partially responsible for nearly every US casualty since WWII and for a fair number during WWII (like letting the Luftwaffe shwack US bombers at Poltava). Americans should remember Russia is responsible for the ENTIRE anti-Western Left it birthed then supported. Putin is not some tradcon fighting "globohomo", he's a NeoSoviet wanting to respawn the USSR with nearly unanimous Russian civilian support. Many Russian nationalists are far more radical than he is. Curtis LeMay was right. Muscovy delenda est.
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  1543. The Democratic party bungled a simple hit. It will bungle covering that up, too..
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  1544. Pay is based on revenue generated so if you aren't getting the max for what YOU bring in find a better agent.
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  1545. TAXPAYERS VOTED FOR this administration. This is NYC. They will do it again as usual.
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  1546. UNTIL there is a labor crisis, there is not one. Let's not get overly excited. Convicts and bottom feeders the Muscovites prefer to dispose of on the battlefield weren't key to the economy in the first place. Demographic damage is of course good news because no possible version of Russian culture would not be an ontological enemy of European civilization, but effects will take a very long time. Russia is not like the West. Life has little value even to its owners who slavishly toddle off weapons in hand to Ukraine rather than turn those weapons on their oppressors. A weak economy would disturb Westerners who expect prosperity, but Russians can easily revert to early 1900s levels of existence and perceive that as patriotic duty. Their government can revert to Stalinist methods with the approval of many Russians nostalgic for the Soviet Union. Nukes mean the West cannot intervene (not that it should since purges further degrade the enemy society).
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  1547. Anyone who's been stationed in SK has seen the lack of concern for safety. For example we went to downtown Kunsan (in 2000) to buy paint from a local shop. Turned out the shop was also the owners home and packed to the ceiling with paint and solvent cans with ZERO ventilation. The fumes chased me out of there ASAP. One spark and the building would have been a fireball. I like the Korean people and and enjoyed my time there, but safety is a distant priority. I hope the few real professionals are granted more influence because if human lives and quality of life don't matter that greatly mitigates the benefits of economic growth.
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  1548.  @Hatewontwin  The Daughters of the American Revolution are clearly doing drivebys.
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  1549.  @chiapets2594  Who elects the government? THE VOTERS DO and never own their mistakes.
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  1550. You cannot outlaw stupidity and mental defect. We need the old asylum system back so they can be forcibly treated. Crazy never gets better but it can be contained.
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  1551. "Jews" is not an abbreviation. Jews are traditionally literate but that guy apparently missed out.
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  1552. For those too young to remember the early Cold War (which never ended), note Russia is historic, existential and permanent enemy to Western civilization. That will never be different though over a century of subversion ensures the ignorant are conditioned to believe every society is the same at heart. Russia is an enemy society which exiles, imprisons and executes not just internal enemies but murders peaceful dissidents on sovereign Western territory (UK etc).
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  1553. I do very little business where tipping would ever be an issue because most of those transactions waste money. I only tip for quality service and tip in cash while telling staff that's so they don't have to share it with the boss. I get great service.
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  1554. Unless someone has access to the old mission capable stats (which were likely fudged to protect careers) that would be extremely difficult to guesstimate. If an old Soviet aircraft maintainer high enough to know and low enough to see personally (retired maintainers or ops officers) that would be who I'd want to hear from as a former USAF fighter fixer.
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  1555. IoT (Internet of Toys) is ideal for mulcting idiots, but unfortunately idiots outnumber the rest of us by a vast marging so we innocents suffer.
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  1556. Biden was senile and weak-minded as virtually everyone inevitably be at his age. He was a weakling which was instantly obvious outside his worshippers. (IMO there should be an age limit not over 70 on POTUS because failure to admit the certainty of physical and mental decline due to age is deadly to performance in the most demanding job in the Republic. Seniors belong in the corner as advisors not running the show.)
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  1557. The term "red line" has no real meaning except to feed algorithms.
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  1558.  @Zegik_Niet  NK is not SK and if assimilated the blending will be much worse than West Germany integrating East Germany. NK has zero history of freedom in any sense let alone the style of SK.
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  1559. No one is shocked nor awed and that hackneyed phrase (as tired and meaningless as "red line". Israel and Iran can annoy but not destroy each other without going nuclear because while they can shoot at each other they cannot project land or sea power. These squabbles never cease to entertain.
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  1560. M2 Browning was (also) old in WWII. MGs were HIGHLY refined systems by the end of WWI. Water jacketed guns were mostly abandoned for weight reasons but work fine mounted on vehicles or defending earthworks. Hiram Maxim was as brilliant as John Browning. Now consider they used manual machine tools and calculated using slide rules yet produced weapons with machining tolerances to rival new ones.
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  1561. Of course because they have sufficient electrical power to power networked sensor and weapons systems. Ukraine is like the Iran-Iraq war, primitive forces bashing each other because neither prepared well.
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  1562. Why do Chechens resist Russian rule since the 1800s?
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  1563. There is too much money at stake for peaceful change to be permitted. Drug cartel (the illegal kind) tier revenues are why our owners are hoping this will go away. Our owners do not care about us, so why should we care what happens to our enemies?
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  1564. America being a bucket of crabs will not support collective bargaining for safer working conditions. The id10t masses feel what they're told by advertainment and despise anyone banding together to improve their situation. Rail safety will continue to be proudly shortchanged by industry puppets, cretinous media droids and an uncaring technically illiterate public. (The US once took a much wider interest in rail but now that's down to the dedicated railfans and historians.)
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  1565. You nailed it. I see it's not your first rodeo! That business model relies on new drivers being tricked because they don't "own" anything until it's paid of, they assume ALL the maintenance, towing and repair risk, and if they're injured etc and can't drive they lose it all. When it doesn't pay a big business to own the hardware an individual is even more at risk.
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  1566.  @user-tb9mg4md7d  REGRESSIVE taxes which hurt the working class to avoid taxing the rich are very much a scam. The common people don't run government and democracy is mostly a polite fiction.
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  1567. EVs work well for COMMERCIAL use but no private person NEEDS one. Buying a new vehicle is a purely luxury purchase for private parties and when your purchase is DISCRETIONARY buyers expect zero sacrifice. I didn't buy new vehicles because I chose to pay off my houses instead. I don't buy them now because they're an unwise economic choice. I can drive my truck(s) and motorcycle(s) for many years on what a crippled BEV would cost, and none of the trucks serve MY use case. Not my circus, not my monkeys, not my problem if overpriced product rots on the lots.
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  1568. Climbing Everest is a complete waste to amuse rich idiots. The sooner it ends the better. ALL of this activity is useless wank but the Sherpa need the money so they are exploited. The sooner it ends or climbers have to guide themselves the better, because self-guided casualties are no loss.
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  1569. Examples of hogging more people can see in person are on empty vs. heavily loaded flatbed trailers. Empty, the deck will be slightly convex. Fully loaded the trailer frame flattens considerably. The obstacles near Kerch bridge also narrowly channelize traffic making for easier sea mine kills if Ukrainian drone boats can get close enough to deploy them.
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  1570. ​ @KatherineVoor-y3w  Most humans are foolish and get what that deserves. Don't follow the herd because they ruin what they touch, like flooding formerly desirable states which makes them expensive nightmares.
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  1571. Where did you work on or fly Warthogs?
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  1572. I suggest if it's popular you question and usually reject it. Intelligence is neuro-divergent. I grew up in relative luxury, saw it was pointless and chose freedom instead. Consumer goods own their owners too.
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  1573. Ignorance reflects low intelligence. Democracy ensures idiocracy so here we are. Dimwit savage trifling parents spawn dimwit savage trifling offspring.
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  1574. Christianity demands US subservience to Tel Aviv, end of story. That's what the majority of voters want so they have it. They are quite content to stay that way and the cost is financially trivial since US military aid is really a subsidy to US companies providing US jobs (and very good ones) keeping the (necessary to all major powers like it or not) military industrial complex strong and capable. Humans do not really operate by the morality they babble about. Might IS right. Power is everything and you own what you can seize and hold.
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  1575. No one intelligent believed their nonsense so nothing of value was lost. Obesity is a CHOICE easily demonstrated by as I did putting down the fork. The idea we should excuse ourselves from difficult choices is degenerate. Look up "diabetic amputations"... One of my best bros would not listen now his kids are fatherless.
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  1576. The collision was not "in the Suez Canal". Do better because details matter and you'll still get the views even after proofreading.
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  1577. Leftists took over academia long ago. This was foreseeable and foreseen. It was inevitable that the more radical students would rise to power just like previous leftists who also exploited blind circumstance.
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  1578. Check out Chinese famine history and remember it's in living memory. You'll understand why their values are different.
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  1579. The rest of NATO chose to disarm long ago. They can choose to rearm.
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  1580. No because the "market' is not one thing but a very complex ecosystem. Nobody NEEDS a new car. That was always a "toy" purchase and even then if the buyer hasn't already paid off their home and land and maxed out their retirement savings buying new is generally unwise compared to (appropriately researched, but normals just buy whatever is shiny) a proven used vehicles. Fortunately the overall "market" does not matter only the individual buyer who have plenty of options even if they're too lazy to research their wisest move.
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  1581. Hose don't deserve chivalry and guess what, they NEVER DID. Most females have always been batchit insane, just differently. I do open doors for other guys and no ill will is assumed because most men are not insane. Dumb as are mos of humanity, but not barking lunatics. BTW if the internet is to be believed there are plenty if diaper fetishists so she should be happy.
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  1582. The smart play if you are not wealthy is simple. LEAVE. I did long ago. The NY Metro area is a land of high expenses, high taxes, tiny living spaces and LOW DISPOSABLE INCOME. The US is huge and more Americans should explore their opportunities away from the expensive coats. NY will never be fixed. NY has never BEEN fixed. The varieties of bad range from the old days of 1200 murders a year to the current days of high costs, but if you don't LIVE there you won't feel either.
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  1583.  @ailinofaolin8897  Russia is a permanent enemy of Western civilization with a history of subversion in the West. Fundie Chechens have much more logical, lucrative targets like their Russian enemy. (Quisling Chechens cooperate with Russia.)
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  1584. She ought to work for Tiffany Henyard. Who did she convict that was innocent? Every case she tried is now questionable.
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  1585.  @nevacramblit719  They were never interested and instead waste time being "entertained" by movies, sports and other pacifiers.
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  1586. Yet another reason to choose a rural area where you can own your own acreage and do what you will.
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  1587. End laws which make vehicles complex. The public didn't ask for that, unelected agencies chose to rule by fiat.
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  1588. Who is this magical "we"? Anyone sufficiently determined can copy the old ways but in that era labor was dirt cheap. That means you either need buckets of money or to be an utterly hardcore DIYer (which is great fun besides giving you personal control of the entire process).
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  1589. China is an enemy SOCIETY to the US, not a friendly society with a temporary enemy government. Mexico is our neighbor and natural economic ally! Keep American trade IN THE AMERICAS to fight poverty and benefit our peoples. The US trade imbalance with China means American taxpayers in fact pay for the entire CCP armed forces. That money should be spent closer to home.
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  1590. If you are not technically competent to perform all your own repair and maintenance, do not own one. If you are not rich, do not buy an EV until ten or twenty years from now when they evolve. Ignore everyone who says otherwise and remember the opinion of anyone who is not a skilled mechanic is worthless. Ignore all the climate BS unless you are rich. Sense a theme here? This mechanic does not buy anything not exhaustively proven in fleet use.
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  1591. The whole point of buying this stuff (real or fake) is clout not performance. Spoilers are expendable in the first place. Replacing a cheapy with another of same is less work than fixing the good one.
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  1592.  @outkast40  Electrification means many complex repairs but I wouldn't drop 60K on training for them since that stuff is not difficult to learn.. Electronics and computers filter the ignorant so the techs who do learn them will make bank if they're smart.
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  1593. Prostitution will exist but banning it gives leverage to keep it out of good neighborhoods where it would otherwise damage property values. Some parts of society must be expendable for the good of the majority. Some areas will be used as dumping grounds ("combat zones" was an old term for areas were crimes of mutual adult consent were tolerated) and rightly so because admitting some things can NEVER be eliminated due to public demand is the rational thing to do. Realists do not pretend immutable human realities are otherwise. Bottom feeders will always exist and they will always sell what they sell to get by. Admit that reality then stop trying to fix the inherently unfixable. No society of size is without the world's oldest profession. Keep it out of good neighborhoods since ending it is not possible. Pretending ending it is possible is proven insane by thousands of years of history.
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  1594. How do you fail to know about Ukrainian history? Your post reeks of either disinfo or ignorance. Ask real Ukrainians online why they object to Russian masters. This is not about corruption, it's about survival. Your post is a "false equivalence".
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  1595. Why are they heroes? Why do you imagine they want what you want rather than that they're annoyed about losing?
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  1596. The NeoSoviets like their Soviet and Tsarist predecessors have a key advantage which is Russian indifference to own-side casualties. They simply don't matter outside of immediate family (easily bought off with the proverbial Lada). Serious wars by Asiatic standards kill tens of thousands in single battles and millions in a year. For example in WWII the KD ratio was about 4.5 to 1 in favor of the Wehrmacht....who lost. Russian leadership are aware of this and dead men don't revolt while wounded depend on the state. Russia was able to casually consign its Afghan wounded to obscurity because no one who matters ever cared nor do they today. If anyone acts up Putin can unleash the ultra-nationalists to quash them. A few tens of thousands impress the West in 2023 but we were once quite lavish with our own people. Much more important is lost equipment and lost expertise as the few Russians with high pre-war experience were heavily attrited early on. While slaying meat is vital the gear they lose forces replacement with older, inferior systems more easily killed. This war doesn't just look like the early Cold War when I was in USAFE, it's starting to look like the 1950s on the Russian side.
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  1597. The background doesn't much matter to end users who have zero influence, but the liquidating companies can indirectly put equipment and materials of all sorts in your hands to equip your personal or business shop. Be alert for local liquidation sales during the selloff. They're a great way to outfit your personal shop with industrial equipment. When the economy gets soft and companies downsize or close their equipment and stock are liquidated and the firms who do that post online via auction services. Many items in industrial auctions are well worth snagging including misc heavy steel sections, racking, custom carts locally fabbled from standard stock (making them easy to mod for whatever you want), machinery, tooling, forklifts, cranes, other material handling equipment useful to any mechanic, sand blasters, lathes, mills, welders, etc. It's a feast more gearheads should know about. Companies rise and fall but their stuff remains for the picking. Self and bro outfitted our home machine/welding shops via auctions and liquidations for couch money. So can you.
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  1598. I defy you to articulate a modern mission case justifying that. "It looks cool" is not one.
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  1599. Aid to both is really a US jobs program and very good one! Disarming when the Berlin Wall came down was a mistake since the world will never reform. War is expensive but losing is unaffordable and the Russian Federation cannot be permitted to restore a "USSR" or "Warsaw Pact" (whose nations mostly joined NATO though Hungary may as well be a Russian province as 1956 is obviously long forgotten).
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  1600.  @truthhurts2879  It actually trickles UP since businesses have zero incentive to care about the public and lobby government to ensure their profits. The average person is tech-illiterate thus unable to care about voting for useful policy. They prefer to be entertained and drool on their shoes. A modest majority of Americans read therefore think at an 8th grade level, far too feeble to meaningfully participate in a democratic republic. Everything in a democratic republic is really the fault of that public. The average moron will never care to learn why they should take interest in safety regulations and that has never been different.
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  1601. How many years did you work on F-16s? I always enjoy hearing from fellow experts.
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  1602. Fall arrest harnesses and rope are not high-tech and should be made available, but many harvesters will reject them in favor of speed. These gents aren't victims but a cooperative effort could greatly improve safety.
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  1603. Rejecting Girkin is likely to ensure he doesn't gain a following. Remember the main reason the Russian army was neglected was to coup-proof it. He cannot be permitted to succeed in combat because then he'd be a threat.
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  1604. There is nothing about the suspension in principle that poses any problem. TheCitroen has INTUITIVE controls, gauges and lights. For its time it's closer to aerospace than automobile.
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  1605. "Tanks" like modern aircraft are not remotely comparable. What a formation of 8th AF bombers could miss a single F-16 can destroy from a distance. Likewise the feeble weapons and primitive sights of WWII are dwarfed by modern thermals. C4ISR wasn't even a WWII term.
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  1606. FITSNEWS in her home state documented her antics for many years if you want the background.
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  1607. Many people self included find trades huge fun and learned more than one because we enjoy it. Trades skills can improve your life in many ways for example being able to effortlessly maintain and repair vehicles and nearly everything you own. All it takes is determination which doesn't cost a dime and the more you learn the easier it gets. Late stage tradies tend to be multiskilled beasts with accumulated buddy networks (self and bro built each others workshops and go in jointly on equipment auctions) and that is insanely handy. I make very modest money (under 60K net) but am debt free with very low overhead thanks to the way I enjoy living. My homes (small, cheap, but on ten and six acres) are paid off and half my income is disposable. I live beneath my means and refuse to buy shit I don't need to impress people I don't care about.
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  1608.  @morkallearns781  That is nothow geography works. The US is enormous and the dense growth is very much clustered in urban areas. That's why I don't live in one. Buyers follow herds but that's their fault. There aren't near humans enough to create urban density everywhere in the US. A few hours away from any of the cities you listed there's land for much less. That's why my alarm clock is a rooster.
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  1609. I predict all rebellion will be crushed because centuries of abject conformity and servitide to the (oddly much-worshipped) upper classes cannot be undone. Conformity will win and the conformists will be proud of finishing off the UK by giving their and others inheritance away.
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  1610. Given Russian behavior in the east it would be surprising if their formerly conquered territories weren't pro-Nazi. Moderns have no idea what USSR rule was like as interest in the former Warsaw Pact evaporated with that alliance. The typical citizen anywhere is historically illiterate.
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  1611. A Ponzi scheme based on the greater fool theory is an industry like selling Fentanyl on the street is a mobile pharmacy.
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  1612. Why? They're only machines and you don't fly one.
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  1613. Most people are proudly ignorant by choice. Cretinous credulity is the norm so of course grifters give them what their choice of savage ignorance deserves. Self-neglect is degenerate so grifters quite reasonably despise their marks. At first I was disgusted, but now I'm just amused.
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  1614. Machinists, mechanics and other techs have dealt with much more than metric vs SI easily enough. Resistance to change is mostly senility at any age. If anything conversion promotes mental agility.
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  1615. Do not go public. If you do it's no longer YOUR business.
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  1616. Deleting yourself when under threat of violence is silly. If you have nothing to lose deleting your enemy instead is justice. In that game best to stay strapped and really best to whistleblow anonymously (any engineer can quickly learn truly anonymous computer usage). I expect he got Epsteined. It was not long ago that the Mafia could whack anyone and get away with it, and seriously rich people have the same options if they're careful.
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  1617.  @JustMe-gn6yf  They certainly will as 16s are fun to work on. I'm a cripple else I'd gleefully volunteer. There are a shitload of skilled retired maintainers, maintenance officers and others available.
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  1618. The average human isn't intelligent. That can never be different. The average voter votes on a single issue so if you give them that they'll sell their souls (assuming they had souls to sell).
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  1619. I have zero problem with stopping payments via phoning my credit card provider and saying it's to prevent fraud.
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  1620. Democracy is INHERENTLY weak, too weak for serious combat with internal enemies. Democracy is for managing affairs between cooperative friends. Enemies by their actions demand harsh measures escalated until the problem is solved. Mexico is a failed narcostate needing a very strong hand at the tiller.
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  1621. Effective septic systems are built in Africa and elsewhere without modern resources but as anywhere work is required. Without education locals have no idea what to do.
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  1622.  @Seishin_Tengu  That comment was better than the video! Well done.
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  1623. Your knowledge and skills are portable to more than consumer electronics so you need never starve. Only standard form factor PC desktops were REALLY designed with repair and upgrade in mind.
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  1624. Leftist students damage leftist university to protest. Hilarity ensues as they damage their own resources. These own goals are increasingly common.
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  1625. Firstly the FFL is very, very small an a country with few opportunities for military enthusiasts. Secondly FFLs image benefits enormously from Hollywood romance and deception by omission.(That's of course through no fault of the Legion, it's simply most people are ignorant.) Hollywood does not emphasize FFL's historic and ongoing mission which is neocolonialism, mostly competing in Africa over influence in former colonies. They're a fine modern fighting force ideal for those wanting that sort of very specific career doing that very specific mission style but hardly a model for entire nation-state militaries waging industrialized war and that is NOT by accident. To be great at what the Legion does requires specialization in what is really a special operations branch.
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  1626. When an aircraft is taken from service for cannibalization that is not the same as but includes scrapping. Cannibalizing such valuable assets makes sense.
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  1627. Chemical "sameness" could be precisely determined by spectrometry tests. Spectrometry has been key to oil analysis for many decades. Similar performance however close doesn't make the oil analysis the same. Spectrometric lubricant analysis is affordable should you wish to use in for future videos.
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  1628. Only social traitors would do business with a society (not just a government) enemy to secular democracy for centuries before the 1917 revolution. They deserve to lose everything and be pilloried for enabling the NeoSoviet war machine. Airbus and Boeing will happily sell replacements. The only good "Russian" aircraft is one smoking in Ukraine mud.
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  1629. Glavset shills are out in force knowing people born after the Berlin Wall came down know nothing of the conflict or why most of the former Warsaw Pact promptly aligned with the West. Ask those who lived under both systems to compare and contrast.
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  1630.  @purplegirl8036  I believe you but it's tragic that you're outnumbered. It wasn't always like this either but government patronage and toxic drug culture destroyed the African-American family. (I was alive before that happened.) Thomas Sowell covers this national tragedy pretty well. If it wasn't a conspiracy it sure looks like one.
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  1631. WHO is it BAD for? Not I. I buy used then keep the good ones for life. My '76 F350 wrecker is good until the sun burns out and I've a complete spare I'm restomodding. My 2000 Silverado (with upgraded 4L60) is fine and I'm hunting a 2500HD. Even if you pay someone else to fix a classic it remains a classic. I've lived through multiple truck life cycles and learned. My 1997 and 2000 F150s are good for another two decades, my home(s) are paid off because I don't waste much money, and life is fine. I could buy new for cash because I'm too smart to buy new at all.
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  1632.  @triadwarfare  For fun check who promoted detente and the bipartisan support for NAFTA. Blaming is deflection between the Demublican and Repocrat parties.
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  1633. The more enemy society is divided the better as reform is of course utterly impossible and always has been. Remember most "opposition" is against the military failure and has nothing to do with empathy for Ukraine. Naive idiots want to believe in the Russian people because they assume all cultures interchange. Ukraine knows differently... Russian culture is intrinsically toxic and an existential enemy to civilization. Anyone worth saving left long ago knowing reform is historically impossible due to real Russians. No possible (not fantasy) version of Russia merits anything but economic implosion to weaken its (permanent) threat to the world. It's illegal to solve the Russian problem but the world would have been much better off had that happened.... Ukraine is paying the price a second time.
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  1634. US police accountability, training and professionalism tend to be poor (compare and contrast to German Polizei requirements) because a proudly ignorant population say they want professional policing but refuse to codify that in law! Put a person in a blue suit and you get a person in a blue suit. Statistically there are far more dangerous jobs. Every UNprofessional act soils the badge.
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  1635. Our masters only respect what they fear. They currently control more than enough to block peaceful change, but so did Bashir Assad.
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  1636. NOW you see what the Second Amendment is for. The Founders were Enlightenment scholars, not bottom feeders. The Revolution was not polite.
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  1637.  @rack9458  That was very much the deliberate impression conveyed in the 1970s and later. I was alive then so not speculating. I didn't believe it but someone of 100 IQ wouldn't have caught on.
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  1638. Absence of a weld leaves no mark and there is nothing for reference except other vehicles. Owners and techs will require weld charts or clear, brightly lit photos of correct welds to determine missing welds.
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  1639. No new HD money from me. Motorcycles are TOYS and certainly no reason to enrich racist, sexist corporations who use customer money to undermine the customer's own society. There are plenty of great bikes out them, some of which unlike HD make serious HP out of the crate. HD has a very long history of terrible management (with a brief partial relief under Willie G who is long retired) so this is no surprise. HD corner cutting has made the aftermarket wealthy but when a customer no longer feels like paying other companies to defecalize their new rides they'll be tough to win back. Customers owe manufacturers nothing not spelt out in law. Manufacturers owe consumers nothing not spelt out in law but if they want to make money over time they should INTERNALIZE consumer loyalty and respect the people who pay their salaries.
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  1640. Monetizing those too lazy to become even slightly tech-literate is fine by me. Interaction with the entertainment system is voluntary after all. Adblocking, piracy etc is the consumer adjusting their experience to suit them. Wise businesses will not press too hard...
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  1641. I find it hilarious because I was alive when Republicans OPPOSED the USSR while hippies were in love with Communism. Now the GOP is pro-Putin and the (now ancient) former hippies) oppose a NeoSoviet respawn.
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  1642. What's with all these irrelevant shillposts? Why are you dumping stupid worthless non-shipping-related comments? This is not an American vessel nor is it in America nor was it bound for America. Grow up, child.
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  1643. The usual Cold War theater that only impresses mental children.
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  1644.  @stejer211  The plebs are nasty IRL, especially Karens with their screaming snotlings and obeest hamplanets crowding you out of a seat you paid for but their wingfat occupies. I'd rather take a military Space Available flight with plenty of room and sling seats than fly commercial less than First Class.
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  1645. Disability is not luxury but the wise can live on it. Seven million is a very small number relative to US population. If we want more serfs then let them immigrate! There are plenty of people eager to work. I'm genuinely disabled and would like to work but that would be physical agony and I could not perform well for more than a couple hours a day. The workplace EXPENDS people and millions of Americans are expended. My back and neck are destroyed. I was a student until I could not be one. I was a volunteer at the local community college until I could not be one. If the mule cannot plow it goes out to pasture. I HATE pain meds. That twilight world is coerced by the excruciating alternative but pain meds also destroy useful sleep. Sleep deprivation is amazingly destructive. If the workplace needs workers it should import them as they will be glad of the work. I trained many young tradespeople in my time and they mostly did well. At the CC where I worked we trained many felons in non-degree workforce training programs who wanted to work and whose felonies were victimless. They were unemployable as welders and the school should not have offered inappropriate training to ex-felons. HOWEVER some jobs like HVAC, construction etc do hire felons if they do not have security requirements. BTW most of our students were caucasian. Something should be found for former felons to do. I would have hired many of those I trained and I've decades relevant experience with such folk.
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  1646. Why would an adult spend their whole life in one city? That's pathetic when all America is your birthright. When cities even start to go bad the first thing to do is leave, not wait until your life is over and you're too weak, old and poor to escape. Do what I did and leave as young as you can manage so you can have a future and a safe retirement far away from urban hellscapes.
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  1647. Koch buys influence by donating to popular right wing causes (some of which I agree with). This buys them immunity because Americans are single-issue voters and our system only has two political parties that will ever matter. Voters vote but they do NOT hold their OWN side accountable, they are not smart enough to figure out not everyone who agrees with you is your friend.
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  1648. Interesting that the majority of response to KyivPost are third world shills and militarily illiterate to boot. They've no personal connection to the war at all.
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  1649. Good. Buying a trailer on land you do not own is a terrible mistake but these folks dodged a bullet. DO NOT rent in old age. If you do not own your home AND the land it's on, you have no security. Well done.
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  1650. You were trapped by an ARM which wiped out many people in the last recession. Your rates on fixed mortgages are locked in. NEVER accept an ARM.
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  1651. Headed to a few skirmishes is more like it given the low budgets and logistics involved, but we may get some interesting videos out of it.
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  1652. HD doing this should be no surprise. Design quality tanked when the Twin Cam was introduced because it was designed for semi-automated assembly (first the timing chain guide shoe issue which could not have happened with proven HD gear drives as used since 1936, then the Cruise Drive transmission problems due to design defects whose repair is addressed in multiple videos). HD got away with non-premium quality because loyal buyers know to upgrade them with aftermarket parts. Older bikers remember when if you rode into some dealers on a chopper you were refused service. Willie G was a great positive influence in his time but he is long retired. HEAVY factory propaganda boosted sales and very few enthusiasts take serious interest in the real history other than old mechanics. With all the classics gone the motorcycling world would be better off without HD. The aftermarket has everyone covered for part and then some.
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  1653. The Founders had no problem with it. Everyone curious can read the entire history of the laws against it which originated from the loons who gave us the Volstead Act. If more Americans knew their own history the US would be a much better place. Cannabis is why I can use much LOWER dose opiates for my destroyed back and neck (I'm a disabled veteran and not remotely one of the leftists proponents of cannabis prohibition advocate that to annoy out of spite) and sometimes get a little sleep. Prohibition is about culture wars not cold hard logic and goes against the (supposed) traditions of personal freedom and bodily sovereignty its pseudo-conservative proponents pretend to believe in.
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  1654. Learn to wrench. Anyone can and it's easier today thanks to videos. Wrenching your own rides saves vastly more than it costs though every mechanic breaks stuff learning (ask any professional tech, no one is perfect). I always bought beaters and still do though I don't need to. All my bros including one cripple on SSI only have plenty of rides because we fix whatever we own and can thus buy damaged vehicles dirt cheap. It's easier to learn how to work on cars than it ever was thanks to Youtube.
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  1655. Good.The public are the problem. The public make offspring by accident, the females are h0z, the males are elsewhere, the voters vote Democrat because they approve of it all. Escape pays off so I did. New York was never good, just sometimes less bad. The solution is grow up and get out. What one human can do another can do. Leave the cities to those who lack the initiative to improve their lives.
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  1656. Rich investors too fvcking stupid for due diligence deserve to lose it all. Non-technical people are functionally illiterate when it comes to understanding how to learn about tech and vet assertions outside their expertise. People were once rightly ashamed to be illiterate. In 2023 they should be ashamed to be tech-illiterate because without basic knowledge of how to selectively learn what you need to, you'll be lost. The worthless US primary education system is no help.
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  1657. Then you know nothing about armored warfare so why do you permit yourself an opinion?
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  1658. What PRECISELY in TECHNICAL terms do you mean by "sensitive" and what systems do you expect to fail based on what professional experience? I worked Vipers for a living (engines on Pratt and GE, crew chief on A/B/C/D/CJ models from 1985-2007) and note neither is much problem. Phantoms etc were in VERY long wars and did fine so this is far from a first test of US jet airframes in low intensity nation-state war. Ukraine is more like the Iran-Iraq war than a Soviet Union v. NATO match. Air power is a continuum with personnel careers and airframe lives spanning decades. US fighter units deployed globally throughout the Cold War and exercised hard. It's easy to generate more ready airframes than crew had crew rest, so we did. Every deployment lesson learned over four decades-plus (first USAF delivery was in '79) is instantly available to Ukraine. F-16 airframes don't work harder at war than they do at the high sortie rates we flew during Cold War peacetime exercises which are why Desert Shield/Storm Viper maintenance went smooth and easy. The low intake is not much of a FOD issue if one runs a sweeper over the ramp/taxiway/runway etc. They can suck up light sand all day and do during every Gulf deployment where one may watch the six o'clock dust devil below the intake. It polishes the fan and compressors but little else. I performed many 50-hr borescope inspections so this is not speculation.
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  1659. That location adds risk to the day care in the event some vigilante figures out trailers are remarkably flammable. It adds risk to the insurance company covering that trailer park who may have no idea of the potential hazard. It would be in legitimate public interest to know why the trailer park owner chose to make it a haven for convicted predators. BTW why does that cop who grabbed Tyler still have a career? P3d0 sympathizers are always questionable.
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  1660. Modern nation-states are far too complex for most most humans to understand. The general public being ignorant by choice haven't a prayer.
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  1661. It's absurd for the US to have a consulate in Mexico with civilians free to go where they please, but that foolish custom has gotten Americans in trouble globally. American diplomatic staff should be forbidden to bring their families and all operations conducted like those in the Baghdad Green Zone. There is something wrong with diplomatic staff who fail to think in a military manner when deployed to failed narcostates.
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  1662.  @j4genius961  The Taliban and Vietnamese might disagree. So might the Irish Republican Army who got most of their country back long ago. France makes lots of noise but what really changes?
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  1663. End Federally guaranteed student loans because they made education unaffordable. Education costs have no incentive to decline so they skyrocketed. Community college is basically free and enough for anyone to get started since you can transfer credits to other schools. Unless you KNOW for a fact you WILL get rich in your chosen field paying for school is questionable. A tragedy of extending credit is student loans funded useless degrees (which are fine if you don't go in debt for them).
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  1664. Coolers which use engine coolant to cool oil via a heat exchanger add a failure point which does not need to exist. Separate oil coolers fail by leaking overboard which is easily visible (oil on ground and in engine bay), but oil/coolant heat exchangers fail by POLLUTING ONE OR BOTH SYSTEMS, a stupid idea on vehicles built to (inherently low) consumer standards.
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  1665. Blue areas aren't America and when their residents destroy them that is PURELY by consent of the local VOTERS who deserve to suffer the hilarious consequences of their ideology. In the parts of America whose people deserve to live we're waiting and enjoying the acceleration. I find this hilarious because it's self inflicted. Smart people don't live in Blue areas. The slow learners will be educated by experience.
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  1666. Beijing's strategy is eminently reasonable as no sane national leadership wants to depend on an enemy society. Beijing cannot be free to act diplomatically or militarily while it depends on its competition for food. Likewise the US urgently needs to wean itself from Chinese Communist Party imports. The US trade deficit is far larger than the CCP military budget meaning the US alone is paying for the entirety of the ChiCom armed forces it spends trillions to contain.
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  1667. They are not going to stop. This channel doesn't require squat for money since content is free but most Youtubers are helpless "boomers" when it comes to computers. OTOH the view numbers bring in considerable profit. I unsubscribed because the bullshit is annoying, the overly excited delivery is unprofessional, and Telegram has all the "uncensored" content which is easy to find by reading the watermarks on Twitter content then pulling up the preview in your browser. "Burner" numbers for registering a dummy Telegram account or anything else are easy to generator or use Google Voice etc.
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  1668. Do not EVER assume everyone is the same worldwide. Many Russians are far more ultra-nationalist than Putin who is just another product of Russian culture which has never been free in the sense of Western secular democracy. Russia is the problem while Putin is but a symptom. Russia will not be truly defeated because it has nukes and sufficient social division that it can expend its minorities in wars while (mostly) preserving the Kremlin's Muscovite base. Like the expended convicts freed to fight Ukraine some casualties are feature not a bug. Moscow can fight to the last Buryat or other vulnerable minorities so it will.
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  1669. Why are you pro-Soviet?
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  1670. This isn't an "infrastructure" problem, just an old dam no one has needed since mid last century. The failure was not removing the dam in the 1970s when it was discussed. Not all dams should be built or replaced.
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  1671.  @victordobin5918  Lifelong mechanic here and surprisingly that's not critical. I've been wrenching since the points and carburetor era. Do keep fluids topped off though. Engines are not terribly critical about oil but they DO require there be enough of it.
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  1672. Being silly enough to teach in a nation which despises teachers is on par with thinking an OF account would be approved by one's general public. Teaching in flyover country is a rocket to poverty.
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  1673. I wipe mine off and toss them in the dishwasher with the next load of dishes. Dishwasher detergent makes short work of oil.
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  1674. The VOTERS are to blame because their inaction is a CHOICE. Modern society is too complex for silly people to navigate, so they mostly don't. "Politicians" are not the problem, their root cause (the id10t public everywhere) is the problem.
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  1675. The public are too angry to care and don't want government (not that they have any more idea about it than programs they know they dislike) at all. I find this hilarious. Talent will find or create other work while ideological appointees can be managed by adopting whatever ideology runs the show.
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  1676. Taxes and cost of living are brutal which is why escaped. Jersey is nice if you're rich and live in the old money areas. Otherwise the old proven "work in NYC, live in the best Jersey burb you can manage then sell everything and GTFO to retire in the south (much of which looks like old Jersey before it was overdeveloped)" standard remains the smart play. As with most of the US people stay where they were born because they fear the unnknown no matter how heinous the known becomes. I quite liked North Jersey...in 1965.
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  1677. A nation does not belong to the world. It is property of its own citizens. No one else. It exists for those citizens.
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  1678. Rich developers don't care and they can easily afford to buy votes from the idiot masses.
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  1679. Enough do hate the West and hate their eastern European neighbors to control policy and crush internal dissent, as usual. Reality is Russia liquidated, exiled, imprisoned and otherwise disposed of its intelligentsia since 1917 and was none to kind to them before. Reality is Putin hasn't shot a single Ukrainian, ordinary Russians in uniform do. Reality is Putin hasn't raped a single Ukrainian, ordinary Russians do. The modern fetish for blaming leaders for what their tens of millions of eager followers do is a comforting lie beloved of fools. Today ordinary Russians killed, maimed, dehoused, and genocided Ukraine. Their apologists are irrelevant no matter how much simps want to simp. Every eastern European nation from Finland south has been treated to the tender mercies of ordinary Russians. Stalin didn't pull any triggers at Katyn. Ordinary Russians did then conceal the act. No one in the Politburo shot civilian protesters in Hungary or Czechoslovakia. Ordinary Russians did. Putin didn't visit the UK to apply Novichok. The Russian government, composed of ordinary Russians, ordered and orchestrated that attack on British soil.
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  1680. New Jersey is a devoutly Democrat state and that will never change. Wise Jerseyans like myself left long ago for states where OUR rights matter and thugs are not cravenly worshipped by a pro-thug Democrat voter base.
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  1681. People who deeply care about beauty should be kept away from utilitarian projects because that's a weakness. Sculpt, paint or otherwise GTFO and leave the field to adults. (Anyone who finds this statement offensive is a snowflake and part of the problem.) For examples of proper bridging see military mobile bridging which is optimally maintainable, repairable and completely recyclable while capable of bearing traffic indefinitely (Bailey bridging of WWII vintage is still in daily use around the world). Art infected this bridge design and people died. Those responsible let their vanity kill innocent victims. They should be named, shamed and unemployed.
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  1682.  @Skinflaps_Meatslapper  You definitely have an aircraft maintainer nick. Kudos.
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  1683. Civilized nations understand business is the enemy of all expense including safety unless that business makes and sells safety products. Railroads were notorious for bloody crashes until regulation and improved equipment standards gradually brought them under control. Industry needs tough ADVERSARIAL regulation to keep the SOBs in line, not rules drafted by its own lobbyists and enacted by owned politicians. Regulate, rule and command. Give appropriate orders then enforce them. The idea businesses can be trusted is purely their own invention though trusting morons easily fall for it. If an operation cannot be done with reasonable safety, stop doing it be it in the rail, aviation, trucking or maritime logistics industries. Workplace safety, CREW REST (exhaustion and sleep deficit can be worse impairment than intoxication), equipment monitoring, inspection and repair are all necessities and businesses choosing to neglect them should be fined and the people responsible dealt with accordingly.
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  1684. How do scientists evaluate fuels? It's fun to roll ones own tests but how do the professionals do it and what might be learned from them?
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  1685. All police and other responders can do is react to the mess. If you value your life invest in professional firearms training, PRACTICE, then carry concealed so you don't print. The world is a very bad place. It always has been so readiness is not paranoia.
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  1686. Sanctions are about reducing Russian government revenues so they've less money for their armed forces. Consumer goods WILL flow and people don't change foreign policies because they can't buy the toys they want. The Russian people are unaffected by the war on a personal level and their culture prides itself on sustaining infinite combat losses. To defeat their armed forces (the Ukrainian invasion is overwhelmingly popular, no one need pretend otherwise) those must sustain sufficient losses that Putin is forced to heavily conscript Muscovites who are his power base. The age-old racist Russian practice of expending simple, ignorant brainwashed rurals works until the cannon fodder figure out they're being chumped. That takes enormous losses for them to even notice since a Lada you can drive is better than an unemployed son on the couch. Westerners have a stupid ideologically driven habit of assuming everyone is the same and they hold to it with religious fervor but reality is different. Russian losses won't matter until they run out of equipment their poorly trained forces die in on the field of battle. Sanctions reduce the amount of military equipment and precursors the Kremlin can buy and THAT is the important bit.
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  1687. The public are too savagely ignorant to produce such a candidate let alone elect one. The average American reads therefore thinks at an 8th grade reading level and even worse does not consider voluntary ignorance shameful. (It wasn't always like that. I was alive then too.) Whoever best panders to the yowling beastmob is rewarded with power.
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  1688. Access hatches do NOT "have" to be thinner, that's just cheap Russian design for a vehicle expected to last a few days or part way through the Fulda Gap. Heavy access deck lids can be (and are) spring loaded, counterweighted etc for easy opening just like heavy crew hatches but the gopniks did not bother with such things as drones were not a threat with their fossils were designed. It made sense to install armors where hits were probable and that has changed considerably since the 1970s.
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  1689. Failure to ADDRESS EACH CHEMICAL SEPARATELY is of course the problem. Addicts are weak and degenerate people however nice some may be so they cannot be expected to show self-discipline and demand control by the state. Each drug is different and should be dealt with specifically.
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  1690. Anyone who says the economy is not booming is not looking. People have money to waste on arm jewelry.
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  1691. Classes are a good thing else a society devolved to the level of its toxic bottom feeders. The sooner we cease pretending the lower economic classes are virtuous rather than brutes the better.
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  1692.  @EmersonBaker-m5l  Compassion DOES NOT WORK and this is proof.
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  1693. Just refuse to do it and if you have a choice pick a better location to live in. HOA it should be noted are LEGAL CONSENSUAL CONTRACTS. There is plenty of non-HOA property but it may not be in your ideal location.
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  1694. What are ye on about? The Soviet Union had occupied Ukraine since the Russian civil war. Russia had starved it into submission in the 1930s but still had to fight partisans for years after WWII. Soviet forces completely controlled Ukraine in 1955.
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  1695. Even the most abjectly submissive, reflexively fearful, pro-authoritarian societies normally fond of delicious government boots have a breaking point.
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  1696. This American agrees with Poland! Ignore Leftists and other subversives who want to destroy YOUR country. Do everything necessary to stop the war against INDIGENOUS Europeans. There can be no legal obligation to undermine your own country. Lock the borders and encourage citizens to deal with any who sneak in. If there is no welcome there will be no invasion. If someone employs illegals, make them "famous".
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  1697. They play the cards they're dealt in life and for the money the top dogs make a shorter life is a small price to pay. Everyone dies. Not everyone dies a champion. I don't expect people to be more than they are. Jocks are mostly not more than that and they have no reasons to stop because without bodybuilding they would be and have nothing. They chose their fate.
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  1698. ​ @dewmontain123  You endanger others running dirty. I've been hit by uninsured motorists and dislike having overall rates raised. Anyone can find a way to cook. Thrift stores have used hot plates and toaster ovens which are small enough for a backpack.
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  1699.  @Jaderian87  They are freely entered contracts. Those who dislike them are free to organize their life as I did and escape all that nonsense.
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  1700.  @OLDMANTEA  Anyone who can afford a house in a wealthy hood with an HOA in the first place should be smart enough to plan their live so they have more freedom. You don't have to worry about everyone, just yourself and your needs. It's far cheaper to live away from cities (which in the US are just prison with extra steps) but it requires refusing to be helpless. People who accept lazy default choices are still choosing.
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  1701. They cannot be different. Their culture is NOT Western however they may poorly ape its technology.
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  1702. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPx0woXFt8
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  1703. Philippine governments made a mistake by ejecting US forces. Pride and vanity have a price and Beijing is well aware the relationship between the Washington and Manila is weak. The US does not require basing there for national survival, merely the luxury of regional hegemony which is not even close to the same thing. OTOH Manila has a choice between Chinese and US patronage with China aggressively seeking regional dominance. As the PI was indefensible in WWII (refer to the history of War Plan Orange, like Wake Island etc its fall was expected) it will be difficult to defend in future as Beijing invests in sea power. (The trade deficit between China and the US more than pays for the entire Chinese armed forces, making their military essentially free at US expense.) The average American could not tell you what "Merchant Marine" means. They're not capable of interest beyond trifles and only the relatively rare technically inclined people have the slightest curiosity. Unless someone with economic skin in the game invests money in publicity this will not change even slightly.
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  1704.  @AndrewBlacker-t1d  Youtube wording exists for views. These videos are for money first.
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  1705. The people of NYC chose their fate by voting Democrat. Don't feel sorry for them. They had decades to not Democrats and those most affected, the poor, are also a class of parasites because poverty in a healthy adult reflects personal degeneracy. The New York City PUBLIC did this to themselves.
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  1706.  @robbert-janmerk6783  That event was nothing compared to modern economies.
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  1707.  @AC-os1he  To be fair, that is the whole reason it exists as chump bait. The customer gets zero benefit from that machine.
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  1708. Democrats voted for this and should house their mistakes. No one else owes these ECONOMIC refugees spit. They are not fleeing oppression.
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  1709. Non-technical humans should understand they are unfit to make technical choices then recuse themselves or get then USE expert help. The miners themselves chose money over safety too rather than leaving for work elsewhere. The sooner coal mines are closed the sooner that bad choice will cease to be an option. Greed is too powerful to trust coal companies.
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  1710. One way to reduce the number of vets who end up on the street is to have (MUCH) higher enlistment standards then PAY enough to attract higher quality recruits. Remember the vast majority of the armed forces never personally engage in combat. Then remember many otherwise barely employable people are able to enlist during strong job markets (if you have a real skill there are plenty of jobs in most of the US, even in backwaters like the Southeast) which attract higher intelligence categories away from the "less selective" (gotta be diplomatic about that to avoid inter-service rivalry accusations) branches. There are many, many very sharp troops but we've all served with some total waterheads like the one who used a .50 round for a hammer gaining notoriety on a safety poster. This has happened before (Project 100,000 under SecDef McNamara being the most famous because it was formal and open) with unfortunate results. Armed forces are designed to use the clay they are given but the moral thing to do would be ensure recruits are (all) of high quality for superior outcomes all around. Military drinking culture used to be much worse and produced many alcoholics who began as social drinkers. Booze and nicotine kill more veterans by far than wars. I had no idea of the scale until delivering an Airman to the Norfolk naval rehab facility. It was not small.
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  1711. A towing company refusing to tow an abandoned vehicle is pretty lame, but there is a way around it by hiring a towing company far away so the recovery fees are higher. Get written or recorded refusals by all the local companies to support using a non-local business. If you have a similar problem spend a few hours on towing and recovery forums AND obtain YOUR jurisdictions laws in print so you have a hard copy to show cops.
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  1712. Because human garbage make poor soldiers. Noobs think all bodies interchange but modern war requires professionals as Russia is finding out so amusingly. I favor vatnik penal battalions so they lose more vatniks but it remains a terrible idea laughable to anyone with modern military experience. Russian criminals already rob the society blind so the more they trash their own armed forces the better.
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  1713. Most people are unwilling to study unconventional options then follow the herd off a cliff. The world is unkind to slow learners. I planned my life to not live in a city because cities are intrinsically bad choices (very bad when the economy tanks). I did not buy where silly people want to live. I bought a cheap small old house in flyover country but not too far from the coast and economic activity and made sure to buy land zone agricultural and get over five acres for the zoning benefits. I do not make my property look pretty on the outside because that's a net major tax hit and I bought it to live in not impress chuckleheads. Is the coast too expensive? Don't live there! Condos are almost always a ripoff and if you don't own the entire structure you live in and the land it's on, you don't really own anything so don't live there. Urban and suburban development prices too high? Don't live there. I don't live there and I am not at all special. Net result? Paid off mortgage, tiny property taxes and very low overhead with all the room I want (I can shoot on my property as do my neighbors without bothering a soul) for anything I want like shop buildings, vehicles, livestock (I keep chickens which are very low effort) etc. Learn the old ways of taking care of yourself. I don't need new vehicles but have plenty of reliable rides because I chose to learn to wrench. So can anyone (my wife was a helicopter mech). I buy used then keep them for over twenty years in most cases, some much longer. Pay once, cry once, no problem. Learn DIY! It's fun, you save absurd money and get instant response. Whatever you screw up at first is cheap education. I don't call plumbers, roofers, electricians or arborists. (I removed all trees capable of falling on my structures because they overgrow very expensively. Too many homeowners fail to look up.) Have zero useless hobbies or interests. There is plenty of fun to be had. I'm poor by US standards clearing under 70K/year as a disabled vet but I still do all my own work just a lot slower and carefully paced. So can you. Young people in my area do the same thing. I've taught many at the local community college. Not everyone is helpless.
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  1714. The only way to get a grease gun that's not junk is to fab and machine one because the commercial krap is a race to the bottom. I've never seen a grease gun I respected (I'm 64) because production cost always came first. If you make a pneumatic grease gun built like your press that should end the matter, but no one is going to sell one.
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  1715. Why buy a rapidly depreciating asset near EOL that will only get slower and crazier? They should be HAPPY they had a good run and retire gracefully. By the time one has life experience there isn't really much point in a relationship. When you're on in years there is no point in adding another person even of equal status. The reason is when you are in your forties you only have a few good years remaining and getting trapped in a relationship is an ACT OF FEAR. You're already on a sinking ship, why add passengers? A woman in her forties is close to expiration. So TBQH are most men but men can be content without women once youthful hormones (humans are just shaved apes in the end) subside. Note to the "spit sisters", get over it. I'm a 1970s kid so older by far than you but we were all so busy scrogging we didn't get uptight when partnering off later on. My wife's ex and I have been bros for decades (he also happily married) because our generation were genuinely chill about sex. If you aren't you may not be as cool as you imagine. Try swinging both ways and enjoy your sisters fully! That bunch are so similar they should get on fine. You have nothing further to lose by an orgy or several because the future is age then death, and you might like it.
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  1716. Media infotainers are of average low intelligence and not subject matter experts for the most part. They entertain m0r0ns who don't take interest enough to watch serious content.
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  1717. EVGA needs customers. Customers do not need EVGA. Their behavior is a premeditated INSULT to customers. Changing pinouts for NO INTELLIGENT REASON is insulting and reflects a deliberate adult choice. (So is failure to have standard pinouts for their whole lineup.) There are plenty of other TOYS to play with (including prebuilts with onsite warranty, businesses don't play by hobbyist rules for good reasons). BTW "RAID is not backup" has been hammered by every competent computer user but people just refuse to listen. At this point I approve because data recovery services employ smart people fixing the screwups of foolish people. Anyone who can configure RAID should understand what RAID exists for.
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  1718.  @tellitasitis  Why would most of the "skilled" in Ukraine be dead? Think that through. Ukraine has been training with NATO for years, very much including Operation Orbital whose story is yet to be written. They saw the need to reform from absurd Soviet methods and it's paid off beyond any spectators expectations and probably their own. Conserving combat experience is what professional armed forces do. Incompetents squander cadre who die instead of training their replacements. Ukraine has played defense to build reserves and understands the critical value of a Western NCO corps capable of thinking for itself.
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  1719.  @СерхиоБускетс-ф7я  Then show us Russia Telegram channels etc to confirm your assertions. You're a typical vatnik shill and should really invest in encouraging more Russians to enlist. That will bear actual fruit vs. getting laughed at by the many military professionals here and you can join them yourself (but that won't happen). At least Strelkov and Murz have the testicular fortitude to go fight in person.
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  1720. We have already had this adventure with alcohol, but like alcohol Prohibition the opponents of cannabis are purely motivated by spite. Americans (other than the hardcore in the Midwest) do not really care about personal freedom but do care about inflicting their views on everyone else. The British Crown rightly dumped its religious fanatics in the Colonies so their Christian Taliban would instead serve the Empire. (That they blew it with taxation is another story) and the US will forever suffer the consequences.
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  1721.  @maddoggLP  If someone seriously cares about security they run a non-Windows OS for that. Thanks to virtual machines that's easier than ever. I don't "switch" OS, I add them and even make virtual machines out of any install I like to use as backups. Windows VMs have the advantage of immediate reboot into a clean snapshot if an update annoys me and VM can be run on Windows or other hosts. For example my old Windows 10 machine is fast enough to host a W11 VM so I can get comfortable tweaking that to my liking then clone the VM anywhere I care to.
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  1722.  @john2g1  Youtube has ZERO legal obligations to do anything outside or different from published TOS. Creators aren't "forced" to even USE Youtube. They want free money so they do. Other creators who do not use Youtube get money differently. Youtube does not NEED to spend MONEY to make it fit YOUR ideals because those only matter to you and you are like everyone else perfectly free not to use Youtube to post content. Feel free to pay for hosting then create an alternate service then drive traffic to it via SEO methods.
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  1723. Great theater because the American public don't seriously care about the Red Sea, they just enjoy war as spectator sport. Air power does not hold terrain but Bubba and LaQueefa haven't a clue about that. They do however enjoy strike footage.
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  1724.  @drovoseg  They were as usual with dissidents, dealt with by the majority of real Russians. There was never hope for serious reform in a nation that killed off its intelligentsia since 1917. The only way to effectively wear out a superior opponent is by Jihadist methods which involve total war and utter willingness to die in the fight. That doesn't happen in Russia.
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  1725. The fate of IBM Hat was instantly predictable and for that matter Red Hat's fate was predictable decades ago. Red Hat made useful contributions but if one isn't getting paid to use or support it I see no reason to reward IBM "embracing and extending" Linux.
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  1726. They don't mean it. The whole corporate structure is anti-male.
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  1727. Ukrainians not being clueless third worlders who would fondle or try to eat UXO and who are intending to USE THEM ON THEIR OWN TERRITORY AT LOCATIONS OF THEIR OWN CHOOSING are not blithely risking anything. Ukrainian forces can record every strike coordinate (which they need in order to apply munitions) then remove UXO those post-bellum at their discretion. The risk of collateral damage is evidently worth it to Ukraine vs the certainty of yet ANOTHER era of Russian genocide should they lose.
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  1728. False choice fallacy and stop pretending it's not. Most of those posts are Glavset bots but it's worth remembering Russia has done enormous damage to the US and helped kill and wound nearly every US casualty since WWII. Stop invoking veterans. I am one and I expect vets to be BETTER than ordinary civilians, not worse and not feeling sorry for themselves. The vast majority of vets never saw combat and many self-proclaimed "vets" on the street are fakes. I offer to drive the ones I meet to the VA to get them help (I counsel other vets as I'm legit disabled) and not once have been taken up on the offer.
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  1729. If they want an epidemic of violence they're putting in work to provoke it. Not everyone is a doormat.
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  1730. The permissive criminal environment is by voter choice and never forget it. The beauty of democracy is voters get what they deserve by the act of choosing it at the ballot box.
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  1731. Indeed, and those trailers often go cheap. They're much more rugged than typical mobile homes. (Nice to see someone else with real life experience in these threads!)
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  1732. AZ should outlaw alfalfa. Farmers have the entire US worth of arable land and alfalfa is not a survival crop.
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  1733. Asbestos is only a hazard when friable. It doesn't fly off pipes and walls hunting down victims.
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  1734. The patrician choice is steel rolling work surfaces (which can have bench tops) and Zach can certainly weld and fab. Scaffolding casters are my choice and even my industrial air compressors roll. Shop cleaning and rearrangement is now cake.
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  1735.  @petervautmans199  That is very nice but Swedish missions and funding constraints are much different. US OPSTEMPO is far greater than that purely defensive, dispersed mission. Much love for Sweden but there is no comparison to a tiny population whose armed forces mission requires dispersed defense and US power projection. Sweden has only a bit over 200 aircraft of which roughly 100 are fighters. That's less than the complement of two three-squadron US bases. Sweden is not required to generate the high sortie rates expected of US forces and doing so dispersed would be quite difficult. It's mission (at which it should excel if war breaks out) is limited to border defense, minimizing own-side losses while taking out as many Russian aircraft as practical, and holding down its own area while high sortie rate forces with heavier throw weight take the fight eastward. Compare orders of battle and missions. As an experienced maintainer of 26 years on fighters while conscripts CAN be quite useful to get seriously skilled requires years of immersion.
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  1736.  @leonidas14775  Even Khorne would take offense...
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  1737. Voters will do anything except become educated then demand wise policy. Intelligence is neuro-divergent making this inevitable. The yowling beastmob (not you, dear readers) are unfit to run a democracy but rather than improve themselves and do the hard work of civic duty they want "someone else" to fix things. Democracy gives the people the government they choose therefore deserve, but there is no persuading them to own their choices (inaction is a choice).
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  1738. I can't fault Chinese for seeing the "traitor skater" as an opportunist who displaced a local and I find her ostracism hilarious.
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  1739. Because the Left seeks the destruction of Western civilization. The Left after all is a global product of over a century of Russian subversion which lasted beyond the fall of the USSR and dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Of course the US Left is anti-Zionist. Why would it NOT be? One would have to live under a rock to imagine the Left supporting a religious ethnostate.
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  1740.  @paullynass4848  France is rather large and one is not obliged to live in the crowded bits.
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  1741. That was an illusion marketed to people who don't study history. When was this magical era?
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  1742. GOOD. Americans (ALL of them) who do business with Beijing are economic traitors to the American people. China should nationalize their assets sooner than later.
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  1743. No, CLICKBAIT SEO VIDEO TITLES killed the American Dream. 8-)=) Debates between people without actual influence are nothing more than academic wank.
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  1744.  @MrMattumbo  Seizing opposed river crossings is rather important but the US hasn't done that in so long no one cares. Russians lost some of their pontoon bridges in Ukraine but apparently haven't forded much either due to lack of training and/or getting Stugna/NLAW/Javelin/etc etc when attempting it.
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  1745. They SUPPORT WHAT HE DID because they too are chomos.
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  1746. At this point most votes are against a contender rather than for them.
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  1747. (Most of) the American public are proudly ignorant so the few who aren't suffer for the dimwitted beastmob. There is no excuse for an adult with an internet connection be ignorant because the libraries of history are at their fingertips.
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  1748. Flags of convenience are deliberate sabotage of international systems. They should not be permitted to operate in first world ports which would easily shut much of that down. Flags of deception rely on tolerance so end tolerance by locking them out of Europe, the US, Japan and the few other nations who aren't utterly corrupt.
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  1749. What makes Ukraine a "modern" battlefield? It's far more reminiscent of the Iran-Iraq war. Neither have effective SEAD and both are mostly flying elderly systems.
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  1750. Smart people become mechanics because civilization stops without machinery. I chose aircraft because it's a very nice life but enjoy all kinds of wrenching including industrial. I have NEVER (I'm old) met a good mechanic who didn't have more work available than they could do in a lifetime. Because wrenching rewards experience there is no shortcut for noobs to outcompete the old guys.
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  1751. The bootlicking media are tone deaf this time because they're used to controlling the masses. Where is the outrage at what our owners (let's not pretend they're anything different) do to the American masses who are not rich enough to have rights?
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  1752. Apparently certain parts of the world are deeply fond of bureaucracy and citizens are too cowardly to lobby for change. The idea government should serve the citizens rather than rule them appears alien outside the Americas. Democracy without civic activism is slavery.
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  1753. These schools fell to marxism in the 1960s so leftists depriving other leftists of education is hilarious. Nothing of value is lost.
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  1754. Sleeping through math in school is expensive later in life. How many of those suckas still owe on their homes and credit cards? They're the same incompetents who took adjustable rate mortgages before the 2008 recession and often lost their homes because they bought more than they could effortlessly repay. I require vehicles other mechanics who maintain fleets like because they are by far the best informed about what they work on. I buy those used, preferably with a few dings etc to lower the price (which doesn't matter because my trucks are tools not butt jewelry). If you are not rich, learn to wrench even if you don't want to. Labor costs keep rising (but the mechanic doesn't get that money, their bosses do which is why many leave the industry) but parts are mostly not bad. The money you save buys any tools you might want (not joking, they pay themselves off quickly even in home use) and no one will care about your ride more than you do.
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  1755. That just puts off failure since no waterbased coolant mix will remain uncontaminated over time. That tells me never to buy one.
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  1756. So what? The point of these schools is to GET MONEY FROM DONORS which catering to those donors facilitates. Life is competitive and to renounce advantage is silly and naive (unless your existing status makes that trivial). The point of striving for prosperity is the advantages it confers. The point of legacy admissions is the money it generates for all students.
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  1757.  @austinbishop7572  What's "sociopathic" about survival? Performing rituals over dead humans does not make them less dead nor does processing them in approved fashion. Everybody feeds the worms. A small local funeral home could handle cremation discreetly so disposal doesn't have to be by mafia methods.
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  1758. One WREAKS havoc. The past tense is WROUGHT. "Work" (in the old sense of the word) is also correct. Since no one under seventy knows this I don't use the term in conversation in the US. "Improvised drones wreak havoc among Russians." would be correct. In any case fewer living NeoSoviets is always good news (contrarian ignorants may differ but they're working for the enemy by choice). Keep up the good work!
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  1759. The UK like the US is thoroughly infiltrated by social enemies because neither public are competent do deal with sophisticated subversion. See their elections for proof.
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  1760. You got it! It only takes a few minutes to park the truck, place traffic cones, tack the lid then tidy up and on to the next one. Cheap too.
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  1761. Safes have key flaws intrinsic to the concept! They tell intruders where your valuables are, they're easy to cut open which makes them expensive placebos against anyone other than random crackheads (most of the real threat after all), and they give a false sense of security. If the glowies have a warrant it's not remotely a big deal to torch, grind, exo-torch, core drill or otherwise cut through steel, concrete or other fillers. If you're wealthy enough for Chobham armor and had a safe made out of an Abrams modern cutting methods can sail through that too (which they do when manufacturing modern tanks). Want a safe to protect your stuff? Buy one as bait and leave boring shit inside, then creatively stash what you care about. The most brilliant move I've ever seen was my bro building an invisible horizontal wall cavity behind a very cheap, boring attached wooden shelf full of VHS tapes.
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  1762.  @endrewhagrid  Better to use both since a single copy has no backup. Drive space is cheep so I download media to my notebooks (P52 have space for three hard drives) or desktop then transfer what I want to the MicroSD card in my phone.
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  1763.  @lifeoutnumbered  The licensing issue only matters to sheeps and there are many ways to download.
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  1764. Nothing useful to the Russian public would come from this war even were it won (the USSR fell with Ukraine still occupied).
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  1765. They are popular for arc gouging which some businesses buy them for because gouging is hard on modern inverter machines whose replacement boards often cost more than a used motor-generator welder. Manuals are fairly easy to find. Motor-generator welders were a way to get high DC amps before modern solid state rectifiers and (when DC aircraft generators from WWII engines were very common surplus and dirt cheap) a popular homebuilt welder construction method. Since the motor end is normally three-phase they will run off a rotary phase converter of suitable size (which you can also make then enjoy three-phase tools and equipment without paying business rates or where you cannot get three-phase at the pole). Some owners convert them to gas engine drive which makes for a rather long trailer but at the right price why not? Others harvest the generator end and make PTO drive conversions for their tractors etc. Lincoln sold towed PTO driven welder heads similar to their SA series which are interesting in their own right. Look up Lincoln Tractapac.
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  1766. Where do you live? Prices are regional. For example I chose a red state and my COL remains dirt cheap. Despite being poor by US standards (disabled retiree who would much rather be working because I enjoy aviation) half my income is disposable. If I still lived in North Jersey I couldn't afford gutter space.
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  1767.  @lordkreigs1978  Location? Sounds like a leftist state which is why I took great care not to live in one and escaped New Jersey decades ago. Current events were foreseeable and foreseen.
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  1768.  @ashleysanford8645  What makes buying eggs mandatory? I like them but survival and pleasure are not the same. BTW you like quality food DIY is a great way to get it for next to nothing. It's also fun. For example if you keep hens (only roosters crow) eggs become so cheap I give dozens to neighbors. The old custom of Victory Gardens and their predecessors pays off and is why many older suburban homes have back yards large enough for a serious garden or greenhouse. If your municipality objects to small numbers of pet chickens many of those ordinances have been changed by public pressure. The backyard chicken community is global and pretty cool. The eggs are far better than store eggs which I find too bland to eat. Chickens also eat nearly all food scraps. My trash never stinks, my yard is bug and mouse-free (chickens love mice!) and life is comfy.
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  1769. He remains wealthy and can afford to do as he likes. When you are old enough you know how long your resources need to last you comfortably. He does NOT NEED the people he pissed off. However there is no hope anyway and it was a waste of time because the masses are never, ever going to be capable of intelligence or insight.
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  1770. The voters in a democratic Republic getting what they voted for is hilarious. NYC is a good place to keep Democrats away from where I live now so I approve.
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  1771. Optical telescopes are nice for hobbyists but hardly necessary. The world can wait to deploy (more) space telescopes above satellite levels. Starlink and successors are immensely valuable to terrestrial productivity. Enthusiasts wanting to see through atmosphere much less so. We have thousands of years to examine space and where deemed worthwhile can deploy more space telescopes. There is no place for sentiment in making these decisions. Permitting dispersed work reduces enormously polluting commuting and we are very early in that process. To move humans so they can talk to each other vs. electronic communication is absurd especially since even in the same building electronic comms dominate.
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  1772. Build more homes. Trying to preserve greenfield areas means insufficient housing in a small island. Homes require land.
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  1773.  @JMPCARREPAIRS  Who doesn't really have a choice? Not liking the options is not the same thing. The US is enormous so I chose to live where I can do what I want as do millions of others including my dirt poor bros. Cities are bad because they're expensive so I don't live in one. (Taxes and overhead mean if I made twice my income it still wouldn't go as far.) Coastal areas are expensive, get destroyed by storms and storm surge, and for those reasons are unwise retirement locations (as Floridians are finding out) so I don't live on one. I learned from my poorbros who own their modest homes free and clear on very low incomes. For example one is crippled from two car accidents (he was legally stopped at intersections and got rammed both times). He lives on disability but that didn't stop him. He saved and bought a few acres no one else wanted then placed a cheap, beat used singlewide he proceeded to fix up by himself. Then he added a second joined to it. It was paid off as he went, he owes nothing and his overhead is (cheap) property tax and electricity (cheap since he heats with wood. This is VERY common but no one seems to make videos about it.
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  1774. Israeli reliance on technology rather than picketing the border with defensible FOBs having ample tube arty ready to interdict anyone approaching the fence was a horrendous mistake and utterly inexcusable. Barriers exist to slow enemy advances so you can kill them. They're worthless undefended. Ever, ever standing down on a holiday is negligent when you are at PERMANENT low-level war. Bottom line is no one was ready to respond instantly due to lack of permanent alert forces in depth. Even old arty is ample against infantry but not if it's in storage.We'll see whose careers suffer when the lessons learned report comes out. Israel can never have effective defense in depth without armed citizens because the army will be elsewhere. Thinking like stereotypical soft urbanites is wrong because it neglects civic duty. When your people are at permanent existential war to be pacifist (or worse, just lazy) is degenerate. Every fit adult Israeli Jew should have training and a personal battle rifle with several hundred rounds as a basic home loadout. Israel is a rich nation and the wealthiest should be assessed a national self-defense tax to arm the people. There will never be peace so prepare for war. M113 note, the Israelis seem never to have upgraded the armor which was a mistake (like the entire APC concept from the start since tracked mobility it then used out of necessity to go where wheels cannot then the effectively unarmored vehicle is promptly disabled or destroyed). Other users did upgrade their armor notably Turkey whose rebuilds don't retain much but the hull.
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  1775. Artificial intelligence plus proofreading might be superior to an unaided meatbag court reporter. We need a way to translate the verbal expression of people whose life experience makes them unable to communicate effectively in any language.
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  1776. The Democrat voting base who control the NYC government they VOTED TO POWER asked for this.
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  1777. Never happen. Americans care more about jock sniffing than knowledge or self-improvement.
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  1778. Superbly detailed, insightful video! I'm surprised that "George Bush doesn't care about black people" was even slightly controversial anywhere or not instantly obvious no matter where one is on the political spectrum. Strom Thurmond didn't switch parties by accident so I'm curious to know why any non-white would emotionally invest in either Bush. Even if you loathe white liberal patronage culture and how it exploits its minority adherents that's zero excuse for sincerely buying what the GOP media hacks were selling.
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  1779. They'd have mostly been shredded by now anyway as it's 2023. Rarities and exotica are mere toys and those who want them should have bought then kept them. They're really just mass-produced consumer goods. OTOH CFC was a boon to auto salvage in the US. Unlike most I worked in the used car business at the time. The bodies, suspensions, interiors and electronics worth saving were typically stripped then the hulls with what remained of the drivetrains (external engine accessories were not required to be destroyed). Sentimental attachment to scrap metal is childish. The vast, vast majority of CFC vehicles were nothing anyone would miss but exaggerating the impact makes great clickbait. If you failed to collect the vehicle of your dreams that's your choice and a few more getting the chop still won't put one in your garage. Typical vehicle life is short not long, enthusiast outliers being irrelevant (and free to have bought then NOT scrapped whatever they wanted to save).
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  1780. All human life is lost eventually but humans make replacement humans by the billions. War merely shortens lives survivors often promptly replace. If some lives are traded to decisively end a true cultural enemy that trade may be a great social bargain.
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  1781. Surface to surface missiles that hit fixed targets are not the same as those sophisticated enough to hit moving targets. Ya might enjoy reading up on the relevant hardware. To hit moving vessels requires radar to find them then either drones or aircraft for the strike, or sophisticated anti-ship missiles. Only the drones are cheap and the rest require sponsors or sellers like Iran or NK. Helicopters close enough to board are extremely vulnerable unless they have escorts. Have a Navy friend (it will make an interesting video) on to give a decent briefing on the subject as those fellows will be able to talk ranges and capabilities.
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  1782.  @ginoperez4483  That use of aboriginal is not correct but literacy is dead.
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  1783.  @mdncthetruth2556  "Aboriginal" is NOT an Australia-only term. Literacy matters. Aboriginal means what the dictionary definition says it does. Of course North American primary school education is worthless so now it's an insult and "indigenous" replaced it until that eventually is misconstrued.
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  1784. Remember WOMEN are at the front of promoting this nonsense. Looks like none of my business.
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  1785. One piece of Silent Generation advice most boomers (the ones who cannot afford to retire) ignored is understanding government jobs are the most generally accessible route to vesting a pension you will actually collect (ignore memes and clickbait). The Silent Generation (they don't call themselves the "Greatest" because they know better than the hype of fools) sought reliable income above all so they often became cops (choose a good location), firefighters, Postal workers (not contractor delivery expendables), Merchant Mariners, government administrators local, state and Federal, and of course joined the armed forces for the career (which is completely different from choosing combat arms then getting expended in constabulary mistakes by senior leadership). Once you vest that income you then have choice of affordable locations to retire so I did...at 47 and debt-free. I'm far from rich but half my income is discretionary because I also chose to be highly self-sufficient. This isn't "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps", far from it. Coldly and pragmatically planning your life doesn't cost a dime. Most people won't buy only you are your problem so choose to handle your business. If that means moving, move. If that means disruptive change, disrupt. Life is war.
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  1786. Wasting over a trillion dollars making more enemies in GWOT did amazing damage to US peer warfare readiness but no one who matters dare point that out.
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  1787. Supporting Columbia by attending it is bizarre. Why would anyone not a frothing Marxist have the slightest interest in becoming a student? It's been highly obvious for decades what just happened was inevitable. Are educated people really this naive?
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  1788. Not having to work is wealthy enough because the purpose of wealth is freedom from having to work. Money makes freedom usable.
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  1789. Considering current events the idea of crippling a defensive force with purely "defensive" (weak, short range, comforting to your enemies so they don't take offense in either meaning of that word) buying that serious hardware was more than vindicated. So are drones and the crude 1990s versions were a necessary phase of development. The 103 design is outstanding and not wasting steel and expensive complex machinery to have a turret was a fine idea. A modern 103 could mount RWS with unobstructed traverse thanks to the hull design and that RWS could mount MANPADS for self-defense and ATGW/tactical UAS launchers. Being turret-free improves crew protection, reduces weight (permitting hard-kill APS without turret performance penalties which can be severe), and as the spectacular German StuG K/D ratio proved superbly effective at destroying offensive tanks. Track stabilization would be easy with modern sensors/hydraulic actuators which could be electronically slaved to the fire control system. A modern 103 successor could be a hybrid for stealth loiter and mount a small turbine (Capstone or aircraft ground power generator style and possibly mostly COTS parts) externally for charging (the use of a battery as an accumulator means the charging motor doesn't have to drive a mechanical transmission and can be much smaller in size than one which does.
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  1790. In a war where even one brightly colored rag can get you arty'ed parking in the open is suicidal. Fortunately for the crew the track seems to have died from shame before it got blown up.
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  1791. Not complicating Supply more than absolutely necessary wins wars. SPEEDY replenishment with CORRECT munitions is something US forces take for granted in constabulary operations but nation-state war is different.
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  1792.  @samm3114  Holidaying in NYC is insane. I grew up in the metro area and escaped at 21.
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  1793.  @maxsoutherland  Architecture you look at doesn't put money in your pocket. What options when everything is expensive? How do you plan to retire when you can't own a home? Being born in the area I don't have a sense of wonder. It's just stuff built by the wealthy for the wealthy and that does ME no economic good therefore no good at all.
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  1794. So buy a used truck with a manual. I do and my 2000 F150 is good for another three decades and easy to work on. What's the financial point of buying a new truck or car? That money is better used elsewhere. Why do people who should know better even care about buying new? Let the chumps eat the depreciation, sales tax, annual property taxes etc on a depreciating asset then buy one several years old and keep it for life (unless you live in the Rust Belt in which case driving south to buy pays off as time is cheap).
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  1795. Figures Bambu would choose vendor lock. I will never buy a Bambu printer. They forget buyers can buy or build other printers.
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  1796.  @MegaLokopo  I like your attitude because it works and I'm proof! Stick with it since a free mind has fewer self-imposed restrictions. I escaped urban life because it's expensive, oppressive and annoyed me. It's not only not hard to leave cities, all of which are horribly restrictive compared to areas with few neighbors and ample land, but it's liberating. Most humans are simple herd beasts who prefer not to think. I lead a methodically planned life so I escaped the NY metro. I could never own several acres where I was born and if I did would have no fun because densely populated areas effectively prohibit more than existing. Most people are easily deterred by what they see on the news and never look deeper. It's practical in many states to buy property on a modest wage, place a used mobile home or renovate a small cheap older home then pay that off and have low overhead for life. My poor friends legitimately on SSI disability still managed to own their homes because they bought what others did not want than made it good over time by their own labor and opportunistic buying of goods and services.
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  1797. Driving in the US is a tedious chore so the less effort the better, especially in traffic. If you want one buy a used car then keep it for life (and save bucket of money by doing so).
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  1798. It provoke righteous resentment. If straight mean are to be called villains that removes every reason not to become villains, which after all is so useful is is deterred by social taboo. If you will get the name you might as well play the game. "Virtue" is not its own reward, however much that lie is repeated.
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  1799.  @Sonic6293  Smart homeowners do not have to sell anything because smart homeowners do not have to live in high COL areas. Renters are frequently trapped since their rent went to their landlord.
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  1800.  @MrJack1992  How about VOTING TO EXCLUDE YOUR COMPETITION? Economics is war, you only have YOUR country and if you vote for people who give it away (under false ideological pretenses) because big business wants more serfs, you get screwed. That in no way makes your competition bad people, but if you don't act with utter ruthlessness you will lose as in the rest of human history.
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  1801.  @MrJack1992  Then leave Austin or the Bay. It's a big world. When everyone who lacks imagination mobs those locations their individual odds of success tank. As for mass immigration you can vote to halt it completely and to take your birthright back by force. You owe no one but your own a damn thing.
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  1802.  @ColdBaltBlue  That they exist however IS a problem. No people, no problem. The only reason to have a country or property of any sort is CONTROL. Choose, control or poverty.
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  1803. The Chinese Communist Party runs Chinese foreign policy, and China in general is increasingly nationalist and expansionist. Ask Tibet what Beijing thinks of less powerful nations. Beware of investment and examine other nations economic deals with China. One can never be too careful. Trust no one. Verify everything.
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  1804. One Diablo Auto Dismantling blade will cut the nose and frame rails off a wrecked Silverado or Tahoe. I harvest LS engines and the local pullapart also issues Diablos to their workers (who have to sign for them, they don't for cheaper blades!). Freud-Diablo carbide blades are more money but even better and great in particular for tire carcasses (NOT beads, I use a diamond grit Lenox angle grinde wheel for those).
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  1805. Much of the West was built by emigrants including my ancestors. Take full advantage of the opportunity! If the US turns to shit I'll be an expat in a heartbeat. It would have been wise to prepare an exit over time to decrease uncertainty, but many have succeeded starting with less. You like my Polish, German, Italian, Irish etc ancestors really lucked out in the end because the further away one is from (permanent) European historic instability opens future opportunities. It does not feel like it right now, but Russia never had a chance and all that was culturally self-inflicted since long before 1917. You'll make it eventually though it will suck for some time. Your education, strength and competence will see you through. We make our own luck.
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  1806. Alternatives exist. Join USAF or Space Force, get instant career with lifetime benefits, do at least 20 years (which is not much to vest a retirement you won't lose to corporate malfeasance) or more for the pay bumps then enjoy being "employment optional" for the rest of your life and all the human networking you did paying off in your optional second career. Your benefit package covers medical care (forget the memes then learn how to be an effective medical care consumer which you need to anyway) for life, the VA loan guarantee gives you a shot at buying a home and you get paid to see the world (I did Germany, Korea and Turkey). Everyone competing desperately for civilian jobs is a permanent reality. Meanwhile I've not felt a recession since 1981 and fully retired at 47. That outside income makes locating in affordable comfortable areas where property is still cheap easy and convenient. Plan wisely and you'll have plenty of disposable income.
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  1807.  @katinabotten  Not when your opinion is cretinous. Non-aviationists should not have opinions on aviation, yet you do. Laymen should know to keep silent.
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  1808. Russian dead don't matter much individually beyond the considerable amount of equipment etc expended supporting them for their brief combat lives. Expending serfs usefully removes people the Muscovite government has no reason to miss. Russian culture ensures the general public don't care (dissidents are ALWAYS an ineffectual, irrelevant minority). Russia could expend a few million before it starts losing people anyone important cares about. Russia will not reform. It's been through vastly worse and ignored it, but fewer Russians making more cannon fodder pays off in future. Russia does not produce decent governments nor has it ever (Tsarist nostalgia forgets they wrecked the country and provoked their own destruction in 1917) nor will it in any remotely foreseeable future. The good news is the lasting demographic damage. The fewer Russians the fewer to attempt a Stalinist respawn and the better for civilization to which Russia has always been a menace. National identities are forged in war not peace, struggle not sloth. Russian genocidal abuse unified Ukraine. The only good "Soviet" is one that's dead and the heroes of Ukraine are making good Putinists.
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  1809. Most Youtube viewers are not real veterans, just noobs and gamers.
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  1810. Buying a new car is always a luxury purchase and almost always a poor financial choice. The reason I could now afford to buy a new car for cash is that I would never buy a new car in the first place! (I like owning my home free and clear instead.) I learned well from the used car dealers who began my education as a mechanic. Many of those gents were/are quite wealthy but they wisely do not show it and few buy new though they have the money. They drive used and if a customer wants a part off comes the dealer tag and they make money instead then grab another ride at auction. Every gearhead who gets the chance should work in the used car business for at least a season. The education is golden. BTW most customers don't get boned by dealers, they bone themselves buying "aspirational" vehicles to impress other people who are also vehicle-ignorant. They slept through math class and so long as they can make payments they imagine they can afford anything.
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  1811. The American public are ignorant by choice. Ideology doesn't make humans smarter, it's social tool to mobilize the masses who will never be intelligent enough to run a democratic republic. Never forget that VOTERS are indirectly or directly responsible for EVERY action taken by the people they empower by voting.
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  1812. Lots of us work on equipment so the more the better! That shop is merely informal. (I also roll like that, informal but (biologically) sanitary). Gotta remember the OCD folks CAN'T HELP being triggered because OCD trumps self-mastery. OCD is an ideal affliction for a machinist but not for a mechanic who uses machine tools for repair machining and that is NOT the same thing. "Battle damage repair" keeps the wells pumping money. Field repair is what it is because everything in the heavy equipment world is expendable very much including backhoes. I keep the insides of machinery that I'm working on appropriately clean but my energy is better invested getting work done than bothering with cosmetics which DO NOT get work done however satisfying. I do however make my life easy by keeping many useful spare parts because time is money even in retirement and buying consumables one at a time is considerably more expensive in shipping and time spent ordering (though my main computer is never off) though I'm very quick at it. The only stuff I see that could be improved without cramping your style (might) be more spare parts on hand since at this point you know your wear rates and what fits what. I buy stuff like that opportunistically at auctions etc but I'm sure everyone else there does too. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast so I never hurry and get done quicker.
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  1813. Keeping it real there are two kinds of vehicles, tools and toys. If you aren't a mechanic, lease your toys. If you are one (you can choose to learn and it's an immensely rewarding hobby that done right more than pays for itself) you won't need advice from anyone who is not. If you have to "reach" financially to buy a toy you do not need that toy vs say a paid off mortgage (which enables many toys thereafter). Be ruthlessly pragmatic unless you are rich. (The really wealthy people I've met are much more pragmatic than "aspirationals" who buy machinery they don't need to impress people they don't know.)
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  1814.  @mogznwaz  Gangsters are inevitable. What remains is how to mitigate them, not fantasies of ending crime too profitable to cease. Not every gangster does the same amount of social damage. For example the US Mafia kept their neighborhoods peaceful. Eating in Little Italy in NYC when I was a lad was safe as could be. There is no sane reason to import social enemies with nastier habits. Do-gooders cause amazing amounts of social damage in their crusade for total social control. When the US Mafia faded into more legit businesses their replacements had dramatically different social mores to include casually shooting opps in public without caring for "collateral damage".
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  1815. Christie was always a POS. The GOP deserves to be replaced because it's far too rotten to fix. It's a grift.
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  1816. Air power alone is rarely decisive, but to civilians it's all exciting magic which is why the US learns nothing from past mistakes.
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  1817.  @patrickdunn8918  The internet EXPOSED women's character.
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  1818. Pattern recognition is not a superpower. Infants must have it to survive.
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  1819. Strike on! Without collective bargaining workers would have no rights and the eight hour workday would not exist.
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  1820. There is no end point. Wanting an end point is silly but most humans think incorrectly of history as tidily segmented. Permanent low-level war is the price of the Israeli ethnostate. This attack is dramatic (NEVER confuse human drama and tragedy with anything else or different) but not an existential threat to Tel Aviv. It's a wakeup call for a badly mismanaged defense (walls require human pickets ready to apply firepower at ZERO prior notice) which should never rest for holidays. The wire fence barrier should have been much more robust and covered 24/7 by artillery on alert to shwack anyone approaching it and all physical approaches should be destroyed as they must be presumed military action. Every fit Israel should be EAGER to be armed 24/7/365 and thoroughly trained in basic combat skills. The Reserves should be trained to much higher standards. (You can never be too capable.) Israel is not the US so it is free to develop a larger Jewish firearms culture and should because an unarmed man or woman is an utterly helpless man or woman.
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  1821. Find out who owns the office space.
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  1822. The real Chrysler died many years ago and no amount of wearing its rotting skinsuit will bring that back. Today it's only a name and so what? There are more carmakers than the world needs.
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  1823. The fire destroyed the community which should have chosen fully fireproof construction, but almost nobody does that. Either way the only people who can afford it are rich enough to move elsewhere which they obviously have since Altadena is gone.
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  1824. What an airhead. Failure to put money first is stupid, end of story. Smart enough to get rich, stupid enough to flaunt it. The phrase for that is "all money, no class".
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  1825. Wait til they discover the rest of industrial parts manufacturing.
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  1826. Resource extraction pollutes. The only way to a sustainable future is drastic global population reduction.
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  1827. So why do you live there?
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  1828. Leftists fighting other Leftists is hilarious.
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  1829. Any machinist knows perfection does not exist. The point of work is PROFIT not perfection.
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  1830. Old ordnance built to stop the Red Army finally gets a chance. Warms my old Cold Warrior heart. Russia helped inflict or inflicted nearly EVERY US casualty since WWII by their aid to our enemies. The Soviet Union cannot be permitted to respawn. Every pro-Russian American is a traitor, delusional or both. Russia is responsible for the entire global Left. Ukrainians want freedom from their historic Tsarist then Bolshevik then Stalinist then Putinist murderers. America has a chance to defend civilization as we did in the early Cold War (which never ended). Russia is eternal enemy to civilization, proven from Finland to the eastern Med. Re: cluster munitions, Ukrainians aren't thirdies given to chewing on UXO. They are not going to hoseTHEIR OWN population centers, but rural treelines and fields already heavily mined are fair gam.
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  1831. The greater scandal is the LCS was a mistake no one had the sense to abort. The US military is direly in need of reform but does not produce or reward reformers.
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  1832. People do not play dress-up to look like themselves. They do not want a mirror, they want a dream. They do nor want to be reminded of their reality.
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  1833. Some wag began spray painting large penises to point out potholes in the US. Those were mysteriously fixed when nothing else had worked. People should not be surprised at Colonial fondness for trucks and SUVs. The US is too vast to have good roads everywhere so the natural response is to adapt the vehicle. Our roads don't curve making sports cars pure posery while a truck combines the virtues of old (and equally large) estate wagons of yore with suspension suiting reality.
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  1834. Acceleration isn't just good for fast cars. This situation will not be addressed until there is no alternative to responding.
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  1835. Why would aircrew training be a bottleneck with so many nations flying them?
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  1836.  @2IDSGT  Guessing based on precisely what relevant combat aviation experience?
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  1837. Financiers cannot ruin your life unless YOU enable that by making unwise choices. I met people who did fine during the Great Depression and listened to them. I would never for example get an adjustable rate mortgage. It's too late for old people but younger ones may benefit from my simple and VERY common example. I haven't felt a recession since 1981. Enlist or commission. Serve at least 20 years preferably in a specialty with many future employment options (preferably USAF or now the Space Force). If the .mil world is out get a government job then cling on like grim death until you vest retirement. A vested retirement is worth killing for. Some can manage it in good unions (IBEW, pipe welders etc). Others may choose the Merchant Marine. Look for gigs your peers do not since most people follow the herd off a cliff. Live BELOW your means all the time with no exceptions and become highly self-sufficient (I do all my home and vehicle repair and upkeep, anyone can and my wife is proof). Buy cheap property away from cities (cities are bad, don't live there) then pay it off while renovating it yourself. Don't buy a McMansion, buy the house you intend to retire in. Big homes don't really make your life better, they just add upkeep burden and higher property taxes. Don't buy new cars. Do focus ruthlessly on getting the most reliable and easy to maintain vehicle(s) that suit your use case. Don't buy new furniture (most of it's junk) except perhaps a good ergonomic office chair. Don't buy a new house. Do buy as much property as you can manage preferably in a SLOWLY growing area that's still zoned agricultural so you have freedom. (I can target practice or hunt on my own land, wrench what I like, keep backyard chickens etc.) Do learn to do nearly everything most people pay others to do for them. They're ordinary humans like you are. None of the above is exotic or difficult. A lot of it's fun and done right your only debt will be a modest mortgage. You don't need to live on the coast or in a big city or anywhere with high overhead. Let the suckers do that. I'm far from rich but retired at 47 and half my income is discretionary because I don't waste it on trifles yet have plenty of toys. Most people are silly and unfocused. Don't be most people. Hang out with people smarter than you are at what you want to learn. Have no useless or low-competence friends because failure really is contageous. If you live in a bad area scrape it off and LEAVE so you don't get taken down by toxic peers. Pick a skill that pays you to travel then go see the world or at least more of the US. Staying in one place is limiting.
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  1838. Drive good cars like those Hondas long enough and they become classics. BTW buying a nice spare/future ride now before prices go crazy is a fine idea if you have room to store it.
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  1839. Legal immigrants should warn their inboun successors who want to open a business to avoid clustering in NYC. The US is huge with many eager customers for good food. Store owners are regarded as parasites by the NY public (criminals are a large part of that urban public) but there are many much more affordable locations in friendly communities.
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  1840. Ukraine does not want them. They were SHORAD bait even in Desert Storm where I worked F-16 next to the CLSS who did some amazing work repairing battle damaged Warthogs. Ukraine does not have air superiority let alone the utter air dominance we did in Desert Storm. F-16s are far more viable and even those will operate at standoff ranges since neither Russia or Ukraine have sufficient SEAD assets.
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  1841. Were they the most effective military they would have properly MANNED their border wall, had artillery ready to fire 24/7/365 at anyone approaching the border defensive barriers, had ubiquitous SHORAD to protect their checkpoints and other facilities, and been able to wipe out the few thousand troops Hamas troops used. Professional militaries have no excuse for command responsibility failures, not the US in A-stan or Israel this time. The Israeli military leadership dropped the border control ball very, very badly. Why did this "most effective" military get bypassed by people its surveilled for decades and could air strike at will? Perpetual war is the price of the Israeli ethnostate yet border security was complacently managed so the enemy got through.
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  1842. Know and understand the company hates YOU, personally and as part of your demographic, and invests in anti-White racism with maximum malice aforethought.
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  1843. "Logistical skill"? Ordering parts is something any maintainer can do, any supply system process, and NATO is next door. If you meant maintenance skill F-16s are easy to work on and I have for thousands of hours like many other Viper maintainers.
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  1844. Running low should never be confused with "running out" because there is some new production, it may just be unable to match consumption. Use is reduced thus reducing volume of fire. Russia must not be given respite to accumulate reserves.
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  1845. It's common knowledge firearms are easy to completely destroy in a variety of ways. If the perp is clueful there will be no weapon to find.
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  1846. CA voters get exactly what they vote for so not my problem or concern, but greatly to my amusement.
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  1847. Only overwhelming internal force can remove a fundamentalist government which being religious is morally free to exterminate opponents. Peaceful methods require weak opponents. They do not work on Jihadists. Persia falling to Islam was a tragedy for Persians who cannot throw off that foreign cultural invasion.
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  1848.  @lance8080 There are plenty of trains. Most rail is freight. However there is not plenty of LAND for rights of way in 2024. Giving away rights of way to persuade railroad investors to build them was fine in the 1800s, but no one has enough money to double the size of the rail system. Automating trucks is dirt cheap by comparsion. I'm a railfan (not a "foamer", IYKYK) since childhood but the necessary preconditions to return even to mid-last-century rail coverage do not exist.
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  1849. DEMOCRATS put Tiffany Henyard in power because they were dumb enough to hallucinate she was leadership material. Even when she's gone they won't be any smarter.
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  1850. Reproduction has always been competitive because nature is competitive and there are obviously always going to be losers in the game. There are billions of humans and that means many, many millions so defective the world is better off if they do NOT defile others with their presence and they do not reproduce. There are more than sufficient mental and other defectives. It not being polite to voice that truth does not change that truth. AI doesn't (infotainment outfits like CNN only care about views and clickbait) threaten "a generation" of men. It doesn't threaten anyone except those offended by someone being differently happy. "Stop liking what I don't like" is a typical emotion among the silly which are most humans. AI and other placebos can make users feel better about themselves while reducing their interaction with a world which does not need them. Everyone is better if they're satisfied by fantasy so what is the downside? The world does not benefit by their reproduction as it's already grotesquely crowded. The promise of AI is pleasure without drawbacks and if it did not deliver it would not sell. Nothing of value is lost and customers gain whatever consolation they get. The purpose of what we call relationships is obtaining FEEDBACK (tactile, verbal, it's all feedback) which AI can easily provide and at which it will only get better. OTOH the unfulfilled desire for something they can never have (keep it real) torments its victims. If you're ugly, stupid, mentally defective, poor, or combinations thereof you will never be desirable and often actively repellent! Why can this not be openly discussed instead of pretending everyone has a shot? I don't have those problems but that was pure luck from genetics to economic background. (A child does not make its circumstances.) The professor is also lucky because his intelligence is a matter of luck. The lucky should not confuse ourselves with the norm! Let them have their harmless fun and as technology improves the norm may change from constant craving for other people which has endless negative social consequences including violence against women by incels. They should have bots to keep them happy and from inflicting themselves on the unwilling. Bring on the AI! The truthpill is the so-called Matrix can be better than anything some people could ever have in meatspace.
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  1851. They're fine for niche use and that's where they'll remain.
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  1852. The US elections are infinitely more important than survival of Ukraine, NATO or even Europe and winning them requires opposing breaking everything the Democrats support. That's an easy trade to make because no American lives are at stake. Politics is war and there is no place for weakness. Break the Ukraine war support effort then blame Biden for starting the war. Trump must win in 2024 no matter how that gets done because if Biden won he would not likely serve the full term due to senility. Harris is barely qualified to be the next mayor of Dolton let alone lead the US even with our public's total lack of standards.
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  1853. Someone is illiterate. The UN is not in the IDF chain of command.
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  1854. Induced noise reflects poor wiring separation, poor shielding, poor electrical power supply design or some combination of those. (Retired avionics tech here.) There is no excuse for any of that and a decent tech can troubleshoot the cause in the field.
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  1855. Why buy a cow when milk is free? Why buy a cow you have to pay to get rid of when the milk dries up or turns sour?
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  1856. Money makes freedom usable. The system works spectacularly well and SK is an immense success.
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  1857. Fuel requiring tanker transport highlights how vulnerable logistics really are to disruption far away from a combat zone. One drone with one payload can easily end a civilian tanker at trivial cost to enemies. Any ship can instantly become a blockship (whose use goes back thousands of years in war) disabling valuable seaports. There should be emergency plans for rapid wreckage removal in emergencies including, if necessary, ecologically-indifferent destructive methods for use during war.
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  1858. America doesn't want effective policing enough to pay for it. Cops who make the informed adult choice not to be fit get what that informed adult choice deserves. Backward places get backward policing due to backward leaders elected by backward voters. All adults making adult choices.
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  1859. Ignorance is a choice. Failure to learn how the world works is a choice. Wanting to believe in others is not at all admirable because all it does is encourage predation. It is really civic duty to be skeptical, cynical (which is just an insulting name for realism) and trust NO ONE because otherwise "good" people who are the salt of the earth can be dumber than dirt. Scammers pick on people in cognitive decline (which will be ALL of us if we're unfortunate to live that long) so unless you deliberately self-indoctrinate against trust you are asking to get ripped off.
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  1860.  @sandyjuntunen4088  Then don't live there. I don't so no one else needs to either. The US is enormous. A fool and their money are soon parted.
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  1861. Americans don't typically hire consultants to consult which means they would have to commit to LISTENING. My father was a very good consultant and frequently vented about that. Firms hire consultants to promote the agenda of the person doing the hiring.
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  1862. Tourists are like unintelligent children and think they have rights outside Western civilization when they barely have them there. Reasons do not exist to be excited by less developed cultures or have the slightest interest in them. Romance is infantile fantasy and reality as was just demonstrated is quite different. All that was avoidable by sticking to safer parts of the world.
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  1863. People buy used luxury cars instead for less money so they can show off. The lot I worked for tried offering practical cars but most buyers are aspirational and want to show off.
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  1864.  @Navy35  Anyone with a functioning brain who is not rich does not live in the New York metro area and hates the place if they previously did. I left decades ago via the Air Force and did superbly thereby.
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  1865. The Midwest has some great deals but don't brag on it or it will get invaded. My relatives love it.
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  1866. If defenders can employ AT mines (legal under LOAC), RPGs and more advanced AT weapons guided or otherwise, and mortars all those things are easy to move in jungle then use to wear out occupiers. Drones can dispose of any oil infrastructure which is difficult to protect and easily destroyed, especially in scorched earth operations.If India can supply Guyana things could get interesting but it will have to respond immediately before Venezuela cuts off ingress. OTOH there is no international appetite for intervention so if Venezuela wins it may well get away with it. Power abhors a vacuum and Venezuela clearly aspires to dominate the region. It's tempting timing for an Anschluss.
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  1867. ORLY? Where will those come from?
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  1868. The rural US. Pick a red state and enjoy useful hobbies like marksmanship because harmlessness is no defense. There is every economic reason to escape and unlike the UK you can buy plenty of land to retire on.
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  1869. Why is there money in the register overnight? As a kindness someone local should brief these naive store owners about basic security. Drop safes are affordable when you don't want to carry cash. It would also be a kindness to remind potential store owners to avoid bad neighborhoods, bad cities and blue state urban areas. Most of the US is safe so there is plenty of choice, often much more affordable. Do unethical realtors steer immigrants to dangerous hoods because it's a mystery (there are other cheap locations) why so many end up in doomed high crime areas with useless policing and revolving door courts.
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  1870. Not my problem because I'm far too intelligent to buy or desire one. I only buy proven tools (trucks are tools) from long-established companies. If it's not a successs in FLEET use and not well-liked by other experienced mechanics then to me it's trash. I could buy a Rivian for cash because I would never be stupid enough to buy one for cash.
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  1871. Democrat voters getting forseen results from Democrat leaders they made the informed adult choice to reward with office. It was obvious this would happen when, not if, Democrats are elected to run the city. The people made their choice at the ballot box and they chose Mayor Adams. He is their fault.
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  1872. In what part of the US are "small town" (not "rich expensive suburb") prices that high? Citation needed since I've lived on the outskirts (the fewer neighbors the better) of several small towns after escaping the NY metro area long ago. My grocery expenses are about 400 a month eating whatever I feel like buying. My property tax (on just under six acres with two modest homes, two bay garage and three workshops I built) is about $800/year. Despite making less than $70K in retirement about half my income is discretionary and I'm debt free. That was the plan when I escaped urban life and has been a complete success. Millions of other Americans do likewise but we don't make the news. Compare and contrast with the NY metro area I left which was so crowded then it was common for people to rent garage space. My garage is bigger than most urban apartments. I haven't needed to parallel park since the 1980s. I grew up in a very nice suburb (Rutherford, NJ) which still is. In 2000 the property taxes on my parents home was over ten grand a year (which is why my father sold it and escaped to Virginia).
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  1873.  @randomwarehouse4702  Which missiles are those and with what size conventional warheads? Dams that size aren't easy to crack.
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  1874. There will be some waves but separate dispersed pieces of steel won't create anything unanticipated. The reason all the specialized equipment in use exists in the first place is centuries of marine demolition precede it. It's interesting stuff. The much more complex recoveries at Pearl Harbor and Scapa Flow are worth a watch.
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  1875. Realtor markups are absurd. A sales contract is not some epic accomplishment. It doesn't matter if it hurts an industry of parasites and sellers have a duty to themselves to do due diligence and know their process.
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  1876. Unarmed people are slaves. The US Second Amendment exists for good reason as the ONLY counter to an armed enemy is a weapon in good hands. We see this writ large in Ukraine which war was invited by NATO disarmament.
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  1877. "Progressive" fratricide is hilarious. The people who installed Marxists throughout academia managed to delude themselves their acts would entitle their successors to special treatment.
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  1878. Don't buy Tesla, That was always a silly idea but thanks for the warning to save gullible potential customers. I'm a mechanic of many decades and nothing about green propaganda would convince me to get robbed by Elon Musk. BTW there is no way to conceal severe crash damage that an experienced body tech can't find easily so if in doubt have one examine your prospective toy (as in put it on a lift because the outside can look fine). Clean title and CarFax ONLY mean "clean on paper" since many damaged used vehicles are not reported to the insurance company then fixed with matching used donor parts which blend in.
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  1879.  @DulceSombrer  I solve all of those things by not caring if the protagonists live or die. Not my circus, not my monkeys, not my problem. I am girded in my armor of contempt.
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  1880.  @DulceSombrer  Anyone can ignore it. I just stumbled onto the vid because of Spewtubes algo. Otherwise I would not have heard about it. I don't care if the man lives or dies because he is outside my zone of concern and wasting emotions is effeminate therefore degenerate.
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  1881. Good. Patriots should live with patriots. The US is too large to be a single country so of course it's politically fractured. Welcome to freedom, Mister Daniels! Just make sure no Democrats follow you.
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  1882. Adults who should know better fail to study their prospective locations. Cities are bad because they only get more expensive so I don't live in one (after escaping New Jersey in my youth). Even people good at one thing which made them bank are often helpless beyond that, but helplessness is a choice.
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  1883.  @eraldhoxha6372  Until their lovely driving aids put you into a fire truck.
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  1884. Bonus, you can have the same budget and get twice the tire count, handy if you wear out tires quickly. BTW "tire soap" is glorious. I didn't think it mattered until I got a tub with a used tire machine but now I'll only use dish soap etc when I'm not near my tub of tire spooge.
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  1885. The title was obviously clickbait or it would have been worded differently! SEO matters and pretending otherwise is silly. This channel is for money so be proud of the work you do and get paid!
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  1886. Those are not "tanks" but armored trucks AKA MRAPs nor are they "army" (which would violate Posse Comitatus laws). Great channel but precision matters in reporting. The public are clueless enough on a good day. BTW Columbia has been radical Marxist since the 1968 takeover so anyone surprised by this was living under a rock (or went to public school and never cared about their country's very recent history).
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  1887. No one else needs to be their either.
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  1888. What do you imagine a garage accomplishes outside areas with heavy winters?
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  1889.  @AJzilllaPro  Diesel and petrol cars are easy to put out. Been there, done that. If a BEV lights off there is no useful homeowner response except calling the fire department while still losing your home if your BEV is in an attached garage. I have industrial fire extinguishers for my personal shop but those are useless against battery fires.
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  1890. Lean on your politicians and push HARD. Most people won't have time for a personal visit to their representative so those who do have greater impact. The hurricane's path is so unusual that there wasn't much prior disaster planning. Recovery efforts deserve SEPARATE LEGISLATION to fund immediate USEFUL aid including immediate civil engineering deployments (National Guard, Federal Army combat engineering units). For example portable steel bridging both civilian and military exists and can even be rented. They last many decades so a temporary bridge can economically replaced then stored for the (inevitable) next time. BTW where are the best air heads for tactical airlift to land? Your prior experience could be useful in giving advice to clueless politicians. The WWII US Army built the Ledo road and erected Bailey bridges all over Europe (some in use today). The military would LOVE to be involved to stir that hornets nest!
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  1891. Cannabis lets me sleep a little despite chronic pain from neck, shoulder and back damage sustained in the Air Force. I can get by with lower opiate doses (my pain is permanent and excruciating like that of many vets I meet at my pain clinic) and function better in daytime. I wish the same level of chronic pain on cannabis opponents as they'd be singing a much different tune.
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  1892. Demo pilots are very good, but military air shows serve no useful purpose. They should be ended as a waste of money now that video games and other entertainment can replace them. It doesn't matter that people enjoy them. They can go enjoy something else.
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  1893. Good if they do because it will FORCE redundant comms which should have existed in the first place. Redundant rapidly deployed satcom is the way to have rapid redundant backup out of reach of third world terrorists. Most internet use is amusement not survival. Weak "single point of failure" systems appeal because of low cost but if continuity between Europe and Asia is degraded that's a fine incentive to build redundant backups AND cough up the money for sufficient naval power to protect sea lanes.
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  1894. In the used car business stealth wealth is something of a standard. I knew a (now deceased) salvage yard owner who had one hundred acres in Columbia, SC and would not call in the crusher unless he expected a million bucks for the scrap hulls left over from the parts, core and catalytic converter sales. He owned a house in the Bahamas and lived very well, but I never saw him flex and he was really happy being with his dealerbros buying at auctions. Nobody at these auto auctions looked prosperous until they pulled out wads of cash that would make a drill rapper blush, but that was all business no flex. Wise men don't buy shit they don't need to impress people they don't need to care about. If you have to work you are not rich, but you can work for fun.
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  1895. Bit of a yawner since nothing is more expendable than Russian infantry and there is ample land to maneuver. Youngsters tend to forget Russia is not at all like the West and values its troops even less than Communist China. Viewers want their comforting beliefs affirmed so anyone doing so appears wise to them. Putin can slow leak mobilization (obvious to his Muscovite base who benefit) by doing the usual. Expending ethnic minorities in combat leaves fewer alive to revolt while weakening their local economies makes them more dependent on central government. Putin is no general but as a former FSB operative does understand the Russian masses. The "incursion" is no Masurian Lakes-style defeat. It's a diversionary attack and a very good idea but best not expect too much.
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  1896. Humanity evolved to exist, not to be "good" or anything else.
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  1897. So when are YOU volunteering to help in person?
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  1898. When the bridge is replaced what options exist to protect it, for example building obstacles constructed like breakwaters at standoff distance to ground approaching ships before they can strike the bridge? For example say 100 meters worth of concrete tetrahedrons could halt a vessel by grounding well before impact. The ideal fix would be a tunnel but that would take too long to design and construct.
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  1899. Democrats did this. Democrat voters elected the Democrats who did this so they must be delighted with their informed adult choice. The traitor mayor SHOULD be stressed out because even as dim as Democrat voters are some of them are annoyed at taking second place to illegal immigrants.
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  1900. ​ @ecognitio9605  Highly mobile high demand employment is the polar opposite of serfdom. People confuse "serf" with "peasant" Serfs were tied to land. A trucker with a clean MVR can work nearly anywhere because his employer is not his master and does not control him outside work. If you drive for a company they can't visit your "storage unit" to take the roof off like nobility could their serfs.
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  1901. The Left got what it wanted, control of academia, since the 1960s. (The only tragedy at Kent State was poor marksmanship.)
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  1902. The place to wrench is the Air Force. While many maintainers complain they tend NOT to be those who are real gearheads. You get a vastly better work environment, full medical, housing, DISABILITY PAY if required and a rather nice retirement I'm currently enjoying. I wrenched for fun and profit before during and after my military career but that was mostly for myself to build skills (I collect classic motorbikes and DIY almost everything in my life especially vehicles). I was rightly warned by a very good foreign car mechanic that I'd get bored with cars as a career. I never got bored with aviation until I became a senior supervisor but thanks to early retirement that was not a problem. Government jobs of all kinds are something of a best kept secret but up until the last couple decades it was a community tradition to become a LEO, firefighter, Postal worker or join the armed forces because it's THE reliable way to retire.
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  1903. Let him plead down to littering. There is no hope for peaceful change and that means some people will take action. Juries have every legal right to nullification because their objective is justice not to be confused with law. (Remember slavery was legal before being overly impressed by words on paper.)
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  1904.  @Disciple-ofChrist  Dig them yourself. I do fine despite having back and shoulder surgery (due to other causes and being older than the dirt I remove). I just dug a ~60ft trench for my well piping and wiring and am halfway done with a second ~100 footer. It's excellent exercise and I prefer cold weather so I rarely break a sweat. My wife and I previously spread several dump truck loads of crushed asphalt and dug a ~150 foot drainage trench. I use a flap disc on an angle grinder to quickly sharpen digging tool cutting edges. The only things I outsourced on my home were drilling two deep wells (because the drill rig etc they used is worth more than my house) and one power reconnection inspection after repairing my weatherhead. There is no need to dig such trenches in one shot unless you want to rent a trencher (which are reasonable). You can read your local codes for how deep your trenches need to be, then using a few cheap tools take your time and lift small amounts of soil at a time to protect your back. I use trenching shovels (for the narrow blades), heavy steel rakes (with hockey tape on the handles for easier pulling, mattocks and grub hoes. I also use a quality garden trowel for fine work and axes for roots. I got most of my tools at yard sales, usually just the heads which I re-handle. None of this is difficult if one studies beforehand.
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  1905. Depends on your skills. Most people compete for jobs managing data and are not versatile. They're fighting for jobs which may realistically be automated out of reach. A news piece on how the many successful workers succeed would be useful to those who are not doing well. Examing a variety of jobs and job markets would be useful. I turn down job offers (I'm retired) which SHOULD be filled by younger people in skilled trades, and none of those jobs are physically difficult. I'm sure they exist but I've never met a good car/truck/diesel/industrial mechanic who lacked work. I did workforce training for toy money after retiring and found schools don't direct good students to skilled trades being under the illusion that paper-pushing jobs (the easiest to outsource) will grow indefinitely.
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  1906. Easily solved by letting the chumps buy new and becoming an INFORMED customer for used rides. If you are not wealthy you don't need a new car or truck, you need to save and invest instead to one day be free from working for a living. Dealers only fleece volunteers.
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  1907. Cryptocurrency trading for cash should be made globally illegal. Problem solved. Individuals should switch to Linux to reduce their attack surface and learn more about computers than merely using them.
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  1908. The US has the finest consumer protection industry lobbyists can buy. It's trivial for these wealth companies to extend software support cycles but they choose not to. BTW anyone who scores "expired" Chromebooks cheap enough can load Linux distros to make them somewhat useful again, but I would never buy one new. If you can learn to use a PC you can easily learn to install an operating system for FREE via Youtube videos. I buy used business class notebooks (and new ones now and then) then load my OS of choice and keep them for life unless I give one away to a friend. It's easy to get much more PC than one needs for modest money.
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  1909. Don't buy one at all. Unless YOU personally own the entire structure you live in and the land it is on you are helpless. As for location, if it's too expensive don't live there. Don't follow the herd.
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  1910. Must be those Amish and Mennonites raiding again.
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  1911. Turning homes off at the master is preferable so know where yours is before you need to, for example if your home plumbing springs a leak.
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  1912. She's correct about the clowns part BECAUSE they elected her. What functioning adult would vote for someone who broke into the cars of people just like them? Henyard is already a convicted thief. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Tk8hYr0ZQ
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  1913. The US is tired of the the Left who to put it gently are enemies of civilization. The Dems are enemies of the USA seeking to flood it with even more parasites.
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  1914. El Monte VOTED for this so it deserves its fate. I find it hilarious. The people chose this.
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  1915. The OP is a ChatGPT bot post setting up later posts naming a scammy fake "advisor". Learn to recognize then ignore these threads. Reported!
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  1916. EV work for some but buying a new vehicle is for rich people who enjoy wasting money and not-rich people who should be investing or paying down their mortgage so they can retire with extra spending money. Buying a rapidly depreciating expensive asset whose value tanks hard in the first few years after purchase is unwise. The second a MSO is turned in for a title that "new" ride becomes USED. OTOH owning the deed to your house frees your income for other things while slashing your overhead. I could buy a new car for cash because I would never buy a new car, yet I have plenty of reliable vehicles that have lasted me decades and will serve me for more. Living beneath your means is gloriously liberating.
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  1917. Those aren't colonists, they're Americans visiting. I love how the clue-averse shills come out for these threads. There is zero excuse for not knowing the difference. For example many US Christians go there to visit their holy places.
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  1918.  @tjiofdgxjwnjktjs  I'd prefer they came back in bags or urns either being easier to transport.
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  1919. Cannabis permits me to use (much) lower opiate pain medicine dosage so I function far better than otherwise and can sometimes manage to sleep. I'm a disabled USAF veteran with upper and lower spinal damage and a dominant side shoulder replacement with nerve impingement so bad a layperson can see it when I weld or write. I got the idea from my even more damaged vetbros and sisters for whom it also works for PTSD. My damage is progressive and I will be fully crippled in a few years, yet prohibitionists santimoniously work to deny the public a NATURAL substance used for thousands of years while doing nothing about nicotine (whose body count dwarfs the total of all US war and crime casualties).
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  1920. CA fails to push people out of state. There is no obligation to help people live everywhere they WANT to. Can't afford one place? Go somewhere else. I did early in life. The gold rush mentality results in people CA doesn't need filling it up. Incentivise people to leave by paying them, recoverable from any income if they come back. GROWTH IS BAD at this density. Those not liking it can go away or never show up in the first place. Good for the anti-crowding voters. They bought their property and rightly defend what is theirs. Rich corporates should move to other states.
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  1921. It is better to learn and do than watch nonsense and dream.
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  1922. The reason one is paid to work is because work inherently sux. The goal of work is banking enough NOT to work, period full stop. There is no reward for serfdom.
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  1923. As jobs for people who don't know how to do things are automated job growth will be less for people who don't know how to do things, not greater. Be able to do things people pay for. (Adult education is awesome but getting people to take advantage of it difficult though it's basically free withs student aid.)
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  1924. Obviously now every maritime accident will make the news because humans normally have NO idea how often maritime accidents happen. It's impressive there aren't more incidents.
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  1925.  @rickhall517930  Many people insist on staying in place and refuse to learn DIY (it's never too late and videos make learning much easier today) which can easily save tens of thousands of dollars. Reject learned helplessness, lead a ruthlessly planned life (fortune favors the prepared mind) and always plan to mitigate your own mistakes since no one is perfect.
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  1926. If you do not have shop liability insurance you can lose everything. Always do business in a businesslike manner.
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  1927. Easier to ditch it in the sea. Corpses aren't very interesting after your first couple. Everyone dies and almost all of us are disposed of with or without ritual by other humans. No way I'm spending time next to that much rotten meat.
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  1928. Sal has mentioned that on his channel and it is a consideration. If you are interested in the bridge go there. Fox is just entertainment for the double-digit IQ crowd. If the technology interests you Sal is a long established proven maritime SME with the career to prove it and his channel goes into useful detail.
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  1929. It's easy to pull fuses or flip inertia switches on older vehicles. We pulled fuses on our shop truck and while subhyoomans cracked the column several times they never got the truck. Thieves expect stock vehicles, You can also cut one blade off a fuse then swap so it looks fine but does nothing.
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  1930. Every public display of hardware has other motives. Apologist shills are working hard for Glavset today.
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  1931. Democrats CHOSE this. Who doesn't find them choking on it hilarious that the public are getting exactly what they asked for? https://www.nyc.gov/html/mancb10/downloads/pdf/immigration_equal_protection_and_sanctuary_city_resolution_final_version.pdf
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  1932.  @ctdesing  You obviously never worked on military equipment or major civilian fleet maintenance so why do you permit yourself an opinion? Cannibalization has always been key to buffering supply issues. That's why tank recovery is critical to sustaining combat forces. Unless a vehicle or system is k-killed it's either repairable or an organ donor. The idea that all new parts for everything would remain in production after decades of Russian economic neglect, oligarch looting etc and selling off equipment is absurd. Ukraine was the heart of USSR manufacturing. There is no more USSR, no more Warsaw Pact, and Putinist Russia has a lower GDP than California.
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  1933. Voters did this. The same voters who are too ignorant to leave urban areas. The rest of the US is better off with their concentrated Democrat voting base staying in New York. Anyone with ethics would encourage people to LEAVE instead of pretending New York was ever good. I left forty years ago when it was even worse and crime was a bloodbath.
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  1934.  @keithdurose7057  Nam is ancient history and BVR missiles have dominated for decades.
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  1935. War is expensive, but Russian rule is vastly worse.
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  1936. Newsmodels are supposd to be aware of socially important games and Tetris came from the era of her own childhood. Jayne Secker should be ashamed that thought ever left her lips. (BTW she is NOT a boomer being born much later in 1972 so don't blame us.) Gaming spans all ages and Tetris was created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov when she would have been about that child's age today. That means she had to have lived under a rock to be unaware of it. Reporting implies the newsie should have some concept of background especially at her age (I'm considerably older so there's no excuse).
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  1937. How about an electrical tool review with similar goals covering crimpers, strippers etc and a review of both sleeved and bare crimp terminals? There is some great competition between tool makers and a variety of tools viewers would enjoy learning more about.
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  1938. Their vote, THEIR choice and the court has to comply with law.
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  1939. Haitians cannot save Haiti from themselves.
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  1940. Dead tree media are for people too senile to use a computer.
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  1941. Atherton BELONGS TO THOSE WHO OWN IT. Why should they want poor people for company since they bring crime with them? Low income people are not impressive. Of course there is less violent crime without them. Bubbles are good if you can afford them as people strived for throughout history.
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  1942. Option for some that worked for me, buy a very small home and renovate it yourself slowly over time (when you have shelter esthetics are irrelevant) but buy the largest rural or semi-rural lot you can score and they are still out there. A rough looking home exterior weeds out the competition.
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  1943. A nation is for ITS OWN. Lawful guests are there at the sufferance of government. Unlawful guests are breaking laws and should be ejected as a matter of social self-defense.
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  1944.  @sip4751  Please cite the FAA regulation so requiring. Note foreign airlines fly into and out of the US every day.
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  1945. NYC has been doomed since the 1960s. People are too afraid to explore the rest of America so they rot where they were born.
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  1946. If you oppose abortion you support the Great Replacement. Choose one and do the math. Christians don't abort so nothing of value is lost and the deleted are instantly in Gods hands so they are not lost but saved.
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  1947.  @SensitiveEvent  Cool. I don't kink shame.
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  1948. Third cargo option, MORE ships that fit. There is no obligation to build canals to suit the (private) companies which own shipping. OTOH ships only go where they are permitted.
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  1949. Fox was never good at anything but monetizing the gullible. It deserves to lose viewers as Americans wake up.
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  1950. Mickey D's is nasty to this and many other Americans. Congrats to Iceland for losing interest.
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  1951.  @HelloHello-yb1rl  That's not where the money goes but keep believing sales price and labor have much to do with each other.
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  1952. Russia is ontologically toxic hence genuinely immune to Western democratization. That's why the "real" Russians dispose of dissidents one way or another. Putin's strategy of controlled opposition ensures even greater effectiveness. Wise Russians leave and don't look back, hence many expat communities elsewhere. Good luck to the dissidents but they would be wise to plan more than one route of escape. Putinists are free at any time to fully revert to the ways of their Stalinist heroes.
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  1953. Russia can shrug off such light losses. Compare to WWII when it often lost over 100K in single battles. It's not physically possible for Ukraine to kill or wound enough Russians to have more than local effect given the Russian population of over 146 million.
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  1954. No wonder people follow revolutionaries. They have no hope otherwise.
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  1955. Shock WHO? This was foreseeable and foreseen so there is no excuse for failure to prepare by not living there in the first place. Do people really just buy homes without cold, pragmatic, methodical planning?
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  1956. What was the precise description of the assailants? Why was a PUBLIC act blurred? The media have no legal obligation to do so.
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  1957. Businesses have a great opportunity here to chase off the criminal-supporting classes.
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  1958. Russia has recovered from much worse and no possible version of Russia is not enemy to civilization. Never forget that for a second. Tsar, Bolshevik, Stalinist, Kruschevite, Putinist are all symptoms of the same intrinsically toxic genocidal culture. Russia will not reform because the few decent Russians always lose to the genuine Russians. It's a mafia society born of Asiatic invasion. The tragedy of Russia is the guy with the toothbrush mustache was right about Russian culture though wrong about nearly everything else. The first victims of Russians are of course other Russians (proximity is convenience) which is no contest between good and evil, but between varieties of predatory mobster like the ones who ran off with their war department money.
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  1959. Usual suspect I see.
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  1960. A USB ethernet dongle is less elegant but frees internal space if needed.
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  1961. Leaders do what their voters supported by electing them. How's that sanctuary city working for them today? As long as Americans stay ignorant by choice they'll elect their own worst enemies. Why are you surprised when humans who don't read and only care about trifles get finessed?
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  1962.  @ZeroResurrected  Given Russian policy over hundreds of years including mass deportation it's easy to see why they fought so hard against their home being invaded. Russia does not bring civilization else its victims would not fight so hard.
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  1963. Israeli reservists are better at posting thot shots to Instagram than combat. Israel needs to train everyone to US standards rather than permit slackness. The overrun ares were poorly defended and not built like US FOBs. There was no QRF! Someone's career just rocketed into the latrine...
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  1964. Voters chose this and will continue to elect Democrats. When the US was a decent country the bums, drunks and junkies knew their place or got a nightstick in the family jewels in a back alley. I don't respect or care about worthless people because to do so devalues good citizens. We are not all the same and should not pretend otherwise.
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  1965. So pay enough wages to attract domestic workers or shut down or mechanize. Faliure to adapt is the growers problem. Importing serfs to make the rich richer fails to impress.
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  1966. Typical Russian behavior as its many Eastern European victims are well aware but too few modern Westerners born after the Berlin Wall fell understand. Putin is a symptom of Russia, not some anomaly. Russia will not reform for the same reasons it never has. Russia exterminates or exiles its intelligentsia and dissidents who are the rare exceptions proving the cultural rule. When Putin is gone his replacement will rebuild and the eternal NeoSoviet threat will remain, secure under its nuclear umbrella.
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  1967.  @andreasxfjd4141  Of course and has been for many years. My old P52 has 128GB (I use multiple VM) and thanks to replaceable RAM (which Apple lacks) the usual and very economic upgrade is buy for the CPU while ordering the smallest hdd available, then maxing out RAM and hdd specs. Apple wants max revenue from its wealthy customers so its drives are also soldered. It's a brilliant business model because the vast majority of computer users are helpless and prefer to make as few choices as practical, but more capable customers are better served with expandable machines which can serve much longer.
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  1968. It's easy to fix obsolete hoods with a wrecking ball. Then let developers build housing as a condition of purchase.
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  1969. On some ancient junker I can see it but running dying batteries is rough on alternators and those are getting expensive. Just because a battery will crank a car doesn't mean all the cells are good.
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  1970. I did similarly and paid ot off. Everyone concerned was VERY happy.
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  1971. Strategy and real national interests contraindicate futile constabulary missions. Constabulary missions are very, very easy to defeat or turn into Pyrrhic victories. That make even trying fundamentally stupid. One's own people are not as valuable as savages who have spent centuries playing hacky-choppy which they prefer to food, sex and oxygen. If they didn't want what their cultural choices get them they'd make different choices. Anyone imagining differently is free to ruck up and put (personal) boots on ground. Africans have agency. They will eventually shake out stable governments in a century or three which is very little time in a historic sense. Any intervention WILL be vilified as neocolonialism and WILL require killing locals who object in combat therefore no sane Westerner wants to intervene. It's not a US problem. Europe made the African mess.
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  1972. Non-competes are absurd and those wanting them should remember business went on just fine before trying to own YOUR FORMER EMPLOYEES was commonplace. Anyone supporting them is a sellout and enemy of the working public, period full stop. Youtube should bring back the dislike button.
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  1973. Not to anyone with a clue. AL is ancient history and security has evolved considerably by then. Embarking people Israel permitted to enter is not like embarking random people in times before security was taken seriously.
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  1974. Define which SPECIFIC version of "right" we had genuine capacity to execute with citations and examples, not feelings.
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  1975. I find it absurd that TV licensing exists. This does not benefit the public yet they tolerate it. Vote it away by electing better representatives.
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  1976. There are really four Harley subcultures. One is the straitlaced men with money (which is why HD sold special Shrine models) who are the touring market. Another is blue collar bikers who were never patch holders and wanted a machine they could service anywhere (including the human mutual support network old motorcycles made necessary before the internet) . They bought the Super Glides and Low Riders which copied what the same people did to used big twins to shed weight, bulk and maintenance obstacles. The fewest by far are the (real) 1%ers who are famous but too small to influence sales volume. The key one is the independent mechanic/manufacturing/restoration subculture including speed and repair parts makers like S&S, Baker, Ultima, Paughco etc. If the other subcultures die the last will remain because it's self-contained and doesn't care what Milwaukee thinks. As models fade from factory support most vehicles become more difficult to support but HDs become easier. One can build a stronger, faster, and more specialized to owner preference hotrod Twin Cam, Evo, Shovelhead, Panhead, Knucklehead without using a single HD nut, bolt or washer. HD engineering through the classic and most of the Twin Cam era is simple but intentionally so by fierce customer demand. The sound basics are frequently undermined by product cheapening since the Twin Cam era but TCs are still easy to work on though I don't care enough to add one to my fleet. Their 1936-1999 basic engine design was engineered for simplicity of manufacture on manual machine tools which makes aftermarket parts far less expensive than otherwise. The impact of that choice cannot be overestimated but few besides mechanics think to notice. What made HDs successful over time was their durable, easily rebuildable crankshafts which along with their vertically split crankcases, individual removable single cylinders and heads made it possible to overhaul an engine to what they call "zero time" in aviation. It made it easy to cannibalize the many useful parts from any worn out or blown engine. That's why my Panhead had '48 and a '58 cylinder heads and was easy to turn into an ~84" cubic inch stroker to keep up with modern traffic using a recent set of cylinders and a stroker crank. Do THAT with any other bike that ancient. That 1936 basicdesign was so reliable the Timken output shaft bearing was downgraded by the "new HD" to a roller when they went to semi-automated assembly for Twin Cam. (Now the same bearing is an expensive upgrade!) While the non-unit big twin primary and final drive sprocket arrangement has been obsolete since the smaller K Model introduced right-side drive (carried on by Sportsters through the Evo) in 1952, it also confines damage to three separate areas, the engine, the primary drive, and the transmission/final drive. That engineering choice makes Harleys like two-wheeled Legos. It's why my Panhead has a 1990s five speed Softail gearbox and excellent electric starter connected by an aftermarket belt drive. The ability to mix components and parts from 1936 to 2000 is unmatched (Royal Enfields older models being the closest). HDs were practical to ride for many decades which is why there are far more 1950s Harleys than there are Triumphs or Nortons. The unique aftermarket support and ease of overhaul mean classic HDs easily last generations like my '48 "Panhead Of Theseus". 😁 The vintage HD culture will remain just like the vintage Britbike, Indian, Japanese and other cultures none of which need the modern companies bearing their name. I won't miss the Wokely-Pervertson company should it come to grief, but I'll laugh at them.
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  1977. Cannibalization done right (USAF style) is a force effectiveness multiplier. It's also useful for commercial vehicle fleets. Done wrong it gets out of control. One cann vehicle per unit is probably quite reasonable in A-stan given the parts situation.
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  1978. Many nhumans have no identity but the shiny objects they buy. Most humans are not socially intelligent and branding sells enormous amounts of product based on customer identification with mass-produced consumer goods, be they vehicles, tools, or computers.That is no different than getting ones identity from their brand of toilet tissue and it is a personal vulnerability, a bug not a feature.
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  1979. The narrator was obviously not alive during that so-called Golden Age. That was a far less crowded era and travel considerably more pleasant in consequence. Statistically flying was far safer than driving but the weak are frightened of everything and modern social conditioning means they've no idea to be otherwise. Do note people terrified of flying still drive autos to the funerals of their loved ones killed in car crashes. As an aircraft mechanic I slept then and sleep like a baby today because the real risk was and remains trifling.
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  1980. That price in 2024 being "cheap" for an elderly junker is pretty grim.
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  1981. Russian dissenters are brave but invariably lose because authentic Russians imprison, exile and kill them. Russian culture is why Putin is a symptom of true Russia and why his opponents are doomed unless they flee Westward.
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  1982. Hungary is actively sabotaging the accession of Finland and Sweden by delaying the Parliamentary vote. There is no logical reason to do that other than kowtowing to Moscow.
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  1983.  @scottyflintstone  They gave up raises for years. If your pay does not keep up with inflation you're losing money.
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  1984. NKs leader has SEEN the West in person. He didn't survive this long by being foolish.
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  1985.  @TS1207-g9y  Check used Livewire prices. They're hilarious unless one owns one.
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  1986.  @pranc236  Most of them are much less. I detest the company but MSRP for entry level big twins (in CONSTANT) dollars has changed little since the 1980s. The high end baggers are for the bored rich (who sell them cheap in a few years when they're too old to ride).
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  1987. Class action suit when?
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  1988. Deletes can get him busted by the EPA and it's happening as other videos demonstrate. Everything that does not affect emissions is safe though.
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  1989. It's a liberal arts school. Those places teach the doctrines which helped wreck the US so why is it a loss? One less Marxist hive is more like it. It's cruel to young ignorant students to even offer degrees which won't immediately get them JOBS because education for the working class is about making money. People cannot afford to waste any of their working life not either working or learning to make money.
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  1990. The Times should send its own reporters and trust no one.
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  1991. No surprise arms sales are up. When these people come for your loved ones you can be a live lion or a deceased sheep. The government cannot protect you because governments are people who will be busy defending themselves or running away.
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  1992. First rule, never live in a high risk area especially an expensive one where you cannot cut your losses and bolt. Cut LARGE firebreaks and mechanically control erosion and there is nothing to burn. Fires require fuel but CA refuses to reduce the fuel to safe levels. Stop building flammable homes or making excuses for it. Concrete domes are rugged, quake resistant and burning embers bounce off. Ditto all-steel structures coated with Galvalume etc or other concrete structures. Homes don't need to burn. Wood like other pretty things appeals to silly people but wood is fuel, termite bait and rots. It's best kept to furniture. That's my my personally constructed shop buildings are all-steel and should my homes get lit up (unlikely because I deleted every tree or bush within range both as a firebreak and to prevent overgrown trees falling on my roofs) they'll be replaced with concrete and steel. People make a terrible mistake trying to live at the limit of their means instead of well below it. These folks are clearly not poor if they can afford very expensive pet habits (much love for critters on my part but some ownership choices are a red financial flag). They should ask what can be done to their property to make it insurable. Some company will write a policy but they may not like the rates.
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  1993. Noobs should avoid buying a 4-1/2" grinder for their first since a 6" takes the same attachments and runs the wonderful 6" thin kerf cutting discs. I buy those by the box online but your local welding supply will have them. Their reach and edge speed are so worth it I mod my 4-1/2" guards to 6" by cutting and welding or replacing the guard with one from a larger grinder. The 6" diamond grit discs are excellent too, just be reasonably gentle with the grinder when cutting.
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  1994. A SYMBOL? What consumer gives even a fractional turd about anything but the contents? As for plastic in the oceans that comes from countries which do not control their waste management and none of those are in the first world.
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  1995. Silly history-illiterate people forget that in times of disorder the government including police and military are ALSO divided, and that all a small dispersed force needs to win is determination. Ask the Viet Cong and Taliban about that. (A-stan outlasted the British twice, the USSR and the US.)
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  1996. Deliberately making it difficult to build housing is a choice, like flooding Canada with more humans than its housing can support. Preaporoved plans make perfect sense because those who want something different are free to pay for that. The US desperately needs to do the same. Canada has immense room for more homes without crowding and reducing quality of life.
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  1997. Failure to mention these schools are all heavily leftist and have been since the 1960s is a mistake because it gives people incorrect ideas about the squabble. It's forbidden to discuss who helped the left seize US academia or why later generations of the peoples they transactionally patronized do not share their belief that transactional arrangement should be maintained. This is not right vs. left at the root, it's an internal leftist civil war between competitors for academic dominance. If you are a conservative American patriot neither side is your friend but like everyone else they do want your money and political support.
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  1998. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. No reason existed to build Titan when Alvin's design is proven over many years. This submersible did not need to exist because the methods of construction used are inherently inferior to steel.
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  1999.  @roadking99jokerst60  You can own them like any other industrial gas cylinder. (Contrary to popular belief even among welders who should know better). Some home oxygen concentrators have pumps to fill the portable cylinders. Those are also commonly used by hobby glassblowers. I use mine for lightweight portable torch cutting outfits (correct high pressure adapters are not expensive) and as with ANY gas cylinder proper disposal is a must. Simply venting the contents by opening the valve does the job easily.
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  2000. Supporting "progressive" (which IRL = Leftist) causes was rightly perceived as transactional. This was bound to backfire so it did.
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  2001. First word of wisdom, don't live in Miami. Second, stop wanting to live in cities and go enjoy the rest of American. Everyone who doesn't live there proves it's not necessary. If you do not OWN property it does NOT BELONG TO YOU. Gentrification is where money comes from to IMPROVE areas which would not be for sale if they weren't he11holes in the first place.
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  2002. I POR'ed a sand blasted truck frame before life intervened and it sat outdoors since the mid oughts. Only minor rust were I didn't coat it thick enough. POR rules.
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  2003. No problem! Real men (and women) learn to wrench, don't buy new, then laugh all the way to the bank while spending our considerable savings on whatever we like (in my case a vintage motorbike collection and general welding and machine home shop). If that's too much work or not your thing, make lots more money and pay someone. If you're pulling serious money like doctors etc vehicle cost doesn't really matter.
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  2004. The southeast has many salvage yards with good frames and frame sections. Truck freight can be surprisingly reasonable and there's always the road trip option. BTW I anti-seize every body or frame bolt that I don't Loctite (which is also anti-seize because it excludes moisture from threaded joints). Forget the watery shit at the auto store and spring for a tub of Jet Lube copper or a quality nickel (either is high temp enough for automotive uses) industrial anti-seize. If I really liked a truck I was keeping for life I'd check into what the factory should have done, hot dip galvanizing. Not cheap but industry does it all the time.
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  2005. A disarmed people are slaves. An armed populace are citizens and no amount of collateral inconvenience therefrom changes this eternal reality. Good for the insurgents and may they turn many more Putinists into useful compost. The invaders come to murder, rape and enslave Ukraine and their Quislings are even less worthy of empathy. Russia is an ontological enemy of civilization. That has never been different. It was never reformed and never will be because dissenters are promptly nullified by the majority of the Russian people. Putin is not a calamity from outside, merely a manifestation of Russian culture. Russian dissidents always lose. They always will and only the desperately naive pretend otherwise. They're a brave lot but fighting the essence of your own culture is a fool's errand. The Russian Federation can only be dismantled by revolt of its victims internal and external. Russia murdered eastern Europeans from Finland south to the Med. That's what Russia exists to do and why NATO is supporting Ukraine so they won't be next (AGAIN).
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  2006. Walgreen's has horrid overhead because of their large stores/pharmacies. They treat employees so badly I thank them for putting up with it. Turnover is high because pharmacists can get work anywhere.
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  2007. Why? The shootings are by the general public, not aliens. It's a criminal city, not a city with a few criminals.
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  2008. Cool TDY! That should be large fun and good for them. As for Taiwan the US desperately requires its own chip foundries at all costs because TSMC is one missile attack away from shutting down. We never should have sent our business offshore but our ruling class are an evil bunch (NAFTA was bipartisan and never forget it) who bear close watching.
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  2009. Has China ever been different? Serious question for historians as I am not one. What about this conflicts with any Chinese social values (REAL ones)? Has the individual ever has the slightest value to Asiatics? Under which rulers?
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  2010. No one NEEDS tuna as a food. It's an option I no longer bother with.
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  2011. Have some analysis and commentary from a maritime professional, Sal Mercagliano. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFS3SoVv--c
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  2012. Planning helps. Not living in cities helps. I retired fully at 47 despite a low income (I'm disabled) because I always planned to find affordable rural land where growth (which does not benefit ordinary citizens, it just increases our cost of living) is slow or nil. I grew up in a beautiful house and learned that a beautiful home does not matter because you pay for an expensive burden leaving you financially vulnerable. OTOH a small ranch with detached garage and shop is easy to care for, cheap and easy to pay off so I did.
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  2013. In a democracy the VOTERS are solely to blame for the bad governments they relentlessly elect.
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  2014.  @taoliu3949  For how many years did you work on Vipers and in which units?
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  2015.  @ragingmonk6080  Where did YOU work on fighters? What is your experience in operating from austere locations? Not everyone here is a Beijing shill.
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  2016.  @mahoslash  You are correct of coruse Runway repair teams are a solved problem. Window-lickers act as if it's exotic. I find it hilarious that anyone without professional military experience in combat aviation imagines their opinion isn't garbage and of course the shills are out in force.
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  2017.  @Dan-fo9dk  Now post your knowledge of how austere operating areas are prepared for operations. Hooray for tourism but runway prep has been a solved problem longer than anyone reading this has been alive.
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  2018. Our government is owned by the (other) rich and no matter what gestures the rich make to humor the ignorant public their agenda never changes. They don't care how many of the public's bodies they stack. They don't care how much they abuse overworked and understaffed medical personnel (and always vilify collective bargaining since they know most Americans are uneducated beyond their own narrow work skills). None of our rulers are our friends, they just humor the chumps.
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  2019. I predict neither possible victor is even capable of having sufficient interest to study the subject. Find a key lower-ranking person who can afford to care about the issue. Remember you can only give politicians votes or money. Nothing else matters so any shipping-related intitiatives need to come from SENATORS whose states are most affected (which being coastal states with money should not be too hard if the effort is made). The average American reads therefore thinks at roughly 8th grade level which would be horrific if they knew enough to care. Shipping will never be a mainstream political issue because the average moron isn't able to understand why it is critical to their quality of life. Promotional efforts must be laser focused to do any good.
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  2020. Denying people loans is doing them a favor. Buying expensive toys is the road to poverty unless you have already paid off your home and land in full. There is no reason to buy a Mercedes or any other overpriced bauble because modern German vehicles are money pits better leased so you're not stuck with them, and of course best not bought at all.
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  2021. Columbia has been radical left since the 1960s takeover. It should get zero government support because it's an enemy subversive institution by choice.
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  2022. Columbia has been a radical Leftist institution since the 1960s. No loyal American should want to attend it in the first place. The proper reaction would be to grow up and choose a decent school instead. To support Columbia in any way is subversive and that includes rewarding it with your attendance which is worth major money to the school.
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  2023. Destroying an idea held by hordes of expendable cannon fodder doesn't work against Muslims, but the price of the Israeli ethnostate is perpetual war so they'd better get good. That included arming every fit civilian because the current raid just proved defense in depth is impractical for Israel. Security forces cannot be everywhere so every Israeli Jew should be armed, trained and have a (secured) battle rifle with several hundred rounds and a reasonable loadout as suits their budget. Israel is quite wealthy and can tax their rich to properly build the completely armed society required for survival. Pacifism in the face of Hamas is indifference to the fate of ones family, friends and people.
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  2024. The Crown wisely offloaded its waste people into the Colonies and they ruined them. American popular culture is garbage for drooling morons i.e. most of our public. American society is not at all admirable. The American people like most people are unintelligent cattle unworthy of respect. Only intelligence and virtue merit respect, not mere pulse and respiration. The nation grows collectively less competent every year thanks to populism. The sole reason for recent American success is geography which is utterly ignored. Geography and WWII ensured the best era the US would ever have, and that era is fading by American choice. Lower class US culture like all lower class culture is a pacifier to monetize savages of ALL colors. Importing anything from the US is degenerate. Run away.
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  2025. Helicopters aren't what you think they are, and you type in all caps, the sign of a tech illterate.
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  2026. I don't believe innocent people are affected because all this crime is a group effort including buying what is stolen. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together had their entire life to LEAVE and not look back. No one should want to live there.
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  2027. New furniture is trash so I hunted quality used furniture for much less money. BTW this works even better when you buy in/from a region where the style you like is unfashionable, like Danish Modern outside wealthy urban areas. Most people don't know their options and just follow the herd as if the herd were smarter than they are.
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  2028. He's ensuring no one is violated without benefit of clergy.
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  2029. Nice dream but IRL trade and logistics make advances civilization possible and have done so for millennia ("advanced" being a moving target). The smart play is agree with the MAGA crew since they will be running the show until the usual hubris sets in and the idiot public flip Left then get mad and flip right and so on for eternity. I don't care what they break or don't as I find it all entertaining.
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  2030. Excellent video! The dimwit masses crave drama and are not intellectually invested in understanding war, having no intellect to invest. Infotainment caters to them to put eyeballs on adverts, not to enlighten. Russia isn't going to collapse. Neither did the Soviet Union. It doesn't need to collapse to be usefully damaged. The conflict between Russia and European civilization was and remains eternal, not a matter of ephemeral administrations. Russian internal squabbles are entertaining and the bloodier the better but the major stakeholders aren't going away. Leaders are installed by stakeholders and replaced when they die of natural causes like mistaking windows for doorways or noshing Novichok. The dimwit masses will desperately hope the next apparatchick will be a Nice Guy as they delusionally wished Putin to be. Ossis and other Euroquislings will remain eager to sell out European civilization for energy profits. The real benefit of this war is demographic damage to Russia which is the only way to buy time for Ukraine and NATO between this war and the next. Russia cannot be invaded so it cannot be socially reprogrammed, but it can bleed talent abroad as it did after the civil war when White Russians escaped Bolshevik executioners. Demographic decline matters because fewer children feeding the war machine will continue to ensure low quality conscripts who die and are wounded in greater numbers than a professional force.
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  2031. They already have underworld connections or can form their own peer groups. Russian organized crime survived Stalin so no wonder Putin wants them expended.
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  2032. Fair enough since Russian governments have killed and imprisoned more Russians than anyone else, the Third Reich included. When their governments turn bad true patriots remove it (the American revolution inspired many others).
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  2033. But only against incompetent barely armed opponents with no air force in small constabulary wars should some drone shortage happen. Drones win far and away over bug smashers on loiter time and especially not require CSAR which leads to disasters like depicted in "Bat 21" which was a US loss.
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  2034. Being alone is awesome if you do it right. I'm a widower and have zero desire to do it again.
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  2035.  @holly7937  Why should they hurry to undo the will of the voters who put her in office? They will just get labeled if they do it without overwhelming proof of actually breaking laws. It's perfectly legal to govern badly so they have to prove every important charge. She could still win a jury trial given the right juror picks.
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  2036. BTW don't be fooled by (debunked!) S.L.A Marshall's fabricated stats or Dave Grossman milking them for profit while teaching police civilians are their enemies.
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  2037. If you assume everything is a staged event that does not make you insightful, just simplistic.
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  2038. Pakistan ensured Coalition failure in Afghanistan because secular democracy is against Islam. Islamabad exists to attack India so the sooner India solves that problem the better, especially before the inevitable victory of Pakistani Jihadists. I wish India the best but they direly need to invest in ABM systems BEFORE the Pakiban take over then start plinking Indian cities. India needs its armed forces as a jobs program but that in no way means it cannot focus on elite, modern highly mobile units suitably equipped. Just don''t copy Russia which however deep the sentimental ties bought by weapons sales are backward in equipment, doctrine, training and professionalization.
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  2039. Humanity is mostly worthless and not admirable as a group, just a few individuals. I don't wish it ill but I know better than to respect it. Some parts of the world haven't outgrown cannibalism or slavery.
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  2040. RVs are how old people who are not mechanics waste money paying for yard art the vast, vast majority will barely use before they're too tired and disabled to bother. That money could go to wonderful hotels and be otherwise spent on actual TRAVEL. I can easily afford one but am far too wise to want one thank to my long experience wrenching. This lifelong mechanic considers motorized RVs a sucker play and most trailers (serious toy haulers, horse trailers etc sometimes excepted) similarly. Trailers are much wiser play because their prime mover is another vehicle that normally gets driven. Sitting is deadly to motor vehicles. Likewise buying a new car or truck is generally foolish so I don't and paid off my home(s) instead. Vehicles are RAPIDLY DEPRECIATING COST CENTERS. Because I do not buy new vehicles I easily afford my rather nice classic motorcycle collection and multiple trucks (bought for cash long ago) to serve all my needs and interests. I choose successful truck models proven in fleet service since fleet mechanics experience the best and worst hardware.
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  2041. Shill detected. Pilots in other wars learnt much more finicky and complex-to-use airframes in far less time. You''ve no relevant personal experience so why do you have an opinion?
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  2042.  @2URLex  If you're a serious enthusiast then you're a mechanic as I am (it's serious fun and saves tons of money I can roll into my vehicle fleet) and can do your own drivetrain swap if you life in a free state (or can title and register in one). All those JDM drivetrains don't get shipped to the US by accident. Swapping engines into Toyotas goes back decades (Novak and Advance Adapters helped greatly). It's never too late to learn to wrench and the tools and equipment pay for themselves surprisingly fast.
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  2043. Mixing passengers and cargo was a deliberate choice to risk loss of vessels. It should be remembered that cargoes are not benign when they sustain a belligerent in any conflict. The US should have declared war in 1939 when it chose to support the UK and got on with it. Playing both sides instead of for example sending passengers on NEUTRAL vessels had consequences. "Laws for thee but not for me" are why the (magnificient and much more effective than the U-boat campaign) UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WAR against Japan was no problem but Germany was vilified for doing similar.
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  2044. Waltz is trash. NEVER embellish your record, not if you pushed a broom, not if you made General, not ever.
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  2045.  @97Retrogamenerd  Or do what I did and GTFO the metro area. Living in cities is a choice. I detest them so I left. Five grand apartment rental in the metro area is a mortgage payment on a home with plenty of land elsewhere. People are just too scared of change to improve their lives even when it gets them much more for their money.
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  2046. No one is going to get the crazies to take their meds without returning to the expensive carceral mental institutions some of whose methods may well be illegal. Drunks don't want to get better and neither do junkies. The only homeless people who can be helped are the ones with self-discipline. The US is not Finland. Our poor people are illiterate, frequently savage and are mostly at the end of a life their own adult choices ruined. Can More Perfect Union address that part or is only an oppression narrative acceptable? As for housing the poor do not make good or safe company which is why anyone with a choice moves far away from them. There are indeed SOME victims but many more did it to themselves. I've met my share. I used to think like a stereotypical progressive then I moved around the US and got a more detailed, up close look at reality. A major part of the problem is the poor wanting to live in expensive cities in the first place. Aid should require relocation to affordable areas, not maintain people where they should not want to live. If they were smart and wise and mentally competent they would not be poor so their desires should be disregarded by their charitable benefactors. No possible good can result from keeping financially dependent people where they will never be able to advance. Cities are bad and living in cities is bad (unless you are rich) so wanting to live in cities is wrong, period full stop. House the hopeless elsewhere so they are not concentrated in housing which (because they live there) goes the way of failed public housing projects. As long as poor people are in cities they will remain poor. Put them where they fit in.
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  2047. Importing people whose societies WILL destroy your own as they expand is social suicide, not in any way a moral obligation. Swedish voters are free to open their society to every cultural enemy they wish, but why they feel obliged to sabotage their indigenous people whose birthright seems not to matter is an odd choice. If there is no duty to indigenous Swedes and all duty is to alien savage cultures this situation should surprise no one. Failure to value one's own people is no virtue.
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  2048. Dolton elected her which tells you all you need know about its public's intelligence. They will elect another Democrat when she's gone.
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  2049. The average human NEVER cared about technology. Not even in the points ignition/float carburetor era. They are not intelligent enough to manage that or wise enough to care. A VERY common intelligent person mistake due to excess humility is when we assume we are normal. We are very far from normal. Techies are different. We were different when we were blacksmiths among subsistence farmers, car mechanics among helpless drivers and remain so. 100 is roughly an average Western IQ. Be suitably terrified. We cannot choose intelligence which is purely a matter of luck (really a constellation of lucky events) outside our control but not outside our ability to develop.
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  2050. Glavset shill detected. The MIC is why the West is free of Soviet and successor oppression. Without an effective MIC nations die. The idea having one is somehow wrong is mere Leftist therefore Russian subversion.
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  2051. Want in one hand then defecate in the other and see which weighs more. Owners don't want to pay techs and flat rate is OPTION not LAW. The place to spin wrenches is aviation so that's where I went and retired (thanks, USAF!) at 47. The auto industry will not be fixed. Parents SHOULD chase their offspring away from the automotive world. If you love to wrench do it on YOUR rides.
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  2052. Planning your life helps. I only net about $70K in SC but half that is disposable income because I am highly self-sufficient (anyone can learn) and repair and maintain nearly everything I own. Not choosing to be helpless is awesome and only requires determination.
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  2053. Putin is to Ukraine what Winston Churchill was to India. Buying Indian loyalty with weapons was just business and standard Soviet practice but it's paid off for Russia. India would be freer if it builds DOMESTIC weapons not from the US or Russia (though licensing tech from Korea or Israel is usually a safe bet). India could be a military powerhouse and replacing Russian junk with modern, Indian-engineered systems means economic growth and international freedom to act. Indian manufacturing costs mean military sales could succeed like vehicle sales where Indian products sell globally and the economies of scale plus the political influence that goes with arms would be pure win.
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  2054. Try to even fantasize how to retrieve, clean, pack out then airlift all that gear sent over two decades. Remember A-stan is landlocked and the US had to rent basing and aircraft to deliver hundreds of millions of pounds of equipment. Most civilians have never packed out from a large deployment let alone an enormous withdrawal even in peacetime.
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  2055. When both were still being made the Chiefs looked great but if you see inside one you learn why they made no horsepower. Take apart a Knuck or Pan next to an Indian Chief flathead or pull up interior pics to see why Indian died and HD survived. Indian flateads use low speed bushings where HD used Timken tapered rollers. Indian ran a 3-speed crashbox transmission while HD's four speed used dog clutches and is so rugged it was basically the same (ratchet top swap to cowpie top excepted) into the 1980s and didn't need beefing to handle much larger displacement strokers. There are far too many old biker wives tales so best to research EVERYTHING anyone says unless they supply a credible citation.
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  2056. What SPECIFICALLY did they refer to?
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  2057. Why do you believe that when ample information is at your fingertips?
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  2058. Not knowing the details is an outrage.
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  2059. Steel is impressively flexible. If ships were stiff as glass they'd promptly snap.
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  2060. Call it what it is, a racially motivated murder. White parents should put their kids in private schools where they can get an education instead of dead. If you are a parent reading this think hard how much you value your child.
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  2061. Living in the desert was never a brilliant idea. Humans like resort towns so it happened. Developer greed put people in nationally sub-optimal locations to which they are now financially attached so they will never relinquish it. Instead they will rationalize and do many amusing things until events force realism. We laugh at other countries where people insist on developing desert. Mote and beam, anyone?
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  2062.  @octagonPerfectionist  That's why the military or government should not get involved at all. What resistance fighters do is up to them.
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  2063. Here's a more nuanced perspective from Anton Daniels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Musy2Asj_LI
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  2064.  @alweinhofer5453  Don't forget the VOTERS who are to blame for all government in the US.
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  2065. There is every risk and reason for clients to leave a sinking business rather than have their freight stranded and lose time and money getting it (late) to clients. Dissatisfaction with Yellow service was common as shown in customer comments. It's trivial to switch carriers so wise clients did rather than lose money. If they'd stuck with Yellow then THEIR clients would be rightly irate at the totally pointless risk being taken.
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  2066. Brown is radical leftist so protesting their own kind is hilarious. Nothing of value was lost.
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  2067. I am delighted to see American voters get exactly what they asked for at the ballot box. Democracy is beautiful. I wish them well.
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  2068. The petroleum trade doesn't work like you imagine. The most efficient way to match crude oil grade to refinery type and capacity is shipping by sea.
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  2069. Never rent to poor folks because they didn't fail at life by accident. Never advertise, always rent by human network and draft a contract no one sane would sign. Assume everyone is evil, stupid or both because tenants can make your life hell.
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  2070. Who did she deceive? Harvard wanted and got Marxist enemies of Western civilization. The people who influenced Harvard to install enemies of civilization were not the least bit offended until their imaginary quid pro quo did not materialize. She is what they asked for but their assumption of reciprocity was a mistake.
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  2071. Black society in areas where modern popular culture (complete trash which promotes nothing healthy for anyone) is weaker often do well. Traditional rural areas with high church participation tend to have old, STABLE extended families. Humans need strong family units and thrive where they have them.
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  2072. Unfunded mandates don't end well but they do end hilariously. How many old electrical services can power an AC for every apartment on top of current load? Mandating AC also mandates an electrical system which can power the ENTIRE load for the TOTAL number of AC units. Central air is even more absurdly expensive in total and the bonus for landlords is installing central air is it will require people to MOVE OUT during construction which then frees the apartment to rent at the higher rate.
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  2073. Buy low, sell high. A tale as old as time.
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  2074. Nice to see so many people are wise enough to be debt-free at 65. Not everyone is foolish. I net only ~$60K in retirement but retired at 47 debt free and half my income is discretionary. When I take my SS next year all of that will be discretionary. I lack nothing and am very comfortable.
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  2075. Worth remembering is the purpose of the Soviet fleet which is no different from Putin's purpose invading Ukraine. The technology is interesting but every Soviet casualty and every failed system was good news for civilization and viewers should not forget that for a second. K-19 existed to maintain Soviet rule over its conquered peoples (most of whom promptly left for NATO). I've no respect for any of the casualties any more than I'd respect extermination camp guards. Their machine existed for COUNTERVALUE STRIKES TO KILL CIVILIANS. It was not remotely precise enough for counterforce strikes.
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  2076. Democratic voters of New York chose to be a sanctuary city, proving stupid games win stupid prizes.
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  2077.  @ilikehardplay  Lend-Lease turned out to be a mistake since Russians were worse by far than National Socialists but being to the East were conveniently ignored as a threat until WWII ended. Ideally Curtis LeMay would have gotten his way and the Stalinists would have been nuked to oblivion before they could build their own. Sparing enemies always ensures fighting them forever in war after war after war, especially Russia which is ontologically evil.
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  2078. It was too late to stop them after the mistake of letting them in after Castro took power. That's it in a nutshell and now they control who wins Florida so they're really an example why the US should block the rest of the region.
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  2079. It's for ASEAN markets but sure gets Youtube views from the clue-averse. It's not a competitor with Maverick which had air bags and passes NHTSA crash testing. It's a Kei-style utility vehicle competitor and nice for that market.
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  2080. Demublican and Repocrat are two wings of the same bird who differentiate by social issues to distract the dummies from being robbed. THAT is why it won't get better because most of any public may be salt of the earth but they're dumb as a rock.
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  2081. Good luck outlawing blow jobs.
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  2082. He failed to boot the immigrants out. He doesn't want border control. No Democrat does.
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  2083. Why would anyone care about some random house in Queens? Homes are abandoned all the time and thousands of homes bought and sold every year. No polices force is funded enough to surveil all of that. You should have seen NY in the 1980s when it had over 1200 murders a year (that were reported anyway)...
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  2084. You need to learn the lesson of not voicing your opinion anywhere it can blow back. Hypocrisy is the Astroglide of social intercourse. When it pays to smile and lie, smile and lie! It's socially useful in person to keep people happy, not confront them which doesn't work anyway, but ideally people who disagree should not live together. The best way to deal with humans who are not useful to you is not be where they are. They won't miss you and everyone wins.
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  2085. Americans, even urbanites, are essentially ignorant hicks. Hicks have no ideal of reality outside their borders but our ignorant public elect them to make foreign policy. Our tech does fine in nation-state wars but as a nation we have a cultural learning disability our people deeply cherish. I was alive when Viet Nam was supposed to get that point across but the lessons of that war (not the emotional shit, the strategic lessons) were forgotten and now the lessons of A-stan will be forgotten even sooner because the American public NEVER care enough about war to study it. We'll do something like it again in thirty years.
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  2086. Not relevant to the recall discussion but relevant to potential buyers is the vehicle itself is really for skaters who expect to crash often and for whom broken bones are a badge of honor. NOT HATIN', just observing. "Normals" should not bother with toys designed for a very different type of operator not deeply attached to self-preservation. People used to living lives of learnt helplessness need reminding that NOT EVERY TOY IS REALLY FOR THEM.
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  2087. Next time how about a video on people who successfully find affordable locations? That would be useful. This is merely interesting entertainment but not useful as a TOOL.
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  2088. Post your relevant expertise.
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  2089. Would you make more or less money and a more or less reliable income running a well service business vs. what you currently do? What are the pros and cons of each option?
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  2090. All the post-WWII "humanitarian" nonsense was a mistake. A nations sole moral obilgation is to its own culture, not to parasites. It's time to reject the well over a century of Leftist subversion and for Europe to put INDIGENOUS Europeans first.
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  2091. As long as the War On Some Drugs is managed punitively it will continue to make drug imports profitable. Capitalism abhors a vacuum and like alcohol Prohibition enriching the Mafia drug prohibition will enrich the cartels. The American public are far too unintelligent, passionate and ignorant to have or even want an informed adult policy debate so that doesn't happen. The wise personal move is avoid affected areas unless you're a public servant getting paid to play. The War On Some Drugs will never end and produces recession proof careers for both sides of the squabble. LEO empires reflect American eagerness to pay for for police state responses. Adding the military to the mix would increase funding and career opportunities. I'm long retired or I'd look into related careers because those missions will last much longer than anyone reading this will live. Border Patrol looks like a good gig.
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  2092. More CCP subversion to disarm civilized countries.
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  2093. The SOLE REASON Hyundai located in Alabama is they figured the locals would be brainwashed against collective bargaining. Korean companies don't even care about Koreans.
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  2094. Then you should learn about professional military education. NOTHING here is not utterly obvious. Russian armored units in Ukraine completely ignored the combat lessons their forefathers learned in WWII. This isn't Russia ignoring NATO standards, it's Russians ignoring their own successes in the war that defined modern Russia. Zhukov must be spinning in his grave. It's hilarious, like all Russian casualties.
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  2095. Nice to see self-defense holding up in court. A robber on a slab makes the world a bit cleaner.
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  2096. Question to the third world shills, why do you confuse the Russian Federation with the (dissolved) Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact? The Russian Federation has a smaller GDP than California. China is a superpower. Russia is merely expending the leftovers of predecessor governments. Russia was supposedly going to conquer Ukraine in three days.
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  2097. I for one enjoy seeing the public get exactly what they made the informed adult choice to ask for at the ballot box. No one should be surprised.
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  2098. The Afghan people chose their fate by who they fought for or not.
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  2099. When certain freqs it's set to monitor it detects them. Fortunately the Russians lack sophistication. Whoever deploys autonomous UAS first will make a killing.
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  2100. ERA? What ERA? (6:36) Russian tactics of sending light AFV as armored spearheads were silly from the start begging to get lit up. Their discipline is terrible and they seem allergic to infantry screens, fortunately for civilization. Their idea of an AFV is more like an "APC with boomsticks" and despite inventing APS their vehicles lack it. No hard-kill APS on the modern battlefield means you fry.
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  2101. Sponsor blocking extensions exist.
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  2102. Killer deal all around since a cook can retire after 20 years (or hang in longer for the considerable pay bumps) then never lack employment afterwards and if so inclined open their own restaurant (or even better because it's mobile) a good food truck which is quite practical to save for then buy in late career. Unlike noobs a military Culinary Spec will be able to execute in a formal structured manner making civilian regulatory compliance easy. My thanks to the many cooks who fed me well in my USAF career. Anyone who imagines cooks aren't vital should try not eating. NOTE TO SENIOR LEADERSHIP! Let your people experiment then see how your unit reacts. There is much more to life than T-rats.
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  2103. Firearms to men are like shoes to women. You can never have too many and there is no need for utilitarian justification.
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  2104. You are correct! Weak batteries fry motors and solenoid contacts. I don't do it (mechanic since the later '70s, jets to chainsaws and more).
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  2105. As a retired career fighter fixer it's my professional duty to point out nearly all military equipment is EASY to work on after ordinary tech school (which is easily compressed when students are not busied with extraneous tasks) and easy to learn to work on. Those most impressed don't do it for a living. I strongly suspect reporters who never spun a wrench in their lives love saying 'logistics" to sound sophisticated. The opinions of people with zero personal experience working on advanced military systems are pretty much worthless, like an illiterate doing book reviews. You can and any competent armed force does take kids out of Basic and in a few months have them properly repairing and using anything from avionics to radars to engines and more. (I was comm/nav on Phantom and Bronco, then crosstrained to F-16 engines to escape Moody AFB then merged to crew chief so this is not speculation.) Turbines are simple to work on especially compared to horribly complex tank diesel power packs with their many cylinders, valves, injectors etc. Heavy equipment is also rather simple and sophisticated electronics are generally swapped out in the field then sent back for repair. FedEx and DHL really are strategic assets. All the processes including PMCS and BDR are comprehensible to mechanics previously used to old systems which often require more actual tuning and adjustment than new systems. (This is also true for fighters, F-16s being easy to learn and far easier to work on than older fighters whose high manning demands contributed to their retirement.) It's also appropriate to point out existing supply chains do not somehow have to be duplicated from scratch rather then merely extended as in supporting any other deployed operation. Ukraine doesn't need to duplicate Anniston, it needs truck freight to get parts to and from NATO facilities in Europe thence to appropriate facilities and systems exist to make that so easy it's boring. Ask and good Supply troops. Training foreign students is also old news (the British Operation Orbital is a story yet to be told) and running students through US tech schools is easy as could be. If Ukraine supplies motivated smart students that will not be difficult. There are plenty of former US tankers etc who would jump at the chance to provide tech support as there are many fighter fixers (and Supply and Ops Airmen etc) who would lend a hand.
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  2106. One problem is their necks are all SHORT. The only decent SLENDER, NARROW angle head in the industry is on the not particularly durable Hercules (the motors get weak over time). If any manufacturers read this how about selling LONG REACH angle head impacts for mechanics who need them for engine and transmission R&I which are very, very common tasks. I take my Hercules to salvage yards hunting LS engines and 4L80E transmissions where it's outstanding but my wallet is waiting for a more powerful alternative. The point of an angle head is to get the damn motor out of the way and a short neck doesn't do that nearly as well as a long neck.
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  2107. The small businesses should not locate in SF. Do a video on why their greed makes them do it anyway!
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  2108. "Scary fleet"? Try using copy writers literate in English.
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  2109. Most humans are both silly and unintelligent. in other news water is wet. Youtube has only one objective, making money for Google. Creators have one objective, views. Simple as.
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  2110. Wasting water to grow corn for fuel instead of food is obscene, but big agra has Congress by the short hairs so nothing will change. Fortunately the US has plenty of OTHER arable land we don't use (visit South Korea if you doubt food can grow efficiently even in cities). The US only needs to feed Americans, the rest is just to profit the rich.
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  2111. Russian culture inevitably and without exception produces a maximally toxic ruling class. These people produced Tsars, Bolsheviks, Stalinists and Putinists because their culture affirms such genocidal tyrannical butchers. If Ukrainians can fight Putin so can Russians, but the number with the testicular (or ovarian in the case of that brave newscaster) fortitude to revolt is microscopic. No one can choose to make Russia free but Russians. Ukraine is one of many victims of that degenerate worldview. Muscovy delenda est.
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  2112. In a democratic republic the VOTERS are to blame for their choices so expect hilarity to continue. The typical US citizen reads therefore thinks at 8th grade level or lower and they are who choose our masters.
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  2113. There is but one way to throw off occupiers that works reliably. That is to fight like the only humans ever to defeat Russia, the US and the British Empire. Not easy, but the alternative of perpetual Kremlin genocide is worse. Surrender would destroy Ukraine, not save it. Be strong and feed gopniks to your dandelions. The free world (subversives excepted) supports Ukraine.
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  2114. Our masters despise us and legal means are long exhausted. The insurance lip service will be applied until this dies down then they will continue to fvck the public. The system is broken beyond legal fixes, utterly and permanently broken. Enemy casualties are tragic but they are not innocent casualties so this sort of thing should be expected as should repetitions. Syria tired of suffering. Our masters aren't even slightly tired. MAKE them overdo security. Ignore everyone who preaches inaction because they are shills or delusional or both. We have the USA because the Founders tired of their masters. Nothing else worked. Nothing but force EVER works and that means people who preach peace are shills for the elites. I do not care what is done to people who rob Americans. At all. No decent person should consider the sligthest moral obligation to social traitors. I don't advocate reprisal, but there is no hope without it. Our system does not serve the people, and the people have drones....
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  2115.  @babd3121  It also happens to be an IFV both in armor and equipment and is used as such (73 Easting ring a bell?).
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  2116. The public are responsible because the public are savages who resent education, resent learning and would rather drool on their shoes watching useless fiction. In a democratic republic everything is the voters fault via inaction or action.
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  2117. Technology is magic to the ignorant so they prefer the comfort of believing everything is a conspiracy because uncertainty terrifies ignorants. They should keep believing whatever affirms their beliefs (most Americans read therefore think at ~7th/8th grade level). Technical humans are more capable and can understand quality information properly presented. Flying helicopters into IMC conditions over (then into) rugged terrain isn't smart even for experienced aircrew. There are plenty of experienced aircrew who CFIT and didn't live to tell their story.
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  2118. Government safety and emission requirements combined with grossly complex systems are pricing vehicles absurdly high. Design choices make them obscenely expensive to repair (I'm a mechanic) and so miserable to work on many mechanics leave the auto industry for much better jobs in aviation, heavy equipment etc. The general public have ZERO understanding of what they drive. Technology is magic to the low IQ majority so they are incapable of demanding more maintainable vehicles or voting with their wallets. Featuritis is to sell new vehicles, but the public don't understand issues like calibrating replacement windshields to sensor suites. They do however pay for it. Nothing will change for the better because like most of modern society the situation is far too complicated for normals (intelligence is neuro-divergent) to understand and such that even specialists rely on other specialists!
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  2119. A T Model can sit in a barn over a century and be refurbished better than new. Thanks to poured bearings and the rest of the design which was intended to be fixed by primitive shops in austere conditions it will remain easy to restore a 200 year old T Model when the time comes. They're slow and the awful brakes were purely a greed-driven design choice (larger drums existed on other vehicles of the early 1900s) but they're about the "minimum viable automobile".
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  2120. Translation, DRC President wants guns and money. There should be no foreign embassies in Congo nor any outsiders. Not their country, not their people, not their problem. There can be no honest motives for outsiders taking interest in DRC. Stay home and let Africans choose who wins or loses as they did for millions of years before modern interlopers.
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  2121. HAS are cheaper than airframes but fools resent building them even during a long-established shooting war. Concrete is cheap so why doesn't every NATO base have wall-to-wall HAS? Why does (this is not secret and obvious to any of many civilians who work near/on PACAF bases) the US not have MODERN HAS for all aircraft including airlifters? (Flow-throughs with no end doors were stupid when they were built.) AssUming total air dominance is adorable but every base needs ubiquitous SHORAD (and) HAS.
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  2122. The dictionary defines each term. The last is just word salad (what killer is NOT dangerous under some circumstances?) but if English is not your first language you're excused.
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  2123. Easy to see why that joke degree gathered dust. The role of females in football is eye candy and the smart ones know this. If you're not up to standard find another job. I don't aspire to be a male model so I stay in my lane.
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  2124. Non-combat/combat-adjacent roles are often technical or require some actual skill. Driving military trucks is NOT like driving civilian rigs (unless both are old) and noobs won't have experience driving off-road in mud etc. It's quite easy to get even the best tracked vehicles stuck without training, practice and experience. It takes years to turn someone into a competent truck mechanic and the civilian truck mechs will be busy keeping logistics somewhat running.
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  2125. That's still very close to nothing and a major NET LOSS. Wars are a matter of strategic success or failure with human drama secondary.
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  2126. Graham is no prize but given Russian history and present conduct his sentiment is on-point. The only good Bolshevik/Stalinist/Putinist/tankie is one that's not breathing.
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  2127. Telling on someone breaking the law when you're not in the life is not snitching.
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  2128. Of course it's a scam. It's a TOY market and baubles are perfect for money laundering. Anyone dumb enough to get ripped off should have stayed home and created their own art, for fun.
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  2129. How amusing! An institution which did so much damage to the US after the left took power there in the 1960s is now under fire from the enemies it imported. Columbia is still a bastion of the enemy left and should be completely deprived of taxpayer money. They have more than enough rich degenerates to bankroll their follies.
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  2130. Boeing should be nationalized because it's a strategic military asset critical to national defense. The Arsenal system worked (and what's left of it works) superbly but it doesn't make grifters rich.
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  2131. AP mines are shunned by people who want to disarm the West against our enemies, but AT mines and especially artillery and other delivered mines are approved of because they're reasonably selective. Never forget that arms control is solely directed at militarily disadvantaging those who sign onto it.
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  2132. Enough money for a condo is a signal you should have bought a more affordable detached ranch home you could EASILY afford and NOT in Miami.
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  2133. Democrats have the same problem the GOP has, that the typical American reads therefore thinks at roughly 8th grade level. The other Democrat problem is they don't have a base. They have multiple groups to pander to but must appeal to the powerful far Left who set policy like de-facto open borders which (let this sink in) are even more important than defending the West from a NeoSoviet respawn (or Dems would yield on border control). Generating a candidate who can market the left (there are no moderate Democrats) effectively is so difficult they had to run Biden who is a relic from the early Cold War and as such looked "safe" instead.
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  2134. US rifle grenades of WWII pattern were used well into the Viet Nam war. A key flaw with those is they were not "bullet trap" grenades and required launcher blanks be manually loaded. That was avoidable as it's easy (and legal in the US) to machine a bullet trap base with a cup like the US rifle grenade adapters. You can only propel inert objects without an explosive handler license but the adapters are inert. Those will launch a dummy weight about 90 meters (we only made a few as no one could be interested in selling them though they throw smoke and other grenades MUCH further than a manual throw). We figured that because none of the features could be patented that's why it was of no interest, but the little 30mm grenades are not nearly as effective as thrown-size WP smokes. Any machinist with some sense can figure it out but I won't post plans because fools will hurt themselves. VOG rifle grenades are doing yeoman work dropped from drones in Ukraine.
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  2135. The comments are from Glavset, not Germans.
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  2136. What should one expect from the nice people who devised the Cultural Revolution and put Uighers in concentration camps?
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  2137. SRs last flight was in 1999 but it always gets views. Whatever replaced it is not public business but would be vastly more capable than that now ancient design from the slide rule era.
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  2138. Voters getting what they asked for will never stop being hilarious.
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  2139. Opiods are also very effective and NOT REPLACEABLE for some pain including mine. I perform a "test withdrawal" about once a year and withdrawal isn't shite unless you're a weakling. Don't take my word for it, read the most famous junkie in history, William S. Burroughs. OTOH my spinal pain is only reasonably controllable with properly taken opiods. Worth mentioning is cannabis is why I don't need increases except for severe flareups (my back is a house of cards with much nerve impingement). Punish the Sacklers but remember there are MILLIONS of Americans with legitimate chronic pain opiods permit a functional quality of life.
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  2140.  @emlmm88  It was much more classism which UNlike racism is logical and justified. People who can escape poverty have had residences away from the city at least since ancient Romans bough villas to get some time away from Rome. No one sane wants to live among poors, especially other poors so when people succeed economically they escape. For example there is nothing in NYC that isn't much better in a suburb of quality so since the 1800s when light rail transport enabled escape the New Jersey and other suburbs grew as fast as Americans could afford to move there. City life is inherently EXPENSIVE, LIMITING and stressful. One must be rich to afford decent urban property.
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  2141.  @gnexus75  They were always the same. Punish misbehavior including EQUAL punishments for females and watch that change. If a man did that they'd bury him under the jail.
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  2142.  @1995texasaggie  Weed was not involved here. Don't pretend they're all connected.
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  2143.  @Andrei2patrU  If Ukrainians can fight against the Russian government so can Russians.
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  2144. Australia cannot defend itself by being harmless. Arms do not start wars. These subversives are (wittingly or otherwise) serving CCP interests not Australian interests which last I looked include autonomy from Chinese Communist domination. Australia is not fighting in Gaza making that irrelevant.
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  2145. When the US makes garbage it's due to greed. When Germany makes garbage it's due to a fetish for excessive complexity and apparently utter hatred for the mechanics tasked with repairing and maintaining their products. Germans are far too proud to own their mistakes. They COULD take a cue from their brilliant, mechanically elegant past successes but that would require introspection and humility. Idiocy like timing chains at the back of the engine is inexcusably poor engineering. Quality is always a choice.
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  2146. The fix is mass use of a randomizing browser extension to click on video after video to obfuscate activity.
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  2147. Argentina is wise from a coup-proofing perspective.
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  2148. It's pathetic clickbait for military illiterates. Check the wetodation level in the comments for proof.
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  2149. Portable steel bridging can be bought or rented by local governments and is designed for rapid deployment. They're a better idea in many cases than traditional bridges because they can be operational in a work day, are easy to repair and maintain, and can last as long as needed (like many WWII Bailey bridges still in service world wide).
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  2150. I know plenty of people with good jobs. They are smarter than the unemployed but especially far more determined. Many jobs go unfilled because Americans never considered doing them. OTOH I have never been out of a job and turned down offers after retiring young. Skills, get them then get more.
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  2151. I'd like to see an episode devoted to maritime inspection and maintenance management including successful standards and practices and how systems degrade over time. Without a professional working culture including professional supervision and leadership it's easy for problems to be ignored and work put off until Something Bad happens.
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  2152. Person 3: Enlists at 21 because partying got boring. ETS 26 years later, paid off everything thanks to choosing low COL area and became job-optional immediately then fully retired at fifty. Only net about 60K but half that is disposable thanks to a life of effective thrift. I have many Person 1s as friends and they're loving life too.
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  2153. Russian SORTIE RATES are obviously in the toilet or Ukraine would have promptly fallen. Noobs tend to forget the purpose of combat aircraft is to produce mission-effective sorties and lots of them. When that doesn't happen it doesn't matter how good or bad the non-flying machinery is in the air.
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  2154. Office space in 2024 is a waste when most of those jobs can be WFH. Note all the comments who think this is somehow a downside when these polluting costly arrangements rely on PROFIT FROM WASTE. Commuting is waste. Offices are waste when nearly all interaction is electronic. The old ways are obsolete but people who feel entitled to profit from them try to justify their continuance.
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  2155. DPICM do not violate either Geneva or Hague Conventions which is why you cannot cite applicable Articles. When you assert or imply a law is violated the burden of proof in debate, onus probandi among adults, is on you.
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  2156. Gender Studies is a filter degree flagging its graduates as not merely useless but adversarial entitled naive parasitic ideologues. It usefully removes people who might otherwise defile other fields with their presence.
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  2157. You can use a toolpost grinder etc to grind pure tungsten carbide projectiles then machine rotating copper bands so they don't strip rifling. The penetration should be entertaining. Large diameter TIG electrodes are big enough to grind into penetrators.... Have fun.
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  2158.  @jubuttib  US police departments are typically poorly funded and many simply lack a TRUE culture of professionalism. Other jobs often pay far better and highly skilled people have no sane reason to live in or near high crime areas because everything else about those locations is unpleasant including many of the residents.
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  2159. Russia cannot be anything different than the existential Asiatic enemy of Western civilization it has never been part of (the upper classes aping it badly prove the rule). Today's NeoSoviets are not morally or culturally different from Bolsheviks or Stalinists. They're just the latest in a very long line of tyrannies. Russia helped indirectly and sometimes directly inflict nearly every US and NATO casualty since 1945 (and a fair number during WWII, like letting the Luftwaffe bomb US aircraft at Poltava unopposed). Russian weapons have taken American and Western lives longer than anyone reading this has drawn breath. They are not tradcon, they destroyed the Orthodox Church long ago and the new patriarch is a plant. It's a shame Curtis LeMay wasn't greenlighted to nuke the Stalinists before they got the bomb (thanks to the Rosenberg traitors so eagerly defended by the US Left). Now new generations get a taste of reality. Ukraine was tricked by the West into denuclearization leaving it ripe for attack, so it is on the West to repair the damage while Ukraine defends civilization. Never forget for a second every pro-NeoSoviet Westerner is a traitor like their delusional and degenerate predecessors supported the USSR and Warsaw Pact.
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  2160.  @constitutionalright827  REAL European beer generally stays there. The watery undrinkable swill is for export.
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  2161.  @rossmanngroup  I Am Not A Lawyer is so ancient it dates back to when Slashdot still mattered.
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  2162. Why has no one asked Eric Adams to rescind the sanctuary city executive order # 124? He could end it with the stroke of a pen, but apparently not one New Yorker has asked to fix the problem by ending the order. See Section 3 but it's all bad: https://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/executive_orders/1989EO124.PDF
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  2163. ALWAYS seek real subject matter experts. Anyone who is not should be ignored. The average idiot cannot process that idea or even the information in this video so their lazy, lesser minds naturally prefer simple, affirming and wrong theories. Conspiracy theory appeals to the weakminded because they can feel "safe" attributing EVERYTHING to conspiracy. The human desire to have "special insight" is typical and also explains religions. Such people are not rational and refuse to question their own processes.
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  2164. I'm conflicted since as a mechanic I loathe BMW so whatever drives anyone off them makes me smile. If someone gave me one I'd sell it instantly.
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  2165. Disney prevents me from pir8ing their woke garbage by its low quality. That works FAR better than DRM.
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  2166. Don't get married. Don't stick in the crazy. If it flies, floats or fornicates, rent it. Sounds glib but it's legit.
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  2167. Syrian TOW gunners like Abu TOW deserve a mention as they've gotten many more ATGW kill shots than probably anyone else. With Ukrainian ops being a bit more dispersed their records may be unsurpassed. The US requiring proof of use to reduce diversion was great for kill videos too.
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  2168. These schools exist for leftist networking and rely on propaganda to convince plebs of their virtue. Only technology matters and these are political training grounds.
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  2169. All Stirling will do in 2023 is get more Youtube views. It of course has niche uses but it's lack of adoption tells the tale. Feel free to put your money on the line and get VC funding for a startup though. It's been long enough someone who doesn't perform due diligence may bite. There are endless credulous people with money given the right pitch.
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  2170. "Four states" are damaged not destroyed and importing more Chinese consumer junk does nothing for rebuilding damaged areas as most construction materials are domestic. The contract was made six years ago and is not a related issue.
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  2171. Taxes and land prices are no joke. I escaped the metro area decades ago. Anyone delusional enough to move there should be rich. Then move well away from the city into a community only other rich can afford. The upstate is beautiful during the fall but visit in winter before choosing.
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  2172. If the voters did not find this delightful they would stop voting Democrat.
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  2173. Note per LOAC WP munitions may be used legally as both obscurants and to attack military targets. USE may be legal or illegal based on LOAC.White phosphorus is often incorrectly labeled as an “incendiary weapon” or a “chemical weapon.” Under the LOAC, WP is legally neither.
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  2174. Motorcycles are toys in the first world, not transportation and toys can be replaced with other toys. HD owners tolerate the factory making some absurd design choices then spend their hard-earned money on aftermarket parts to fix those, but HD just reminded its customers they don't care about their values. I find this hilarious.
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  2175. The USSR was much larger than the current Russian Federation so they had far more cannon fodder, and soldier tasks were generally quite simple.
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  2176. GWOT rot happended and SENIOR UNIFORMED LEADERSHIP FAILURE happened over DECADES. Armed forces programs outlive mere POTUS who have far less influence than plebs imagine. Failure to speak up is why we have Sal having to do that while politicians in uniform concentrate on their careers knowing that public ignorance shields them from scrutiny.
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  2177.  @ChristopherWaden  Compare PROPORTIONS and get back to us. White culture does not in general glorify killing each other for clout.
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  2178. Income taxes are not regressive. Use those, most of the lower income and retired pay little but the world still turns.
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  2179.  @skitidet4302  Got a credible source for that besides Putinophilia?
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  2180.  @SonjaHamburg  There is no excuse for failing to study more than the minimum for safety critical aviation tasks. I and the rest of the Air Force did and presumably still do. Not hard at all. I'm also a civilian A&P and general mechanic on many other systems. He was unprofessional as he could be.
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  2181. Koreans were wonderful hosts when I fixed fighters at Kunsan. It was a joy defending a fellow democracy I'd gladly do again.
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  2182. They can't steal your money if you refuse to follow the silly herd and live in an HOA hood. If YOU do not have full control of your home and the land it is on, it's not really yours. HOA are COMPLETELY VOLUNTARY CONTRACTS freely entered, but most people resent doing their homework because they are silly. Business transactions are no place for silly. I will not live in a development with or without an HOA. I reduse to "own" in an apartment or condo which relies on other people to maintain or not. I would never take adjustable rate mortgages. There is more but you get the idea. It's easy not to make stupid choices but does require not being too lazy to learn how things work. Your wallet, your call.
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  2183. Let's remember nuclear weapons were on both sides of the Warsaw Pact border for decades before the implosion of the USSR and consensual evaporation of the Warsaw Pact. Poland having been invaded by Russia more than once in history has no desire to repeat the experience. While it's understandable for India to worship Putin as its loyalty is long bought and paid for by weapons shipments, that in no way makes Russia any less imperialist than the old British Empire under which Indians were starved and murdered. Putin is to Ukraine as Winston Churchill to India.
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  2184. Doug Macgregor was a major fangirl for Puma a few years back before he started shilling for the Russian Federation. Fortunately it went nowhere with the US. For Youtube what matter is it looks cool and being German the Wehrboos will adore it.
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  2185. What suitable commercial hydrography assets exist? Perhaps that mission is best outsourced rather than replacing a government vessel which lacks a combat mission. The crew issue on other vessels could be addressed by using ex-Manawanui crew elsewhere to reduce crew overload.
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  2186. There is no reason to have a dam there. That one hasn't made hydropower since the 1960s. People used to build dams with little thought for future consequences. That dam served its purpose and replacing it would not benefit the taxpayers footing the bill.
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  2187.  @Dave5843-d9m  Abrams can be fitted with APU to permit loiter without running the turbine, and that APU need not necessarily be high end for this use, just sufficiently powerful.
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  2188. Ukraine and civilization do not need "effective" enemies. The only good Russian nationalist is one pushing dandelions so the sooner Prigozhin takes a dirt nap the better.
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  2189. I am but background noise so government harvesting is irrelevant. It could only establish "social credit" which is to my advantage should I for example want another security clearance for employment. I don't replace a PC with a phone because compartmentation is the more intelligent choice. There is no financial info on my mobile devices.
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  2190. Indigenous Europeans have the same cultural self-defense rights as any indigenous people. It is the duty of every nation to MAKE ITSELF a success. Intellectual flight to Europe is a brain drain for the losing countries who are deprived of talent and intellectual capital thereby. Wilders is shortsighted in not wanting to aid Ukraine against the permanent Russian cultural enemy but simplistic thinking is common as is contrarianism. Russian subversion over more than a century is why Europe has a Left in the first place. Preventing a NeoSoviet respawn should be seen as useful but Putin (that FSB training serves him well) is good at maneuvering lesser minds. (Putin's mistake was to permit looting of the Russian military then believe it would be able to seize Ukraine in days.)
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  2191. Over-extending NATO vs having different treaties would damage the WESTERN, EUROPEAN character of the alliance which exists to defend EUROPE and nations whose global power and culture (the US) is inextricably tied to that core of secular democracy.
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  2192. That chickenchit village is only a few acres (note the map scale at bottom right). Private individuals in the US often have larger hobby farms.
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  2193. Containing the historic geopolitical enemy of Western civilization so we don't have to REPEAT the first half of the Cold War is of major importance. Those of us who lived through that era have no desire to see it repeated. Russia helped inflict (sometimes directly) nearly every US casualty since 1945. Russian subversion begat the global Left. Putin wants the USSR reborn and while I don't expect ignorant youngsters who get their entire worldview from Youtube to know that not everyone is that lazily ignorant.
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  2194. Ukraine is far from "losing" having ample terrain to maneuver and trade for deceased vatniks. I agree on sending more weapons as civilization is better off without Russians defiling it.
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  2195. As a retired veteran smart enough to GTFO the area decades ago I have to question the intelligence of any retiree who would not promptly leave for good parts of the US. NYC was never a good place to live in my lifetime (I'm in my sixties) and it will not be again because New York traitors vote for Democrats. New York problems are going to outlive anyone reading this. Escape and laugh while the goblins eat each other.
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  2196. All such standards are product of ignorance and lack of education.
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  2197. My father self-funded and never had a pension yet retired well off because he chose to learn finance then worked as a management consultant (he didn't like working for other people). He left his expensive home by cashing out then moving to Virginia.
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  2198. Excellent video! The straight-in leisurely attack run reflects poor training and/or lack of experience. Count the seconds verbally to understand just how much time that gives enemy shooters. The crew are lucky to be alive. Civilization is luck they have so few flight hours per year. Combat aviation is an athletic, kinesthetic experience simulator time (if they even get sim time in a proper military simulator) cannot match for manned aircraft. (OTOH drone sim time is just another day's work.)
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  2199. Technology is ideology-agnostic. Reducing energy dependence on OPEC mood swings is an unqualified good for the US and need not be perfect to be highly useful. Even if one doesn't care about the environment there is enormous strategic benefit (strategy is much more than war) to diversifying energy sources. Luddite non-techies should not make tech policy no matter which side of the aisle they're on because they are not equipped to know how to make informed choices.
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  2200. Keeping it real no American has any legitimate personal business in Russia since the 1917 Revolution. You are either there on diplomatic orders etc or you should have stayed home. To go there at this point in time is almost as breathtakingly stupid as everyone who doesn't see that as breathtakingly stupid. Just because you show up at MEPS with pulse and respiration doesn't make you a hero, a patriot or anything else. BTW this sort of thing is far from new. Early last century it was common for inexcusably naive Europeans and Americans to travel to the supposed workers paradise of Soviet Russia. The Soviets quite reasonably assumed most were spies then imprisoned or liquidated many of them, a thoughtful gesture far more courteous than returning to sender. Today ignorance no matter how epic is not considered shameful so we get even more silly human tricks than usual. Russia should give him the five years in general population so his new friends can educate him in their quaint local customs. 😂
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  2201. India should not cultivate ties to Canada and only does so due to domestic poverty. It should instead build a desirable society at home because mass emigration is a mark of social failure. Build a self-sufficient India no one wants to leave and India will become MUCH more powerful regionally thus better able to deter its permanent Pakistani and Chinese cultural and strategic military and economic enemies. The remark that people who leave a country are not zealous patriots is spot on, but make home sufficiently attractive and more talent will remain to contribute to the Indian economy.
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  2202. Early fuels were so varied the T Model Ford had manually adjustable spark advance.
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  2203. Denial is a useful strategy. War and politics differ by degree. Opponents are enemies, not merely friends one disagrees with. The future is too important to indulge weakness today. Hearts and minds of dedicated enemies can never be won but the enemy can be othered, disempowered, disrupted, displaced and demographically overwhelmed. The "Great Replacement" they fear is really a good idea because it is the only way to secure permanent electoral and social overmatch. It is not possible to win rightist hearts and minds because they would have to renounce the context of their lives (superstition, backward culture etc) to switch sides. That would be like converting the Islamic State to the Church of SubGenius. It is possible to defeat them, seize the coasts politically then asphyxiate the right in key districts so they have no chance of winning. The simple appeal of Trump makes him effective. Normals want affirmation not information The general public read BELOW high school level. That confines them to THINKING below high school level. The intellectual divide weakens outreach to the working class who are cunning and easily sense when they're patronized. Few are equipped to understand the visceral appeal of Donald Trump which Micheal Moore explained prophetically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlbOmDLqcw4&t=1s
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  2204. American culture does not produce T.E. Lawrences, it produces baboons. Those baboons elect baboons who elevate and appoint baboons. This guy sounds like another Merrill McPeak but less clueful. Noob civilians (vets understand that merely being an officer doesn't mean much outside their SPECIALTY) often imagine rank reflects a quality general education. "Gut" feelings mean shit! Adults use EVIDENCE, LOGIC and REASON when evaluating situations. "Feelings" are for dimwits who take pride in being mindless. Humans who substitute emotions for coldly analytical logic and reason are intellectually degenerate.
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  2205. Smart people who knew they should lead methodically planned lives living below their means are doing fine. Never buy new vehicles, never buy too much house, never buy expensive toys, never make foolish choices. Buy cheap property and if needed renovate it yourself. Learn what you need to never be helpless. Your entertainment and hobbies should always be educational and useful so even your fun pays off. Don't eat out. Do cook for yourself and learn how to eat well and cheap. Copy people who do well in adversity. No matter what happens some folks do nicely so study them. Get multiple skills early in life. There is no one simple solution. Living cheap, really cheap, isn't difficult. The sooner you do it for life the better off you become. My parents were kids during the Great Depression. I copied their success, moved where living cost is dirt cheap and took full advantage.
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  2206. I left the metro area over forty years ago because there is no reason to WANT to live in a crowded dense high traffic overtaxed hellhole. The middle class who leave will in every case be better off because cities inherently suck to live in. The only reason those not rich stay is fear of change but that's just silly. The whole USA is their birthright but they're AFRAID to move away from where their (and my) ancestors got off the boat. The whole point of working in the northeast used to be cashing out and moving someplace warm and affordable. Why wait until you're nearly dead to make the change when it will be much harder for a future elderly weak retiree to do? Escape early and be happy. Despite media frothing humans can and do afford homes in the rest of the US and land with them. I only have six wooded acres but that's room enough for target practice, garages, workshops and keeping chickens. My alarm clock is a rooster and I haven't locked my doors in decades. My property tax is less than 900 bucks and I'm debt free because I GTFO the NY metro area.
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  2207. Respect to that trucker for PROVING shit ain't moving. There are military bases all along the east coast including the Carolinas and Georgia who can ground deploy civil engineering equipent and even tracked vehicles (M113 can go places nothing else will and they're simpler than a modern pickup truck) to pull trailers and extricate stuck vehicles. It's time to do the civil engineering that should have been done decades ago and smash large capable four lane or larger expedient roads to build out as highways later to properly connect the region with I-95 and other interstates (because the area needs a modern road net to counteract the awful, dangerous geography that chases away prospective employers). Nothing in the eastern US should be difficult to access and strip mining equipment can remove whole mountains if they're an obstacle to road and rail logistics.
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  2208. If you sell them at a technical LOSS what are the rules?
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  2209.  @lisabryant5424  There is never a universal solution but individuals (you are one) can choose not to follow the herd. There are many ways to retire available, notably the armed forces, government jobs, law enforcement, Merchant Marine (a gem most people don't know exists) etc. Real people do these real jobs and really retire. Why aren't you?
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  2210. Given space-based surveillance the only people who will be "surprised" are the general public whose need to know is not immediate. Russia cannot hide ground movement and modern analysis of movement patterns and metadata means they cannot manage it by dispersal either. 24/7 surveillance and intel integration came of age in GWOT and nation-state wars waged with LOCAL SUPPORT (for a change!) including boots on ground intel leaves our NeoSoviet enemy no place to hide. Russia helped kill or wound nearly every G.I. casualty since WWII so fvck them and their tankie supporters too. Deceased Commies make this Cold War v1.0 vet smile.
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  2211. The rather drastic shrinkage of Russian offensive goals is amusing. Bakhmut is a tiny rural town of little real value but Russia is throwing cannon fodder at it for reasons unknowable except to the incompetent amateurs in charge. I approve of course since even worthless convicts consume equipment and resources on their way to feed the dandelions.
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  2212. Entitled airhead allows her vanity to end her life. When I see a dye job like that a Karen is normally underneath it. Aircraft are not foolproof so fools should not operate them. Non-technical people do not belong at aircraft controls.
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  2213.  @Mamba-Kush  Ignorance is a choice. Every resource for a classical education (the kind that makes one able to navigate the world) is basically free. Choosing popular entertainment over self-improvement is a choice. I almost never read or watch fiction and consider it a waste of time because reality has far more useful info.
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  2214. He's a fool because the perpetrators community love this stuff and prey on each other far more than outsiders.
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  2215.  @Steve-ev6vx  You nailed it. The 1960s through 1980s were nasty and normal.
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  2216. Who pray tell elected and reelected the politicians who gave the orders? Martians?
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  2217.  @pauldailey4477  Why do Indians worship Russian gear when India is considerably more accomplished economically and vigorously building a homegrown defense industry? Is emotion really more important than what systems do in combat? India is far more successful economically (compare GDP rankings( than Russia, has a a strong functioning democracy, recently built its own ballistic missile submarines, and Indian manufacturing exports throughout the world.
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  2218. Belts are for pants, not engine timing. Timing components should last the full life of an engine including not ENDING that life. Engineers should spend at least a year as a (multibrand for depth) mechanic before designing engines. Using a belt under those oily conditions is worse than deliberate sabotage because it's so blatantly stupid. Who was head of the design team and who approved this ridiculous design? Why do they still have jobs?
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  2219. Meanwhile we allow criminals to flood across the border and give them handouts for existing.
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  2220.  @sonyavincent7450  "Expensive" is relative. Not everyone is poor and leading a wise life pays off.
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  2221. Russians have the same options to turn their weapons on their officers their forbears had in 1917. They have the option to surrender or desert rather than invade Ukraine. It's a false equivalence to equate rapist and victim.
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  2222. NYC reverting to normal surprises youngsters. In other news water is wet and the sun reliably rises in the east. No sympathy on my part for anyone foolish enough to live there or too scared of change to leave. You had a life to escape the area. I did. I've seen this before and it's hilarious people hide their heads in the sand until they personally get mugged, and sometimes even afterwards. "Safest big city" is not a complement. Unreported crimes were typical back in the day too. When nothing is done about theft why report it? Crime can easily go back to high prior levels and has been cyclic for (NYC is old) centuries.
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  2223. Rush deserved his fate. His customers, while stupid (accomplished people are quite capable of due diligence, I'd not have boarded that obvious shitbox) were innocent and deserved a reasonably safe experience. Future silly tourists should consider that they are still behind windows, no different from a video screen, and as such do NOT INTERACT with the wreck.
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  2224. This happened before in 1968 when the Democratic Party objected to protests then deployed "bacon" in force to beat and arrest protestors. Chicago has always been corrupt and will never be different.
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  2225. Democratic VOTERS chose this and I'm laughing while they choke on it. Interview African-American Chicagoans not some lefty academic with nothing personal at stake. Interview the people affected!
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  2226. Shocking to who, military illiterates too ignorant to have opinions? CEP for unguided ordnance off IAF airframes is amply accurate as it is for US versions of the same airframes. If you want an issue why make one up? To lay persons "imprecise" or "precise" has no meaning. "More probability of error" in no way means sloppy or casual. With hostile and friendly forces so close the IAF cannot afford much fratricide (there will always be some Blue on Blue which is the nature of warfare). Wasting PGM on targets not meriting PGM is pointless. War is not Hollywood and the only way to conquer a contested urban area is to destroy it. Using a JDAM to strike from a distance is a valid use because it confers standoff. OTOH wasting them when they must be available for necessary use is military malfeasance. IAF aircraft can get well in range for accurate delivery in Gaza without shwacking friendlies. Most bombs used in Desert Storm were unguided but the aircraft delivering them were so precise F-111 could use one bomb per Iraqi tank ("tank plinking") to great effect.
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  2227. That's because the UK tragically failed to wipe out its monarchy and thus degrade the class system. The people are socially conditioned to act as subjects without seeing themselves as such. They're far too passive. It's physically safe for the masters to do almost anything, so they will.
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  2228. Many moderns fail to understand (because no one had the decency to TEACH them) nature is not a Disney movie. Life devours life in a constant churn of perpetual violence. Moderns forget what indigenous peoples always new so now and then some get munched. A mountain lion lives to kill mammals and eat flesh. If you visit its home bring alert dogs and a capable firearm you have trained and can reliably hit with. Shed antlers aren't worth dying for. (Go during hunting season and get some delicious venison to go with the antlers and a hide to tan. Indigenous peoples understood the woods is a toothy butcher shop.)
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  2229. INDIGENOUS Europeans matter just as much as indigenous peoples elsewhere.
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  2230. Those skills do not require employment to be profitable and I'm an example. I don't pay auto mechanics except for machine shop work (too much specialty gear for me to add that at home), tire swaps and alignment. I don't pay for carpentry, plumbing, wiring (except for inspections), appliance repairs, HVAC etc.
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  2231.  @momosgarage  Yes you can career shift and I'm both proof and a witness. Adult education is one way to make it happen and that's often free or near it (Pell grants, Lottery money, student aid, apprenticeship programs). For example we trained uneducated students off the proverbial block to pass 6G pipe welding hiring tests in only 19 weeks after which they worked on the road (where the big money is) or locally at a trailer fab (a starter welding job is still a job). Not every state bothers with certs for many trades like mechanics. (I've never met a decent mechanic including myself who was out of work involuntarily.) Our "mechantronics" (industrial controls etc) students got the most job offers because math filters the ignorant. CAD draftspeople are also easy hires.
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  2232. Just to be clear, it worked as intended and fire raids were equally "horrific" which was the point. Pro-peace Japanese interviewed afterwards said it helped their case for supporting surrender.
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  2233.  @simz88  "In the process" is NOT THE SAME and there was zero reason to trust Japan. Why given that context should anyone care about frying another two cities?
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  2234. Militarily good but the first one destroyed will become effective Kremlin propaganda. They're large soft targets also needed to deter invasion of Taiwan.
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  2235. Most of them ARE losers as always. They CHOSE to remain in California despite having a lifetime to go where they might do better. Meanwhile immigrants going to CA and elsewhere are making it. What's wrong with that picture? Most homeless put themselves there with a life of bad choices but in 2024 it's haram to point out that every human has at least some agency. Drunks and addicts chose to be that because the cure is willpower (AA etc being supporting proofs).
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  2236. Numbers are also a burden in peacetime because personnel aren't free. They require food, barracks, training, personal equipment etc which even at Chinese prices are not free.
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  2237. After avoiding doing what they should have done years ago because Biden is a senile fossil who does not personally support individual freedom.... This is just pre-November desperation but better than nothing.
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  2238. They are technically losers in the vast majority of cases so why is accuracy suddenly wrong? I'm met my share of such trash. If hard working immigrants can walk to the US and make it working off the books our own drunks and junkies have no excuse. Most of them ruin their own lives by choice, including remaining in expensive areas when there is a whole country easily accessible (immigrants prove that, too).
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  2239. Many dying small towns are dying due to economic changes. Never forget communities are built around economic resources and when those disappear the community is functionally obsolete. Hospitals leave emptying hinterlands that emptied because they're not economically viable. Choose where you live ruthlessly and wisely.
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  2240. Ukraine can estimate where best to place thirsty assets for example in defense while less thirsty offensive tanks can go forward. Abrams could secure rear areas without burning overmuch fuel. They don't need to move much before combat to be a defensive reaction force, for example shielding Kyiv. There is room for unconventional thinking in this war and Ukraine demonstrates quite the knack for it.
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  2241. Cool. I'm ready. Depressions don't last forever. The sky doesn't fall but drama queens love their drama.
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  2242. Transportation is trivially cheap while there are many considerations behind locating a recycling operation, including where the owner wants to live and work.
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  2243. Any disaffected females are free to buy their own robots.
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  2244. And water is wet. Don't forget it's a racket for EVERYONE including enemies of the US without whose superbly (though imperfect because all complex systems inherently operate with some degradation) military-industrial-corporate complex saved Western civilization in two World Wars and the Cold War (which is not over by a long shot).
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  2245. Degenerate gamblers are hilarious but the house is always the big winner.
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  2246.  @RosefMudson1414  It was a racially motivated murder.
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  2247. Correlation is not causation. Newsies should post the real cost breakdown which is what viewers should want to see, at least if mathematics matters. Where are the numbers? The Democrats are fools for not posting breakdowns of every factor driving sale price. The good part is this may discourage dumbazzes from buying that garbage. Diabesity kills more Americans than crime and war.
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  2248.  @adamhbrennan Doesn't it always? 🤣
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  2249. Haley is Lindsey Graham in a skirt with less skill and DEFINITELY less delivery for her voters. She pissed off South Carolina to make national moves. Graham actually delivers for his state and knows that is his job however annoying he is nationally. Haley is about Haley. BTW professionals don't really "panic" and that's just a Youtube algo title. She doesn't shake and is a capable actress but even as stupid as the American public are (elections prove idiocracy) the only way she'd make POTUS is as Veep followed by Presidential heart attack. (Veeps are insurance against impeachment and assassination so they're picked to be worse than their boss as a rule!)
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  2250. Unions yielding forever makes no sense. If a company cannot manage itself properly it DESERVES to fail. Expecting truckers to work for free is absurd. BTW many companies are moving TO the US and succeeding so I don't buy the propaganda. My state is an example with BMW, ZF, Continental Tire and more from Germany who turn solid profits paying American workers. Yellow was doomed but milking the drivers (who should have moved on long ago) paid off in the short term. Businesses today are expendable paper constructs, Managemet retire rich while workers get stiffed.
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  2251. Europeans should be very glad they're not represented by American labor organizations. The general US public know nothing of labor history (or anything else that's not a childish trifle) so they fail to demand effective, ethical unions. US culture is fundamentally bootlicking towards the rich who easily buy the allegiance of the thoughtless "booboisie" (as H.L.Mencken referred to them). Our unions aren't very good at PUBLIC outreach, ceding the narrative to the bosses. I took care to avoid any career needing a union because I'd have an enemy employer and a questionably effective advocate! It's sad and will not change much unless the economy coerces activism. Our recently averted (by government order) rail strike is instructive and the workers did poorly. Compare US railroaders sick pay and leave benefits to those of the (much more efficient and modern) northern European rail systems. The freight safety situation is also horrendous. https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/natural-gas/120222-us-railroad-strike-averted-after-congress-steps-in-biden-signs-legislation https://www.nytimes.com/article/ohio-train-derailment-timeline.html
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  2252. Because not everyone is some teenage gamer who never flew nor worked on a real combat aircraft.
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  2253. Mozilla have buckets of money yet fail to prioritize THE BROWSER and nothing else except Thunderbird. There is no excuse for spending anything on anything else not required for the Foundation's survival.
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  2254. Inboards without titles come apart easily with a chain saw for easy engine removal.
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  2255.  @lga9436  The US military is also a great place for Pinoys and Pinays. Get here, get citizenship then enlist and retire in twenty years (or hang out for the pay bumps). I NEVER had a problem from a Filipino Airman in 26 years. Send more.
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  2256. NYC is far too crowded. It was overcrowded fifty years ago. Urban growth only benefits the wealthy who own the city. There is NO FIX because the problem is too many people vying to use the same facilties.
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  2257.  @Scott6794  If CIA were as competent and capable as paranoids insist the US would win much more often.
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  2258. Unless one has personal skin in the game the outcome doesn't matter much. The Gulf states can repatriate their workforces, roll back activity to sustainable levels and have plenty of money even without delusions of grandeur. Not every part of the earth need be packed with more humans than it can comfortably sustain.
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  2259. Bernard Goetz was the hero New York needed but did not deserve. Gun confiscation (the desired end state of what Democrats call "gun control") disarms only honest citizens who obey laws. I escaped the metro area a few years before Goetz was jailed for possessing the weapon that saved his life because the future was obvious. Time proved me wise but I would rather have been mistaken.Another partial solution used to be police stakeouts but the public objected to their fellow thugs being harmed.
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  2260. Voters chose this. No one smart would remain there in the first place but people are too cowardly to devote their lives to moving someplace decent.
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  2261. Criminals make up a lot of the so-called community which refuses to exert social censure and moral pressure against the criminal community members. Wise American adults choose not to live in these horrible neighborhoods made horrible by the other humans who live there. Oakland is not going to get better unless poor areas are gentrified out of existence because the lower classes ARE the problem.
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  2262. The runway issue is highly over-rated by people not involved in military aviation. Run a FOD sweeper down a decent concrete highway after civil engineering does their assessment then go fly sorties.
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  2263. The efficient way to win is not to play. Scrap the surface fleet program which was a useless drain on the undersized German industrial base then build enough submarines to maintain enough at sea to strangle trade as effectively as the US submarine force did Japan's.
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  2264.  @DanTarrant1  How did Sowell "create" the shortcomings he excoriates?
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  2265. If the OS installation is Windows and not encrypted that hard drive can be removed and accessed then leaked on the web. It may contain evidence of her own corruption.
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  2266. Boeing cannot be fixed because the people who are the problem will never define themselves as the problem. The government should install inspectors WITHIN all major industries of national importance because no one can or should be trusted. The only way to make humans comply reliably is fear because professionalism is mostly deader than a pickled herring.
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  2267. Walls may not be perfect but if they are guarded by human pickets work effectively. The Berlin Wall is a famous example. International critics object to nations controlling their own borders. When the choice is between your own people surviving or chaos for everyone that is no choice at all.
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  2268. I'm ready and don't care. I'm not rich and don't need to be but I'm debt free by simply not acquiring debt. I've lived through several recessions quite smoothly by copying sensible folk. Other people bought McMansions and lost them. I bought cheap rural acreage zoned agricultural with old structures needing work, did the work, paid it off and still live there. Other people went in debt for new vehicles. I do not buy or want new vehicles because they're a punitively expensive ripoff. I choose rides for reliable service over time and easy self-maintenance then keep them for life. If one needs attention there is no hurry since I have matching spares. This is all simple down-home old time thinking proven by other men before I was born.
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  2269. That's what I call proof testing! Breech op ck good, barrel failed gracefully as it should.
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  2270.  @OddZodd  "Unless there was reason"?? Why do you trust the system?
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  2271. Why would anyone want to attend such a frothingly Leftist school in the first place? Elect Donald Trump and turn the tide.
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  2272. None of this matters if you don't date.
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  2273. The only people worth listening to on such subjects are transport professionals operating barge traffic on that river. Infotainment spokesmodels are not those experts. As for flooding, don't live there. The middle of the US is nearly empty so there's plenty of room elsewhere.
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  2274. Some of us took serious interest in history (not merely way) long before current events. Unfortunately most people are silly, superficial and prefer video to reading which is much more information-dense. The idiot masses (the average person is self-limiting and incurious by choice) want simple experiences and much worse, crave EMOTIONAL experiences while being indifferent to information which bores them. Serious people are entertained by videos but only use them in conjunction with years of reading from professional sources. Soviet and NeoSoviet subversion works by affirmation just like algorithms. Humans do not naturally think in ways resistant to manipulation by affirmation. Doing so is a deliberate, sometimes discomfiting choice but necessary for clear thinking. Seeing stuff blow up is entertainment. Seeing vatniks flopping like discarded catfish on a riverbank is entertainment. Always remember that humans are easy to manipulate by affirming their emotional beliefs. Emotions render humans foolish and stupid. We all have them but they are mostly obstacles to cold, methodical, PROFESSIONAL reasoning. Video is far from the only useful tool to understand anything. It's inherently oversimplified and cannot be otherwise. That's why for example professional military analysts don't just watch Spewtoob and drool on their shoes.
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  2275. If you want security stop wanting to use electronic comms, ALL of them, for anything that make you vulnerable. While you're wildly unlikely to matter to government (paranoia a the delusion of ones own importance) malware makes authors millions every year in financial information theft. I'd have zero worries if the NSA wanted to assign me a minder (they can live in if they pay rent) because they don't want my money. OTOH the scammers and spammers and malware users do want my money.
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  2276. I went to many Copart auctions working for a used car lot at the time and the effect of CFC is greatly exaggerated. The VAST majority of those vehicles traded in (the exceptions are too few to matter) were crap and would have been shredded shortly anyway. (Most salvage yards crush everything at/over ten years old unless it's special.) People saw a few ride they wanted and shat bricks. Meanwhile salvage yards made bank because CFC did not affect body, interior or suspension parts. They'd have an airgun party then send off the hulk.
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  2277. That's a nice pile of money well worth scrapping/parting. Nice score!
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  2278. If you insert key details like that number you got wrong but others stole without attribution you can have even more fun.
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  2279. No. Dying for enemy cultures is inherently a strategic mistake. Unless there is overwhelming STRATEGIC necessity for war it should be avoided. Syria is Israel's problem and the US already took out its eastern enemy Iraq while paying the Egyptian military to stick to its domestic oppression mission instead of attacking Israel. Not our peoples, not our problem. They'll be eating out of each others severed heads for the next century too. The Middle East and Africa do not belong to the US and we should stay the hell out.
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  2280. Louis speaks the truth re: that era and of examples and old-style mentoring. The Bronx was so trashed only street lights lit some sections. Self and bros took the train through it often. We didn't stop there since destination was Spanish Harlem (which those locals took much better care of). I never see any of this garbage thankis to ad/script blocking. I so rarely use other people's PCs seeing what the internet looks like to non-techies is disgusting. Internet adverts now have the opposite of their intended effect since I expect products to sell on merit and find credible comments on reddit, forums etc.
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  2281. How many massive deployments have YOU packed out from overseas bases under austere conditions let alone getting shot at? How would you expect the US to retrieve Afghan National Army equipment in a withdrawal under fire? How do you imagine the logistics of removing two decades worth of hardware (including washdown, fluid drainage and airlift preparation which at scale is a staggering task even spread out over the two decades it took to deliver)? The US signed the Doha joint declaration under a POTUS half the nation still admire more than Jesus (read it, link below). The Talibs did not attempt to interrupt the US egress. (The airport bombing was by Islamic State - Khorasan and killed Talib security forces too which doesn't bother me personally but important facts matter.) https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/02.29.20-US-Afghanistan-Joint-Declaration.pdf The ANA unlike the Taliban were corrupt and degenerate. US troops who tried to prevent their quaint customs like bacha bazi were disciplined for it. The ANA despite being lavishly equipped folded even faster than the impressively poor South Vietnamese forces back in the proverbial day.
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  2282. I find it hilarious someone would limit themselves to buying new as if that made the slightest financials sense vs getting a proven used ride from a rust-free state. There are many ways to buy vehicles.
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  2283. Most people are silly. Don't be like them. If young absolutely consider the armed forces (USAF and Space Force for quality of life) because a military career certainly does make full retirement attainable by vesting early (20 years minimum). Ignore memes and don't join to play Rambo, join to work with technology or get into a medical specialty. It's an instant career you'd have to be completely wetoddid not to succeed in and all your needs are provided for so you have instant discretionary income (which wise troops invest in TSP early on). Ask any USAF retiree (Space Force is too new to have those) if they regret their choice. Total compensation is much more than what you see on the pay table and retirement plus Social Security goes a very long way if you chose wisely and bought rural property in a decent area.
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  2284. Russia doesn't realise their bots just make the audience h8 them more. Go cheer on your side so more get fed to the dandelions.
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  2285. Just how bad in general are bottom-feeder shipping outfits and what (guesstimated with all appropriate caveats) volume of shipping is neglected dangerous junk no one sane should permit in their harbors? Humans are not trustworthy (the proudest most sensitive to "face" often the least) creatures and professionalism differs considerably even in so-called first world nations. I'm not ideologically suspiscious. That's a side issue. What do interest me are safe operating practices since safety and quality maintenance cost money which is a major incentive to neglect.
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  2286. Small pedestrian bridges are the perfect use case for prefabricated steel mobile bridging like military Bailey bridges (some from WWII are in use today). They can even be rented. Those can be deployed (often in hours!) while a proper prefab steel bridge is designed. There is no need for exotic construction of pedestrian bridges any more than for a culvert. Since future engineers may read this, consider not doing stupid shit that kills people. The designers of this abortion were proud of themselves until it collapsed. They should be blackballed and never work in the industry. Their evil should follow them for life.
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  2287. I am entertained. Idiocracy was inevitable and the public elected them all.
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  2288. No one is forced to live in NYC. If you are chasing some gold rush then living in the cheapest option makes sense as it's easy to adapt small spaces, but consider that you will never be able to save enough money for a better future unless you luck out and get rich. If the economy tanks you're SOL. I left the metro area decades ago and have no idea why it attracts anyone.
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  2289. Because they are REALISTS who understand blind idealism is profoundly stupid. They understand a country is for ITS OWN people and there is no (real) moral obligation to outsiders. Foolish Westerners treat (their) morality as a suicide pact and are happy to infest then destroy their own societies with cultural enemies. No decent country sacrifices anything for outsiders because their true obligation is to their own people.
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  2290. How is that Sanctuary City workin' out for ya now? Keep votin' Democrat to finish destroying YOUR birthright.
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  2291. Acetylene is much more fun. One might hypothetically make a hole with projectile of choice then wait twenty seconds for a tracer followup. Be far away behind cover.
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  2292.  @Justaguy0111  USSR = "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics". How does anyone get that wrong?
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  2293. Usually nothing if out in good standing as most are, but that's not interesting Youtube fodder.
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  2294.  @cindma  The old one are generally survivors and rather good at making money or they would no longer be in business. I worked for one and met his dealer and salvagebro network. There are always some chumps but some seriously wealthy dealers attend those auctions.
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  2295. Putin is merely a symptom of Russian culture and things will get even worse if he's replaced by someone competent. The evil Russia does in Ukraine is normal Russian behavior, just like the millions of Ukrainians and others previous Russians genocided. Russia is not a good culture with toxic leaders, but a toxic culture self-actualizing as usual. Russia itself is intrinsically evil which is why it has never produced a decent society, just savages who prey on their neighbors including Ukraine. Russia should be imploded with care, its peoples given their right of self-determination, and NATO should forever arm to the teeth to fend off the permanent eastern threat. This is not a temporary problem but perfectly normal Russian behavior. Muscovy delenda est.
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  2296. There is no excuse for making OBVIOUS mistakes then repeating them against repeated examples of failure. Modern war doesn't leave time to fix screwups....unless casualties don't matter. Sailors will die because of Navy incompetence.
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  2297. This was long foreseeable and long foreseen. Follow the money.
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  2298. Louis Rossmann is also helping expose their shenanigans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bTquKjzos
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  2299. Destruction tests should ALWAYS be included because mechanics use tools to get the job done compared to which tool survival is secondary. A screwdriver example is forcing a stubby against a fastener with a pry bar then turning it by visegrip which I and others have done to remove aircraft panel screws in tight locations. Automotive engine bays see all sorts of unconventional fastener removal out of necessity with modern engine compartments being quite cramped and awkward.
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  2300. I discovered a way to never have dealership problems. I don't buy cars from them. Saves satisfying amounts of money too. I buy parts now and then (dealers often have surprisingly reasonable parts prices for minor items) but that's it.
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  2301.  @ewapulawska-wentland3431  It's not possible to raise the entire metro area. It is possible to evacuate or leave (which I did decades ago) for good.
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  2302. Admitting Hungary was a mistake. Kick them out of the EU and let them fellate their hero Putin. Some parts of the East will always be enemy to Western culture and that Hungarians proudly serve Putin while forgetting their heroes of 1956 is laughable. Too bad the EU cannot barter Hungary for Ukraine, because Hungarians are clearly nostalgic for Russian rule.
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  2303. NYC is doing a fine thing sponging up people I have no use for so I approve. Slums and poverty have to be somewhere and Democrat "sanctuary" keeps people I don't need out of my hood. They're self-filtering because they choose to stay and vote Democrat.
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  2304. That never existed, but the old version was composed of fewer populist ignorants. The Southern Strategy was suicide because as we see with the Dems the lower classes are savages best kept away from the franchise.
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  2305. It's unlikely he will pay but more likely his replacement will dispose of the problem.
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  2306.  William McKellips  Russians genocided Ukraine in living memory. Their shills are everywhere, yourself included and your wording is pure and classic Glavset memes straight out of 4chan.
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  2307.  @Jamesxavier-v4x  Because it's very good advice. Most people are afraid to see the world and many Americans rarely travel outside their local area. That's called missing opportunities.... and often money.
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  2308.  @ryancornelius1007  Cool but if you're a Democrat please move elsewhere because red states are for people who care about America rather than destroying it.
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  2309. I find it fascinating that some modern Americans are pro-NeoSoviet. The early Cold War was so long ago and our primary education system has been trash since the 1970s so ignorance is no surprise, but but to support Russia is to support the entity responsible for the entire global Left. When the USSR was first contained no one was naively squalling for an end date because the conflict was understood to be cultural and PERMANENT. Russia has never not been an existential threat to Western civilization. Russia is not European, it is Asiatic and can never share civilized morality. Its victims in eastern Europe from Finland south know the score.
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  2310. A natural outcome of the woke Left Russian subversion built. The only ethical solution for those people is a final one.
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  2311.  @anthonydesisto2328  It wasn't even close but outside WV Americans don't care about labor rights.
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  2312. The US SUBSAFE program was like all safety initiatives "written in blood". A thoroughly professional working culture is required and ignoring that ends badly. Businesses not used to manufacturing to high quality standards far beyond civilian junk may not know how to get consistent, reliable, traceable quality processes. A common mistake is failure to learn from others mistakes.
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  2313. Innocent? Why do we imagine Hamas not universally popular and supported by Gaza?
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  2314.  @fsmprophet8319  They included that. Watch the video.
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  2315. This all begs the question why helos are flying where they are not mission essential. DC is too dense for this much traffic but of course nothing will be done since crashes are few. Ft. Belvoir (and everyone else) have the whole US to train in. Major airports should be restricted to cargo and pax traffic, not little bugsmashers except for locally necessary operations.
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  2316. The real China scandal is that US trade pays the entire cost of the CCP armed forces so not only do the American public pay for our Pacific fleet and the rest of DoD, we pay the entire military budget of the Chinese Communist Party. The ChiCom military budget in 2022 was ~229 billion US dollars. The US trade deficit with China in 2022 was ~382 billion dollars. In China the economy is government controlled and they are integral. Every US dollar into the Chinese economy just arms them for future conquest. That's a real scandal but there's too much money in it for more than domestically popular baby steps to be taken. The US is in the interesting position of having an over-tasked, undermanned. underfunded, under-capitalized Navy in need of reform (impossible as in the rest of DoD due to institutional forces beyond any individual control) while at the same time paying the entire cost of its key opponents armed forces. That is as batshit insane as if we offered to cover Putin's military budget but no one seems to care so it must not matter....
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  2317. (This is not advocacy but observation and mandatory wording as Youtube demands, we live where corporations de-facto limit our expression in attempt to limit our communictions.) It doesn't really blow minds but that wording gets views. The masses are slow to anger but who is really surprised when someone snaps? I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier since everyone with more than one brain cells understands the insurance companies are PREDATORS EXPLOITING A CAPTIVE VICTIM POOL. I have more respect for enemy Jihadists (who after all fight FOR their beliefs) than Americans who rip off every American using their services. All the propaganda against national health care is disinformation and because most Americans read therefore think about (any) complex problems at an ~8th grade level. They are taught by their politicians NOT to blame the enemy! The current system robs each employer instead of ethically spreading the risk. Every American must have health coverage because every human has or will have sickness and injury sooner or later. The American public lose more (it's not even close) of their fellow citizens tomonsters who slay slowly, inexorably, without pity or remorse. Even cattle can be pushed only so far. They know they will always be abused as much as their masters can get away with. Conditioning for decades to submit and only express politically correct, submissive thoughts does not save them because it is not designed too.
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  2318. Why do you imagine their interest is the same as your morality?
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  2319. Citation sorely needed for that one. Ground nukes are a nice tripwire but the US has far more secure SSBN that NK cannot touch.
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  2320. The USAF dropped many Rockeyes and other CBU in Desert Storm. Cluster munitions are wonderful tank, vehicle and troop killers. They also applied CBUs to Iraqi SAM control vans and launchers after HARM from F-4 Wild Weasels shut them down and of course to AAA. Modern SHORAD requires greater standoff but that's easily solved (see Israeli ops in Syria).
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  2321. Then why didn't they win in weeks? Where is their sortie rate? Not that you shills know what that means. Russian missions over Ukraine are basically local flights in airspace they grew up in or near, yet no victory over a poor nation next door.
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  2322. If you buy BMW mechanics will laugh at you behind your back while being greatly enriched. Normalizing ripping off gullible people with more dollars than sense amuses me greatly.
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  2323. NOTE TO VIEWERS THIS IS A STEALTH SPAM THREAD designed to take advantage of simple people. The toxic payload is further down in the posts. Reported since Youtube haven't figured out how to filter these.
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  2324.  @hynsum  Red demons do not however import their own competition.
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  2325.  @fanfeck2844  What do you imagine fascists look like? Do they have horns and a spiked tail? BTW the appropriate term is "Russian ultranationalists". Only simples imagine some struggle for more than power. This is a war over land and for Ukraine, to avoid genocide. Politics is a distant second.
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  2326. APCS should not exist because no army is capable of using them correctly today because they're a fundamentally obsolete idea from the atomic battlefield concept. Every tracked vehicle needs heavy armor, cannon etc to kill drones, APS and full ability to self-defend or it will die on the modern ATGW saturated battlefield. M113 could easily be uparmored to Bradley standards but getting rid of them ends temptation to misuse them which is otherwise proven absolutely inevitable. The size used to be handy but the West can easily airlift much more capable tanks and APCs. Israel and anyone else like Turkey and other global users can and do upgrade M113 and other fossils many of which suit their primitive conditions. Two-stroke diesels and hydromechanical truck transmissions are simple as it gets, but the US is rich enough not to need simplicity more than capability. Wheeled trucks are faster on roads to which modern war is effectively bound as in Ukraine where mud easily immobilizes tracked AFV such that they may as well be trucks since the loss will cost less. ATGW rendered passive armor obsolete and potential opponents will have quantity overmatch (I'm looking at China since Russia is screwed by its own choices). No tracked fighting vehicle lighter than Bradley or Namer makes sense rendering APCs pointless. M113 remains in service thanks to Army incompetence at fielding new fighting vehicles. This war is a glorious chance to dump all obsolete Western equipment just in time for decades of war which will finally (somewhat) empower the few reformers big Army hasn't sidelined into academia where they're entertaining at most. BTW they don't cost more to scrap than sell, they sell as scrap via Govliquidation after being demilled which is nothing since they carry no weapons not effortless to remove. They're so cheap M113 are used for artificial reefs. The US is congenitally unable to either use it wisely or upgrade it so the troops don't hate it so it may as well be rid of the thing. (Apparently reliability is an issue but the thing has basically a medium duty truck engine and gearbox so I suspect indifferent maintenance practices. I've worked on an A2 for a contractor and that model is literally simpler than most modern automobiles. M113 is obsolete for air assault because outside constabulary operations air assault in peer conflict is begging to get MANPADed to oblivion. The "cult of Airborne" is great for morale but like contested beach assaults few want to reenact Arnhem or Hostomel. Airborne leadership never seriously wanted tracks or it would have them since Airborne dominance of the Army is nearly complete and leadership prefer wheeled trucks (and despise tankers, the jokes are bantz at low lever but serious at leadership tier).
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  2327. Trucks and SUVs replaced station wagons which back when they were popular in the US mostly used truck engines and transmissions and often weighed MORE than their truck contemporaries (I've scrapped many vehicles which involves weighing them at the yard's truck scale.) The US market always favored as much space as it could afford. Vehicles may change style but as a mechanic I look at what's under the body. Suburban is the SUV version of the same GVW range pickup truck and they've sold well since many years before CAFE standards. While NEW truck buyers tend to use them as butt jewelry subsequent utilitarian buyers who aren't wealthy tend to have very different use cases. Truck use cases change over multiple owners for the same vehicle. Trucks and SUV have more usable space than station wagons let alone sedans and are more comfortable for big and tall operators like self. While most non-commercial users don't use a truck as I do they're always handy and if you can afford the vehicle you can afford to feed it. If you keep vehicles at least twenty years (easy with trucks thanks to their long production runs) the cost per year is not much. Sedan fans should note the PUBLIC rejected sedans in the US and manufacturers exist to sell in volume to profit stockholders. Like manual car gearboxes, if you want one track one down then keep it for life. The longer you own your ride the lower your operation and maintenance costs per year so put in time to get and keep exactly what you want.
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  2328. It would be unwise to exaggerate the impact of the (relatively) few disgruntled troops since Russia can revert to its customary ways and imprison them (then give them the choice to join Wagner or rot). I understand over-socialized Westerners want to believe in human goodness and similar drivel but Russia never had to play by our rules nor was it so inclined. The Kremlin have Rosgvardia to keep internal order.
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  2329. That's fair since most humans are cretinous on a good day and elections prove it. There is nothing to respect about the typical meatbag behind a wheel. Even trucking companies "churn" novice drivers to cut costs so there are fewer professionals out there than many assume.
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  2330. I have no idea why a Jew would want to live in a Europe which has hated them through recorded history. The US is a far better place to live with a much stronger economy and millions already living there, and of course Israel needs to boost demographic overmatch.
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  2331. If your tire is low or flat, jack the wheel BEFORE inflating so the load on the compressor is reduced! That way you're not fighting the vehicle all the way up.
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  2332. Voting Democrat forever has consequences. The voters CHOSE all this.
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  2333. If Ukrainians and other historic victims of the Russian people can resist the Russian military so can Russians. It's happened before in mutinies leading up to the 1917 revolution. Russian officers cannot punish anyone if they're no longer breathing and grenades being used by both sides are deniable especially at night. Winter will be interesting as under-resourced Russian forces will have less left to loot. Hungry invaders are more vulnerable to hypothermia and exhaustion with greater incentive to surrender. Never forget these "poor unfortunate conscripts" are murdering innocent Ukrainians every day. Boo effing hoo. Russia was (literally) never good. Ask their surviving victims from the former Warsaw Pact.
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  2334. While clickbait is fun if Taiwan managed to take out the dam Beijing can retaliate with a countervalue strike. Taiwanese military spending is absurdly low in proportion to its wealthy corporate economy. TSMC alone could fund half the Taiwan armed forces and make many billions in profit.
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  2335. Vehicles are expendable. That's why mechanics don't get overly attached yet have large fun. I am not my vehicles. I am what I do to which they are accessories.
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  2336. Linus is an ENTERTAINER and a SALESMAN whose teen gamer fanbois want to be monetized. As an adult girded in the armor of contempt I've no interest in his opinions. Adverts are easy malware vectors so I block them for security reasons. My box, my money paying for bandwidth, my rules. In other news driving by a billboard does not confer any obligation to view it and people who want money should paywall their content.
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  2337. Remember the headline is pure clickbait aimed at the vast majority of clueless ignorants who know nothing of naval power projection. That's why there is no useful content. Japan does not have power projection and cannot invade Yemen nor would that make strategic or tactical sense. OTOH sailing west around the problem costs little as there are few Japanese-flagged vessels impacted. FLAGGED and "owned" are different.
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  2338. No American in their right mind would want to live in Oakland. There is no excuse for staying, and the immigrants who locate there should have been warned to avoid California.
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  2339. Used quality tools make things like Snap-on and Proto flare nut wrenches affordable. Hydraulic nuts and fittings are generally much more expensive than generic hardware and having to replace a line because the nut was damaged wastes time and lots more money. That makes quality flare nut wrenches a bargain. Many lines and hoses are unobtainable and must be custom made by local hydraulic shops. When a shop rate is sixty dollars an hour plus parts the expensive wrench becomes dirt cheap. As for Crapsman the person who murdered Sears is to blame for its downfall. The damage Eddie Lampert did was grotesque.
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  2340. Sounds like a Chrome problem. Browsers are free so I have many for convenient compartmentation, but Firefox with various extensions does the job nicely.
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  2341. Good. Fools deserve to lose their money so the rest of us can laugh at them.
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  2342. Neither Israel nor Iran have power projection so other than rocket, missile, drone etc combat neither armed forces matter much. They can blow each other up but humans are trivial to replace in greater numbers than previously.
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  2343.  @MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV  Try a ruck march in snake boots carrying a modern soldier's load. Tall boots of that sort don't breathe nearly as well as for example the classic Viet Nam era jungle boot I wore for many years in the USAF. Tall boots have their place in wet weather etc and I like them for what I do but every bit of weight on the soldiers foot is a considerable burden. That's why modern engineered combat boots are not tall or heavy. Western SF (and their opponents) often wear hiking shoes for mobility because those weigh even less. Likewise Soviet troops wore athletic shoes in A-stan.
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  2344. And nothing of value is lost. Cooking my own chow is not difficult.
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  2345. The lesson is avoid those careers completely. You're competing in a ferocious bucket of crabs which is a bad idea vs choosing a specialty that's necessary to civilization, widely ignored (most of the public are ignorant so take full advantage), mobile and which rewards real experience not HRs BS. Unless you are amazing, why even bother with tech since you can be outsourced anywhere and will never, ever, ever be valued as human.
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  2346. Readers should note there are multiple "stealth spam" posts in this and other threads. If you see a financial advisor recommended by name, especially if the post is not in impeccable English, it's a scam. Many Americans do not read well and are vulnerable. AI isn't quite there yet but the safe way is ignore every name recommended by viewer posts. It would be a public service for Azul to mention this or better yet make it a sticky.
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  2347. Leather can be safely and organically tanned. Failure to do so by third worlders in an utterly corrupt region is not the fault of leather which indigenous peoples worldwide have tanned for millennia. Their culture does not value life and it shows in practice (theory anywhere means nothing). Their masters are killing them for profit.
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  2348. That depends on what SPECIFIC piece of equipment failed and how it failed. The incident report should be interesting.
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  2349. Foreign aid is a waste of taxpayer money. Failed societies chose to fail and should not concern anyone else other than to close border, require national IDs and keep failure from spreading.
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  2350. Wishful thinking in the presence of maskirova theater is hilarious. Russians don't revolt unless there is no food and horrendous (a few hundred thousand is a trifle in serious wars which are not little constabulary actions) casualties by THEIR standards nor Western standards. Expending convicts and minorities the ruling Muscovites prefer destroyed is not the loss it might seem and reinforces the Kremlin's hold on power. Tyrants come and go, but the organs of state and their stakeholders remain. When Putin is gone (he's old and sickly) the replacement will likely be far more dangerous.
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  2351. Democratic VOTERS caused all this and they are the true enemies of freedom in the USA.
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  2352. The deliberate adult choice of supposedly informed people to trust an obvious grifter instead of performing due diligence is hilarious. Blind trust is utterly inexcusable.
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  2353.  @MrKnaives  A-stan belongs to Afghans and the Talibs are far from the most radical contender. Why are you leaving "What the Taliban did..." as an open sentence? What DID they do that should concern outsiders?
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  2354.  @nofilteralltruth  Yes, and unlike you I've studied this sort of thing since childhood (I'm now over 60). The US reason for invading was NOT to fight Taliban but to destroy Al Qaeda units while aiding local client forces. The US did not invade with intent to build a reformed CULTURE which goes against Islam.
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  2355. This is specifically a DEMOCRAT problem, but it does not affect rich Democrats lives.
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  2356. NEGATIVE. Community college trades education pays off especially because most students got dumped there so the motivated ones crush it! Take HVAC. It cannot be outsourced, required equipment fits in a truck or van (which need not be new) and there is constant demand in a warming world. My ex-conbro (got popped for weed and did a dime) makes enough to have paid off his home and collect motorcycles but only does commercial accounts (stores can't afford to lose stock). My fellow machining students are doing nicely working for companies like Becton-Dickenson (I took the class for fun else I'd join them). Mechatronics students have it easy because math and minimal programming filters the stupid. I've never met a decent auto mechanic who didn't have more side work than they could do in a lifetime (though I prefer aviation). Trades can be awesome and the stuff you learn can make you a DIY beast. Community college is basically free via financial aid, Pell grants etc.
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  2357. Our enemies only care to lighten our wallets so I don't care if they're eaten by wolves.
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  2358. I don't chase ideal desktops. That's like distrohopping. Master the command line and the desktop recedes in importance. I don't decorate or rice or even run wallpapers since if I'm at the PC I'm using it not staring at it which is different. The PC desktop is arguably the LEAST important aspect of Linux but rather important to noobs who don't do much but want things to look pretty. I got over distrohopping around 2005 and today nearly any distro is amply functional.
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  2359. China shrugged off the Cultural Revolution. This is merely a speed bump but wishful thinking and hyperbole get views. I'm thoroughly anti-CCP but nonsense serves no wise purpose.
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  2360. What makes copying "theft", legal and logical citations please?
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  2361. Anyone attending Harvard is a Leftist in the first place so this is really Democratic infighting. The people who took over Harvard in the 1960s knew this was coming and made it happen. The group currently offended installed Claudine Day and other Leftists, but did not recognize the implied quid pro quo was not shared by those they installed.
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  2362. Many boomers grew up dirt poor in rural areas and stayed that way for decades. The US isn't all NYC and Frisco.
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  2363. It was an honor to defend West Germany in the 1980s when I was stationed at Sembach. Then as now US forces are an insurance policy against the PERMANENT Russian threat which it's worth reminding dates back to ancient times. Today we see expecting Russia to evolve was a mistake and Putin's attempt to rebuild the USSR (and lest we forget, reconquer the Warsaw Pact!) renews the threat to Germany so withdrawal would have been a mistake. Germany and the rest of NATO really should restore their armed forces to effective levels because they were all gutted. Any Germans doubting this are invited to ask their own military personnel. While pivoting from US bases to contain Russia is in US interest that is also COMPLETELY in German interest. Germans alive when the Red Army was poised to smash through the Fulda Gap understand that threat hence the aid to Ukraine.
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  2364. Diesel bikes are pretty much a waste of except in places like India where they were sometimes produced. The sole reason for military diesel motorcycles (also a waste because they fail to be quads which means no cargo capacity or ability to tow or ability to evacuate wounded troops with a wounded rider) was the Common Fuel Concept which got rid of (extremely dangerous in combat and a monumental logistic asspain) having to supply Mogas to expeditionary units.
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  2365. Jessica should follow her aptitude and work for Brazzers rather than imitate an informed commentator.
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  2366. The US is enormous so what looks like "a bunch" is not an uptick. There are over 330 million Americans so don't think as if the US were a small town. Gas explosions used to be far more common but electric lighting reduced that fire hazard. Natural gas explosions don't happen like they used to, especially in the old days before modern equipment.
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  2367.  @pinecedar180  I served with and supervised a very wide variety of young people in the United States Air Force. It should be remembered young humans of any race are savages at birth and CIVILIZATION IS TAUGHT. Sometimes force is necessary and when comparing backgrounds (G.I.s have countless hours to talk as we work with each other and live closely in barracks and deployed) I observed those who got DESERVED thrashings in youth became competent, capable adults with stable families (the USAF is very much a married force).
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  2368.  @willw8011  My various contractorbros would disagree, and they worked in more hostile environments. Had my back not been bad I'd have made bank joining them.
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  2369. The US Navy demonstrates decades of gross institutional incompetence that would not have been tolerated during say the early Cold War. GAO should place agents in all the armed forces since they proved they cannot be trusted to police themselves or to tell the truth unless cornered. The end of military ethics, heavily corroded during GWOT, is a senior leadership failure of monumental proportions that leadership can never afford to admit for personal career reasons. (The USAF teaches about Billy Mitchell because he tubed his career unrequited, not as an example to inspire other potential martyrs.) The American public permit this because they're mostly (Sal being a noble outlier!) indifferent to civic duty. The American public need to grow up and stop worshiping the military and trusting the armed forces to be competent because ALL humans require TEAM oversight. Public neglect costs lives in war. Veterans do not hallucinate the sun shines out our posteriors and no one else should either. Modular ships can at best only do one thing at a time and the other modules do NOTHING in port. That this idea was not instantly scorned is degenerate. No one will suffer a career hit for such obvious idiocy. The Navy gets away with no oversight because like the rest of DoD no competent civilians OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM exist to ride herd on them. Failure is inexcusable but one is punished because the US armed forces are a self-licking ice cream cone. They failed in A-stan (and lied about it for two decades). They generated a Pyrrhic victory in Iraq. They cannot manage AFV or Naval procurement and aren't very good at aircraft. This is because there is no cost to those in charge for screwing the proverbial pooch.
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  2370. Bakhmut while of modest value strategically is useful by consuming Russian troops and material, both of which are finite assets. The fewer vatniks breathing the better for civilization. Russia is teaching new generations elsewhere this valuable lesson they could not absorb any other way. Putin reunited a weak, feeble and mostly disarmed (US of course excepted) NATO, especially its newest eastern members who are less affected by the Kremlin subversion of leftism.
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  2371.  @pizdaxyu  Shall we remind you of over a century of Russian genocide from Finland southwards? Why do you imagine most of the former Warsaw Pact now support Ukraine?
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  2372. The gap is really an education gap. Lower classes are ignorant and proud of it so they stay poor. They care about things wise men despise, like "clout". They think like children which in an adult is degenerate. The average human is not intelligent and resents wisdom so they get what they get. When you make MEDIAN income that income is "middle class" in areas which are not disproportionately expensive to live in (so I don't live there). Want to succeed? Plan EVERTHING and have a fallback plan designed to mitigate YOUR mistakes. Plan your entire life. Don't have kids, there is no reason to other than hormonal craving and children keep people poor. Do focus ruthlessly on making everything you do useful. That included hobbies because there is no reason to waste the same amount of effort and resources on trifles. Instead make your hobbies empowering (learn to DIY and you can eventually repair and maintain nearly everything you own as I do, and I'm not special) and profitable. That lets you live comfortably BELOW your means. Half my income is completely discretionary and I have no debt. Getting there was easy and fun.
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  2373. The expensive locations were well worth avoiding decades ago (so I did). Cities are bad so I don't live in one. I could never have afforded ten acres in New Jersey.
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  2374. Squatting in a private residence is HOME INVASION and should be legal to repel with hot lead if the perp refuses to leave INSTANTLY. Trespassing after being ordered to leave should be a felony. The US is collapsing because we do nothing about crime and our laws favor criminals over good hardworking citizens.
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  2375. BTW instead of speaking almost extempore if you draft your narration first then read from that, the result will be much more polished and your narrative will flow more clearly.
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  2376. Heaters are for comfort and preventing freeze damage to home pipes. CLOTHING and sleeping bags are for survival. That means more than one pair of good boots (how about a rubber boot test since those are common on farms and better than leather to keep feet dry) , multiple pairs of good wool socks, a parka (still have my USAF parka and pants which I Scotchgard heavily) and multiple pairs of quality cold weather gloves (I often use stick welding gloves since I get spares in advance as gloves are consumable).
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  2377. No one who is not participating in combat or living in that combat zone has any excuse for "fatigue". I find it hilarious that outsiders know nothing about the decades required to contain the Soviet version of the Russian empire the first time, but global primary education appears to be broken. The US system certainly has been for decades.
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  2378. WANT to pay? Non-technical humans just go with the proffered default and non-techies don't know how to pirate. (Neither do some techies, but they're odd creatures I've not figured out.)
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  2379. Ex-husband is free and I hoist a virtual beer to him. Social media is wonderful because it exposes moids for what they are.
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  2380. Even heavy aircraft maintenance and repair can be dispersed to multiple locations if someone thinks to do it. Nearly any fighter component can be repaired or replaced in the field. Engine R&I dollies and aircraft jacks are pretty basic and easy to transport. RAF Gutersloh left a mobile maintenance setup on lorries in the 1980s to immediately drive off-base when if war broke out. Wise Ukrainian aircraft maintenance officers will obtain duplicate technical orders and as much duplicate equipment and test equipment as practical then disperse it. Nearly all fighter maintenance equipment items will fit in a box truck and commercial cranes can be used for heavy lifting. ABDR trailers are simple and cheap to equip too.
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  2381. It would make more sense to escape Jersey as I did long ago. Housing prices have generally risen but that in no way means every house or lot everywhere. People get frustrated but methodical hunting (and DIY skills or willingness to have fun learning them) pay off. Living in your car is for the young and those working on the road because it doesn't end well as soon as age and infirmity take hold. I never make financial decisions out of passion. The whole point for many like my parents was to live in Jersey then cash out and escape in retirement so they did, but they avoided following the herd (because most humans aren't very bright) and retired in affordable rural areas. There are plenty of those remaining but most people unwisely want to live where everyone else does. I chose otherwise.
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  2382. I would because I'd sell or trade it for something I've use for like a backhoe. Trucks are just money manifested in metal.
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  2383. Yuck Foutube, like AOL the sooner it dies the better.
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  2384. The US needs to return to the old arsenal system for more military manufacture. WWII is proof.
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  2385.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Singapore is rich, comfortable and SAFE because they run an efficient surveillance state. America is a disaster because the public in many areas approve of and constantly commit violent crimes. They need watching and video doesn't lie.
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  2386.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Recording PUBLIC acts which have zero expectation of privacy in the first place infringes no liberty.
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  2387. If they don't like brick and mortar stores closing they should shop online.
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  2388. Russia cannot take Kiev despite expecting to in days. Those of us who remember the USSR know projection is standard Russian behavior which will not end with Putin, either. What sort of cretin would believe anyone whose military is that grossly neglected and under-equipped? Russia may as well empty Kubinka at the rate they're going.
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  2389. One thing is not like the other but if you can only comprehend political feelings then the pragmatic reasons for keeping crew aboard may be difficult to parse. The ship is still an operational system requiring the crew to be present. Ships are not just long troughs full of boxes, and each has complex systems which is why they're crewed sufficient for 24/7 human monitoring and operation of those systems. When the vessel is towed to a repair berth or a drydock then it can be shut down.
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  2390. Those who care in the US can add a 240V circuit (electric stoves and ovens already use one) with an outlet where desired and run 240v resistance heater devices like kettles where the phase difference doesn't matter. I don't leave a kettle going because I'm not constantly drinking coffee, but for that sort of thing many in the US use coffee machines like Bunn make. Large electric percolators are common but less so in homes. The military often has large electric coffee urns in workcenters. The rise of energy drinks is also a factor. The only reason to drink coffee or tea is the stimulant effect and there are many types of legal "speed".
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  2391. A good way to gauge a location is if you can afford to retire there and own your land and the home on it. Many could throughout history. Things were much worse in the 1970s and only ancient people remember those days.
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  2392. Not since she had a paper trail.
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  2393. What did those dead fools have in common? No one forced them to be drunks or junkies.
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  2394. Russia deserves payback for Ilovaisk and in any case will spin any mercy as a Ukrainian defeat. Putin and Russia do not think like members of civilized cultures and must be manipulated based on their perceptions.
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  2395. Faux News key marker is "boomer affirmation" (the dominant group in every generation are morons and morons spend money). Masculine men are smart and taking no shit is strength. If modern so-called women object to a male trait, embrace that trait! Never, ever forget the men who truly understand females make their entire living from that understanding. That's why being a (real, criminal) pimp is generally illegal. Study and learn how those successful men socially engineers females by affirming them while not hesitating to DISCIPLINE them. Everything other people DO NOT WANT YOU TO BE has an ulterior motive.
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  2396. Turtle tanks are used to carry infantry riding desant and the Cope Shed is a predet cage, not "armor" in any useful sense for the infantry beneath it. Cope Sheds act by detonating HEAT etc weapons at standoff distance from the tank hull. Remember WHY bar and cable (QinetiQ etc) works by disrupting shaped charge warheads? Remember why solid flat surfaces do NOT disrupt HEAT munitions? If Private Desantovich is inside that standoff distance he bravely defends the tank hull with his body, like the rubber sheet in reactive armor except rubber sheets don't die screaming. This is so gobsmackingly obvious few people notice it, especially armor enthusiasts and gamers because it's got that Warhammer Ork style smekalka vibe.
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  2397. The public are increasingly tech-illiterate (the computer age didn't really change automotive literacy from the era of points and carbs when I started wrenching) and fail to demand anything more than Shiny Features. They deserve everything that chosen ignorance and passivity gets them. They CHOSE TO REWARD unaffordable feature-bloat and that's exactly what they got. Vehicle theft will be even more profitable.
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  2398. Scrap it and put a bronze "We're full. GO HOME" sign in its place. Perpetual expansion is responsible for the decline in quality of life over the past few decades including gross urban overcrowding and having far more people than jobs. Do we not have enough poor Americans already?
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  2399. Multiple small wars do not equal a "world" war, just what used to be normal business before WWII created a brief bipolar world. Why do military illiterates so desperately crave to label everything as a "world" war to be?
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  2400. Do you plan to stick a suitable vent in that open hole so future rain doesn't have a straight shot into the gearbox? A bead of epoxy on the outside should be sufficient if there are no threads remaining. What spare parts do you bench stock that you know you will use? Are there too many varieties of well pumps and components on your leases to make getting deep on spares worth it? I'm extremely lazy so I keep spares for anything I expect to work on in the future (which paid off during current inflation). Parts won't get cheaper so I always keep an eye out for anyting I can buy opportunistically.
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  2401. Anything not mounting hard-kill APS is gonna do a VDV impression on future battlefields. Nice ARMORED CAR but even constabulary operations/global love coercion will be up against shooters with better than RPG 7s and homebrew IED.
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  2402. Then why am I comfortable at a low income with my cheap old home on cheap rural land I own free and clear? CHOOSING WISELY doesn't SEEM to exist anymore, but people do. Learn only useful things, have only useful interests, focus on learning life skills from DIY to financial planning, and do not live in expensive areas. The whole US is not Florida or CA or NYC. People have choices when they''re young so make the right ones. They are all obvious but folks don't listen. My disabledbros own their lots and trailers too. They ain't pretty but that isn't important to an adult mind. Efficiency and saving money are. Copy success while learning from other peoples mistakes.
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  2403. I'm on the side of adults who do not consider "large" wars as "world' wars but that's a great way to get views so carry on. Having lived through most of the early Cold War (which of course never ended) I'm fine with continuing containment. The early Cold War is not called a "world" war though contention was widespread.
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  2404. Or be able to cut them down which I did for dirt cheap. I fell large trees, let them dry out over a few months (I wisely chose to live in farm country) then they're easy to cut up and dispose of. Trees anywhere near a house are a bad idea as the poor souls they kill or injure during storm season find out the hard way.
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  2405. It's horrible to have no provision for flashing off the vehicle like the older LS computers you can do with a home made bench harness and an OBDX USB adapter.
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  2406. He's still rich and has enough for life. He should come out supporting roids. Jocks have to roid to succeed and compete. People may as well juice. It's better to be strong and die younger since old age is all bad.
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  2407. They're not needed for this operation so why would that matter? It's a short trip across part of the Med, not evac'ing Saigon.
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  2408. Buried tanks cannot be properly inspected and are best avoided which is why I don't and would never have one. BTW a portable 500 gallon tank etc can be connected to the house easily enough while awaiting resolution. Propane is a painfully expensive way to heat but useful as backup so that is all I use my one small aboveground tank for, and should I tire of that I can have the company haul it off or even deliver it to them myself as I've a suitable trailer.
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  2409. It's sad that my poorbros have paid-off cheap vehicles they bought long ago and still drive quite happily while people who make much more money waste that money being foolish. I'm far from wealthy myself but like them I chose to learn to wrench and have never had to sweat choosing, buying, repairing or maintaining a vehicle in my life. Neither did they because they understood ya gotta harden up young and learn to take care of yourself. These gents also own their own humble homes and land because they wisely chose not to live in expensive areas, there being no excuse for wanting to unless one is rich. All I did was learn from wiser men by supplying my own determination. Women can do likewise (my wife was a skilled helicopter and fixed-wing mechanic). It's sad that people tolerate their own ignorance and have no shame about it. They tolerate having useless interests, useless hobbies and tolerate their own substitution of distractions for self improvement. There is plenty (I contend much more!) fun to be had by expanding what one can do to be less dependent on others. My bros are all country lads who even if they didn't have great parents were expected to handle their business, so they did.
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  2410. The only reason to "date" is sex and that's easy enough to pay for without putting a house on top of a ho.
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  2411. That does suggest home invasion is not a good idea.
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  2412. Conservative men go to church not the bar scene or online.
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  2413. These senior management droids have no reason not to consume companies because companies exist for SHORT TERM PROFITS. They're no better than health care CEOs... BTW none of this excuses delicate trash designs because every design is an informed choice. When Ford closed Mahwah the writing was on that long-ago wall so I avoided the auto industry which cannot be considered secure employment. Consolidation has been the rule since before WWII.
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  2414. When that's what you have, that's what you use. If all you had was a BB tow would you not try to bust a "metal bunker" given no alternative?
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  2415. I give up nothing because all my devices are tools not toys. My possessions exist to support my opportunities not distract me from them. Unlike personal computers no phone has good ergonomics which must be sacrificed for size and mobility. At home mine is charging at my PC workstation so if I'm sent anything worth reading I use scrcpy to bring it up on a virtual desktop. Phones distract the weak but used productively are very useful tools.
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  2416. I go back many decades and that saying is correct. The British auto industry built beautiful junk, died then the brands were bought by adults but their QC is questionable.
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  2417. A kid cheering on Black football players because he admires them is obviously the opposite of racist. Holy sh1t that's stupid.
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  2418. Those Marines just met the real enemy, but command won't have their back so never imagine otherwise.
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  2419. Why would anyone not a radical Leftist go to Columbia in the first place? Nothing about Columbia makes going there an intelligent call. It fell to subversives before anyone attending today was born.
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  2420. The p3d0 elite cannot be removed by legal methods because they own the legal system.
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  2421. OPSEC by Hamas until the actual attack which was not very complex. Don't tell anyone outside senior leaders and nothing can leak outside senior leaders. Building weapons for years is one thing, giving the attack orders another WITHOUT USING RADIO OR COMPUTERS OR PHONES. Wars before them didn't need them after all and the raid was basic enough.
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  2422.  @dudebro91-fn7rz  Impressive to aviation illiterates who get excited like children and other lesser creatures. Tomcat is a very large radar reflector built long before that mattered which makes it SAM and AAM bait let alone F-35s it won't even track. Iran has no power projection because it has no aerial tankers.
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  2423. The IAF have F35s and aerial tankers. Iran has no tankers and no stealthy fighters. This is incredibly difficult to understand for aviation illiterates but jets require aerial refuel for power projection or hot gas quits coming out the back followed shortly by either ejection or a manned hole-digging event.
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  2424. The US armed forces should have much stricter replacement criteria for worn weapons and they'd be under less pressure to replace systems. Measuring metal is simple and easy, with every possible mechanical gauge style well established. That the US would ever HAVE worn rifles in stock is absurd. If it's not within new specs scrap and replace.
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  2425. Millions of dollars? I'd at least consider one street over the border into another town unless being from Paterson already netted millions of dollars.
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  2426. Many landscapers already use electric and the majority of such tools are used by homeowners I had my shoulder replaced so no more pull ropes. I healed but haven't used my gas saws since. I've dropped MANY trees larger than my Makita and DeWalt are really intended for and they work great. I keep my gasses because they're paid for but don't really have a use case for them. Next saw will be an electric Stihl.
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  2427. ​ @stevenmike1878  Evidence doesn't support that. California makes more money than any other state by doing it right but scamming idiots lose money being stupid. SVB did it wrong because bankers treat their job like playing the ponies. Unprofessional investors get spanked. I'm greatly amused.
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  2428. I laughed at the ARM offers I got in the mail before 2008 hit. If they'd been in person I'd have politely invited the salespuke to throat me to the nuts. I paid off my humble rural acreage I still own free and clear and quite enjoy my well-earned military retirement. Younger people reading this should never ever ever forget for a second that the world is a very bad place and always will be. Good times permit wise men to brace for impact. This would be an ideal time to enlist in the Air Force as I did in the 1981 recession. Forget following your dreams unless you are one stone cold pragmatic motherfucker. Take your inner child behind the barn like Ol' Yeller and headshot that bitch.
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  2429.  @lamontmoore654  I remember when truckers had more and more effective unions. That's gone and not coming back with foreign drivers, automation and the whole bucket of crabs race to the bottom on compensation.
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  2430. Nah. When the cops used to be basically part of organized crime (some detectives even did mob hits and Frank Serpico got set up and had to move to Europe for telling the truth about corruption) NYC still kept on. Nothing these days a even close the '70s/'80s body counts but a new soft group came in and are in shock. NY Democrat VOTERS chose this so they deserve it. There is no reason to want to live in NYC and hasn't been for a good couple centuries. It's valuable harbor where generations fell off the boat and those too lazy or afraid to enter the rest of the US stayed and decayed. I left over forty years ago when the area was obviously becoming crowded, overtaxed and unaffordable but I visit old buds who who lacked the imagination to leave. They're finally retiring and cashing out but had to suffer for decades to do that. To stay is to volunteer for victimhood. If NY goes back to crime-ridden normal the smart people can afford to leave and the rich can either leave or pay guards. What remains are chumps who stayed. They'll rob and mug each other just like the past. No one should be surprised.
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  2431. Write a political statement on a set or mould in an American flag then if ticketed sue because your right to free speech by plastic yarbles was violated.
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  2432. Good luck to the separatists but a culture too passive to revolt against the Crown is unlikely to do much more than grumble. Canada and the US are really too large to be single nations but that arrangement benefits the rich. Fear of change keeps them as they are. In both the eastern elites utterly despise those not them.
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  2433. Russia burning through people it wants gone anyway is older than the 1917 revolution. Criminals and non-Muscovites are completely disposable and their loss has little effect on the home front. Russia has one advantage in that Russian casualties do not matter to anyone outside their families if they have any. Expending gullible rurals is a feature not a bug. Bonus for Western civilization is fewer Russians since Russia cannot reform. It cannot reform because it destroys its own intelligentsia while whoever runs the Kremlin loots the place. This has never been different. Meanwhile Russia's victims are watching and waiting. When Chechnya eventually revolts things will be quite amusing. Kadyrov won't live forever.
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  2434. Youtube and social media say everyone is broke but that's for the views. If you have nothing to lose do something drastic and roll the dice, don't follow the herd because the herd are not intelligent. For example try a job or career that instantly takes you away from where you are. As for college and everything else the way forward is leading a RUTHLESSLY planned life. If someone says "follow your dreams" that's really just sabotage unless you dream wisely. If you're not a felon or medically/mentally disqualified the military is an instant career with comfy benefits and a very early vested retirement that's worked a treat for millions (ign ore memes and don't join the Army). The Merchant Marine is another option. Look for ways out that are NOT what your peers do since they haven't lived long enough to have a clue. Choose aggressive change. Being a company truck driver isn't easy but it can pay nicely if you go OTR.
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  2435. The thing to do with recent German autos is SELL them. Used car dealers are not romantics and don't pay much for them at auction. The days of elegant German engineering in cars and bikes are long gone and what's left is mostly image. The lot I worked for traded any we got to a specialist who had the right "aspirational" market for the things (people without new Merc money who wanted to front). There are two kinds of car buyers, mechanics and the clueless. We all make mistakes as no one's perfect and many vehicles have an image not matching reality. If in doubt ask used dealers with no dog in the fight what to avoid. It's often best to part out such vehicles and let the masochists (there is someone for every car) spend their money while you drive something else.
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  2436. Russia is existential enemy to European civlization so the only losses who matter are Ukrainians, allies and the microscopic number of DISSENTING Russians. Conformity is not courage.
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  2437. Because large drones are force-loss multipliers. "Low and slow" is for opponents without an air force and it will take a while for those outside the US armed forces to figure out constabulary operations are not analogs to semi-peer combat or combat against opponents who own some competitive systems. Noobs adore dramatic aerospace vehicles but war is about efficiently destroying the enemy. One bullet kills an elephant but does next to nothing against killer bees.
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  2438. I wouldn't think that because it's not a large bomb, just a steel can quite capable of dampening any internal detonation of its remaining munitions if any. The world doesn't revolve around diverting real money and real people to retrieve every artifact to entertain plebs.
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  2439. Their target demographic always had more dollars then sense but I'm glad they exist so I can buy at reasonable prices years down the road when all malfunctions and defects become well understood by mechanics (I am one) and aftermarket parts/upgrades manufacturers. I don't buy new trucks because that (except for business or if you're too rich to care in which case good for you) that is normally an amazingly bad financial choice vs paying off your home and/or investing for retirement.
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  2440. Given the US only uses our armed forces for constabulary wars of choice the more circumstantial deterrence to misbegotten stupidity by our civilian "leadership" (political hacks all be they Demublican or Repocrat) the better. While the US abandoning NATO is a start, dying so Taiwan can get rich selling us chips isn't the brightest idea and should be next on the budget chopping block.
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  2441. You're another Russian shillposter and not very good at it so if your supervisor reads this, give the lad a Moisin and a ride to the front.
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  2442.  @danielch6662  The region itself is hostile and non-state actors have drones and missiles. "Bases" are not interchangeable.
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  2443. That's why I never rent to poor people because they think someone owes them a home. They didn't fail at life by being smart or responsible or disciplined. I'm no longer a landlord since I don't need the stress and that's two homes permanently repurposed out of the market. Punishing landlords because tenants failed (there are many who have NOT lest we forget, the majority do pay their debts) is nonsense. If I had to I'd sell to Blackrock out of spite. Plenty of tenants blew their COVID bucks on everything BUT rent. Not my problem.
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  2444. The video would be TAKEN DOWN by Youtube and NO ONE could see it. Do you not understand Youtube is censored? Youtube belongs to Google not the public and their staff are extreme leftists.
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  2445. The US primary school educational system has been (mostly) a disaster since the 1970s. This shows how that worked out....
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  2446. The incompetence of governments and CULTURES is the problem. This problem is permanent.
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  2447. A kitchen knife, long steel ruler or other shim releases vacuum nicely. Truckers figured this out long ago. No need to overthink it.
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  2448. They wisely prefer to retain SOVEREIGNTY over their land and people. The EU is not improving as it expands elsewhere. The last fellow who wanted to unify Europe required a world war to stop. Why enable the tyranny of a collective? The further political power spreads the weaker the individual vote! EU membership gradually disenfranchises individuals by diluting the value of each vote.
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  2449. That requires manufacturing the conversion parts and custom parts are labor-intensive requiring skilled welders, machinists, factory space, equipment, consumables, logistics to support all that etc.
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  2450. Keep voting Democrat and do not move out of state. This paradise is as your ELECTED leaders made it.
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  2451. Total tolerance leads to the most intolerant ruling the roost over people who were too weak to gatekeep. I find it hilarious.
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  2452. CA was better before tech. It was beautiful and far more affordable. Tech made many people rich and rightly so, but it cost California quality of life for the next century at least.
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  2453. Russia has worked hard to kill millions of humans who merely wanted to be free of Kremlin domination. This very mild turnabout is more than richly deserved. Millions of Ukrainians were murdered. imprisoned and exiled over more than a century and that methodical genocide continues... Russian weapons killed tens of thousands of US troops alone. Russia is an enemy society to secular democracy, not a society with a temporary enemy administration. Russia systematically killed its intelligentsia and culled or drove all effective opposition into exile. The only unfortunate aspect of Russian military losses is there are not nearly enough of them and most appear to be expendable minorities while Muscovites avoid mobilization.
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  2454. How many years have you been commercially overhauling transmissions and how many miles is a typical Toyota CVT service life? It's often difficult to find CV-specific expertise.
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  2455.  @Roxxelana  So become AGGRESSIVE. Aggression is necessary to protect rights and liberties. Passivity is degenerate. Learn to enjoy social combat and to hate evil! Modern social fashion should be ignored because most people are idiots. Piss on conformity. Stand your ground.
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  2456. Taxing vehicle fuel is regressive and punishes the working class who if anything drive more than the rich. The public want cannabis which is vastly safer then traditional alcoholic drugs. Capitalism abhors a vacuum.
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  2457. Scummy as it can be. Sports fans (real ones) want their team to make a damn profit and if they're a little butthurt they do the grownup (not the entitled mental child) thing and take one for the team. If it were a degenerates-only event it would be celebrated. A gift pass could be a "register to win" deal where the entrants sign up online which permits market surveys and targeted advertising making the team more money at zero fan cost.
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  2458. Everybody dies and the only good death is a quick one. I don't want an audience at all after attending other dying. Other people do not comfort me. My wealth does not need to exist after me. All is change. Nothing is permanent. Accept reality.
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  2459.  @aw0422  This is America. Of course not. The public are too proudly ignorant to run a Republic and our elections are proof. So is our foreign and military policy.
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  2460. Talibs are religious conservatives. The Left are not. Talibs are fiercely nationalist. The Left hate the society they live in. Talibs offered to negotiate the fate of Al Qaeda. Bush ignored them due to inablity to tell one from another. American political and military leadership incompetence are far worse problems than Taliban. That's why nothing was learned from Viet Nam and nothing will be learnt from A-stan. If Americans could not be bombed out of being Christian why would a Talib submit to anti-Islamic social changes some American decided was a good idea? US problems are self-inflicted.
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  2461. Stupid title typical of Firstpost. Do its viewers really believe this drivel? AirBNB is vile. Ban it for the good of communities.
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  2462. If you live in Denver sell your house to Blackrock out of spite then take the cash and buy better somewhere else.
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  2463. ICE fires abound too. (Ford cruise control kickoff Kapton diaphragm, Ford ignition switches, GM ignition switches etc). Leaving harnesses CONSTANTLY HOT is easy on designers but not too bright from a safety POV. Never forget the craven desperate greed behind the used vehicle industry outside the US. Expecting professionalism from bottom feeder shipping outfits is absurd. It must be enforced in a manner where PEOPLE not businesses are punished. Pull the batteries. Salvage yards do. It is not rocket surgery. ICE, hydbrid, BEV, whatever. Yank them and store in containers such that the containers can be jettisoned over the side. Simple racks and latches can be remote controlled turning containers packed with batteries into "rectangular depth charges". This is not exotic, it's basic fab. A ship loaded with auction junkers is begging for fire UNLESS the batteries are removed which they can be. Vehicles can be loaded by a warehouse tug fitted with common wheel lifts as used on wreckers or wheel lift forklift attachments. The second requires nothing but COTS components. The reason I mention this is it's not going to happen because shippers don't care (or they'd already be doing it).
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  2464.  @Ginger_scrapz  Not every state has that stupid law. Wise are those who verify what applies.
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  2465. The German submarine commander rescuing two Sailors and radioing the base at Queenstown was an act of a more chivalrous age. Chivalry in WWII would get U156 attacked despite towing lifeboats from Laconia.
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  2466. Russia in any form is enemy to civilization and opposed secular democracy long before its incompetent degenerate monarchy got what it deserved for losing the war to the Kaiser. Russia should be economically excommunicated and collapsed. This war is an opportunity in many ways. Ukraine can take just revenge on Russia which murdered millions of Ukrainians since Bolshevik times and bleed the enemy to exhaustion. The few Russian dissenters are irrelevant (the majority promptly beat, jail or kill them) and should flee to the West as Russian does not have any cultural basis for valuing individual people so it will never change. Russia should be dismantled like Yugoslavia and assimilated peacefully. Russians should understand no one wants to invade their third world s1te3hole for the same reasons Russia should not want to invade Ukraine.
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  2467. People worthy of trust should be GLAD to be tested and want the test results public. BTW ignore anyone with danger hair because like other toxic species they're warning you off.
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  2468. Worth noting most fascination with small arms is because you can actually own them. Any common recent battle rifle at this point is "good enough" because artillery, bombs, rockets and missiles actually do most of the killing. Guns are great fun though and one can never own too many. The variations between protagonist battle rifles don't lose or win battles but good hardware is satisfying.
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  2469. White folks elected Eric Adams. He may not be the Jesus they need but he's the one they deserve.
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  2470. To be fair the whole mall business model needed to end because driving vehicles to buy things is absurdly wasteful of time, money and fuel. Malls were born of logistic convenience in an era of terrible communications limited to voice calls and fax. Printed catalogs and slow ordering by phone or mail made locally stocked malls attractive but today they are a waste of time and even getting there is expensive and polluting. This isn't devastation, just positive change leaving old structures of only symbolic value. Repurpose or demo them and their land is free for other uses including residential which can support small, right-sized dispersed grocery stores and other businesses which require public-facing retail. Spending several hours to examine goods then pay for them then transport them (even if you have a truck or SUV) always irked me and millions of others. Today when I want an appliance I can compare prices and user reviews online. Before the internet user reviews did not exist in a meaningful way because print media was so limited and Consumer Reports not every good. Now when I want something it shows up with little fuss on my doorstep or in my mail box. I'm old too and what I see is people missing their youth. I don't and take full advantage of progress.
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  2471.  @iarmycombo5659  It was HIS responsibility to know to get better tech data including directly contacting authorities regarding MRAP (or any specialty cargo) securement. Inexperience is reason to be much more thorough rather than lazily accept defaults and not know what you're doing. I'm an A&P and fixed USAF combat aircraft for 26 years (and also have what should be common sense) and I would not have made that mistake. Anyone in that position should have studied theory of operation and know to ask for more info if in doubt. I built plenty of USAF pallets (including of course straps and netting) securing all sorts of equipment and even the newest young Airman knows to elevate questions instead of assume. He was sloppy and evidently didn't care enough to understand what is obviously a safety-critical task.
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  2472.  @markkuuss  There are plenty of cargo chains available for the asking at any military airlift location and they can be gotten from Supply if the civilians lacked sufficient. Government furnished equipment can be hand receipted too. It was a solvable problem.
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  2473. How common are broken anchor flukes? The anchor was recovered and the fractured area doesn't reflect quality construction.
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  2474. Climate control doesn't run unless the truck has an APU. The engine is not "rev'ing", it is IDLING which turns the alternator providing electricity, and provides climate control via HVAC.
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  2475. Agreed which is why I promptly reinstalled LTS instead. Few Ubuntu users have any real need for bleeding edge versions (and they can run those in virtual machines instead of on bare metal) so best for most is to use LTS as a stable host.
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  2476. Every worker is part of the economy. Rent-seeking parasites do NOT ADD VALUE. Commuting is obscenely polluting, financially wasteful, time-wasting and otherwise a spectacularly bad idea for everyone but those who feed off commuters like lampreys. Last I looked I've precisely ZERO legal obligation to hand MY money to the transportation industry, motor vehicle industry, office space rental business, retail urban food business etc etc. While WFH offends otherwise useless managers who crave self-justifying office empires they are a COST center and their superiors should take note. Close the office, fire the deadweight and with WFH everyone wins.
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  2477. She chose her fate when she chose her location and who she votes for. Looks like user error. I don't live there and don't have those problems. I do live where the African-American population are considerable but most are solid church-going citizens who work hard and fear God. Too bad those kind and decent Americans don't make the news.
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  2478. Why would anyone permit themselves an unsupported opinion without data to back it up?
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  2479. You do not stay poor for generations by being intelligent, self-disciplined or righteous. Being born poor is one thing, but if you are still poor at say 35 it's YOUR fault. Education is free if you choose to learn to read (and watch videos by the Conservative Twins).
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  2480. "Influencers" should never forget being clowns does not protect them. When you are physically weak and unarmed you are completely defenseless and no one has "rights" in the Western sense outside Western civilization. Know where its boundaries end and stay where you belong. Other areas may be interesting but there is nothing to see in the world you cannot download.
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  2481.  @tedteddington6223  Any "solution" must make Russia unable to resume military operations with any expectation of useful results. The only lasting solution is the collapse of Russia and freedom for the remainder of its empire. There are no short-term fixes that won't facilitate Russian rearmament. Russia is interesting because its culture is ontologically toxic for everyone below boyar status (and boyars have to avoid windows, Novichok and show trials). Moderns have trouble understanding Russia because they're oversocialized and taught comforting beliefs which happen to be deliberate lies. Russia was enemy to secular democracy before Communism existed and is existential enemy to Europe. Russia is not some "good nation with toxic leaders" as children crave to believe. Russia is intrinsically evil only capable of producing evil systems so those are all it has ever had and can ever have. Lenin, Stalin and Putin are perfectly normal products of Russian culture (one need not be of technically Russian birth to absorb its culture). Ukraine must not only survive but break Russia or Russia will enslave Ukraine yet again and continue its ongoing genocide. Muscovy delenda est.
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  2482. Rich people problems.
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  2483. Calling the NG indicates the politicians are idiots who don't understand policing or the Guard, but the troops should be getting phat per diem for putting up with the stoopid. Civilians, especially Democrats, no longer understand the armed forces so this particular Stupid Gesture is just for show. The main difference and the reason as a vet I would PREFER military patrols is anyone can get hired as a cop in Democrat-run cities while the ANG really do get decent training and are under the UCMJ. Unlike the cops they don't have a union to fight for them if they screw up. Kudos to the troops but this is not what they're for and even in the 1970s NYC handled its own business. The public today are weak scared clowns not near as tough as of old so they vote Blue and get what that invites.
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  2484. The way for to have political representation that matters is to join the party of your choice so your opinion matters. Elections are swayed by very small margins.
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  2485.  @deanjustdean7818  It would be a morally satisfying strategic disaster. Strategy demands what it demands and there can be no moral obligation to a counterproductive strategy.
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  2486. "Everybody" is really mostly CCP shills who are either nationalists or paid troll farms.
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  2487. Airlines want serfs to exploit. New pilots like new truckers often get less respect than a used condom. Ask them if you doubt this. Aviation should be a meritocracy run by aviationists or you get Boeing where customer lives don't matter (McDonnell management should have been laid off not absorbed).
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  2488. ^Wisdom. True marrriage requires DEDICATION and DETERMINATION.
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  2489. Timeshares are fool bait. Pay for a hotel then go home. Another gross waste is an expensive RV most of which are yard art for a few years until the senile owner sells it or it sinks into the ground. Spend on the EXPERIENCE of travel instead. Burning money late in life is dangerous.
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  2490. Kings get to leave a legacy. Hose, not so much.
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  2491. When you figure out why (often African-American) Democrats are actively supporting (mostly African-American) demons doing the Klan's work for them, you will understand the Democratic party.
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  2492. Americans USED to object to Soviet conquest. I was alive then. I don't much respect the modern sort and had no personal part in their choice to be historically and socially and militarily illiterate because they prefer trifling amusements. When the US stood for something both sides of the aisle resisted world Communism. Now spite matters more to a significant number of ignorant rustics who imagine they're patriots.
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  2493. And nothing of value is lost.
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  2494. What is your relevant personal military aviation expertise in maintenance and Supply on either aircraft? Why do you imagine they would somehow conflict when individual bases have supported multiple aircraft types since the dawn of aviation?
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  2495. (More) jobs used to be amazingly terrible by modern standards. That's what drove collective bargaining in the first place. I was alive then. What observably changed is the collapse of the US primary education system. Ignorant workers are easy to manipulate. That's a key reason employers locate in states which don't protect them. I live not far from the famous Enersys plant which was shut down to stop organized labor's spread. The wise move is choosing a career not dependent on collective bargaining unless you're IBEW, Local 798 etc with a strong union. The reason to avoid careers dependant on collective bargaining is your fellow citizens are not reliable stewards of your fate.
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  2496. Until an EV that is FUNCTIONALLY SUPERIOR in all ways to gassers is offered there is little reason to own one. Buying a new car is for people with money to waste or who don't know any better and confuse credit with wealth. I'm glad the tree huggers have their toys but I buy what serves my needs.
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  2497. WVs beautiful geography makes it unsuitable for most economic growth because those gorgeous mountains make logistics (especially in winter) a challenge. That's why only mining (and moonshining, and growing weed which should be legal so WV can cash in on the revenue for what happens anyway) throve their. Then fracking killed off much of the coal demand. (If you want to see why natgas is so much cheaper to burn than coal compare the maintenance between a coal-fired boiler and a natgas fired boiler). OTOH development would ruin WV like everywhere else it touches and the poor would only get higher taxes and more government intrusion.
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  2498. Awesome! Defending people who actually WANT the help and don't play Green on Blue BS is a wonderful change from the fools errand of exporting secular democracy to superstitionist savages who never wanted it in the first place. I quite enjoyed my time in USAFE in the early Cold War and this is actually a fine time to enlist (because of the way personnel and careers work). Were I not retired I'd try like hell to get orders anywhere in NATO (special duty assignments in little host bases run by other services are rare but ideal).
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  2499. That's just an excuse to be entertained at considerable financial expense to someone else. There's nothing "tremendous" about dragging magnetometers etc while hunting a lump of steel then paying tens of thousands of Euros to rent barges with cranes to retrieve it. There are plenty of worthwhile UXO removal opportunities throughout Germany and Europe, including some new ones in the East.
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  2500. Because sea power is not land power. End of story.
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  2501. What role did decades of Soviet then NeoSoviet political and other subversion play in German and EU energy policies?
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  2502. Disposing of Wagner costs Putin nothing while reducing the threat of a coup. Wagner casualties benefit Ukraine, Putin, and Russia so nothing of value is expended. It makes perfect sense to be rid of Wagner for all concerned as the world is cleaner without them.
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  2503. Know and understand their opponents are every bit as Iranian as they are.
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  2504. Emigrate! Canada has plenty of room as does the US. As an American I welcome you and on a bad day in the US you'll have far more opportunities than a good day in the UK. Young people at least have a decent shot at new lives. I've served with many Brit expats in the USAF and given recruiting shortages that's a fine opportunity with a twenty year retirement vesting and lifetime medical care plus much more.
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  2505. The first thing to learn is to leave Chicago. Bad places do not become good so don't be there. The family think they won the ninja lottery. Since you cannot fix culture, cut it loose and save yourself and your loved ones.
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  2506. Hard to make that abomination look worse. Perhaps they should paint the rest of it. It looks like what a youngster with little imagination might do with a Meccano set.
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  2507. The casualties are modest by nation-state war standards meaning both sides can fight for decades at this rate (assuming they manage equipment and logistics and their economies don't break down too far). It's horrible surviva necessity for Ukraine but Russians don't value human life as demonstrated by their entire history of unremitting slaughter, genocide and tyrannical abuse of Eastern Europeans (besides snuffing each other with gusto, which is so admired the few decent Russians pointing out Stalin's crimes are considered traitors by the majority). Taking the high end 43K Russian KIA of unwanted groups are not a big deal nor are the more expensive wounded who can be neglected in the traditional manner like the Chechnya vets and Afghantsi before them. (Amusing they get what they deserve for invading Ukraine but by Russian neglect!) Russians reasonably want their prison population to die so Wagner KIW/WIA are freebies with no (locally felt) moral cost to Russia. The other pragmatic Kremlin move is sending gullible classes to die first. Russia has about 21 million males aged 19-49 and no problem using much older cannon fodder. There's no shortage of bullet sponges and Putin will fight to the last Tatar and Buryat (Kadyrov means far lighter Chechen losses, his support of Putin was a genuinely smart play). The Kremlin could conscript convicts who don't volunteer so it's a surprise they've not figured that out yet. The laudable impact on Russian demographics from KIA/WIA is a bonus for civilization. They're no better than Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge or ISIS/Daesh's beheaders so the more pushing dandelions the better. The West should flood Ukraine with weapons to fend off the Asiatic hordes in behalf of freedom and pragmatic self-interest then after the war goes into remission the EU should have a Marshall Plan to build Ukraine as a bulwark against the next Russian assault. Russia cannot reform as genuine Russians inevitably murder or exile their reformers. Russia in any conceivable form cannot be other than enemy to Europe so no one should delude themselves otherwise. History demonstrates this and civilization paid for that reality with millions dead.
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  2508. So what? Nobody lives off luxury foods. If the price of fast food is an issue, stop eating it. The workers still there get a useful raise and the few jettisoned can drive for Grubhub or Doordash. Nobody has to eat pizza. Cook for yourselves and save money. Why precisely is this a big deal? 1200 jobs isn't sh1t. These are bottom feeder jobs not middle class jobs. Choose not to suck and get a better job than min wage. Choose wise life planning and get hired. Leave the losers behind.
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  2509. Do the smart thing like all my ancestors and emigrate. There are much better places to live with actual hope for the future including Canada which needs more people to develop its enormous area.
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  2510. No law or order is "permanent". Consider using more precise English because many viewers are unsophisticated and take what they read literally. That's why technical writers have to write for their lowest expected reading level.
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  2511. The title should have been specific to HORMONAL birth control. Sloppy phrasing promotes sloppy thinking.
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  2512. Glavset and every other non-professional ignorant are having a field day with this one. Fighters crashing with or without external assistance is normal. This even doesn't really matter to those outside professional aviation as they have no frame of reference. The idea crashes are somehow odd is ignorant. The real world is not Hollywood.
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  2513. Sweden being a democracy if the public are delighted to adopt the third world unfiltered that's their right, but military training is NOT civilian police training and the majority of skill sets do not overlap. If the Swedish military is functionally degraded from combat arms to an internal police force it will be neither fish nor fowl. OTOH an expanded professional national police force to manage the future Swedes freely chose has a much better chance at being effective. Crime should not be considered a temporary problem. Training professionals takes time and considerable money. To recruit those professionals then retain them requires a visible attainable desirable career path. DO NOT copy anything the US does.
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  2514. The so-called "progressive" sucidical dogma that only the poor have worth and all who are not poor should destroy their own civilization by giving it away for nothing in return but impoverishing themselves and (if they made the mistake of creating new humans in an eternally toxic world) their children SHOULD be self-evidently absurd. That it is not reflects over a century of leftist subversion. That subversion cannot be fought by a society restrained by conventional laws because laws only exist to protect the guilty, not defend good worthy citizens and (THEIR) COLLECTIVE COMMONS which is being given away by diluting each person's "piece" of that commons to nothing. Since revolution is impossible in modern passive hyper-submissive societies this will not be effectively addressed. The only options are individual i.e. saving yourself from the inevitable bucket of crabs.
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  2515. Spell check is fundamental. Try "homogeneous".
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  2516.  @oltorf520  At least 15 people know nothing of Israel.
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  2517. What does the US do when terrorists attack? We wrecked two countries in reprisal and however awkward the results that does make a point. Why would anyone expect ANY country not to burn down whoever attacked it? Choose a side and own that choice, then don't pretend to care about enemy personnel (in cultural war everyone is functionally a combatant by virtue of existing). Biden is desperate for re-election which is hilarious since his Democrat opponents are mostly imported courtesy of DEMOCRAT policy. He chose to put immigrants over Americans and consistently supports a world order over his real obligation to the USA.
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  2518.  @abel4776  Toolboxes are high markup items unlike many tools. Judged by money (the whole point of working!) the best deal is buy cheap new (Harbor Freight have some good boxes) or buy used when the tool truck repos a box Bubba should not have wanted. I've outfitted USAF tool rooms and dealt with every brand on the high end that matters. I even got the Lista and Snap-on reps to cooperated getting laser cut foam for the Listas because grownups like to make salea. My personal boxes are used Lista, Mac and Kennedy (I have small home machine shop) but also select Harbor Freight which work just fine. For an individual mechanic the best place to save money is on the tool box while focusing on key hand tools. I never buy power tools or welders off anyone's truck. That's just silly because they're overpriced in a highly competitive market.
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  2519. Good. They'll make fine parts donors or mechanics will buy and repair them. If you can ever manage to take a community college auto repair course it pays off for life because knowledge is power.
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  2520. The unfortunate truth is most people are stupid and that does not improve with time, they just become differently stupid. No one can choose to be intelligent which is a matter of luck. Evolution rewarded what humanity is, and species do not evolve for the good of the individual.
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  2521. India should eject all Canadia investment and deter emigration to Canada which is a brain drain on India's tech sector. Every skilled coder, IT expert and engineer who abandons their people is a drag on Indian tech and industrial development. A similar situation happened to the Phillipines where Canadian hospitals lure away trained nursing staff damaging manning at home. Tech progress requires RETAINING talent, not giving it away to the competition. India's tech sector is a vital military asset against the dual threat of India and Pakistan. When Canada (and the US, and Europe) poach the high end talent India loses their highly skilled contribution to society.
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  2522. Nobody HAS to live in NYC or the rest of the metro area, they're just afraid to leave. The pull of familiarity breeds fear of change. NYC is a historic accumulation of people whose ancestors just barely made it off the proverbial boat then froze. If you work for the city you don't have to live there. Vest retirement then bolt. It's amazing to me that my peers who never left the area and have it financially rough won't take action to better their lives. If you are young there is really no reason to stay. The rest of the world is amazing. Go see it and seek your fortune where the odds are better. There is nothing to fear from moving and the US is a mobile society.
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  2523. What is that supposed to mean in English? Combat Air Patrols are not "generic" nor are operations.
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  2524. The lower classes love to dream (rather than take political action) and nothing comforts children of all ages like romance.
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  2525.  @D-Fens_1632  It is (I took full advantage like most of my USAF SNCObros) but you need to internalize how stupid the average human really is. The economy is in great shape and has been for a long time. That historically floods the lower-IQ branches with bottom feeders. Project 100,000 was not an anomaly except that it was formal.
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  2526. Sure it will recover once the people who LIVE THERE AND RUINED IT are driven away and gentrification replaces them with decent non-criminals with a functioning work ethic. The problems in all these places are PEOPLE problems and the people are the ones who live there. Americans pretend criminals are some how not "the public" or "society". That othering of them is unsupported by logic or reason. Smart people don't live there and it should not matter what happens to humans who are not intelligent. The sooner Oakland is done the sooner developers can flatten and cure it. Poor people are poor because of many PERSONAL defects so their communities are made horrible by the residents, including those who tolerate crime and raise criminals rather than use birth control;. Nothing of value exists in places like Oakland so the sooner all retail leaves and the residents are forcibly scattered by factors beyond anyone's control the better. The few decent folks had a lifetime to leave even if it's on foot. Americans migrate all the time.
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  2527.  @XetaXones  Choices like being drunks, junkies and otherwise making bad ADULT choices. Rather common among the weakminded generations incapable of self-discipline. Then they beg scraps from those of us better than they are as if we owe them respect for their loathesome failure.
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  2528. White rural Americans are voluntarily and eagerly manipulated by affirmation. (k)lansmen, preachers and other demagogues know exactly how to play locals like a fiddle simply be ACCEPTING THEIR CONDITIONS OF ENGAGEMENT. You don't stay poor (be ye rural or urbanite) for generations unless your culture is toxic and self-destructive. You don't stay poor for generations by making good choices. For example when your local geography makes economic diversification impractical wise people relocate as my parents did. The US was built by immigrants (voluntary, indentured and chattel slavery varieties included) but many of their descendants refuse to relocate a few hundred miles to improve their lot. This is also noted among many African-Americans who rarely escape their home towns, which should be no surprise since the poor have more in common than otherwise. Both blame externalities and fail to own their choices. This will not change because fierce rustic pride prohibits introspection and genuine curiousity about the world. (Other impoverished subcultures cultures which live in a self-inflicted regenerative feedback loop in urban areas are similarly and often much more self-destructive.) The Democratic party lost rural areas after Lyndon Baines Johnson (an unsung civil rights hero more remembered for his idiotic misunderstanding of Southeast Asian culture and nationalism that buried the US in Viet Nam) abandoned the Dixiecrats in pursuit of national influence over time. Failure to maintain racism (Strom Thurmond didn't switch parties casually...) was seen as betrayal so those voters and their politicians fled to the GOP except for a tiny few remaining holdouts like Senator Manchin. The hard urbanite Left Democratic tent of 2024 is not suited to the rustic market and should give up the fool's errand of engaging it. Like the Coalition effort in Afghanistan, the locals cannot want what they're selling in meaningful numbers and like other fundamentalists are predisposed to attacking those who challenge their way of thinking. They're too angry and proud of it to ever be rational, and not culturally wired for anything but conformity. Better to ignore them since the cultural differences (and general tone-deafness among the urbanite Democrat base to anyone they don't identify with) and seek votes elsewhere. BLUF is they don't want to question their worldview, they demand to be agreed with and there is nothing at all to be done about that. Like Russian rustic ultranationalists they've no potential for intellectual growth. That should never be discussed by those seeking their votes. MAGA works because it perfectly affirms their self-image, and that self-image is their economic doom. No possible Democrat policy or leader (there will never be another Huey Long who was a creature of his era) can win them over and effort wasted on that futile pursuit will garner more votes elsewhere. Of course Democrats in their self-righteousness are equally but differently tone-deaf and wiser to preach to/affirm their existing, natural base. A millstone round the neck of the Democratic party is old white lefties who don't know when to get out of the way because they imagine themselves indispensible. Dems are better off working to control coastal, cosmopolitan areas and leaving flyover country to the locals who will remain fine with that social distancing. Enemies should not share dirt.
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  2529. Time for some internal promotions.
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  2530. Nonsense re: breaking ties. The US wants people to believe that the American people would commit nuclear suicide for an ally. No sane government would do that and the ONLY security against Communist China (the nation is a CCP enterprise) and especially North Korea is a credible counterforce nuclear capability. The US cannot afford to shut down vital allies merely for having nukes since the UK and France have had them for decades. SK should arm itself. So should Japan. China was always an enemy and will remain so forever.
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  2531. The region outside Israel is doomed so people of faith owe it to their fellow believers to help rescue them. I don't understand why that fact is constantly ignored when tens of thousands of lives could be saved. No one has the slightest reason to want to live in doomed Syria because it will never get better and can only get worse, but it's hard to "filter" emigrants legally due to foolish egalitarian laws.
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  2532.  @BuckieBoy-l2r  The US needs national ID since Americans are glad to prove we're entitled to OUR country. Our nation is collective property of citizens, not the world.
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  2533. NC is a nice place to live but growth ruins everything. Taxes are already on the high side. If you do buy in there, do as I did and buy just outside a growth area, buy at least five acres of land zoned agricultural with a modest home so you can pay it off, then when growth comes to you cash out.
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  2534.  @ilikehardplay  Much gopnik gear got sold to Western collectors. "Slavaboos" (loser neverserveds who dream of war and for contrarian reasons like Russian gear) bought impressive amounts of the stuff down the decades since the Wall came down. Hilariously that gives many collectors vastly better personal loadouts than the Putinists.
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  2535. Mexico needs an effective dictator because democracy is INHERENTLY WEAK and relies on a free citizenry Mexico never had. It needs a Francisco Franco but with less empathy and the movement to back him up. Laws in failed states reverse themselves and only protect criminals from the people.
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  2536. Those revetments and the general base layout are dogchit. They're too close to each other ensuring fratricide. What raging pinhead thought that having line of sight between the actual aircraft parking spots wouldn't guarantee more damage? Each spot is in line with two others except on the ends. That layout is also bad for alert (alert spots should be closer to end of runway for faster launch) AKA "combat readiness. If you're going to fight from a base build some damn HAS (maintainers work faster out of the weather) laid out in a flow-through arrangement. Even the earliest NATO shelters were better than that nonsense.
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  2537.  @lisatremblay8506  Word. When I want an objective insight into a woman I ask my sister who is smart and ruthless. Men are easily blinded by lust...
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  2538. Tr00n Light are getting what their corporate insult to their customers deserve.
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  2539. Russians were willing to fight to the last Buryat. A draft guarantees amusing results when Moskals start feeding the dandelions...
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  2540. Everyone should be tried as an adult when charged with a felony then sentenced accordingly. The idea youth are specially redeemable is obvious nonsense. Bail should not exist. No one is trustworthy.
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  2541. Please move to my district to replace Jim Clyburn! Rep. Hunt is a gentleman of great civic virtue.
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  2542. SO LEAVE. I left the metro area years ago. NYC was never good, it just goes into remission. The reason people are afraid to leave the familiar is they are cowards at heart. ALL of the USA is your birthright so go see some of it. I find it pathetic people cling to a place just because they grew up there so I didn't. Go seek your fortune! The rest of America can be amazing and contrary to internet fearmongering, quite affordable. NYC will never be affordable and you can't own a decent amount of land. Why are NY residents so pitifully clinging to a place they know they cannot afford to retire in? Cash out and escape. NYC crime has never and will never be fixed. NYC taxes will never be fixed and will get more expensive. What are they waiting for? It's only a city and there are plenty of those. I've been there.
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  2543. Iron Dome is however not light ubiquitous SHORAD which Israel will (now) develop by necessity.
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  2544. More garbage no one needs so not eating it is a feature not a bug. Deny them your money because they respond to nothing else.
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  2545. That in no way means revolution is viable. Until the "frustrated citizens" man up and fight like Taliban they will lose to their government who DO fight like Taliban. Iranians are too comfortable to die on the barricades while their superstitionist government holds all the important social cards.
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  2546. Substitute MICROMANAGEMENT for control.
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  2547. Opinions/feelings don't matter only cold objective numbers.
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  2548. BTW military power is far more important than space exploration because US/NATO military power does useful things like containing the USSR and Communits China then and the Russian Federation and Communist China today. German scientists helped save Western civilization just not in the way they had in mind in 1939. The IRBM then ICBM German expats helped build are why there IS a "USA" in 2024. That is history also worth noting. No need to praise them but knowing facts is useful. Humanity is intrinsically savage and evil, all of it, merely differing by degree. Therefore all who would survive must understand we are of nature, and nature is run by fang and claw. Might makes right irrelevant.
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  2549. You mean in BLUE cities where the animals run rampant and the public approve of crime because they are criminals. VOTERS did this. The average American reads therefore thinks at 8th grade level because the average American is too stupid to value learning (in an age when it is easier than ever). VOTERS too savagely ignorant to run a democratic republic deserve everything their CHOICES get them.
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  2550. Frame swaps are surprisingly easy to DIY. I did many on SUV and pickups at my last job with a used car lot. If that truck were my problem to fix I'd harvest or buy a clean salvage frame or chassis from out of state. Our order of operation was pull the cab and bed, then crossload whatever we were saving from the damaged frame to the donor, then reinstall cab and bed.
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  2551. The spinoff tech Apple got for trivial cost is worth more than whatever they lose on sales.
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  2552. Better workmanship is merely a choice and would cost nothing extra. Question for other mechanics, how good are the engine, clutch, gearbox, suspension and especially electrical systems? What do mechanics do to make these Loafs more reliable? The styling at this point is a retro classic, like the old flat four cylinder VW van, so not a barrier to sales. My apologies for not posting in Russian but Google translates poorly.
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  2553. Ask whoever told you that for a scientific citation. The mechanic world is full of old Bubba tales. Octane is a measure of fuel's ability to resist knock.
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  2554. Manned aircraft are becoming force loss multipliers.
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  2555. "Debt never comes unencumbered with many onerous burdens." I like this fellow. US entanglements with mainland China after the disaster of detente did enormous damage to the US economy while literally paying more than the cost of the entire armed forces of Beijing. Wise realignment would see US trade going to India instead to support instead of undermine democracy, and successful trade in auto parts etc show Indian manufacturing is up to the task. As an American I greatly prefer enhanced ties with India so US trade helps pay to defend a democracy instead of threaten them all.
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  2556.  @causewaykayak  Ship tag was an old USSR naval custom and a competent captain could expect to escape which he did.
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  2557. If the Hamas attack happened on US soil the country it came from would be made a memorable example of. One cannot expect enemy civilians to matter to adults (other than outside spectators pontificating from ivory towers). In cultural struggle the concept of innocence is irrelevant which is why Hamas and Israel pay mere lip service to it. This difference of opinion will only end when one side is destroyed so pick a side and own that choice without pretending your chosen opponents matter, at all, because in real life they do not matter to each other nor should they in an existential conflict. Both sides require mutually exclusive ethost8s. War will decide who gets the prize and until the perpetual low-level war with surges will remain normal by mutual consent.
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  2558.  @fugazifrog876  He has no authority in Illinois. Why would be be involved at all for any reason?
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  2559. Governments and nations are vain but South Korea went too far by rejecting assistance. Is the official culture of maintaining "face" at all costs pervasive? If you take a trip on any vessel make the effort to learn how to get off it intact including how lifeboats deploy. The passenger vessel world is far less professional than most imagine. It's just a business like any other. Costa Concordia is a European cruise ship example. Schools should teach how to handle ferry emergencies because safety briefing and posters are not enough. Even with a good crew the more people with personal knowledge the better.
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  2560. The man was a billionaire so he in fact had the money to copy success instead of arrogantly building trash.
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  2561. Why do people think Biden invented the world? Everything you see in pricing was old 50 years ago.
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  2562. Musk marketing is the problem. The premature corporate stupidity of trying to field half-arsed systems is a failure driven by SALES droids which has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with desperation to raise stock prices. FSD is not a necessity of course but marketing so treats it. Processing power and sensor fusion will eventually make FSD viable but no time soon. Admitting this would weaken the hype but dishonest marketing is not a technical issue. Give it fifteen or twenty years (which isn't much at all) but marketroids have given infant technology a rep it would not have had it been kept back until it was mature. Marketers are not technical people just paid liars but they're effective because the vast majority of Americans CHOOSE to be tech-illiterate (and are already barely literate in English) making dishonest marketing effective in ways that don't work against intelligent people.
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  2563. Every nation should prepare for war. To so state should not be regarded as some emergency but a practical reminder in a nation whose survival for centuries is predicated on deterrence. Outsiders whose entire experience is distant from European reality should study Russian imperial history for those goals will never change being part of the cultural fabric not merely choices by individual administrations. European stability was brief and in living memory. The post-WWII stability required a much stronger NATO than the present debilitated husk. India has similar permanent threats on its borders, and while Russia is popular due to military aid it should be remembered that Russian colonial policy was even worse than British! Putin is to Ukraine as Winston Churchill was to India.
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  2564. The real fault at Benghazi was the Ambassador for failing to DEMAND (or refuse the post which he was perfectly free to do) a fully equipped company-sized force with enough organic firepower to destroy thus deter any attack. The Ambassador died because he was stupid, inexcusable in a highly educated man who wasn't some slug off the block. Unfortunately he got decent people killed for his foolish choices. Light forces are too often sent by mistake (Gothic Serpent being the worst example of stupidly leaving armored firepower at home) when a site should have enough ORGANIC firepower and the men to use it. That lesson has never been learned because the US is far too easily seduced by the mystique of light forces. There was no reason not to bring a company-sized force with heavy weapons to Libya whose own citizens knew had no government or any semblance of security.
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  2565.  @owainbennett663  Both those are surmountable but not without money. What "paperwork" does CA require to repair fire apparatus?
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  2566. Funding. Bringing mechanics to temporary duty (which means putting them up in hotels then paying per diem etc0 would be even more expensive than trailering the fire trucks to contracted truck repair/upgrade shops (which is the usual way they get repaired in most states.) California has some interesting priorities (like failure to require, not suggest, that new buildings be fully fireproof in every area at risk of wildfire) including under-funding fire prevention despite it being a bargain compared with death and destruction by wildfire.
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  2567. End automobile safety standards other than those which affect OTHER drivers, for example dual master cylinder brake requirements. All the weight and bloat is due to government forcing choices users did not ask for.
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  2568. False charges should be punished the same as the purported crime. Also check this lying 304's body language and fidgeting.
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  2569. India is the only nation of size positioned, populous and prosperous enough to stem Chinese imperialism in its region. Unlike the US it does not need to send every item and troop used across an ocean.
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  2570. Of course NATO other than the US has jokes for naval forces compared to the (earlier part of) the Cold War because it foolishly believed harmlessness promotes peace. The US should titrate response to let those who failed to arm themselves suffer a while. If a ship is not US-flagged it should not be a US concern. We import toys but we export necessities. The EU nations are easily wealthy enough to field overwhelming military force but they collectively failed to appreciate large armed forces have always been necessary and that is a permanent human condition. Thank the Left (therefore Russian subversion since 1917) for all that. Pacifism is slavery. The West should be able to put Yemen and Iran to the sword but got lazy and deserves the result. KSA is of course culturally militarily incompetent, nepotistic and degenerate hence worse than useless.
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  2571. Community college is awesome. I took welding and machining classes for fun when I retired then volunteered and later worked for the school. The four day week at most is insanely nice so many gearhead retirees do it for toy money and the pleasure of teaching adults who mostly want to be there.
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  2572.  @vanceforrest4085  If you would own the tools anyway for yourself (DIY over a lifetime buys nice gear as needed so no up front high costs) that part isn't bad at all.
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  2573.  @joshuapaul2022  Unlike primitive shills the US has many truely internet literate people who also happen to be good at pattern recognition. Your shilling backfires (you get paid so no problem on your end) because at this point all it does is provoke righteous hatred. When we think of sending weapons we think of you and yours on the receiving end, though most are actually in Indian call centers.
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  2574.  @AdamantineAxe  It would also promptly ruin and clog the converter.
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  2575. Repos never stop and there is no "they" as each business is different.
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  2576.  @tasjourney7778  My HVACbro loves it. He only services commercial accounts and because store owners refuse to upgrade their coolers has easy money guaranteed.
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  2577. I find it amusing that a victim of Russian violence elects a man who greets Putin with legs akimbo. Hungary should GTFO the EU and NATO then join the Russian Federation. NATO should propose an expulsion clause to show who the internal enemies are who object. Hungary is an active enemy of NATO and should be militarily isolated as it cannot be trusted with classified information. Turkey is far too strategically valuable to lose. Not so with Hungary.
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  2578. r/HermanCainAward is even more insightful.
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  2579. Youtube titles are aimed at algorithms so they draw more views. Most of the world is barely literate and of low intelligence so what you see demonstrably appeals to a majority of viewers. No one ever accused the general public of intelligence.
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  2580. There are always two sides to a situation because only in "ignored" areas of the US is property AFFORDABLE. I live elsewhere but spent a lot of time Upstate with my mentors doing flea markets and buying items to resell in antique stores in the metro area. My late mentor and his bro bought a whole (very small) former dairy town including the building housing its post office. That would have been impossible in New Jersey which is why they escaped many decades ago. All economic growth would do is push out New Yorkers who can afford to live there. I chose a similar area in a different state to retire and much of it is no longer affordable. Poor folks need a place we can afford to live and what that looks like to outsiders is secondary.
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  2581. Their aircrew speak English which is the international language of pro-Western military aviation.
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  2582. Good! Not my problem (vehicles are transportation not an investment, index funds are investments). If the right ones get cheap enough I'll score one to use for V2H power storage and throw some solar panels on a freestanding trailer so I don't have to pull a permit. Humans are a tool using species so get good.
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  2583. RUSSIA IS NOT THE MOTHER STATE OF ITS CONQUESTS. That merited capital letters because far too many people who should know better do not. It's not about the economy though that matters. It's about Russian culture and how that drives Russians to exploit, imprison and murder their neighbors.
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  2584. LA should welcome and REQUEST Federal oversight. The innocent have nothing to hide.
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  2585. I collect truck pantograph jacks for many tasks and the best are hex drive because you can run them up and down with a cordless impact. I barely use my floor jack any more. Having more than one means I can toss cribbing (I use 4x4 and 6x6 wooden blocks drilled for rope handle like an aircraft chock) under the second after maxing out the first.
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  2586. Because the POTUS has ZERO internal corporate influence and not everything revolves around whatever hack happens to be in the Oval Office. These issues are multiple administrations old, and also not the purview of national government.
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  2587. Pressure your elected officials to send more weapons and supplies. Every burning Russian APC and tank is one less to murder and enslave Ukraine. The only solution is inflicting so many casualties Russia gives up like it did in Afghanistan. Thoughts and prayers don't work without the blessing of Saint Javelin.
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  2588. Elderly junk ships should be aggressively barred from harbors. Even China is doing it. Failed states like Lebanon are more problematic but can still act in their own interest if they choose. That choice was not made.
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  2589. Fools do what fools do. I wrenched at a used car lot and customers are their own worst enemies. Nobody needs a new pickup truck unless it is both a legit business expense and they can easily afford it. I could buy one for cash because I would never buy one in the first place. I have three perfectly good trucks all bought used and have owned two of those over 20 years. I preferred to pay off my house so I did.
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  2590. How did this putz pass a bar exam?
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  2591. Corruption IS the American dream. Lies and greed built this country on the backs of the ignorant barely literate masses.
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  2592.  @johanlarsson9805  WHY did that obvious nonsense not provoke instant, bitter resistance across all Swedish social classes? Why did Swedes make the premeditated adult choice to be anti-nationalist? Why was the Swedish Left not instantly seen as Stalinist subversives they really were? There is no rational excuse for Leftism except to destroy Western culture.
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  2593. The world is minus two fools and nothing of future value to humanity is lost. Some people's stupid choices may SAVE lives as examples to others, and this one gets enough media play it likely will.
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  2594. Russian rule over Ukraine was comparable with British rule over India, so why do Indians adore Putin and resent Ukrainian self-determination? I find this quite interesting because it took so many years and lives for India to free itself from British rule, yet Indians care nothing for other people who fight and die for their own freedom from imperialist rule. What's behind that? Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin blithely sacrificed their conquests to starvation to pursue their colonial aims. Should Churchill be adored as a deity the way Putin is by the Indian public?
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  2595. He pulled out because he'd get beaten like a rented mule and knows it.
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  2596. @kurio999 nailed it. LIGHTWEIGHT "electric motorcycles" which have pedals for decoration OTOH are selling like mad because they are the perfect rulebeater which does everything an ICE bike does in urban areas and much more because it can silently use areas motorcycles cannot. Motorbikes in the US are for very old men (don't blame me, read the stats) and even I would go ebike if I'd made the mistake of living in dense urban area. Ebikes do everything my Honda 250 Elsinore did on the stree but don't have to stay there.
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  2597. There are many, many independent local mechanics happy to help and of course true freedom is wrenching your own (I've never depended on dealers).
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  2598. Great men don't help kill other Americans by lying from their radio pulpit.
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  2599. Everything south of the US border is a failed narco-state feeding the US and global markets. Drug Prohibition is government interference with what the public demand to buy and WILL buy. The two choices are unregulated black markets or regulated markets. In other news alcohol and nicotine are the most destructive drugs but Food Lion employees aren't (normally) doing drive-bys on Piggly-Wiggly because regulated markets work! Current methods ONLY make drug dealing profitable. This is hard for the room-temp IQ crowd to understand hence unlikely to change. OTOH the results make for effective SEO and this video means not only the pimps profit from human suffering. 25+ million views isn't pocket change and drives traffic to the parent website. Viewers can (from a safe distance) frown sternly then go about their day with zero skin in demanding change....so nothing changes.
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  2600. Have you ever wondered WHY that resentment exists? If you dump the eastern parts then you solve that problem for your bit because your enemies will be outside your state! Enemies should not share dirt. As for the "senior citizen" part what makes that at all relevant? I'm OLD too. It's not an accomplishment. (Making Porsche bank OTOH is an accomplishment which lets you live where you prefer and good for you!)
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  2601. Depends on what you do. If what you want to do doesn't pay off, want something which does. BTW one way to get a job is take community college trade courses, volunteer (they can always use volunteers) to help out then get hired as an adjunct. CC schedules are normally four day weeks which is sweet and the school experience is a good way to build a human network. I did that for fun money in retirement then got my bro in who replaced me and is loving it. Social interaction opens doors.
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  2602. "Do you think the Puma IFV will become extinct or will it become the primary infantry battlefield transportation?" I think that question implies a "false choice fallacy". It's just another IFV. They don't have to be incredible and exciting to spergs to be "good enough" in combat. Crew training and many other factors are more important than the Puma itself so long as it's reasonably effective and reasonably reliable when done.
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  2603. Driving is a dreary chore so why not bring the living room? While most of the Vox audience so viscerally loathe anything larger than an ebike they cannot relate, it's worth mentioning roomy vehicles with long wheelbases are quite comfortable and notably nicer to ingress and egress for tall humans. There is zero downside to cargo capacity. I wrenched in the used car business and the public preference for comfy large barges is the overwhelming consumer choice. We quit buying anything other than luxury cars, SUVs and pickup trucks for resale because no one wanted them even during the last recession. Soon BEV will remove the most important problem of large vehicles (pollution) to which the rest are trifles by comparison. They have large footprints for large batteries for the extended range consumers want.
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  2604. That experience is common and the public should remember an officer whose degree was in an unrelated subject and who has zero truly relevant experience is likely to be useless outside their very narrow professional lane. The public being ignorant expect far too much from randoms wearing a uniform.
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  2605. KNOW where YOUR tank shutoff is located and how to use it in case of a leak. ASK your utility company to show you how to close that valve. Remember if you have a fire of any kind to SHUT OFF THE GAS. The life you save may be your own or your family's. LP clings to the ground because it's heavier than air.
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  2606.  @gordythecreator  That's why smart people do not reproduce unless and until they have plenty of money. Most people are not even interested in leading a self-disciplined life.
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  2607. Tourist climbing is a degenerate demonstration of vanity and wealth, not an accomplishment. It should be vilified not encouraged. The idle rich imagine because they are good at making money they're good at everything else. Mountains don't care about hubris. If Sherpa had a better way to make a living they wouldn't be coerced to guide rich parasites up dangerous mountains. If you need help to climb a mountain you don't need to climb that mountain because you're paying for someone else's accomplishment.
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  2608. Its IMAGE among NON-TECHIES who do not actually work on German vehicles or equipment is top notch. When it comes to technology never forget the opinions of non-techies are inherently worthless, then ignore them.
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  2609. Louis, you may consider including "this call may be recorded for quality and training purposes" in your conversations. You of course speak quickly so someone on the other end may ignore it.
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  2610. What possessed that poor man to locate in Chiraq in the first place? America is HUGE. Don't like urban crime? Don't phooking live there. I don't and no one else needs to either. Emigrants often make the mistake of choosing cities just because others came there before them but by now they should know better. If you have friends contemplating moving to the US have the decency to warn them to avoid cities. Chiraq is not like Seoul (I've been to both) etc so they should not confuse reasonably peaceful Asian cities with the US.
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  2611. These problems are easily dealt with by not living there. Fires are guaranteed, inevitable and will remain a permanent threat. The rich make enough not to care so despite it being affordable (for them) to build fireproof (not resistant which is not the same) homes most prefer silly choices. Not being rich I have zero need to live where they drive everyone's costs higher.
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  2612. The Democrats who voted for her got precisely what they asked for. Everyone running for office should be publicly background checked and their entire criminal history published. Every criminal record should be online accessible to the entire American public so grifters cannot hide so easily.
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  2613. All that money wasted on garbage who should be euthanized and disposed of so good citizens don't have to PRESERVE them. Prison is a failure because violent felons are allowed to exist.
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  2614. Pigs like that are why Americans cannot trust our government. If you investigate the government HAVE OFFSITE BACKUP. That includes everything on your computers and phones. Learn the "rule of threes" and when you hide your backups make sure there is no reference to them others could use to steal them.
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  2615. Most of humanity isn't worth associating with (elections are proof) and the point of prosperity is to afford to live in a like-minded similar high-trust community of those like themselves. Respectful distance is something moderns forget but older societies often embrace.
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  2616. I use kittens instead. They're free for the asking, self-cleaning, absorbent and disposable.
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  2617. Mao and Stalin were hardly "idiots" and both were successful at staying in power. If English isn't your first language the distinction may not be obvious, but "idiot" hardly fits people who stay in power for decades. Were they idiots they'd be easy to remove.
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  2618. Tires make excellent industrial farm and agricultural stall mats. The bricks are a good idea but adding mat production could boost profits. Those mats are excellent flooring (as are the "bricks"). I use mine as easily removable pavers over my underground water lines, and inside my shops.
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  2619.  @dosmundos3830  You mean over the third world which simps for the Kremlin.
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  2620. Tell that to the Africans killing Africans. That's how the region resolves disputes and outsiders interfering will be expelled or exhausted without hope of success.
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  2621. The WWII stuff pays the bills but this and other recent histories not effectively covered elsewhere offer valuable insights and are short enough civilian professionals could use them as starting points when trying to understand issues in their AO.
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  2622.  @mehboobmangera6327  War is not a sport nor a duel, and the methods he used were not sporting either, not that it matters.
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  2623. Cities are bad, all of them, unless you are rich. Democrat-run areas are bad, all of them, unless you are rich. Decent citizens (not Democrats, street crime is a Democrat-facilitated problem) do not want to share space with Democrats and structure our lives and careers to avoid them. I did therefore anyone else with a bit of determination can too. There is no reason to live in Chicago. Sentiment over ancient history is not more than carrying dead mens luggage. Live where you can be legally armed to the teeth among like-minded patriots then laugh while the goblins eat each other. Tragedies will happen, especially because weak people fail to think as I do. Democrats exist to destroy Western civilization so more and faster acceleration is good news in the end. Only when Americans have no choice will they take the fight to the enemy and put them to the sword. Enemies should not share dirt and enemies cannot reform or be converted, only composted. Every day more people learn this lesson by example because words alone cannot teach it.
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  2624.  @justonecornetto80  Those are necessary for coastal defense not power projection which is not the same thing.
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  2625. Canada has better uses for tax money like importing as many immigrants as possible to grow the labor force for the benefit of the wealthy. Why should a Leftist paradise defend Europe with which its ties fade more every year?
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  2626. As someone who greatly admires Finnish performance against Russian invaders I encourage Finland and everyone else to arm, arm and arm even more because helplessness invites invasion. Russia is intrinsically evil and pro-Russian Westerners are traitors needing a hemp necklace. Russian butchery of innocents built their empire. The only good vatnik is one that's not breathing as there is zero hope for cultural change.
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  2627. So what? It's just another interchangeable consumer product whose management chose failure. Cars today have no more personality than video cards.
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  2628. Voters made the informed adult choice to vote Democrat. Voters failed to demand Ed Koch's sanctuary order be rescinded. These FOOLS did this to themselves. That order could be rescinded in hours but where are the people demanding that? (crickets)
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  2629. Why is he attending a frothing Leftist school in the first place? Any scholar worth their salt knows how Columbia was subverted in the 1960s.
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  2630. The end of US support and exit from NATO reflect the views of the voters who helped make that happen. Europe needs to replace the US by its own forces while Poland and Finland in particular should build the only deterrent Russia ever understood, nuclear weapons. The US could easily become a Russian ally in the next year or few. Odd that we don't align with Beijing after sending our manufacturing there for decades.
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  2631. Piss on those Communist shills. They do not have wars to win and deliberately ignore war necessities. Attempting to outlaw effective weapons only hobbles Western forces ignorant enough to submit.
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  2632. So why didn't their three day Special Military Operation seize Kiev and the rest of Ukraine as promised?
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  2633. Most women are hose and it shows. Kids are an OPTION and there is no excuse for getting knocked up like a feral dog just because they're horny. Making a person you do not care about and cannot care for on a good day is horrible. If you refuse to put your babies first in your life you are not a good mother. (Respect and love to the mothers who care.)
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  2634. Nothing of value is lost. Suitably motivated private LOCAL groups are free to fill any void with the same resources they previously donated to Scout troops. Not hard.
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  2635. The resumes of many mistaken people are impressive. His predictions are not.
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  2636. Ads are easily blocked but I don't understand "switching" vs. "adding" it being effortless to use any or many sites. I've blocked adverts of all types for so long I no longer identify with "normal" user experiences not that I'd want to. I don't get the "slow load" issue but that's easily sorted by running User Agent Switcher on Firefox (I also run multiple browsers for compartmentation by use).
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  2637. Since when should either party to a cold hard business transaction be "grateful"? Business is war but today Americans are groomed to resent anyone who cuts a wiser deal than they do. Without collective bargaining jobs would be even worse.
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  2638. How about LISTING all the foreign owned US port companies as a text comment WITH LINKS? That makes it easy to copy and paste. Manufactured opposition to American worker activism can partially countered by disseminating facts.
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  2639.  @trasewagner7582  Their culture is the reason and is why there will never be reform. Russian misery is collectively self-inflicted. No surprise since not every culture interchanges but a terrible performance compared to China. Russian culture has no important virtues and is purely predatory so the "best" it's ever done is neo-mafia butchers as fond of killing fellow Russians as of enslaving the neighbors.
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  2640. No one is owed respect and given the American masses are idiot clowns they elect grifters who pander to their clue-averse ignorant savagery. The voters are directly responsible for national failure.
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  2641. Auto industry consolidation is historically normal. See the 1920s onward for repeated proof. The companies only matter to investors. There will always be vehicles available. Catering to the rich who don't feel recessions is brilliant as there are so very many of them.
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  2642. The system is run by evil grifters who care nothing for me or mine so I care nothing for them and even less for the mental midgets who defend them.
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  2643. As a mechanic and technician (jet fighters on down) since the 1970s I could not agree more. The PUBLIC by their ADULT CHOICE to be tech-illiterate ensured this would happen, but intelligence is rare and technical aptitude even less common. Since there is no helping the ignorant masses best to help yourselves with a pragmatic buying strategy including never buying new vehicles unless you are wealthy (it's generally an awful financial choice, I paid off my home(s) instead), never beta-testing (I wait three or four years for a model to prove itself at others expense) and studying what professional line mechanics say about their experience maintaining fleet vehicles. After several years salvages will be populated with organ donors lowering repair costs. If I wanted to know something about Apple products I would defer to Louis Rossmann because his professional technical immersion ensures he knows his shit. I treat other systems likewise. By the time a vehicle reaches marketplace maturity the repairable sort will be well understood and the less-repairable easily excluded. Ubiquity ensures SOME vehicles, typically those in commercial fleet use, WILL be repairable due to professional customer demand. I do not wait until one vehicle needs heavy maintenance to replace it since that interferes with opportunistic purchase. Done right this is surprisingly cheap, not expensive. If you can work on computers you can learn to work on vehicles. Many do both and I'm not special. For example when one truck hydrolocked I had a ready spare debugged, tagged it and drove on. That let me replace the failed engine cheap because there was no time pressure. Anyone can do this (my wife was a helicopter mechanic and my mum worked on the PBY Catalina flying boat line in WWII) so I encourage everyone curious to give it a go. You can do anything if you bring determination. When I eventually get a BEV to play with I'll buy it needing work then learn the system. Remember your first dumpster-dive computer build and how much that taught you? Perhaps your first lawn mower repair? Learning is big fun and the more ya learn the better it gets.
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  2644. Garbage clickbait title.
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  2645. Russian air defense prestige is now a contradiction in terms. Neither proffered explanation is good look so I find it hilarious. Replacing experienced crew will be time consuming and future crew will be rightly nervous.
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  2646. It doesn't take much to drive away people with money because they don't need brick-and-mortar stores whose higher cost and lower selection are crushed by online vendors.
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  2647. What are these "ads" you speak of?
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  2648. They need to CLOSE Waffle Houses in violent hoods like other stores shut down. Where are the incidents actually occurring? That matters but may be shall we say controversial.
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  2649. If God cared why did He wreck their world in the first place and exactly why should He reverse any of that just because you asked?
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  2650. Over until the next time, because as with this era we see what happens when people forget how to run a country after decades of easy life. Humanity are at their (feeble) best against adversity. Remove the adversity and our species eat each other for no particular reason. A nation belongs to its citizens, NOT the world and when anyone puts their enemies above themselves that's social treason. A nation should be united, cooperative, hard and tough, not cultivating social weakness.
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  2651. A CREW? TOW videos well shot on phones date back to Syria when US required proof the donated TOW were being used not stolen and resold. How tech-illiterate must one be to not know what any teenager on social media knows how to do, which is take and edit footage? I'll break it down for the window-lickers too mentally deficient to understand early 2000s technology in 2023 (TOW is older of course and was turning Russian armor into scrap metal decades ago in Desert Storm.) Nearly every soldier in the modern world has GoPro, phone or both. Missiles are fun as are video souvenirs. When you're in the military your basic needs are met so buying a camera has been popular as long as affordable cameras existed. Shooters and dismounts take vids. The drone vids are obviously from the SPOTTER drone who found the tank in the first place. The TOW gunner has a CLU not just a naked Mark 1 eyeball. That combination let him see the vatnik tank whose crew have nothing similar thanks to the money going elsewhere for several decades. TOW launches have very low visual signatures so the Russians may not have known what hit them even assuming they were alert, and there was no time to drive away especially given low Russian reverse gearing. It's not OK to be technically ignorant and have opinions on technology. It's shameful in an adult.
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  2652.  @dianapennepacker6854  That's the point. Less battery, more ammo!
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  2653.  @Berend-ov8of  Things don't really work like you appear to assume.
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  2654.  @matikaevur6299  That demonstrates ingenuity and concealment. I'd rather go to war beside other crafty troops (and did which is why I chose the Air Force).
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  2655. The Western European masses remember nothing once the generations who experienced existential national struggle are out of service. Much of this is thanks the the subersive Left who exist to undermine and implode NATO and the EU in general. All concerned KNEW and KNOW the system is broken but criticism of senior leadership is career seppuku. The public don't really care because they're technologically and militarily illiterate with many new arrivals just there for the money. There is no excuse for bureaucracy and ignorance but like the US Navy's pet abortion the LCS, failure without career consquences is disastrous. As for AFV, NATO vehicle diversity is silly and the UK wanting to build "different" equipment out of vanity makes no sense. It's simpler to standardize on US kit and manufacture that instead. A tiny force doesn't need bespoke equipment made absurdly expensive by small orders.
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  2656. It's not crime but TAXES which are brutal.
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  2657. The UK VOTERS chose their rulers so they must be delighted with the results. They are free to fight back as the US is doing. (Our system is so degenerated it requires considerable outright destruction of toxic departments.)
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  2658. Stupidiy and fire is a bad combination.
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  2659. It ain't over until a verdict, and money can do amazing things.
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  2660. Can oligarchs fly without wings? An experiment is due.
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  2661. Menendez must have pissed off the competition. Dumbass didn't even know how to stash the loot. If he had the least bit of self-respect he'd give himself a shotgun mouthwash.
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  2662. Join the Tapaho tribe and enjoy.
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  2663. NYC are mostly Democrats who chose all this and are proud of it. They should be left to their own devices since the only people who cling pathetically to cities are too scared to leave or too rich to care. Suburbs are where smart people live who work in cities. All those subway stations and interurban light rail stations permit sweet, sweet suburban life where criminals can't afford to live. Economic separation is wonderful but ya need to consciously use it to avoid goblins.
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  2664. Anti-drone coverage will be key now that anyone with a drone and explosives can hit most anything they can reach. Most US vessels were built before drones were a credible threat.
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  2665. Oil is a popular fetish but as a bike mech since the 1970s (multibrand) the most common errors I've encountered are failure to change oil regularly and failure to ensure it's topped of (NOT overfilled which is also bad as high crankcase pressures promote leaks). Coolers work a treat in hot weather but the styling bothers some people. That's fine, mechanics need the work. Bikes with separate primary drives are confined to Harley these days and you'll find Barnett (famous clutch maker since before most reading this were born) recommends different ATF for different clutch engagement behaviors. Oil is disposably cheap so I buy it by the case online along with filters for the same reason I don't buy bog rolls by the sheet. Having your own bench stock saves time and money. I also buy spark plugs and complete engine gasket/seal kits for home bench stock then replace what I use. None of those are getting cheaper and worst case my estate sale will have a few more parts.
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  2666. "Pretty much every PC in the world" never ran Crowdstrike and the fix in fact IS "simple" by IT standards but the VOLUME of affected boxes sux for those cleaning it up.
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  2667. US forces were far tool small and destroying equipment requires getting to it then egressing. A-stan is not small.
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  2668. Post if you are surprised.
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  2669. They really aren't crashing that much, it's that every crash is news and the armed force fly an ENORMOUS sortie load. That training pays off in very low US combat losses but accidents happen in peace and war.
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  2670. The US education system at primary level is terrible so no surprise most people are ignorant.
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  2671. The entire war was a gross strategic mistake perpetuated by senior MILITARY and civilian leadership lies, but Washington couldn't wait to take the bait for other reasons. Invading a country kill one man when rolling like Mossad would have handled it sooner or later (consider how Israel hunted down the Munich killers) ensured enormous loss in blood, treasure and severe degradation in parts of our armed forces vital to NATION-STATE WAR (the important ones, constabulary wars are pure foolishness). America is incapable of producing competent political leaders because the public are simpletons who can't be arsed to learn anything more complex than sports scores. Nothing was learned from Viet Nam (I was alive then but too young to enlist) and nothing will be learned from Afghanistan so we'll do it again somewhere else in another twenty-something years. Still enjoyed my USAF career but it is certain as water is wet if you choose combat arms your sacrifices and those of your brothers and sisters will be "squandered valor" because the US cannot choose wars of choice wisely. Our society doesn't even know how to have that discussion so it does not happen. RIP to the fallen.
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  2672. "In early 2010, Watterson was interviewed by The Plain Dealer on the 15th anniversary of the end of Calvin and Hobbes. Explaining his decision to discontinue the strip, he said, This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did.[34]"
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  2673. The British aren't playing hacky-choppy on the subcontinent these days. They are a popular third worlder scapegoat because saving face is important while objective truth is only valued in the West. Consider WHY the British were able to conquer hundreds of millions from weaker cultures. At what point in history will they own their own choices?
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  2674.  @hhjhj393  I'd post requests on social media to find FSBO sales. My first home which I still own was FSBO which was great because it doesn't show up on a credit check leaving me able to buy my second home while paying off the first. I looked for minimum five acres and agricultural zoning with no or few renters and farm houses good enough to renovate (doing all your own work saves tons of money so my wife and I did).
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  2675. The REAL reason CA legalized weed was money not personal freedom. That was the only way to get it past big business opposition. There is too much money involved for the state not to be greedy which means laws WILL drive prices up which INEVITABLY fosters an alternate illegal market. A free market would mean "free as the grass on a lawn)" not a tax cow for the usual rich who see the little people as peasants.
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  2676. Bootlickers should remember if Afroman has no rights NEITHER DO YOU. Ask innocent pale gun owners wrongly raided by ATF etc how that works out. Homeowners have the right to record events on THEIR property. End qualified immunity (which is effectively qualified IMPUNITY).
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  2677. The average American reads therefore is limited to thinking at an 8th grade level. The results are hilarious.
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  2678. What should socially effective people expect from failures? What are their obligations? We're bombarded with their "needs" but what should be demanded of them in terms of conduct?
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  2679. Drones are undefiled by internal humanity. Drones (so far) are incapable of degenerate human emotions. They do not feel rage when other drones get smoked then take out that rage on innocent civilians. Drones are undefiled by mental exhaustion, stress, emotional distraction or ulterior motives.Drone LOAC compliance can be programmed and will only improve. Humanity unlike innocent (in the sense of being undefiled by emotions for the ability to be righteous implies the choice to be evil exists!) drone are malicious, lustful, greedy and bad. When humans are good it's so noteworthy as to merit praise. When you methodically list everything wrong with humans, that defect list matches what makes us human.
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  2680. I can as I've worked on multiple airframes. The same maintainers don't have to work on all three (though that eventually makes better technicians). Translating tech data then proofreading it against the original isn't exotic. 16s don't break much and are easy to work on. Remember factory tech support is a phone call or email away. Also remember Ukraine only need manage the equivalent of a large mixed DEPLOYMENT. It need not duplicate existing Depot etc infrastructure. If maintainers are trained at least to US standards they'll be immediately capable of most tasks and can ask if they run into difficulty. They'll be replacing LRUs and fixing what they can in the field, not duplicating NATO back shops. Parts will as usual be overhauled, new or have service life remaining if cannibalized to buffer Supply. If they've any sense they'll duplicated the USAF cannibalization program which prevents hangar queens.
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  2681. They permitted their society to do nothing but fail so feeding them just perpetuates the problem. Not my people, not my problem, not my concern and not my duty to (fail to) mitigate the social incompetence of primitives.
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  2682. Real subject matter experts understand the STRATEGIC NECESSITY to have at least some US shipbuilding industry and the Jones Act delivers. There is more to life than chasing the cheapest source of strategic sealift. Ships the US does not own are ships the US cannot control in wartime. Frome a genuine expert in shipping, not some spectator hunting views: https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping
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  2683. You clearly know nothing about air power so why do you have an opinion? Even worse, US politicians are often as ignorant. Air power is not magic especially against dispersed opponents with no key targets to destroy. Iraq was easy because it had an advanced delicate society to destroy. Yemen has no lucrative targets thanks to decades of war.
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  2684. Because Q is an inerrant idiot-seeking missile. The early weeks were hilarious on 4chan, with the few knowing trolls trolling credulous trolls who wanted to believe and were ideal to propagate Q by their own trolling on /pol/ which is the real voice of the US right. Q is deserved because the deserving embrace it. It's fun to watch the dummies dance.
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  2685. Effective enough that James Gavin had his troops collect captured units to use in preference to the feeble bazooka. Panzerfaust descendants are still killing NeoSoviet tanks in 2022 and of course the RPG family is spectacularly successful worldwide.
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  2686. Someone hasn't a clue. Canada has too small a population and manufacturing base to have a "HUGE" fleet let alone man and sustain it. What makes a "HUGE" fleet a defensive necessity vs. other systems that also sink enemy shipping? California alone has a much higher GDP than Canada which has less than forty million population. If worried about invasion just build nuclear weapons and be willing to use them.
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  2687. Ending the war early would spare Russia to prepare the next war, and the clueless forget the war between Russia against civilization Ukraine is permanent. Russian demographics require far more damage to have serious effect on Russian ability to wage the inevitable next war Russian culture demands Never view Asiatic Russia as if it were part of Europe. The fools who made Putin and his oligarchs billions buying gas betrayed their own cultures for money. It's tough for Ukraine but Russia has not yet sustained serious losses in personnel (they don't care about anyone not a Muscovite) or people who matter. Losses so far are the usual bottom feeders except perhaps a privileged few on Moskva. Russia is not "tired" in the sense Western countries tire of war. It can shrug off half a million KIA but the equipment losses are key because metal is expensive while cannon fodder are either free or people like convicts and oppressed rural minorities Moscow prefers deceased.
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  2688. Those cars really mean people use credit to buy stupid toys instead of paying off their property. (I used to sell used cars.) Just because someone buys a toy to impress other simpletons doesn't mean its paid off and repos right now are skyrocketing.
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  2689. Russian behavior is completely normal for their culture and every previous act of war and genocide is proof. The few decent Russians are exiled, executed, imprisoned etc. It is no accident Eastern European countries from Finland south are helping Ukraine for Russia butchered their people too. The Ukrainian people are today welded together by war and the certainty of total social destruction at the hand of the NeoSoviet armed forces and evil clients like Kadyrov. My respect to everyone who fights the Russian menace which is permanent and unceasing. Serving in West Germany on the free side of the Berlin Wall ordered by Russia to imprison Warsaw Pact civilians was enlightening. Today Putin is teaching the world a lesson about fundamental Russian character.
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  2690. A "naturalized citizen" is a mere passport holder not a product of the US, but of course noises are made when the word "American" comes up. Let the locals dispose of the problem. The US has no reason for concern over someone whose loyalties are to another nation. You either put the US first or you're a traitor no one should care to rescue.
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  2691. Citations needed for those random numbers. Russia was and remains permanent existential enemy to Western civilization so sending (mostly superseded) weapons and ordnance to Ukraine is a bargain, not that you'd bother learning history of such a distant region.
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  2692. Rolled steel often has hard areas in an otherwise easy to drill piece which annoys many fabricators. If you want to make all samples consistent a hardness test next to your drilling location would ensure repeatability.
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  2693. College is easily accessible via community colleges but the decline of primary education (due to neglect by local school boards) ensured many HS graduates are not equipped to choose wisely. As for credit, low end (the only kind anyone not wealthy should consider if they want to pay it off before retiring) homes are often sold FSBO which is a great deal for the owner (they get the interest and have the property should the buyer default) and for wise buyers. I bought my first home with no credit check there being no reason for the seller to care, and with it being invisible to credit checks I bought my second home conventionally. Still own both, long paid off due to buying away from where the herd goes. (Growth is bad for people who buy homes to live in as opposed to flip later.) IMO a major problem is people follow the herd, buy too much house (or car, boat, SUV etc) and bury themselves.
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  2694. I suggest you get a job maintaining rental properties. That will erase your respect for tenants.
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  2695. No possible version of Syria would be anything but savage. SYRIANS are pulling the triggers as usual and there is nothing to be done about that, but the dismantling of Syria reduces the threat from that flank to Israel. Assad had to go to remove the Russian basing in Tartus which Gabbard well knows threatens the Med. (Not every pilot is competent at more than airmanship nor immune to clout chasing, see the ongoing SEAL public soap opera for how even the best operators can bicker like children.) There is no hope for Christians outside Israel in the Middle East so if she wants to protect them it's time to hand out visas to the US where their fellow Christians can take care of them. Christian unity demands no less and importing more Christians improves the electoral balance similar to importing Cubans who fled Castro's persecution and reliably vote right-wing.
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  2696. It's obvious in some videos. Vehicles cannot remain in place without being killed and without training and ability (requires effective comms and situational awareness) to use constant maneuver to avoid destruction they just bug out. Stopped vehicles burn.
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  2697.  @cheesetoasty5139  The GOOD Americans with guns are the vast majority and WE need weapons to defend ourselves from urban vermin. The cops protect criminals from citizens, not the reverse.
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  2698. Why would any one in their right mind want to live in the South when the West and East coast exist? You aren't going to change a culture still nostalgic for slavery and lynching. Ever since the British Crown used the region to dump people it quite reasonably wanted out of the UK it's been a den of backwardness in which most of its people take great pride. Rustics worldwide are pretty much (t)aliban, socially unevolved but intensely proud of their ignorance. As fascism rises to power in the US your physical safety will be at risk so arm yourselves if you haven't already and put in enough range time to get good.
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  2699. Every G.I. is subject to politicians making the wrong choices in America's constabulary wars and supporting the TROOPS has nothing at all to do with favoring fundamentally bad strategy. The American public lazily betrays our military by not GENUINELY UNDERSTANDING war and foreign policy then just following other lemmings. "Thank you for your service" means nothing without action. Do thy civic duty, be informed (NOT via any US partisan sources but serious info) and write your legislators intelligently. That is supporting our troops.
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  2700. This is hilarious since sea water turns any immersed conventional vehicle into a total loss. Salt water is amazingly corrosive so this speaks very badly for mainland primary education. Everyone who does this deserves the results because ignorance is a choice.
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  2701. Nailed how the media works!
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  2702. This is couch money for NATO. The US didn't notice over 15,000,000,000 a month during GWOT and most aid is also a high tech jobs program benefiting the US middle class. Bonus, it kills NeoSoviets so seethe harder and send more cannon fodder to the front.
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  2703. Unless a legal way (for example buying current Russian residents out) is found to socially decontaminate the territory for any adjacent country to absorb it would entail adopting a permanent fifth column ensconced there since 1945. The Russian empire would lose it's collective mind over giving up that particular conquest so better to wear it down long before a separate Kaliningrad is brought up. The money to reintegrate it would be more wisely spent acquiring tactical nuclear weapons which defensive deterrent (done CCP style being sufficient to deter war but not for a counterforce or complete countervalue strike is the only way to contain Russia when it inevitably rearms to credibly threaten eastern Europe again. Moderns who didn't live through the earlier innings of the Cold War tend to think of Russia as any other society but with evil leaders, rather than the historic fact of it being utterly unable to produce, support then elevate anyone decent to power. (Exiling, imprisoning and exterminating its intelligentsia since Tsarist times is the natural way to control such a vast, socially diverse empire so that's standard procedure dating long before the grandparents of anyone reading this was born.) Putin's replacement may be much more dangerous but as with Putin, naive, craven, desperate Western (q)uislings motivated by avarice will hallucinate that the next fellow is really a nice fellow. The permanent appeasement reflexes of Western Europe wax and wane but never end. Norway/Sweden/Finland/the Baltics and of course Ukraine CURRENTLY have a realistic understanding of Russia's desire to reconstruct the old Warsaw Pact but once personal experience is gone the next generations (anywhere, for example the US which was once an anti-Soviet stalwart) often greet the Kremlin with legs akimbo. Only credible, PERMANENT standing military forces sufficient to slow enemy advance along with very large PROPERLY EQUIPPED and TRAINED reserves coupled with sufficient nukes to decapitate Russia if it strikes first can be truly effective deterrents. Nukes have kept the peace since 1945 (sadly, Curtis LeMay wasn't allowed to solve the Soviet problem before they got nukes) and are the only way to deter serious enemies. Note Ukraine gave up its nukes because it fvcked up and trusted Washington. The moral is never rely on allies to save one's bacon.
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  2704. Gross neglect of the once magnificent NATO forces is greatly responsible for Putin invading Ukraine. Helplessness never commands respect. Preparatus bellum, forever without excuses.
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  2705. Used in moderation and monitored by USAF flight surgeons Dexedrine pills are used for long ferry flights with no ill effects, but those are brief events. The alertness is quite "clean" compared to a caffeine headache. Unfortunately most humans are unintelligent and misuse pretty much everything they touch so while most "speed" consumers don't end badly those who do end badly end VERY badly. Weak personalities (not "immoral", just "weak") are often easily addicted to anything. I never met any sort of addict who was not a waterfall of self-pity and excuses, nicotine and booze included.
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  2706. There is a reasonable solution to the Left and Francisco Franco found it during the Spanish Civil War.
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  2707. I escaped New Jersey decades ago and am delighted every day that I did.
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  2708. Unlike the 1970s OPEC crisis the West is in much better shape to weather oil supply disruptions. Disruptions affect transportation less and less as BEVs and hybrids are fielded. Another "gas crisis" would further force the world away from enriching the corrupt Gulf states which they weren't sitting on oil would be irrelevant and dealt with accordingly.
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  2709. Zoos need to end. Animals don't belong in jail and humans can watch all they like onscreen.
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  2710. How about adding affordability instead of feature bloat?
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  2711.  @ksmith96  Refusal to believe any evidence for anything exists is as bad as believing in everything. Soviet propaganda of the time (I was alive then) very much made a race of it and they were quite proud of their work. There are far more media sources than the US government. Most Americans read at therefore are limited to thinking at an 8th grade level. That means they can cannot grasp complex concepts. If they didn't see it happen, it's not real to them.
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  2712. The problem with malls is the a portion of the urban public. It's horrifically wasteful of time, fuel and effort to drive to buy objects. Top tier malls filter out dengerous customers. Thinning the herd is good news for all concerned. Examine malls which do well, and examine their parent communities.
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  2713. Society has a natural defensive reaction against the toxic therefore worthless (age is irrelevant, only good citizens should matter at all). Modern technology should permit their location easily enough.
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  2714. That's a huge surprise since the south is culturally so submissive to employers, WELL DONE!
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  2715. This is YOUTUBE not intel photos.
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  2716. Sal should be the default Fox reference for all things maritime and it's good that someone noticed! His encyclopedic PERSONAL EXPERIENCE and of course his doctorate are demonstrated on his channel. See his work also for any Jones Act questions (a subject on which the general public are illiterate as they are with shipping both civil and military in general). Sal is a stellar educator and these subjects must be looked at in depth to be understood.
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  2717. This is why a media server you control matters along with never giving untrustworthy devices internet access.
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  2718. I bought my home to LIVE IN. An odd concept perhaps, but it's been paid off for decades and I chose to live where I wanted to retire. I took care to NOT treat my home as an investment but as a way to live in retirement with minimal overhead. This worked very well and is not rocket surgery. Many of my friends did the same. Keep it small, OWN it all and slash your overhead. If the bottom drops out of the economy (recessions are perfectly normal so life plans should include them) that doesn't affect my housing cost.
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  2719. There is no "army" sized force in question.
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  2720. Clickbait nonsense. A transponder tells other aircraft and ATC where you are but has nothing to do with CFIT. Leaving the transponder off prevents the entire world from seeing your flight path which makes perfect sense when you have enemies. Unless there is now a special sort of mountain which can move of its own volition when a transponder approaches it transponder status isn't relevant to this crash. It would be nice if only technically literate literate aviationists commented on such things, not mere infotainers.
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  2721. The more deceased gopnik cannon fodder the better. Russian culture is why they genocide their neighbors so the fewer breathing the better.
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  2722. People imagine the control works in that direction without any historic evidence of such. Superstition is the sole reason anyone outside Israel cares about Israel, and that superstition directs US policy towards sacred dirt.
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  2723. Canadians proudly elected Trudeau and will replace him with another marxist because liberal voters are not intelligent enough to demand wise government. All this is self-inflicted and it will continue. Where does the idea come from that more workers were needed? Growth ONLY HELPS THE RICH developer class. Growth does NOT help socially marginalized groups, it just prices them out of opportunities. Growth is only useful to the banker/investor class who have never not been enemies of the people.
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  2724. I rather liked the military style (in KSA) but they're not for everyone. If my home burnt down I'd call in four High Cubes and break out the welder but I've done shops before.
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  2725. Lower prices won't turn garbage into gold. Unless you are rich enough to pay cash AND own your home and land AND have your retirement investments locked down AND hate yourself it's still a hard pass. This mechanic has zero use for anything Stellantis tries to hook chumps with.
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  2726. I'd like to see a video specifically covering UN-professional shipping practices. corrupt shippers, pencil-whipped marine surveyor inspections etc. In every business some degree of corruption and incompetence is normal be it high or low, but the maritime world likely has many unique differences from other transport.
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  2727. A complete ramjet with the jet engine in front as a coaxial flow inducer is an interesting variation on afterburner/reheat that makes up for the then-primitive fuel controls and other jet engine tech.
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  2728. Disney's Snow White is cultural appropriation. Casting a goblin was a mistake too.
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  2729. Age is no excuse to be trash. Don't cut old people a break, they should damn well know better. (I'm old, and know better.)
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  2730. That might be why that vatnik commander killed himself when he saw the real MC rate. I've been to some ugly maintenance meetings but never that ugly.
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  2731. Most Air Force bases are IN red states so the idea they'd turn on their own families is rather stupid. Areas around military bases are saturated with people VERY cynical about the Left. We are called "veterans" and besides a few flakes most are solidly pro-Constitution. The libs don't enlist in any numbers so guess who runs most of the armed forces?
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  2732. People who move to good places RUIN them by changing them to what those people tried to escape. If you don't fit, GO AWAY. Small towns don't need urban invaders who already ruined their Blue cities and run from the consequences.
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  2733. The alternative is to use piracy to grow your brand. A musical example of ENCOURAGING taping concerts was the Grateful Dead. Cater to fans and fans respond.
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  2734. DIY and planning solved that for me and my modest homes. Tools pay for themselves and more because I don't have to pay electricians (except to inspect my work), plumbers, vehicle mechanics, computer techs, arborists etc. What one human can do another can do.
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  2735. What utter tripe. No reason exists to invest in Haiti but feel free to put your money there. Haiti is as it is by HAITIAN choice. They're literally savages but their country belongs to them and if they refuse to save it, so what? Their land, their vodou, their rules. Keep them from spreading so they either fix their third world shithole or choke on it.
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  2736. The sky is falling.
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  2737. The dealer I worked for retired very rich because he was brilliant. He did not "finance". He did sell on time payments! There is a major difference because there was no change in price for early payoff and because if you do not lend money you do not have to deal with all the paperwork required and the much more expensive accounting. Another wise move was telling customers that if they could not make payments but were nice enough to return the vehicle so it would not have to be repo'ed, he did not legally consider it a repo and would sell them a different vehicle in the future with no fuss. He sold to multiple generations of the same family.
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  2738. Where did "zero for veterans" come from? I'm a retired USAF vet and most of the time the government end of the contract is honored. Do you actually believe nothing is spent on veterans? If you see a so-called homeless vet, don't give them squat without proof which every veteran knows how to get if they lost their DD-214. Stolen valor in search of loot is very real. I offer to take so-called homeless vets to the VA and help them through the process but not one has taken me up on it.
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  2739. The public elect the problem. If they unarse their heads they can stop electing problems but that requires effort to learn the details of civic duty in a democratic republic. Systems are made by and of people so it's not structures but the voters who decide how the worst quality of government they choose to install.
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  2740. The only way to stop this nonsense is NEVER to buy chit that requires remote authentication to use, so I don't and I missed absolutely noting. The only vote we get is with our wallets.
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  2741. Every choice has a price. Humans are unintelligent savages for the most part and require heavy imposed discipline. Japan has domestic peace and that's worth a few mistakes which WILL happen under any system. As for US military issues simply put all bases on permanent lockdown like they are in the Middle East. G.I.s (I'm a career USAF vet) get paid more than enough to not interact with locals except on official business.
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  2742. Firefox is sponsored by Google and completely effective at blocking Youtube adverts thanks to extensions. Google know their market. They can monetize non-techie cattle, pay to ensure Firefox exists to avoid browser monopoly accusations, and laugh all the way to the bank.
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  2743. Who still shops at brick and mortar instead of online? Brick and mortar stores are for brick and mortar or groceries. Target chose their fate and I am laughing.
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  2744. On one hand an expensive vehicle was lost, on the other the world is minus a rich Democrat.
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  2745. Bustin' nuts indeed than discreetly disposing of the human evidence elsewhere.
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  2746. FINISH THEM OFF. I do not buy from racist sexist companies.
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  2747. His replacement may be competent which is even worse. Ultra-nationalists could be much more dangerous. Of course outsiders will be desperate to praise his replacement (like Putin was once praised by useful fools) so the tyrant cycle will repeat as usual.
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  2748. The vast majority of the production is in manual labor. What is the actual percentage cost of the raw materials and what are their margins in which specific markets? The amount of cement used per tile is quite small, yet large construction projects continue using thousands of tons. More useful detail is required to understand the actual market reality.
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  2749. The Empire was by and for the rich while commoners were expendable.
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  2750. Close stores in bad areas and sell online. HD already delivers.
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  2751.  @HVACQualityAssurance  Fmr. jet engine troop among other things. Very cool to see ships taking advantage of the very light weight and high HP of turbines based on aircraft engines.
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  2752. Great video by Emu!
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  2753. Many small engine carbs are cast from ZINC alloys which corrode more easily than aluminum. I finally did the smart thing when storing my carbed trucks. I unbolt the carb, bolt on an engine lift plate to seal the intake, turn the carb upside down, let dry then store safely in a sealed ammo can indoors.
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  2754. About time we took steps to finish the Cold War. NeoSoviets knew what they signed up for. While some clueless social traitors don't understand why containment to prevent a Russian nationalist empire respawn is very much in US national interest, they fail to understand Russia is the architect of the ENTIRE modern Left worldwide and has been subverting civilization for over a century.
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  2755. An early cease fire would permit Russia to recover and prepare for the next attack. Those not familiar with Russian history may imaging this war the work of one administration but nothing could be further from the truth as past Russian wars and conduct demonstrate long before Putin was born. Russia has not sustained enough demographic damage to severely weaken it and unlike civilized nations losses have little or no moral impact. However they do add up and war discourages many Russians from breeding more future murderers. The few decent Russians have as usual either escaped overseas if they're intelligent or are in hiding from the rest. There will be no color revolution in Russia (except possibly a feeble one instantly subverted in the traditional Bolshevik manner and perhaps set up by the FSB to draw out its enemies).
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  2756. What level of dumbass would take this channel as more than viewbait?
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  2757. Democrats are replacing the African-American voting bloc with one that is ALREADY growing faster and AOC is part of it making her an enemy. NY's mayor can void Mayor Koch's old Executive Order in minutes with a stroke of a pen by drafting a new order rescinding it. No one but me even mentions that order.
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  2758. I scan or photocopy fresh gaskets before use so I've a permanent reference, and for simple ones save a good gasket as a pattern. 3D printing gaskets and gasket templates is becoming common so when I figure out how to scan gaskets I'll do that, too.
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  2759. It's smoke. BFD. Newsdroids getting desperate and it shows.
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  2760. When you have one vehicle it may as well be a "station wagon" and that is what SUVs really are in functional terms. US station wagons since the first were very similar to trucks and often had the same engines and transmissions. Room and easy entrance/exit from taller vehicles is a comfort bonus. The people who don't understand don't want to because most people are unable to understand anyone with a different vehicle use case than themselves.
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  2761.  @mcnuggetapple  The company deserves the axe and the bikes getting cheaper used is good news. (Index funds are investments, bikes are for riding.) Many are sold because the buyers were the usual posers who can't tell a compensating nut from a gas cap. That's why their low-mileage rides go cheap.
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  2762. No xamination of trucking is complete without examining how some drivers are set up to fail while others prosper. Being an owner-operator is often a trap set by the company to offload its expenses. Remember the object of a job is MONEY and even the prettiest rig is as expendable as a used condom. When you make payments on a depreciating expensive asset that machine is nothing but a ball and chain.
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  2763. Interesting that India is so in love with Putin whose dealings with conquered territory are quite like how the British Crown abused India.
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  2764. Laws and Presidents do not make choices for people on the block who never obey laws in the first place. MOST of America is quite safe, but some locals think crime is cool so they celebrate murder in music. Government can't fix people.
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  2765. Non-technical humans are lesser humans who should not be trusted to make technical decisions because they are not mentally equipped to do so correctly. Politicians are especially pernicious because they derive their power from a tech-illiterate public incapable of riding herd on them. A review of dam failures reflects this pattern and considering the best documented are in the capitalist West the NeoCapitalist East cannot reasonably plead racism. Humans are ONE race and most of them aren't very bright, intelligence being a matter of luck and an abnormality. There is ample Chinese scientific talent. Their politicians should consider listening to their scholars with (supposedly traditional) reverence for the scholar, the scientist and the engineer give us civilization.
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  2766. The only point of living in SC is RETIREMENT in RURAL areas. I detest cities but am glad other people live there.
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  2767. I remember when I and millions of others recommended Firefox to new users. That was a long time ago.
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  2768. Everything he said has been obvious for DECADES. Russian war colleges knew it too. The hilarious part is Putin's troops never studied war and it's too late now.
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  2769.  @SandboxxApp  Hypersonic is the buzzword du jour for tech-illiterates.
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  2770. Why is there what appears to be ships anchor chain atop the pipeline under construction at 1:33?
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  2771. You couldn't manage to get the aircraft MODEL right and expect to be taken seriously? Shill detected.
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  2772. Influencers don't influence me. The sooner we learn to hold popular culture in contempt then ignore it (except where not ignoring it turns a profit!) the better. Too many people live in "learned helplessness" in an era when we have the libaries of history at out fingertips.0
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  2773. I gave away my jack stands many years ago and use wooden cribbing and bare rims instead. Horizontal rims work on sand and dirt (the reason self-service salvage yards use them) and can be nested small into large for tall trucks etc. Wooden cribbing is also unlikely to tip and doesn't crush (the USAF uses cribbing to store 2000lb bombs at deployed locations because it works). Cribbing is less likely to slide than the ram of any stand and done right no ordinary human can push the vehicle over. I let my ~2ft long 6x6 and 4x4 cribbing marinate in used engine oil because I store them outdoors.
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  2774.  @ladye2818  Formal training is not required but is beneficial. I recommend people take auto mechanics as their first formal training because of the many systems they will learn all of which skills make understanding home and other DIY much easier. I've trained techs from aircraft to vehicles over many years. Your local community college often has useful courses (HVAC is another good one for DIYers) and financial aid can make those free or nearly so. Adult education is large fun!
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  2775. One war is not like the other. Afghanistan was a typical CONSTABULARY operation AGAINST THE WILL OF THE AFGHAN PEOPLE, as Viet Nam was against most of the real nationalists. Ukraine OTOH is part of the long Western struggle with Bolshevism and its kin. Russia is responsible for nearly all of the global Left and subversion for well over a century.
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  2776. From this freaks long arrest record: https://channel3now.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Jeffrey-Escalante-moreno-mugs-DPs-1.pdf "NAME(S) ESCALANTE,JEFFERY G ESCALANTE,JEFFERY GENESSE ESCALANTE,JEFFERY MORENO G ESCALANTE-MORENO,JEFFERY ESCALANTE-MORENO,JEFFERY G ESCALANTE-MORENO,JEFFREY ESCALANTE-MORENO,JEFFREY G ESCALANTEMORENO,JEFFREY (PRIMARY)"
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  2777. Luxury foods are rather stupid when you think about it because craving flavor is mental weakness. Life is much better and longer if you purge everything silly from it.
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  2778.  @Garbeaux.  Flooding Europe with migrants is a classic subversion strategy much different than regulated immigration of SKILLED, EDUCATED people. Humans without skills and education are toxic to any society.
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  2779. Yemen has no sovereignty outside Yemeni waters.
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  2780. That was as funny as Russian government is honest.
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  2781. Men who don't care if a woman is competent are fools BTW because that allows them to accept a dumbass female. My late wife was hyper-competent which was key to me marrying her. No one should have to think for two people and morons make moron mistakes. Competence has nothing to do with being a feminist or a thot.
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  2782.  @TheZachLife  That's easy to do. I buy used of course since the small ones are easy to exchange. Another way is extra hose so it reaches from the truck and medium-sized cylinders. Acetylene is pricey lately and if you practice LP is easy to cut with but harder to see the flame. Any US-made torches soft parts will work with both fuels and while cheaper R-grade hose isn't rated for LP many people use it for many years. T-grade is what I buy new since it lasts much longer and will be less likely to dry out in your oil patch hot weather. LP cutting tips are the only difference and heating tips interchange. I prefer acetylene for precision work. You can braze with either but LP won't gas weld. I collect vintage US torches and rebuild my own regs (not ancient ones but Victor SR series etc). Smith and many others can be rebuilt and kits are available online. Torches are like guns (ergonomics are personal) but old Victor, Smith, Oxweld/Purox/Linde/L-tec/ESAB and Airco are excellent quality covering all bases. Victor is most common in the field. An HVAC style tote is plenty for removing hardware so you'd be fine with one and their small torches are great for sheet metal work on your projects. Check out tinmantech for some gas welding pron.
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  2783. BEV were a mistake in the first place and an impressive fire hazard (disingenuous comparisons to the contrary).Europeans rightly understand the US is no longer an ally so they've no reason to care what happens to US manufacturers. Europe should be building its own designs in the first place.
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  2784. Buying any new vehicle is almost always foolish unless your home and land are paid off, your retirement savings are already enough to retire on TODAY, and you otherwise have money to burn. I am NEVER upside down on a vehicle because I pay cash then drive mine for decades. That helped me retire in my forties though I have never been rich.
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  2785. "Proves everyone wrong"? Blanket statement much? What qualifies anyone who is not an experienced transmission technician with ample time overhauling and troubleshooting a SPECIFIC transmission to have a technical opinion on that SPECIFIC transmission? @obdriver6 is a Subaru technician, not a "content creator"/entertainer: "As a Subaru tech, I 100% agree. I was impressed with the cvt on the new WRX. It’s much improved over the last generation. That being said, reliability is another factor." How well are these boxes faring at high mileage in the real world?
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  2786. Nothing of value is lost.
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  2787. Civilization requires public order. Public order requires FORCE. Put the boots to the bums and drunks and junkies. Stop confusing bottom feeders with people. Humanity is vast and that means vast numbers of trash we used to be able to eject from areas populated by those of us who are good. Unelect the Left.
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  2788. Clickbait lie title. They sometimes do but not enough.
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  2789. Dressing up in ritual expensive clothing is annoying to actually DO. Dressing up is for poor people trying to front.
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  2790. America is for American citizens. No moral obligation exists outside a nation's own nationals. If the tired and poor aren't born here they can fix their own nations. The bronze hoe in the harbor was worker bait during the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION which is ancient history. The failure of the rest of the world is their problem.
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  2791. Typical Democrat voted in by typical Democrats. They deserve to get exactly what they chose at the ballot box so I hope the RE-elect her and the place turns into a ghost town. She IS the peoples mayor. She is exactly like her supporters and spectators need to understand that is why they voted for her.
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  2792. Anything is cleanable. I worked for a dealer who repair Copart buys and when we got one with blood on an otherwise good seat a couple of weeks outdoors with sun and a little rain solved that. The worst is when someone gets in a wreck with a trunk full of meat from a store run. Several weeks of summer heat makes those so nasty we'd unbolt external parts. pull the front clip and drivetrain then off to the crusher. A few days before my first salvage gig in 1978 they had a mystery vehicle dumped by the yard overnight with a corpse inside. The cops towed that one off.
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  2793.  @esp719191980  A vote for Democrats is a vote to give away your birthright. You chose your fate.
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  2794. That's generally useless in the US which has nil consumer protection in real life unless catastrophic damage, injury or death ensue.
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  2795. The Stockton Rush testing in production method works on software too.
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  2796. Fictionalized Hollywood trash is for people too trifling to enjoy fact and history served without childish embellishment. Hollywood would just screw it up and there is no shortage of action movies.
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  2797. Most of the cargo is deep in the holds so the Dali is not "top heavy". Heavier weight loads are reviewed using computerized systems so each container's load is placed for best safety. The bridge sections are only partly supported by Dali's bow and the objective is for most of the structure to depart in a controlled manner.
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  2798. Not yet "pretty" but it's well in range of those numbers and the longer the war lasts the more lasting damage it does to enemy demographics. Between Russians escaped to avoid conscription and dead/severely wounded troops the social demoralization will be lasting. When Russians cease producing new Russians for economic or other reasons that limits future cannon fodder while reducing individual poverty.
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  2799.  @daniellarson3068  When the alternative is a drumhead court martial then a bullet it would often be more courageous to resist execution. Stalin's administration lavishly used execution to control his troops.
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  2800. Observant enemy senior leadership know how easy it is to block US ports using blockships. Measures to prevent this should be considered before it happens. Terrorists could make short work of it with any of many practical explosive devices while infiltrating a foreign vessel isn't rocket surgery.
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  2801. For homeowners with detached housing (anyone with less money doesn't need a new car of any sort) adding a second single phase service is often very reasonable. I did so to power my workshops and not disturb my old service (which given the distance to my garage would have been stupidly expensive anyway). I've all the power my shop equipment could need and adding a BEV would be effortless. I had a pole placed with an outdoor service panel and 240/120V outdoor outlets before building my shop so I had immediate power to work with. Many prospective BEV owners are techies so I mention that in case they also want a serious workshop.
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  2802. Russian theatrics are amusing and grand guignol is expected. The media cycle means he needs to stay visible to stay relevant. Like maintaining views on profitable Youtube channels by exuding breathless excitement daily, Priggy is playing to a very specific audience and the rest are irrelevant. He is desperately jockeying for relevance but if he jockeys too hard he'll end up like separatists Motorola and Givi, or various skydiving oligarchs. Bombs are deniable. On another note, have some excellent videos of experienced Ukrainian forces daily life turning vatniks into useful compost: https://www.youtube.com/@hromadske_ua
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  2803. I've seen far better welds from farmers (including my welding instructorwho was also a pipeliner). Everything about that "repair" was obviously inexcusable trash. We trained students straight off the block and their first day welds looked far better than that. Farmers with sense have built and modded all sorts of equipment using 6011 and an AC transformer machine (the old industrial units from when high OCV AC was much more common have some very nice arcs). At least the owner of that drawbar brought it to a competent repairman.
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  2804. For some fun (but it will be controversial!) examine consanguinity among high crime demographics. No one intelligent would live in Oakland and any adult has had their whole life to plan an escape which means if they're still there they are there by CHOICE. Good people don't live in these hoods. The young are criminals and the old are either criminals or retired criminals.
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  2805. The inbreds who think its cool don't care who they blind at night with their lights aimed at the sky. Squatted trucks are a safe buy because they are not used for towing or hauling.
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  2806. Just avoid urban trash. Cities are toxic (unless you are rich) so I don't live there. I came from the NY metro area, scraped it off and don't miss it. Chart your own path and IGNORE YOUR PEERS. Only those with more wisdom and life experience deserve emulation (after thoughtful consideration because most humans are rather stupid).
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  2807. This Boomer who is comfortably retired agrees with your post. Those who want fun cars should (and back in the day were expected to) learn to wrench and get good. I would never buy a new car though I could buy one for cash. Debt is slavery.
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  2808.  @attitune  No one needs a NEW car. No one needs an expensive vehicle. Choosing to be mechanically helpless then buying toys instead of utilitarian tool vehicles is a common boomer mistake. I buy used vehicles then keep them for at least twenty years. So do the wise farmers etc I learned from.
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  2809. Trade disruptions would have the effect of tariffs without a trade war. Most US imports are trifles, not survival needs.. The "world" doesn't matter unless the US also benefits or the "world" can build their own damn navies. Infinite un-reciprocated charity should be questioned. If a few non-US flagged vessels registered in Bungholistan get captured or sunk the real owners can pay to sort it out including paying for security. It's only money. BTW most US oil trade is DISCRETIONARY which means IRL it is of no great benefit to our economy. We can pump more oil domestically while investing further in alternate energy if Persian Gulf oil is interrupted. It's not 1973 any more and Americans build BEVs just fine. I would like to see more Gulf instability to help coerce US and European industries off the petroleum teat because the oil exporting countries of the Persian Gulf don't deserve the money of free peoples. The only reason they get our money is (in the case of the US) logistics convenience for the oil companies and (in the case of Europe) failure to develop their own oil, gas and nuclear (though France does nukes better than anyone else not being ignorant Luddites) energy. Nothing else will do the job and the alternative is permanent slavish craven US and EU dependence on their Gulf cultural enemies. We've seen the EU can detach from Russia and the next tyrannies to defund are KSA and Iran. Sending money to Wahabis in KSA etc and Jihadists in Tehran is a function of greed not need. We pay them to oppress their own citizens while funding their wars.
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  2810. It cannot be considered an act of god because either it was a human pilotage error, mechanical malfunction due to human error, or sabotage which of course requires human choice to do so. Where would imaginary celestial friends be directly involved?
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  2811. I rather enjoy seeing Leftists at odds. They took over academia in the 1960s so this is not a problem for anyone else in any respect.
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  2812.  @tazragames6770  Like the Winter War which cost Russia so many losses even Stalin halted the invasion?
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  2813. Tech companies refuse to make genuinely rugged notebooks at volumes giving economies of scale. Note that ruggedizing notebooks is CHEAP but makers choose to grotesquely overprice them for their captive audience.
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  2814. Moscow will fight on to the last Buryat! What a flawlessly degenerate culture to send its young men to be slaughtered for much worse than nothing. Muscovy delenda est.
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  2815. Thanks to this channel I learned much maritime activity is an utter clown show, to include sending cruise ships into combat zones. That anyone would book a cruise through the area is hilariously absurd.
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  2816. If someone is nodded out at their desk why annoy them? This situation is really just a bunch of frothing because there is nil reason to bother people who aren't causing a problem. Snoozing is their business and snitching is not popular. If you do not do a job which requires frequent personal interaction this is no surprise. Neither is the odor as most people have not personally smelt decomposing humans who first world cultures tend to quicky dispose of everything uncomfortable.
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  2817. How boring is the UK that someone would even consider the US interesting when they can choose from so much more? There is no culture here worthy of mention that you cannot download.
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  2818. There are no airframes. Where do you imagine Gripens will come from?
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  2819.  @robson668  F-16s can operate from austere conditions and that's been done often. How many years experience do you have maintaining aircraft in a combat environment or are you just repeating memes? Digging under the highway??? Tell us you know nothing about HAS without telling us you know nothing about HAS. Besides being blatantly obvious from space and requiring enormous effort, shelters beneath roads (which do not usefully resist bombs or missiles) will be prone to flooding during rasputitsa.
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  2820. Word to silly people. DO NOT "SMOKE" when that is high risk or annoying to the humans you live with. Ingestion can be discreet with equal or much stronger effects and you don't stink out your house. Delta 9 gummies for example work a treat and are why I can get a little rest despite chronic (no pun intended!) pain and living in a state that's so backward half the population are nostalgic for slavery. Legal gummies also why I can manage sever chronic pain (multiple fusions, spine like a house of cards) flareups without taking more opiates (most of the time). Smoking is unkind to your lungs and wastes most of the cannabis. BTW lock up thy materials where your snotlings cannot find them no matter what they are. Someone will ALWAYS do the stupid thing because most humans are unintelligent, but that someone need not be you if you give some thought to the challenges.
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  2821. America is broken because its culture was fundamentally rustic from the start. (The gentlemen in this video are nothing like ordinary Americans.) The Crown wisely used the Colonies to be rid of "waste people". That did not have immediate effect because our early upper class still produced genuinely educated leaders. It did so because the Founders and peers were influenced by the Enlightenment. That era ended with populism and the inevitable outcome of democracy, idiocracy, which can only promote simple demagogues appealing to what Mencken rightly called the booboisie. The modern world is complex but most Americans read at therefore CANNOT THINK BEYOND an 8th grade level. That should be terrifying. Illiteracy used to be shameful back when Americans were capable of shame but today self-neglect is just fine like all intellectual degeneracy. It's acceptable to be ignorant and stupid. It's acceptable to be low and base. It's acceptable and sometimes admired for an adult to think like a child. In democracy the people are responsible by action or inaction for their fate. America is not a victim of externalities but that explanation comforts the silly. Fortunately we're very good at technology and nation-state war.
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  2822. Geography ensures neither can decisively win without nuclear weapons. Iran can perpetually expend ground troops and fire thousands of missiles, but Israel can strike Iranian oil infrastructure to hit the economy.
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  2823. N00bs AssUme "running out" means having none rather than working down to the "least restorable" which is no the same thing. Remember consumable and wear parts are not always what the US military (I fixed fighters not AFVs so feel free to correct to terrestrial terminology) calls "feasible canns". It doesn't take much to deadline any vehicle if a particular component is not available, for example due to being removed in bulk in the past to turn in as cores for refurb, upgrade and of course for overseas parts sales to support thousands of vehicles sold and donated. Old vehicles malfunction more often UNLESS overhauled to "zero time" which when properly done remanufactures a vehicle or component to new condition. That's FAR too expensive for tanks expected to last perhaps weeks in combat (quite like WWII). Of course any "garage" is suitable for some degree of inspection and maintenance so consolidating the fleet at that base makes perfect sense.
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  2824. Jeffery Epstein should have switched beliefs as he would have made a fine Pope.
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  2825. The Navy is a neglected service whose work is far away from most of CONUS so the American public could not care less what it does so long as they are not confronted with it. The scandal has already faded and and in not many years will fade from military memory just like lessons from past wars.
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  2826. Contemporary tech was impressively primitive by modern standards, maintenance-intensive and had poor reliability. Even operatiing trains was dangerous, let alone shipping. Look over machinery of the early 1900s and ignore survivor bias. It's impressive it worked at all, the major exceptions being overbuilt hydroelectric plant some of which remains in use.
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  2827. If you want to nudge things along stir the pot regarding Israel which has the Left divided. The Left care far more about Israel than they do about POC but that's beginning to shift and the convention protests are hilarious. The Democratic party is about using gullible poor folks to elect and serve rich folks and it's an epic finesse.
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  2828. What do recent MILITARY studies of medevac times indicate? What differs between state of the art military trauma care and civilian methods?
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  2829. An affordable inconvenience. The US has multiple carrier battle groups and global basing because wars are natural to humanity. Realigning who makes what and how it's shipped is only a matter of money.
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  2830. Why would anyone who isn't rich want a new car until every other debt they have is paid off (especially mortgage) and their retirement savings are already maxed out? I could buy new for cash because I'm far too smart to buy new at all. That's how I retired debt-free at 47 (without consulting any financial advisor including all the Youtube scamming vermin). Of course since only a few people are capable of wise choices (because they consider "learned helplessness" acceptable) there will always be used cars for me, and they'll be affordable since I did what most kids were once expected to do and learnt to work on what I own (which more than pays for some very nice tools over time including my welding shop, sand blaster and industrial air compressors. If you don't want to be ripped off, choose to be competent. (Women can too, my wife was a skilled USAF helicopter mech and my mom worked on the PBY Catalina manufacturing line during WWII.) Choose competence. All it takes is determination.
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  2831. You're a brave lad. Emigrate at any cost because things will never get better and the world is a very large place with opportunities for intelligent people like yourself.
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  2832.  @emilsinclair4190  Comfort matters greatly to reduce exhaustion. Which APC have you trained or fought in?
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  2833. Democratic voters getting what they voted for is always amusing.
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  2834. Blocking adverts is fun! So is sailing the high seas. I have zero empathy for megacorps and no interest in what mental/social weaklings thing of that. I almost never see adverts thanks to extensions and pihole, and I run a variety of browsers for the convenience of having some locked down and others not (and to keep up with their offerings). I didn't like push content before the internet and hate it even more now.
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  2835.  @Jane5720  My credit cards cost me nothing thanks to using my credit unions. Debit cards do not have the protections credit cards do. I pay mine off early and have done so for over 30 years I pay no interest. I refuse to own a debit card or any card directly connected to my bank accounts. I require MY personal action to pay my cards off so a scammer or hacker is limited to whatever they get before the credit union locks the card which they've done perfectly the three times it was needed. I require redundant backup so I've two credit unions (one in each state where I own property), multiple bank accounts so no single bank failure would unduly disrupt my finances, a Visa from each credit union which are not on autopay, and last but not least I still use paper checks for the simple reason a grid or credit card processors outage or natural disaster won't interrupt me paying local debts. This way is simple, EASY and reliable. Organization pays off. I'm far from rich and only net a bit under $70K/year but a third to half that is discretionary income.
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  2836.  @I007Dee  I've only done that for decades and it works a treat.
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  2837. "Mechanics" are not going to suffer so please abandon that innocent, well intentioned but mistaken idea. Remember in the US mechanics usually own all our tools and equipment so the barriers to starting your own shop are modest outside very expensive areas. Many of us have better motorcycle workshops at home than most dealers. No mechanic worth their salt doesn't have more than a lifetime of employment AND side work could finish. Good mechanics never starve and we can work on anything because we understand theory of operation. If you can wrench bikes you can (and MANY mechanics do) move into industry, aviation etc and make more money. I did and I'm far from special. There are many videos of car guys (fewer with bikes as there are fewer powersports industry techs) quitting that part of the industry for much greener pastures. I'm a multibrand car and bike mech with decades in aviation as my primary careers so this is not speculation. Insulting your core demographic is nothing new to HD as senior bikers remember quite well from the "flip the patch" era. Real bikers do not need (want is not need) anything the new company makes. Street bikes in the US are TOYs, not transportation (the exceptions prove the rule and know who you are) and toy buyers are already receding from motorcycling. Why buy product from a company which supports .pdf files, gr00ming and gender surgery upon children too young to make informed consent? I don't want the new HD to get better, I prefer it go bankrupt as the aftermarket already amply support every Harley ever made. There will always be plenty of used rides and parts to assemble new ones. Real bikers spin our own wrenches. Remember the REASON the old motorcycle culture existed (and remains strong in niche areas like hot rodding, chopping, drag racing etc) is mechanical mutual support. Commodification, especially marketing to posers, ended most of that culture which today mostly exists among vintage riders. If HD crumples the massive US aftermarket (all small businesses BTW) can easily supply every part in stock or upgraded form which is why you can build a better "big twin" without a single Milwaukee nut, bolt or washer. HD as a company should be excommunicated to show the American people really can punish their woke oppressors. A new generation of younger riders (especially in chopperdom) are building their own rides and discovering there is far more to bikerdom than riding an appliance.
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  2838. Legalize cannabis (plenty is grown there anyway) in a manner encouraging maximum production. Undercut the competition and don't get crazy with taxes.
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  2839. Shaping operations matter, my dear vatnik shill. The idea of simple dramatic game changers is for children and other inferior intellects. War is a contest of systems of systems. Disabling sealift and missile launch platforms reduces the amount of ordnance shot at Ukraine.
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  2840. Most people are idiots so I'm not surprised.
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  2841. I use wooden cribbing to capture lifting progress first responder style so whatever I lift does not depend on the jack. I fell out of love dragging heavy jacks so I switch to an air bag jack which is ideal because I already own CO2 cylinders for MIG welding and "power tank" style uses. I also made a bag jack from an 18-wheeler suspension air bag to lift heavier stuff like forty-foot shipping containers when placing them. Of course I have pantograph jacks (truck versions preferred) with nuts welded on so I can use my impact gun, Hi-Lift jacks I no longer use much, and so called "railroad" jacks (Simplex only because I consider other latches dangerous) including a chain grab manual telepone pole placer with a chain grab on top. The moral here is one can never have too great a variety because that makes less common lifts easy. I gave away my conventional jack stands long ago as they're far too dangerous for my liking while cribbing and scrap rims can support most any vehicle safely. Self-service yards use (typically one vertical rim nested in a horizontal rim) rims to support their vehicles for good reasons.
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  2842. What is "Christian" about a NeoSoviet system whose leader, Putin, refuses to remove Lenin's corpse from its shrine. Why do Americans today hallucinate Russia to be tradcon when it is responsible for nearly all of the global Left?
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  2843. Use automated plate readers with patrolling snatch trucks and MAKE THE TAXPAYERS MONEY. Wheel lift trucks would pay for themselves quickly. Texas is leaving money on the table. Tow , impound, store then auction for fines and storage due. Use the money to fund law enforcement (more tow trucks). Scummy low end used car dealers were the opposition.
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  2844. The only problem with Kent State was poor marksmanship.
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  2845. Never mess with organized crime's piggy bank.
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  2846. There is plenty of OTHER land not on river banks. People tend to forget that when choosing where to build. No one is forced to live there and everyone in the region (except a few centanarians in nursing homes) had a lifetime to plan their location wisely so most of them did.
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  2847. YOU and your children if you have any will pay for it becuase YOU do not matter to Democrats even if you are one.
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  2848. Arty does most of the ground killing in nation-state war but rifles are great fun and accessible by individuals so they get the press. China can sustain infinite infantry losses so it doesn't need to be efficient. Mao's comments on war apply even more now that China could shrug off losing as many KIA as there are people in the US.
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  2849. This may be extremely difficult to understand but what the idiot public are told by idiotic hyperbolic "news" media has nothing to do with operational reality. (Media exist to put eyeballs on content which is the modern revenue model.) Flying defensive CAP missions is a wise use while leaving offense (mostly) to expendable drones. Neither Russia nor Ukraine have air dominance because both are too poor to afford US-style combined arms operations so drones really are the best suited tool for this particular war.
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  2850. Having to sell it to a mentally and morally deficient public as a way reduce casualties is a hilarious necessity. This will be a fine tool for killing NeoSoviets as home invaders so richly deserve. Here's to seeing Jackals turn even more Red (they still are) Army tank and AFV crew into cosmonauts. I do love it when the UK turns its boffins loose. They're delightfully talented.
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  2851. That's called attention wh0r1ng. Your gender should not be your entire personal identity. Then there's the problem of being fat and ugly. It is not reasonable to be grotesque then expect to be treated as if your are not grotesque.
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  2852. It bears reminding that switching countries has a very long history of success. I'm fortunate my ancestors escaped Germany, Poland, Italy, Scotland and Ireland by emigrating to the the US in the 1800s. Likewise the US had Russians and Ukrainians immigrate over the past couple of centuries and do very well. The US remains a destination of choice with so many trying to come it the flow requires management to avoid becoming a flood. Were the situation reversed I'd leave for greener pastures, there being no point going down with a sinking ship.
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  2853. Many small town police forces are totally corrupt so get the WHOLE story.
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  2854. If owning nations cared about maritime safety they would flag vessels in civilization thereby to pay for adequate naval protection. They don't and won't because their general publics are not capable of interest in these subjects. Environmental damage may be an own goal since Houthi logistics include fishing.
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  2855. There is no right way to do the wrong thing. That's why attempting to inflict secular democracy on cultures who NEVER ASKED FOR THAT was always doomed. Secular democracy requires modern precursor secular cultures (the reason the conquered Axis powers were so very easy to transform into modern democracies) who WANT what the US is selling. There should never be another attempt to remake other nations against popular culture. AQ are still comfy with the Talibs but 9/11 was an INTELLIGENCE failure and the operation could have been carried out from most anywhere.
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  2856. A real mechanic can work on any vehicle given accurate tech data. (Mech and tech since the 1970s here, aircraft on down.) The mechanic shortage is because mechanics are treated like serfs, overworked, underpaid and disrespected. No wonder so many leave the industry for greener pastures. An auto mechanic is expected to work on vehicles not designed with the slightest consideration for repair or maintenance, master increasingly VARIED and complex systems and get work done on the "flat rate" basis which does not reflect reality of task performance. Mechanics are looked down on if we work on cars for the public so I don't and wrench my own rides instead. Nothing about BEV should be difficult by car standards and given accurate service manuals, but what seriously good technician would want to when there's more money for less suffering in heavy equipment, industrial etc work?
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  2857. I applaud the kind and generous Democratic voters of NYC for their amazing choice to be a sanctuary city and sacrifice their own children's education and future for the new migrants their elected leaders invited. I praise the Democratic voters of NYC for walking the walk of socialism they voted for and giving their last tax dollars to people who need it. Their choice to share their immense wealth is an example to others. States without their resources should send them more migrants in a team effort of kindness. Not everyone is willing to discard their children's future let alone pay for it out of their own pockets. Nice work.
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  2858. Catalina Foothills School District was foolish for hiring a fraud because frauds do not reform and obvious mental illness is a red flag. The community should be asking why she was ever hired as she could bring nothing good to the district.
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  2859. Planned failure and absurd cost-cutting are the reasons for timing and oil pump drive belts. I miss the days when German engineering was elegantly simple (like the Airhead BMW flat twin motorbike engines or the single cam VW fours which used the same block for carbed, Bosch mechanical and diesel top ends).
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  2860. Combined arms work fine when employed by non-idiots....The Russian Federation is a clown show compared to the USSR and it sucks by leadership CHOICE. The Russian government shows no evidence of a professional military ethos which is a very GOOD thing since competent evil is dangerous. Fortunately Russians enjoy using their AFV as mine detectors and a mobility kill is as good as a K-kill when the vehicle cannot be recovered.
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  2861. Offroad trucks are supposed to be abusable and serious off-roaders do not drive stock vehicles, they build much better customs.
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  2862. I love auctions but NEVER bid if it's not a bargain because TOYS are not necessities. Never go shopping hungry and never marry what you can pimp.
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  2863.  @amorrbaby8354  Cannabis is not heroin any more than beer. Know your substances for they differ greatly.
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  2864. Shill detected. The buzzword-vomit was obviously NOT heart on sleeve, but a classic grift. If you by some miracle not a shill you should be utterly ashamed at being so contemptibly gullible as should your desperately naive upvoters.
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  2865. The real VOLUME of removals needs to increase. A bounty system would help as would giving ALL assets and property held by illegals to whoever turned them in after they're successfully deported (which guards against illicit asset forfeiture schemes).
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  2866.  @YAYO_3536  China isn't embargoing Iran.
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  2867. Many far older machines work every day but they're properly maintained and properly operated. It's quite easy to inspect aircraft (I did it for a living) and measure wear before things get out of hand. Operators cannot accidentally ignore inspections and time change requirements so if mechanical failure is the immediate cause then maintenance malpractice is likely the root cause. No one is forced to fly for convenience!
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  2868. It's about time we tested and upgraded our supply chain after decades of failed constabulary wars. Using old ordnance bought to kill Soviets directly to kill the NeoSoviet enemy by proxy is just icing on the cake. It's kind of sad your video was necessary but THANK YOU for making it because the 2023 general public (and some G.I.s who really should know better) are clueless without credible informed professional commentary. Using up stocks intended to destroy the Russian enemy on destroying the Russian enemy does not confer any advantage to the Russian enemy. Now that only old people have Cold War experience these truths require repetition. They didn't LIVE in decades of Comintern global subversion and wars. The fearful clueless really should stay in their lane and humbly confine themselves to asking questions so they can learn how to learn about the armed forces and war in general then learn in detail. It's a fascinating subject and every voter in our Republic should have useful understanding to do their civic duty as an informed voter.
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  2869. John Deere have been scvmbags for many years. Like nearly all modern businesses they're run by parasites not patriots. Ask the farmers they prevent from fixing their own machinery. No POTUS can save jobs, that's just theater for the dummies who take what they say seriously. Americans aren't collectively intelligent enough to fix America because modern society is far too complex for a population that on average reads therefore thinks at 8th grade level. BTW NAFTA was completely bipartisan and if you think I'm kidding check who voted for it. Our public elect grifters because they're not smart enough to know better.
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  2870. The public must demand a professional force, enforce discipline and punish misbehavior. Law enforcement professionals should welcome being held to high standards ethically enforced.
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  2871. Western values do not apply there nor are they at all relevant.
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  2872. I decided to go smart by not living in a flood plain or on a seacoat or tornado zone and if I lose my house the replacement will be a concrete dome which is ideal being low maintenance and wildfireproof. US home construction in danger zones is pitifully delicate.
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  2873. Everyone should bend the knee and work for free rather than inconvenience others. Why are intrasigient business worshipped rather than expected to do more than exploit their workforces?
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  2874.  @mikekahl4745  "Free market" is an illusion and always has been. It is invoked when someone is butthurt then blames some nebulous system.
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  2875. HOA can vote to dissolve themselves. Wise humans avoid them in the first place.
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  2876. Notebooks unlike desktops lack STANDARD FORM FACTORS which were critical to the spread of the personal computer. Industry standards matter(ed). Notebooks lagged desktop adoption and that was not only ignored but manufacturers correctly saw it as opportunity for vendor lock. We are fortunate SODIMMs, hdds and various other (outsourced, keep that in mind!) components conformed to industry standard form factors or notebooks would be as unrepairable as phones. Re:keyboards, it must be horrifically expensive in industry terms to duplicate the keyboard quality of the early T-series Thinkpads. Every dog wants to piss on its own tree and this is most noticeable in notebook keyboards. Further, were those keyboards a standard form factor they'd be much more customer and repair tech-friendly. It would be interesting to have a video explaining the obviously crushing industry pressures to inflict shite keyboards on the public.
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  2877. Nations serious about holding off superpowers build nuclear weapons and are willing to use them even if they die in the fight because that is the ONLY credible decisive deterrent. Taiwan, South Korea and Japan should build their own nuclear weapons just like France and Britain.
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  2878. The patriots died in 1956. Survival meant bending the knee which remains bent.
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  2879.  @GoonyMclinux  Wing replacements on Vipers don't take years of training. It HELPS to have a few years experience but they're not hard to work on and mechanics from older aircraft make excellent trainees because they already have extended mechanical experience. I was one! I worked comm/nav on Bronco (Sembach) and Phantom (Moody) then engines and TAMS on F-16 A/B/C/D/CJ models (Shaw, Pope, Shaw, Kunsan, Shaw) so this is not speculation. Most of electronic troubleshooting is BIT checks and continuity testing. F-16s are a breeze to work on (I was run qual'ed, Red X/IPI all systems) and easy to maintain in a deployed environment (I did Shield/Storm/Southern Watch/Northern Watch). What PRECISELY is YOUR F-16 combat aviation and maintenance background?
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  2880.  @CarlAlex2  F-16s are easy to learn because I did.
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  2881. No one is more prideful of their own ignorance than hicks. Rural culture in the US is wilfully, proudly anti-everything and their only identity is resentment. Good riddance. You chose your fate.
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  2882. If a vessel is able to strike a bridge (even if the strike is deliberate) the bridge is inadequately protected. History enthusiasts know blockships date back thousands of years and are a cheap or free way to block an opponent's riverine or port access. Given the immense wealth in of the US and Canada failure to build self-defending bridges protected by ample barriers is inexcusable but will continue to happen....
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  2883. Not worth the money to feed him. Prison is expensive. He needs to go back to the block so nature can take its course.
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  2884. Chinese shill detected distraction trolling as usual.
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  2885. Democrats did this and I find it hilarious. The US needs Koranic justice but with less empathy.
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  2886. False flag interrupted.
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  2887. Play wisely and you can have high net worth on a modest income. I live well beneath my means and am quite comfy because I'm debt free. No one needs new cars so don't buy them or if you do choose wisely then keep it for a couple of decades (at least if you live outside the Rust Belt). If you don't hold the deed to your home free and clear you don't really own it so buy modest homes (and on as much land as you can manage) and pay them off early. I do not spend money to impress other people. I fully retired at 47 with a modest military retirement income and disability (else I'd have worked longer for fun, I enjoyed all my skills) because I always prepare for the worst and concentrated on living a "robustly capable" life. Anyone can do similar if they are coldly determined and studious. I invented nothing but I do copy other effective people and would never be too proud to learn from anyone.
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  2888. Condos have always been a scam. If you do not own the LAND and ALL the building you live in, you don't really own your home. He should have known better because financial choices like condos, HOA communities, and other scams are like adjustable rate mortgages. They are time bombs.
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  2889. Cell phone jamming and redirection to block all illicit comms are technically solved problems but the law is the problem.
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  2890. NYPD has a long, long history of corruption including detectives doing mob hits. It never stopped and never will. State and Federal oversight might slow it down but don't hold your breath.
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  2891.  @attilamarics3374  That would be due to PARTS issues. Given tech data and a modest training any real mechanic can wrench anything from jet fighters to lawnmowers. (I fixed Phantoms, Broncos (comm/nav) and F-16s (engines, crew chief, Red X qualified all systems) for 26 years and wrenched motorcycles, cars, trucks and machinery. It's not hard to take any farm boy and turn them into a heavy equipment mechanic. I suggest non-mechanics recuse themselves from opinions on the subject.
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  2892.  @erich6071  Many anti-Zionist Jews who studied Torah longer than you have drawn breath disagree with you. What is your specific expertise on the subject?
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  2893. Try a barrier! My town has a corner lot whose owner bought a LARGE boulder, place it on his lots corner, then painted a bright yellow smiley face on it. It's hilarious and I've never seen car paint nor pieces on or near it.
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  2894. What is your maritime demolition expertise and on what specific vessels? Precisely why (that means for what specific technical reasons) do you imagine it would take a week? We eagerly await your expert commentary.
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  2895. That's normal Russian behavior (Stalin did not personally liquidate kulaks, Poles, Balts, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Finns, Chechens etc). These leaders are mere symptoms of Russian culture and not every culture is the same. If we can praise what is good and peaceful we can openly identify what is evil. Muscovy delenda est or we'll have to fight them forever. The things Russian nationalists pretend to fear are also what should be done.
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  2896. Nonsense. If it made them easy to manipulate they'd not lobby for freedom to use it as they see fit. I am VERY FAR from docile and a pro-2A career military retiree and disabled veteran. Many of my brothers and sisters who fought for this country benefit from cannabis but Big Pharma wants us on SSRIs (check suicide rates and side effects!) and their COMMERCIAL pain meds because all they care about is monetizing the tax payer (including your taxes) to pay for their products. People don't lie with their money so I always follow the money.
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  2897. Funding is a CHOICE and the Northeast is rich. There should be a dedicated port fire department. Charge suitable port fees to fund it. The ship wasn't worth any serious risk. It's just steel and if it burns down, it's scrap steel. I've worked in auto salvage yards which are what that upper deck looks like.
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  2898.  @JFEnterprize  WRONG. "Homes" are not interchangeable. When you do not own ALL the structure you live in and ALL the land it's on you are at a complete disadvantage. Thinking "a home is a home" cost many buyers their retirement money. Not me because I was always too smart for that. I do not follow the herd because the herd refuse to do their homework.
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  2899. ONLY luxury foods are imported. The US is an enormous food net exporter. BTW many ports are partially owned by the ChiCom government but that mysteriously doesn't get mentioned.
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  2900. '"Fashion" is for mindless consumers who should own their mindlessness. Donation mostly undermines third world indigenous garment makers but donating makes donors feel good. For quality Ebay crushes thrift stores. Travel is a waste of resources and time so the less of that the better.
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  2901. That's legally impractical because modern software uses proprietary COMPONENTS unrelated to the company fielding the APPLICATION. If you code X which is then incorporated in Y application whose corporate owner goes bankrupt what is the justification to NULLIFY your intellectual property? FOSS advocates cannot even agree on a universal license format.
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  2902. In what alternate universe has Youtube broken ad blocking? Not on my machine. Tech-illiteracy is a CHOICE. I get no adverts and that arrangement where the mass of chumps are monetized while those making minimal effort are unaffected works fine. Hint: Use multiple browsers configured appropriately and you can have any desired level of control.
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  2903. They hold US passports but if they were real Americans they would not be visiting an enemy country during wartime. When you earn a passport choose 1 (one) country. Split loyalty is none at all.
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  2904. You do NOT want a theft recovery back if it's insured. Better to take the money unless you're a mechanic. You can easily find ways to disable your truck online.
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  2905. Call it what it is, she's anti-Jewish but gets a pass because of her gender.
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  2906. They won't stop voting for Democrats. You don't stay poor for generations in the US wealthiest city by being intelligent, wise, self-educated or informed. Previous New Yorkers who were much worse off elevated themselves by study, self-discipline and teamwork but they were from very different backgrounds with very different values.
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  2907.  @lamontstanley5436  So when do you think they will stop electing the problem? Is this enough to change NY politics?
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  2908. HD is pointless in India while Indian makes are perfectly poised to serve their market AND overseas markets. They sell plenty of Royal Enfields in the US and make other successful brands sold in Europe. HD doesn't need the India market but the only thing Milwaukee knows how to do rightis make Big Twins and Sportsters. HD management survive despite bad choices.
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  2909. The government will likely wait a bit then pull another Tienanmen Square massacre. Westerners should remember Beijing leadership like the Kremlin do not value lives other than their own at all. Beijing can simply invoke nationalism then send in troops to kill protesters. They will be allowed to vent but not much longer.
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  2910. Switch to roundabouts which also make high speed chases difficult. Require photo ID for scrappers and photograph and fingerprint every transaction.
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  2911. What makes that bank worth the expense? Rivers shift their courses so wise humans don't live next to them in areas where the river will scour excessive soil.
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  2912. For a professional it's worth reminding that $1500 is pocket change for a tool that makes profit. Mechanics spend thrice that on one scanner. I use desktop peripherals at home for ergonomics (at which no notebook can compare) even for my notebooks. For serious performance it's easy to remote into a stout server and let that do the heavy lifting (and file storage).
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  2913. It takes two to cause a strike. Employment is a contract, not a gift and not charity. Few Americans have the ballz not to be bootlickers then they wonder why the system treats them with less respect than a used condom.
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  2914. Hilarious anyone believes that a market capable of importing tons of cocaine cannot manage weapons....
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  2915. Can't lose paying scrap price! Thanks for showing what many commercial shops go through. BTW the GoTek floppy to USB adapter is rightly popular (I first saw it in Practical Machinist fora) and connects to the existing floppy header. I installed two on my bros EZ-Trak knee mills which is dead easy. The formatting tool creates multiple virtual floppy drives on a USB fob but he only used one at a time while keeping multiple USB fobs for convenience.
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  2916. Entertainment companies produce nothing anyone NEEDS. They're dispensable fluff so they need to be INTERESTING fluff. Vice chose to suck.
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  2917. Key is the American public (outside professionals and the tiny few genuinely interested) do not understand or care about shipping AT ALL and have not done so in the past several decades. Most outside the issue of military reform don't know that issue is not remotely of public interest because it's more complex than the trifles they prefer to mental engagement. Combine those nationally self-inflicted problems and here we are.
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  2918. FRACKING killed coal because gas is vastly easier to extract, transport and use. Appalachian geography is why it was always reliant on resource extraction. That geography will not change so the choices are adapt or move. As with EVERY region reliant on resource extraction and/or agrarian jobs there was no economic diversification and no intellectual growth because no one wanted to invest in education. It's too late today. Insurers won't underwrite new coal power plants which already are expensive maintenance nightmares. Change is hard. Universal basic income will eventually be necessary and it's creeping in by other forms.
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  2919. It's silly to waste a crew on hydrographics when other ships lack personnel. NZ should pay the most competitive civilian hydrographers then save money over maintaining and crewing that vessel.
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  2920.  @terridovey7648  Russia is an ontological enemy of Western civilization and the Cold War never ended. Putin wants a NeoSoviet respawn so shills like yourself are all over Youtube trying to manufacture consent. I was on the free side before the Berlin Wall came down so Communist apologists do not fool me.
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  2921. Those communities are fine with crime because the relentlessly elect criminals. It's OK to own it since if the public approve why not legalize bribery? Their town their rules. Not a problem for anyone else who doesn't live there.
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  2922.  @deltacx1059  Show me how an ordinary unibody car is "modular", Simple and easy to repair is not the same thing.
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  2923. Why is not every Israeli Jew personally armed? Defense in depth is not possible without a completely armed citizenry. Israel is not the US and should ignore our demographic-driven outcomes. Now the Hamas strategy is proven it will happen again. Israel has a fine arms industry but needs civilian activists to promote proper combat training for every fit person.
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  2924. Does an 8th grader title these videos? TYT can afford literate copy writers.
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  2925. Chains have ZERO obligation to provide stores or services. That bears reminding. Customers are not special angels and poor people in the US are poor because they are socially and often mentally defective. In an honest era we called bums bums, drunks drunks, and junkies junkies.
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  2926. Like typical GM cars of the era Fiero has poor build quality. That was far from new. Before Fiero the Corvair could have been America's Porsche (the drivetrain was fine, the rest was not fine). American car makers seem to have resented quality. Even the trucks had issues (much love for my Chevy and GM trucks but the bodies rust like mad if you live where there's winter).
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  2927. Cities are bad so I don't live in one. I learned from the mindless herd what not to do, and from my parents and mentors who were kids in the Great Depression what to do. Nobody needs a McMansion. Single storey ranch homes in cheap areas are feasible to maintain and upgrade by DIY so I did just like millions of others. I ain't the smartest person in the room but I take care to copy what works over time. It's easy NOT to make silly choices.
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  2928. Coverups, waste and corruption and gross strategic policy mistakes exist because military reform is an alien issue for the American public. Civilians don't care about America's wars enough to know what good policy looks like so they produce and elect leaders who don't know what right looks like. AT ALL. They're too ignorant to value intelligence, too slack to value morality, and really just want to be humored and affirmed instead of thinking. In a democracy voters are responsible for how their armed forces are used and managed. "Thank you for your service" translates as "I have no idea what's going on but feel just enough shame to express, but not enough to learn a fucking thing let alone annoy my Congresscritters about US constabulary wars". Many Americans are so ignorant they believe the Taliban did 9/11 rather than Al Qaeda let alone how DC trapped the US into "nation building" which was obviously foredoomed to anyone not retarded. They don't know IS-K bombed Kabul airport killing Taliban who were guarding the place. They don't care even slightly because that involves thinking. The AMERICAN PUBLIC are responsible for how this country is run and COLLECTIVE INACTION IS A CHOICE. The public will never change so if you choose a military career (I'd gleefully do my USAF career again) I suggest ignoring what that public thinks then doing your own THOROUGH homework. Nothing was learned from Viet Nam though almost everyone was sure those lessons would last. Even worse, the American public do not care about details because they just want to feel the correct feelings and be part of the herd. Nothing has been learned from Afghanistan. Read that as many times as it takes to sink in. Modern "politics" ensures the war is only seen as a party bitchfight. That's one reason no one had the balls to leave until Trump committed then Biden followed through. That war was no more "winnable" than bombing the Southern US into not being Christian. The American public regularly betrays young American men and women who still trust our leaders. They feel no shame for it because they blame everyone but themselves. Democracy requires a clueful voting base, not a waterfall of retards. The American public's indifference is why military reform is not an important issue in elections. If you care, get educated and make a difference. Our troops at the tip of the spear live or die by what America does back home.
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  2929. The US is inherently rustic and the current POTUS a quintessential American. His base will remain after he departs and they HATE Europe. Time to cut free of the US (but wisely) for it stands for nothing but money and is no one's ally except Israel (for which it would accept even nuclear annihilation as the price of salvation). China famously just does business making it an ideally pragmatic ally. Every smaller nation needs a friendly superpower client and unlike nations run by individuals, is coldly pragmatic.
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  2930. If you get jury duty keep your mouth shut then administer justice. Jury nullification is legal so learn about it. It only takes one decent human on the jury to save innocent defendants.
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  2931. Hollywood ran out of ideas and this is one result. SLBM etc ensure any conventional attack would be vaporized far offshore.
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  2932. Sober dating is absolutely wise. Drunks do not get better in any useful numbers. Drunks are waterfalls of toxic self-pity who only destroy those around them. NO ONE else can fix a drunk and many have ruined their lives trying. Walk away. There are plenty of good SOBER humans out there.
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  2933. Anyone capable of using WSL can also run one or many standard virtual machines and host as many Linux, Windows, BSD or whatever they desire.
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  2934. Walls IF MANNED BY BORDER PATROL work fine. Unmanned, they do not. Unfortunately the average moron doesn't understand that or we could have intelligent discussion.
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  2935. Can someone explain the very deliberate and obvious flood of these "the sky is falling" videos? What dimwits are they aimed at? I despise the CCP but a country that shrugged off famines and the Cultural Revolution is rather unlikely to implode over minor economic problems. What drives the obviously intense desire to exaggerate them and who are the target audience? For example Falun Gong run the Epoch Times in the US which is popular with people senile enough for printed papers. Videos in English are not aimed at Chinese, so who ARE they aimed at?
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  2936. I find it hilarious people are silly enough to put down a deposit on a vehicle they know NOTHING about, but they're rich so it doesn't really matter. This mechanic would never buy anything unproven and without hundreds of thousands of units of a given model ON THE ROAD for several years, but no one ever accused the public of being smart.
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  2937. If you look at the age of buildings you can date when a town was growing. (Look at chimneys if they have later siding.) Many of those buildings are a hundred years old. Those towns were born of economic opportunity and died due to economic change. Today the Southeast is seeing the growth because it's closer to seaports but everything is cyclic. The cycles are so long though it's wise to plan accordingly. BTW just because there's a town doesn't make it worth investment. Towns come and go especially when the businesses they're built on have constant boom and bust cycles. If you have an outside income they can be great places to retire.
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  2938. Everything is wrong with that driveway including lack of a base and being paper-thin.
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  2939.  @tomhenry897  You seem to have missed two decades of failure. Biden didn't lose that war. The US agreed to withdraw because the Kabul government lost that war. A-stan is not conquerable over time and most importantly, the American public do not benefit from trying. As an American I put MY people first, not savages who mostly hate the West.
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  2940. Where are these magical Gripen going to come from? Is everyone else here just a gamer?
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  2941. Dead on! Demublican and Repcrat politicians have always fucked over American workers. Check out the signatoriest to NAFTA if you think I'm kidding. Tyson and other companies EXTERNALIZE their costs by hiring people on government benefits so they don't have to offer decent compensation. Meatpacking companies are historically scumbags when it comes to labor relations. Americans have been brainwashed to avoid unions and collective bargaining by media lies paid for by these companies but this is why unions are needed. The people who most need collective bargaining are in these bottom feeder shit job industries because there are no other jobs. Never forget the reason Tyson locates in heavily Black communities. It expects docile desperate uneducated workers and gets them.
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  2942. Crucible tongs are Very Good Idea. I suggest treating yourself to a bit more gear that ye may cast with greater convenience and safety.
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  2943. In what alternate universe is less than six years a "HUGE" sentence. Did ChatGPT produce that drivel?
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  2944. Covering reality is not warmongering, and "peace" can only be maintained by superior firepower and combat overmatch. Everything you hold dear relies on your and other nations ability to effectively apply military force.
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  2945. Tucker is siding with the 1960s hippie left wing which supported RUSSIA because they were contemptibly naive like Russia's current supporters. This teaches me no amount of contempt for the American public is too much.
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  2946. Solution, don't live there. I left long ago and it' been an effective pay raise even making less by the numbers. Unless you're richer than the 1% (who are pretty common being one in a hundred) you will never own NY land (not some prison cell apartment, LAND) and will have to work until you die. The US is huge. NYC is like sports or the music industry, almost no one really wins those games and dreaming isn't victory.
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  2947. I like my Fords for the rest of the truck but I'd like them better with an LS 5.3 and a 4L80e (the 4L60 of course is a POS). My 4.6 is utterly reliable but too small. I like my Silverado for the drivetrain (AFTER beefing the 4L60 but I buy trucks cheap with either bad trans or engine expecting to sort them rather than buying optimistically and waiting for the first major failure). Truck engines do not benefit from overhead camshafts because it's trivial to control valves at street RPM. Trucks are not F1 cars and should be SIMPLE and easily maintained with the most basic equipment.
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  2948. New York VOTERS elect Democrats therefore a majority approve of the results. POLITICIANS THE PEOPLE ELECTED are the problem and that means the PEOPLE are the problem.
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  2949. Refusal by makers to DESIGN rugged, durable engines is the root cause. Blaming politics on the absurdly stupid designs (like wet or any timing belts on street vehicles) and poor quality choices (like transmission servo pistons made of plastic which stick in their bores which date back a couple of decades) is the root cause. The legal mandates do not and never have forced designers to turn out cheap trash nor their leadership to sign off on cheap trash. If a mode of operation causes undesirable wear that reflects poor choices of material and/or component design. For example lack of old style Toyota quality control costs them millions in failed engines. It is not hard to design rugged systems when empowered to do so, and those choices are internal to automakers. I was alive to enjoy the era of elegant German simplicity in the form of BMW motorbikes whose internals resemble aircraft parts (as they should given BMW history). Those engineers are retired or dead, replaced by whatever design culture wrecked the industry. Complexity that's hostile to maintenance and repair is inexcusable but that's why the used car lot I wrenched for stopped selling German vehicles and sent our trade-ins to salvagers who would part them out, returning to service only invites comebacks as more systems wear beyond economic repair.
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  2950. None who didn't know exactly what they signed of for, and none whose departure from this mortal coil would not mean one less Jihadist.
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  2951. The only reason not to close covers before sailing would be time and time is money. Always follow money. The hatch covers are a poor design which should be BOLTED or otherwise positively retained buy many independent fasteners.
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  2952. I see no problem here but find it quite amusing. Most people are airheads so expect airhead behavior.
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  2953. Good for those workers! US companies want serfs and cry when they don't get them. This is not real problem because if US employers want more workers they will PAY for them. Too many workers depresses wages so shortage is good for workers.
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  2954. If you are going to be called the apex predator that removes any reason not to live up to it.
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  2955.  @BrentRichards-vp1cg  The US economy does not depend on Red Sea trade and shippers can route around it. The more imports cost (most of US imports are consumer junk no one needs) the better for domestic industries which benefit from insourcing. They will adapt because the past proves the US can build any industry it wishes.
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  2956. It's only a floating dumpster. Why do people emote over dead steel that ends in a foreign scrapyard? It's not an AMERICAN vessel nor is it AMERICAN flagged so nothing of value is lost. Future trade can go elsewhere. It's only rich shipowner money and since they don't pay US taxes why care if their ships go down? I of course care about the CREW but that's not a US problem either.
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  2957. Philly is not going to improve but you can leave it behind.
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  2958.  @Person-mh6xq  No, it isn't because NYC sucked then and has always sucked within living memory. It was much worse in the 1970s and the murder rates prove it. Today ain't chit. I visit family every few years and stop by.
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  2959. Consider that battery must be manned 24/7/365 in a war zone, which includes every specialist required to inspect, maintain, troubleshoot and service every system in the field.
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  2960. So what? Fighters crash all the time. It's the nature of the business. They also get shot down but spatial disorientation and other causes of CFIT are part of flying. Warriors and weapons are expendable. Volume matters, not individuals.
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  2961. Best post in thread!
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  2962. Why hasn't it won the three day Special Military Operation yet? Glavset shills and tankies are hilarious.
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  2963. Northern cities CHOSE to be sanctuary cities. Let them choke on it. America does not need to import poor people. Leftists politicians want to destroy Western culture and they will keep winning unless dealt with.
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  2964. Imagine being so weak you volunteer to live in an HOA area. With that kind of cash I'd have a ranch instead of a small farm and zero urban problems.
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  2965. Because work is for money and it doesn't matter what kind of work. However work physically requiring onsite labor therefore investment in facilities, workers down through subcontractors offers more robust employment than so-called work done via internet which can be instantly outsourced anywhere with a good connection and willing workers. Telework is very cool and totally appropriate to retain talent, but it does not build communities. (Going to an office to perform tasks identical to telework is an absurd waste of money for all but the real estate developer class who regard workers as servitors.)
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  2966. Non-techie detected. Never assume because one government bans a thing that makes it safe.
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  2967. You need to understand many people in this thread completely approve of ending police by vehicular homicide and are pro-crime. (You should not emigrate to the US because it's a failed state with no future.)
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  2968.  @samuelthompson8080  Humans were drinking booze before they had anything like modern government. When they can't buy it they make it, which is easy. During the Great Depression booze was illegal nationally which failed hard. In the midst of severe national poverty Americans wanted and got their drink on despite the government.
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  2969. The parents were fools for sending their kid to Baltimore. Choose a private school far away. I'm amazed anyone would consider sending their offspring to a Democrat city, but perhaps they are Democrats too as they demonstrated their cluelessness. Their kid got a lesson money can't buy. Never relax.
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  2970. Simps get what simping deserves.
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  2971.  @thatonebeone  Times didn't change, demographics changed. I was alive when the US looked very, very different before we imported trash because greedy businesses sold out America for cheap labor.
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  2972. Civilization literally runs on copper and the backwaters consumed by its extraction are no loss by comparison. Why should a few thousand people hold back national progress?
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  2973. Clogging sanitary sewers by overloading them is also destructive. Waste disposal codes exist because humans are naturally untrustworthy and don't care who they poison. Organized crime has been famous for toxic dumping since early last century, notably the Mafia.
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  2974. The greatest benefit to civilization (to which Asiatic Russia has always been cultural enemy) from this war is the demographic damage from combat losses (limited since Moscow is using it to dispose of groups it doe not want while conserving the Kremlin's Muscovite base) refugees fleeing conscription, and depressed reproduction rate. The Russian way of war has social consequences which are not immediate but difficult to mitigate especially for a kleptocracy. The expended group(s) survivors will be even less fond of central authority while Russia's vast size makes it difficult to govern. Because Russia is an enemy society, not a society with some temporary enemy government, the only way to reduce the threat is for circumstances to depress enemy population. Russian culture ensures there will never be a base for democracy unlike Russia's many Eastern European victims whose desire for freedom from generations of barbarism and genocide coerces them to band together against Moscow.
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  2975. The smart move that won't happen is to get rid of these celebrations because all college parties are nothing more than drunkfests. Serious people don't need or care about ceremonies, they take the paper they earned then go to work. School should be cold hard business to prepare for a cold hard world, not a party but no one ever said young humans have impulse control.
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  2976. ​ @sadenbrick  Self defense is not murder and dead robbers rob no one else. Everyone who doesn't want every robber on a slab has the soul of a criminal.
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  2977. The causes of the war are permanent so it's not worth being concerned about unless you either live there or have religious reasons to support one side.
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  2978.  @brutalistdude301  Their society works, proof being its success. Every primitive culture which failed to defend itself is either destroyed or enslaved and destroyed.
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  2979. Sad about Youtube rules but Google are run by weak people who cater to weak people. Backlash may eventually bring back the good old days when it was cool to harshly put them in their place away from adult discussions.
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  2980. Biden waiting until the election is disgustingly cynical, but better than nothing. Waiting to use the issue to get votes rather than acting on principle is typical of US politicians.
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  2981. I learned to reject what most people do and think because following the herd leads to walking off a cliff. Early poverty has profound effects on people, some good, but others drive counterproductive choices. I always took interest in living and spending effectively and that means MEASURABLE, TESTABLE effects.
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  2982. Reasons do not exist to distract yourself with headphones etc in an urban environment, even a "safe" one because you lose situational awareness which is not the smartest choice in heavy traffic. Be or become street smart. A wise rule of thumb is "if it's silly, don't do that" because predators instantly sense the proverbial slowest zebra. If you're the "tourist" type you're already (with few exceptions who know it) lacking a combat mindset and tend to childlike ignorance. Best to visit (other) areas designed to keep you entertained and safe.
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  2983. Next how about a comparison of CARB CLEANING DIP both commercial and classic alternatives like undiluted Pine-Sol, Simple Green, lemon juice and more. INCLUDE INDUSTRIAL CARBON REMOVERS. It will be fun.
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  2984. GOOD. That opens opportunities for customer service. I don't care if the current industry is swallowed by the earth because I don't own their stock. The rich will continue to beta test which is nice for all concerned. I will continue enjoying delicious popcorn while laughing.
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  2985. If everyone accused of fascism really were fascist there would be no Marxist problem because there would be no Marxists.
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  2986. Oil sales to China would be enormously profitable and Chinese firms have all the resources including enormous steelmaking capacity to support an offshore oil boom. Most important, oil revenues can buy a strong military-industrial-corporate complex absolutely required for modern defensive operations like containing India. Oil wealth allows funding friendly clients elsewhere like the Middle East and Persian Gulf to obtain influence among other oil producers.
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  2987. The real tragedy is anyone confusing that watery swill with "beer".
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  2988. I've done basically that since my first vehicle (Honda MT 250) in 1978 and the end game is glorious. I paid off my property early and retired early because I chose discipline and learned to spin my own wrenches. After working in the used car biz I would never buy new and if I were given one it would get sold instantly like the Harley I won in a raffle.
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  2989. RESPOND? The Ambassador got himself and other men killed by failing to refuse to be there without a company-sized force including heavy weapons (especially HMG and mortars) to protect the site. If any diplomat reads this remember you can refuse orders which are absurdly risky. Unlike the armed forces a civilian can tell their boss (even a POTUS) they will not lead other Americans into a kill zone. Why does no one question the Ambassador's grotesque leadership failure?? Educated men have zero excuse for not understanding war, especially diplomats.
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  2990. WA has many residents worth much more than 34 million bucks. The US taxpayer has ZERO obligation to rescue failed foreign societies by adopting their people. The lifeboat is full so FOAD.
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  2991. Boeing chose global production to cut costs and avoid paying US workers in Seattle. Charleston in technologically and socially backward SC is an example of locating a sophisticated plant in an area educationally unsuited to provide its workforce (I worked in SC workforce training and retired there. It's cheap to live in but the education system is 43rd in the US for good reason).
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  2992. Buying in areas hit once means you'll eventually get zapped. Everyone is free to study hurricane maps, storm surge maps, flood plain maps, local history, property elevations etc so I did before buying. The only reason most people moved to Florida is the rest of the ignorant herd moved to Florida. I do not follow herds because I'm not a sheep.
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  2993. We need a return to the old (expensive but cheaper than crime and violence) asylum system where dangerous crazies can be safely isolated from society instead of warehoused in prisons where they make everything worse. Shutting it down was done for financial reasons because the funding burden was localized but mental illness is a national problem.
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  2994. No immigration, no problem. Minnesota doesn't need poor people or foreigners, at all.
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  2995. It's fascinating to see a people repudiate their indigenous culture so completely and irreversibly, as if the legacy of their ancestors were something shameful best forgotten.
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  2996.  @tomlxyz  Realism is pragmatic and in no way deprives anyone of ability to advocate for better, but realism also admits most other humans are unintelligent fools so it will remain everyone for themself of necessity.
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  2997. Rare earths are neither.
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  2998. Want workers? Allow them to immigrate! You can have all the Latin Americans you want and would if they had transport. They go to the US because they can.
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  2999. Fat kills and it's slow and nasty. Get fit for yourself!
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  3000. HP died when Carly Fiorina took over. At least Agilent survived. In other news my Brother devices don't do that stupid shit.
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  3001. I refuse to serve the toxic perpetual population growth model already overcrowding the planet. I refuse inflict the rest of humanity on an innocent. I refuse to make cannon fodder for the state though I had an enjoyable military career, because America does not produce populations with the sense of civic duty to oppose foolishly chosen wars and counterproductive ways of waging them. The world is a very bad place where safety is an illusion, society thoroughly corrupt, and taxpayers milk cows for Wall Street. Idiocracy and corruption are a helluva mix.
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  3002. This is not a problem. Raise compensation. That is all. Skilled people have no reason to work cheap. When you have enough workers your pay scale met market demands.
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  3003. NY used to be worse, but it's on the way back down. It's stupid for anyone who hasn't seen NYC to visit. That's why I left the metro area LONG ago. Dear tourists, stay the fvck out of US cities. Sane Americans don't live there either and since those too stupid/insane to leave remain you can guess the outcome.
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  3004. One would imagine the party which used to reject Russian subversion would be less likely to fall for manipulation by affirmation, but never forget a modest majority of Americans reat at or below 8th (US) grade level. Language is how advanced humans understand complex concepts. Sadly, most people are ignorant therefore worthless or worse because ignorance in an adult is a deliberate choice to renounce self-improvement. There is nothing more contemptible than a simple mind.
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  3005. The US was founded by a tiny few intellectuals not to be confused with the simple religious fanatics who took over afterwards. The base credulity required to buy superstitions ensures an intellectually unequipped population who are promptly exploited by their mental (but not ethical) betters. That's why the US only makes technological progress. This will never improve.
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  3006. CA has been pro-crime since the 1970s and that was plenty of time to escape. It was obvious what was coming. Oakland cops who are smart will flee the state.
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  3007. Examine why Egypt closed their border and do so without reference to any of your own prior assumptions or emotions. Then consider what happened to Jordan and Lebanon.
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  3008. Modern workforce training faces the cultural legacy of that era. Cheap labor drew Boeing to Charleston with predictable results. Before bottom feeder whites were idolized by media and politicians pandering to their ignorance it was normal and socially acceptable among culturally advanced whites to regard them with utter contempt. Illiteracy was rightly a source of shame, there being no excuse for raising illiterate offspring. Northern and Western white values were considerably different from the "hookworm belt" and remain so.
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  3009. Gas has one useful advantage, as a safe economical backup heater during power outages. That's why though I rarely use my gas logs and gas stove (at opposite ends of the house) I would not be without them as I can cook and stay warm. The deceased unprepared in the infamous Texas freeze relied and died of an electric heating monoculture.
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  3010. 65 here and what we can do anyone can do (my wife was a USAF CH-3 mechanic and good at it, she also wrenched anything with wheels as do I). DIY let us renovate our (inexpensive because we bought for acreage and chose old farm houses) homes inexpensively, DIY is why I have never wanted a new car or truck, yet have plenty of trucks and vintage motorcycles. The only things I've outsourced on my homes are three deep wells and one electrical inspection after I did the work (saving thousands). DIY is a major income effectiveness multiplier which is why my poorbros (we help each other because we're old and crippled) are also debt-free. They got that way buying undesirable lots, adding old single-wide mobile homes, renovating those over time while adding outbuildings etc. DIY can be great exercise. I dig trenches for pipe and wiring by hand (unlike renting a trencher then handing it back I can work at my preferred pace and reserve money for tasks I'm not equipped to do). DIY is why I have a capable home machine and welding shop. Everything I do for fun is also useful because I refuse to have useless hobbies. DIY lets me score then repair used tools, equipment and vehicles to support even more DIY. Just DO IT. Determination is everything and today everyone has access to knowledge for next to nothing.
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  3011.  @kimchiba4570  Depends on the job and definition of "outsourced". SKILLED jobs mean those who start at a given date will maintain their experience advantage. Please list trade jobs you imagine can be outsourced and what "outsourced" means to you. Trades requiring a human on the spot include those I listed above. I've several years working in workforce training (which also cannot be outsourced because it is by nature onsite) along with decades in various trades (fixing fighters was the most fun but I enjoy it all),
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  3012. Wise Russians will slowly withdraw their funds before the bank runs, but many people are not that wise.
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  3013. Only to people who have no personal experience with either. One does not "split" logistics. Procurement is done far away from the battlefield and existing supply systems have no problem delivering to Europe of which Ukraine is part. Supply troops support multiple airframes on one base with little fuss because a stock number is a stock number. Given the few troops required for support why precisely would they be "split"? Jets are often much easier to work on than spectacularly annoying modern cars (I've thousands of hours on both). Combat aircraft are designed for ease of maintenance. Any real technician can learn multiple airframes but there is no mission-oriented immediate need to train the same techs on both. If that's desired it should be done much later after the techs are experienced on one airframe. Learn one aircraft then subsequent are easy. Weapons load crews can easily certify on multiple airframes as can Fuels (who mostly do their thing away from the flightline other than operating refuel and defuel trucks). Ground support equipment for multiple systems is standard. Generators, air compressors, air conditioning carts, air compressors, maintenance stands, jacks etc are simple and easy to manage.
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  3014. I don't work retail because most of the public are morons and more than a few are entitled morons. The average IQ is roughly 100 and the average US reading level roughly 8th grade. I made sure to have a technical careers away from retail because technology is an idiot filter. I take care to be a good customer. I'm flawlessly polite when dealing with anyone providing a service and I get consistently good service in return. It's not hard to be courteous and doesn't cost a dime.
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  3015. Russian leadership were too stupid to build HAS which would protect their aircraft. While HAS are easy to bust with large bombs (JDAM etc) smaller ordnance like drones will have greater difficulty especially if the HAS has doors. Deployment locations for US forces really need more and better HAS too because air dominance in no way means zero enemy drones get through. Fortifications work done right. Closely packed aircraft have been a bad idea since Pearl Harbor. BTW even modest damage easily grounds aircraft and ABDR while great fun (I got to hack holes in a SLUF and C-130 at the AMARC then fix the damage) to do for the technician is laborious and generally doesn't bring the aircraft back to full strength vs. making it usable. Russian maintainers will have to cannibalize many parts from damaged birds to fix the others.
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  3016. There were deserters then, too. The majority did not and died by the millions until the revolution. This is not a mass revolt.
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  3017. Hurricanes are a periodic certainty so the real solution is not to live there. People don't like the truth so they rationalize poor choices despite having a lifetime and the entire US to choose from. I left Jersey because of the crowding, traffic, taxes and pro-crime laws. It was easy and I should have split earlier. The smart play is not to be there.
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  3018. It did not forget, makers chose enshittification (search the term!) to ensure vendor lock and planned obsolescence.
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  3019. Meaningless clickbait. Nothing will change. All is theater. End of story.
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  3020. FREEDOM and drastically reduced retirement overhead which does go much further than numbers. I live well BELOW my means so I could retire early and debt-free. I bought very modest old homes but on ten and five acre lots so I'd have the value of the land if I sell and enjoy the room and buffer from neighbors. My property overhead is my taxes, maintenance I also do, and electricity. BTW it bears reminding we CAN control having a pension by leading a methodically planned life. I grew up where it was expected that young adults would seek police, fire, postal and other civilian government jobs for the security. If any young person reads this consider that we work so one day we will be free of that burden then figure out the most direct route to secure retirement.
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  3021. Same here but never got nor wanted a newer truck. I always wanted a serious home shop so I built one including welders, lathe, mill and more to come. If I weren't happily retired I could wrench for pay but I would ONLY work for used car dealers not the public.
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  3022. Weapons age and every nuclear power requires a reliable, precise deterrent force. The atomic era is remarkably peaceful thanks to nuclear weapons.
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  3023.  @karlbrundage7472  They got into the lifeboats as mentioned.
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  3024. Their calls for resignation are NOT based on conventional morality which does not exist in Russian culture. They object to MILITARY FAILURE not the invasion itself. If someone like Igor Girkin replaces Putin that would be a disaster for Ukraine. Do not confuse Russian politicians who worked their way up a mafia system in a government which is a branch of organized crime with pacifist airheads.
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  3025. Companies selling CCP junk will move said junk a bit slower.
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  3026. Laws without penalties are only suggestions.
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  3027. Older HDs are essentially lifetime bikes thanks to the independent aftermarket. I haven't been inside a dealership more than 10 times since 1988 when I bought the FXR I still ride, and I've been wrenching them since 1981. Pre-woke HDs are basically immortal. I own six plus a couple in parts.
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  3028. Miata was a genius move. The market was always there! It had been forgotten because the non-Japanese predecessor companies made awful junk, some of which I wrenched on as a lad. Customers used to LOVE lightweight sports cars but Italian and British autos were garbage by US reliability standards no matter how much fun or how pretty they were. Miata is a lightweight sports car that is reliable and practical to daily drive. Quality, styling and fun are why it's so successful.
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  3029. Only to people who don't study the subject which is most of Youtube.
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  3030. I like the testing to failure because IRL tools get used for what the task requires and that task is more important than tool survival. Keep in mind quality and variety have no downside. Tool prices are modest while someone else's labor is expensive. I put a basic tool kit in each of my vehicles because convenience is worth it. Avoiding one tow buys your tools and over time that really pays off (for example I had surprise alternator death on the road, limped in with aid of my Clore 660 jump pack then replaced alternator and belt (I always do belts then the removed belt if sound goes under the seat) and toddled off happy. When one requires a specialty belt tensioner wrench I leave it in the truck too because belt failures rarely happen at convenient locations.
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  3031. To whom does Ireland belong? No immigrants, no problem. Stop giving Ireland away and the problem vanishes.
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  3032. That thing is no more a "tank" than I am King of England. Anything without hard-kill APS is gonna die in ATGW-dense combat. APCs are no more IFVs than an M4 half-track. Azov and other experienced users do well enough with BMP but untrained conscripts get predictably amusing results.
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  3033. Check out the King of Obsolete some time. He pulls old Cat dozers out of frozen Alaskan lakes then gets them running and offers tourists "Cat Train" rides which are how many workers got to their jobs and some still do. He's talented, smart and doing his thing this long without dying is an accomplishment.
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  3034. Still a CAREER burglar and arsonist so the world is better off. The first arson like all arson should have gotten life in the slammer. He IS a repeat offender and those commit more crimes than they do time for. Trash aren't redeemable and his sentence spared future victims. Sometimes technical injustice nets a just result. "Three strikes" laws clean the streets and would have removed him long before.
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  3035. Why say "renowned aviation magazine"? Schoolboy drama much? The whole bated breath delivery needs...replacement.
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  3036. Since the customer is African-American he'll likely get charged. If so this old white guy is ready to donate to his legal defense fund. We need a real three strikes law with the death penalty. Good people deserve a clean society washed free of predators. If they want redemption they can find God on the way to the chair, and should be glad to meet Him rather than want more years to sin. True repentance rejects mercy and embraces just punishment.
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  3037. OSH legislation would level the local playing field if enforced but without it PPE becomes a VOLUNTARY cost center and those are always the first to be cut or prevented.
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  3038. America can be saved but the Left requires comprehensive deletion. If they do not exist they create no problem. Youth should not be considered special, innocent or redeemable. Social defectives should be erased from history so good people can exist without them,
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  3039. Perun manages nicely at similar view rates despite lack of SEO clickb8 titles. Just sayin'.....😂
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  3040. The Kennedy Center is but a plaything for the wealthy. Scrap it.
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  3041. It makes negative sense if it snags on a handle or knob and you become a cosmonaut. Best to dress for quick egress!
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  3042. Because they're civilian chickenhawk neverserveds thus both clueless and working out their own guilt for not joining the fight.
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  3043. Take a good long look at and listen to Henyard. Dolton voters knowingly chose a convicted thief as mayor. Anyone there who has a lick of sense should cash out and escape because the town will remain in debt bleeding taxpayers for decades.
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  3044. If Oaklanders considered crime a problem they would stop electing Democrats.
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  3045. Ending abortion guarantees the Great Replacement. So much for strategic thinking.
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  3046. Odd that anyone with a choice who isn't rich even stays in the Northeast but people are too weak to leave home even if home is in hell. That's a shame because the rest of America has so many more opportunities. I left a very nice town in north Jersey (Rutherford) so I could afford land (good luck buying ten acres in Jersey!) and to retire young (I retired at 47). If I'd stayed I couldn't afford gutter space let alone a paid-off mortgage.
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  3047. If Afghans wanted the Kabul government no withdrawal would have stopped them. The Taliban NEVER gave up despite B-52 strikes. They won the Afghan popular mandate, end of story. Their opponents were free to fight as hard (they did not come close), organize an effective rural government along traditional lines (they hid in the cities and stole foreign aid), lead by example (at which they failed utterly) and do everything the Taliban not only did but fought hard to do to win. The Taliban earned their victory and there was never a chance for a Quisling government installed by foreigners to win against a region (A-stan is not a nation in the Western sense) whose cultural identity rests on repeated successful rejection of foreign attempts to impose conventional nation-state structures! The humanitarian impact of withdrawal is minor, the Talibs proved not to be Khmer Rouge, and Westerners should remember the bloodthirsty lot we backed like Dostum before casting stones. The Taliban fought a classic Maoist civil war and won.
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  3048. Rule in weak states is only one-deep, and the Wahabi majority will not go quietly. Be careful of curated content designed to manipulate its audience by affirming its views.
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  3049. There is no reason for protest. It's only a park and an artifact of an era where there was much more room. The old hippies are irrelevant today and will be gone in a few years. The youth of the future need student housing.
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  3050. Our government should not pretend to have dignity since that is a lie. In suits they're grifting scumbags and if they wore nothing but crocs and speedos they'd remain grifting scumbags.
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  3051. That a mere rifle will make a difference against cartels (who are part of the system therefore will eventually obtain them by inducting enough of their government-employed users) is an incredibly childish idea that's terminally USian. The battle of competing systems is not a war of technology in the first place so technology will neither win nor lose it. The cartels are enriched by the US War On Some Drugs whose illegal and legal empires ensure the US policies which keep drug trade profitable are seen as moral obligation with zero regard to actual effectiveness about which the American public and government never genuinely cared. The US is not in it to win because we're morally obliged to ineffective emotionally satisfying methods. it's an ideological jihad which is why progress doesn't happen. The US public are incapable of understanding WOSD destabilizes the Americas driving the emigration so many imagine barrier methods will interdict. The average person was always clueless and resents that being pointed out because ego gets in the way of self-development. US law enforcement empires are self-licking ice cream cones once established and effectively make policy. There is every economic reason for Mexico to develop a domestic weapons industry and that is the key reason for building a distinctive local weapon to challenge its engineers and manufacturing sector. Good for them! Light infantry weapons systems are needed to maintain some level of control over a vast nation with barely governable geography and dissenting stakeholders (indigenos for example) who are not cartels. Drones are another useful field since a conventional air force for peer combat is not necessary but C4ISR is critical. Light wheeled armored vehicles are easy to fabricate locally at low labor cost using commercial truck drivetrains with no loss of effectiveness (see the original "MRAP" ancestors of South Africa for what works against IEDs and MG fire). Mortars and grenade launchers are easy to manufacture too. Mexican industry could easily do as well or better than for example Venezuela and that gives good jobs to their workforce.
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  3052. Do a video on the racist origin of the term "Saturday Night Special". It will open some eyes.
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  3053. Regulate rail. Regulate aviation. Regulate interstate trucking (no wonder drivers abandoned that industry or that new drivers don't stay long). The race to the bottom is not helping our nation, just the rich parasites. As for train length, mandate shorter trains. Business owners don't have to like it. FUCK 'EM. If they had ethics this shit wouldn't happen. However rail will never be nationalized because the public are morons and the industry can afford to buy legislators.
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  3054.  @lordmarkquad4470  No one in their right mind would kidnap in their own hood.
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  3055. Agreed. This channel is gradually focusing on quantity over quality and always tended to be overly dramatic. There is no reason for either.
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  3056. The dull, dirty and dangerous jobs humans find soul crushing are ideal for robots. One cannot have it both ways. One thing nations can do is STOP IMPORTING POOR PEOPLE WITH NO SKILLS. It is not the task of the first world to employ everyone else. They need to sort out their OWN societies.
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  3057. Heaters are for comfort not survival unless you fail at clothing. Just a reminder since there is (Texas proved it) always someone who resents planning then dies of hypothermia because they were too stupid to acquire the cheapest warmth there is, clothing.
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  3058. As long as Persia maintains the religion of its Arab conquerors it will suffer as the hands of their superstitionist adherents.
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  3059.  @JimFarmer-l3n  It's rural America and that goes with the territory. Many are old and in cognitive decline which doesn't help.
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  3060. Not safely.
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  3061. So LEAVE NYC. It was never good and it's not going to improve. The rest of the US likes pizza too and plenty of it is not run by Democrats.
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  3062. Most users do not have a real use case for Linux. I do and have used it since 1999 but I don't pretend normals need much more than a phone. Techies (not every computer user is really a techie) will self-select so I don't evangelize. The world has enough annoying noobs demanding tools for professionals be dumbed down for morons. They're fine with Windows, Mac and Android. Laptop ergonomics are inherently shit so even those are best used with desktop peripherals. Notebooks do have the advantage of a built-in UPS where that matters. In 2023 it's trivial to wallow in multiple desktops and notebooks by acquiring good used hardware then installing Linux on it so I do. (Windows is best confined to VMs for where a specific tool requires it.) Worth noting is a desktop or server can be reduced to zero footprint by hanging it on a wall. Works very nicely for 1U servers which so elevated are well out of harms way.
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  3063. Can anyone point me to tech pubs or video showing how the unusual pivoting tow chain system on new Namers is operated? It's quite different from a conventional tow cable and appears designed for rapid connection. Can it be used with both vehicle crews buttoned up? The adjustable height on the towed-vehicle mount could permit that if the towing vehicle hitch has/had internally operable height and latching controls (not hard, similar exist in the trucking world). Namer is the only unusual AFV towing arrangement like that I've ever seen and I'm a towing, construction and armor nerd.
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  3064. While a hand pump is simple they can and often are upgraded with a simple treadle because legs are far stronger than arms (humans evolved to be pursuit hunters). Westerners should avoid worlds they're not socially equipped to understand because their vain, self-serving, naive, childish meddling is an insult to local cultures evolved over millennia. Indigenous cultures solve their own problems as far as they choose to and don't care what meddlesome urbanite visitors want them to become. They don't need what social colonizers are pushing.
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  3065. The flip side is you can move where your enemies have no voice which is the ideal way to live in peace and unity. The US is vast so I did exactly that. Why would anyone want to live where their views do not rule utterly?
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  3066. In fairness (as a man from a very different generation) there is no reason for a man or boy not to tap older women because guys don't get pregnant and don't have to care about the other person. Females and males are not the same, not least because of hormones, plumbing etc. If a 16 year old is slaying older 304s so what? It's always been common but before social media led people to vomit their sad little lives all over the internet it was easy for all concerned to be cool and discreet. When a young dude slams an older broad that's just copulation without consequences. If you're a young male nature didn't wire you to be a beyotch, males are made to fook and enjoy ourselves. Want to teach young men the truth about women? Begin with "use them up and throw them away" because that's what most of them were always for. Idealism is a mental illness.
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  3067. @@TACTICAL77DW Being Liberals which really means Leftists who want to destroy Western civilization.
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  3068. Such "errors" would be the perfect way to do an insurance job. It's lost away from the homeland so hence not a political issue and the perps cannot be proven guilty.
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  3069. Note that luxury crops are not required for survival so the taxpayers have no reason to support their production, but no one can accuse the American public of intelligence.
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  3070. Third world countries are best left to themselves. The US has plenty of beaches and American businesses need American money to pay American workers. Be smart and keep your money and your family in your country. You have no rights outside modern Westernized nations and never forget your US rights end at the border.
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  3071. She'd be better off as a private dance tutor or bolting for a better school district where there is a teacher shortage. America gives teachers no respect which is a shame. If you can read this, thank a teacher.
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  3072. Working auto mechanics for retail customers always licked pouch because mechanics undercut each other so businesses must too. If you're young and can qualify I suggest joining the Air or Space Force for a lot more fun and a kller benefit package. (Mighty few car wrenches fully retire before age 50 while military can retire after a quick 20 years or hang out a few more for the pay bumps.) Fun fact is jet fighters, bombers and airlifters are usually much nicer to work on than cars but not enough people mention that. Other good gigs for mechanics are industrial maintenance (something new every day and the factory depends on you to keep running) millwright and controls technician. No one should STAY a mechanic. Move up or eject to a better deal. My bros variously run used car lots, a general + race engine machine shop or fix heavy equipment. Trucks will always require technicians even if drivers get somewhat automated out of jobs. Being a mechanic is fun BUT you need to hustle upward not stagnate.
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  3073. It can also provoke backlash. The US was not always ruled by pro-"Xeonists" such that free speech required bypassing Xeonist organizations filters.
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  3074. Some are low, others not. Specialization is key. Anyone young enough should consider the Air or Space Force for an instant career and early retirement. Just because a career is a "trade" doesn't mean some trades aren't more profitable than others. All the info is out there.
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  3075. Casual expenditure of manpower is an ancient Russian military tradition and monuments are cheap. Expect nothing to change for the better. Their society and culture are not remotely like western secular democracies and centuries of history irrefutably prove this. People, nations and cultures are NOT all the same (why would they be?). Putin knows this (see the Russian armed forces cathedral then read the passionately ignorant comments of the "people" it so greatly impresses. That's the ideology which makes mass murder, robbery, rape, torture and genocide acceptable to the mass of the Russian people to whom Joseph Stalin remains a national hero.
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  3076. Visit in winter before deciding. Don't just look for a home during good weather if you plan to live there all year.
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  3077. Technical details of the arguments for and against would be nice, May we have a TLDR in the next video? Not everyone viewing this is tech-illiterate. BTW noneof this is a consumer problem so it should not be "cast" as such. If a company considers a process not cost-effective they're perfectly free not to use it. None of this should be a concern to anyone outside the industry. Large complex castings either meet specifications or not and those which don't either get rework or scrapped and the metal reused. Casting tech is not static. It continuously improves. Cars with or without it are easily "totaled" (even old simple vehicles, I've spun wrenches since the 1970s) and modern auto salvage (see videos) efficiently removes usable components. That's been the case since the first automobiles. As a lifelong mechanic I would not want any severely hit new vehicle back so easier totals are something of a stealth consumer bonus. Conventional welded unibodies crumple when hit to absorb impact and are also declared beyond economic return to pre-crash quality. If things don't work out other makers using other processes will serve the public. That's a stockholder issue.
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  3078. There are two kinds of humans. Armed and slaves. Ever notice the lack of weapons among refugees and the oppressed? Then consider light infantry with no air force wore out Russia and the US in A-stan. Humans are a nasty savage race where the armed eat the disarmed, so never disarm (or delegate your arms solely to government) . Peace is inherently TEMPORARY. Post-WWII global stability cannot be maintained by NATO hegemony forever.
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  3079. Helicopters are mostly good against people without air forces (the US found out they can still get mauled by small arms, see Iraq). Meatbags don't belong in the sky.
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  3080. The slippery slope FALLACY is rightly famous not least because it appeals to the tech-ignorant.
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  3081. Not a problem if towing on a rollback carrier and the operator uses straps instead of chains. A good rollback operator would get that instantly because dumping a vehicle is quick as cutting the straps on the rear in a dire emergency if it's dangerous to release ratchet straps then raising the bed and paying out the winch line letting gravity unload the vehicle which it will do even with wheels locked. I keep a good serrated knife for cutting seat belts in salvage yards (they make nice engine lifting straps) and those will cut through a tow bridle strap laughing all the way. No sane operator would "avoid" a paying job so that smells like he was having you on.
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  3082.  @ChadBoss-qr4hl  Whiners are already in a bad mood and most non-mechanics think everything should be free. They should price towing equipment, shop insurance, real estate for the tow yard, vehicle liability coverage, tools and equipment but they won't as the typical non-technical human is helpless as an infant.
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  3083. Good. China is an enemy society to freedom and democracy, not a friendly country with a temporary enemy government. Pretending otherwise is lie or delusion, usually a corporate delusion of convenience. China is actively genociding the Uigher people and has no concept of civil rights. Ford does not NEED to be global to make money. That was always purely optional.
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  3084. In other news, before air conditioning made it liveable there weren't many people who insisted on living in North America's deserts. Things will only get worse so plan wisely and let the snowbird boomers waste their money. Being rich they won't notice.
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  3085. Harley should be put out of business for social treason. No one NEEDS to buy a new one. No one NEEDS a dealer which exists purely to make money for rich racist, sexist enemies of their core customer base.. (Multibrand mech since the '70s here.) The people who ARE HD are enemies of the American CISHET male and nothing will change that so just stop buying their motorcycles. The market is full of better bikes but HD got a pass for being a legend in the minds of its advertisers and the more recent customers who know ZERO company history except "ooh, shiney!". What n00bs forget is you won't have dealer support when your bike ages out and will have two choices, the independent mechanics and shops who keep ALL older motorbikes going after the manufacturers abandon them or doing your own work (not hard and quite fun!). Either way the independent aftermarket is your friend.
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  3086. NO ONE needs a new motorcycle which is normally a poor financial choice vs. the same machine bought used with very low miles. HDs are very common with trivially few miles. Given the breathtaking aftermarket support and the factory downgrading quality in recent years it makes far more sense to (even and especially if you spend the same money) build a far superior custom that would wipe the floor with a stock bike. I like many HD owners could buy a new one for cash but that money spent wisely gets MULTIPLE classics from when HD was pro-American so I expand my collection and ride a variety instead. New HD money will get a VERY nice restored Panhead and the high end ones are into Knucklehead and even low end Vincent range.
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  3087.  @nomad74777  Probably with the same advice.
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  3088.  @Cent51  It is also free speech to ridicule choices which support an anti-male, anti-Caucasian racist Motor Company. There is no right not to be exposed.
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  3089. Our allies need LNG. This is strategically foolish. LNG users wiil obtain fuel. The only question is from whom and at what price. Democratic policy is NEVER about US energy security.
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  3090. Incompetence gets amateurs killed and cunning is no substitute for professionalism so that amateur died. Fortunately the NeoSoviet state did not reward competence. It's fine to use simple propaganda to manipulate the average moron who cannot process anything beyond emotions, but hiring the same dimwit bottom feeders to positions of power begs disaster. Russia killed and exiled its intelligentsia since Tsarist times with predictable consequences.
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  3091. You know better than to assert HD actually abandoned woke policies so why are you doing that? You have HDs assertion only.
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  3092. The USSR was an economic disaster because it was unsustainable. Russia would be vastly better off imitating the CCP because that government is ideal for cultures incapable of managing high levels of personal freedom without turning into predatory systems (like every Russian system ever). Vast countries composed mostly of uneducated simple peoples require a strong central government which the USSR provided, but unlike the USSR the (post-Mao) Chinese government enforce real law and order while promoting better lives for the workers. Western style secular democracy is fundamentally EUROPEAN and only works in a tiny few cultures outside Europe. Democracy is a WEAK government designed for managing educated nations. Democracy cannot work in a nation whose entire culture is basically organized crime. Russia is not culturally European and only has a tiny land mass within Europe. A Chinese style government with management tools like an effective prison-industrial complex where inmates run nothing (and inconvenient inmates are deleted) is the only system suited to vast areas of primitive people. (Russian elites aping European culture since the 1700s mean nothing, they simply liked the ostentatious wealth displays.)
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  3093. African-Americans should note the overlap between white folks driving the anti-vax movement and white folks who want you dead. I may be incorrect (you do the math) but I''l just guess your interests ain't first on their list.
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  3094. Indeed, and the West will be forced to assist the winners to contain the nuclear problem no matter what else they do to each other.
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  3095. It's Argentina so like the rest of South America even less socially competent at government than the US but a rightist rotation into power was inevitable given leftist failures. The long absence of competent government means no one really knows HOW to do it so he'll have to start from scratch and assemble a competent governing team. Peronists won't take the loss lying down so things will surely get interesting.
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  3096. Mistakes like encouraging immigration during a housing shortage are a Democrat-inflicted social disaster. Why are we not helping AMERICANS first? Why don't AMERICANS matter to Democrats? Why did NYC voters elect politicians they knew would give away their birthright while taking their tax dollars? The US should care for its own but they chose to elect people who do not. Voters control the government by action or inaction and inaction is a choice.
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  3097. He's a (FORMER) COLONEL not a General. The difference is highly relevant to the discussion.
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  3098. There is no intelligent reason that style bridge could not be an all-steel military-style bridge instead. Unlike cheap brittle concrete military bridges are all-steel, can be erected very quickly, can be removed quickly and repaired quickly. Bailey bridges from WWII still carry road traffic around the world. For basic structures like that there is no intelligent reason to play around when the objective is easily met with proven designs able to carry far more weight. Military and civilian (most are civilian) portable bridging can even be rented and often is for short term construction work. Prefabricated steel is easy to place, easy to inspect and in every way superior to that piece of junk.
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  3099. Good. That's what they wanted, that's what they got and I don't live there.
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  3100. They don't tug at my heart because I'm not senile. Harden up, never relax and keep your distance so you don't get shanked or capped. Funerals are free, you can show up at potters field when the county plants them and no amount of ritual does anything for a corpse. Funerals are for the living an nothing more than entertainment.
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  3101. The longer this lasts the more damage to Russia and the greater (long term) benefit to Ukraine. Ending the war is not nearly enough because Russia will simply respawn and try it again. The Russian empire needs to go the way of Yugoslavia.
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  3102. Titanic has provided so much wank material for the ages the world is clearly better off for the sinking for the Youtube views alone. Ocean liners are vastly more interesting submerged (while museum ships get little love and less funding) because it's not about the vessel, it's about exciting disaster and vicarious ghoulish pleasures.
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  3103. Wanting manned systems is an enormous self-inflicted production bottleneck but pilots like to fly and they run the Air Force. At least modern designs can interoperate with meatless situationally expendable airframes but one day sticking meat in the seat will be as laughable as the Japanese Ohka where disposable pilots substituted for expensive guidance systems.
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  3104. Why don't UK residents hate their government the way Americans hate ours? It's your enemy after all, but the whole of Western Europe is oddly submissive.
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  3105.  @alexlents4689  Why should we care about them when we in fact CANNOT handle more useless eaters? Our own people go homeless while DC wastes money on foreigners. How many are YOU adopting to live in YOUR house on YOUR income?
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  3106. Women do not have sincere political beliefs, they're just grifting hose angling for advantage. There are men who treat women with due respect, but pimping is generally illegal for that reason.
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  3107. Cartoons aren't real, kid.
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  3108. The VOTERS put them there. Democrats ruined this country.
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  3109.  @bmoshareholderappleshareho855  No, people are silly and childish, a terrible combination.
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  3110. No, they were really all Communist shills. The Left was and remains subversive.
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  3111. Russia is NOT EUROPEAN and cannot be expected to identify with values its culture never shared. The majority of Russians supported Lenin, Stalin etc and were the people who inflicted the Holomodor on Ukraine. Putin is merely a minor symptom of the fundamental Russian character. Gulin as well. Ordinary Russians in their armed forces murder innocent Ukrainians every day with the logistic, financial and moral support of the majority of ordinary Russians. The war is a flawless reflection of true Russian culture or it could not exist because its precursor atrocities would not have happened. The murderous war on Ukraine is a collective act of the Russian people in their usual pursuit of tyrannical conquest. It's time Europe awoke. Previous Fascist evils in the West in no way negate their match in kind and quality over much longer time in the East.
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  3112. I remember when Americans objected to Russian imperialism because they bothered to take interest in history, geopolitics and war. Today the naive and ignorant (most Americans read therefore think at an 8th grade reading level) judge everything by their local competition for power. Europe is far more important to global democracy (without which the US loses most of its economic influence!) than for example Taiwan.
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  3113. Liberal states are not America. They are a Marxist disease whose cure is not at the ballot box because ballots leave surviving Leftists.
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  3114. Live in a red state where self-defense and defense of property is legal and those problems go away. There is good reason I do not live in a walkable or crowded area. If you cannot freely shoot rifle practice in your own back yard it IS time to move. I escaped the NY metro area decades ago because everything that happened since was obvious. I don't need a concierge to protect my mail. That reflects failure.
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  3115. When your government abandons you that is betrayal. Government is not nation is not the general public. It took the disasters of WWI to provoke Russian mutiny but there were previous mutinies and revolts like that on battleship Potemkin. If the choice is live or frag your incompetent evil leadership it's frag time.
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  3116. Sal Mercagliano for next Secretary of Transporation! (Not joking. Most technocrats are weak communicators and the position merits a rational human unbeholden to corporates and who has never been a politician.)
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  3117. Comedy gold. Democracy is such fun to watch.
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  3118. Moving people just so they can perform the same tasks in an office is a grotesque waste of fuel, time, transportation systems and more. To commute is to commute and that truth should be hammered home so environmentally conscious employers reduce their consequential pollution. If you require fifty employees to drive to work for years that's many thousands of gallons of fuel burned plus all the other waste, wear and pollution any form of vehicular transport involves (including manufacture of relevant systems).
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  3119. A superb stand used in the (many) thousands by self-service and other salvage yards is made of two steel rims. Lay one flat, place the other vertically inside the cup formed by the first then firmly tack weld (for handling convenience, the welds are not weight bearing) then repeat for as many as you desire. They're especially good for trucks and farm equipment. Project Farm's carbide recip saw blade reviews are why I just bought Freud carbide blades to cut off about 20 tire carcasses to make a batch (it was time to clean my back yard....) and the first blade is still in good condition with only modest wear.
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  3120. Does this affect anyone who did not choose to deserve it by voting Democrat? Anyone decent had decades to leave the west coast therefore remaining is consent.
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  3121. 1980s West Germany was impressive. I was stationed at Sembach AB and quite enjoyed the hospitality. The Warsaw Pact threat was dire and not to be confused with Putin's attempt at NeoSoviet ultranationalist respawn. BTW Stalin was very much Hitler's equal and killed at least as many Russians. War was inevitable, demonstrated by Germany and the USSR jointly invading Poland and dividing it between them. Germany should not have struck first since Stalin was well on the way to doing that. WWII could have gone very differently and vastly better for a united Europe since Stalin would not have had Lend-Lease or been rescued along with the Russian Communist Party.
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  3122. Escape while you can. It's too late.
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  3123. I find it hilarious sellers aren't detailing more cars before the sale. That made the lot I worked for serious profit. We had a mobile detailer give us cheap group rates and he was a bargain. The client base below 3-5K are definitely moneymakers for many lots including the one I wrenched for. That range will sell in good times and bad.
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  3124. Assad is a long term enemy of Israel yet has American supporters which I find hilarious. BTW being an ex-Warthog pilot qualifies you to be a Warthog pilot and nothing else or different.
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  3125. However anti-Europeans many be enamored of Russia it has accumulated too many enemies by being an amazingly bad master over its empires past and present. While non-Europeans have no reason to care if Ukraine reverts to Russian rule for the same reasons they didn't care who died under USSR rule (Afghanistan perhaps excepted) they should note for the sake of accuracy why the Soviet Union imploded and why Russia (contrast it with mainland China under successful CCP rule!) chose to be a kleptocracy and remains so. Russia fans somehow approve of that variety of colonialism but they tend to know little Russian or Eastern European history.
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  3126. DEMAND is fueling the drug epidemic. The War On Some Drugs makes illegal drugs immensely profitable with predictable and unchanging effects. Alcohol Prohibition didn't work either but because most Americans read therefore think at an ~8th grade level we cannot have enlightened policies. That's also why we have tens of millions of citizens not intellectually competent to manage their lives.
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  3127. The US doesn't want to pay truckthers so many leave the business. Company hiring standards decline and we get crashes. The sooner trucking is (effectively) automated the better but technology isn't quite there yet so expect more of same.
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  3128. Why do we still drive cars when that kills over thirty thousand Americans per year?
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  3129. The Left have controlled US academia since the 1960s, some religious schools excepted. This outcome should surprise no one, yet some Leftists are surprised.
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  3130. I love these sky is falling clickbait titles. YOU may never retire but that asserted conclusion presumes someone who mindlessly follows the herd (most people). OTOH other humans retire every day and many live surprisingly well on very low incomes and I am one of many millions. The way forward includes doing some things you may not WANT to do but life doesn't care what you want and money makes freedom usable. Consider many Americans manage to own property and live decently on Social Security, for example my disabled ex-mechanicbro who bought a cheap ugly lot (that's also large and wooded) then placed a cheap used trailer about 20 years ago. He cleared and upgraded slowly and today lives in a very nice large pole building constructed over his trailer. (They're called roofovers in some regions). He had that spray insulated and his electric bill is well below 100 bucks a month. First step is the once traditional now often ignored route of getting into a government career because only government careers vest a reliable pension and medical benefits. Unions CAN provide those but they need to be strong ones like IBEW, Pipeliners Local 798 etc. Wise humans plan methodically and start early. It's quite practical to choose a law enforcement, USPS, local or Federal agency, Merchant Marine, or armed forces career then stick to it until you vest retirement then if desired work more years for the pay bumps. Steady moderate compensation then the deferred compensation in retirement allows the public to buy government services "on credit" they pay for them later with deferred compensation which is your retirement if you work for them. The armed forces (choose wisely without passion, for passion makes young humans foolish) have many satisfying careers if you do your homework then choose wisely. Most of any modern military is supporting functions from medical to equipment support, civil engineering etc. You can most certainly fully retire if you stay long enough and refuse to go into debt. I retired at 47 and like many of my buds am debt-free. Don't live in cities. The cost of living is excessive, taxes high, property unaffordable because the rest of the herd is chasing the same things after getting the same degrees after uncritically following other lemmings off a cliff. Do find a semi-rural location with SLOW, predictable economic growth. Growth is not your friend on a low or fixed income. Low overhead is. Ideal is five acres plus in an are zoned agricultural so you have maximum personal freedom. (If I want another garage or shop, I build it.) The fewer neighbors you have the fewer to bother you or abscond with your property. Avoid walkable neighborhoods because that filters pedestrian thieves. The US is enormous so that's not hard to do. Do locate in useful range of but not next to predictably solid economic anchors like logistics centers, seaports (100+ mile range is fine) or large military bases wildly unlikely to close (even if you've nothing to do with the military the economic footprint is key). Geography matters. I avoid hurricanes (and high taxes) by living inland. I can visit the coast without living on it. I would never buy in a flood plain, downstream from any dam etc. There's no reason to. Do choose to become a competent DIYer and to have only productive hobbies since your time and energy are valuable. Labor rates are so inflated you can save absurd money working on what you own. It's a major economic force multiplier. Anyone can (my wife did most of our interior renovation). Choose to be capable and persistent which is more valuable than intelligence.
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  3131.  @jjred233  I maintain my own property which anyone determined to learn can do and should consider to slash their cost of living. My yearly maintenance cost is so little I don't notice it and because of that when I finally had to pay a deep well driller had the cash handy for that.
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  3132. If ya decide you want a larger "deck" for convenient parts holding a couple of "wings" off the sides (since they're not under press load unless you wish is to then reinforce) can have holes or T-slots for milling machine table and other clamps which hold pretty much anything, including stuff you might not want your fingers next to the ram when pressing.
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  3133. Better cite specific company assertions regarding specific chemical additives because generalizing is often inaccurate. Who is doing the "supposing" and based on what empiric evidence?
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  3134. Condos are a con job. You lose ALL the control you get with owning a detached conventional home (affordable in the Southeast if you can afford a condo) without any benefit. It makes no sense to me so I would never put myself in such a position of utter helplessness. There us no reason to want to live in anything taller than a ranch style home (stairs kill old people or disable them ending their quality of life) in retirement so I never will. Condos attract people who should know better. Just say no because the combination of being a helpless old person and being at the mercy of someone else controlling your home is a terrible combination. If they are the only way you can live near a beach, grow up and stop wanting to live near a beach (which are hurricane bait anyway).
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  3135. Why are we worshipping vets? I'm a career USAF vet but the sun doesn't shine out our butts (and most of our missions do little for the public). As a vet I expect MORE from other vets including self-discipline and planning. The vast majority of vets never see combat in any US war WWII included. The military can be a great career if you do it right. I expect other vets not to make dumb choices like wanting to live in expensive coastal areas. My USAF bros either don't or have high dollar jobs in retirement like working oil rig helicopters. Men and women who proved they can function in a disciplined environment should have and keep their act together. Disability retirement is enough for a small lot and a trailer if you choose the right place so no need for an apartment. I have no idea why people rent those since it's a losing proposition vs even a thrashed trailer or old shotgun shack.
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  3136. It won't matter on my machines because any such installs will never directly contact the internet or be on a PC/hdd/USB I never use for anything important. Disk space is dirt cheap so when I want Windows I fire up a suitably isolated (or not depending on use case) VM residing on my Linux main PCs. Anyone who cares can solve the problem in multiple ways and more will be available as Windows users who are stuck with it for specific software that won't run on other OS develop workarounds. This stuff is easy to learn and useful to know but most people prefer worthless entertainment instead of getting smarter every day. Gamers can just use their gaming Windows install as a toy and run another OS for online shopping etc which is also trivially easy given minimal effort. I do NOT recommend dual booting on bare metal and haven't bothered since 1999 when I figured out using a hard drive swap rack on my desktop was much more convenient. Ways to separate multiple OS on one box include: Multiple hard drives (and cutting power to the one you aren't using via an inline switch setup bought or self-assembled). Running the least secure OS in a virtual machine, which has advantages over bare metal including having a "clean install" saved as a snapshot so you can have a fresh OS quick as rebooting the VM (not the PC itself). Running Windows for gaming only (so security doesn't matter) by using it as a host OS then booting your "secure" OS from a live image using Ventoy and an external hdd (need not be a slow USB flash drive). Live Linuxes are free to try of course and you can try each image in a VM instead of writing to a USB or hdd. Live OS booted from external media are terrific for rescuing your data when your machine will not boot or crashes too early for data rescue. Any recent Ubuntu (if you're an experienced Linuxer you don't need this post so no distrowars please, save those for infants of all ages)/Xubuntu (for the more familiar interface) etc live image will do. A Windows To Go install to external media. There are other free tools besides the original MSFT like Aomei Partition Assistant. Search Youtube for the most current videos. BTW you can and I have made a Windows To Go install on a main hdd so if that PC breaks I can toss the drive into another or boot it externally using a cheap bootable USB adapter. None of this is exotic and the many text articles and forum threads cover details not suited to videos. Experiment and have some fun! It doesn't cost a dime unless you write live CD/DVD etc media which an XP user would do anyway.
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  3137. The business is obviously profitable so if the owners with to compete they will invest in more efficient production. The same workers will then be able to produce more scissors. China's economy was in ruins after 1948 so Chinese solved that problem. Indians can certainly do likewise unimpeded by Maoist nonsense which delayed Chinese development by decades.
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  3138. Voters CHOSE this at the ballot box. Zero sympathy here and I found the ideal personal solution during the last time NYC had a bad urban cycle forty two years ago. I moved away from the metro area. The problem is the PUBLIC. Muggers etc happen to be part of that public and always have been through previous inevitable natural urban declines and rebounds. When the public are no better than animals they deserve a police state. Smart people have no desire to live in NYC unless they are seriously wealthy. Just leave! Feels great and you can afford to retire on land you own, almost impossible for the weak who pathetically cling to living in a city that was never good and frequently much, much worse. Cities are bad, kids. No one has to live in one so I don't. Urban taxes are bad, so I don't live there and don't pay them. Urban land prices mean no home ownership. That's bad so I don't live there and own my home and several comfy acres with no annoying neighbors. Urban traffic is bad, so I don't live there and haven't had to parallel park in over forty years. Urban pollution is bad, so I don't live there and it doesn't much affect me. Urban survival overhead costs are terrible, so I don't live there and don't pay them. Urban crowding is bad and being trapped with other people like rats in a cage is horrible, so I don't live there trapped with people useless to me. Urban space is so rare I could never afford to build my workshops etc for personal enjoyment if I lived there, so I don't, See a pattern? If you know urban history NYC was never good, just differently bad. Urban hives cannot be made good, so leave them for people too silly to figure that out. The only reason people cling to where wise humans do not is fear of change. You have a lifetime not to live in a city or urban area, but the sooner you figure that out the better your life and especially personal economy will be. Democratic voters decide NYCs fate. They deserve what their unwisdom gets them but they are not entitled to me living in the metro area to support their nonsense with my tax money. Crime can never be stopped for good. So believing is irrational because most humans are idiot savages on a good day. However you can FLEE and leave bad areas so they are not your problem. Staying is like buying Titanic tickets knowing it's going bowling for icebergs.
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  3139. Age guarantees cognitive decline, the outliers proving the rule. Old humans are (mostly) a burden and pretending otherwise dishonest, Most people were none too bright to begin with. Intelligence is arguably neurodivergent. Beware the mistake intelligent oldsters tend to make of assuming their chronological peers are more than human sandbags. Evolution used to keep populations young and adaptive but technology has ended natural selection. Idiocracy followed and it's here to stay.
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  3140. HMMWV began as a NATO liaison vehicle never intended for direct combat, but all wars these days can have direct combat anywhere. The uparmor kits are MUCH better than nothing and that one just paid for itself nicely!
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  3141. The US should encourage more immigration from the Philippines. It's a win for all concerned as Filipinos are basically pre-assimilated and have the strong work ethic that thrives in the US. The US must maintain an internal age balance and that means (as throughout its history) managing immigration. The US military is ample proof Filipinos are a great fit. I've never had a bad Filipino Airman (USAF career vet here) and all were professional and great to work with. Everyone wins.
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  3142. Keeping it real, helos are soft delicate slow targets in nation-state war so SEAD systems will have to suppress or destroy enemy systems first. Helos are dandy for constabulary operations but war with China won't be the gunboat diplomacy of old. Humans should not be riding missile/rocket dispensers and the sooner the man in the loop is elsewhere the sooner CSAR disasters (like the expensive defeat depicted in "Bat 21" or the helo loss in Operation Red Wings) will be minimized. Humans are expensive to train, support and rescue and while helicopters are tough to beat against traditional (weak, incompetent, poorly armed) US opponents they're of little value defending Taiwan etc. Spend the money on UAS (which now land on aircraft carriers among other fun stuff) and put the meatsacks far away so they don't get smoked. Given Chinese production rates they won't need super high quality to churn out swarms of their own remotely operated systems. The US has nothing like Shenzen.
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  3143. It is absurd to expect Libya's neighbors not to intervene to protect their national interests. Military personnel are lawful targets armed or unarmed. Their youth is irrelevant under law. Of course modern media don't get this and crave clickbait. Cadets are CHILD SOLDIERS in training and part of a "declared hostile force" wearing distinctive uniform. Where is the outrage about that? The embargo is of course another issue but war is more important than nonsense like the United Nations. BTW the mobile "buildings" are actually containerized command modules built in shipping container format for convenient sea, air and land transport China is paying attention to detail.
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  3144. They're fine for retiress with outside income, and when many rurals move to cities they see how far their income DOES NOT go because overhead is absurd.
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  3145. That charges were pressed confirms the diary is factual. Senile Joe sure produced some winners....No wonder Epstein didn't kill himself.
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  3146. The most common mistake I see is lack of personal skill diversification. Everything one learns and does can be useful but most people accept "learned helplessness". Another is buying far too much house. I grew up in a beautiful upper middle class home built in 1926 but don't want one because at that point the house owns you and is a huge money pit including taxes. I chose single storey homes because stairs GUARANTEE old people will slip and fall at least once. That's why many elders stay on the ground floor.The only reason to want multi-storey residences is lack of land which I made sure is not a problem. I chose agricultural-zoned property for additional freedom (like building my home welding and machine shop and having many vehicles), I knew living on the coast guarantees storms so I don't. I knew moving to high growth areas would make retirement unaffordable so I did not. Growth only benefits developers. I knew taxes in expensive hoods are brutal so I live in a rural area. I know neighbors are useless annoyances so mine are few, far between and stable in the traditional meaning of the term. Cheer up. If you play it right you can (because my poorbros have for decades) live comfortably for small money if you choose wisely. For example my HS dropout former musician bro does fine on disability and owns his land and trailer free and clear. Learn from smart poor folks.
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  3147. HURT? They just want to ESCAPE. No one can blame them fleeing people afraid to run their own affairs without stealing other peoples money.
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  3148. Aircraft parts are not simple to manufacture to spec. They only appear that way to non-technicians who relate to objects based on their external shape. Study how parts must be made. Printing is not magic, especially metal printing, and with respect to metals grain structure and much more is critical. Turbine hot section parts made of superalloys are not easy to manufacture. So few countries manufacture their own jets and turboprops because the precursor industries are so complex. Passengers expect not to crash. There is no low hanging fruit.
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  3149. I welcome security because it benefits ME. What sort of frail customer would be intimidated and WHY? Security is for everyone's benefit and it being present simply reflects that reality. Having served near three decades in the military I'm fine with armed security and welcome more of same. I am more likely to shop at a store with visible armed security (unarmed humans are useless, I also carry legally). I prefer to shop Home Depot online for the convenience and rarely bother with brick and mortar locations unless I am actually buying bricks and mortar. While contractors need them in emergency as a DIYer I buy my power tools online at the best price (since I research online anway) and save money, time, fuel and labor. Driving forty minutes each way vs. a few mouse clicks is no contest and Home Depot service has been excellent.
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  3150. They do not perform the same missions. Osprey isn't the most dangerous rotary wing aircraft but the public aren't aviationists so early impressions are permanent.
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  3151. One may slay any enemy without vengeance in one's heart. I don't get angry at flies. I do swat them.
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  3152. Spamming cheap MANPADS can exhaust enemy flares permitting easier kill sometimes by more advanced systems. Ukraine forces should visually inspect every combat position from the air with their own drones because one visible object can get the group killed. We see bad Russian practice in visible brightly colored civilian equipment and clothing. Best not to be like that.
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  3153.  @AmJusSaiyan  Not even close. I was alive before Lyndon Baines Johnson was President. That was not the case until after LBJ knowingly chose to drive off the Dixiecrats who (with microscopic exceptions now mostly deceased of old age) migrated to the GOP and eventually took much of it over. They were able to do that because the old GOP northern WASP leadership thought too much of themselves and expected to control the new arrivals.
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  3154. Acts of war against vessels deliberately flagged for convenience TO AVOID TAXES which help pay for naval forces should not be a US problem unless otherwise dictated by treaty. If the Marshall Islands etc care they let them build a modern navy with their revenue.
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  3155. Detente was a mistake.
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  3156. If Kurdistan seriously join Russia that solves a military and political problem for NATO. Geographic reality requires Turkish participation in NATO, period full stop. If Kurdistan make the strategic mistake of aligning with Russia that removes any reason for Europe (Turkey etc are not European except for a tiny percentage of Turkey) to be concerned about Kurdistan. Reality is harsh sometimes. The Kurdish relationship was transactional because it was always, always obvious that a prospective Kurdistan had to be carved by force from land claimed by other locals. US involvement meant taking sides against every other country that land would have to be carved from by force. How much is sentimental attachment worth? There is no strategic NATO interest in weakening defense of Europe for anyone in the Middle East. Read that as many times as necessary. Russia remains the existential threat to secular democracy. China remains a threat in the Pacific. Compared to that the small fry are expendable not by choice but by necessity which destroys choice. Most people alive in 2023 don't remember the early Cold War or internalize why that situation must be resisted including containing the Russian enemy. Ukraine was the wakeup call NATO needed and that struggle is far more important than anything else in the region. Note on WWII bomber losses: The 8th Air Force lost more KIA than the entire Marine Corps during WWII. Forcing the Luftwaffe into the air to destroy it and diverting German flak and other assets from ground combat had a terrible price.
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  3157. So much for the image of the IDF (whose senior leadership failure to properly picket its own border, have ready QRFs and ubiquitous SHORAD despite the state of perpetual threat from Hamas).That another idiot took photos shows neither were trained properly.
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  3158.  @JoeBesharah-hn9ed  That's basic military literacy so why didn't you know it too?
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  3159. Jumper cables are normally used from RUNNING vehicles so their battery is not run down disabling both. Jumper Cable clamp connections have less conductor interface. It's typical to jump off running vehicles for that reason (and other conductivity issues. Other than motorbikes which should not be jumped from a running car lest the motorcycle regulator be damaged it would be odd to see someone jumping off a non-running vehicle.
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  3160. Pet imports should be banned. There is no legitimate reason to inflict foreign species on US ecosystems.
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  3161. Remember you can seal the container floors and also have sawdust samples tested for Dieldrin etc if desired.
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  3162.  @patrikwihlke4170  How many container structures have YOU personally built? Cutting the floors out renders using containers pointless as framing is not expensive with standard steel studs. Replacing that much structure is absurdly expensive for no gain. The floors can easily be sealed with a variety of flooring products like industrial epoxies then flooring of choice applied over them. I don' t seal my shops but those are aggressively ventilated because I weld there. (Containers make very nice welding booths.)
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  3163. Is that crackhouse fireproof?
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  3164. To all Pinoys and Pinays considering the US I strongly recommend rural areas like that one but make SURE you avoid US urban areas! The rural US, especially in the Midwest and West contain many of our best communties. I also recommend studying nursing etc instead because teachers lack the wide career paths medical personnel have.
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  3165. When you have that kind of money WHY would you not buy your own acreage AWAY from town? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. If someone STEALS your truck from your property stand your ground and call the cops and the coroner.
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  3166. That is a sampling of ONE owner. Which years and engines did/do you have? Owners don't own enough trucks in a lifetime for a valid sampling. Mechanics OTOH see and more importantly work on far more vehicles. That's why as a mechanic I only consider the opinions of experienced mechanics who also have years on whatever vehicle or anything else I'm looking for info on. I don't emotionally bond with machinery and do drive (much older) Fords as well as (much older) Chevrolets. Buying new unproven vehicles (if it isn't a roaring success in FLEET use I consider it unproven) is for the rich. I paid off my home instead.
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  3167. What the youngsters watching this mostly do not know is how academia was taken over by Marxists in the 1960s with the help of members of the same group now outraged at them being themselves. This is really Leftist infighting within a university system that purged conservatives in the 1960s. The expected quid pro quo was never promised so of course not delivered.
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  3168. How were internal repairs made on those boilers?
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  3169. A metric Gearwrench set is gold for these jobs. That utterly retarded double ended stud used for the ground cable is never reinstalled on my Fords. I make a fresh ground cable from battery to an alternator bolt (old cables can age internally including corrosion one doesn't see) which is both electrically sound and a breeze to connect and disconnect. Every threaded electrical connection gets a dab on silicone dielectric AKA "spark plug boot" grease. If a starter is known bad and not being reinstalled and the cable nuts to the solenoid are stuck I shatter the plastic cap with a long punch, remove the starter then disconnect the cable from the studs by holding then with visegrips. That makes them easy to remove and solenoids are not reused by rebuilders so no core issues either.
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  3170. Good for them! No one benefits by dying for Putin and Russia would not benefit socially even from "winning" which would promptly turn into an insurgency that would make them nostalgic for the failed Chechen wars.
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  3171.  @obi-juantacobi8552  Relatively few were in GWOT though it seems otherwise, and those who came back intact had the edge of military self-discipline and personal accomplishment (I retired from the AF in 2007) plus the educational bennies. I saw the same dry dives (we immediately stood down from exercise then loaded lives awaiting orders which turned into 12-hr shifts watching TV with nothing to launch) and frankly I didn't waste time emoting over it because that is not productive. It's just history except for the people actually on-scene. No lessons will be learned from that either because most of the public are morons who elect morons like themselves. (That's also why military reform is glacially slow...) Having lived through other temporary national emotional displays (nothing was learnt from Viet Nam which is why the strategic mistake of nation-building was tried twice) now forgotten except by participants I did approach 9/11 with some perspective though. Everyone who DIDN'T serve in any era pretty much did have a normal childhood and their Youtube comments on contemporary songs so demonstrate. It's like the hippies nostalgic for the Sixties because they spent them partying instead of humping through triple canopy. I expect fellow veterans to be MUCH more capable than those who never served and most I've met are, just like the generations of WWII, Korea and Nam vets who were still in the work force when I was young. Childhood is overrated and too long breeds weakness.
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  3172. When you have a lifetime to plan and work to escape Baltimore and still live there it's your mistake. The city will not change for you because crimes are done by THE PUBLIC. When a city is nothing but crime and corruption for decades that's a hint that staying accomplishes nothing. Cops cannot follow you everywhere. Wanting to stay in a doomed area is absurd because most of the rest of America is better than Baltimore ever was.
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  3173.  @cormacthem8406  Visibility makes it much harder for them to hide. The many places they cannot live are thus protected.
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  3174. It's junk too far gone to rehab.
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  3175. The equipment was GIVEN to the ANA who we should never have supported (as we should never ever ever try "nation building" in these enemy cultures). The ANA leaders left with heaps of US money. Why not go after them? The military gear is booty of the winners who beat the ANA. Butthurt Americans should stop these constabulary wars (OBL would have gotten the Mossad treatment from Israel, but that's not dramatic enough for Bush Junior) but they won't because our public take zero interest in history.
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  3176. I had a long contented career because I have the sense to shut my piehole. I don't care that it's isolating. I was strictly professional per armed forces regs and custom and all was well. I married a fine woman who worked in a different unit mine and had no workcenter dealings with after meeting her off-duty. My wise mentors taught me not to defecate where I eat. The military rules on fraternization are helpful there. Freedom of association inherently includes freedom not to associate.
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  3177. Cities are bad so I don't live in one. Growth ONLY makes life harder on existing non-rich residents so if you see rich people moving to a location you're wise not to follow them even if you are also rich because that will only cost you money. The US is enormous but people insist on mobbing coastal cities because they're not very bright outside their specialty.
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  3178. It's not the "entire nation" by a long shot. You can see what the looters have in common but it's thought crime to mention that on Youtube so I won't.
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  3179. Title should say "educated" instead of "smart". Educated, intelligent and smart mean very different things which is why there are different words for hem. I'm too smart to buy a new vehicle. I focused on early retirement (the point of working is to be free from having to work before you no longer CAN work) instead of paying retail for shiny objects then retired fully at 47. I could now buy a new car for cash because I would never buy a new car at all.
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  3180. Anyone seriously wanting a turboshaft (turboshafts are not "jets", jet mech here) can buy a turbine ground power unit then use that to power their preferred electric drivetrain (works for turbine locomotives which have impressive low end torque thanks to that arrangement). The combo could be quite beastly and "Dash 60"s have been around since the 1960s. Turbines with simple hydromechanical fuel controls that trim to temperature are what make multifuel use so convenient.
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  3181. Technology is magic to paper pushers so you need real subject matter experts all the way on the hardware side.
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  3182. Cities are bad and wanting to live in them is generally silly. Sentiment is not what adults should base life choices on. Growth is bad because it makes everything unaffordable. Cities should SHRINK not grow which only makes developers rich. Before the US was so grossly overpopulated urban quality of life was better. Now there are just too many people in too little space.
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  3183. A long kitchen knife slid under the cups releases the vacuum. That's a very old method. See other videos for what the inside view looks like.
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  3184. 1000 1970s dollars are not the same as 2024 dollars. https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm Those cars of course were mostly scrapped because when they were made they were not icons of someones long vanished youth. (My first job was working a scrapyard in the 1970s when our most-used tool was a cutting torch.)
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  3185. That goes with espionage. Of course the death penalty may be a gambit with an eventual settlement. It is unwise to let former senior officers take employment in competitor nations since they can be expected to divulge information under torture (no need to pretend human rights exist in the Middle East) and even if released the damage is done. Prior military should have reasonable retirement benefits to reduce the influence greed would have on weaker people (EVERY armed force has a few troops who should never have been inducted).
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  3186. If the moon landing never happened why wouldn't the USs mortal enemies Maoist China and the Soviet Union instantly prove that to damage Washington's credibility?
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  3187. Rich people non-problems are hilarious. Cars are cost centers not investments. New cars are a TOY purchase. Read that as many times as it takes to sink in. Never spend more on a TOY than you can literally afford to set on fire. (Not that you would want to, but "afford" and "want" mean different things.)
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  3188. DIY is real too and anyone can learn. I'm 65 and never paid a plumber in my life. Everything that breaks I fix on the spot after shutting off the water (I installed valves so if part of my home or shop needs work I don't need to shut off the water supply. "Every cutoff gets a shutoff" is an easy way to remember that bit. Labor is so high quality tools easily pay themselves off in the first or second task, then I keep the tools. My wife did likewise (anyone can learn if they choose to).
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  3189. Democrats chose therefore deserve her leadership. This has been hilariously entertaining.
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  3190. Perfectly normal business as usual.
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  3191. Wake me when they start laying keels. Our ignorant public has zero genuine interest in naval affairs and even less in our Merchant Marine. Our Navy can't even manage its own procurement, taking decades to finally give up on the LCS mistake. Since we're no longer allied with Europe we don't need more than a defensive Atlantic fleet nor does our public benefit from protecting freedom of navigation in the Pacific for our economic competitors. Even US companies fly flags of convenience to dodge taxes so why waste blood and treasure protecting parasites?
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  3192. Latinos are FLEEING SOCIALISM not exporting it. The ones here legally do NOT want the rest to swarm the US because unlike the freeloaders they paid their dues or were born here. Biden IS bringing Latinos together....for Trump. Granted Trump is no prize but the US is such a chitshow after a a century of Repocrat and Demublican betrayal the public are desperate and do not fooking care.
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  3193. Glavset shills are out in force I see. Russia is noted for inducting minorities to spare Putin's Muscovite base inconvenience before the coming election and to preserve domestic peace. Their military (including PMCs) is utterly unprofessional by Western standards and even by USSR/Warsaw Pact standards. The Russian Federation couldn't invade their dirt poor next door neighbor despite decades to reform their armed forces. While the UK hates its troops and starves its defense their services do maintain a professional core however tiny.
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  3194. American society is a failure. Arm yourselves, TRAIN yourselves and be ready for acceleration to free decent Americans from the prison of laws made for and enforced by traitors.
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  3195. I find this hilarious. They knew what they voted for.
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  3196. I was never stupid enough to do that, but did find out why everyone should wash hands THOROUGHLY before handling the family jewels! I was doing barracks detail and pulling weeds etc which happened to includ poison sumac...
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  3197. Why anyone would be an LA cop when there are MANY other departments needing personnel is worth asking. Liberals oppose the existence of law and law enforcement so to them police will always be the enemy. Stop defending your enemies then move to where they do not rule you. Just man up and leave. Individuals really don't have meaningful impact and the public hate cops for interfering with their criminal habits. There are plenty of comfortable departments far away from the savages the west coast imports and grows domestically. Work there instead and you can live in the same place you affordably retire.
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  3198. Do filter FAIRLY. The first victims of Russian tyrants are always other Russians. Russians who OPPOSE Putin and Russian Federation imperialism (which can only come at European expense as it has for centuries) are not the enemy. Every advocate of Russian expansionism was and is an enemy of European and democratic civilization period but millions of Russians escaped every previous version of Russia to settle elsewhere. Filter by ideology since for example Russian refugees from Bolshevism made upstanding citizens no person who supports any version of Communism, Bolshevism, Stalinism or Putinism is not a deliberate enemy of European civilization and the body counts of those movements are ample proof. Nationality is not ideology and many Russians defected to the West during the early Cold War (which never ended). Give a warm welcome to the good ones. For example Russian emigration to the US goes back centuries.
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  3199. Permitting some opposition without controlling it preserves the illusion of hope. If she genuinely scared Putin she'd have been dealt with easily, but preserving the illusion of choice includes selectively managing opponents. That means she must be protected BEFORE she is perceived as worth deleting, including physical security.
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  3200.  @Tstorm-il5ih  The deleters are actually reducing the great replacement and make no mistake about it. Patriots don't delete.
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  3201. Ukraine is wildly unlikely to divest hardware in a manner annoying to its benefactors. Turkey of course is not European by culture or religion and only ~3% by geography so while strategically mandatory to include it in NATO due to geographic reality it should not be confused with a socially advanced society. One thing is not like the other.
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  3202. I bear personal witness to a much older, demonstrated truth of the early Cold War. Containment took decades but economic measures combined with Soviet and Warsaw Pact economic incompetence are why they NO LONGER EXIST and most of the former Warsaw Pact are free to choose their allies. Sanctions were a successful part of the containment strategy, now forgotten or of course not learned by younger people. That does in no way justify MISTAKEN or BIGOTED sanctions, but the Russian state is a war machine which must be denied as many resources as practical. Also note that trade with the West continued throughout the Cold War to include vast US grain sales to the Soviet Union. Sanctions are messy and being collateral damage sucks, but pointing out egregious examples is good because it may motivate positive change. Do not however forget the enormous Russian record of oppression and murder in MODERN EUROPE. The Soviet era is well in living memory. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Poland, the Baltics etc suffered immensely under RUSSIAN rule and it's fortunate there is any empathy remaining. Russians today are merely inconvenienced. It bears reminding that since 1917 the entirety of Russian history has been ongoing actions of real genocide and oppression of its neighbors, older conquests like Chechnya etc. That's real and many of the perpetrators are alive and well. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45168062 "Czech filmmaker Filip Remunda has revisited the events of that summer in a new documentary, Occupation 1968, that features films by five directors from the five ex-Warsaw Pact countries that took part in "Operation Danube". "This is the first time ever we've been able to show the occupation from the perspective of the occupiers," he said. "What really surprised me was that one of the Russian soldiers, now a general, told me he still believes it was the most successful military operation in history," Remunda told the BBC. "He also believed that he was here because of the counter-revolution, that we had basements full of weapons, that an American division had penetrated Czechoslovakia and a Russian division had kicked them out. They believed that was the moment that they'd prevented the outbreak of the Third World War." "This is the perspective of generals of the Russian military. Fifty years on, and they are still thinking according to this old Soviet pattern," he went on."
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  3203.  @olisk-jy9rz  The US "education" system is worthless at primary school level with very few exceptions. The end of ignorance being shameful (we don't raise standards, we lower or end them) ensures things will not get better. Our ruling class once invested in schools, libraries etc because even the robber barons had ideals.
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  3204. Every demilitarized vatnik is good news, especially their negative impact on Russian demographics over time. Fewer orcs reproducing means fewer to attack the next time (Russian culture is incapable of wanting to reform. It's an Asiatic enemy of Western civilization). Tyrants are a product of Russian culture, not some affliction. Putin pulls no triggers, ordinary gopniks do. Feel no empathy for these monstrous vermin. Their existence is an affront to humanity.
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  3205. It becomes parts for enterprising enthusiasts. The solution for new buyers is simple. Never buy low volume vehicles from weak companies. Always wait several years then buy what is proven in FLEET use AND loved or at least liked by mechanics. I don't buy computers without checking what the community thinks of their repairability (no Applol for me) nor vehicles. When I want to know something about a machine I ask people at my or higher skill level (I'm a lifelong mechanic and techie but no one knows everything and wise humans seek out wiser humans!). Companies using proprietary code often cannot choose to release it or the source so that puppy is (at present) dead in the basket. What could be required is full SELF-diagnostics to be required for all vehicle systems. There is no reason data extant already for system operation should not be available for BIT (Built In Test) use. Everything every onboard computer "sees" should be available to the operator, displayed both onboard and via OBD connector. The vast majority of automotive electrical work is what we called "swaptronics" in the Air Force. Replace parts in question per mfrs fault tree (plus practical experience) then BIT and operational check to verify repair. I and my avionicsbros prefer fixing combat aircraft to working on cars because aircraft are designed with maintainability in mind while cars continually get worse. Thanks for all you do and keep up the good fight!
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  3206. Most humans are contemptibly stupid and as that will never be different I prefer they expose themselves. If their followers are damaged by aping them that's a bonus. Gird yourself in the armor of contempt. The so-called people who are influenced could not be less interested in changing.
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  3207. Sharing that is the fundamentally incompetent act of a person unfit for leadership. Presenting anything but a professional exterior is degenerate, weakminded, vain and incredibly un-self-aware. The cunning required to have an unintelligent public (intelligence is neuro-divergent and purely a matter of luck) elect you does not mean you're fit to lead. Politicians in the US are far too primitive and common for their own good. They should aspire to be far better than the sad average human.
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  3208.  @bubandlisa  US weapons are not reliant on the internet and military illiterates should not permit themselves opinions on subjects they clearly have no basic knowledge of. Please list by name the "fancy USA weapons" systems which depend on Ukraine power and terrestrial internet communications (satellites are not landlines and military units have had generators since before the First World War. I defy you to support your statement with facts, logic and reason. Assertions are not proof.
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  3209. I live in SC and Nikki is all about power for Nikki. She's highly intelligent but she's also another Lindsay Graham when it comes to "adjustable principles". The American people are generally too passionately ignorant to elect highly competent people so they vote for whoever makes them feel good. Graham and Haley knew how to play hicktastic SC like a fiddle but exist to serve their wealthy donor class. However she would be a capable VP since Vice Presidents don't run much of anything but smart ones can offer useful input without making policy. Other than the usual serving the rich Haley is pretty sharp, just not what the US needs as POTUS. She'd help turn out the conservative female vote to elect Trump.
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  3210. What is that supposed to fix? They pay taxes while consuming no local services. Commuting is an expensive polluting waste of time, life and money. Anyone who can WFH reduces traffic by not being part of it, reduces apartment demand by not needing one, and in general has zero negative impact. WFH jobs are the same kind and quality of activity which used to be performed more expensively for all concerned on site. Businesses located in NYC pay NYC taxes making that a major net win. People are what make urban areas bad so the fewer the better.
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  3211. Immigrants (America where I live was built by them and earlier generations UNDERSTOOD THEIR OBLIGATION TO ASSIMILATE) need to remember they are FLEEING THEIR OWN SHITTY CULTURE. Were it any good they'd stay home. That cannot be hammered home enough no matter who it offends (taking offense is really a calculated childish tantrum). My ancestors promptly assimilated when the got off the boat and promptly contributed to the culture which rescued them from pogroms, poverty, and persecution. So can everyone else. A nation does not belong to the world. A nation belongs to its people in the way a house belongs to the homeowner (freedom is unusable without property rights). Immigrants should be selected not for need but for the value they personally add to a society. Were I to emigrate I'd promptly volunteer for my new home's armed forces or similar job defending my new people. I would RECUSE myself from acting against the will of those whose birthright that nation is. That said, hyper-liberal societies tend to hold (as if it were an obligation which it is certainly not) desperately naive ideas that everyone is interchangeable and actively RESENT the idea that local culture is what makes a country, and that culture is people. For example Russia invades its neighbors over centuries and only elevates tyrants to power because Russian culture demands this. That cannot be changed by thoughts and prayers. Africa is what it is because it's ruled by Africans making African choices. Colonials didn't teach the locals infibulation or animism.
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  3212. "Beyond repair" unless it's a hull loss really means "beyond economic repair" so yard sitters can indicate Russian refurb capabilities.
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  3213. I would never be in that situation because I consider it human duty to understand at least the basics of everything we personally own and use including (all) the vehicles. I am not a beta tester unless I'm paid to be. I do not care to conform to the herd who are mostly room-temperature IQ and technically ignorant. When I can own a proven, reliable, USED BEV which suits MY use case including ease of maintenance and repair (because I do that for myself and save gobs of cash over time) from a private party I might deign to consider one. Learnt helplessness is a choice.
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  3214. It's easy to build smaller but totally firePROOF homes but consumers however otherwise accomplished are nearly all childish and silly so they crave traditional homes made from wooden and petrochemical fuel. Vegetation removal should not be limited on private property because if there is no fuel there are no wildfires. My workshops and garage are all-steel and if my old house burned the replacement would be proper steel and concrete. Wood is fine for pallets and furniture but it's a stupid choice to build with no matter how pretty it looks.
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  3215. Russia obviously has severe vehicle maintenance problems. That speaks to poor discipline, preparedness, training and more. Recovery vehicles seem rare, probably because they are expensive.
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  3216. There are no good Democrats, like Communists they are an evil movement exploiting stupid voters.
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  3217. Similar here. People hear about Michigan and think of Detroit but my wise relatives bolted and leave on their farm near Harrieta (and love it). I chose the southeast because I'm a motorcyclist and hate snow but similar game plan.
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  3218. I'll pray for CA when they EARN it and take the fight to the enemy. Politics is war, not disagreement between friends. Politics is a battle for national survival by patriots against national destruction by the human products of over a century of Bolshevik/Soviet/NeoSoviet subversion (Joe McCarthy was right, Russia delenda est).
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  3219. Your choice of title was pure clickbait so own it! Youtube is about getting views, not some altruistic moral mission.
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  3220. BTW there is NO law preventing publication of public acts very much INCLUDING IDENTITY OF ARRESTED MINORS so if you want to deter their exploitation by adults I suggest publicity of that fact. Public agencies like cops have zero legal grounds to hide identity of arrested humans.
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  3221. The old bumpers were still easy to total at speeds over their limit and they cost more than plain chrome. Newer front ends offer superior crash protection for the driver and passengers although that's counter-intuitive to non-mechanics. The ancient times when I was a lad were before rubber bumper inserts and they were a bloodbath. The stats don't lie about that.
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  3222. Flying solo is an acquired taste. You are dodging many bullets but your hormones (ALL humans are just shaved apes in the end) are still intense because you are young. Go do interesting things and lead an interesting life. All marriages that don't end in divorce end in death. Desire for offspring is just hormones talking. I dodged that bullet by choice.
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  3223. The group most to blame for advancing Leftist causes in the US is now feeling the heat from people who figured out it was a prolonged scam. Their predecessors are to blame for the Bolshevization of academia but imagined their pets would not turn on them at first opportunity.
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  3224. Containers are literally disposably cheap since used boxes sell for pocket change (several thousand dollars). They should be single-use items then sold at destination and NOT returned to the seaport. Forbid the return of empty containers to jammed ports until things improve. Containers are trivially inexpensive relative to the cost of shipping them and are easily sold to private buyers to recoup some of the cost. I have four so far welded into rather nice workshop space and would buy more but prices are inflated without reason so I'll just wait until the next (inevitable, periodic) recession.
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  3225. I find it bizarre that an ethnostate where permanent low-level war with intermittent full scale wars AND neither defense in depth nor geography permitting it doesn't completely arm every physically fit patriot. It is not possible to secure every area with troops or police. Israel needs a VIGOROUS firearms enthusiast culture (which lest we forget is also great fun). Choosing to be helpless in the face of evil endorses evil.
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  3226. Worst dog-and-pony show ever. Other contenders are the B-52 airshow demo crash, and Red Arrows at Ramstein.
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  3227. China can afford it since trade with the US alone produces more than sufficient profit to pay for Beijings entire armed forces. I don't laugh at their choices because my taxes pay for their weapons, US weapons including the Navy expensively deterring (for now) Beijings ratural aggression. and in general fund the whole circus. Even more amusing are Americans object to helping people who REALLY fight for our shared traditional values against our historic Russian cultural opponent but grovel before any tyrant who humors them.
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  3228. That's a false-choice fallacy since we spend more per capita than many countries with effective national health care. It's easy for the insurance industry who control the medical industry to fool the public so nothing will change.
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  3229. Those posts can easily be replaced by a steel beam spanning the full width and supported by a steel post on each end which while permanent can easily be made adjustable. Steel should get much more love in residential construction and especially repairs. Used steel is quite reasonable in large sized (I use it often expanding my workshop) and UNlike wood steel structures can easily be made both load bearing and adjusable to counter future movement.
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  3230. What's that got to do with being a useless liberal arts school? Containing the greatest geopolitical enemy of western civilization is not why this incompetently run non-competitive school folded.
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  3231. Glass storefront windows are a bad idea. So is living in cities.
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  3232. Landlords didn't create the crisis. What is it you would wish them to do? There are many excellent landlords but of course your "mileage may vary". I've always had good ones.
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  3233. Australia is vast. Why is expansion being blocked? This cannot be an accident. It's EASY to develop and build more housing, even fireproof housing (all homes should shrug off wildfire). Copy the post-WWII US model of small, affordable homes in quantity like the famous Levitown. Find the human obstacles and end their influence.
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  3234. US culture remains fundamentally rustic (even the urbanites) and proudly backward. Read H.L. Mencken to understand it for things will never be different.
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  3235. Sell more tickets if you want money. Sports are BUSINESS and the entertainment business runs on cold hard cash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY9Gz_IMn_k
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  3236. Pet ducks are not food but ducks in general have been food for thousands of years. The real issue is we don't need to import poor people and have no obligation to those outside OUR nation to let them into OUR COLLECTIVE PROPERTY. These are the same people who ruined Haiti and kept it ruined.
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  3237. EV are still so early in their development that no reason exists for other than the wealthy to own one. This is quite like the first two decades of the last century and as NEW VEHICLES ARE TOY PURCHASES it does not matter much. There will be legal difficulties imposed on ICE owners, but that's the free choice of voters in nations indifferent to individual freedom of choice. I don't live there and have enough vehicles for the next thirty years and am stocking sufficient spares. Mechanics will ride, the rest will pay, and they did this to themselves eyes wide open.
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  3238. The Old School Cold War is back. Unfortunately for the vatnik disinfo machine, we have Sal to provide detailed, educational commentary.
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  3239. You can afford a firemans Halligan or Pro Bar and might enjoy one of the custom tools like the wedges and or sledge hammer with mating bracket. The design of the Halligan, Pro Bar etc is amazingly versatile which is why the pros prefer them to most plain bars. Needless to say they are FAST in the right hands (videos of bar use and breaching are worth a watch. I don't do enough demo in crippled retirement to buy new but may anyway for giggles.
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  3240. The Streisand Effect on this is hilarious!
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  3241.  @againstthecurve  Popular myth perpetuated because people who have no idea about procurement find it somehow witty. The real processes are bad enough.
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  3242. The public will just elect different idiots because the public don't know how to run complex programs (either). The average voter is incompetent to participate in a democratic Republic.
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  3243. Christmas celecbrated by giving (c)ommunist China money is a dispensable ritual.
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  3244. AMF saved the company from family mismanagement but didn't know how to run it and had labor problems. The buyout at the time was by the same executives but via the Evo they saved HD from AMF who previously saved HD. I was wrenching then and quite amused.
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  3245. Where do you get THAT idea? Russians resent LOSING. If they objected on principle they'd have spoken up early. They chose otherwise. Projecting was a disaster the first time with the Soviet Union and its inherently corrupt successors. The current batch of pols waited to see where the wind was blowing to make their move so they don't get displaced by whatever new regime follows Putin. There are no "good" Russian politicians, just competing gangsters eager to fool gullible ignorant history-averse Westerners.
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  3246. If you ever want to coat that nice bed in the future you can still buy real "zinc chromate" (NOT to be confused with the color paint companies use that name for!) aircraft primer. There are a nice variety of aircraft coatings to protect aluminum, and other useful things like the sealant of the gods, Semkit fuel tank sealant which is fuel, oil and hydraulic fluid proof (but not cheap).
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  3247. DUPED? CA has highly educated upper classes with immense pull and THEY passed that nonsense. There is never an excuse for self-inflicted ignorance. Stop voting Democrat.
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  3248. Unlikely. People not used to the early Cold War because they're too young to have internalized that rather complex (if one was watching!) conflict along with its unwritten rules. The players are mostly "rational actors" (not to be confused with being nice!).
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  3249. I wish everyone could have the experience of working at a used car lot. Most people are irresponsible and DEMAND aspirational toys instead of coldly practical transport, then act surprised when they cannot afford their choice. Most of the bottom tier of society deserve their CHOICE. They refuse to value real education because they prefer to be trifling and silly.
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  3250. Should strikes be banned? Why? What entitles you to determine how others negotiate?
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  3251. Elon deserves it for betraying the US by investing in an enemy culture.
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  3252. The way that device was used in the movie was mostly bullshit, especially on doors. Stop using Hollywood for anything more than silly amusement. Popular entertainment is a pacifier for dimwits, not a documentary.
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  3253. There are plenty of states which welcome investors. People including officials who NEVER personally ran a business need to STFU.
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  3254. The crazy just rolls off this one. No one should want to vomit their whole pathetic (or non-pathetic) life onto social media but dignity is dead. At least others can see this person and avoid drama.
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  3255. Good for her ex-victim who is now free. You dodged that bullet bro, where ever you are, because you could have grown old with this parasite.
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  3256. What has that got to do with a dock strike? Where do you imagine food comes from? Where is the school and exactly and precisely what is happening?
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  3257. The Gulf War is ancient history though I quite enjoyed it. Warthog was glorious but a shrapnel sponge even in Desert Storm before many viewers were born. I worked Shaw F-16s next to their CLSS at KKMC and the damage those guys repaired was truly impressive....but that damage still happened. Exciting aircraft are exciting but this is 2023 not 1991.
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  3258. These areas need serious Federal road building to recover because backroads will never be low risk. Punch some four lane highways through the region and it might attract jobs but will be easier to evacuate and support come the next storm (there is always a next one). Military and civilian mobile bridging can quickly span gaps. The National Guard can advise and both state and Federal governments should be deploying rapid bridging assets.
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  3259. Back to the old normal. I find it amusing so many people moved to NY without understanding that THIS is the historic norm, not the opposite. It was far more dangerous and nastier in the 1970s/80s which were far less nastier than say the early 1900s. It's a city. Cities are bad unless you are wealthy (the reason the rich had mansions in north Jersey and upstate New York though they worked in the city). There is no solution as the place is too big to fix and too economically important for many businesses to leave (though WFH from the burbs is a fine response). NYC is where poor people ended up by mistake (like lack of information) or were born but too afraid of change to leave. The individual solution is 100-percent effective. It's called "moving", not making excuses for failure to see the rest of the USA.
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  3260. That's why THIS experienced mechanic only buys used examples of very high volume trucks. The trucks get top priority for profit reasons so they remain in production long enough to build a strong aftermarket including performance upgrades. I get at least two decades out of my vehicles unless one bores me. So can anyone else outside the Rust Belt.
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  3261. The personnel will go elsewhere because demand remains and the assets will of course be scooped up by competitors. Freight won't go away because an incompetently managed company did, and there is no obligation to support their incompetence by driver/worker sacrifice.
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  3262. Now a key Leftist subgroup famous for its transactional exploitation of the civil rights movement has become politically unfashionable. Political conflict can only accelerate. It would be hilarious if division split the 2024 vote re-electing Donald Trump.
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  3263.  @zhufortheimpaler4041  It is inexcusable for any AFV or other combat system to be unreliable or for its owners to neglect it. Refusal to maintain equipment is a CHOICE. So are low reliability designs in an era where engineers have better tools for design (and failure analisys) than ever.
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  3264.  @silvercat18  A destroyer is vastly more complex than and AFV, having many individual systems more complex than any AFV. With a nick like that you're obviously a military illiterate. Troll elsewhere or be laughed at.
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  3265. Muscovy delenda est.
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  3266. Car seats are far better engineered then chairs. (Chairs don't have to for example withstand a car crash without killing the driver.) If you're a bit handy they're easy to find or buy then mount to the base of your choice, so I did.
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  3267. Replacing Wagner with Chechens may have the droll effect of weakening Kadyrov who has kept power by avoiding serious losses. If Kadyrov's forces bleed Chechens may not want to die for the Russian empire which murdered so many of them. BTW if the West had supported Chechnya it could have avoided this war. Weakness isn't free.
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  3268. I'm looking forward to Windows obsoleting more PCs for me to scoop up for couch money. The helpless can buy Apple and the techies will have no problem with Linux which is very low effort these days. Xubuntu is easy as it gets.
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  3269. Take a last look at the reservists because 300K may deploy but 300K won't come marching home. Ukraine can maintain enough pressure to coerce Russia to deploy them prematurely with predictable results.
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  3270. Why someone would buy a tiny piece of property over which they have no control is a mystery. If you do not own the entire structure you live in AND the land beneath you essentially "own" nothing in terms of control. If you're smart you choose the traditional, easy to maintain single storey ranch on an inland location whose failure modes don't drop tons of rubble on your head. As for FIU that entire bridge should have been steel. Steel military bridging from WWII remains in use around the world. Steel is easy to maintain, repair and recycle. A miltiary steel bridge could have spanned that road in a day. Instead they chose a childishly silly reinforced concrete bridge because they thought it would be cool.
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  3271. His replacement may well be worse because there is an ignorant tendency to blame "Putin" instead of the Russian system for producing him while destroying their own intelligentsia since before the 1917 Revolution. Russia can be contained but nukes mean it won't be permanently defeated. Simple people don't think, they just run on emotion. I remember when fools in the West looked at Putin as a supposed improvement and as usual he wasn't. Russia is an enemy SOCIETY whose tiny few exceptions prove the rule. It is not some Western society with a temporary enemy government. Most people cannot make that distinction because modern social conditioning considers the idea heresy. While Putin will be gone soon his stakeholders can easily install an ultranationalist like Girkin as replacement. Remember the founding mythos of Russia is its curated concept of WWII when Stalin (who is sorely missed by many Russians today) was their hero. Putin is not the problem and the damage he does Russia valuable in weakening this permanent ontological enemy of freedom and democracy. The former Warsaw Pact nations mostly joined NATO because they knew the score which remains in living memory, but many ignorant modern civilians more distant from the fight are easy to manipulate because most humans are ignorant and of low intelligence. That makes them demagogue bait.
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  3272. Mines can mobility kill any tank by breaking track after which other systems can finish it off. Cope sheds only work against light FPV under ideal conditions. Otherwise cope sheds severely limit already poor vision, severely limit turret traverse, and prevent the tank from defending itself from sides and rear. May Russia put cope sheds on all their vehicles because ATGW they cannot see thanks to the shed can attack from outside the barrel traverse. Containing turrets makes cleanup and recycling more convenient.
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  3273. Remote skilled tech workers who are valuable should WFH and do so to the benefit of their employers who need not waste money on traditional office infrastructure. Most workers are not really technical people, they just enter and process data. Most workers are NOT valuable and would be laid off with or without WFH as the market changes. The difference is their employers aren't stuck with useless expensive office space. Real tech workers (important software devs etc employed at high salaries because they generate much more than they cost) cost LESS when WFH. OTOH expendable drones are easy to fire and hire so they're easily fired and hired. If you fail to learn skills vital to the economy then YOU aren't vital to the economy. If you fail to constantly add to your skills and abilities you're less valuable than someone who does. If you are just a an office drone with or without a formal office, those are easy to replace and easy to hire and fire as needed. Those jobs are NOT required to be maintained long term. They do not require difficult skills, just fingers, eyes and a computer. WFH employees in those jobs did exactly the same thing when they commuted. Email and messaging remain email and messaging.
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  3274. OnlyFans when?😂
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  3275. NYC elects Democrats so it deserves every bit of the consequences. Smart Americans left that area decades ago. Less-smart Americans stayed and voted Democrat.
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  3276. That's a bold assumption and an unwise way to think about enemy military and intel operations. Better their investigation is "involuntarily scuttled" too so they have less information to use against Western civilization to which Russia is an ontological enemy.
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  3277. Freedom of association exists, sorry. Private institutions are not publicly accountable. Endow other schools instead and compete.
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  3278. I'm far too intelligent to choose a leftist home but it's hilarious to watch. This was inevitable since the 1960s.
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  3279. In that case doing what I do and owning a serious manual puller gives you a very useful tool that's portable and more versatile than a powered winch (I also have three Ramsey industrial winches) Wyeth-Scott and Tirfor are worth a look. I have three Wyeth-Scotts and will take all I can score used (parts are available) but would also do that with Tirfor.
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  3280. They chose their lives. They did this to themselves. I don't do Fentanyl so they don't need to either. I'm tired of a world where no one is held to BLAME for their choices. The woman who said "we are not pieces of garbage" chose to be one and should own it but the junkie mind blames everything and everyone else. What about GOOD people trying to raise GOOD families? Why don't good citizens come before bad ones?
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  3281.  @practicalguy973  I road trip multiple times yearly hauling motorcycles and equipment, or travelling to buy shop equipment at auction. No available BEV exists suiting my use case and if it did the benefit to me of buying it would be much less than driving my fleet of gasser trucks paid off twenty years ago.
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  3282.  @practicalguy973  If you're trying to budget wisely best never to buy a new car (which instantly becomes "used" when it rolls off the lot). I worked in the used car business and am a lifelong mechanic. I know far too much about vehicles to want a new one. Paying off my land and homes was a wiser use of money because once liberated from mortgage payments the rest of your life is both less expensive and more secure. Speaking of rich people I worked used car auctions and the men there were often multi-millionaires but you could not tell it by their clothes or vehicles. One gent would buy nice rides for himself at Copart but if a customer needed parts off came the dealer tag and the parts were sold. He spent money wisely and enjoyed his home in the Bahamas etc.
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  3283. Millions chose not to prepare despite having their whole lives to focus on retirement (compared to which nothing else matters unless spending decades in poverty looks like a good idea). Millions of those made far more money than I did but spent stupidly and chose to be helpless rather than making every effort to be self-sufficient. Millions bought expensive homes they didn't need in expensive areas they didn't need to live in. Millions failed to learn lessons from the past including getting good at DIY which saved me tens of thousands of dollars that more than paid for the tools and equipment which usually pay itself off in the first use. (All those DIY videos on Youtube make learning much easier than formerly, helping many people worldwide learn to help themselves.) Lemmings fall off cliffs. Don't be a lemming.
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  3284.  @jackyblevins8724  Pork hangs with pork. The Second Amendment exists for a reason and that reason is government inherently turns toxic.
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  3285.  @thisworldfakeashell4098  When you smite a thief you defend SOCIETY. A thief is not a person to be valued for he who would steal would rape and murder. The only people who care about saving thief lives are thieves themselves or culturally approve of crime.
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  3286. They load their resources on TANKERS not container ships. The distinction is not a minor one.
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  3287.  @alexandrebenois7962  Not with respect to immigration.
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  3288.  @Fallingup-q6g  They will stop ADDING poor people from elsewhere. TBQH most of the "downtrodden" are personally defective and put themselves in that position. Importing cheap labor most undermines bottom feeders by flooding the labor market.
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  3289. The most noble way Ukraine can repay the investment its backers made in freedom is to turn more Russians into dandelion food.
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  3290.  @davidperry4013  Shipbreakers rely on oxy-fuel torches. Plasma cutters would be promptly destroyed in that use and of course require shore power. Scrappers are cutting not welding.
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  3291. Turning NeoSoviets into useful dandelion fodder is laudable but this is not the most productive way to fight Russian imperialism.
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  3292. "loosing"? Shillbot FOAD.
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  3293. Thousands leaving of millions is a trifle. The title is just clickbait. The only moral here is if you are rich then build a firePROOF home, not traditional US construction which is flammable junk on a good day no matter what it cost. The world is a bad dangerous place but it's worse if you fail to be ready. Some Californians DO build fireproof homes so it's not difficult, just different.
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  3294. Transmission makers for most automobile use build delicate cheap garbage. There is ZERO excuse for a gearbox not to last the life of the vehicle if not severely abused.
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  3295. People who have a choice live where they prefer. Cities exist for ECONOMIC reasons and when those reasons end so do reasons to live there. Vanity projects are OBVIOUS BAIT and people wise enough to be rich have near zero reason to live in Baltimore because they can choose from the rest of the US.
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  3296. Because some run OS to serve them and others run OS to serve the OS, like 3D printers whose interest is the hardware while what it makes is mostly a performance benchmark. Youtube is about VIEWS and Youtubers are mostly ENTERTAINERS which means any activity is good news. The patrician personal choice for the curious may be a boring stable host with bleeding edge virtual machines since modern hardware is so capable.
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  3297. Littering spent brass is poor etiquette and littering live rounds outright negligent. Welrod etc are exotic but not everything exotic is reliable and FTF is high risk if your opp is smart enough to CCW.
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  3298. Glavset shill detected who doesn't understand the support tail required by modern weapons systems makes it impractical to disappear them and that modern NATO intel is global.
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  3299. Everyone dies and when one is that old death is a mercy. Mind, body or both inevitably fail so be glad he led a life well-lived. It's ending is a trifle.
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  3300. They are Democrats and will never change. If Dolton want good government then they need to make much better choices including changing how their elections and appointments work.
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  3301. THIS IS A DEMOCRAT THING. Not because most humans are idiot no matter their choice of party, but SPECIFICALLY because the Democratic party is dedicated to flooding the US with future Dem voters (legal or otherwise) and have ZERO concern for the working class whose labor that devalues. What I find hilarious is that labor is a threat to POC working class people across the board who are trying to move up in the world. Chumps vote Democrat because they're conned into it by people like Eric Adams who serves as a "Judas goat" (the trained goat used to lead the herd to the slaughterhouse).
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  3302. How do you even function socially without ID? Unless you roll cash only and don't drive legally, don't title your vehicles, don't register your vehicles, never title land in your name etc you need government ID. You need government ID with a social security number to collect benefits.
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  3303. Why should an HOA have millions of dollars?
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  3304. "On" US shores? Did it run aground? Why are illiterates writing headlines for Scripps? The vessel is not "in" the US but "at" the US when it docks.
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  3305. Heavily loaded cars are frequently VBIEDS when they're moving in a Middle East war zone. No civilian in their right mind would be on the streets near any point of contact in such a tiny area.
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  3306.  @abdulajid92  Cults of personality are de-facto religions with dictator taking the place of deity, North Korea being a typical example. The masses are of low intelligence and high ignorance everywhere (intelligence is not a choice but a matter of luck) so they demand to be affirmed and MUST be ruled by either religionists or secular ideologies sufficiently similar. That cannot change because modern society ended evolutionary pressures. This guarantees perpetual idiocracy.
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  3307. Great for investors if those properties are auctioned off. Moderns don't realize cities are CYCLIC. New York was never good, just different. For example the 1970s and '80s crime rate dwarfed todays. The sooner NY real estate (which will never be cheap) values correct the sooner gentrification can continue to improve th city for anyone who has any business case for living there. If you're not doing well where you are, stop being there. I did. The US is enormous and there are plenty of affordable areas to live where you can do things few can in NYC like own property.
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  3308. Most of the "enthusiasts" were really just Sovietboo autists (4chan /k/ all the way) but they'll be well served AFTER the war when the leftovers are sold off via Ukraine which will not be sanctioned. It's easy enough to copy their hardware if someone wants to own for shooting rather than "provenance". It will be interesting to see what Ukraine makes for the future civilian market.
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  3309. Florida is voluntarily crowded and growth ruins everything. That's why I took care to live in a very slow growth area then retire there. Now every economic downturn benefits my quality of life by slowing growth. If it's popular, don't live there since popularity is deadly.
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  3310. The US should ally with Russia and mainland China instead of trying to contain them. The US is a business, not a charit,y and has zero moral obligation to anyone not a citizen.
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  3311. Unready people who do tasks requiring professional skills and abilities are not heroic, they are vain, silly and negligent.
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  3312. Write more creatively. It's fun.
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  3313.  @fineart6867  ^This. I've saved tens of thousands doing all my own work and the money saved buys nearly any tool one could want to make it easy.
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  3314. Why is there no public opposition that matters? Why aren't elected officials properly terrified to push this idiocy?
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  3315. Good. Only escalation can bring a healthy immune response instead of endless mewling cowardice. Americans choose the worst government they will tolerate. Use GasBuddy maps to compare states and prices. You will see a trend....
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  3316. US businesses should do business in the US, not commit social betrayal by investing in enemy societies.
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  3317. If the men don't want the money they can opt out. If men do want the money, GET that money without remorse.
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  3318. Where do you work in the rail industry?
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  3319. The tasty stuff is also on Telegram so get familiar with reading those watermarks then join those channels.
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  3320.  @StewardofAutumn  Euthanasia by injection is not instant but painless which is different. Stunning electrical or captive bolt is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoB3tf9Q2AA
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  3321. Men should remember we have zero obligation to yield to our enemies, which is anyone who wants us to bend the knee. We are physically strong and have power to act. We are taught to renounce our strength and renounce self-interest and renounce ourselves. The proper response to this is vigorous self-assertion.
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  3322. Too bad it's not armor...
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  3323. Does Guyana even have sufficient national identity to fight for? It's an utter backwater and appears to have no martial tradition. Harmlessness is no defense but might make the annexation easier on civilians by not prolonging the conflict.
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  3324.  @stacytrowell6890  Good because then action will be taken and I'm not rich so not my problem. The California rich fund the politicians responsible for bad laws.
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  3325. Norway has a tiny population and so many other key differences the fact both Norway and the US are "countries" is not a valid comparison. Many US cities have larger populations.
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  3326.  @squ34ky  This Western citizen has ZERO compassion for cultural enemies of Western culture, including enemy superstions. Humans are NOT all brothers and sisters. That's a Marxist lie.
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  3327. Relief? That town CHOSE to be Democrats which is why she won 82 percent of the vote. That means out of one hundred voters eighty two chose Tiffany Henyard. The beauty of democracy is the people get exactly what they vote for. Any sane voter wouldn't elect a convicted thief but no one ever accused the American public of being smart.
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  3328.  @supernova743  She was obviously a grifter but her voters are not intelligent people and voting for her proved it.
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  3329. Fox has every legal right to identify the perpetrator and s hould because this was a public act. When Fox does not name perps they are aiding and abetting future crimes. BTW naming juveniles is legal too.
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  3330. My rule never to buy land in a flood plain or downstream from a dam. This is easy to check before purchase. If you do a new build in a flood plain you can support the house high in a variety of ways. I used railroad rock to fill the low spot where I build my shop because railroad roadbeds have excellent drainage and the rock is stable under vibration and shock loads (see railfan videos) a house will never see. Poured concrete, precast concrete and steel are all home materials worth considering. Wood is fine for furniture and camp fires but a new house should shrug off storms and water. Most people buy for max square footage instead of quality (see building inspector videos for some of the horrors to beware of).
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  3331. Those who are not sheep are exceptions proving the rule which is one of many reasons they continue to LOSE.
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  3332.  @shannonquinn8687  In that case finding the location on Google earth would be as easy as me remembering the landmark structures at Sembach AB on the airfield side where I worked before the airfield was demolished. Name the Barracks then note the location or approximate location.
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  3333. From its internal enemies who are expending Lebanese to get at Israel, of course, but unlike Jordan and Egypt it made the mistake of welcoming refugees instead of closing its borders and enforcing that closure by any means necessary.
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  3334. I miss Bush the Elder, but Junior got the US into two misbegotten foredoomed strategic mistakes. (Iraq was a Pyrrhic victory whose final end state remains uncertain but the war did weaken a key enemy of Israel to which Christianity demands US servitude.)
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  3335. Just guessing here but maybe blind trust in ancient trash ammo is a Bad Idea. I find it hilarious when people buy expensive toys then wreck them shooting ammo older than they are.
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  3336. CBS liberal audience should not get a mistaken idea of Evangelical division or "crisis" however much they dislike Trump. They will fall into line come election time.
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  3337. SELL DIRECT LIKE TESLA! Dealers can handle fleet service and specialty tasks. I buy used to avoid dealer markups and BS fees.
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  3338. There is no reason repair parts cannot be heavier duty or even different materials. My Dorman aluminum 4.2 intake was properly machined and worked fine. If anything they should make more parts as upgrades to gain sales. The ONLY reason for water pump failures like that is poor design with an inadequate bearing.
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  3339. Failure to understand aviationists, not bean counters, should run aircraft companies wrecked Boeing and because the human obstacles become wealthy in place they have zero incentive to resign and get out of the way. Aviationists built the aviation industry which unlike other industries cannot benefit from people best suited to running dollar stores. They should be purged ruthlessly because only REMOVAL ends human problems. People middle-age and older cannot change because cognitive decline (no matter how intelligent they are otherwise) freezes their ability to WANT to adapt. I predict Boeing will require decades to fix because aviationist culture has been wiped out. Like HP under Carly Fiorina, the problems run the company so their wealth depends on maintaining their position.
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  3340.  @henkholdingastate  Right wing states work for me but as a military retiree everything is about LOCATION not "state" which is far too general, except for New Jersey which I left long ago due to horrific taxes. Only INDIVIDUAL situations matter, not the group I'm not part of.
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  3341. @fd-to7ex The DNA results of conquest are what they are.
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  3342. Russians are not like Westerners, the homeopathically few decent ones being exceptions who prove the rule, usually before being Gulag'ed or shot by the rest.. They're not just overwhelmed with propaganda since the 1917 revolution, they desperately want to believe it because war is the ONLY Russian identity. Russia has never produced and is incapable of producing a decent society for its peoples. Racism ensures minority Buryats and others die first while the Muscovite power base of every Russian government suffers least. That means the war barely affects those who matter politically. Russia never had a social reformation nor made progress towards one because it's culturally incapable of making the European idea of secular democracy work. Secular democracy no more fits Russia than Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia despite the yowlings of its evangelists. Ordinary Russians gleefully genocided Ukrainians in the Holomodor and they're happily at it again including deportations of children. Putin does not personally pull a single trigger. Ordinary Russians destroyed the people of Bucha. The few Russians who resist always lose and while the tiny Russian Legion are immensely brave they've not a snowball's chance in hell of taking power. They're in the same position White Russians were during the Russian civil war while being far fewer. Hopeful naive modern Westerners didn't live through the early Cold War or their attitudes to the enemy would be far different. The Soviet Union fell over economic issues not "lack of freedom" or minor military losses less in total than many single WWII battles. The losses in Afghanistan were a pinprick however dramatic they looked on (Western) news. Likewise Chechnya was easily shrugged off and its unfortunate veterans mostly forgotten. Russian use of Wagner was brilliant because it makes the casualties appear to be from groups the average Russian doesn't care about. They don't care if "separatists" die either, witness the indifference with which Moscow treats their desperate pleas for resupply! Until/unless the Russian economy tanks in a way their public won't tolerate the war can last indefinitely but it's a mixed bag. Every Russian casualty is demographic good news so the more Ukraine inflicts the better for it and NATOs future and the longer the delay before the next Russian invasion attempt.
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  3343.  @bigporkcity420  Yet they are still killing innocent Ukrainians and will continue to do so until they become casualties. They will grumble but they'll be casualties (one way or another....) long before they're dream of revolting. Russians are good at disposing of problems (like Givi, Motorola and other potentially inconvenient separatists) in advance.
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  3344. No content posts, single word posts etc are clues too and of course tankies and vatnik shills abound.
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  3345. Construction is much worse on the body. Mechatronics and aviation are the easiest and the higher the technology you work on the more competitors are filtered by it.
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  3346. A video on applicable laws and customs of maritime warfare would be useful. Any Navy JAGs out there care to contact Sal to help put something together (with citations of which there are too few in public discussion)? For example what makes a lawful target when the enemy uses foreign civilian logistics?
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  3347. The remaining workers will be fine. Fast food isn't supposed to be a career and for anyone of reasonable intelligence and determination, it is not. Bonus, fewer customers for fattening factory pseudo-food they shouldn't be eating as much of anyway. Carb overload is not our friend. Look at 1970s yearbooks for what Americans USED to look like.
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  3348. People with ample land can have an even better deal by mounting their panels on standalone, easily serviced mounts NOT attached to their roof thus neither affects the other in maintenance or storm damage issues.
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  3349. The idea booing in a SECULAR event that happened to take place in a church but is unrelated to religious affairs is a "desecration" is absurd. Anyone contending otherwise is obviously illiterate hence unfit for office. The (irrelevant to firefighting lest we forget) Attorney General showed upfor self-promotion. Good on the firefighters for protesting!.
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  3350. Rossman is a man of consistent integrity. This should make Slashdot.
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  3351.  @303storm  Why then is the border closed?
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  3352. EDIT: In futue it would be useful to have testing advice from engineers who work in the industry and they should be easy to find for the asking since Project Farm has a wide audence. While this is "fun" it's not really science so people seriously interested should be reading Society of Automotive Engineers papers because when it comes to things that appear simple the reality of fuels and engineering is quite complex. SAE octane measurement is interesting stuff but it should be made clear what octane IS NOT. Much love for Project Farm but this particular episode is an example of presumed competence exceeding layperson expertise. Octane is not a matter of "fuel efficiency" nor horsepower IN ENGINES NOT OPTIMIZED BY DESIGN OR TUNING to exploit it. WWII fighter recip engines are an example where high octane fuels permitted optimization permitting higher HP outputs Axis designers were unable to match not due to lack of talent but due to poor fuels. The purpose of octane is DETONATION RESISTANCE which permits higher compression. On vehicles designed for non-ethanol fuel the only point in using higher octane ETHANOL FREE fuel is being kind to your fuel system, for example on vintage engines like my old Nortons. A nice thing about carbs is I can temporarily richen them to use fecal petrol then readjust after fueling with the good stuff. Higher octane on any system not designed for it is mostly pointless. For example the worst modern fuel is often superior to mid-last century fuels which engine ran very low compression ratios to use. Go further back and it's overkill for a T Model or A Model Ford.
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  3353. Understandable considering Germany had so many die-hard Nazis who fought to the end. The vatnik and the nazi have much in common.
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  3354. US aircraft are routinely made into unmanned target drones to test missiles, and a drone operator won't GLOC like meat in the seat. Jet fuel is valuable but turbines which "trim to temperature" (like C-130 turboprops) can burn ordinary kerosene in a pinch. If Fuels troops have their additives they can treat inferior fuels but unless Russian designers were silly their engines should run on a reasonable variety of fuels. They may require more frequent inspection and overhaul but that's not a big deal vs. being able to fuel them. Do any aviationists here know more about what alternate/expedient fuels Russian engines can use? If in doubt Ukraine should hit refineries.
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  3355. LST crew survival rates were excellent despite the drama attending the rather few losses. So for that matter were Sherman survival rates. Not everything that seems risky is as it might appear. The 8th AF lost more bomber crews than the total USMC KIA for the war.
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  3356. Sadly Mr. Bondarev does not represent the Russian people's preferences.
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  3357. Bugsmashers are for use against opponents without an air force. Cute toy aeroplane but it still requires horrendously dangerous CSAR because it has meat in the seat. See "Bat 21" for what happens to manned missions gone wrong and their rescuers taking heavy losses, then remember that era is now ancient but MANPADS etc are a far greater threat than they were then. The same format could operate remote-manned in distant locales far less expensively at no risk to those flying it. The aircraft is essentially a sensor platform with weapons (like a drone) and is too small/light to mount an ejection seat, in impressively bad oversight but bodies are worst enemy trade bait than live aircrew. Comparison to drones like Preds misses the mark because not all aircraft are the same. I get that this channel is about EXCITING STUFF but this isn't exciting or innovative, it's just buying an odd duck to get around other services horning in on the missions (which greatly affects funding). Operating at low level with no ejection seat WILL cost lives so the mission had better be worth the blood price. That problem was solved with the highly successful OV-10 Bronco which does (in civilian hands) much more, can take off and land on primitive surfaces and often did, and had the fastest ejection seat in the Air Force thanks to the canopy breaker on top of each seat. When one had an engine failure on takeoff (at that height recovery wasn't an option) those fast seats saved a USAF Bronco crew out of Sembach AB (RIP, it was a very cool duty station) one of whom got but a single swing when his chute deployed. Both lived but had they been in a contemporary O-2 they'd have been paste.
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  3358. Most long time family dealerships were killed off decades ago when the first dealership requirements begat all the Taj Mahal buildings you see today. That was when they also tried to kill independent shops using "Harley" in their name. An example was Harley Haven in Columbia, SC, which X'ed out the Harley name on their shop front becoming The Haven. Tim regained the "Harley" part when he bought a dealer franchise years later. The Motor Company IMO deserves to fade away. I was also alive when some dealers wouldn't sell parts when you rode in on a chopper. HD management have long distanced themselves from the people who are the reason they have a company in the first place. No loss since the aftermarket provides and there are more than enough HDs for everyone if they never sold another.
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  3359. The point of the operation was nostalgic evocation of the Soviet era to reflect on the Putinist ultranationalists. This mission was theater, not science and they should not be confused. Putin to Ukraine is even bloodier than Winston Churchill was to India (to use an analogy some may understand) but his fans there could not care less about anything other than Russian military aid so their loyalty was easily bought. The crash is a plus for civilization to which nothing of value was lost. Spacecraft are easily replaced and losing a few is expected.
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  3360. The video of the vatnik driving onto exposed mines is hilarious.
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  3361. This is the Telegraph not a quality source. One cannot expect its staffers to do more than a few seconds internet search per post if that.
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  3362. Singaporean methods are brilliant because they reflect a true understanding of humanity. Europe has only some technology. It stands for nothing and has been morally bankrupt since the Soviets won the Second World War then infected it with the Leftist virus. Singapore dealt appropriately with Communists. Europe chose to fight FOR them instead.
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  3363. They were part of an organized proxy assassination attempt by the Biden administration and will be allowed to quietly retire after failing.
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  3364. One does not need a "separate" logistics system. One needs to PROCURE a variety of parts which is very different. The same Supply logistic system supports every US aircraft for example. There are not airframe-specific Supply clerks. Technicians who train on multiple airframes (I am one) make better more versatile maintainers. For example I worked Phantom, Bronco and F-16s in three different AFSC which made it easy to be versatile. One can take any engine troop and bring them up to speed on a different engine with a short FTD course. The US maintenance ecosystem easily supports different airframes on the same base. Pilots are not interchangeable but maintainers who can work on one system can work on others. Reading tech data and operating test equipment aren't difficult. Troops coming off old systems have the tactile understanding of machinery that makes learning newer systems a breeze. Been there, done that, have the proverbial t-shirts.
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  3365. Big Lots sold imports so nothing of value was lost. They should have succeeded in the current economy.
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  3366. It's one way for people who own old trucks as street toys to enjoy the styling if they're rich and want an electric hot rod. Of course the kinesthetic experience of the old vehicle is deleted but this is about art not trucking.
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  3367. Shipping companies are naturally parasitic and not just by their choice of flagging. OTOH this mission can be used domestically to justify increased Navy budgets which is far more important long term than this mission. The US is first and foremost a SEA power despite the Air Force getting all the press. When the Houthi press their luck that will greenlight destroying the Yemeni armed forces but not going boots on ground.
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  3368. Only street justice can force the enemy to leave. The government will not. Democrats are to blame.
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  3369. Good. The West already did enough damage and should not meddle in Africa. Now Beijing and Russia can wear out THEIR welcomes. Eventually Africans will catch on then eject this new batch of neocolonialists.
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  3370. I don't have a problem with cash. If anyone else does feel free to give it to me so I can demonstrate wise usage.
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  3371. Multiple dogs (they're social critters so have more than one, it's about the same effort) are effective and need not be large. So is a serious steel security door with an internal bracing system which is impractical to kick in. (You can have a welder built a frame/door combo so stout it's impractical for even first responders to breach but have an exit.) Doors delay entry so an occupant can make it to their defensive weapon (unarmed humans are helpless against bigger, stronger or armed humans) and engage the enemy. Get your home off social media too. Only airheads want to vomit their lives onto the internet. Choose not to be one so robbers don't know you exist. Security through obscurity is wise. Do not buy objects whose (real) purpose is flaunting your wealth. Cities are bad but they're less bad if you're invisible. Never dress to look prosperous or weak (stereotypical women's clothing is like waving a steak at a pack of hyena). Everything is a potential threat but the answer is calm, comprehensive and thoughtful response. The world is a very bad place but only your situation is under your (somewhat) control. Choose wisely.
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  3372. A new generation is discovering Soviet evil and rising to defend civilization from Russians.
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  3373. This is hilariously funny. If you want to play then do not join the Christian Fundamentalist party!
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  3374.  @direwolf6234  NY cops are famously corrupt. Some even did mob hits.
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  3375. Project mats are also Very Nice for working on small machinery including firearms.
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  3376.  @CarlosRodriguez-ey8zl  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ojOkPmm8lw Of course, but unless a creator is Louis Rossman etc money trumps ethics.
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  3377. test post checking if shadowbanned
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  3378. Reality changed his character.
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  3379. This is the nature of US constabulary operations. The USA produces a technically skilled but socially clueless leadership class who imagine an omnipotence no nation has. The Pyrrhic victory (at best) in Iraq and the grossly obvoiusly futile stupidity of attempting nation building in A-stan (not to be confused with usefully deleting Al Qaeda) are repeats of the same hubris that drove Lyndon Johnson to bury us in Southeast Asia. (I was alive then but enlisted later.) I remember when the US imagined it learnt something, but the Southeast Asia vets who did are long retired. If the public decide who we wage war against is worth their input things may change, but the American people consistently let our troops down by electing whatever pandering hack makes them feel good. We'll do it again in another ~three decades. These constabulary operations detract from the peer warfare we should be ready to fight which is the only deterrent that matters. The old enemies Russia (in Federation form this time) and the CCP remain. GWOT was a gift to them.
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  3380. Lockerbie and the disco bombing meant Muammar was "gonna get got" sooner or later. As for the "migrant crisis" (all of them) those are self-inflicted by every nation too cowardly to close their borders and focus on their own people.
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  3381. It already has by logistics support. Israel is quite capable of handling the problem and the bonus is there will never be peace. Israel needs periodic wars so it remains forever ready to fight them. The point of life for the religious is going to heaven which martyrs do.
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  3382. Either they escalate or lose. They will have to match their oppressors appetite for combat sooner or later because evil men can only be slain, not redeemed (the microscopic number of exceptions prove the rule). Anyone can make IEDs or infiltrate their enemy then make "Blue on Blue" assaults. The revolution which installed the mullahs was not peaceful either and the mullahs make the inept cowardly Shah look like Spongebob by comparison. Iranian revolutionaries set examples of courage by dying, but victory is taken by destroying the enemy (who obviously agrees since they've zero compunction about shooting unarmed protestors).
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  3383. User Agent Switcher lets you spoof Chrome. Firefox is lavishly funded by Google and little of that goes into the browser so feel zero guilt about that. The main reason by far to use Firefox are the extensions developed by the community so study them. I get no delays on my machines or VMs but I use enough different blocking methods I don't bother to pick out which blocks what. PiHoles (can be run in VM) are worth study and an old notebook is a fine place to run one to protect your LAN.
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  3384. Americans are socially incompetent to manage energy. Meanwhile green power is working out nicely in countries run (and populated by) adults. Because it cannot do better the US should forget about AGW real or not then let the chips fall where they may. Burn coal, burn oil, burn natgas and burn those who object because the economy matters more than anything else. Pollution is the trivial cost of civilization and the globe will adapt to being as warm as it once was. The nations severely impacted by desertification also happen to be our enemies so it looks like a win from where I'm sitting.
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  3385. If the grossly inferior Russian air force tried a NFZ against Israel it would be great live target practice for IAD F35s with plenty of US support. (Previous use of BVR missiles in much older wars helped develop US BVR doctrine.) Russia threatening Israel would enrage US Christians with droll results, especially as Russia lacks power projection with a pathetic navy, overstretched ground forces and an air force that neglected aircrew training for decades. OTOH Israel cannot afford to base foreign policy in the shifting sands of the Middle East on conventional morality. Russian Israelis especially have no interest in what happens to Europeans or anyone else not them or their kin. The fate of Ukrainians is academic to Tel Aviv as it should be because Ukrainians are (mostly) not their people. That's pragmatism, not malice. Israel is infested with Russians of dubious loyalty. If Ukraine loses Israel will gain Ukrainian Jewish escapees which is a huge net demographic win for the Israeli ethnostate. The sooner Israel and Iran go to open war (they're nearly there in Syria) and reroll the Middle East/Persian Gulf dice the better. Iran can never reform (if protesters sufficiently irk the mullocracy it can simply kill them all with religious approval) and has a religious obligation to jihad so that leaves war to periodically readjust the strategic relationship which is what most wars really do. War would damage the Iranian economy and make power projection into Syria unaffordable. Bonus would be skyrocketing oil prices to force more of the world off the Islamofascist/Russian oil teat which dominates global policy so far. Oil is the key strategic vulnerability of the democratic West.
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  3386.  @w.s8676  (Most) religions interpret anything less than theocracy they control as "hostile".
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  3387. One party opposes invading the US with cultural enemies. The other de-facto supports open borders and so-called Progressives are why the West is invaded by primitives. A vote for a Democrat is a vote for Jihad.
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  3388. Over a billion dollars worldwide paid out in settlements/hush money over this ancient pdf file superstition is not a good look.
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  3389. I have the internet so why spend time and money to fondle a more limited, more expensive selection? I do not miss the old days of limited, expensive shopping even slightly. I do not WANT a social experience. I want what I desire to buy in my hand with no fuss. The internet doesn't burn expensive fuel, waste valuable time travelling and is immediately responsive. TOTALLY agree on vehicles. I keep most of mine about 20 years and preferred to pay off my homes so I did.
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  3390. What do you expect, another land war? What is it you imagine should be done? Why should the US do it?
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  3391. Since most Americans who see this have no idea about the background it's worth mentioning that IS-K are the people who blew up Kabul airport during the evacuation, killing both US troops AND Taliban security personnel. Islamic State Khorasan are so hardcore they take out other Muslims without a second thought. That also means if they can attack the US on our own soil they will. Russia bombed ISIL (their buddies) in Syria while defending the Assad regime and has not been the best steward of Chechnya so there are pleny of potential IS-K recruits.
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  3392. Commission rates are absurd and very much the result of a captive customer base. I bought my first home FSBO (great for all concerned as the seller maid more money with a lower income tax hit due to not getting a large lump sum) and it was also invisible on credit checks which is exactly what I wanted. I only buy what I can EASILY afford (be ruthless and self-disciplined when it comes to money) so that was no problem and I later financed my current home conventionally as FSBO was not an option for that one. Both are long paid off.
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  3393. Indictments do NOT mean the indicting agency "just realized it". They have to build a case first which requires investigation, review of evidence, finding witnesses and more. Illinois was always corrupt because voters APPROVE of (most) corruption. BTW garbage is a very old mob business because it's so easy to exploit and so long as the trash gets picked up most people do not care.
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  3394. Nobody worth protecting lives in these all-criminal communities. The people are the problem and when they prey on each other I find it hilarious. No grown adult has an intelligent reason to live there unless their crimes are profitable. They had a lifetime to walk away.
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  3395. Clickbait from people who should know better. The system was ALLOWED to become toxic because most voters are fiercely ignorant. The rich can hire guards to fend off the few who might take action but the US has survived far worse (the Great Depression) without revolution. The people may be angry but their ignorance is why their masters own them in the first place and ignorance doesn't improve over time.
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  3396. Most of logstics is easier than it looks if one copies the highly refined US system. PROCUREMENT is the hard part, not managing assets once available if proper tracking is maintained. That's why if a USAF jet breaks for a part while deployed one can be sourced from any base having it in stock.
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  3397. Geography means WV has no other economic potential but resource extraction (except legalizing cannabis which is already grown widely but that won't happen). Good but simple people will continue to die because they won't leave. The smart ones enlist instead and escape. I served in the Air Force with many excellent troops from WV and there are FAR more military jobs than coal jobs with vastly better compensation and benefits including the most important, RETIREMENT. The mines will not improve so expecting different makes no sense.
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  3398. Conscripts are necessary but aircraft (and other technical) support and maintenance is more effectively done by troops immersed in daily sortie generation and maintenance for several years. Anyone can use conscripts but never forget for a second that's done due to financial constraints. The Swedish concept wisely reflects Swedish realities.
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  3399. Fools deserve to be mulcted. Mathis was the most gullible because if anyone should know not to be taken in by a th0t it would be an old Marine. She wasn't even hot so what did those chumps see in her?
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  3400. Florida was cheap because the population was small. That was a long time ago. GROWTH DOES NOT BENEFIT PREVIOUS RESIDENTS, it prices them out. I learned long ago to avoid high growth areas because they make retirement unaffordable. New residents INEVITABLY destroy the reasons they moved there in the first place.
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  3401. Hungarians don't care because they elected Orban. They not Ukraine should have Russian armor back in their cities as this time they'll welcome NeoSoviet boots to lick.
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  3402. Germany is infested with Ossi pro-Soviet traitors and very different from the West Germany I happily defended in the 1980s so its weak, indifferently equipped and severely underfunded and undermanned armed forces are no surprise. Rifles don't win or lose wars but they DO need to be utterly reliable and anything that fails to be utterly reliable in 2024 is inexcusable. Western combat arms procurement is a mess.
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  3403. AWACS have a lot of the world to cover so supplementing with Australian aircraft permits easier scheduling for 24/7 ops. More aircraft could be diverted from other missions in case of need but it's a nice training opportunity for Australia so why not? Russia only has Russia to cover.
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  3404.  @animesoapninja  Industry isn't coming back to NJ. Jersey tax rates are insane (the reason I left is so I could afford to retire) and property is far too expensive to open new manufacturing. When Ford shut down Mahwah the writing was on the wall. I don't really understand why people think manufacturing would choose total disadvantage over where it locates today. That era is ancient history except where old sites (already too polluted to use for anything else without remediation) still do business in the chemical and petroleum industries.
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  3405. As others mention we need to see prison tats and that will speak volumes.
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  3406. The public CHOSE this. Democratic republics give their voters what they choose. The voters ruined CA by voting Democrat.
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  3407. You have a very short working life to make a future and if you fail the prize is poverty until death. Permitting yourself to remain ignorant is self-sabotage. Follow the money, nothing else until money gives you the leisure of prosperity. Most humans are not intelligent so most of their advice is trash. Everything chiidish, naive and silly is trash (unless you can truly monetize it). Following your passion is for the idle rich (and wise retirees who arranged our lives accordingly beforehand) who don't need education to make more money but do it for fun. For non-rich young adults he purpose of education is PROFIT. Money is everything because money enables freedom so if you fail to coldly, methodically and relentlessly focus on money then you will have no freedom. Ideals to not make money. Freedom requires income. Life is a feces sandwich so the more bread you have the less feces you taste.
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  3408. Consider the politicians they keep electing in cities where they dominate.
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  3409. I'm impressed people are making fewer stupid financial choices. Coffee is a caffeine delivery system. Fancy ritual is for the bored rich.
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  3410. It appears to this very long term computer user some Glavset shills subtle and otherwise have found your channel which is something of a complement. Astute viewers will recognize their trademark style of "concern trolling" and I suggest less internet savvy viewers study and learn. They're easy to spot with some practice.
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  3411. Generals are often political animals and old ones may be far from current on modern realities even if they served well on active duty.
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  3412.  @laser31415  I solve that by not caring what "they" want. If you hold what the typical person does and believes in contempt that is a path to wisdom.
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  3413. P.T. Barnum was right.
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  3414. New York City voters elected Adams so they deserve him. The beauty of democracy is the people really are to blame for their misrule because they reward it again and again and again.
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  3415. People who think battery fires are bad will just LOVE natgas blasts. It hugs the ground being heavier than air...until ignited. That gas powered semi was no joke.
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  3416. Ramming could damage external parts but need not break gearboxes if the driver depresses the clutch pedal (on vehicles with manual gear boxes) on impact which would be natural instinct to prevent stalling the engine.
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  3417. "Even owning a house you can’t get away from this." REALLY means "if you blindly follow the herd". F developments, F suburbs, F neighbors F small lots F cities (which are jail with extra steps) and F any more restrictions than required not to die. I planned my adult life accordingly and so can anyone else if they're seriously determined. If I cannot shoot target practice in my back yard, do as I please at all hours, drive what I want and store what I want I don't need to live there.
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  3418. Since getting angle grinders with flap discs I rarely use my multiple bench grinders. Two are old Wens and excellent machines. The other tools my angle grinders made mostly obsolete were my abrasive chop saws. If you're not into heavy DIY you may be better off not getting a bench grinder at all and I would not consider it urgent. My angle grinders with appropriate flap abrasives and thin kerf cutting discs get near daily use.
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  3419. You do not however have the same legal obligations, but people don't read much these days.
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  3420. Nothing was destroyed (words mean things) but whoever Crowdstrike deems the scapegoat.
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  3421. The Alaskan use case is a valid one as containers are typhoon-rated and easy to transport by Landoll or flatbed to site. The tincancabin site shows a good example though he could have used three 40' High Cubes to greater advantage.
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  3422. Good for him. People with dignity do not vomit their tawdry little lives onto social media. Husband broke the rule of "don't stick it in the crazy" but escaped with his life.
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  3423. Terrific boots only obsolete for war because polished black leather is an idiotic surface for a combat boot and shows up on thermal viewing systems. If the US makes another constabulary strategic mistake I expect a modern version to be fielded unless there's still a stash of originals. I wore out several pair on USAF flightlines because though they lacked steel toes they're outstanding hot weather boots for prolonged use on pavement. I'll take all I can score but so does everyone else!
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  3424. The kind of people who care what "influencers" think should be ashamed to exist and would lose their minds in the old world of cloth diapers.
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  3425. ^FACTS and the best post ITT because it's straight to the point.
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  3426. Incompetent corrupt procurement is to be expected in the US which is why no one is surprised except perhaps the unfortunate officer. Police firearms need to be utterly simple and utterly reliable because unlike the armed forces (who have their own problems) US cops are generally underfunded and undertrained in consequence. There is no excuse for failure after centuries of humans making pistols.
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  3427.  @haythemsandel8303  There are plenty of "hypersonic" missiles and the word used today is a buzzword for technical illiterates. IRBM for example are intrinsically hypersonic. Russia cannot produce enough of their wunderwaffe to have significant battlefield effects but like prototype tanks (easy to make cheaply because cutting and welding steel is cheap and surprisingly easy to do) they're fundamentally publicity stunts to amuse children, the tech-illiterate and autspergies. Russia already has nukes so no conventional weapon can change the balance of strategic power. As the US also learnt that does nothing in conventional wars where protagonists want to survive.
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  3428. Superstitions have one hobby in common and concealing it in "catacombs" is hardly new.
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  3429. The people who serve him are the oppressors. One man has no power but what others give him. Communism is degenerate and NK is proof.
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  3430. A far too distant route to invade Germany. Logistics in WWII did not include teleportation. Instability doesn't negate geography. Picture the logistics involved in sending freighters through the contested, shallow Med...
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  3431. Works for me as prior military. Civilians are allergic to professional behavior for the most part. Democracy has failed because the American "people" choose failure so I'm fine with a police state protecting my interests from street criminals of all ages.
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  3432. Customers are no longer technically literate so they are incapable of discriminating between quality and junk. Junk is victorious because industry has been ruined by greedy gasworthy MBA parasites. OTOH when an appliance was MUCH more valuable (in the 1940s etc buying a fridge was a big deal) Americans expected quality. Today only tradesmen even know what quality looks like if they're old enough to remember it.
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  3433. You cannot double dip but that should be allowed and encouraged. I enjoyed actual aircraft maintenance but the rest of the BS SNCOs deal with seemed designed to chase us out the gate. Hire civilian maintainers freeing us to double dip and retirees could work places like engine backshop which rarely deploy (and we could deploy given suitable compensation). USAF manning is always REACTIVE and done the same way since my mentors (whose careers began in the 1950s!) were junior enlisted. All us retirees lived through feast or famine manning cycles because procurement matters and people do not. I'm sure they'll get flooded with SecFo eager to dump their civilian careers....
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  3434.  @Theweouthereforrealclub-  So move to a hardcore red state (there being zero reason to reward your enemies by living in a blue state and paying taxes to fund THEIR anti-American programs). CA is permanently Leftist but you can reinforce real America by political concentration in a proper pro-2A part of the US.
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  3435. What does "ran into troubles" mean in English?
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  3436. Failure as a car, yes. NOT a failure based on the valuable related technology development Apple got out of the deal. Of course nearly all the comments will be stupid jokes unrelated to the subject at hand. For Apple ten billion is couch money.
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  3437.  @mrvlsmrv  I do because there is no hope for peaceful change or THERE WOULD BE PEACEFUL CHANGE. Americans don't much care who we bomb overseas so exactly and precisely why should we care more about domestic predators? In 1776 enough Colonials (who were legally Crown subjects) tired of abusive rule to free their successors including us from rule by a degenerate monarchy. Our own history validates force against mortal enemies as a last resort. Now count how many Americans the Redcoats and their Hessian mercbros deleted which is TINY relative to health care insurance system casualties.
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  3438. Every animal dies. Shooting only horrifies those who imagine other, slower deaths are better because they don't see those.
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  3439. The VC discovered wooden mines a very long time ago.
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  3440.  @904eb  If someone GAVE me one I'd sell it fast enough to make a sonic boom. Are your land, home and retirement accounts already maxed out so you can quit working any day while maintaining your lifestyle? IF so, bravo but modern German autos are miserable to work on with horrific parts and labor rates so even if you never touch a screwdriver you pay for that too. I miss classic German engineering but that went away many years ago.
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  3441. It is a bit odd that money is taken from Russian cities to rebuild cities Russia destroyed for zero benefit to any Russian. Where does the MONEY go for this rebuilding? To understand anything in any nation, follow the money. The obvious failure to accomplish deferred maintenance is dramatic but pipeline repair is quite simple. Infrastructure replacement of CENTRALIZED systems is not easy because centralized systems centralize failure.
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  3442. Higher import costs make domestic production more competitive. I was alive before the race to the bottom and craven desire to source everything overseas, but most imports are not survival items. That a port strike matters so much is the result of decades of Wall Street greed, general social incompetence and the replacement of patriotism with stockholder profit at all costs. The US collectively chose its fate therefore deserves it.
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  3443. You already do but it hurts to admit most of our fellow citizens are unintelligent like most of humanity.
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  3444.  @NTJedi  I've been to open-air gold/jewelry markets in UAE and never felt safer. Koranic justice was designed for primitive, savage peoples unable to be different but it works fine in the modern world. I'm no theist but what works, works.
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  3445.  @Butterfly22593  They turn THEMSELVES into that.
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  3446. States need to greatly increase their Guard, Reserve and support budgets if mobilization is to be permanent then improve the career paths to retain talent. This doesn't get discussed because the public outside the armed forces know little and don't care anway. Border control requires a variety of skills and equipment not normally present in NG units. Anyone who wants this to work needs to fund it.
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  3447. If Canadians wanted different outcomes they would vote differently. Democracy means the public like it or not and by action or inaction choose their national fate. Of course the idea of imposing discipline on street people is anathema so there is none. Drunks, junkies, crazies etc will not get better so what remains is how to manage them or not, but they will not change their behaviours.
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  3448.  @cmartinm98  That makes the right ones easily accessible for retirement and land cheap. Retirees with outside income like myself have it great in such places and our money helps the local economy so it is mutual win.
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  3449. Contact Will Folks at FITSNEWS. I promise the material you will get is worth it besides being amusing. She sold out her voters to get national clout and the flag issue was a perfect way to do that. She's a hack in a state which is very comfortable to retire in but if you want honest government or even competent government that ain't happening. She needs to be sidelined HARD and put out to pasture so she can toddle off to being a celebrity commentator. No one should want her to run except the Democratic party. South Carolinians are still picking knives out of their backs (ask FITSNEWS why Charleston was neglected in favor of the port of Savannah).
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  3450. Americans talk a lot but rarely man up and have every excuse for not. There are plenty of old people with no future (that's a feature not a bug) free to act undeterred if they so choose, but they're groomed to serve the system.
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  3451.  @mkunes2502  They get PAID to take orders or GTFO just like anyone else. No one is irreplaceable.
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  3452. Her voters have no reason to object to her conduct or to his. Chicago has been totally corrupt since the 1800s. Everyone gets a turn.
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  3453. There is no fatherlessness unless there is an offspring whose father failed his duty. No offspring, no duty. Any dog can have puppies and the world is grossly overpopulated without me adding another victim to this Hobbesian hellhole. Why would I inflict life on someone who then has to share the world with the average idiot? One can have a fine life without following the herd or heeding its yowls demanding validation. I did and do and at at 65 have no regrets. As for that STUPID "dying alone" meme I have attended the dying and have ZERO personal desire to bereave anyone. I'm at peace with my life and an audience won't make you less dead.
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  3454. There will be no "clash". OTOH the opportunity to shadow any sub by sonar is not to be missed. This would barely be news in the early Cold War but social media want views so we get clickbait like this video. Wake me when Russia has a functional aircraft carrier let alone a CBG.
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  3455. Mass media are servitors to their rich masters.
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  3456.  @blaydCA  Attacking enemy logistics is historically lawful. Attacking random logistics not so much.
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  3457.  @the-based-jew6872  Including primates which humans are. Ability to mask aggression is the civilized modern touch, but aggression is often useful and did not evolve by accident. Weak societies teach aggression is intrinsically wrong, for example the modern Leftist West.
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  3458. I turn down job offers (I'm retired) because there are so few people who are skilled industrial mechanics, general technicians and other skills I accumulated. People insist on staying ignorant and looking for office jobs. Meanwhile my trade school students (I volunteered after taking machining and welding for fun) have good jobs and portable skills impractical to robotize in the field for many years longer than they'll be in the workforce. We had companies calling instructors BEGGING for new hires. Unfortunately the local schools use trades as a dumping ground so only a portion of students graduate as competent workers but that's great for them because they have so little competition.
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  3459. Merely because a Russian pretends to agree with you does not make them noble. As decisively demonstrated more than once after the USSR imploded one does not become a Russian politician without mobbing deep and preparing a safe landing when their boss is replaced. Stop wanting to believe in the goodness of Russians because that's a proven mistake which does zero good. Putin will most likely be replaced by a much more dangerous competent ultranationalist.
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  3460.  @Akompliss  vatnik detected.
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  3461.  @carlettesouthern-robert2992  They're Democrats therefore enemies of western civilization who do not care even slightly about MY rights, so I care nothing for theirs. They are enemy personnel, that is all and as Democrats unworthy of respect, empathy or oxygen.
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  3462. Reunification backfired. I quite enjoyed 1980s West Germany, could not have asked for better hosts and it was an honor to defend them. Today its leftists eagerly import people from violently patriarchal, repressive societies who are not there for anything but economic reasons.
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  3463. Heartbreaking for who? Not the Ukrainian children Russians killed, who are past caring. Not the Ukrainians widows, widowers and orphans the RUSSIAN PEOPLE go to enslave and genocide. I don't waste compassion or empathy on any variety of fascist. Russian policy over centuries reflects what the Russian people choose to do and support. Russian policy is carried out by the Russian people. Muscovy delenda est.
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  3464. Why are there still Caucasians in Chicago? They had the sense to leave Detroit.
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  3465. I didn't shop there often but they won't get a dime from me after this. Their corporate owners should be named and shamed.
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  3466. If you live where people do this, LEAVE. Too many Americans cling to the chithole they grew up in because they're afraid to move. Migrants move because they care about their future.
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  3467. The reason is most countries are dictatorships where no one not of the ruling class has any rights so the convention of immunity is (when PROPERLY used) important to facilitate diplomacy which is more important than a few casualties. The PROBLEM is when it's abused which is why family members should not go overseas in the first place. Diplomats are wealthy and do not need family members any more than a soldier on an unaccompanied tour does (and they don't get to bring theirs). Israel is not an "ally" (it has NEVER done anything for the US, the relationship is parasitic) making things worse.
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  3468. Dashcams are a good idea for anyone. So is the rest. If the popo are in a better mood they may not write a citation. That can save serious money and maybe a tow and impound bill.
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  3469. Aliens wearing the late Doctor's decaying skinsuit (like the Flayed Ones in 40K but less empathy) does not a true Doctor make. Just let it go and like other classics don't mourn its loss but be glad it happened!
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  3470.  @ASpyNamedJames  Got empiric evidence for those assertions? "Logistics" very much includes commercial providers. Fedex, DHL etc deliver most spares. Why do you imagine "expertise" is somehow stretched? BE SPECIFIC. Supporting a few extra airframes in continental European locations leverages every available asset in NATO and supporting Vipers is not difficult nor is maintaining them. Only FOL tasks need be done in Ukraine while more demanding tasks could be done at any decently equipped NATO base. There just isn't much difficult work on F-16s.
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  3471. Why do windowlickers associate every government function with the POTUS? Rikers is not a Federal prison. Also why care what happens to inmates? It's too bad they survive to prey (again) on those of use who are good.
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  3472. Vulgarity etc are perfectly acceptable interrogation tools. As the old saying goes "you get more bees with honey than with shit" (for whatever version of "honey" works). That's just good police work and the quality of translation shows the man is outstanding at his job. He's a fine asset to Ukraine intelligence. Manipulating the target is vital and often highly effective because they may reveal information neither they nor their interrogator expects.
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  3473. GOOD and make it ten years instead. I say that as a Northern transplant (who is much further right wing than most of the South where I moved to so we get along fine).
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  3474. That's some epic Photoshop on that belly and everything else.
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  3475. The American public are not that intelligent. Look at our elections. It's horrible for those of us with IQs above room temperature, but that's not very many.
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  3476. Those were also SOVIET tanks and the Russian Federation is far from Soviet quality except in their fantasies.
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  3477. Easy. Block off each street takeover with 18-wheelers then confiscate and tow the vehicles. Modern vehicles are expensive to tow correctly without damage and require wrecker operator training. They must be stored where they cannot be stolen or have parts removed so well away from city centers. Vehicles used in crime like any other tool are potentially subject to confiscation after due legal process is followed. They can then be crushed or auctioned for parts after disabling the drivetrain as done during CFC (which was great for salvage parts to keep other vehicles running).
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  3478. My condolences. Milwaukee pursued the "RUB" faux biker because they have money but the skill and cluefulness of their buyers suffered from lack of natural gatekeeping. They deliberately killed off the classic "mom and pop" dealers who saved the Motor Company. Much love for my HDs but none for corporate.
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  3479.  @icehawk2928  Because HDs are so simple to work on and easy to keep for a lifetime. Many motorcycle mechanics own simple machines because we don't get paid to fix our own. The HD aftermarket is what really makes them worth keeping and for non-helpless owners the cost per year is not much at all over time. Engineers often buy more demanding but more elegantly simple bikes like real classics too. I've met many at Norton and other classic Britbike rallies.
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  3480. Why would they when containing the USSR took decades? War is not Hollywood. The populace never sees the war as it isn't in Russia. Unless you are personally in the fight, there is no fight. The US population was similarly unaffected by its wars in Iraq and A-stan, and the USSR was unaffected by its war there too for the most part. It would be silly to assume differently and anyone so doing is militarily illiterate.
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  3481. Cities are bad so I don't live in one. This was all foreseeable and foreseen.
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  3482. The channel is already open but the bridge should be replaced by a tunnel or the harbor remains vulnerable to blockage. Facilities should also be built further out so cargo can be unloaded outside that area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTWEBMB6HKQ
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  3483. Combat aircraft exist to put warheads on foreheads. The less meat in cockpits the better because UAS don't require CSAR or an enormously expensive training and replacement manned aircraft training pipeline.
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  3484. Nice way to save the taxpayers wasting money on his pension.
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  3485. Shipping is very much NOT Peter Zeihan's wheelhouse. If you want genuinely informed content by real maritime experts Sal Mercagliano https://www.youtube.com/@wgowshipping and the gCaptain website (the forum of professional mariners is outstanding) are far superior resources. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing despite good intentions. Peter means well but his take is superficial and frequently inaccurate.
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  3486. Floods are a historic fact of life in China. One dam isn't going to "end civilization" but could do some impressive damage. Chinese water management choices are their problem.
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  3487. Good at devouring rubles in a nation with a lower GDP than California so I approve.
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  3488. The solution to commuting is working from home, not finding ways to waste billions moving workers around to make the same information management choices in an office to humor some management droid's need for a personal empire.
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  3489. The market will change and there is no need for everyone to adopt a gold rush mentality by running for the expensive coastal cities. Very modest incomes can and do buy property (not McMansions no one needs) every day. I live in one of those many locations. Interestingly it's still skilled trades who often buy homes. You have vastly more personal space and freedom outside cities, the ideal being over five acres of land zoned for agriculture (and those acres get cheap when part of them does NOT suit conventional construction).
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  3490. Given the enormous number of flights vs the actual crash rate (which is trivial) the loss rate isn't bad. It's dramatic but emotion is not information.
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  3491. A PROPERLY MAINTAINED 45-year old helo is fine. No one is forced not to maintain them and Iran had decades to replace its fleet with Russian and Chinese aircraft. Where the money went is a mystery but a wealth oil state has no excuse for poor maintenance, poor equipment, poor training or flying into a mountain. Helos are dangerous any much newer machines CFIT every year due to pilot error. Flying into IMC conditions was unwise.
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  3492. I have over two years (that ain't much) deployed in tents and did not consider that uncomfortable. Close the borders. Stop electing Democrats (won't happen because most of the public are disgustingly foolish chumps) and in NYCs case RESCIND THE ED KOCH SANCTUARY CITY EXECUTIVE ORDER which can be done by the mayor with a stroke of a pen. New York voters chose this and I'm laughing. I escaped the metro area long ago because it was doomed then, too.
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  3493.  @nosheizer1294  STEM is fine and the other poster is not suggesting closing USEFUL schools. Liberal arts should be hobby because it is not a meaningful job creator. Not all colleges are the same.
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  3494. Popular media was always trash. See "yellow journalism" and William Randolph Hearst for starters. The average person isn't intelligent and wants to be entertained so they reward those who monetize their foolishness.
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  3495. One limfac is that one side are terrified of firearms ownership let alone using them. They want "someone else" to put in work because their outlook is so naive they elected their opponent TWICE by incompetence they are unable to see as such.
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  3496. Sex was an evolutionary necessity because evolution could not function otherwise. However lust is a burden and most humans are better off without relationships since even the best ones end in divorce or death. Life simply IS and most of it is so unpleasant humans had to invent religions to cope with fear of death. The Buddhists are right, all desire is a burden. WHY should anyone "fear" extinction when all life dies anyway? Dying without replacement merely ends what otherwise is an eternity of suffering. If humans can replace ourselves with a new, better race what is there to be scared of? Undifferentiated fear is childish because there is NOTHING TO BE LOST WHEN THERE IS NO ONE TO LOSE IT. Remove the desire to copulate with other humans and you solve more problems than you create. Need drives suffering. End the need.
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  3497. Remember who helped the Marxists take over academia in the first place. Youtube forbids mentioning how that happened so I won't. The sports term is an "own goal".
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  3498.  @PORSCHE_COUNTRY.  Bananas etc are a LUXURY food not a necessity. Know the difference!
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  3499.  @jamescook7713  I quite enjoyed working on them but it makes zero economic sense to retool (there is no tooling) to make an aircraft modern drones render obsolete. Manned FAC/attack systems are helpless against MANPADS and, much worse, require CSAR to rescue downed aircrew. Aircrew should either be at home station or replaced by automated systems. Manned aircraft have absurd cost disadvantages over drones. These little shitboxes are for specialty work which doesn't justify new build manned airframes.
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  3500. Big agra want CHEAP ILLEGAL LABOR. Big agra is no one's friend but loves to pretend all farmers are small and traditional for propaganda purposes. If your business relies on illegals then that business should end or change. (Luxury food is not survival food.)
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  3501. My multiple half-tons prove otherwise. I also own 1970s trucks and have been a mechanic since that era. Tell us you aren't a mechanic without telling us you aren't a mechanic. Even my 2000 half tons (Chevy and Ford) are more capable than my F250 was in stock trim. Tow ratings have increased as have typical trailer weights while houseboats etc are also quite large.
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  3502.  @phalynwilliams4119  They voted for Democrats and when you vote for a party you vote for EVERYTHING that party does. Ed Koch (rest in pi$$) was a Democrat. The policy could have been rescinded by any NY mayor.
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  3503.  @falconne  That's when you know the video is garbage and to Dislike the channel.
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  3504. Apple machines are disposable like every other major notebook and intended to be scrapped after tax depreciation. Their target market (NOT ME) rightly considers a few thousand dollars pocket change which it really is if you're making tech money. If you aren't using a machine for work, that machine is a TOY and toy rules apply. Poor people don't need and should not want expensive toys. Tools make money and compared to say a local mechanics rollaway which may contain $50K worth of gear ANY notebook is couch money. Back up your data, own at least one spare computer (trivially cheap for the past two decades), and be fully prepared to restore any machine from bare metal.
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  3505. The cartoonist CAN AFFORD to do that and knows he can make money elsewhere. This may be difficult to understand.
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  3506. I too had a very strong mother and am blessed. Keep at it!
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  3507. What does that mean in English? Military self-help unit projects are normally done by volunteers and save Uncle Sugar money because they don't require a contractor etc etc. I've done some while I was in and they made life much better at unit level. Not everything has an endless money spigot. Procurement comes before Operations and Maintenance comes before unit quality of life. There being thousands of talented G.I.s with our own tools and equipment who volunteer it works out nicely.
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  3508. They're smarter than the general public and can afford much better lawyers. Wall Street effectively own this country. The rest of us just live in it.
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  3509.  @PrettyGoodLookin  Not at this point because Russia can only exist to attempt to regain its empire. That's the entire Russian culture and those opposed are purged or worse. The longer Russia bleeds the better for Ukraine because that will delay the NEXT Russian invasion. Russian demographic decline is an ongoing problem along with brain drain of educated classes (which began when the Berlin Wall came down). War and its uncertainty discourages this ontological enemy of democracy from respawning. There is nothing to negotiate other than the withdrawal of NeoSoviet forces. Absent that it's in Ukraine and civilization's interest to kill as many Russian troops as they care to throw away on their fools errand.
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  3510. I worked in the used car business and the dealers who were often VERY well off did not buy new cars. They bought at auction and if a salvage yard owner needed a part to sell he'd pull the dealer tag, sell the part, put that car in the yard and drive something else. These guys looked like any mechanic but had serious cash, property, vacation homes etc.
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  3511. If you need a serious cord buy some SOOW cable and quality connectors as contractors do for their cords.
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  3512.  @ProjectFarm  You'd likely fun making and using the 240V/120V combo cords that allows. Look over "RV" power cords, receptacles and power boxes to see what suits your desires. For example a 100ft (or two 50ft for less to carry at once) cord can power a 240V welder and provide 120V for heavy duty power tools.
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  3513. These videos are more for those who understand the processes than a complete explanation of how castings are used for non-technical people. If you're interested a few minutes with a search engine will answer your questions.
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  3514. It would be better to house them outside LA because no reason exist to live in LA unless you are rich. That's why this veteran is too smart to live in CA at all.
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  3515. Get a career which is NOT an office job unless it's utterly secure. Talent can move but most people are NOT special so know your (real) worth.
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  3516. The US already defended the Philippines at great cost and (with great help from our Filipino friends) freed it from the invading Imperial Japanese Army. US determination is historically proven. Our veterans fought and died side-by-side. General MacArthur kept his promise. China is neither democratic nor altruistic.
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  3517. If fast food prices are important to you, you are not living wisely. Learn to like living wisely. That includes not choosing to live in a high cost of living area unless you are too wealthy to care.
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  3518. Why would anyone with that much money CARE about resale? If you legit have Cybertruck money (which means you bought it outright with pocket change) you can afford to have your servants saw the roof off and make it into a planter. TOYS ARE FINE. This is America after all. Buying one doesn't have to make sense, but if you have to worry about resale you're not as prosperous as you imagine.
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  3519. Considering the purpose of Kursk was to incinerate millions of Americans in nuclear fire I approve. The only good Soviet (or NeoSoviet, see current Putinists) is one that's decomposing. The mission of Bolshevism, Stalinism and every other variety of Russian nationalism is to destroy civilized culture of which it was never part, and everyone (even submarine fetishists) should never be permitted to forget it for a second. May the rest of the NeoSoviet navy join the Kursk sooner than later. Those hallucinating the above to be a tad harsh are invitied to review Russian historic interactions with every eastern European people from Finland south the end of the Med. Russia is a slightly more pragmatic Al Qaeda with nuclear weapons.
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  3520. We need MORE CITIES, not more housing in the overcrowded cities we have. The middle of the US is basically empty. Everyone crowding into the same coastal spaces is bad so I went the opposite direction. Smart people don't want expense, don't want neighbors, and do want freedom.
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  3521. Because in the US cops tend to be trigger happy and shoot Black citizens. BTW most Airmen of that race are chill and nerdy (I'm retired USAF and White) sorts who don't bother a soul. I've had to give one of my troops a DWB reality brief because he was so unworldly he couldn't figure out why he got pulled over for doing nothing. Of course the Airman was armed as is his right. If I lived there I would be too. America doesn't really want professional policing enough to demand and invest in it. See ATF raids innocent gunsmiths for examples.
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  3522. Russian shill detected. Those assertions only work on morons who have a layman's non-understanding of modern war and geopolitics. Dollar Store Desert Storm failed in the first weeks so why is Russia now supposed to impress anyone? Putin is the best thing to happen to NATO this century. He couldn't be more useful if he were a plant.
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  3523. Haley lost because she betrayed her voting base and was useless as governor. Haley is all about Haley and no one else. See FITSNEWS for her sordid SC history.
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  3524. The US stands for nothing more or better than any other kleptocracy.
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  3525. Where will these Gripen come from?
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  3526. Why are we pretending the actual VOLUME of nuclear waste isn't trivial? Nuclear power in the west outside France is mostly dead thanks to decades of Soviet later Russian Federation subversion of Western energy independence. The left will not permit it.
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  3527.  @jamesginty6684  It will accomplish nothing with Putin who is no better than Hitler. Only Russian shill accounts advocate that and they're all over the internet. The style of your nick suggests your account is fake. No decent person advocates surrender to Russia, not in the early Cold War nor today.
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  3528.  @islandwills2778  How well does Glavset pay its shills these days? It's easy to recognize their posters.
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  3529.  @islandwills2778  That excuse is nonsense because Russia has second strike countervalue capability to spare including submarines so invasion would be suicide. People who don't know how missiles and other delivery systems work assume a few hundred miles makes any difference in 2022. Ukraine was never a meaningful threat to Russia but selling that line works on some people far too young to remember the world before the Berlin Wall came down. Shill accounts (and true believer Glavset trolls who don't want to get sent to the front) have been propagating Russian nonsense for a very long time.
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  3530. ​ @jamesginty6684  Russian education seems to have declined since when I served in West Germany. You're not very good at this and probably don't know why.
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  3531.  @rogerstarkey5390  You seem confused about what that term means. Who owns an object can do with it as they see fit, but artificial barriers to repair by companies seeking "vendor lock" is expensively wasteful and interferes with repairing otherwise fixable equipment.
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  3532.  @TheBaBaTV  Bullshit. TATS HAVE SPECIFIC MEANINGS. You're either lying or delusional, choose one.
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  3533.  @cellarseller6309  Nobody on the street cares about rock. That's for old people.
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  3534. Civilians should know the armed forces are just other people in uniform, not better or worse, and senior military leadership as as internally "political" as any other group. The armed forces have always been so mission-centric nothing else matters until it gets exposed. Ask any vet. There is little accountability. Individual workcenters can be great places to work but ethics don't always scale. These pollution problems routinely affect active duty and veteran populations. Look up pollution info for any base near you. Jet fuel exposure also affects the millions of vets over the decades who were exposed to it like aircraft maintainers, fuel system maintainers and many more. Every vet should check their exposure history including every base they were stationed at or deployed to.
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  3535. Yet another pointlessly complex turd from a company which hates mechanics but a nice opportunity to make $$ parting it out.
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  3536. Glavset shilling hard today. Remember the much more difficult defeat of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact by containment? I do. You LOST due to your own economic degeneracy and social incompetence while China succeeded. Russia became a poor backwater by the hands of its own people.
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  3537. Rich people problems. They'll be fine while others sell out, cash out and move to a wiser location. Smart people avoid cities so I did. Smart people avoid leftists states so I did and that let me retire in my forties. Plan coldly and never follow the herd.
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  3538. If your business cannot survive without taxpayer money, what does that say about your business model?
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  3539. I don't wonder. This is just going back to early Cold War normal and even if the whole ME went up in flames that's not a "world" war, just a collection of small wars/OOTW.
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  3540. I believe it because MOST used vehicle buyers CHOOSE to be completely ignorant of vehicles and financial management. They can recite football stats in their sleep or know useless drivel like what their fave influencer had for breakfast but refuse to take interest in their own wallet. That Cadillac sold because people crave to impress other people who don't care about them anyway.
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  3541. Good that you're a firefighter. Perhaps in future you might do a video or few about "What's Going On With Firefighting?" particularly in departments like yours. Drama gets headlines but as with shipping the public have little quality exposure to the details of US firefighting. Like the Merchant Marine firefighters are praised but their needs are neglected.
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  3542. Is there a reason you didn't build a proper structure like a concrete dome (whose roof cannot be blown off by wind) instead of the usual US house? Tornado alley guarantees getting hit but wise construction can eliminate damage.
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  3543. Fools and their money DESERVE to be parted. I don't buy art, NFTs or other contemptibly stupid shit and laugh at the chumps who do because stupidity should be extremely painful, and because it's hilarious.
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  3544. EC-121 first flew in 1949 with a large external antenna thoug not disc-shaped. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_EC-121_Warning_Star
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  3545. Killing the patriotic incentive to forgive HDs (many) defects was a terrible idea. It WAS accepted that if you buy one you promptly upgrade them using American aftermarket parts. Wokely-Pervertson just exterminated reasons to support the Motor Company. The US market is already saturated with older models so no one but the bored rich need a new one. MOTORCYCLES ARE TOYS and now any American may as well buy far higher performance foreign bikes from people who don't insult their customers. HD forgets NO ONE needs the company even for spare parts because the aftermarket are so good. Harley Delenda Est!
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  3546. Cities are bad. Don't live in one. That solves many problems before they happen. The US is enormous so it's silly to live anywhere you don't have every advantage. Worked superbly for me. I could never afford to retire in city and would not want to because you have zero freedom and are trapped with people who are of zero benefit to your life.
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  3547. Those situations are not mutually exclusive, but rather than "DEI" I would substitute "replacing an established professional workforce with newly trained barely literate yokels".
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  3548. Every act should carry a separate sentence for attempted murder and concurrent sentencing (which really means partial sentence nullification) should be illegal.
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  3549.  @soonerfrac4611  That applies to the little cheap attack drones but there is no tech barrier 360-degree awareness. Networked drones can share inputs and of course drones can loiter far longer than manned aircraft. Helos are delicate MANPAD bait and require horrifically expensive CSAR. Meat in the seat requires glacially slow development times and systems like life support UAS do not need. The lay person idea of drones is far too narrow.
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  3550. It's a lagging indicator. Sales are soft.
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  3551. Sad even for Columbus but that place is too poor and backward to have standards higher than pulse and respiration. No sporting goods store in their right mind would falsely accuse a COP.
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  3552. Yet you decline to explain why with technical citations which suggests you are nothing of the sort. Thirdie shills are common but they're not paid enough to sound credible.
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  3553.  @cjhoward409  Wise are those who choose advance planning and hardcore DIY. (I recommend an auto shop class to everyone because the many systems on vehicles require skills useful elsewhere.) My newest trucks are 2000 models and because I opportunistically acquired more than one downtime is never an issue. I opportunistically buy appliances BEFORE I need them since I know my equipment use rate. So do my poorbros because people in farm country are expected not to choose helplessness. Doing this nearly ends surprise expenses and leaves money for savings. I just dropped ten grand on two deep wells because my ancient shallow wells were failing (which was something of a surprise since low flow hadn't been much issue) and that did not hurt a bit. I did not have to pay an electrician or plumber to connect them to my houses because I dug the trenches (by hand for exercise) then plumbed and wired to my panels for the cost of parts. This only requires determination (I'm old and disabled but quite patient) so nearly anyone can do likewise (which I know from training trades students at my local CC).
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  3554.  @NewtypeCommander  Insightful post! Shooters and material support are key to a successful revolution just like last time.
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  3555. "Gloves" like "red lines" mean absolutely nothing. Why would an adult even use those terms?
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  3556. Australia is not disarmed by accident. Populations which cannot defend themselves are helpless. Of course this would not have happened with selective immigration that did not import cultural enemies of religious freedom. The left are responsible for that.
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  3557. They are smart enough to leave but not as smart as people who never move to FL in the first place. Following the herd doesn't end well. Have you ever seen an intelligent herd?
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  3558.  @DixieLane304  It got used to contain the permanent enemy of Western civilization, Russia, for which purpose it was purchased in the first place! (Why do you imagine the US found our large armed forces necessary? It wasn't GWOT.) That's an incredible bargain since Ukrainians are doing the dying to mutual benefit. Youngsters can't imagine the reality of the early Cold War or why the US resisted Russia and Maoist China. It's completely outside their interest as if it were long ago historically which it's not. Putin and Russian nationalists want a Soviet respawn. It took decades and many wars to contain the USSR/Warsaw Pact.
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  3559. India should simply cease interaction with Canada. Neither needs the other as they are so distant. Canada hiding terrorists is like Afghanistan hiding Al Qaeda training camps. India has the world to choose from.
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  3560. Retirement is awesome from any job and they have a good package. They can get a second career in communities whose citizens aren't pieces of feces and most especially do not vote for Democrats. NY will just LOWER ITS STANDARDS and hire whatever crawls under the door. The voters chose this and will continue to vote Democrat. Cops can sell their homes for a tasty profit then escape to rural departments whose citizens aren't a waterfall of thugs. I wouldn't defend a city that isn't worth preserving either. People who wanted better lives should have left the area long ago. I did. Feels good. America is huge and there is no reason to live in NY unless you are wealthy and that wealth is tied to a local business.
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  3561. A thousand bucks is couch money in much of the world and if one keeps a phone for years the cost per year is a trifle. FREQUENCY of an expense matters. I buy flagships then keep them long enough their purchase price did not matter. I demote them to backups on replacement and the total cost to me is background noise.
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  3562. Sky News anchor Jayne Secker rudely belittled him (which is all over the internet) for it so it's doubly good that he got more positive recognition for his achievement.
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  3563. Talibs used couriers for years. Israel utterly dropped the ball. Israel failed to make every border control point a DEFENSIBLE FOB. Israel failed to prepare for a (second) Yom Kippur attack. Israel failed to picket their border sufficiently (note the backhoe lifting the fence was not instantly destroyed) with arty. Israel failed to have QRFs on standby to interdict the invasion. Israel fails to have a completely armed civilian population despite being in a permanent state of terrorist threat, leaving civilians to hide in terror. Israel grossly overvalues hostages trading over one thousand for Shalit, for example. That makes this a major win for Hamas unless Israelis harden up about collateral damage. Israel failed to have ubiquitous light SHORAD despite lessons of Ukraine. This will be studied for many years.
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  3564.  @lee-oh4189  Still worth it compared to submission to the invaders. If the choice is between destruction of my country and electing a demagogue I choose the demagogue. Survival is more important than democracy which is just a means to and end and has been deliberately poisoned by decades of first Soviet then self-sustaining subversion. The Left must by stopped by any means necessary. They forfeited every moral obligation to them by existing. I do not consider them Americans.
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  3565. It's called PROTEST because it puts eyes on the issue. Used HDs are mostly cheap and common as popcorn. No one who really wants one is prevented from having one thereby. An HD is a consumer good like a video card or a Fleshlight.
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  3566. That's not how it works IRL. They're required to have an AMERICAN motorcycle and there are plenty of those not from Wokely-Pervertson. Victory hot rod parts are available and anyone so desiring can build a superior aftermarket custom using zero HD parts. See also the late Sonny Barger (famous as an HD mechanic inside biker circles) opinion on the old custom of being stuck with HS. Neither 81 nor any other club needs an HD from Wokewaukee.
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  3567. Depends if he has heart or not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmrkTi3EHqk
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  3568. What room temperature IQ intern wrote THAT stupidly inaccurate headline?
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  3569. Be very aware any critical comments regarding the influencer get Youtube botted into oblivion.
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  3570. It may sound extreme but if you take what should be normal backup measures it's quite easy. Perform a clean install then update that and install all your other applications. Make a a backup image. Test that image by loading your hard disk (or virtual machine) of choice. Then backup is as simple as wipe and install, and you can do everything from one external hard disk with a bootable USB adapter (cheap). Benefits include ability to immediately and easily load a new hard disk installed as an upgrade or to replace a failed part. Since I first learned to use computers I understood that the old Marine adage "one is none and two is some" applies to all sorts of situations. Lack of backup is exasperating and on a work machine if you work from home, expensive. Additional options: If your external drive is loaded with Ventoy you can boot your choice of diagnostic and recovery/rescue tools too, and not just .iso images. Once you know how to do this it serves you for life and learning can substitute for less productive leisure amusements. Yet another option is software like Deep Freeze and other restore-on-reboot programs popular with schools which don't have time to constantly reimage machines. Of course I would still back up because hardware failures happen. Learning is fun and empowering. I've never taken a computer to anyone else to work on and personal ability to instantly deal with problems saves money and time.
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  3571. This is terrific! Smart humans deserve to harmlessly monetize lesser creatures and without using live humans no one sentient is exploited to produce porn.
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  3572. I avoid them because the vast majority are trifling, unintelligent and silly. Those worth interacting with like my wife initiate contact. This isn't new since most women were always (blame evolution) low competence people overly fond of drama.
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  3573.  @zackeryhardy9504  Don't live in Cali and avoid Cali problems. I don't need to live there and neither does anyone else because money is freedom not location (I escaped the NY metro area instead). Expensive area destroy disposable income. The US is a mobile society so do the necessary and be ruthless to yourself in getting ahead. Learn to wrench and it doesn't take long to drown in cars if you have the space. If you're a trucker you can locate anywhere or even hang OTR for years and stack money (my truckerbros do, I'm a lifelong mechanic with no interest in driving). If you have a CDL and become a mechanic or heavy equipment operator that opens many doors.
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  3574.  @mark4371  Military illiterates should not permit themselves opinions on tech they do not understand but of course they do. Mass media (including Youtube and its Google parent) wxist to monetize viewers. Meaningless terms like "red line", "game changer" and other nonsensical buzzwords are popular because they can be used anywhere which reinforces that popularity making them useful for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Standoff weapons properly employed work nicely (Israeli use of JDAM and other standoff munitions for example) but one also needs enough weapons with sufficient airframes to deliver them. Neither Ukraine nor Russia have a modern air force. They have legacy air forces with a few modern systems. This war is rather like the Iran-Iraq war which is why I expect it to last as long as Putin feels like expending non-Muscovites (which historically is considered a feature not a bug).
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  3575. Also key is that modules require interfaces integrated systems do not, and all that extra complexity is a weight, repair and maintenance burden. That anyone would imagine modular weapons systems are beneficial fails the sanity test because a ship can only perform one set of module dependent tasks at once! If you need both functions you cannot have that without adding more vessels, more crews and all the enormous tail which goes with them. The concept is not just unsound but idiotic, illogical and indefensible yet it was tried anyway. This tells me the US Navy is not competently managed because such nonsense should have been knifed in the crib. It's not merely insulting to our Sailors but negligent. No one will be punished, there will be no career fallout because a force which tolerates this in the first place is beyond reform or the will to reform, and the humans responsible will do other institutional damage because they're incompetent. These issues are of near-zero public interest so nothing will change.
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  3576. United don't' build their own aircraft nor design them. What is your professional aviation experience relevant to the situation?
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  3577. This human drama is not really important to the war and mostly a distraction. The high casualty rates would be important to a nation which cares about its troops and lower classes even slightly. Russia never did. Proof is their actions which speak far louder than words. A half-million dead wouldn't matter much. The government can mumble platitudes about the Great Patriotic War and the majority of gopniks will lick it up. It can say anything and enough vatniks will accept it to maintain status quo. Russians can afford to get their "bullet sponges" slaughtered and historically prefer it that way. This disposes of people Muscovites prefer dead in the first place be they convicts or ethnic minorities. The troops may be equipped with Shmels which are incendiary hence the nickname but it doesn't matter much. The good news is fewer Russians surviving to breed more ontological enemies of civilization. Never forget Putin and friends are not some aberration. They perfectly represent majority Russian culture over centuries. The few decent Russians the rest kill, imprison and exile are the historic abnormals. Cattle are the norm and the childish drivel which constitutes Western PC moral fashion is utterly irrelevant to Asiatics. The West should help decent Russians escape but forget about trying to change the culture for there is no room for social influence from outside. Patton was right about Russians in every respect and their endless record of savagery proves it from Finland to Syria. The fewer Russians breathing the better for civilization of which they at best pretend to be part, a mimicry without understanding.
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  3578. Gamblers get too much respect. Gambling is a tax on fools so better the state get and recycle some of the money than it all go untaxed to organized crime. Back when it was socially acceptable to call gambling "degenerate" more accurate discourse was enabled. I was alive long before sports betting was legal yet it was at least equally ubiquitous, but also discreet of necessity. War on gambling is like the war on (some) drugs in that it does not work because it goes against human nature. Gamblers choose their fate therefore deserve it. Weakness is to be scorned and purged from oneself, not indulged.
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  3579. I remember USSR/Warsaw Pact fans being overly impressed with themselves too. Tanks die in war. Note the Abrams wasn't K-killed nor does it toss turrets (unless there is a massive buried IED beneath the road which has happened) and the crews don't tend to fry inside.
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  3580. Look at a globe. Geography is far more important than the militarily illiterate imagine. The action was not a government attack (terrorists are not new to NATO and their greatest supporter, the former USSR now the Russian Federation, remains the US greatest strategic enemy).
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  3581. Because the US are famous for dicking over customers which is frequently absurd. That's why other arms sellers with looser or no ROE remain competitive. This is open and has been for decades.
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  3582. Linux isn't really for the helpless people who NEED GUIs to do everything and I personally wish they'd avoid it and get a Mac or Windows box. LOTD works fine for the competent, and the INcompetent don't need what Linux does in the first place! Gamers don't need anything but a Windows gaming box and should be happy with that as any gaming PC can run Linux VMs to fiddle with should they wish.
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  3583. Hype is hilarious. Wise people NEVER beta test and let rich silly people waste their money instead. The world does not need more automakers. That idea may surprise people who haven't studied automotive history. Most brands fail and industry consolidation is perfectly normal. Unethical companies deserve to fail. The world has more automakers than it needs by a long shot so nothing of real value is lost.
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  3584. Fools were randomly shooting at what they could not see and rightly died as idiots (anywhere) deserve.
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  3585. Only a military aviation illiterate would believe that practical to pull off undetected. Aircraft aren't independent and require support, logistics and maintenance which even in auster operations have a large footprint. All NATO is visible from Russian satellites so the moment anyone tried that it would be all over the news. Commercial satellite resolution is ample to identify military operations large or small and military sats would use the highest available resolution sensors.
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  3586. Exceptions can be found in land zoned agricultural (like mine, I would never buy anywhere with more restrictions) but you are dead right almost no one considers this!
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  3587. F-16s are compatible with US weapons. Fighter duels are exciting but ground attack helps win wars.
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  3588. He's rich enough to max out the books of everyone in any prison he goes to AND hire them legal teams. Rich folk who know how to do time may not be happy but they can afford not to be miserable. He can hire as many lifers as he wants for security.
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  3589. The SOVIET UNION and WARSAW PACT were not remotely the same thing as the RUSSIAN FEDERATION. US primary education has been worthless since the 1970s and it shows.
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  3590. What would you substitute that is a form and fit replacement as I'm looking for one?
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  3591. The public get the worst government they will tolerate. A national tradition of utter subservience to the ruling class doesn't help.
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  3592. Shook? Put down the pipe. 'Big Tech' has enough money not to care. Title is pure clickbait and TYT is just a reverse Tucker Carlson.
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  3593. To precisely what valid strategic purpose?
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  3594. Cities always sucked to live in which is why the burbs were developed long before automobiles were common. Low density suburbs are wonderful to live in so people living there want to keep them that way. Growth is NOT good. It only benefits rich developers. The US should seek to fill up more evenly not in urban hives. Flight however motivated was uniformly a very wise choice. The fate of those who didn't leave early is a matter of record.
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  3595. Norks are devout Communists. I find it amusing that so few years away from the early Cold War anyone is surprised. Tactics soft weak mindless civilian news droids pretend to be horrified by are historic standard so they should be no surprise to anyone even if they attended a US public school.
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  3596. Trade with the US exceeds the entire CCP military budget, but greed trumps freedom. The sooner Beijing attacks Taiwan the sooner it can be completely embargoed which is far more dangerous than losing expendable (see Mao's thoughts on nuclear war) ChiCom troops and hardware. That said, were Taiwan serious about freedom it would immediately build its own nuclear deterrent following the old Beijing model. The sooner chip production is diversified the sooner Taiwan will be forced to take defense seriously (as in "spending ~15 percent GDP making it too tough a nuclear and conventional nut to crack).
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  3597. What I see is that harbor is effortlessly disabled by a blockship. It wouldn't take much for an adversary (small nations included who can send containers by proxy) to load a container or several with explosives and redundant detonators to blow the bottom out of (someone else's if budget matters!) container carriers in a simultaneous (or near enough) move to disable major US ports without killing anyone (or with depending on desired escalation level) outright. Future harbor modifications should include multiple access routes where practical. Ideally the bridge should be replaced by a tunnel though that's far more expensive because that permanently solves the problem. Being a strategic asset the Federal government should invest in that project. The US used to be able to do large infrastructure projects and because it did so many was rather good at it. We should remember the strategic lesson of 9/11, which is that US industrial society is easily broken at microscopic cost to the attacker. 9/11 was the worst defeat in US history by economic and social impact but much of that was due to how leadership responded. Conside the effect of blocking Baltimore, Charleston, New York and Savannah even for a short time. Humans are simple beasts and easily panicked, amplifying effects of logistic disruptions by hoarding or worse. This poses what I think is a question Sal is qualified to answer in detail and that might generate intelligent government response. What does each key US harbor require for SELF-recovery from a blockship or future accident at the worst possible location? The Navy and our shipyards should build the vessels and equipment so no one is at the mercy of private contractor availability as they may be elsewhere, though if available they could team to clear the blockage quickly. I consider Baltimore a useful civil defense recovery exercise because without something like that no serious public attention will be paid to such problems. Of course self-recovery units can deploy, train and perhaps assist useful civil engineering projects like other harbor mods if wisely configured. Sal, what do you think the US should learn from Baltimore and what would be optimal preparation? For example bridges should be sufficiently protected that no vessel can get at them. Obstacles that would ground accidents and ramming attempts (ships were hijacked thousands of years before aircraft) could be retrofitted to legacy bridges, and future crossings mandated to be tunnels where that matters.
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  3598. This problem is purely a DEMOCRAT policy problem so why aren't you hammering that fundamental truth? Democrats are actively destroying America. The GOP aren't inviting vermin to flood our country. Put names to the blame and hammer that truth.
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  3599. Russian logistics take cues from Comcast customer service...
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  3600. A battery, even with low energy density, that isn't the absurd fire hazard of lithium designs has potential to replace those fire hazards.
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  3601. Puerto Rico is free to vote for sovereignty and should. While the US public do not care about what remains of the US Merchant Marine (which should be scrapped so they learn why it was necessary) preserved by the Jones Act, they don't care enough to subsizidize US civilian ship production directly.
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  3602. I've gotten great use from both Lenox and Diablo blades. I suggest cutting scrap truck tire wire beads and other sections for a really brutal test because rubber doesn't shed heat like metal. Cutting truck frame sections as when harvesting engines at self-service and other salvage yards is another place a great recip blade more than pays for itself. It's increasingly common to cut off tires with a recip saw for easy rim handling in subsequent bead breaking, and if a bead is loose it's quick to support it with a tire iron then cut the bead vs. wrasslin' the tire onto a tire machine. I learnt the trick from a big rig tire shop and use it at my home shop freeing up rims now that many recycle centers won't take mounted tires.
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  3603. The government will not help because the wealthy own it and they have no more conscience than cartels (who are not even close to health insurance companies in profit ). Media are in the infotainment business and mostly serve our owners because they craft its laws.
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  3604. Recent German vehicles appear designed by people who HATE mechanics. That's why the car lot I wrenched for swapped off all their German trade-ins to salvage yards instead of fixing then selling then fixing them again when some other fecal system broke down. I don't think current Germany is capable of good work in this respect because everyone who understood the old German quality culture is either dead or so old they cannot contribute.
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  3605. Target were foolish to locate there in the first place. The locals are welcome to start their own businesses.
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  3606. The people Columbia students are attacking are also the people whose predecessors helped the Leftist takeover of that university in the 1960s. The 1960 urban Left thought they could ride the social advance of groups anyone sane knew would turn on them, and that is happening today. The modern American Left does not care about a transactional relationship it had no hand in establishing. The solution is for those wishing to preserve the safety of Jewish Americans to completely stop being or supporting Leftists!
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  3607. How do "Moors" imagine their ancestors were displaced by who we currently call "Native Americans"?
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  3608. This may be incredibly difficult to understand but wars require MICs (or support therefrom via external actors nation-state or other) as a condition of victory. Is Ukraine entitled to self-determination? Yes or no? Ukraine was previously acknowledged as a sovereign nation by Russia. This may be incredibly difficult to understand but without business (even in Russia and mainland China) it's impractical to field large armed forces. This may be incredibly difficult to understand but individual actors can have mixed motives. If your group requires arms then someone has to pay workers to produce them and pay for the materials, infrastructure etc. All conflict is part business, even the Shining Path guerillas protect their revenue sources.
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  3609. There is no hope of peaceful change which is why it does not happen. Insurance is bigger money than drug cartels and business owns most of the politicians so don't expect change to come easy or peacefully. I personally would never indulge, but with millions of old ill destitute bankrupt people with nothing to lose some might go out with a bang.
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  3610. The ISO shipping container standard, palletized logistics and even forklifts are not ubiquitous. This is "break bulk" logistics WWII style.
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  3611.  @the0ne809  The US easily feeds much of the world and itself.
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  3612. New York chose its fate and nothing of value is lost because NEW YORK VOTERS did this. Good for Remington moving to Georgia where there are still some real Americans left. The Southeast is simply more patriotic and takes the Constitution seriously. That's why I'm never moving back north.
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  3613. This is America so the risk of children actually READING is modest. That's a much bigger problem than poles and holes but it's also boring and because most parents don't read either it's not an issue. Sex sells. Literacy doesn't and is not going to.
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  3614. Many factory interior plastics are coated so the company doesn't need to stock multiple plastic parts in each color. That's been the case since at least the 1990s and it makes dealer or personal touch-up easier. Interior paint works so well we used to mod computer cases then hit them with any color but the old yellowing beige. CLEAN the plastic first to get the 'people grease" off. I use strong cleaners like purple power to degrease, then rinse off with hot water, spray and leave the coated parts on a piece of cardboard inside any handy vehicle to cure in the hot sun.
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  3615. IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING EMIGRATING TO THE US TO MAKE YOUR FORTUNE, READ THIS FIRST. It may save your life. Many immigrant business owners make the naive mistake of buying into lower class US hoods. They're perhaps used to countries where most poors aren't trash, but there is no excuse for being a healthy, employable adult poor in the US unless you are personally defective. The poor locals will rob and murder each other for fun. Do you REALLY want to do business with your racist enemies? You aren't them and they do not want you. That's why at first opportunity they steal you blind then burn the wreckage if feeling extra frisky. I welcome ambitious new arrivals but DO NOT locate in poor US high crime areas. I don't care about the tempting low cost. It's low because sane Americans don't want to get murdered, robbed and raped. They don't want to live there because it's not possible to improve poor hoods without demolishing them completely then gentrifying them by dispersing the inhabitants. There are many wise reasons smart Americans who escape poverty scrape off their old hoods like shit from a shoe. I don't pretend to respect bottom feeders who don't respect themselves. Good people should locate with other good people to mutual benefit. If you would not happily raise your children to adulthood in a given neighborhood do not do business there. Ask the innocent Korean shopowners burned out in the LA riots, then choose a state where you have the right to self defense and to stand your ground. There are many inexpensive semi-rural and suburban areas you can locate your business and many are near the east coast in steadily growing but affordable areas where your property purchase will appreciate so you can sell out when you retire. Many Asian and Mexican restaurants do well there and are quite popular with the locals. Just do your homework and don't forget to discreetly ask police where a safe place to locate would be. Do this one on one on the street since they are more likely to tell you the truth. Look for growing stable areas close to transportation arteries and with a diverse business base. The vast majority of Americans are hardworking decent people. We hate those who defile our nation and do the best we can to keep them out of our neighborhoods. Gated communities for example can be great places to serve from just outside with food deliveries and service businesses. Choose law abiding customers and you'll make more money sooner. Then you can join them!
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  3616. The replacement bridge should be all-steel and modular like military bridging for much easier maintenance and rapid future replacement in hours instead of days. No exotic tech required. Many WWII Bailey bridges are in use to this day. All US infrastructure should be designed for rapid repair, replacement and recycling because the cost of doing that is a trifle compared to the economic cost of disruption.
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  3617. HMMWV was a nice NATO utility vehicle to replace CUCV but for anything else it was unsuited. It's not HMMWVs fault US leadership were incompetent and failed to heed the lessons of Viet Nam gun trucks then failed to heed the lessons of Mogadishu then stupidly sent HMMWV (and other vehicles) naked into Iraq forcing G.I.s to install "hillbilly armor" until public outrage (and earmarks, remember the earmarks) begat MRAP. US senior leadership incompetence isn't new and the bizarre idea that soft-skinned junk was viable on a modern battlefield killed and maimed many American Soldiers and Marines. There was plenty of warning, all ignored. No OERs were harmed and all that is ancient history in 2022. JLTV should have been fielded two decades ago. That the greatest nation in automotive history so poorly manages military vehicle programs is absurd but better late than never. JLTV will be a fine vehicle for future constabulary operations if it can carry hard-kill APS. Otherwise it will be ATGW bait.
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  3618. He is really "capitalizing on the speaking differential" because listeners don't require slow speech to understand tech content.
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  3619. Dolton will install another Democrat while anyone smart enough to leave will do so further shrinking the tax base. The comedy never ends. Maybe electing someone convicted of stealing wasn't the wisest choice?
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  3620. Industrial grade copper and high temp nickel anti-seize work a treat. I've torn down engines I built over 30 years ago with zero problems because I anti-seized all the external hardware. That watery Permatex is mostly decorative as it doesn't last many years. I've used it but it's not for the long haul (which is hard to simulate). I use Jet Lube copper but there are many equivalents. How about an INDUSTRIAL/AEROSPACE anti-seize shootout? BTW throw in Milk of Magnesia for hot work which was famously specified on aircraft engine hot sections. Some viewer might have an old GEK that wasn't shredded (if you fixed fighters for a living that had GE engines you know of the GEK) and could post a pic. IIRC Airbus had it in their tech data too but I didn't work those. Briggs and Stratton quit making their lead anti-seize but others still sell similar to industry. It was a great valve guide/stem lube before the oxygen sensor era. "Briggs & Stratton Valve Guide Lubricant & Anti-Seize Compound 93963" is still easy to find. WEAR GLOVES and discard any contaminated rags etc.
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  3621. Voters elected the problem and I am greatly amused they imagined any different outcome.
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  3622. FirePROOF homes are not difficult to build but most buyers childishly crave conformity. Reinforced concrete homes prove this by shrugging off fires. So do steel structures but airheads don't like those either. Wanting a traditional (flammable) house is childish and stupid but so are most people. Build one you don't NEED to ensure and save on insurance for life.
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  3623. It could but there are so many better targets it would be silly to waste drones which could more productively take out "force loss multiplier" targets and troops. Hit oil storage and all the vehicles depending on it are affected. Hit some tank sitting in a boneyard and that may never have a meaningful effect on the war. Drones are not like conventional aerial bombing raids. Drone payloads are so small they best suit high value more flammable targets. Stored tanks have no ammo to ignite and their fuel was likely drained before storage (or to sell on the black market or just use in other vehicles). While tanks are exciting to spectators taking out POL immobilizes or severely restricts all vehicles which use it. It's better to destroy fuel trucks than tanks for example because one truck fuels multiple tanks and to get fuel trucks to and from the front requires multiple fuel trucks. POL storage, running locomotives (moving trains do much more damage if hit and derailed), ammo dumps etc are always better targets than trying to set off what's basically a salvage yard. Tanks that don't burn out or explode would remain easy to patch and even easier when they're sitting right next to spare parts donors. Alternately if one is damaged it can be stripped for usable parts (which teardown is necessary for full refurb in the first place) then set aside. Cutting and welding steel on small weldments like tanks (a bridge or a ship is a large weldment, tanks are baby weldments!) is easy enough to do in the field with basic equipment. Large portable engine driven welders are simple, mobile and inexpensive by industrial or military standards. Cutting torches are cheap and oxy-actylene equipment has changed little as it was perfected in the 1930s/40s (I overhaul and collect classic OA gear large and small to use which is useful fun). BTW tank "workshops" (large steel and concrete structures require heavier payloads unless they've flammable or explosive contents) aren't great targets either because Russian tank repair and refurb is not exotic work. Vehicle repair units can set up shop most anywhere including simple bare warehouse space. Commercial equipment can R&I turrets or other heavy loads. Key parts/ordnance manufacturing bottlenecks like munitions factories and specific electronics makers would be much more lucrative and softer targets.
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  3624. As if that tiny amount of radiation mattered. Tech illiteracy is a disease not a virtue.
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  3625. I leave the tie rods connected if not replacing then and support the spindle on whatever is handy like an upside-down bucket or wooden blocks since they swing forward and out of the way. On a lift a motorcycle tiedown holds them nicely.
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  3626. New York voters elected him therefore they appprove of him therefore they deserve him. BTW if states allow RECIPROCAL traffic laws by custom the Georgia tags mean GA rules apply.
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  3627. The only tragedy at Kent State was poor marksmanship.
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  3628. Because they lost. That makes it wise to leave rather than face reprisals. "Syria" is a lines on a map by occupying powers, not really a natural nation but a colonial artifact.
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  3629. Installing it in low income housing will surely end well. The system is inherently labor-intensive. BTW if the maintenance tech wants a "corkscrew" that bends one could be made in various ways like torch brazing impact (no chrome) 1/2" universal joints and extensions to let it conform to pipe. For long straight sections the flex extension could be guided by PVC tube the way flexible borescope extensions are guided into jet engines.
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  3630. It's early yet so no reason for anyone to be bothered. The modern expectation of quick results by the tech-illiterate majority who should not have opinions is silly. When it's eventually viable it will sell. Not before then.
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  3631. While all awareness of local working conditions is a good thing other videos show more useful details of the processes and the social effects of the local management practices. From when Vice used to be good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU0DXdAhdsA Megaprojects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMiliw3ImM0&t=476s Scrapping is often the sole source of steel supply so the industry is desperately important to the local and national economies of these countries.
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  3632. The US inspects and tests stored munitions. We don't just leave them outdoors Soviet style. Everything the US uses must be globally deployable and is designed accordingly because failure is expensive.
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  3633. USSR did that fairly often in their A-stan boondoggle but also buried many bodies onsite. In Russian tradition the soldier is considered worthless. What is the sum of many zeroes?
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  3634. Because that is an assertion of legal fact a citation should be supplied.
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  3635. The Chinese model of transition to capitalism was effective because the government remained intact to control the country. One cannot simply throw people into an alien system without economic controls, and because democracy is a EUROPEAN invention (Russia is fundamentally Asiatic) it doesn't work everywhere. Democracy is too weak for unsophisticated peoples to manage. They need benevolent dictators and those need to not invade their neighbors. No one cares what Russians do inside Russia, but the former Warsaw Pact and other victims of Russian history quite reasonably want it contained. Putin could have been a hero with his dreams of empire.
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  3636.  @fakecubed  People who do not maintain aircraft should not have opinions on the subject. Maintainers can be trained effectively in several months as I was in three specialties. Aircraft maintenance is tedious but that is NOT the same as difficult. I found it satisfying fun.
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  3637. If you do your own do NOT make the mistake of using a worn out container (the "WWT" -Wind and Water Tight grade is a fancy way of saying "condemned for maritime use). They're fine for storing hay etc but normally have corrosion issues (Corten does corrode), damage, worn out end door gaskets etc and need so much additional work it's not economic vs. buying a "one trip" grade container which is essentially new. The most useful size are the 40' or longer "High Cube" containers because the extra interior height is so useful and far less claustrophobic. For example my shop containers have sufficient room for me to fab heavy duty shelving (hung from the interior tiedown loops, which are easy to torch bend from round bar if you need more) higher than my head (I'm 6'2"). The container used in the video is of course not a one-trip. The users to copy are industrial and military, not hobbyists except for some of their creative layout. If you want to try your hand at a container house I strongly advise building a workshop from one first for the experience and because any serious DIYer needs a workshop. You can then live in the shop while outfitting the residential structure. Containers are fine but do NOT be one of the silly, giddy people who fail to study and methodically analyze how to best execute the project. They're basically a single-wide mobile home shell (though you can easily join them side-by-side by welding the corner fittings which I did for my welding/machine shop). I had my power pole placed first with an outdoor service panel and outlets so I had immediate site power.
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  3638. No problem! I don't buy un-repairable vehicles. I do buy broken ones and sort them out cheap. Back when men were men and the sheep were nervous owners were rightly expected to handle their business. (The tool kits included with many autos were intended to be used.) Learn to wrench or suffer. Choose one unless you're wealthy. "Buy American" is mostly a sucker play so reasons to care are long gone. BTW many foreign companies manufacture in the US but that's nothing to care about either so I don't.
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  3639. And no one is surprised. The cure is not living there since the city has been corrupt long before Capone.
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  3640. Removing a FREELY ELECTED legislator who the people of Dolton chose is a major deal. If intervening government did so early there would have been riots.
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  3641. Humanitarian duty does not extend to foreigners. Not my people, not my problem, not my duty to give them what is mine.
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  3642. You have clearly never dealt with human garbage tenants. They are why I never advertised in public and rented by word of mouth to other military etc.
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  3643. The IRA got (most of) their country back in the end. Theirs is the only effective method. Indigenous Britons have been groomed to hate their own culture by Leftist subversion. Your votes do not matter to your masters because they do not fear you. They will never respect anything but force.
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  3644. People too emotionally weak to coldly treat handheld computers as tools SHOULD use whatever works for them to master themselves. Even most intelligent people are of narrow competence and most never were nor will be techies. Their addiction to trifles is mentally deadly leading to "oversocialization" and other psych problems. Ignorance is a problem because the ignorant confuse "quantity of infotainment" meant to hold the attention of the less intelligent with access to vital information. If you have no PRACTICAL use for a thing you don't need that thing. The internet puts the libraries of history at our fingertips but most users just defecate trifling idiotic despicable mind-numbing garbage into their own minds because they never learnt HOW to usefully process information. I don't need to discard my phone because it is strictly a tool for navigation, (functional) communication and (functionally useful) information like weather conditions and finding restaurants on the road.. I don't crave the social aspect because I don't value silly things. Become the kind of person who regards popular culture with proper contempt and free yourself from that waterfall of garbage. "News" not directed at professionals is mostly trash to be ignored. I don't need different equipment to limit my access to trash because I'm insulted that trash is proffered to me. Free your mind, despise trifles, and if you want entertainment make it truly educational. A day you learn nothing is a day wasted. BTW I do not game or even watch much fiction. The real world is vastly more interesting and useful to learn about, not what some thot wore to the Grammys.
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  3645. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUp1ySO94lw Her town lawyer doesn't want to go down with that ship.
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  3646. That poor lab worker should have left long ago for a professional department in a good town instead of a city which was never a good place to live by national standards. It is irresponsible to raise a child in such a low education area even if you don't care about yourself. Louisiana is 48th in education and when things have always been that bad they will not improve in one lifetime. That's not an insult but observation. A profoundly rustic society cannot choose to become different. That requires newcomers of superior culture and values but who in their right mind with a choice would live in NOLA? Police only "control" what the public permit them to control. They are not an occupation force and as we see in many countries even armed occupiers cannot maintain order against sufficient public will. Criminals are OF the public. Those who want a better life must leave. Life is not a Hollywood movie and good can not always triumph no matter how much we pretend otherwise. The only way to truly lower urban crime rates is gentrification but there is no reason for anyone with money to live in a dangerous area whose economy was never and will never be a compelling draw. I left the NY metro area long ago when it was dangerous (well over one thousand murders a year) and been safe and happy ever since. Remaining accomplishes nothing. Gentrification fixed NYC as nothing else ever could. Flight is right if you care about yourself and your loved ones, particularly in an area INEVITABLY destined to be repeatedly devastated by nature. Knowing the battles you cannot win is basic military strategy and should be a life strategy. Dying bravely is still dying. The US has millions of refugees who escaped toxic countries so if they can do that why remain in a doomed city whose best years were still bad by national standards? All the pride in the world won't fix it (see what the Bible says about pride).
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  3647. Israel dropped the ball over time when it should have been constantly stockpiling ordnance because wars are fought from stocks on hand. US military aid is painless to the taxpayers when it's composed of items already purchased (which BTW maintains the military industrial complex EVERY nation must have to defend its interests by waging modern war. Biden is too weak against Russia (I was alive when containing the Soviet Union was bipartisan and not a childish beyotchfight/spite contest) and does NOT need to yield to pro-Hamas protestors in the US either because they do not swing elections (though letting them move here in the first place is breathtakingly stupid for they do not promote Western secular democracy). China, Russia and Jihadists remain enemies of Western civilization and no amount of political acrobatics changes that. Enemy civilians should not be a concern in war, at all. Cultural war has no innocents because it's a demographic contest too and no amount of political correctness alters that reality. Choose one (1) side to care about because the conflict in Israel is between two groups who require their own ethnostate by nature. The solution is war until one side wipes out the other, and efforts to prevent that necessary outcome only prolong the conflict.
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  3648. It's about JOBS therefore money. As technology destroys jobs without replacement universal basic income will be required to buy political peace because jobs in many cases will never be replaced at those locations. A sensible government would offer RELOCATION and HOUSING to get people out of doomed areas which would never have had jobs without mining.
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  3649. Two words: 73 Easting. BMP is an APC with a cannon. That had predictable results in Grozny and elsewhere.
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  3650. Two words "Black September". Look it up.
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  3651. The names of suspects should be public. If the street takes them out nothing of value is lost.
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  3652. The moral here is if you're a secular client of Russia the US hates you, but if you're jihadist there's room to do business.
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  3653. Germany changed. I quite enjoyed my two years there in the 1980s with the USAF but that era was still one of simple mechanical elegance even with cheap cars. Contemplate the single cam liquid cooled VW four whose block could be a diesel, carbed gasser or Bosch mechanical injection gasser. They were simple, RUGGED and very easy to wrench. That was revolution. Today German vehicles are merely elaborate, grotesquely overcomplicated WITHOUT REASON and absolutely horrible for mechanics. Automakers do not care at all about their vehicles after they're sold and it shows. That's also why so many mechanics are leaving the industry for places their increasingly varied skills are properly compensated.
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  3654.  @helenpauls1496  Only fools and mental defectives who have never been in a fight believe those work.
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  3655. Draining and removal would save taxpayers spending more money on repairs. It hasn't generated electric power since 1965! Previous flooding is the reason why. Potential collapse was why removal was considered in 1972. This danger does not need to exist.
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  3656. Confronting doesn't work. If you want someone gone use street methods. Talking has no impact on pedos because they're still breathing afterwards.
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  3657. Don't throw away all your old crappy plastic cans. I saw the tops off with a zip disk then use them as solvent-proof cleaning and storage tubs since they're tougher by far than common tubs which tend brittle.
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  3658. The kid was a Native American which adds to the hilarity.
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  3659. Humans thrive on discipline and decay without imposed disciple to reinforce self-discipline. I served with many former SAC maintainers who predicted a decline in quality after TAC devoured SAC. With them long retired along with aircrew is there anyone left who knows what right really looks like and has the throw weight to enforce it?
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  3660. Wokies want YOU to s1tcan YOUR beliefs, ALL of them then adopt theirs (and if some of them prey on your children they want you to laugh that off). Thank over a century of Russian subversion so old they are its ripple effects. I have no use for superstition but would take life under Islam over these destroyers of culture any day. Kudos to Muslims (who do not have to humor these vermin) for rejecting their Marxist tripe. (The US once helped Muslims fight Russia and they won. We should have learned from that not made more enemies by bad foreign policy choices.)
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  3661. They voted Democrat and deserve the consequences. They will do it again. There is zero reason NYC should remain a "sanctuary city" since an executive order bu Adams could rescind that.
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  3662. The choice is easy. Use force. Throw back the invaders without pity or they will finish overwhelming indigenous Europeans. (Why Europeans are the only indigenous peoples who don't matter is a question none dare ask.)
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  3663. Areas depending on agriculture fade due to efficient farming not needing laborers. Tobacco kills more Americans than crime, contagion and war so use reduction is a national good but a local economic problem. Agrarian areas that never invested in economic diversity don't attract knowledge industries the way the RTP area does. BTW many of the old structures you see looked the same decades ago. The rural areas really did peak around 1960.
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  3664. Limiting hardware does not instill self-discipline and all hardware can be hacked, especially electronics. Moderns seem terrified to punish problem behaviors, as if yobs deserved to be treated as good citizens.
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  3665. The only thing that can ever make wrenching pay decently for time spent is a mechanic shortage. Not my problem since I've done my own work except machining since the 1970s (saving absurd money!). I was wisely warned by a very good foreign car mechanic to avoid the industry as a career (a job now and then for toy money is different) so I went into aviation instead. I'd rather work on aircraft any day than recent cars.
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  3666. None. That's not how the controls are designed. The major risk is the idiot crew and their poor choices.
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  3667. The Democratic party is a de-facto enemy of Israel, delusionals excepted.
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  3668. Cities existed before Uber. This may be incredibly difficult to imagine. Not every low wage job needs to exist unless the goal is to emulate Pakistan. Uber is not a victim, it's protecting its profit model by protest which is not the same thing.
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  3669.  @paulmiranda7612  However when prices rise ALL oil companies profit which is good news for stock holders.
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  3670. Carvana is not "done" because P.T. Barnum was right.
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  3671. Nazism has nothing to do with Zionism to which it was a social immune response. Consider learning what words mean instead of just ignorantly using those terms.
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  3672. "Kids"? Calling them that is part of the problem. Young professional criminals lighting each other up is just nature taking its course. So what if they're "young"? Is that supposed to mean something?
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  3673. What utter clickbait nonsense. Russia cannot be coerced into handing him over so his disposal is a local problem and project. Law fetishists forget force trumps law which itself requires force to function.
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  3674.  @AnthonyManzio  Romance novels are a genre for airheads so her mentioning that was revealing.
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  3675. The MANY very wealthy Americans can afford them so why not? If you cannot afford to live in the city, do not live there. I don't. The US is huge. Fools cling when they should be mobile.
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  3676. In the USAF the best maintainers tend to be on swing shift to get shit done. Politics and being a pretty boy is for days. Servicing and backing up swings is for Mid shift. The swing shifters don't always look pretty but Ops are well aware aircrew would be walking to work without them. Expecting combat mechanics to look good is at best mildly retarded.
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  3677.  @tcmtech7515  That's why my Millers are old transformer machines that cost less than a new circuit board for anything else. I scored a 340AB/P for $250 because the seller thought it was three phase only. Over 500A out means I'll never max it and the arc is sweet. It's the size of a fridge and weighs ~1200lbs but well worth it. The 330AB/Ps and the rebadged Miller Airco versions kick ass too.
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  3678.  @xisotopex He is a problem not a solution because he is an ultra-nationalist NOT a social reformer. Ukraine can never be secure if he stops the war in time to save Russia because he or other Russians will do what Russians inevitably do throughout history and respawn their forces then attack Europe again. He needs to die along with every other Russian more effective than Putin. There can never be too many dead Russians because the moment Russia recovers it will return to waging war on civilization. Russia hasn't lost enough men to matter. A couple hundred thousand is less than some WWII battles. Gullible Westerners though Putin would be tame. No Russian can be and survive at the top.
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  3679. No excuse. That business should be fined out of existance. Storm sewers are NOT designed to process concentrated septic waste so watch out, take photos of the people trying to poison your aquifer and make them famous! License plates can be stolen so take pics of them AND the whole truck with the business name and DOT number. Dumping may carry a variety of charges so get all the facts you can record. The dumper is deliberately dumping toxic hazardous waste UNTREATED into the sewer and can also easily clog it. Then your tax dollars pay for the cleanup.
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  3680. Whitaker wasn't smart enough to manage wealth at that level which requires either coming from proximity to the upper class or the education (need not be formal, see con artists for examples) to understand how to switch lives. That includes abandoning your old life and relocating where leeches aren't a problem and where you will not stand out. If you come from a simple background it may not be worth it because you will be lost. For example when claiming the prize there are ways to put it into effectively anonymous low-visibility investments, and if you must show up in person I'd be rocking a temporary makeover, drive a rental and wear a COVID mask.
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  3681. Flooding Canada with more people has consequences. Selling to major investors has consequences. Nothing will change because the problems are too deep to solve by rule of law when the ruling class owns the government.
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  3682. Much ado about nothing. Russia can simply revert to Stalinism if the Kremlin so directs because it has nuclear weapons, and Muscovites will happily send Chechens to dispose of minor local problems (safer than actual risk in Ukraine). Russian culture itself is the problem and that does not change at heart. It remains an Asiatic enemy to civilization in which it never participated except as a spectator seeking technology without cultural change.
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  3683. 4chan is mostly good for getting normies to froth and getting views for them when they do, like the 100K plus views for this video. Free speech has (trivial in comparison to the benefits) some cost. Moon is benefiting from 4chan and knew it when posting this video! That' hypocrisy.
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  3684. The REAL Linux community (coders, admins, i.e. professionals who use it to make tools for business) or the NEETs wasting time on Youtube between distro debates and other trifles while pretending their T60 with Coreboot is somehow important in the grand scheme of things? Computers are complex and learning any new OS takes HUNDREDS OF HOURS including serious study. Normal users NEVER install an OS. Not Windows, not Linux or anything else. The serious Linux community (not a bunch of entertainers entertaining for views and never confuse the two) is busy getting work done and doesn't care what Linus does, thinks or anything else about him. He's a nice fellow and deserves to make money from his entertainment channel but it's really all just amusing wank. The soy face is to get views because the average moron reacts to it (thank algorithms for proving that) but the average moron doesn't need Linux and should stick to gaming on Windows. There is no desktop operating system for people who aren't serious about study because the immense choice range OS offer simply requires clueful users. Of course using meme distros (the main reason for distro fragmentation is DEs and esthetic issues) is not brilliant either. For some reason people hallucinate they need bleeding edge packages when LTS (like adults running stock exchanges, Googe, Youtube etc use) is more than sufficient. Bleeding edge distros are for testing. That is all. The influx of silly people into Linux is not good for Linux because USING IS NOT CONTRIBUTING. It's just use and accomplishes nothing else or different. People who aren't utterly hardcore techies don't need Linux and Linux has zero need for them. LOTD doesn't matter in the real world as serious users will be on the command line for the granular control that offers. The average user does not need Linux. The average user does not install OS. The average user happily uses an Android phone and a Windows PC and should stay there because nothing Linux could ever, ever do for THEIR use case matters. Zealots really hate that but autspergies and other obsessed mentally ill people desperately looking for a badge of agency are why zealotry (all kinds) exists. Disregard them. It won't hurt their feelings because they live in their own insular self-made online world of self-affirmation on 4chan. If you are not interested in Linux as a tool to become far more than a mere user, go away for your own and community good. What happens when clueless normal users infest a community is everything gets dumbed down to the detriment of users who want a professional grade tool. To use a car analogy, Windows is something to drive, but Linux is a professional mechanic's workshop. (I'm also a mechanic.) The average driver doesn't need and cannot use what's in their mechanics shop and should stay the hell out for their and everyone else's happiness!
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  3685. This is just China being China, with the bonus of its opponents trade paying for its entire armed forces. The US trade imbalance alone is more than Beijing spends on its armed forces. If we want peace that requires credible conventional and nuclear deterrents. Thoughts and prayers work no better on Beijing than they did on Imperial Japan.
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  3686. Her Democrat voters deserved her and demonstrated their intelligence level. This was hilariously well-deserved as no one with a lick of sense would live in that community. Henyard has been great for views and IMO your views are a much more legitimate benefit from her administration than her silly town deserved. They will still VOTE DEMOCRAT and I will still ROFLPIMP at the hilarious outcome. Her pet pigs should be fired too. These people are exactly what I'd expect them to be. No one should be surprised.
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  3687. For legal resale unless proven different. It's a common retirement investment and a good one. Has a single one of those items harmed a soul? Why does OWNING THINGS arouse suspicion? BTW why would 1200 weapons be worth "millions" and WHY ARE NEWSIES SO CLUELESS?
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  3688. A passive public ensures misrule. Inaction is a choice by indigenous Britons to destroy their birthright rather than simply reject their enemies.
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  3689. Anything that damages Nike is fine with me. They're just overpriced consumer goods for simple people who identify with branding.
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  3690. Airheads do not attract high value people. They annoy them. She's decent looking for her age (remember most Americans are obeasts so the bar is not high) from what we can see which isn't much, but an annoying personality drives off all but the desperate. When a product doesn't sell on the open market, lower the asking price until it does because market determines worth.
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  3691. Find a relevant law it breaks.
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  3692. If you are smart, capable and intelligent finding a matching woman is extremely unlikely late in life. My late wife could wrench with most guys, was a helicopter/car/motorcycle mechanic and the one of the most capable autodidacts I ever met (we met in the Air Force fixing fighters). Older women like that are unicorns and thanks to menopause etc are mostly crazy as the proverbial chithouse rat. I'm not even looking and being 65 I'll be dead in a decade or wishing I was so no big deal. Later life is most comfortably spent without new entanglements (and the survivor having to bury the lucky one). I'm at peace and having fun.
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  3693. https://stpetecatalyst.com/vintage-st-pete-the-blackthorn-tragedy/ A letter of admonition for losing your ship and near half your crew is mighty light. "Different spanks for different ranks" as the ancient saying goes. The NTSB report: https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-recs/recletters/M80_64_85.pdf is not a good look.
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  3694. Canadians have no hope for change since they sold out their own country to foreign invaders for zero return. They chose their fate at the ballot box.
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  3695. What an impressive example of corporate suicide by sustained leadership incompetence! Humans made those choices and at their level retired wealthy no matter how badly they screwed up, but apparently there was no blowback. Their engineers were not afraid to innovate but their leadership were clearly cowardly, incompetent and out of touch.
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  3696. There is no hope of positive change without imposing credible fear on enemy personnel, and that takes people with nothing left to lose. When a business model produces customers with nothing left to lose one or two of millions resisting by targeting enemy leadership should be expected.
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  3697.  @_Just_V_  Christians ended slavery long before anyone else who practiced it.
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  3698. They've already been captured by ISIS in Iraq. The problem is not enemies knowing designs but lacking the vast, vast military industrial social corporate complex to produce them. Russia cannot produce modern roller bearings for civilian railcars let alone modern integrated circuits. The industrial leads in integrated circuit production must be maintained but for example the most modern lithography systems are European and their export controlled.
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  3699. Obesity is only a choice for humans strong enough to make difficult choices. Most are not nor were they ever nor will they ever be because intelligence is purely a matter of luck not choice.
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  3700. There is zero risk of everyone being intelligent because high intelligence is neuro-divergent. It's not a conspiracy, humans are mostly lazy because they're fools. Those who are not SHOULD monetize those too slack to do what they should.
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  3701. Use of burstable containers was the key flaw as they jammed the works. Using unrestrained cardboard was lax and stupid. The boxes should have been contained in metal bins that were positively controlled and COULD NOT JAM. Reliance on "someone else's" packing job of inherently variable quality was a poor idea. Lack of the guidance shroud was foolish too along with the rest of the undisciplined clown show....
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  3702. Most humans are not intelligent (intelligence is not a choice, they cannot help it so this is observation not insult) so even honest folk are frequently incompetent. You are wise but this makes trusting (which is "naive" spelt differently) people uncomfortable. Advertising, ALL of it, exists to separate you from your money. If I do not initiate an online interaction I block it. I block voice calls as a matter of course since all comms should be by text not voice, which permits earchiving and easy research. I'm not an introvert, but I view humanity with the calm contempt nearly all of it deserves. Trust no one. I have never been scammed and am so thorough in dealings I've only had to use my cc's chargeback option twice in my life.
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  3703. The GM upfitters manual specifies butt joints as factory best practices. but of course with L-style and sometimes inverted channel reinforcements which are even stronger than flat fishplates. C-channels are of course the way to reinforce a finished joint. Chassis Best Practices 2018: https://www.gmupfitter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2018_Chassis_BstPrac_093017.pdf A weld properly done should be stronger than parent metal and MANY successful frame mods are done with butt welds. My pipeliner welding instructor (who could weld the proverbial cats ass to a plate glass window if they made filler rod for cat, maybe cutoff tails would work) did many that way on his ranch while taking a break from the road. 70 or 80 series stick rod or ER70 wire got it done over many decades.
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  3704. Adams could rescind sanctuary city status with a single executive order to nullify the Ed Koch order. Why do you think that is not happening?
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  3705. Russia can expend far more cannon fodder in its usual tradition and with most losses being troops the Kremlin are glad to lose (convicts, gullible separatists, impoverished Buryats who so far have been easy to deceive) this war can go until the Russian economy implodes (familiar to those of us who lived through the first part of the Cold War). Unlike nations who value their people Russians are apathetic cattle thanks to centuries of predatory rule. A few may grumble but the old fix of the firing squad solved that in more than one way. Even if Russians revolt there is no secular democratic tradition anywhere in Russian history so as usual evil will replace evil. The West and UN will be forced to cut a deal with whatever mobsters win the internal squabble (as usual). Putin will be replaced by another nationalist, perhaps a competent one. May Vlad last long enough to collapse his own armed forces.
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  3706. I saw this obvious future back in the 1970s, quit my free ride to engineering school, then chose only jobs then a career which were and remain very difficult or impractical to outsource. Unless you were coding in utero there is no point wanting an office job which cost too much to get, too much to maintain, and too much to live near. I retired, not rich but quite comfortably, in my forties because I chose my life after long study of bad times from the Great Depression onward. I learnt how people adapted then did so beforehand. I have never lacked employment and turned down job offers in retirement. I did a few years college in retirement for fun but everything I studied was both useful to me and marketable. Never have a useless interest, make all interests complementary, then disappear into a niche which is necessary but has little competition. I ignored what was "promoted" in school because as usual that was always marketing bullshit. Social media is for morons (most people) so ignore it. Copy success, be versatile (I've done many jobs but all were complementary. If I took boomer advice I'd have been wiped out with the auto industry. If I took later gen advice I'd have been crushed in crashes and recessions. I don't take advice, I seek knowledge. I've done warehouse work, industrial maintenance, auto mechanics (great for personal independence even if you don't do it as a job), aircraft mechanics and more. I do nothing for clout as I dislike the sort of person clout engages. The more options you give yourself the better.
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  3707. These 304 "mothers" approve of their offspring maintaining family tradition. Well now he's rehabilitated.
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  3708. That's why I only buy established makes. Let the chumps be beta testers.
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  3709. As a career Phantom/Bronco and F-16 maintainer (avionics on the first two, engine and crew dog on Vipers) the US training process has always been slow due to peacetime conditions and the other education and training desired by the USAF. It could be GREATLY accelerated by skipping anything that's not pure training and practice. Ukraine can remain in constant touch (Zoom beats the ancient pre-PC era when maintenance was managed by Unix servers with green screen terminals at unit level) with all levels of tech expertise and Vipers are really very easy to work on compared to older machines they replaced. Ukraine maintainers used to MiGs will have orgasms at how much less work is required for example on engines and flight controls.
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  3710.  @alamp7640  How many years have you got fixing Vipers or other combat aircraft? Troubleshooting on F-16s is generally fast and easy thanks to advances made over previous airframes like the Phantoms I worked before. Any Viper that can fly is wildly unlikely to be flown off for "troubleshooting" because all of it can be done on the flightline and direct access to anyone including factory tech reps is an email exchange or Zoom conference away. It's easy to train noobs to work on (I trained many and of course was one for two AFSCs).
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  3711.  @Qwerty-jy9mj  Zoomer time concepts are hilarious. Since when is a few years "forever"? Maybe in Hollywood time...
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  3712.  @gravyd316  Math is for Specialist Flight (and for Weapons Load, because bomb dump are fussy about numbers for some reason).
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  3713. GOOD. Russia is a permanent existential enemy of European civilization and the more demographic damage done today the longer it will take for the inevitable NEXT war against European civilization.
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  3714. Make it cheap because financial coercion conquers all. The masses can only be engaged on their terms. They do not care what their moral superiors want. They do care about affordable food. Economics are implacable. If you want to "re-form" someone use their wallet and they'll be grateful you saved them money.
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  3715. Affordable durable workout clothing is a solved problem. Military issue workout clothing is comfy and lasts many years. Many remarkably useful things can be had brand new at low prices thanks to economies of scale.
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  3716.  @no_name4796  It's easy. Just install it yourself. That hasn't been difficult in over a decade.
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  3717. Why wait and be under pressure? That's no way to get good. Install it in a virtual machine to find a distro you prefer, or boot from external media which also lets you back up your Windows files. I use a variety of OS and the more you learn the easier it gets.
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  3718. SC fails to cut down fuel and so do SC homeowners. Trees are decorations that burn. I prefer my home intact and tolerate zero nearby trees or shrubs.
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  3719. Needs a rebrand. Call it something else and remarket.
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  3720. Silly acid casualty doesn't know the correct meaning of "false flag" in English. Why anyone cares what a non-expert thinks of anything outside his own specialty is a mystery but most humans are rather stupid. Presumption of Israeli competence needs to end, like presumption of US military competence after multiple failures in constabulary operations. The image of the IDF is very much a product of people with PERSONAL interest in promoting it. OTOH we see what disastrous reliance on sensors instead of HUMAN border pickets properly equipped for their task got them. It will be interesting to see if any military careers suffer for that military leadership failure.
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  3721. BTW every complex system operates in degraded condition. (System theory is fun!) The US military has trained for and practiced adapting to that for a very long time and made it a tradition.
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  3722. Doing so would be monumentally stupid because Americans are culturally unsuited to anything more than simple nation-state wars. Nothing was learnt from Southeast Asia,, Iraq or Afghanistan largely because our public are fiercely ignorant except when it comes to technology, and only the relatively few techies not the drooling masses EVER understood tech. CONTAINMENT is what broke the USSR. What happens INSIDE Iran is their collective adult choice.
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  3723. Containerized TEL are cheap enough they don't need to be magnificent, just plentiful. The US is fond of fielding small numbers of highly effective systems, but those systems cannot be in two places at once. Chinese ships can dispatch from Chinese ports and not enter foreign ports at all if the missiles are to be used. Chinese ships do not need to hide their missiles to be a threat, and NOT hiding them makes a credible deterrent! Chinese ships do not need to be "Q" ships though the idea excites normies. They need only be disposable missile platforms good for one launch at the beginning of conflict. The "Q" nonsense is a media distraction. As both TEL and missiles are developed the angle of launch will cease to matter. Power is easily provided by containers fitted with gensets. Fuel is easily provided by flat rack tank containers and common hose and fittings. Power and plumbing quick disconnects are long solved problems. Second-layer containers could be fitted with passageways, power raceways, piping and gasketed connections between containers like the diaphraghms between railway passenger cars but with positive mechanical connections (ideally flanged QDs but bolts work fine).. They do NOT need to remain at sea at all times which would be a maintenance nightmare. Damage control doesn't matter because no one is more expendable to Beijing than its own troops. As with Russia there is a tradition of blithely expending manpower (see Mao's comments on nuclear war and take my word for nothing). Sinkings have little domestic visibility and even less in the bloodbath of an invasion. Crew survival doesn't matter because people lost at sea can be written off as heroes. The ships could be expended during an initial launch at Taiwan and supporting targets. They are easily replaceable over time.
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  3724. Blue state governments cannot be trusted and AZ is saving NY many thousands of dollars for which it should be grateful. Blue state governments are simply unworthy of respect.
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  3725. Stupid move but Austin is not particularly valuable nor is any other SecDef who are just temporary bureaucrats. Most G.I.s don't even care who fills that seat because our careers last far longer than some talking head. The uniformed services are designed to function even if decapitated and it's a common G.I. joke that Americans do better without leadership. It's the civilians who choose all the stupid constabulary actions, not the generals. It's the civilians who mismanage them. We'd have fewer wars with LESS civilian meddling.
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  3726. She is as fine a mayor as the great Tiffany Henyard or the beacon of probity Lori Lightfoot.
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  3727. Wake was understood to be doomed by War Plan Orange (which won WWII in the Pacific) which is what promptly happened. It's a picket, not a defensible long term outpost.
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  3728. The voters got what they (truly) voted for because democracy ensures that unerringly. I find it hilarious because I'm too smart to live there. The USA is enormous with ample inexpensive land so the folks crying about high rents/mortgages should remember they volunteered by their adult choice of location.
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  3729. Of course Bubba spread hogs everywhere because they don't care about the land and do care about money. Killing them is fine but lose the bounty and do not require a hunting license. The idea hunters should not be killing hogs is obvious treehugger drivel. Encourage their killing and trapping by all means. Farmers who want them gone often invite hunters.
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  3730. About time. The Left seized the US academic system in the 1960s but most people ignored it. (The real tragedy at Kent State was poor marksmanship.)
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  3731. Outstanding video! It should be remembered the (aftermarket) electronics industry offshore does not know what a quality ethos even IS, let alone having one. It's a race to the bottom. OTOH I still have a perfectly good Milwaukee M28 battery from 2011.
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  3732. ​ @darrylwikohika9068  Puerto Rico is free to demand secession and would not be missed. It's of no strategic value and negative economic value so of no functional use to the US. How do you manage not to know anything about the situation? You type like an illiterate. Educate yourself. Puerto Rico voted to ratify its 1952 Constitution (which it previously drafted) and the unique economic status as a Commonwealth brought more business than otherwise to PR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Puerto_Rico If it left the US no one else would miss it because it's poor and corrupt despite massive US investment. Please go there and promote that as it would save my tax dollars. Seizing it from Spain was a strategic necessity in ancient times but those are over. As citizens anyone desiring to remain such could do so and live there like other expats under a foreign government so no one would be worse off.
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  3733. Why would lesbians (feminists are not CISHET) fear fewer males in colleges? They don't need men as they have each other. BTW not all college is bad or involves ANY debt! Trades education is useful for life and saves more than it costs even if you don't use it on the job. Wrenching and renovating and maintaining nearly everything I own let me retire young (47) and debt-free. OTOH never compete with the crowd because you are ONLY economically worth what people will pay you to do in the marketplace.
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  3734. The kid was intelligent but any serious student of Russian history knows the dissidents are always a doomed minority. Hope is childish and like all childish things unworthy of a thinking adult. Russia has exiled, jailed and murdered its intelligentsia since Tsarist times and there are ZERO powerful stakeholders or movements supportive of modern secular democracy. Controlled opposition ensures there never will be. There is no need to believe in fiction. Only containment and implosion as applied successfully to the former Soviet Union can limit the damage Russia does to civilization to which it has never been a party in general.
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  3735. The only immigrants the US needs are SKILLED and instantly employable in areas with JOB SHORTAGES. Importing poor people of any background is insane. We already have too many useless eaters. Voting Democrat is social suicide.
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  3736. Educated parents are a tiny minority in the US but they can choose to save their children's brains by guiding them elsewhere.
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  3737. I retired debt free in my forties because I consider unproductive mortgage debt foolish. I don't live in cities because that's just prison with extra steps. Instead I always planned for a rural or semi-rural home in a low or no growth area because growth is bad for existing homeowners unless/until they planned to sell in a high market AND managed to do that. I do not want my home to increase in value because I did not buy for resale. I do want acreage and privacy which no city offers. Most people are lemmings but I've no desire to copy the herds mistakes (like ARMs which bit back hard in the 2008 recession). In a city I'd have to sell my home then find another so any profit is promptly lost.
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  3738.  @Clay-y6y  CFC did not scrap even a million vehicles. The total (677,081) is public record so how did you fact check your numbers before posting?
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  3739.  @thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259  CFC cars were disabled at the dealer (who was getting the rebate for the sale) so when they hit auction they were non-viable. SALVAGE yards bought CFC cars first then stripped those worth skinning out after which the usual custom is calling in a portable crushing service unless they own one. The crushed seized engines and portion of body with a VIN number were required to be scrapped. The rest was fair game (great for me and the shop I pulled parts for since I didn't have to pay for them).
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  3740.  @spankyham9607  Many salvage yards parted them out (I made out like bandit because my boss let me have all the free parts I could pull after we got the parts for our shop vehicles) but there was a deadline so yours actually did have theirs crushed or sent to one. Most salvage yards don't own crushers unless they're quite large. It's customary to call in a portable crusher outfit after cutting out the cats (normally done by roving crews who pay the owner cash) after a yard has over 100 hulls ready. That number clears many spaces while offering enough profit to be worthwhile.
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  3741. Never marry a weak person or you will have to think for two people.
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  3742.  @keysautorepair6038  There are plenty of Americans making much more. BTW I thank my (successful shop owner) auto mechanic friends for chasing me away from making that a career. Aircraft are much easier to work on than modern automotive abominations and fixing fighters for a living much more fun.
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  3743.  @MX-CO  How can you change what you do to your advantage?
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  3744. It would be useful to periodically mention how the intercepts are VERIFIED since most Youtube viewers won't dig that deep. Remember most of your audience are not studied on these subjects and a majority of Americans read therefore think at roughly an eighth grade level. While more may be familiar with geolocated photos like those Oryx uses the comms side of the house gets less attention.
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  3745. NYC voters chose this at the ballot box so they deserve it. They will do nothing, so they deserve it. They will vote Democrat again and again and again. If you choose to stay in NYC which is hopelessly doomed then victim blaming becomes valid. Smart people leave early for freer states.
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  3746. Entertainment expenses are PURELY DISCRETIONARY. Reading is extremely cheap or free. Cheap cell phones work fine as do used flagships as does buying a flagship then keeping it many years. No one needs a new fast PC unless they actually make money with it, while adequate PCs today are often dumpster bait or found at yard sales for next to nothing. No one needs more than the internet for entertainment and sufficient internet access can be cheap including hotspotting to avoid separate internet. Techies know we don't need to pay for content and there is zero excuse for anyone under 50 not being tech literate except utter sloth.
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  3747. Other taxes can do those things without being regressive. Sin taxes and income taxes are less regressive, especially income taxes since the rich control America it's fair they compensate the peasants (us) they rule.
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  3748. @Cerbirt Aircraft generators and hydraulic pumps have input shafts designed with similar shear points to protect the gear box driving them.
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  3749. He's still a Democrat and needs to lose. Democrats (ALL of them) deserve Kamala Harris and the whole toxic patronage system their party built to buy votes.
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  3750. ​ @patrickp8315  Please define what you imagine limits the hypothetical pie size.
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  3751. I just buy old Fords and old LS Chevrolets. I put my 2000 titled K1500 together from three wrecks in 2015 and it's been great. The early 5.3 and 6.0 are fantastic engines and the garbage 4L60E gearboxes are easy to upgrade when rebuilding or replacing them. (Good design, cheap execution with plastic accumulator pistons and weak clutches which the aftermarket solves nicely.)
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  3752.  @emilyfeagin2673  New cars are usually a foolish purchase and if I were given one free and clear I'd instantly sell it. I could buy a new vehicle today for cash but would (rightly because I'm a mechanic) feel idiotic wasting the money.
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  3753.  @ericHHII  They are conformists and old. They will come for nothing of the sort.
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  3754.  @michaelchristophergutierre7244  May we have a source for your claim that one of two live in poverty? Many fail to save but most people aren't intelligent and did that to themselves.
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  3755. After the Hailwood era tiny sixes nothing Honda builds surprises me.
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  3756. The Left Coast rich ruined the US so I feel nothing for them. They are the enemy.
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  3757. The problem is a DEMOCRAT problem. Purely a DEMOCRAT problem. Never forget that for a second. They will not relent. They are enemies of Western civilization best dealt with decisively by keeping them out of power be every (legal) means necessary.
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  3758. Russia is to blame for the entire Communist movement and its offspring. Russia is to blame for the Soviet Union. Russia is to blame for over a century of murder, subversion, war and oppression in eastern Europe and of course against various people within Russia. Russia is not culturally capable of positive change. Russia delenda est (and its simps too).
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  3759.  @Waterdiver3900  The Ukrainians make their informed choice not to be ruled by the same people who starved and murdered their parents, grandparents etc under Stalin. Your shill account reeks of bot.
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  3760. Service writer often pays well.
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  3761.  @ZaneTGP  True, and they end up bangin' then dyin' for the amusement of their betters.
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  3762. If everyone wanted to get into the trades that competition would depress wages. Labor scarcity is the main driver of compensation.
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  3763. Craftsman wasn't "great" quality, but it was at least decent. We don't need it any more as there are plenty of brands.
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  3764. Get rid of all these government safety and health agencies. Workers didn't ask for them because workers don't care. All these regulations come from above. We need a strong economy and risk is part of some jobs. Those who can't hang with the risk can go do tech jobs instead. If you can get a job it's because you do not want one.
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  3765. Fools deserve to be ripped off for enabling this grifter. Giddy MFers insisted on gambling by another name and burned themselves as they so richly (pun of course intended) deserved.
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  3766. Indeed, but because I bought wisely I don't even feel my tax bill. Taxes pay for infrastructure that makes my home(s) worth money and accessible so I don't mind a bit, but I planned my life so they would not be any burden nor have they ever.
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  3767.  @Elementalism  We had trails, not real roads in the modern sense. The Roman roads enabling civilization are in use to this day. In what magic society is society NOT cooperative and NOT a shared collective? Think hard.
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  3768.  @bazooka712  Before government roads dominated there were no cars. Roads were funded by local taxes or cut cooperatively or sometimes by slave labor if important to local agriculture, but all of them were collective projects so the reductionist assertions remain teentarded.
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  3769. Mains are not splash oiled, they're pressurized. Aircraft/motorcycles/race cars using dry sump oil systems do so because there is thus no need for a bulky sump as on ground vehicle engines.
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  3770. Crazy hot chick snaps and because she was hot it's somehow a great loss.
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  3771. @Norman Z Or so they assert...
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  3772. Apsung or Sapple = SSDD.
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  3773. As if they weren't always flaming Bolsheviks. Some people just refused to instantly get that was the real deal. I find it hilarious.
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  3774.  @gigilaco  it still does and the port is critical national infrastructure worth vastly more than all the historic sentimental drivel tourists fawn over.
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  3775. Please get someone militarily literate to caption Sun videos. I understand it's a tabloid not a professional journal but you can do better.
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  3776. Wishful thinking. KSA can shirnk, not to be confused with "collapse" and since its workforce are rarely Saudi it can simply deport them as it does now.
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  3777. The public ARE the thieves, robbers and criminals in general. Martians aren't landing to steal from these stores.
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  3778. The world is grossly overpopulated making that an ethical choice. Reproduction in an overpopulated world of base savages is silly.
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  3779. There is no hope for Russia because it's an Asiatic ontological enemy to civilization. The reason those dissenters are alive in the West is so they don't get murdered by the majority of savage gopniks. Note they want someone else to remove Putin instead of taking up arms like the Russian Legion fighting for Ukraine. That legion will only live if they stay in the West like the White Russian emigres after the Russian civil war. Russians lack the appetite for civil war but if the nukes can be removed that would be fine since no possible Russia can be other than enemy to civilization. The only solution is for the Russian Federation to implode and stakeholders to carve out their own republics, preferably bleeding each other to exhaustion. Like Jihadist factions snuffing each other nothing of value will be lost.
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  3780. ​ @crand20033  Depends on how you attack the problem. I avoid high COL areas and don't eat out much. My future free range chicken dinners are eating bugs in my back yard. NC has some comfortable areas for that sort of thing but they make for a long commute.
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  3781. There is no hope for peaceful change because there is far too much money at stake. They will continue to push until the public push back with sufficient force to get the point across.
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  3782. Whoever loses. Wars be like that. Ukraine will be finished off by (completing the ongoing) genocide if it loses. Russia will likely finish imploding if it loses. Russia is ontologically evil thanks to every cultural choice it's people ever made so civilization is better off without it and only demographic collapse can pave way for change. Positive change is impossible because Russia has always been run by the leadership equivalent of organized crime who invariably murdered and exiled Russian dissidents. Denuclearization and integration into the modern world will take many decades. Compare and contrast Russia and mainland China for the cultural reasons China succeeded while Russia is not just a military but social failure so toxic it's driven emigration for centuries.
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  3783. Not yet but it should be encouraged!
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  3784. Back when more of the public were veterans (WWII, Korea and Southeast Asia) it was perfectly acceptable to say "join the Air Force or Navy and don't be a bullet sponge" because so many veterans were in every segment of society.
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  3785. He is overdoing it but the money is taking over. People who reject censorship on principle are already on Bitchute etc. This channel has a lot of "fluff" and deliberate drama, but more power to CV for making a harmless dollar!
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  3786. Keep the pressure on! Take the fight to the enemy. Motorcycles are TOYS and no one needs to pay their hard earned cash to people who despise them.
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  3787. The other problem is terrible HID (Human Interface Design) which old scopes epitomize.
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  3788. If those opposed to the Taliban had fought with the same will, organization and strategy they would have won. They chose otherwise and the rest is history. Secular democracy only suits modern cultures which already have precursor social structures in place by the desire of the locals. There is no way to execute a fundamentally foolish mission wrong for a culture, so it failed. The lesson is that it CANNOT be done "right" and humans must be dealt with as they are. A punitive mission would have been understood, but naive NeoCon messianic "nation building" was doomed before it started. Talibs brought order in traditional ways, the government was corrupt and ignored the villages (just like in South Viet Nam, another place where a Maoist style strategy succeeded).
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  3789. So a couple days WWI losses. About right for a nation-state war.
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  3790. No one should be surprised. There is way too much money in play to expect integrity. City government needs constant outside watching or the mob will take back what it hasn't already.
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  3791. Russia never changes because it cannot because it cannot want to. Dissidents always lose to the majority. That leaves Ukraine with the choice to fight or be erased by the NeoSoviets, and that's no choice at all.
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  3792. Americans say they want professional policing but fail to follow through. True professionals thrive on discipline (USAF retired here). I had to warn my Airmen about DWB because many of them had never lived in the South and couldn't understand why they got pulled over. These young troops were mostly nerdy innocents. I'm not surprised this happened because America fails at the civic duty to demand and enforce professional policing. I'd rather deal with military police any day as they're better trained and supervised while being highly accountable.
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  3793. I've done that and more for decades. I'm a mechanic and have assembled several trucks for self and the lot where I worked from wrecks. It's not difficult if you pick a good RUST FREE vehicle. Early 2000s and prior trucks are nearly all practical to drive indefinitely including full rebuilds axle to axle if you do it yourself and it's quite common.
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  3794. Fuel prices are LEVEL across the board. When they rise a non-suicidal business passes on the increase to customers who of course cannot do business with some magical alternative company who doesn't buy fuel at current prices. When a company blames externalities its competitors survive and thrive under, the externalities are not the problem.
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  3795. The same methods which freed Ireland from the British Crown offer themselves for preservation of INDIGENOUS Irish human rights. The ballot box does not work against social conspiracies. There is another box for that.
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  3796. Prepping for those who seriously expect to do well is just living a robust lifestyle. If you cannot overhaul, maintain and repair nearly everything you need, you're not prepping just LARPing. If you don't have livestock or other food source you control, you're not prepping just LARPing. Everything one does to be more personally capable saves gobs of money so I get paid to have fun. (If self-reliance isn't fun you're doing it wrong.)
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  3797.  @efghggdxlmfn33  Your context sounds like a Russian shill. "Death pit"? "Masters"? No American speaks like that and your masters should send you to the front as your work just makes Russia look even more pathetic. Russian subversion of the US for over a century makes every genuine US Russophile a traitor so either you're a false-flagging shill or a Quisling.
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  3798.  @CyTolliver  The US is no longer competent to operate its own government. It's everyone for themselves legally or otherwise.
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  3799. I've used Lucas Transmission Fix on many vehicles and it gets a good bit more life out of most worn automatics. What it does not do of course is fix broken parts but slipping and slow shifting reflect wear not breakage in most cases.
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  3800. France ruined Haiti by impoverishing it via colonial debt. France should be helping out in a large way. The US has no business there beyond offshore logistics. No boots on ground because they cannot win. Victory for ANYONE relies on HAITIAN initiative, and the good Mr. Barbeque won't go quietly. However Haiti has always been a disaster because of Haitian adults making Haitian decisions. It will remain business as usual and only IF the Western Hemisphere acts with typical moral weakness will it be a problem. Haiti cannot be made better except by Haitians, and no one contends they are capable of that. Haitians did with freedom to control their own destiny what Liberians did with freedom to control their own destiny. The UN did not cause this. There were NEVER good governments to back. There never will be. The world has already adapted to permanent Haitian disaster.
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  3801. The idea was clearly inseine.
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  3802. Americans approve or they would stop voting for Democrats which is a deliberate act of malice and treason.
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  3803. Poor people should leave anyway because NY has always been expensive, but if they were smart they would not be poor. Poor people should not want to live in NYC because that never made sense, but poor people stay poor because they lack intelligence and resent making wise choices. Nobody should get a pass for bad life choices.
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  3804.  @TrollingwTyrone  Sounds like a good way to get ones family jewels as collar brass.
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  3805. Because feminists (other than these brave Iranians) already have their college educations and social advantage. The working class aren't worth their time and they certainly won't risk a physical confrontation with Islamists.
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  3806. New Yorkers will continue to elect Democrats. Therefore this is just a minor distraction. Adams will be replaced by another hack.
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  3807. Nothing "broke" Hollywood. Media is cyclic and the public never tire of childish amusements (the average American reads therefore thinks at ~8th grade level so the market are just large children).
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  3808. No, they just looked cool as befits their era.
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  3809. Multiport carbs are rare so they'd be as expensive to sort, but a five-port wide integral carb with a fuel log and single float bowl (easiest cast by making it removable like the "matchbox" Amal motorcycle carbs) would do the job nicely. There's no compelling case for inline fives either way but I respect "product differentiation" for marketing purposes so why not?
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  3810.  @basercea  The Russian threat is historic and real. You're either ignorant or a Russophile, but clearly not Northern European.
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  3811. Tired leadership have impaired cognition. At those expected performance levels where mistakes could cost billions, private jets are cheap by comparison.
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  3812. The US has done enough damage to Southeast Asia without adding our vile fast food. Good for the Vietnamese for rejecting diabetes and other consequences of US food. Now please open more Vietnamese restaurants in the US!
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  3813. In what air force have you served maintaining F-16s in which war? I enjoy hearing from experts.
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  3814. The personal solution to overdeveloped areas permanently subject to disastrous storms is not to live there. Even if you build a proper reinforced concrete home atop an elevated "turtle back" fill mound of railroad rock (great stuff that drains beautifully and doesn't crush, my workshops sit atop railroad rock and have welded very heavy duty I-beam foundations) to prevent flooding your insurance will rise due to other people's mistakes. The USA is enormous so no one "needs" to live in any particular location, let alone permanently irreversibly vulnerable locations certain to be hit again, and again, and again. High rent payments can buy a modest (McMansions are wants not needs) older ranch home far inland. Clinging to the familiar is often a financial mistake but your only problem is you and yours so make an informed adult choice and lead a planned, affordable life. Slower zebra become lion spoor so don't be one.
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  3815. NYC svcked since the 1970s. CITIES svck. People stay there because they're afraid to leave home despite their ancestors being immigrants.
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  3816. Buying a new vehicle before your land and home are paid off in full and your retirement is FULLY funded is financially silly, but someone else will always do it and keep used rides flowing.
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  3817. Territory has symbolic value but dead, wounded, demoralized routed Russians are key to bleeding out the enemy. Russia must be bled dry because that's the only way to defeat it. The more Russians who never leave Ukraine except in vultures bellies the better for civilization of which Russia has never been part but always tries to enslave.
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  3818. Ukraine demonstrates such conduct from Russia is not an aberration.
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  3819. No Administration told the truth or we'd not invade that country to get one man.
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  3820. Any such diagnosis will trigger many threatened high functioning Level 1s. I took interest in some of my "narrowly awesome but otherwise socially impaired" creative bros who do superbly at their crafts in ways normies do not generally manage. Being a non-"foamer" railroad buff I've met a few there too. Level 1 is emphatically NOT "crazy" on its own but it can have observable effects especially when someone so afflicted is easily triggered by things which do not trigger normies, become angry when questioned normally (especially about something outside the scope of their real abilities in regions where they presume competence but are obviously haven't a clue). Level 1s who are high functioning often have low self-awareness. Story time because this works better than dry dead terms: My bro is brilliant at a particular branch of military history with a superb grasp of detail such that he has a fair number of senior officers rightly taking him seriously on his key specialty. The challenge is he presumes the same (VERY) high competence elsewhere and has the following symptoms: Messianic religiosity in which he's the sole valid believer (a Christian sect of one, himself) and instantly freaks out when (calmly and with utmost diplomacy) queried about any logical or reasoned support (despite superior competence in his military field of specific interest). He unironically references inappropriate "humor" attempting to mimic humor but has zero idea how wit works. He has rather odd, messianic social ideas such that Putin appeals to him. When I asked why he preferred Putin (he is unable to study history in other than highly mechanistic ways without social insight) he said "Putin seems stoic and moral". He managed to be an expert on war yet immune to social/political understanding. The are plenty more like him. He's kind, generous, otherwise decent but in that respect the lay term "batshit crazy" is not an exaggeration. His type is startlingly common once you are alert for them. Putin's skill and will likewise enabled his high competence (mastering Soviet then post-Soviet structures) at which he is of course outstanding. Putin's failures likewise are due to his apparently compulsive narrow perspective. How does a former FSB agent trained to understand humans manage to reconcile the epic graft he had to know about with maintaining the very armed forces he relies on for his power and legacy? Ukraine demonstrates he wasn't even cunning and there is no 3D chess in play. I'll gently suggest to the offended they NOT take it personally BUT carefully learn about the subject (not presume anything based on their experience or ANYTHING personal which impairs perception of others) because if you're high functioning yet also aware you can use your advantages over normies to adapt to your reality. Many skilled and creative people have a bit of Aspie (self included!) but if you're able to self-guide through self-awareness your life can be quite rewarding. There's no need to become a normie but learning mimicry (after first learning why it's useful) can serve you well as it serves others. Observing Putin's choices over time is more instructive by far than observing his trained FSB simulated stoicism and (traditional, deliberate) Russian cultural preferences for facial expressions. I watched for many years and his actions fit a pattern of narrow high competence, blaming others he installed for decisions anyone capable of social insight would not have hired to run the armed forces, firing reformers, and generally behaving like my bros. (This is not tied to conventional "good" or "evil" which are subjective, but to functional performance. Putin demands unconditional affirmation which has obvious problems when dealing with humans of vastly greater subject matter expertise. (Putin fired Russian military reformers.) BTW those who don't get what I just wrote would be happier ignoring it so do that and toddle off happy and self-affirmed. The above is not intended for you and you'll be comfortable skipping it.
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  3821. Wise fast fooderies don't even have eat-in dining. It's safer for staff not to be in direct contact with crazies and robbers and costs less to operate.
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  3822. Russia doesn't need to add complexity for the sake of autism. Russia is POOR, and the Russian Federation could not carry the Soviet Union's jock strap (mainly because someone would have sold it off for hard currency). Rifles are so refined they are no longer a critical advantage or disadvantage so chasing diminishing returns can backfire for a nation with a lower GDP than California.
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  3823.  @RKreflex  They throve because they had different transportation, like highly polluting horses. The roads cars use today were first cut for wagons which are the same basic form factor even back to Roman times. Whatever transport is used, roads will remain necessary for logistics and emergency response.
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  3824. As in Russia organized crime is the real government and no democratic methods (because democracy is the freest therefore the weakest form of government) that can defeat either as they're part of both cultures. That's why my Italian ancestors escaped via emigration.
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  3825. There is OUTSIDE CITIES. I'm part of that middle class because I manned up and (this is not hard) just left. Refugees leave their countries but far too many Americans are frightened rabbits who won't even move to better areas of their own state. My property taxes on ~six acres are less than a grand a year. My mortgage was never as high as NYC apartment rent. I can only conclude people are too foolish to move in their own country. No one has to live in NYC, SF, LA etc so don't live there.
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  3826. Cities are bad for these and many other reasons. If you don't want to be taxed to death don't live in one. I fully retired at 47 because I plan ahead. That includes buying an inexpensive former small farm (ag zoning is glorious!) in an area with near zero pedestrian traffic and no dense housing. Most Americans buy overpriced, poorly built (see Cy Porters home inspection channel for the many ways builders rip off customers) homes they frequently cannot pay off. Wiser people keep it small and own it all so we can retire debt free without being rich.
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  3827. What a remarkably slow war. Without air dominance neither side can advance quickly. (Air superiority is not necessarily dominance.)
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  3828. Obviously visiting Amish. When I hear those horses hooves I know they rollin'
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  3829. Not while their treason is tolerated.
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  3830. Ukrainian Sea Baby drones show that mission can be done discreetly and remotely operated, though personnel are cheaper than electronics.
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  3831. It does to veterans! Chickenhawk neverserveds just don't get it. The thin green line is even stronger than the thin blue line and you have to be an absolutely epic shitbag to turn your own unit against you.
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  3832.  @bobsmoth-iv3sp  The US was fine for centuries and 2A is one reason why. The real problem is represented by its violent crime rate in proportion to population.
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  3833.  @emilnarud5955  Given the invasions and mass murder of Poles by Russians it's easy to see for anyone but a vatnik shill why they dislike Russia.
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  3834. I gave my ramps and jack stands away many years ago. I wrench all the time and have no use for them because I use wooden cribbing (see first responder cribbing videos etc) and scrap aluminum rims where useful (trucks etc). Horizontal rims work even on dirt (thousands of salvage yard vehicles are supported on old rims) and with some simple cribbing can support much more than most street vehicles weigh. I can afford to buy or fab any ramps I care to but they offer me no advantages over cribbing which is much safer and doesn't risk low bumper covers striking a ramp or dragging when backed off.
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  3835. Russian losses may often be useful to the Kremlin. Motorola and Givi are examples of potentially inconvenient stakeholders who died before posing problems. LNR/DNR are disgruntled alive but have no place to go so they can be expended in combat for a positive net result. Russia needs the territory. It does not need the people. Likewise ethnic minorities are potential problems in a century of Muscovite demographic decline so the more who don't return from combat the better for Putin's support base. Expending old equipment long-paid for is painless to Moscow. The money (mostly) isn't coming from oligarch pockets. Westerners should remember Stalinist methods work passably in context with an overall agenda alien to foreign spectators. Men and objects are mere numbers. Meanwhile resources can go towards the military and state organs necessary to maintaining power and discipline.
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  3836. I like how (most) Americans (why would anyone be proud to be a Valley Girl which always stood for a consumerist airhead?) have no idea of Russo-Chechen history. If someone invaded Cali and did to you and yours what Russian forces did to Chechens even you might fight back.
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  3837. Bottom line is if a dude is insane enough to believe they're female they're incapable of responsible behavior. Tolerance to them is a one way street so they will continue to provoke reprisals to what is SEXUAL ASSAULT by deception.
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  3838. Ten billion is couch money. How that's allocated is up to your ELECTED officials. The two options are not COMPETING for the same funds. That's a false-choice fallacy.
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  3839. I cut down every tree on my property in falling range of my roof. It's a very common old person mistake (often beginning when we were much younger!) to ignore trees until they require many thousands of dollars in arborist fees to remove, or yeet themselves through solar panels/roof/car/boat/pets/family members under high winds. Trees are pretty but best kept at a distance, likewise shrubbery which can burn. Attractive landscaping remains practical but if you value your home and income the wise move is plan well in advance. If in doubt a bit of trig (see videos!) can determine tree height thus falling range.
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  3840. The American people want armed forces so they should PAY for them. Modern war requires career professionals not conscript cannon fodder. Expecting anyone to work for nothing is childish and the price of maintaining a career force is driven by the labor market. In older eras when more Americans had military experience that was generally understood. Bottom line is always compensation. If you want people to join the service with the worst quality of life and the lowest enlistment standards (there was never a choice on that due to having so many support slots to fill) then you PAY what the market will bear. Anyone fit to enlist can make more money elsewhere so many do. Everyone who does not enlist is voting by inaction for better pay and benefits. If you want the armed forces to improve, don't join them. That is the ONLY thing that ever drove compensation increases. If enough people don't enlist, bonuses and pay increase. If enough people don't re-enlist, SRBs etc go up to compensate.
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  3841. Good. Only escalation has the slightest chance at positive change and the Democrat racist traitor (call it what it is!) problem cannot be solved peacefully. Until the Democrats provoke decisive backlash they will continue to rule the US.
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  3842. Most dangerous? B-61 says hi.
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  3843. Gloom and doom get eyeballs but it's only fair to examine Boomers who made WISE choices over the many decades we had to study history, economics, investing etc. Many of us Boomers do fine because we never wasted opportunities. I was never rich but lack nothing. Constant learning and self-improvement matter so do that.
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  3844. The US isn't "failing" and NYC used to be far worse in the 1980s. What is failing is silly people insist in living there. Think about it. Refugees can change nations but most Americans are afraid to leave their home towns so instead of aggressively changing their circumstance they just follow the herd.
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  3845. Russia is a cultural disease toxic to every nation it can reach. Russians do have some use feeding dandelions and the more who do the better. Tatars and Chechens should also be armed by the West because Russia is existential enemy to civilization itself.
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  3846. A satellite view (not those crappy symbolic maps, see actual photographs) shows just how tiny the place is that Russia is taking such losses to seize. It's a little shit backwater which will be touted as a Russian victory, but the more such "victories" they have the fewer Putinists exist to waste oxygen. BTW all the good stuff begins on Telegram and with some study (note video watermarks) you can just watch it all as it's posted by monitoring the Telegram channels.
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  3847. Wagner couldn't very well NOT shoot since everything in range of their column was a threat. Fewer vatnikswasting oxygen is good news whoever does the deed because the more lost today the longer they'll take to respawn for their next war against civilization.
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  3848. Trump only cares about personal power and his style is classically American. Europe should have dropped its idiotic jingoistic defense industry procurement policies and standardized all major military equipment buys. Europeans who object to returning to earlier Cold War (which never ended because it's a culture clash between non-European Russia and European civilization) militarization are social traitors and subversives. There were plenty of those in the 1930s too.
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  3849. Of course. They're all criminals so they don't install opps in power.
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  3850. Native-bornAmericans don't consider these "passport holders" to be real Americans or care what becomes of them nor should they. Non-Americans tend to confuse whatever these creatures are with the US. They got passports only to further their own African agenda quite like the case of Hussein Mohamed Farrah, who enlisted to get training to exploit back home. Youtube prohibits logical suggestions re: their disposal, but they will not be missed. Not everything is a plot. Most humans are a dim lot (examine world intelligence charts, consanguinity stats etc if you doubt this) prone to naive dreams of glory.
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  3851. The towns they're damaging did not make them homeless. In many cases their own free adult choice to be criminals, addicts or just freely making terrible life choices put them there. I've met way too many to buy that they're all victims. The worst are the fake vets (I counsel other vets so I offer to drive them to the VA office, haven't had a taker yet). There needs to be a way to control these people or the innocent majority lose.
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  3852. Egypt lacks power projection to maintain an extended war but Ethiopia has none at all. Blowing the dam would be tough but destroying the power production equipment not so. Ethiopia has no retaliatory military options given the distance between them. That is why detailed discussions of what war might look like are so limited. Egypt cannot invade Ethiopia while Ethiopia can build dams upstream or even divert and disperse much Nile water.
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  3853. Division in enemy ranks is hilarious. The Democratic party cannot serve opposing superstitions who are mortal enemies IRL no matter what spokesmen say to the contrary. BTW the US Syria policy makes sense if the goal is to destroy all nation-state opponents on Israel's flanks. Religion drives all US support for Israel. (Most US military aid is made by US companies so it's really defense industry workfare.)
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  3854. The economy always tanks enlistments when it's good and coerces them when it's bad. If the American public want armed forces they should be delighted to pay what the market will bear and everyone who does NOT enlist is really voting for better compensation. This USAF career vet approves. People don't typically join in some patriotic frenzy, they join to improve their lives with an interesting career. Anyone qualified to become part of a modern armed force has multiple options (even if it doesn't feel like it at the time) so why not choose what pays? Focusing on patriotism is a mistake. This is the second (historically recent) Hollow Force era which are normal after failed constabulary mistakes. It will fade over time like the last one but very, very few Americans take interest in the domestic social history of recruiting. Conscription was a disaster (which no one who hasn't studied that really understands) for many reasons. Drafted armies bleed badly during their learning curve (US in WWII for example) while the KD ratios of professional forces tend much better. The US needs a professional CAREER force because it takes longer than one enlistment to mature a technician (fmr. maintainer here, this is not speculation). Want one? PAY FOR IT. Patriotism is fine but doe not make house payments and if you really support the troops then show it with funding not just direct compensation but quality of life. A troop living in a moldy barracks or decaying base housing knows actions speak louder than words.
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  3855. If one does not know what one is talking about one is not an "expert".
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  3856. Movement of ammo vehicles and troop vehicles/parking would make most places like the School of Rocket Catching easy to monitor from space let alone drones. Commercial satellites could see it. The only limfac would be Ukrainian rocketeers laughing hysterically at such a gift but it didn't interfere with aiming. Russians have helped kill and maim nearly every US casualty since WWII indirectly or otherwise so their demise makes me smile.
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  3857. Solution, don't have kids. ALL that is, is just hormones talking. Self and wife preferred prosperity to inflicting the hideous misery of life (most of life is pain or drudgery) on an innocent being. No regrets
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  3858. German engineering was once simple, beautifully elegant and of very high quality. Open the crankcase of a 1960s BMW boxer motorbike and the guts look like aircraft parts, with thick tin plating on piston skirts and other touches ensuring famously long service life. Modern German vehicles are overly complex, often miserable to work on and best leased not bought so one can hand them back early. I worked for a used car lot where we immediately traded off any modern German vehicles we'd taken in trade because they weren't worth fixing. The recipient salvage yards mostly parted them out. When lifelong professional mechanics loathe a machine they have good reason.
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  3859. New vehicles are a toy purchase except for businesses, and outside the Rust Belt it's easy to drive almost anything for decades (so I do). There is no pragmatic reason to buy new cars and trucks more often functionally necessary. I never buy new which is why my house was paid off long ago, and I have no credit card debt because debt for anything not a house is (with due respect) fucking stupid. When toy money availability shrinks people buy fewer toys. In other news water is also wet.
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  3860. Business is war. Labor and management in the US are enemies, and management buy media.
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  3861. The US stands for nothing and is utterly corrupt. The public are submissive except for one so far. Things will only get worse in social terms. People with money leave (like Tom Hanks in Greece) so the EU may gain rich talented immigrants! The US is not free.
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  3862. Facts! ^ I do the same and planned it for decades.
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  3863.  @guyz7777  Is "nowhere" supposed to mean something? How old are you?
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  3864. The insurance industry should be pushing back to reduce repair costs but they don't really NEED to when they can just raise rates and pass the pain to their customers. On another note horrifically complex modern vehicles are easily totaled. A sufficient hit to a rear quarter totals most sedans and SUVs, A buckled cab floor or frame damage sufficient to require replacement totals most pickups. Flooding totals almost any truck or car. What anyone does with that information is up to them.
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  3865. Corrosion control maintenance on those had to be horrendous along with any work not done on land. Quick turns aren't happening (combat aircraft exist to generate combat sorties). Operation in other than the most gentle sea states is impractical and dangerous. Looks cool, obsolete silly idea, end of story.
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  3866. Consumer protection laws should mandate ALL vehicle tests be performable using onboard diagnostics (since the systems use the signals they are present). De-facto vendor lock is a major issue in right-to-repair which of course greedy OEMs oppose. Regular humans perform every repair and maintenance task which means serious owners can do it too. DIY pays off better than most regular jobs. I've wrenched all my rides since I got my drivers license in 1978. That saved me tens of thousands of dollars including zero need to buy a new vehicle ever. Tool prices have been mostly flat over time and you keep the tools. Ordinary humans work on all the modern, complex systems and that's easier than ever thanks to Youtube and the rest of the internet. Self-service salvage yards are booming to supply late model parts.
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  3867. Bakhmut is ideal to recycle Putinists into useful compost. If Russia manages to seize it that will fix those forces for future bombardment.
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  3868. The Wehrmacht were trained, motivated skilled professionals hence their high K/D ratio against Soviets.
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  3869. I don't because I don't need to own new vehicle or even recent vehicles. I learnt to wrench in the proverbial old days, own every vehicle I ever wanted and they're paid for. New vehicles are someone else's problem.
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  3870. Democratic VOTERS asked for this and they will continue to vote Democrat. Only ONE party imports poor people while ignoring poor Americans!
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  3871. What is your maritime expertise in what professional capacity? I always enjoy hearing from experts.
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  3872. Someone should be honest enough to point out that NO decent person would want any part of that industry unless they're ready to sell their soul and orifices. Anyone naive enough to imagine the whole point of that scene (like any other wealthy scene) wasn't to live like Caligula is missing the point though they may have an extra chromosome. Diddy got careless but keeping it real no one other than hose amateur or professional would get near that world.
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  3873.  @jgw9990  Oh no it shouldn't and those who clicked "like" don't know anything about ship hulls either! Hulls are wear, corrosion and fatigue items spending their lives in the most corrosive environment on earth. "Brittle fracture" is no joke. Ships are not like houses and being giant weldments have thousands of points of deterioration.
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  3874.  @jgw9990  Ship hulls are not what you think they are and lose considerable metal to corrosion. Ships APPEAR strong and impressive but they really do wear out and as systems also become obsolete it makes no sense to save most of them. Hull cost is not (on a modern warship) where the money is.
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  3875.  @victorzvyagintsev1325  What is your personal tank manufacturing experience at Lima?
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  3876. Why is a member of a supposedly modern force using a bottle of petrol (named by Finns after a Soviet foreign minister during their war to be repel Bolshevism) instead of a frag or Willie Pete? A person in combat gear can run through a modest fire and smoke. (Anyone doubting this is free to make their own Molotov coctail using the original or other recipe.) I find it hilarious that Russians are unable to realize why their former conquests do not miss them. Not even the former members of the consensually evaporated Warsaw Pact want back in as they mostly flocked to NATO.
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  3877.  @flauze  That only impresses good people who don't do crime in the first place.
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  3878.  @beemo9  Straight? Stop believing in reform because it almost never happens.
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  3879. How do people with a lifetime in Oakland not effing use that time to ESCAPE? Poor guy should have fled to freedom thirty years ago.
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  3880. Married life without snot monsters is even more awesome. Dual income, no kids here and wouldn't change a thing. The only reason to have crotch fruit is sadistic vanity because inflicting life is utterly cruel. Humans breed thanks to hormones, that is all.
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  3881. The voters got exactly what they voted for. Businesses can locate to many states which aren't run by (call them what they really are) communists. As for office space that does zero good for employees who must spend time and money commuting which is an unfunded employer mandate. Anyone who is talented enough has every reason to WFH. No one is entitled to a captive customer base.
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  3882. Never do anything like that openly because you'll get the same treatment Putin gives inconvenient Russians. If you understand technology you can easily whistleblow with complete anonymity. If you fail to be computer literate enough to know how, collect info but keep quiet then wait for someone else to get the ball rolling. The amount of money in play is well worth whacking you and the government is not your friend because you cannot afford to buy power.
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  3883. Being a vet didn't make them a chitbag. Those are born not made.
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  3884. Stupid greedy people deserve what their ignorance gets them. The psychology of the degenerate gambler drives these bubbles and the adherents are either lying or blind. If you get your beliefs from "influencers" you deserve the consequences and I find it hilarious.
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  3885. This is a hilariously teachable moment.
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  3886. Flying fighters at US sortie rates means losing a few. It really is the historic cost of doing business. Back in the 1980s the Safety folks accurately predicted loss rates of about a fighter squadron per year. Beats WWII where CONUS losses rivalled combat losses with thousands of crashes and over 15K dead. Flying combat aircraft is always risky and life is not Hollywood.
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  3887. Real Americans don't WANT to live in Blue cities so we GTFO if we began there. Find a Red state and go enjoy your job again. UNlike NYC you can afford property. Try buying ten acres in midtown.
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  3888. Do NOT blame externalities for typical human stupidity. While your naive view is popular because it implies outside agency for a personal choice. Many humans are simply unintelligent, ignorant and stupid such that they do not make good choices with or without chemical assistance. Implying all use of drugs is escapist is also mistaken. For example shamanistic use of natural hallucinogens for thousands of years for spiritual exploration are very different than some weakminded junkie ruining their life on drugs, solvents etc..
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  3889. I don't believe anything based on fiction because facts are far more interesting. Fiction is for people too lazy to enjoy the enormous variety of real life.
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  3890. I chose NOT to "ascend" housewise because spending too much on a cost center just ensures your wallet will sufer. I bought cheap old homes on cheap property then renovated them. Keep it SMALL then own it ALL. To succeed, copy success and be willing to move anywhere and do anything during your short working life. Plan everything.
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  3891. Civil aircraft operations are vital to supporting military operations. Air freight for example is critical to military supply systems. Nearly all military logistics is in effect an extension of civilian systems which originally produce then deliver what armed forces use.
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  3892. Where are these magical Gripen? Their fangurls forget one needs airframes not fantasies.
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  3893. HOA are freely entered contracts between legal adults and do work for some. Here's a better idea requiring no legal changes: I suggest people stop being stupid and stop buying into developments with or without HOA. Leave that for the dummies!
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  3894.  @Mistah_Boombastic_BiggieCheese  That is purely THEIR problem because nature is COMPETITIVE. A hen house only needs one rooster. If you don't rate what you want (proven by getting what you want) then don't bother or rent courtesans.
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  3895. What "Americans"? Seriously, does the Times do any diligence before "reporting" or even watch its content before posting? Don't turn into Fox News. That's a disservice to your audience. The UN should cease all activities in Africa. Let the people solve their own problems like the rest of the world, and if they choose to fail that's their self-inflicted problem. Uruguay chose to send troops (as shown in the video) and that nation is far, far away from north america. Another ways to foster local change is containment. Take zero "refugees" then let them fight for their own freedom or not, the battlefield will decide who is worth of power based on indigenous people's choices. "Foreign aid" is just meddling.
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  3896.  @googiegress  Use a search engine to find the many commercial and military container manufacturers. Expecting someone else to spoon-feed that volume of info is a bit much.
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  3897. Science and technology are far too complex for (the vast majority of) non-technical people to begin to understand, and technical intelligence is a matter of luck not choice. Common people need simple beliefs suiting their minimal intelligence. The average IQ (a crude measure but good enough) is roughly 100. Technology and science are TOO COMPLEX FOR LAY PEOPLE TO SORT WHEAT FROM CHAFF. A key mistake many technically intelligent but socially unwise people make is identifying with the majority who can only fear what they can never understand. There is no hope for fixing that situation and trying to is a waste. Give the simples their shiny objects and buy them off with bread (they pay for their own circuses) and stop trying to reach them. They will only regard that as yet another insult. There is nothing to share or discuss. Successful societies rely on wise leadership manipulating simples. Study every successful propagandist, religionist and marketing campaign for proof. Humans set conditions for their engagement which must be obeyed.
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  3898. The adjective "elite" gets overused. Is there anything GENUINELY special about the training supposedly "elite" Russian forces actually receive that can be proven? Have any of their forces accomplished anything of note against skilled, experienced, professional (the Western European/US version of professional) and determined opponents? Ukraine is in a militarily fascinating situation because Russia is a PERMANENT enemy, not an enemy with some temporary warmongering party in power. Russia has never not been an existential cultural enemy to Ukraine and Europe. Russian culture cannot be changed in that respect. Naive spectators who never seriously studied the eternal conflict between the Eastern hordes and European civilization (of which Russia was never part, their rulers sometimes aping that alien world badly and Tsar Nicky being related to European royalty are irrelevant) tend to imagine the conflict in mindless "politically correct" terms when it's no such thing. Russia killed more people over time than Nazi Germany and quite enjoys the sport. Its nuclear umbrella makes it permanent. Any Russian troops and assets Ukraine doesn't destroy or take out of the fight in this war will return in the next war or build the next invading Russian armies. Russia has nukes so it cannot be completely defeated but it can be contained (like the former Warsaw Pact) until its economy weakens or other events trigger regime replacement. Of course the replacement will inevitably be at least as toxic but may delay the rematch for a few decades giving Ukraine time to integrate with NATO and jointly solidify the Eastern front. If the war ends too soon Russia will be essentially undamaged. Russian lives do not matter to other Russians as proven by centuries of despotic rule, not just its wars. Casualties just form the basis of the Russian death cult (the Cathedral of the Armed Forces perfectly employs superstition as that opiate of the people Bolsheviks once scorned) where expendable bottom feeders exist to die for social experiments of zero benefit to the simpleton masses. Russians do not care of their wars benefit no one. Martial pride is enough for a culture with nothing else to be "proud" of but perpetual conquest, oppression and murder of its neighbors from Finland to the eastern Med. If the war goes on too long Ukraine may wear down and though this war costs the West pocket change compared to Afghanistan or Iraq, contrarian fools ignorant that Russian subversion is why the Left they hate exists in the first place are eager to abandon what the US once stood for (besides money...). The West is no longer the NATO of the 1960s or '70s. It's gone soft, even more ignorant and the uneducated (in the real sense of education) masses have no ideals. Had Ukraine not set an inspiring example NATO would continue rocketing into the shithouse but the public have the attention span of a gnat and are infested with contrarians. Amusingly Russia have mostly subverted the Right instead of its previous domination of the Left, and the Right bereft of principle just want power. This war must be exquisitely managed by Ukraine continuing to inspire the few Westerners capable of inspiration, and Western proponents of this war must do a MUCH better job explaining STRATEGIC and IDEOLOGICAL reasons the NeoSoviet enemy is a threat. Intellectuals have a terrible habit of assuming the average moron has the slightest idea what's going on. OTOH Ukrainian media are brilliant (cat pictures on Twitter and other maudlin memes remain absolutely necessary) at communicating on an ordinary level. Other groups acting in NATO interests should study this and individuals with Twitter followings do likewise. The outcome is not a sure thing and the only "victory" will be Ukrainian and NATO survival with breathing space bought by damaging Russia so the inevitable next Putin/Stalin/Lenin has less wealth and people (enemy demographic decline is key to delaying the next war).
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  3899.  @marekholub8668  Fireworks being toys not tools the wise choice would have been moving production overseas. To retain an inherently dangerous business that close to residential areas was obviously negligent and put profit before the safety of Netherlands citizenry.
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  3900. I would never recommend a new vehicle to someone who is not wealthy AND owns their home and land free and clear AND has their retirement investments sufficient to live on. I keep my trucks for well over two decades after buying them used. "New" does not in any way mean "good" (mechanic since the 1970s here).
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  3901. Tactical nuclear war is proven practical by atmospheric testing where the equivalent of one was detonated above ground by the US in testing. Look up "nuclear tourism" for some interesting pics and vids of the era. Tucker Carlson is a contrarian entertainer and an utter hack who only impresses military illiterates.
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  3902. If you can score one used a Kurt style milling machine vise doesn't need a mill to spoil you, and rebuild kits are available.
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  3903. Other than the assertion it is typical how are we to know other than trusting the videographer?
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  3904. I saw this era coming before Mr. Jordan was born. Unless you are stacking enough money for none of the problems to matter, consider leaving. The rest of the US can be quite awesome. Nobody NEEDS NYC. People stay because they fear change.
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  3905. Until people return to understanding most of the lower classes are where they are because of synergistic PERSONAL DEFECTS and relentless bad adult choices they will live in cloud-cuckoo land. The lower classes are far less oppressed than self-destructive, ignorant and savage by choice. They naturally and bitterly resent self-discipline so they follow ideologies which affirm their defects as virtues. They are instantly enraged when that's pointed out because their found out their tantrums are tolerated. Democracy inevitably devolves to idiocracy but importing cultural enemies accelerated this. Today we have a nation collectively incompetent to operate a secular democracy. The Enlightenment ideals of the Founders are alien today. The Left was PERMITTED through mistaken tolerance to rule academia since the 1960s thanks to superbly effecive ComBloc subversion. Once that sets in Fascism is the only cure and decisive elimination of cultural enemies an unfortunate necessity but one which cannot be implemented without acceleration forcing the issue. The Left will provoke its own deletion because otherwise decent people are degnerately tolerant as if that tolerance was a virtue. The solution for the Left is exactly what their ideal Stalinist and Maoist societies wanted for everyone who was not Stalinist and Maoist. Intelligence is neurodivergent so there is no winning lesser hearts and minds, but enemies can be deleted and eventually their escalation will provoke that so the wise will prepare. The only tragedy at Kent State was poor marksmanship.
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  3906. That's what's called a "false choice fallacy" and you are not an American so FOAD.
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  3907. America does not deeply believe in personal freedoms beyond the Second Amendment. Legalization where it happens was allowed by politicians out of pure greed and nothing else. Bodily sovereignty is a minority concern in a nation whose culture has always been fiercely rustic, conformist and oppressive. VOTERS are responsible for the Republic and since most of them are morons on a good day (see who our elections elevate to high office if you thing that's harsh) we get political hacks who are FORCED to pander to the yowling beastmob.
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  3908. ​ @colincampbell767  It came from non-technicians who should not have opinions on systems they do not understand but instead seek to learn with an open mind. Consider the F-16 which is also not difficult to work on (which I did for two decades as an engine troop later merged with crew chief which merger was easy because most flightline engine troops were already qualified and signed off). We were qualified and signed off because it's easy to learn how to fix Vipers! F-16 design reflected lessons learned from the far more maintenance-intensive Phantom and century series fighters.
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  3909.  @Ocastia  I strongly agree based on decades of wrenching. (US) military vehicles are typically MUCH easier to work on than modern automotive abominations which are designed with utter indifference to ease of repair and maintenance. I've wrenched cars, trucks and motorbikes since the 1970s and combat aircraft 1981-2007. I wish troubleshooting cars was as easy as troubleshooting aircraft!
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  3910.  @stburr91  "Sure" based on what personal relevant technical expertise? Learning a different military or civilian vehicle well enough to get good takes several months to get started AFTER tech school. I've trained many a tech both military and civilian. If you yourself are not a mechanic or engineer your opinion is worthless.
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  3911.  @neurofiedyamato8763  Saudi nepotism, incompetence and cultural obstacles like hoarding information are infamous among US and other trainers.
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  3912.  @bms-xs5zp  Much further than the tanks it kills when used properly in combined arms warfare. You Kremlin shills are so obvious.
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  3913.  @jamesbell739  WHY in that case aren't the blue states delighted to cut loose the people they hate? The Blue states get to exploit the Red states by dumping military bases (that's where vast amounts of tax money goes that's conflated with subsidies) there leaving valuable Blue real estate for profit. Let's not pretend for a second any of this is altruism.
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  3914. I suggest getting a package together (while the ideas and humans are still fresh from the fray) including Atlas for future donation to the Smithsonian. Even better if future Boston Dynamics machines perform a ceremonial delivery. One day Atlas capabilities will seem quaint, but techies stand on the shoulders of giants whose work remains inspirational long after it's taken for granted by users.
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  3915. It's a liberal arts school so pretty much useless for employment. Those disciplines make perfectly good hobbies but the excess of schools that teach nothing useful means the least competitive won't get enough applicants. There is no college shortage and colleges have come and gone and merged often throughout US history.
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  3916. What will become of the social saboteurs who made innocent Germans rely on gas from an enemy society? Anyone not living under a rock knows the Cold War never ended, only changed. Europe should invest heavily in clean fuels and NEVER become dependent on Russia which has always been a strategic threat. Russophiles should be kept away from making policy because (as US trade pays for the Chinese armed forces it then spends trillions over time to contain) EU trade keeps NeoSoviets in power. This was driven home by Putin but no adult of normal mental capacity has the slightest excuse to believe giving money to tyrants is anything but a bribe.
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  3917.  @MM22966  National competence tends to be proportional to distance from the equator. It is thoughtcrime to consider why so I won't.
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  3918. My bandwidth, my hardware, my rules so I block everything I can block and life is good. Advertisers are not my friends so I've no use for their messages.
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  3919. Unsubbed because the channel has gotten silly what with the excessive clickbait and declining content quality.
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  3920. Bring back involuntary mental health commitments because these people are too weak to get better without being locked away from everything that ruined them in the first place. Asylums were abandoned for COST reasons only.
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  3921. Clients from frenemy cultures are an unfortunate necessity because the world is a dangerous place.
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  3922. Democrats say they love you long time but nothing gets better because if the problems go away Dems cannot get elected promising to fix them. Healthy patients don't make doctors money. Dems need you to be ill, scared and run (to them) for promised relief. That's classic finesse.
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  3923. EE opens doors in industry so there's no downside and less competition from the hordes who lack the discipline to be engineers. Insourcing to protect IP favors hiring one's own engineers while software can be outsourced anywhere in that race to the bottom. As an EE you can fill other jobs opportunistically by exploiting your technical understanding, for example working anywhere in industrial controls. The more skills you can learn which are difficult to outsource the better for your wallet. AI cannot perform hands on tasks like installing, running, reconfiguring and repairing what EEs design but an EE who's motivated can perform most of those tasks and would be wise to learn them so they produce more maintenance-friendly systems.
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  3924. Putting your business in the street is disgusting. Airhead hose have no dignity. Just as bad they TALK TOO MUCH. Babbling is amazingly annoying. Men speak to communicate. Women speak to generate background noise.
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  3925. That's a lifetime truck if you prevent it from rusting, and the fuel cost won't matter since you won't need another truck.
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  3926.  @naps3386  This retired "mechanic" (avionics on Phantom and Bronco, engines later merged with crew dog on F-16s) had a great time because I enjoyed the work and found it easy, and Uncle Sugar's benefit package paid for my homes and more. If you're a pilot, who do you fly for? Entry level is famously a grind and underpaid, hence the pilot shortage.
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  3927. Before the rise of fast food the US was a THINNER, HEALTHIER place. Compare high school yearbooks from the 1960s to today. The unintended consequences may be good.
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  3928. Russian emotional attachment to Bakhmut will be delightfully costly in equipment and casualties. Their leadership is profoundly amateurish.
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  3929. Sorting those problems requires self-mastery, planning, and focus. Most people are silly so ignore them and only associate with capable smart humans you can learn from. (Then one day others will learn from you.) The following worked for me. I am not rich but lack nothing. The more you can do yourself the further any or no money goes, and the more you can do the more you can do for yourself. Learn to maintain and repair everything you own. Make knowledge your entertainment and have zero useless hobbies or interests. Learn to work on cars because that includes electrical, hydraulic and mechanical systems. Wrenching saves money for life and lots of it. Labor costs these days make owning your own tools a bargain. My wife was a skilled helicopter mechanic and my mum worked on WWII PBY Catalina flying boats. Just do it. Learn to DIY everything your house and other structures require. Learn to work on computers at a basic level (troubleshooting, OS reload etc) if you use one. Take formal training when you can. Have more than one skill. Your local community colleges is an underused resource. (I took welding and CNC machining to expand what I can do in my home shop, volunteered in return for more shop time, then worked for the school for a couple of years as they like to hire from within.) Many courses are effectively free, especially low income workforce training programs. The Financial Aid folks exist to find you money. Do not aspire to any work that's easy to automate. Forget office work as those jobs are easy to outsource. Do learn skills which require a human on the spot. Do not assume everything will be automated then do things impractical to automate. Most poverty is self-inflicted. Choose skills that pay well and gets or can sustain you far away from your home (too many people never leave the state they were born in). Military, Merchant Marine, welder (many females have better fine motor coordination males including some welders I worked with), electrician (they never lack work), HVAC (stick to commercial work, my bro makes a mint repairing convenience store chillers because the owners refuse to upgrade which is common) etc are options most of which give you DIY skills that serve you for life. If you can't find work that means you chose wrongly so choose something different. My "turd herder" bro learned wastewater management in the military and had so many job offers he left after his first enlistment. Unless humans stop defecating he will always have work. Think outside the box because the box is a prison of conformity.
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  3930.  @user-so1jv9eu9h  With what hardware are you listening?
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  3931. All this begs the question why Zionists would attend Columbia in the first place. The answer is many are Leftists because Columbia is a radical Leftist school (since the 1960s and guess who helped turn it over to other Marxists!). Cease being Leftist and cease spending millions rewarding Leftist schools whose students hate you and you cease funding the problem,. No reason exists to want to attend Columbia unless you have a free ride. Enemies should not share schools and there is no shortage of colleges, many far more affordable than Columbia.
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  3932. The overall effect on IQ of this permanent voluntary national self-debasement is a bonus....for the ruling class.
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  3933. It's a failed narcostate. If you escape, don't go back.
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  3934. The US is absurdly large, too large to be unified so it is not. Enemies should not share dirt. Americans don't benefit from this giant Federal monster, we're ALL oppressed by it except for our masters who profit. Most countries are much smaller.
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  3935. Israelis should take up shooting sports and combat training instead of raves which are childish therefor unwise.. Every human unprepared to destroy the enemy is a burden on the rest. This includes pacifists who are not admirable despite social fashion contending otherwise. War is a survival condition for the Israeli ethnostate making it naive to remain unprepared.
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  3936. Why do voters not command change? You can only give a politician two things, money and votes. They can't win without them so demand they earn your support.
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  3937. Man buys home in highly restricted community BECAUSE it's highly restricted, then fails to read the contract he AGREED TO. Many people are good at making money but lost beyond that. For that kind of money such a tiny home with no room for a detached garage on the lot is pathetic but the business model of paying too much for too little makes developers buckets of money.
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  3938. DEMOCRATS destroy Chicago as they were elected to do. The residents are free to shop online or start their own stores.
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  3939. The young ones are often eager to go. Putin didn't pull any triggers in Bucha or rape any Ukrainian women.
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  3940.  @Jopa955  They are not brothers. That's utter nonsense only NeoSoviets and their many Youtube shills believe. Ask Ukrainians how they view being ruled (and genocided a second time) by Russia.
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  3941. Are you voting for Democrats next time? They did this do you.
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  3942. Any cops who are smart will flip before they get no offers. Once one or two roll the rest will go down with nothing to offer for a plea bargain.
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  3943. Assembly jobs are inherently bad for human bodies and should be automated out of existence, but the companies EXTERNALIZE the health costs to the general public making them even worse. I will never buy Rivian. Vote with your wallet because these companies are vulnerable.
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  3944. Not my circus, not my clowns but hilariously funny.
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  3945. The Australians buying them seem pleased sufficient to part with their money. Large comfortable vehicles annoy the hair-shirt crowd but so does everything else those not them enjoy.
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  3946. No US military careers were harmed by the evacuation. No US military senior leadership careers were harmed by two decades of lying to the American public. We'll do it again in thirty years. I remember when Viet Nam was supposed to have taught Americans a strategic lesson. That didn't happen, nor will it this time.
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  3947. When you EMBRACE your opponents insults, REJECT their tantrums then ESCALATE as far as required for you to dominate utterly because the alternative is your cultural destruction. The enemy hides beneath "respect" , "courtesy" and other cultivated maudlin weakness. Discard all your (wrong) social programming and if someone attempts to force you, force them back. Ukraine is not surrendering to Russia. Why surrender to unconventional enemies?
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  3948. Stop tolerating the feminists then. You do not owe traitors and social enemies and subversives respect.
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  3949. Democrat cities get the Democrat problems Democrat voters elect Democrat leaders to facilitate.
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  3950. The Amish? The Mennonites? The Mormons? Give us a hint.
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  3951. In that case it wastes investor money which is also good news.
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  3952. Making toys for display is to impress Russians and their remaining clients who can't buy weapons elsewhere. To the properly jaded they're just targets. To the troops around them they're drone magnets drawing attention to their position.
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  3953. Drunks, junkies, crazies and bums. Those words fell out of fashion with telling the truth even if that truth is discomforting to silly people, but the drunks, junkies, crazies and bums don't care as they're busy self-actualizing while the US imports even more poor people in order to get future Democrat voters.
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  3954. That level of civilian idiocy by the unprofessional loadmaster is grotesque considering the emphasis on correct tiedown and cargo securement throughout the military transport world. The loadmaster failing the OBVIOUS by not determining how the USAF would have loaded the same cargo was execrable and an example of lazily doing the minimum and not bothering to know more than that. I wonder what went through his mind knowing he'd killed everyone onboard including himself? I wasn't a loadmaster in the USAF but built many equipment pallets for deployment (which had to pass QA and loadmaster inspection, not hard) and would have known how to get those vehicles correctly stowed because the first order of business is find correct technical guidance and if not available contact factory reps to be emailed correct procedures. This is not exotic or difficult. Not much really is. Safety requires responsibly correcting any personal lack of knowledge before making decisions.
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  3955. Fiat in the US are an answer to a question nobody asked. The first time they were too delicate for US use and QC was even bad by US standards. Meanwhile VW and Toyota put out RELIABLE vehicles. Low sales are a very good reason to avoid a vehicle because that mitigates against long term support. I haven't had to parallel park since 1981 and I own full sized trucks. The US has ROOM and lots of it.
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  3956. Training methodology and communication is a solved problem because training relationships were built long ago by the Brits and US. Since the US doesn't have to teach basic soldiering the courses can be intense without the usual other activities.
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  3957. I'm not screwed. My money is not squandered on new vehicles. I buy used so I get a known machine without all the markup, taxes etc then keep them for decades. The auto industry doesn't want my money or that of the other people who reject high prices.
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  3958. The burden of proof in debate is on the person making the assertion (see "onus probandi") . May viewers have supporting links for your assertion? Not every viewer is illiterate and/or ignorant.
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  3959. Nuclear warfare cannot possibly "end the world" but may cleanse it of its human infestation. I expect future sentient C-130 to preserve select supporting entities and reward their loving maintainers so it's all good. Adeptus Onethirticus will thrive. In the future, there is only Lockmart.
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  3960. Containers are highly stable, typhoon-rated and easy to outfit....as workshops which I did. They are easy to weld together (flux core and a suitcase feeder greatly preferred vs the high waste of stick welding) and easy to modify. They make terrific industrial style space or a home in hurricane/typhoon/wildfire country (cut a serious firebreak or they could become ovens).
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  3961. Not my problem but the unwise and their money are soon parted.
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  3962. What do you imagine "false flag" means in English?
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  3963. There is little point trying to reach civilians as it's like talking to virgins about sex. That's what talking to other veterans is for.
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  3964. The world is overpopulated already nor is there an obligation to inflict the general unpleasantness of life by creating a sentient being. The world functioned fine with population levels far smaller than today and Western nations were more comfortable and far less crowded in 1960 than 2023. Go child free and you will have far more freedom and financial security in a world where both are precarious (another reason not to torture an innocent person with existing).
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  3965. Wokie squabbles make me smile. Blue cities chose their fate and I refuse to live in one so I'll be laughing from a distance.
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  3966. Much love for the blues but some Haitian music would have been more appropriate.
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  3967.  @Mike.Muc.3.1415  Turkey is historically threatened by Russia and its people know it. It's of too much strategic value due to geography to alienate. OTOH Hungary has under eight million people and is a mere backwater. Erdogan will pass one day as no man is immortal. Before him Turkey was a reliable ally and has a storied history fighting Russians. Strategy demands political compromise sometimes. I'd like to see the NATO nations who support freedom (Turkey supports its own nationalism which is its right but that's very diffferent) draft a "NATO equivalent" treaty to include Sweden and Finland who are reliable assets, particularly the Finns who made Russia pay in blood for every captured meter of their land.
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  3968. When using them for real jack up the car so the air pump just inflates the tire instead of also lifting the vehicle. That's much less load on the tool and with the wheel off the ground you can rotate it for inspection.
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  3969. Behold the informed adult choices of Democratic voters and their inevitable results. Total absence of imposed discipline only works for a tiny subset of humans.
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  3970. You should not feel sorry for DEMOCRATS who want your border state to have no border. THEY did this.
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  3971. The locals engaging in their traditional frolics are far less important to civilization than damage to Russian influence. The wider world does not have skin in the game other than reducing refugee flows. Turkey should benefit since unlike distant powers it is ideally located to stabilize the region as it did with the Ottoman Empire. Turkey is a vital counterweight to the Iranian mullocracy.
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  3972.  @Unknown24466  Good for them. As a Yank I welcome more so get on with it! Your opportunities here (despite the media) are vastly better. We knew in 1776 leaving the rule of evil masters was the wise choice. Come to the US and you've a shot at owning property (not in expensive areas where no one sane should want to live so I don't), your choice of climate and much more.
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  3973. The beauty of democracy is voters get what they vote for. Bass is an example where voters need to own their own incompetence to choose leadership then fix themselves before things get worse.
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  3974. Of course they can be stopped but not as long as their Democrat worshippers are allowed to exist. Good American citizens will have to abandon every belief we used to hold that empowered our enemies and reserve OUR country for ourselves by (to borrow a fine Malcom X quote) any means necessary. Tolerance of enemies betrays every future American.
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  3975. This sort of thing makes the right of people to keep and bear arms vital. Disarmed humans are slaves if their opponent is not restrained by civilized ideals, and most of humanity fall into that category. Disarmed people cannot oppose ruthless armed institutions.
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  3976. Ignorance makes billions of dollars. Check prices online and research everything you buy before spending money. I do not shop at Target at all.
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  3977. Until deferred maintenance due to the rest of the condo "semi-owners" (if you do not own the entire structure you inhabit and the land it's on that's not effectively full ownership) results in a collapse.
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  3978.  @GeneralCreed  Russia is responsible for the entire global Left and the Cold War never ended. There is not some "either or" choice between border control (elect Trump and solve that) and preventing a NeoSoviet respawn. I get that youth don't know much or anything about what they imagine ancient history, but Russian imperialism never died. I was on the free side of the Berlin Wall back when Putin was still a KGB agent. He did not take losing lightly.
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  3979. Ancient OS (NOT on the internet OR on a LAN) are fine and machine tools etc prove it daily. I hoarded low use floppy drives from old HP servers (whose ATX cases I used long ago to build PCs) to support them and Winimaged every relevant floppy disc I could lay hands on then burned them to the root directory of CDs I still have (they're still readable due to always burning at slowest speed available, thanks CDRWIN). There is no reason to lose mad money on machine downtime to change (complexity is NOT an "upgrade") OS and hardware when stock parts are so profitable. BTW Those wanting USB floppy drive replacements should check out GoTek USB floppy emulators beloved by vintage computer users and common to CNC retrofits.
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  3980. Buying new is almost always financially silly so I don't and paid off my house (after choosing an affordable area far away from large cities so I could and did affordably retire young) instead. Americans buy silly items they do not need to impress other people who don't care in the first place. Because I would never buy a new car I can now easily afford one for cash but have zero reason to care. Outside the Rust Belt it's easy to get twenty more years out of a used truck so I do. My latest trucks are 2000s the most recent bought in 2004. They're good for another two decades. I bought my '76 F100 used in 1988 and it's good for another few decades. (Trucks are a breeze to keep long term which saves so much money fuel costs don't matter much.) All the other viewers mourning the end of simple vehicles need to remember they did not SELL for the reason most buyers are not mechanics and don't care about ease of maintenance. If you want one, buy used then sort it out and keep it for life. You'll save heaps of money and what one man can do another can do.
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  3981. There is no particular reason for intimate relationships OTHER THAN SEX. That's normal for the animal kingdom of which we are part. Tolerating another person in return for genital access at the risk of losing your wealth in a divorce is silly. Why buy a cow when milk is free? I will keep MY money and MY land and MY property thank you very much and if I need a shot of yam will have an appropriately limited interaction to get it. I was happily married until death did us part but under no delusion that is more than a matter of being very, very lucky in ways most people are not.
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  3982. I find the anti-CCP ramp up interesting because so much of it originates from internal stakeholders like Falun Gong (Epoch Times) etc. Chinese are not Westerners and easily shrugged off multiple famines and the Cultural Revolution. China will simply smother complaints and foster internal ultranationalism to keep the peace among its simple masses (techies don't run Beijing).
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  3983. Unfortunately decades of Soviet occupation broke them. They're not nearly as tough as (for example) Afghans who drove out the British twice, then Russia and the US once each. Unlike Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Finland etc who despite MULTIPLE foreign invasions remain unbroken Hungary elected an actual Fascist who gets on with Moscow like the birds of a feather they are.
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  3984.  @69mjar  He wasn't shot on the ground, he was shot multiple times and if you knew anything about ballistics one shot stops are not guaranteed. The standard is keep firing until the threat is neutralized. She's just another dumb 304.
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  3985. Ukraine being essentially a deployed operation has no need to duplicate Anniston or any depot facility for Abrams. Existing US logistics support is good to the border and truck freight doesn't care what parts it moves nor do FedEx, DHL etc. Europe has ample facilities, logistics and sealift for the heavy bits. Abrams electronics are not more sophisticated than an F-16 but rather similar including data links on modern versions but without delicate radar and with far less complex weapons stations (fighters being rather omnivorous regarding ordnance). This reflects in cost with Abrams being only about 9 or 10 million each in 2023 which is pocket change in the aviation world.
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  3986. They do now and I make sure every biker I know is informed because it's hilarious! We wrench and ride the classics so the fate of Wokely-Pervertson is not our concern
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  3987.  @iHelpSolveIt  US corporations are hardly eager to hand out royalties and quite eager to engineer around problematic intellectual property.
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  3988.  @Vizzi12  Apple and Google have literal billions to burn on toys and reasons to coddle their highly skilled highly mobile workforce. OTOH blowing cash on shiny objects is not for unprofitable companies. There is no shortage of office drones.
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  3989. Better spread that blame on two decades worth of White House hacks AND the Generals they appointed who LIED about the entire war, lied about "nation building" (an insane idea for every reason) and demonstrated America learned nothing from Viet Nam. The public (a few veterans and relatives excepted) never seriously studied the war and the hearings will change nothing. The ANA didn't want to fight, Kabul were as degenerate as the South Vietnamese, and met the fate nearly all of them deserved. Americans should have taken the deal to get rid of Al Qaeda but had the absurd idea we could reform Afghan society which is as crazy as thinking we could bomb the Southern US into renouncing Christianity. US culture is too profoundly ignorant to produce then elect leaders capable of wisely choosing then waging constabulary wars so we should STOP DOING THAT. This is the second prolonged attack of national idiocy I've lived through so I won't be around in thirty years when a fresh batch of fools do it all over again somewhere else. We can only be good at nation-state wars or arming proxies who actually have something to fight for, never at invading then trying to civilize third world shitholes who have every reason not to welcome invaders.
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  3990. America has no loyalty to European allies and sooner or later will dump Asian US clients.
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  3991. Finish professionalizing the armed forces in order to have the larger standing army needed for national survival. Existing forces were obviously inadequate and the cost of failure to defend the border high.
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  3992. My mother in law found it a bit loose. Is there a larger projectile?
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  3993. As a happy USAF retiree I applaud your choice. It's an instant career with ample opportunity for advancement and vesting in only 20 years (don't forget to use your TSP!) with the option to work longer for the pay bumps. Choosing the Navy (or AF, or Space Force or Coast Guard) serves the nation while limiting personal exposure to national strategic mistakes.
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  3994.  @johnbernal8308  You will notquickly make a competitive medical or retirement package on the outside in most cases because you'd still start on the bottom. (I've done industrial maintenance and its fun but the economy is feast or famine so I enlisted.) The smart play would be crosstraining to a larger AFSC to make rank because 20 years hits surprisingly fast. I enlisted during a recession and never felt one since. Crosstraining is fun and goes easy (I enjoyed avionics but crosstrained to escape Moody) and you can already shoot wires. If you get out after four or six the remaining years to 20 are trivial though mid-career it doesn't feel like that. I switched to F-16 engines (which I enjoyed but I love technology) but today I'd try to get into the drone world where my retired avionics bros make serious (as in north of 200K, I've known them for decades) and get stationed in good locations like Europe. If you're a CE electrician than industrial is usually the most money but that job stays on the road. The cake local jobs tend to pay less like most trades. Measure everything with money!
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  3995. Never assume Russians behave like Westerners. The idea humans are form and fit replacements for each other is a mistake however it may be fashionable in some quarters.
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  3996. Why should employers be prohibited from knowing if a potential hire was convicted of crimes of violence? Why do social defectives matter more than good citizens? Should a bank have to hire blind? A child care center? Ban arrest history but banning conviction history is absurd. Assuming criminals are "just like the rest of us" is idiotic.
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  3997. What country are you in and who supplies cylinders with integral regulators?
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  3998. There wouldn't BE trash but SC is terrible for littering. There are plenty of recycle centers but too many of the locals are slobs. As a proprty owner I'm very glad I chose an UNwalkable area.
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  3999. Dear tourists, there is nothing worth travelling to NYC to see. I lived in the area for decades. It used to be nice but go see the REST of the USA which has magnificent scenery. You can get just as drunk at a proper party (Oktoberfest in Germany makes Mardi Gras look like a trailer park) under more civilized conditions. Search "Paris shock syndrome" because it's similar. Naive people expect something cool and fun then reality hits hard. Wise Americans left the metro area decades ago but it went into brief remission and since there is no primary education here worthy of mention naive youngsters made the mistake of moving in. Things aren't as bad as the old days (at least the music scene was better then) but they're well on the way.
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  4000. Why do Ukrainians not have the right to self-determination?
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  4001. That's not "major breaking news", it's just hype and not even useful information to the public. Do yourself a favor if you're genuinely interested and skip all the "non-maritime" channels since you won't learn anything useful from them.
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  4002. America does not have ideals, it's a clown show because of the PUBLIC who reward hacks with power. The Senate has been raw dogging the public for over two centuries which is far worse than one booty bandit making a video. If Americans deserved decent government they would elect one.
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  4003. I was fixing fighters at KKMC and the smoke from Kuwait was clearly visible that far south. Petroleum is really nasty stuff, but we tend to take it for granted.
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  4004. US farmers will replace Saudis and the alfalfa will flow. This is not about water.
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  4005. They were flak sponges even in Desert Storm. Better to save them for low threat environments. Support is also an issue since many A-10 parts are out of production. Ukraine didn't want them.
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  4006. One election doesn't change a city like that. Anyone who ignored the future (which was obvious decades ago) wasn't looking.
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  4007. Too late, they'll just filter into the community. Keep voting Democrat. This is hilarious. NYC voters chose their fate (anyone with sense left decades ago).
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  4008. If you want an investment few bikes will beat an index fund. The measly few thousand (remember to correct for inflation!) most HDs gain is more than offset by inflation. I didn't buy my fleet for resale, I bought it to ride. Never forget that unless the value in CONSTANT dollars rises, the value has not risen because mere numbers alone do not matter.
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  4009. He's dead right about abandoned buildings. If the money to haul them off is too much dozer them into mounds then haul those off as money allows because as we've seen there and elsewhere leaving ruined obsolete asbestos and lead-ridden structures just fucks over decent hardworking homeowners. There is nothing wrong with large open "urban prairie". That land didn't always have structures and clearing large areas attracts desperately needed private investment. Detroit leadership unlike many cities relied on an automotive monoculture and failed to economically diversify. That was deadly and renewal should foster variety to weather future economic changes.
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  4010. This REALLY needs the Stockton Rush meme photo.
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  4011. Here's an idea. Don't live in cities. Let the chumps do that. Not all the US is expensive but people tend to cluster where they cannot get ahead or stay when they should leave. I see immigrants make it every day while most of the failures were born here. You cannot change the nation but you can change your personal circumstance. If you need a job, force yourself to do what other people pay for in real life. Work off the books etc. You only have yourself and whoever is personally loyal to you for help. Remember the only secure jobs are government jobs including the armed forces, USPS, LEO etc so if at all practical choose those like them or not, because real life is about money as anyone without money finds out instantly.
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  4012. That figures. The sight of equipment (which people imagine they can understand how to access let alone redeploy) bothers the American public much more than my dead and wounded military brothers and sisters. Bubba LIKE HMMWV truck. Truck have big tires Bubba can relate to. Bubba not have money for truck so Bubba is irate. The Soldiers, Marines and Airmen in the Walter Reed burn wards were forgotten years ago because the American public have the attention span of a fruit fly.
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  4013. Tanks are K-killed in war. Water is also wet. Remember when Kiev was supposed to fall in weeks? Remember when the USSR and Warsaw Pact were supposed to conquer Europe? 😂 The only people who believe any vehicle to be invincible are militarily illiterate fools unworthy of the slightest respect. Abrams however usually saves its crew in contrast to making them cosmonauts.
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  4014. Child-free women MAY want a man, but single mothers are wired by nature to be parasites seeking a new host to feed their little mistakes. Nature is that way and no man is going to undo billions of years of evolution. Putting your intimate business in the street shows total absence of class. The ghost was wise because there is no dealing with crazy girl drama and if he's reading this, you dodged a bullet bro.
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  4015. End all government funding of these internal enemies.
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  4016. It won't work for a torso hit but would a properly applied tourniquet isolate the the limb in time for treatment even if that required amputation? Individual First Aid Kits save many lives in modern warfare and if one is worth having wearing them on a battle belt (ideal for carrying all sorts of civilian items) could be a wise choice. Also worth noting is conventional hypodermic needles are used because they're inexpensive. A safer method would be an autoinjector as used for poison and chem warfare antidotes held in a tube of convenient length and with a safety device that must be activated by the operator (like a trigger operated shroud). Operator approaches target animal then thrusts autoinjector against it from a modest standoff distance. If an autoinjector is not wanted a handled tube with a simple safety and spring loaded plunger would avoid open needles as it could deshroud the needle on injection. A long handle is ergonomically desirable because people usually avoid the awkward act of putting sticks end-first against body parts.
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  4017. Dollar Tree serve the market. The supposedly wonderful "Mom and Pop" stores in rural areas often sold at such high markups they could and did buy stock at RETAIL from stores near the owners home.
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  4018. That simply is not "graphic", but nice work!
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  4019.  @k2_tech745  That was a glorious win for the Glasscock quarry/concrete plant across from the base.
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  4020. In democracies the voters elect their representatives and they're not doing a good job at their civic duty. Good government DEMANDS aggressive civic activism and being passive gets you nowhere.
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  4021. Let's not pretend they're unhappy about anything but losing. Russian politicians are just other mobsters like Putin trying to place themselves in a safe position as in previous leadership swaps. Russia cannot reform because it has zero cultural basis for anything but the tyrannical predatory systems it has ALWAYS had since Tsarist times. Russia is intrinsically evil and all of its "reformers" failed without exception because Russia is really a genocidal (twice in Ukraine with millions dead the first time) mafia with nuclear weapons.
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  4022. Tape is long obsolete. Media is digital and who dug up that ancient telly?
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  4023. Check out the Fat Leonard scandal and the suppression of how far it really goes. The public need to demand the Navy be fixed. What the public fail to care about is ignored.
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  4024. If she or someone else is on his government insurance (which you can retain for life if you make the payments) that needs investigation.
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  4025. These communties ARE the criminals. Nobody is driving in from the burbs to rob and steal. Let the church start their own drug store. Churches get free money every Sunday. Most people live more than a mile from their drug stores.
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  4026. Never forget most people are unintelligent, ignorant, uneducated and militarily illiterate yet they dare imagine their opinions valid.
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  4027. No, they're LYING and you should not have used that title even for views so WHY DID YOU POST IT? Bad call, continue monitoring. Their CEO is not gone, their policy will not really change because the same sexist racist management still run the company.
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  4028. Stop building flammable structures. This is not difficult and there are many ways to do it. Smart people already have concrete dome homes or other non-flammable designs. Stop wanting wooden buildings where they are a fire risk. This is not rocket surgery.
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  4029. The sea bottom is an impressive belt sander!
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  4030. Support is ephemeral and should not be taken for granted. Russian military incompetence should never overshadow near-complete success at subverting Western masses who are for the most part savagely ignorant and as fiercely proud of their ignorance as the worst Russian nationalists. That Europe ever trusted Putin or ever bought energy from Russia demonstrates the large quisling population had and will continue to have great influence. Had Putin waited for NATO to finish collapsing he'd be laughing in Kiev today. Russia is ontological enemy to civilization of which it was never part beyond borrowing technology. Failure to understand that (no small thanks to over a century of Bolshevik and successor subversion) lead to degenerately naive disarmament which invited Putin to invade Ukraine. Harmlessness is no defense. Ukraine foolishly trusted US guarantees and got rid of the nuclear weapons absolutely and permanently required to contain Moscow. (Poland and Ukraine should build their own nuclear deterrents because no ally can be counted on to take massive casualties to defend another. Same goes for Taiwan since there is no strategic argument for US suicide however earnestly professed.)
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  4031.  @direwolf6234  Since a governent pension is also earned, what's the logic behind punishing former Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen already enlisted or previously serving who honored THEIR end of the contract under its CONTEMPORARY terms? They wage war for our rich owners so other American citizens don't have to.
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  4032. VOTERS elected them. VOTERS chose this by their free adult choice who to give power.
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  4033. End bail. Problem solved.
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  4034. The only people who respected Harvard never graduated high school and are political illiterates who must have been living under rocks since the 1960s.
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  4035. Suspending the bad students is important because it removes them so they cannot interfere with motivated students. The idea discipline only affects the students disciplined is silly. Losers gonna drop out but every motivated student is precious to their community's upward economic mobility and social progress. Most humans of every color are basically slugs with progress driven by the motivated (who might not always excel academically but that's different from LEARNING). The good kids deserve better and school choice vouchers are the way. Vouchers let parents who care about their children take their own taxes back and send their children to private schools.
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  4036. The machine tool shops on Canal Street were glorious too.
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  4037. Supporting the technical right to speak has precisely nothing to do with PRIVATE support of one's cultural enemies who should be othered, disempowered (legally, you can boycott any movement you wish and the people who compose it) and otherwise fought. The Constitution ONLY restrains government in the respect of freedom of association which must inherently include freedom NOT to associate. Politics is war and extending protections to cultural enemies out of specifically Leftist "idealism" is silly. RESULTS matter and "ideals" are merely subjective meanst to an end. Democracy is for managing affairs between those who SHARE a common culture, not for incorporating enemy cultures because someone gulled by over a century of Bolshevik and successor brainwashing said so. I reject that which is not to the advantage of my and MY people and MY nation. The Left took over academia and temporarily won, but that can be reversed using the same strategy that defeated old simple weak "conservative". The only tragedy at Kent State was poor marksmanship.
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  4038. Because insurance companies run the medical industry and will use any excuse to milk it.
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  4039. Incompetence.
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  4040. It's childish (that means stupid) to imagine that Hamas are not wildly popular and do not represent Palestine. The US Left naturally hates Israel and was cheerleading every Jihadist group against Israel. It will continue to do so.
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  4041. Good. Humans should not live in deserts beyond what the unmodified desert will support because it ends badly sooner or later. When I first deployed to KSA we'd pass groups of Bedouin who still preferred desert life to dehumanizing cities however nice those were. One I asked said he felt closer to god and freer. I cannot fault his reasoning.
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  4042. Send the parents to Ukraine and they may lose their appetite for squandering their offspring, but I doubt it. Militarism is easily used to manipulate the simple all over the world. The idea Stalinism "liberated" anyone not Stalinist is highly questionable, demonstrated by revolts and resistance in former Warsaw Pact nations after their conquest. The first victims of Bolshevism were Russians but they are long forgotten, such that modern iconography simultaneously celebrates the Romanovs and the Soviets who butchered them.
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  4043. American culture does that automatically and no conspiracy required. That is why we have NO real intellectual class, just a few grifting entertainers. Local school boards are elected (mostly) and THE key reason US primary education is terrible. American popular culture reflects the British Crown using the US (especially the South because it needed agrarian labor) as a dumping ground for those it wanted off the streets and often removed by force. Americans did not come to the US for "freedom" they came here for land and money. The Puritans (effectively Christian (t)aliban) got booted for being too crazy even for Europe which is something of an accomplishment. Regenerative feedback is not just an electrical term. It applies to cultures and is why the US is only good at technology while being socially incompetent. The American people did this to themselves, they are proud of it and therefore deserve the consequences.
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  4044. If you want to relocate wisely, avoid poor people because they didn't get that way being intelligent, responsible or capable. Cities exist for economic reasons and when those end they are disposable. Don't live there. Choose growing TOWNS instead where the growth rate is driven by nearby areas but those areas haven't ruined them. NEVER buy in expecting to live there for the rest of your life unless you can manage a semi-rural area with inexorable but SLOW growth so what you bought in for isn't ruined while you're still alive.
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  4045. "Considering?" Just do it and run older versions of Windows in virtual machines for specific apps which never contact the internet. The only thing that needs internet access is a web browser.
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  4046. He's desperate to be relevant and it's easy to see why he didn't make General. Ukraine is not a war between modern nation-states, it's like the Iran-Iraq war of two less-developed nation-states who have some individual modern systems and piles of legacy equipment. The Marine mission was never to be another Army but leadership began doing Army jobs to keep funded. That of course isn't their orginal mission so going back to small unit deployments in the Pacific makes much more sense.
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  4047. The tester is an American Welding Society standard bend tester for which specs and many homebrew examples are available. Bend testing is a very good idea because unless you perform destructive testing you do not know if you can weld properly. It's a vital learning tool for every welding school. 120v machines are a joke for anything other than thin stock they're intended for but they do have a place because they're so mobile. Open Circuit Voltage is highly relevant to performance and should be measured as part of any welder review, especially machines whose makers are not attached to objective truth. Note the OCV along with performance running low hy rods for informative fun. Comparing the bottom tier inverter machines to bottom tier transformer machines would be interesting. Inverters use much less copper which is a key reason manufacturers like them both for material cost and lower shipping cost due to light weight.
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  4048.  @keiradrais-td9dz  The Democratic government lets them in. Texas tries to resist but the Democrats keep blocking their moves.
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  4049. Gym rats (with exceptions who know who you are) are not the most intelligent lot. Gym participation for other than functional (like military, LEO etc members who need strength for physical combat) reasons is (almost) always driven by vanity of the uneducated.
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  4050. Cory Doctorow is right about enshittification. Vice chose to be shit. Nothing of value is lost.
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  4051. Condos are a scam targeting people clueless about construction and law, not just an HOA issue. Know and understand if YOU do not own the entire structure you live in AND the land it sits on you have nil real control and no financial safety.
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  4052. Submariners are SAILORS not soldiers. No loss to civilization though. China is a menace to its neighbors.
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  4053. Like him or not, Diddy has the right attitude towards women who chase celebrities. There can be no innocent motives after all.
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  4054. If the locals disapproved of crime they'd stop committing crimes.
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  4055. Why should a weak Russia not lose to the same containment that broke the USSR?
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  4056. Everyone is perfectly free to create art for their own amusement. AI democratizes PUBLIC ACCESS to image manipulation. Of course so-called "artists" want their cut of someone else's money.
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  4057. I find it hilarious that so many Americans fail to understand that Russia remains our key geopolitical opponent, especially the fools who imagine it's "tradcon". Unlike them I was alive through most of the first innings of the Cold War and on the free side of the Berlin Wall while the nice Mr. Putin was serving his Soviet masters. I also remember when being a conservative meant supporting democracy and self-determination. The European Cold War victory over the USSR was magnificent but far from complete. How is it that modern know-nothings are so contrarian that they will do anything out of spite? I was alive when the US was capable of bipartisan action but now FSB shills control the dumbest least informed angriest Americans. Putin and his predecessors are the reason the modern Left Fox viewers abominate exists in the first place. In the old days they fooled the hippies and today they fool the hicks. As for Israel they're not MY chosen people but the US claims to be a Christian nation so we'll see how far it takes Biblical tribal warfare. Israel is not Ukraine.
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  4058. The GOP made a choice when it courted poor ignorant whites with NO intention of delivering. The GOP made another choice by ignoring them until they snapped and took over the party. There is NO way to start a viable third party in the US because the Demublicans and Repocrats murdered every previous attempt. That means REAL patriots have only one choice, taking over the GOP, so the did and as that happened the old racist GOP leaders who skrewed everyone else are discarded and a NEW MULTI-RACIAL REPUBLICAN PARTY becomes possible. All decent black and brown humans need to to is simply get involved then it becomes THEIR party too. This is long overdue.
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  4059.  @PostMalone-real  Running away is actually a fine idea for the individual as the absurdly high demand to live in CA ruined it. I escaped the NY metropolitan area for similar reasons. I don't need to live in NY or CA so I don't, and no one else does either! The US is enormous so I see no point getting attached to a piece of dirt when there is plenty of dirt elsewhere.
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  4060. American culture ensured failure in constabulary wars or (at best and that conflict isn't really finished) Pyrrhic victory in Iraq. The vast majority of Americans (even urbanites) are ignorant hicks at heart. From that majority ignorant hicks like LBJ flow. Most viewers will have no idea that Matt Ridgeway was deeply and rightly proud of keeping the US out of Nam during the Eisenhower administration, but he had senior combat leadership experience and was not some idiot civilian unable to THINK STRATEGICALLY. Viet Nam was inarguably a STRATEGIC MISTAKE borne of exceptionalist ignorance (Korea is a peninsula, Nam is not, map reading is fundamental....). There was no possible US move that China could not have countered so the North had permanent initiative. Strategy wins wars, not morality. US ability to win in ground combat was not sufficient to win the rest of the war, but idiots who think war but a technical contest will never understand that. Nothing was learnt from SEA so the US repeated its mistakes after the last Nam era leaders (Norman Schwarzkopf etc) were long gone. We will do it again in twenty or thirty years when yet another "best and brightest" batch of high IQ fools hallucinate they can win against a Maoist insurgency (Taliban fought similarly) supported by nationalists. No one who works with a foreign occupier is a real nationalist.
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  4061. ReactOS is NOT a version of Windows which is the whole legal point of coding it. Don't confuse ReactOS with fan-made modified Windows. It's quite different and its goals are posted for all to read.
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  4062. GOOD. WFH and modern comms permit reduced martydom. Bosses who want little personal empires lose. Bosses who know how to leverage a happy workforce PROFIT. We get PAID to work because work is COMPENSATED SUFFERING. The gent who pumped my septic tank is wildly unlikely to want it for a hobby. When "work" is information management then it can be done flexibly! Most "boomers" (I am one) are as ignorant and stupid as EVERY generation. Generations differ but the average human is none too bright so they buy into the idea of suffering as noble (supersititon is a major player here) but I do not. All that matters is that the work GETS DONE, suffering is not a value-add. As for housing more should be built which means government encouragement of construction. Australia and Canada have vast empty spaces yet housing is absurdly expensive. Ban foriegn residential real estate investment and much of that would be solved.
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  4063. What is your demolition expertise and on what projects? Why do you imagine the work to be simple?
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  4064. The best way to brace yourself is produce fearmongering videos for the millions seeking the comforting illusion of special insight. Then spend the money moving to a comfortable rural area in a nation not a nuclear target. Obviously (it should be obvious) global society doesn't collapse. Those are local so be at another location.
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  4065. The idea churches should be tax exempt has nothing to do with the Establishment Clause but Americans have no interest in literacy.
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  4066. Did Fox copy writers graduate high school?
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  4067. Perhaps the most common cause of revolutions is LAND REFORM. The US revolted to escape rule by "landed gentry" whose equivalent the rich by nature seek to impose de-facto and eventually de-jure.
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  4068. It's considered politically incorrect to point that out.
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  4069. The usual suspects who shall not be named.
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  4070. Cops quitting places where the public hate them makes sense. Those publics are unworthy of police protection and should beg the thugs they worship to protect them.
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  4071.  @christiandauz3742  Texas CAN but chooses not to. That's different.
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  4072. Why should anyone presume undertrained Russian tank crews currently have much useful experience in armored warfare when their employment shows many of their units don't even herringbone when they halt? They tend to sit line ahead and bunched making easy arty kills. When they encounter mines that often kills a whole formation. Russians often probe with a single tank then quit when it gets lit up. Where is the Russian air support? If they could manage decent FMC rates in the first place the war would be over. They obviously cannot.
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  4073. Yugoslavia is much closer to civilization so adults must intevene now and then. The locals prefer snuffing each other to sex, food and oxygen which would be fine but civilization doesn't need the refugees. OTOH Ethiopia is distant from civilization and of little global value so their quaint pastimes of choice have mostly local impact. The situation can never, ever be fixed by outsiders who should stay (or be kept) far away to avoid making things even worse. Ethiopian problems are self-imposed. The locals have agency.
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  4074. I'm impressed no one has dealt with that traitor mayor but they were dumb enough to elect him in the first place.
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  4075.  @Voicesampd  That but that is never how it works in practice because once you are invaded the cost is on YOUR city. OTOH cities whose people are smarter than yours do not become sanctuary cities because we KNOW what ALWAYS happens. Keep voting for it and live your best life.
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  4076.  @buscottie  To be fair, most G.I.s don't actually CARE about background. (I'm a career USAF vet.) Young Americans like the rest of the country are not wired to care about foreign affairs, military affairs outside their personal taskings, and ESPECIALLY the social history of US constabulary wars and why we are unable to choose them wisely. I was alive when Viet Nam was completely forgotten and the meme that we should have just applied more firepower took over. Afghanistan will be collectively forgotten the same way and we will do it again in about 25 years after the military cadre who served have retired. The American public are too stupid to care and mostly drool on their shoes while thanking us for our service about which they know nothing useful by their own relentless choice.
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  4077. It is forbidden to point out cultures are not interchangeable so I won't do that. It is considered offensive to point out "quality" is alien to some parts of the globe and some parts of any country so I won't do that either. For example W. Edwards Deming was a postwar hero in Japan but ignored in his own country. Modern technology demands attitudes, methods and practices different from those suited to ancient tribal societies. That does NOT make those societies "bad" but inability to change, punishing that which is different, and rewarding seniority as if it alone is a virtue has consequences and will continue to cost blood and treasure. Most humans are simple and simple people should stay in their lane but being simple the don't understand why. Emotionalism is aircrew is simple degenerate because it reflects lack of calm, cool, professional self-mastery. The sooner automation surpasses meatbags (already common in niche cases) the sooner we can remove humans from decision required cold pragmatic logic and reason. Humans are inconsistent and weak, they tire and are easy to distract. Remote crewed aircraft have been landing on pitching aircraft carrier decks for years. It will be a fine day when there are no meatbags in other than recreational cockpits.
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  4078.  @davidjma7226  That doesn't mean it was either maintained or flown properly. Flying near that terrain in IMC conditions is laughably bad airmanship even in a perfect machine with high time Western military aircrew neither of which were present. Perfectly good choppers crash fairly often. A wise man would have flown ABOVE the weather in a fixed wing machine.
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  4079. I want to see a plan to fix recruiting. That requires COMPETITIVE PAY and BENEFITS because anyone qualified to enlist in any demanding MOS/AFSC/etc has plenty of options so they take them. Expecting junior enlisted to stay for a career (modern technical specialties require several years of experience which matures in the second or third enlistment, not the first) while not paying what the market will bear is absurd. Other reforms desperately needed include Navy procurement so we get ships for our money that are better than the LCS mistake.
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  4080. Politics is war. Disagreement over fundamental issues is enmity so no sense pretending otherwise. If the old GOP regime who patronized Americans they never intended to represent had not included them to exploit them by the Southern Strategy the so0called "classic conservatives" (sounds better than "bankster pimps") would still be in power, but they couldn't resist exploiting the GOP base who are now after their scalps. Human nature means the so-called swamp will never be drained but the operation can change hands and it's hilarious to watch.
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  4081. Americans do not value teaching enough to attract competent people and the current culture labels men who teach (other than sports) as probable ch0m0s. That choice to abandon oversight of public education includes school boards who are often promoted from the existing leftist base. The US needs more "CISHET" men teaching but most men aren't willing to accept thankless poverty and abuse from a corrupt (at school board level) system.
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  4082. We need to END immgration from the third world. We owe it nothing.
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  4083. Perfectly normal since New York became a city.
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  4084. The First Amendment APPLIES TO GOVERNMENT not private property. I knew that in grade school.
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  4085. If you are a young man in the armed forces scrape off the hood you enlisted to escape and the young hoze who only want your money. Heed the wisdom of your SNCOs for they have seen it all MANY times and you are not wiser than men of experience you do not yet have. Do not buy the Chally on credit either. Nothing wastes the opportunities the armed forces offer quite like stupid boot tricks. Do not marry the stripper. Do not even touch single mothers. Know and understand that most military bases are in backward areas of the US because training takes millions of acres. That means you will eventually train or PCS in the US equivalent of a Third World Chithole where the only way for females too stupid for a career to escape is to marry for BAH, BAS and half your pension when they're done with your dumb azz. NOTHING you can do will make that different. If possible PCS overseas and stay there (Europe and Japan are awesome). Do not wife a barracks bunny. All this is very simple and you are constantly warned for good reasons by your brothers at arms.
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  4086.  @Bialy_1  That is also ancient history and Bradley matured into a war winning system. Technical illiterates should recuse themselves.
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  4087.  @patriot9455  No one can tell them what to do and if they keep quiet who is to know? There is no moral obligation to political enemies so deception is duty and right not wrong.
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  4088. Germany is still politically divided between pro-Soviet Leftist traitors and pro-NATO citizens. If someone did Germany a favor cutting the financial incentive to sell out NATO, that won't necessarily offend everyone.
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  4089. Russia is the ontological enemy of Western civilization and Putin wants to revive the Soviet Union he grew up serving. Revenge alone is ample justification for US support of every enemy of the Kremlin considering nearly every US casualty after WWII is connected indirectly or directly to Russian support for our opponents. There is more to defending the West than US partisan squabbles. I was alive before the Berlin Wall came down and stationed in West Germany. Lest we forget anyone trying to flee to the West over, through or under that barrier was shot unless they lucked out. Russia has not changed, only been temporarily weakened. Eastern Europe is not ruled by the US Democratic party. It resists Russia because it's been invaded by Russia more than once. The Ukrainian PEOPLE are collectively resisting Russia. All governments are corrupt because humanity is corrupt (and greedy and stupid) by nature. That does not mean a nation should welcome invasion by an enemy which murdered millions of its people in living memory (the Stalinist era). Russia also supports Israel's enemies Hezbollah, Iran and Syria. No version of Russia was ever good.
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  4090. Drunk drivers don't care who they kill or injure, or they would not make the informed adult choice to drive drunk. Ditto those differently intoxicated.
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  4091. Dummies need to stop buying homes in developments. They need to stop liking fundamentally foolish choices.
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  4092. FPV routinely carry RPG and don't need the launcher.
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  4093. Sex has always been competitive but in the past there were fewer self-entitled whining self-pitying losers. There were always losers but traditional masculinity was generally realist. Chads were cheered one with less envy. The US was in a vastly worse economic situation during the Great Depression yet today's social malaise is evidently more severe despite a worker shortage so large mass quitting are the new normal. Previous generations didn't (nutjobs excepted) imagine society entitled them to get laid. If you want the benefits of social interaction in meatspace vs online then unass the chair and DO things. Volunteering is a great way to meet smart, positive people motivated to improve their and your community. To get what you desire you must become desirable, but that's good not bad for character growth. Use the internet positively to find opportunities to grow socially and network. Participate in society and reap the rewards.
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  4094. ​ @teoleno4019  That's common to be honest.
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  4095. Economic crashes do not "end" countrys. They are intermittent events and just part of any economy. Russia has shrugged off losing tens of millions in war, genocide and civil war (no one outside of historians today remember that even happened ). Russia will not improve because that's completely outside its historic and cultural experience and because the stakeholders can easily replace Putin with another apparatchik.
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  4096. So easy to say from your basement! Chechnya had the choice of being destroyed or playing ball with the Kremlin. Winning was not an option. Kadyrov could have been a national hero by turning against Putin but you need to remember basically everyone has to be a gangster to survive. The real nationalists were mostly murdered by the FSB. Chechnya was abandoned by the West because Chechens are mostly Muslim so Russians killing Chechens was seen as good news all around. Of course that backfired...
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  4097. Ukraine is couch money and a distraction. Preventing a Soviet respawn is suddenly not a concern among adults who lived through the early Cold War and should know better. Military REFORM is vital but Ukraine is separate from military reform and it's simplistic demagoguery to conflate the two. GWOT was a NeoCon disaster. Ukraine is not GWOT, at all. The Soviet Union Putin seeks to restore predates that era and Russian subversion is directly responsible for the entire Western and global Left. Russia helped kill and wound nearly every US casualty since WWII. Opposing Russia is national self-defense not warmongering. I remember when Democrats and Republicans helped defend the US at the front lines of world democracy in Western Europe when I was on the US side of the Berlin Wall. Today that's forgotten by men who should know better. That will never not be shameful. Confusing EVERY military action with NeoCon conspiracy is childish and naive. I expect that kind of thinking from rustics in red ball caps but we see Democrats are not beyond such oversimplification.
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  4098. If you have your whole life to get your act together it should be together. If you have rent money you can do what millions of others do and score at least a trailer on a plot in the boonies (where land is cheap and life is easy) instead of renting forever. Renting at 30 while your career is mobile is fine. Renting at 50 and up means you dropped the ball. Apartments are bad so I don't live in one. Cities are bad so I don't live in one (people fail to realize "growth" just increases costs for everyone except the rich who profit). Tourist traps are bad so I don't live in one. I'm in their age range but used my life to not be helpless (it's never too late). If you don't devote your life to preparing for bad times you guarantee bad times. For example my property taxes on five+ acres are about $800/year. If I rented my land I couldn't afford it because rent is always higher than that portion of the property's mortgage. Small lots with old small homes and/or trailers are all over the Southeast and payments are less than rent. Even my civilianbros who are seriously disabled own their own lots and homes because they chose wisely. You don't need a McMansion, just reliable safe shelter but Americans either buy too much house or none at all and lose badly thereby. Think about it and lead a ruthlessly planned life because silly games win silly prizes. You can never start too early.
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  4099. DISCIPLINED generosity has been immensely useful to me and builds human support networks. I have many useful skills at which I'm respected so I can do things I greatly enjoy at no cost to me but of immense help to my friends who also have those skills and help me. We go so far as to give each other pickup trucks, tools and equipment. We build each others shops and much more so everyone saves absurd amounts of money while having great fun at what we enjoy.
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  4100.  @cideogameguy515  Nor mine and I've driven beaters since I started driving in 1978. Most people are helpless by choice.
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  4101. Nothing makes living in an area vulnerable to storm surge and levee failure a smart choice.
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  4102. THEY DON'T SELL TICKETS.
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  4103.  @bensoloart  BPs are just common, not a high end mill but there are so many of them they're a good general choice. If hunting a home mill study fora like Practical Machinist to learn what's worth hunting. I have an old round ram BP and it's decent but I'd much prefer a Wells-Index (still made in USA and they make parts for older machines).
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  4104. Children choose war which is bad for economic stability. Adults act with money and play a very long game. Beijing has nothing to gain from actual war while trade can gradually increase its economic power and make billions over time. The best way to obtain resources is exploit economic weakness so their owners are forced to extract and sell them at little or nil profit out of desperation. If the market changes there are fewer domestic jobs at stake.
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  4105. Which they were of course and will remain.
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  4106. There is far more to NATO than the US who Europe should no longer need to defend itself. Poland (being wiser than the rest invests in its freedom and that of others!) spends ~4% on self-defense so the rest have no excuse. It was an honor to help defend NATO in the 1980s but soon as the Berlin Wall came down the usual deluded subversives (the USSR was as good at subversion as it as economically and socially incompetent) talked adults who should have known disarmament invites invasion and unlike armed pacifism is an excuse to be a helpless future victim. I've no use for Trump but absolutely nothing else would coerce Europe to do the right thing. The generations who defended Western culture and secular free democracy in the early decades are dead or will soon be pushing daisies. Fresh motivated younger Europeans must pick up the sword unless living under a NeoSoviet respawn looks like a good idea. Blaming armies for wars is absurd. Politicians start those and their public support them. A just people will seek peace and only wage just wars. Be proud of your armed forces for they always were and always will be the force which keeps barbarians from sacking and enslaving you! The profession of war is a noble one where the war is itself noble. Warriors are ennobled by their cause. Ask the former Warsaw Pact members who promptly joined their European brothers and sisters in NATO why they chose freedom. BTW self-defense against nuclear powers REQUIRES nuclear weapons and not someone else's so Poland in particular would be wise to build a domestic nuclear deterrent of the mainland Chinese style which is ample to deter invasion but not sufficient for a first strike which would be destabilizing. HAVE ADULT DISCUSSIONS about your armed forces and their role in your society because national and collective defense is too important to permit yourself ignorance. Democracy is only as good as its voters. Do not let your political party think for you. That is not their purpose. Inaction is consent.
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  4107. They were too old for the priests to Epstein so they got booted.
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  4108. Blue voters brought this on their communities by choice for the last fifty years+.
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  4109. Killer Karens are no joke.
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  4110. What illiterate wrote that caption? The deceased teens are obviously not on trial.
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  4111. If you end up on that mans jury you know what to do, and never say a word about it after. If he gets convicted you can put money on his commissary account as a show of support.
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  4112. Methods suitable to dealing with good humans are not suited to dealing with bad ones who ideally would be liquidated not stored. Criminals are essentially primitives with primitive psychologies, especially in intellectually and socially primitive third world areas. Discard them into prisons until they're too old and broken to prey on good citizens if mass liquidations are impractical. The US is unable to address crime because ONLY THE PROCESS MATTERS to stakeholders, not the results. Democracy requires MATURE cultures with appropriate values because democracy is weak by design. That backfires when a nation is infected with animals better put to the sword and who at least should be removed from society for life. Good people don't need bad people or need to treat those with empathy when force is required. Most crimes are by repeat offenders so to end those crimes, end the offenders. The public have no moral obligation to their enemies and it's nice to see a real man step forward to do what is right without apology. Gangs are vermin unworthy of life, and so are their supporters. Salvadorans are rightly proud of Bukele for saving the nation. The communists and other liberals who condemn Bukele always favor evil over good, criminal over innocent citizens, and seek to impose their new world order advantageous to themselves. Weak, broken nations are easier to coerce, extort and trap with debt.
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  4113. Liberalism like democracy is inherently weak which in a society of friends is a feature but elsewhere a severe bug. As it is natural for Bolsheviks to dominate Communist systems (because genocide of anyone not Communist is a practical necessity to eliminate capitalism and genocide requires killers) it is natural for fanatics to dominate liberal discourse. They unlike weaklings have will to power and do not shy from pandering by affirmation to gain adherents or purging the less motivated. The masses can only be understood by admitting their vulns but that's considered disrespectful. Hamas, Hez etc are as natural a fit for the liberal Left as Che-style killers were in the 1960s. They benefit from (often valid) anti-colonial narratives. The masses are not sophisticated people and educated liberals make a grave mistake identifying with the mob. (That same mistake broke the GOP turning it into the hilarious mess we see today.) The idiot beastmob (any ideology which fails to admit it is that is delusional) require engagement on THEIR terms. Liberalism prefers purity spirals. Long ago the "classic" Buckley-style conservatives imagined they could rule their simple base forever. Liberals have a similar challenge and are losing theirs too. As for Israel marketing only goes so far. Anyone not Israeli or bound to them by Christianity has no coldly pragmatic reason to care what happens to it. Let that sink in and remember not to confuse one's own beliefs with the world at large. The transactional relationship of American Jews with the old civil rights movement (the few true believers should not confuse themselves with anyone else) succeeded for decades but POC always understood it to be transactional. The bright young sabra narrative of 1967 doesn't work in 2023 so Israel faces permanent enemies who now have an (imported, thanks to liberal values which are a suicide pact) base inside the USA. Liberals opened the gates to the most savagely patriarchal anti-liberal superstition because their ideology excludes realism. It's a cloud cuckoo fantasy land unsuited to dealing with real people. This cannot change because the masses cannot change and do not care for the lofty debates of theorists. Only acceleration offers the possibility of change and because politics is war that will get messy. Harmlessness defends nothing.
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  4114. BECOMING? Boomer (the real chronological era variety) here who witnessed otherwise. Most people were always and will always remain simple creatures because we cannot choose to be intelligent which is pure luck. Democracy eventually turns to idiocracy as the idiots figure out how to exploit its inherent weakness which was formerly its virtue. When everyone can play, they do because there are no filters. Nations rise and fall as their user base destroy what wiser predecessors built (building nations is a filter, unlike being born into them).
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  4115. I clear just under $70K and half that is discretionary. I'm legit medically disabled so though I enjoy using my skills (jet mech and much more) I'm not able to manage a full days work due to exhaustion so I fully retired, I'm otherwise doing fine financially, am debt free and own my homes and acreage. That income wouldn't buy gutter space where I'm from but elsewhere in the US one can be quite comfy if you choose to be highly self-sufficient. My trade school students likewise did well as overhead in the non-coastal Southeast can be very low.
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  4116. Escalation is good news in the end because the Democrats will eliminate appeasement as a viable defense. Democrats regard conservatives as conservatives should regard them, without the slighest respect or empathy. Politics is war, the Left exist to end Western civilization . They are products of over a century of Soviet and other subversion which became self-sustaining.
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  4117. F-16s are easy to maintain even in austere conditions (I spent over twenty years including Desert Shield/Storm as an engine troop later merged with crew chief on A/B/C/D/CJs, this is not speculation) and thanks to the high volume of airframes parts will mostly be easy to manage through existing supply systems (which are global). Getting pieces and parts to Europe is business as usual (FedEx, DHL and UPS make the world go round). While fantasists dream dogfight dreams that's childish nonsense. Vipers are valuable for the variety of standoff weapons they can carry. They can operate in conjunction with other systems including drones to distract Russian AAM and any system which can attack Russian air bases to disrupt launches. Russia may or may not be able to afford 24/7 CAP missions (even if it can those wear out equipment imposing a sustainment burden) and every defensive sortie is one offensive sortie not flown. Aircraft exist to generate effective sorties. Losing AWACS reduces Russian surveillance coverage, not least because heavies must land for refuel, crew swaps (assuming the have enough trained operators), repair, inspections and maintenance. Ukraine will lose a few (it's war after all and not a one-sided US constabulary mission zapping peasants with no air power) but employed properly 16s will do considerable damage and divert considerable NeoSoviet resources. War is not a game of performance statistics but a creative contest between systems of systems.
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  4118.  @DSwear420  Most of the homeless are a nasty lot no one wants for neighors because they're failures and will never be anything better or different.
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  4119. John Deere are moving production to Mexico and their anti-owner repair policies are foul so abandoning woke is not nearly enough.
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  4120. Rotary valves only make poppet (the correct term) valves look "silly" to those unstudied in valve design. Poppet valves are easy top manufacture, repair, and modify. Cylinder pressure aids their seal against the valve seat. Like sleeve valves they CAN be made to work but the tradeoffs (rotary valves are not some magical zero flow impedance design) proved not worthwhile. Cool idea but like many over the last couple of centuries it (like sleeve valves) looks better on the drawing board.
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  4121. The US grew too fast and is grossly overcrowded. That forced down quality of life. The best thing for all concerned is reduced immigration. People should fix their own countries since the US is too big to fix by any popular movement. It just has its own momentum.
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  4122. Work is COMPENSATED SUFFERING. People work for MONEY because everything is about MONEY because MONEY MAKES FREEDOM USABLE. Labor and management are enemies. Consider the wars fought to end chattel slavery before imagining otherwise. Work is shovelling feces. There is nothing to inspire passion about fecal rearrangement.
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  4123. If your video files are on microSD card there are many low grade ones out there which may cause file corruption. I and many others go with Sandisk (beware of fakes).
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  4124. Why would a good cop work for their enemies? You work crap departments when you can't get hired anywhere decent.
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  4125. There is no peaceful way to solve the Democrat problem, and they will eventually provoke a suitable backlash. This is purely a Democrat problem and should always be identified as such. They want to give this country away to the world as if we owed the world something which I most certainly do not.
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  4126. The G.I.classic Permethrin is used to fend off ticks for good reason, but after my wife got Lyme I have no intelligent reason to enter wooded areas except to cut down mine other than a narrow windbreak. I treat my uniforms (ideal for the hostile environment we call "nature") and hang them in my greenhouse to rapidly dry out. BTW copper sulphate kills mosquito larvae and can be good for plants.
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  4127. Freedom of association is a right. Baton Rouge does not have to serve the new city and has no more business complaining about what someone else does with their money. People should be able to CHOOSE their government, and St. George simply wants to do so. Liking them or not is irrelevant, there being nothing in the Bill of Rights about butthurt compensation.
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  4128. Nightmare for the locals of course but going hacky-choppy on each other is their preferred sport. It will take centuries for the peoples to choose to change. No one can choose for them. If Sudan annoys important countries by interfering with trade it will be dealt with and a more reasonable client government helped to power.. Coups are just business as usual in Africa. Anyone not bored with it all hasn't really been watching. The US should keep its distance because we are culturally unsuited (being rustics at heart) to manage these small wars by direct involvement. It's a EUROPEAN problem for Europe to solve. The investments at stake are not American. Not our people, not our problem and white people do not belong in Africa.
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  4129. I love it! Perfect clickbait title deserving of more views on principle. Automatic like on my part.
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  4130. Your city burned because of DEMOCRATS and their hood rat pets. The voters did this.
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  4131. Why is NO ONE pressing the mayor to rescind the executive order making NYC a sanctuary city? Why is not one else mentioning this?
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  4132. Never attribute to conspiracy what can be explained by laziness and bad parenting. Good parents SET EXAMPLES for their offspring and those who heed those examples profit. Most humans are stupid so they make stupid choices and school boards are mostly elected which guarantees stupid people run schools by their ignorant proxies. No need for a conspiracy.
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  4133. Reasons do not exist to care when new cats and sensors are cost a significant portion of vehicle worth. When I buy used vehicles I inspect them personally no matter whence they came. Not everyone is wealthy like yourself.
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  4134. Poor people are poor because of personal defects so they destroy what is given them.
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  4135. Black Americans are not fashionable to the very pampered US white Left who mostly abandoned you when there was nothing left to exploit. The civil rights movement among the white Left was largely a scam by other groups (I have to word this carefully because Youtube bots) seeking their own advantage. As soon as other groups got the academic and corporate advantages they wanted they lost interest in African Americans. Support of protests is NOT support of meaningful changes which help the working class. It's a national shame.
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  4136.  @andrewbrummer9539  Anti-seize or Loctite since either excludes moisture. Use quality anti-seize like Jet Lube copper or nickel, but not the watery cheap auto store Permatex stuff though that's better than nothing.
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  4137. The public create the government. The public elect that government including those who appoint non-elective positions. Unfortunately the American public are generally igorant, proudly uneducated as the decline of the US demonstrates, generally incompetent to run our Republic.
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  4138. Consumers killed Victory. Indian is the response. They were just not selling.
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  4139. Never be a beta tester even if you are rich. Never buy any model that has not previously beenproven by at least a few million units produced. Never buy anything that has not been a great success in COMMERCIAL fleet service as those buyers are the best informed. Never buy Chinese vehicles unless you are Chinese and patriotic. Most MG sales are in China and should remain there as enriching a government actively genociding minorities is morally questionable. Never fall for the nonsense that a nation to whom Western quality concepts and morality are utterly alien cares about the customer. (If in doubt watch a few SerpentZA and laowhy86 videos, study Uigher genocide etc before considering your next vehicle.) Much love on my part for past glories but MG died with British Leyland and a ChiCom product built by slaves wearing its skinsuit is not a real MG. It's even faker than the pseudo-Norton Commando. (The best revived badge is Triumph, a magnificent job by the great John Bloor.) The reason for the MG badge revival is to milk victims. They're as British as Lord Haw-Haw.
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  4140. The stock market is little different than gambling at Vegas, except gambling is strictly regulated.
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  4141. Why would anyone sane want a high end care except to impress other drug dealers?
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  4142. Israel like India faces an existential threat by Jihadist savages. Democracies must defend themselves and each other.
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  4143. Of course because shock demonstrations signal virtue. 😂
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  4144.  @NotASeriousMoose  The idea of a global rules based order naively presumes humans are not for the most part savage shaved apes. A power based order is far more logical but fans of rules imagine their fantasies carry weight without compulsion by armed force. Laws flow from gun barrels, not the opposite.
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  4145. The best way to never get bit is never buy a Powerchoke. It's only a TOY. People get silly about vehicles when they should be stone cold. I learned a lot working for a used vehicle dealer. Never go shopping hungry and never marry what you can pimp. Passion is mostly a mental illness.
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  4146.  @huckfin1598  Read how McDonnell-Douglas management trashed Boeing after the merger. It's very well documented.
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  4147. The US has no intellectual class. That's far too elevated ground for a fundamentally primitive, populist. rustic culture. Harvard like the rest of higher education was successfully co-opted by the Left in the 1960s and they still pwn it as far as secular schools are concerned. There was nothing to "wreck" because Harvard is unworthy of social respect and outliers are exceptions proving the rule.
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  4148. I'm gonna spread this one. I've don't really feel like and "old" biker since time moves so fast, but since my mentors are dead I guess I am. This is a direct and CALCULATED spit in the face to every biker who kept Harley-Davidson alive. These new fools have no idea what the days were like when Harley almost died the FIRST time due to family business incompetence. WE bikers carried that company. WE bought Shovels (and fixed them) and Evos (great machines) and are the reason they have a company to destroy. This will not stand.
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  4149. Tell your legislators you want a BOUNTY for turning in illegals. If everyone who turned them in got a hundred bucks the lower classes would roll them up.
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  4150. Developing nations like the US once was must sacrfice because business is war. Those who understand this have a more useful perspective. One day China can coast like the West as other nations become hyper-competitive.
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  4151. The less dedicated who flee were the problem with the GOP, not the cure. Politics is war, not mere disagreement between friends and must reflect the absolute necessity of power when the fate of a nation is at stake.
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  4152. BTW your powered rollout wheel could benefit from a simple clamp on steady MIG gut rest like the style wood lathes use. It could have an extension to clamp or visegrip to the rollout wheel's angle frame and would take longer to dig out the scrap to fab it then the fab itself. If your gun cannot go up and down it's less likely to drift. Metal spray torches also work well with a steady rest.
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  4153. Unlike gopniks the US guts old Abrams hulls then mods them to produce the latest models. The hulls do not wear out so they outlast as many cannon and power packs and electronic systems the US cares to install. I find it satisfying that an M1 that killed Republican Guards in Iraq lives on to kill other enemies of civilization. There would be no freedom as we know it without the US military industrial complex and the tanks it produces. Europe would either be speaking German or Russian and Japan would have finished off China with their biowarfare begun with Unit 731 (look it up for some history that merits remembrance.
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  4154. Convicts and other bottom feeders are not where they are because of intelligent life choices and FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) syndrome is rife. If you think I'm kidding open some FAS illustrations in tabs then compare them to Russian troops. Humans who lack self-mastery are inherently poor soldiers and booze makes no one smarter. Even more hilariously they will take others with them in their failures. Their demise ensures their units will accrue little in the way of lessons learned. Their home front being of equally dismal intellect won't miss them and are better off with with the proverbial Lada. No empathy is called for as they have the same choice as any armed man, to zap their officers and desert or to die like the cattle (apologies to any bovines I offend by the comparison) they are. Behold the essence of Putinist culture... Muscovy delenda est.
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  4155. It was a fun scene to visit but best not to live there, so I didn't. We took the trains from Jersey for concerts and recreational chemicals but weren't silly enough to hang around. Countercultures always attract trash, crazies and predators, all of which NYC had in abundance in that era of epic murder rates. The economy was fucked, the cops were on the pad, and flight to the suburbs (by those who could manage) was in full swing. That era made some great bands but it's better gone. Gentrification was desperately needed and didn't come until much later. That was and remains the only way to fix cities fallen that far. Have some body counts for an idea of how bad the official toll was: "The 1980 homicide total, 1,814, was 4.7 percent higher than the 1979 record of 1,733 murders. The mounting number of reported robberies in the city is also a matter of serious concern among police authorities and others. Last year there were 100,550 robberies, a 16.6 percent increase over the previous record, set in 1976." https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/25/nyregion/1980-called-worst-year-of-crime-in-city-history.html
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  4156. Russia is the historic Asiatic enemy of Europe so relations never were what one might call "normal".
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  4157. Keep holding HD feet to the fire and your viewers will spread the word. HDs are TOYS and betraying their customer base means they no longer deserve American support. Our choices hit the enemy in their wallet and the fewer bikes they sell the better. No biker NEEDS the Motor Company because it's really the independent shops and mechanics who keep the vast majority of used bikes on the road and will continue to after the factory abandons any model.
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  4158. Poor adults in the US who are physically healthy and employable are (mostly) poor because they're trash. Economic separation is vital to escape them which is why humans who overcome poor background GTFO and don't learn back. I scraped my home town off like shit from my shoes then prospered thereby.
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  4159.  @brownpapi2634  There are plenty of poor hoods which need businesses and whose locals refuse to work together to build them. Many immigrant business startup owners come from REALLY poor countries where you starve if you've no work. American poors get fat, do drugs and prey on each other. If one gets ahead the rest rob them in a heartbeat then torch the store which we see time after time. Many immigrants do what American poor do not, pool their investments among trusted kinfolk permitting a poor group to have concentrated effect. They locate where no one who knew better would. Large chains avoid bad areas because they'll get robbed blind making it bad business. I do agree with discouraging outside investment though because it just creates more division. Foreign business owners come from cultures like Korea (I was stationed at Kunsan) where densely packed small businesses are everywhere so they don't understand US realities. The US media neglect their duty to warn emigrants to avoid poor US hoods or don't even emigrate because if you don't look like the locals you are the enemy. Other Americans avoid bottom feeders because they know better. When my ancestors escaped their poor rural and urban roots they didn't wallow in that shit, they educated and improved themselves without looking back for which I'm deeply grateful. Warning foreigners where they don't belong is a service to everyone.
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  4160. Don't have sanctuary cities and do not admit ILLEGAL immigrants. No problem. Of course NY voted for exactly what they got and it is hilarious. Democrats have literally influenced the US government to IMPORT POOR PEOPLE. VOTERS did this. New York voters chose the sanctuary city nonsense. Why not RESCIND that sh1t?
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  4161. Piracy is no longer the preferred default because normies (non-techies) are utterly helpless. When how to get warez was learnt immediately after basic PC operation it was so natural some people never subscribed to anything, never paid for soft, and let the chumps bend over for evilcorps. Not I of course being compulsively obediant but I read that somewhere.
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  4162.  @cjunknown1422  Easily done with methanol or "denatured" alcohol blends used to deter consumption of untaxed alcohol. Early last-century vehicles used alcohol anti-freeze because it's so inexpensive to produce compared to glycol coolants. Russia use alcohol much longer than most and alcoholics not being a bright lot sometimes drank the coolant. Death won't be quick (depends on consumption of course) so targets may be well away from their looting site when symptoms set in. The source of poisoning may not be apparent especially given the lack of modern medical care. Invader access to dialysis equipment is obviously limited. Invaders will beg for help motivating (while demoralizing) their unit to waste resources caring for them while drawing enemies to "bunch" around the target. Alcohol taken by invaders is inherently looted making it quite selective. Unless there are visible medical personnel not also abusing Red Cross/Red Crescent markings (like transporting ammo in an ambulance) it's lawful to bombard retreating (retreat is not surrender) or stationary combatants. Those curious should study Hague and Geneva conventions along with any other applicable laws reflecting accepted international LOAC. "Crime" refers to violation of written law not random "feelings" so whenever some calls an act a crime it's their customary burden in debate (onus probandum) to support their assertion with legal precedent. No lay interpretation of law matters so anyone interested should go directly to the source then reference it properly. https://casebook.icrc.org/glossary/law-hague has sufficient references for noobs to begin. War is about destroying/damaging enemy humans and military/war production assets until the remainder lose interest, and civilians have an advantage over uniformed forces as there is no reasonable way to attach blame to them if they're not involved. Unlike military units with command responsibility, civilians are generally considered independent actors (not that this matters when the invaders indulge in mass reprisals). LOAC makes freedom fighters/terrorists (name choice is situational and subjective!) difficult to deter as demonstrated by UN and US constabulary operations.
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  4163. I don't need one and for what they cost I can drive my current vehicle fleet for another 20 years. I measure everything with money and as a techy and mechanic looking after one would be trivial but buying ANY new car is foolish unless you are rich. I paid off my homes by not wasting money on zhit I don't need bought to impress people I don't like. If solar would pay off I would install a freestanding array then charge vehicle and home in one shot but I don't NEED to nor would it sufficiently entertain me to do that. Nobody makes BEV trucks that do what I require and I don't like cars because their payload and towing ability are pathetic. With some planning (not that people plan, I sold used cars for a while convincing me most vehicle buyers are worse than clueless by choice) anyone outside the Rust Belt can buy a reliable truck for cash then keep it on the road for decades, which also gives you time to acquire a spare truck so when the first needs heavy maintenance or repair you just drive the other one. Add a car trailer and one can tow the other. If I got a new BEV I'd sell instantly like I would any other new ride then enjoy the MONEY instead. Many, many men do this as a matter of course since it's easy to find vehicles cheap that need work then fix them yourself. A new BEV doesn't fit that use case. A used one could be interesting but unless I score a repairable wreck for couch money I won't bother.
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  4164. If senior CIVILIAN leadership desire a particular capability they demonstrate sincerity by offering to FUND it. The Army relinquishing capability to support missions isn't equipped to perform effectively can remove temptation to send it on (even more) futile constabulary actions. Retaining broken capability implies to civilian political leaders (who reflect the proudly, fiercely militarily ignorant public who elect them) that capability remains usable with useful effect. Someone made the choice to support Gaza with inadequate resources which (key takeaway) were AssUmed able to execute. Events urinated in that punch bowl. When a resource no longer exists that constrains US options unless alternatives are funded. Not a bad way to twist arms. Inability to support Gaza options isn't strictly a bad thing. The point of that mission was an empathetic gesture. (Note conspicuous lack of European NATO partner naval support despite them being next door.) It's delay is a trifle but demonstrates lack of sufficient Naval resources for global love demonstrations let alone combat. A failure at a critical combat mission would cost US blood and treasure. Gaza is not one.
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  4165. A platform owned by other people cannot belong to the public. Unless decentralized FOSS ways of interacting become available platforms will always be subject to the will of corporates.
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  4166. The product costs almost nothing to make. When you sell flavored water it's wise to chase the low end of the market. Brewing your own tea is much cheaper of course so what you really pay for is convenience.
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  4167.  @Nick-vd7cg  Vet here and there are more than a few fakes. I expect my fellow veterans to be MORE capable than civilians who never served, but there are many who don't. I help fellow vets appeal their claims (as I did and anyone else can do if they do their homework) so when I encounter supposedly veteran panhandlers I quiz them to filter the obvious then offer to personally drive them to the local VA to engage the system. Not one went for it. I've never had a bad VA experience but I made sure to be fully informed.
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  4168.  @jeffduncan02  Precisely what "sucks" about the VA system and precisely what would you change to improve it?
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  4169. "OPERATED BY"? Flights are flown ON the aircraft which are not yet sentient. These AI articles need some proof reading.
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  4170. Nothing is "dumb" that turns that much profit. Third worlders gonna do thirdie things and if they reduce arable land that's their problem.
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  4171. That advice is gold. I do not buy shit I don't need to impress people I hold in contempt. I flaunt nothing. I do not need the social engagement of my mental inferiors when I'm happy with my peers. Looking prosperous is just expensive vanity. I not only don't care to keep up with neighbors, I have as few neighbors as practical and that suits me mine. Conventional thinking is for fools I want nothing to do with. The best moad is invisibility.
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  4172. Corruption has only one color, GREEN. The way judges are chosen in the US is impressively corrupt itself because no expertise is required. The public are to blame but no one ever accused the American public of being smart, wise or (genuinely) educated.
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  4173. Wise people know markets are LOCAL not national and what someone else is doing is not relevant to an individual who plans coldly, methodically and wisely. Many people are doing well and I'm one of them despite being far from rich, but you really have to devote yourself to yourself which takes more work than most want to put in. Choose everything wisely and plan for the long term. Stability and low overhead are key. So is avoiding high COL areas because every dollar wasted on overhead is one less towards your future.
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  4174. Cognitive ability is not evenly distributed therefore most humans are stupid. No need to minces words. No society can correct for stupid. Bad behaviours abounded in the most nominally traditionalist eras. If you're too stupid to use freedom WISELY that in no way means your intellectual betters should be limited to rules for the weak-minded. If you need a hugbox of any sort to survive, YOU are the problem.
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  4175. Her electorate learned she was a Judas Goat, and enough of them object.
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  4176. Don't steal and you won't get shot for stealing. Nothing of value was lost but the expended ammo. The state cannot protect communities FROM THEMSELVES. "Teenagers" are not precious merely because they are young. There is no potential lost when thieves get ended. Compare to Muslim countries where thieves quickly run out of hands. Koranic justice is REALIST justice. Teenagers are not "children" or "infants", they are young MEN AND WOMEN.
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  4177. In US construction it was once common for organized crime to sell lower-quality concrete than specified and pocket the difference....
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  4178. WHAT maintenance issues and where did that come from? Line replaceable units are replaced in the field then shipped off for repair and that is a long solved problem especially in Europe. Anyone can quickly learn to work on a new vehicle if they have general mechanical or tech experience but if not training is a solved problem. Turbines are light, simple and easily replaced in the field (as are jet engines, career fighter fixer here who would love to see Ukraine get F-16s which I worked for many years as an engine troop and crew chief). Noobs forget that the US trained decades worth of G.I.s straight off the block to fix tanks (and jets). I've trained many aircraft techs and that is NOT DIFFICULT to learn. The US can easily sent foreign students through existing tech schools (it has done so for many decades, the process is proven) then if wanted have some shadow active duty units.
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  4179.  @Dave5843-d9m  So do jets (my field of personal expertise) but that support need not be done by field units who R&I LRUs which are sent off for repair. FedEx and DHL make the military world go round.
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  4180.  @robinpettit7827  Specifically identify that backup please. POL may be slow but that's not rocket surgery to do from NATO locations. Neither is shipping removed parts off to depot for overhaul if sufficient spares (also a long solved problem and one reason the US practiced in exercises like REFORGER of yore and whatever they call current analogs) are in the pipeline Spares can easily be cannibalized from other stored Abrams in CONUS or NATO then shipped to Ukraine the same as done for USAF aircraft parts from AMARC.
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  4181. Too bad states cannot vote their own internal immigration rules to keep socialist enemies where they belong. Californians VOTED to destroy California. That is their right but they should at least man up and sleep in the bed they made.
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  4182.  @FlunkyontheFarm  It WAS more trouble, but trouble is a moving target.
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  4183. Trucks certainly do and my newest are 2000 models. My oldest is a '76. New vehicles are so expensive I would never buy one though now (because I never bought one) I could do it with cash and I am very far from rich. Trucks are well supported by the aftermarket for parts and old ones are well established. Unless I lived in the Rust Belt or by the ocean I could get decades out of any decent truck and expect my current fleet to last the rest of my life. This was deliberate on my part because I put financial security before everything else, but wrenching is so rewarding I do it for fun. Anyone can learn and today they have videos of nearly everything.
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  4184. Vasectomy, get one. Children are for those without imagination sufficient to enjoy freedom. The world has enough interchangeable meatbags of no importance already.
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  4185. VMs are insanely handy. You can test in them instead of borking your host, you can try other OS (VMs are perfect for Linux noobs, do not dual boot off the same hard disk unless your hardware is junk or you hate yourself), you can install and configure virtual PiHoles and other appliances without buying hardware, etc. You can even boot a live Linux distro via USB then run a Windows VM off that host for two completely portable OS. You can test and compare live rescue .iso images, you can boot a Kali .iso to experiment on a Windows or whatever VM and much more. You can restore your VM to a different previous state using snapshots which beats complex setup when you break a test VM. You can clone VMs. You can boot live .isos (MS DaRT, Bob's OMB, Hirens if WinPE interests you, Linux etc if not) to learn their toolsets. You can use Disk2HVD to copy a Windows install from a hdd to a VM to migrate old OS installs with specialty programs intact while retaining the original. For example my bro had an install of Quickbooks he can never reinstall clean because it's not supported, but the virtual copy won't break (he can revert to a snapshot) and will work on any future PC he buys. (I had to rename the .VHD file extension to lower case to import it into Virtualbox but that was painless once I figured it out.) You can host your VMs on an external drive if you're low on space but that should preferably be an SSD.
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  4186. Brandonis a Judas Goat, but the other cattle voted for him.
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  4187. If you're any good as a wrench run away from retail auto repairs and into aviation. (Unlike spinning car wrenches the Air Force offers retirement in twenty years and much better working conditions and benefit package.) Wrenching cars and in industry for a few years is why I made sure to avoid the retail automotive world except for toy money now and then when young and bored. I don't care for the retail motorcycle world either which I also worked in....long enough to get good then put that to my private use. Industrial maintenance etc is fun and much less hassle than cars but doesn't have much upward mobility in a world where vesting a retirement is worth killing for.
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  4188. Aircraft cleaners must not promote corrosion or attack paint hence the Simple Green formula. Good for vehicles by nature but not as aggressive as powerful saponifying degreasers like TSP. I get great use out of Awesome and Super Clean but TSP is as good on concrete and cheap too. You control the mix so no rules on how strong you can use.
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  4189. US wars are of zero benefit to the general public because Americans are incapable of demanding intelligent foreign policy. Why be cannon fodder for endless strategic mistakes? Muhammad Ali was right.
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  4190. I quite enjoy your videos but since noobs watch them a safety note is appropriate: Thin kerf cutting discs can have unpleasant results when a disc lets go. It's not common but does happen. Grinder guards and face shields avert picking fragments out of one's face (glasses only protect eyes). Anyone who uses angle grinders for enough years WILL have an abrasive disc let go and it's hard to operate machine tools using a striped cane. Take care!
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  4191. Sewage dumped into a storm drain goes untreated and can clog the drain which is an expensive waste of tax dollars and public works crew time to un-clog.
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  4192. Examples abound where war begat improved security. Feelings are not enough for an informed opinion. For example WWII cost enough Soviet lives it weakened Stalin's future conscript pool and began the ongoing demographic decline of the USSR then the Russian Federation. The USSR had to rebuild but its leaders being incompetent failed to focus development on the nation rather than the armed forces. (Post-Mao China OTOH was a spectacular economic success.)
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  4193. Good for the workers who won their contract! Holiday season hires are normally laid off. This is SUPPOSED to happen every year because sales volume drops, and now COVID lockdowns are over. There is no magic planet where companies should waste money on workers they don't need and bankrupting the business. Workers need to understand they are hired out of need and need changes seasonally. Fruit pickers don't expect to pick out of season when there is nothing to pick. Most consumer goods purchases are not necessary and UPS EXISTS TO HAUL CONSUMER GOODS. Holiday spending on consumer goods drops off after the holidays. In other news water is wet. I get the whole bucket of crabs thing where the losers resent the winners getting a better contract (if your pay does not match inflation every year is a pay cut in constant dollars, but find it hilarious the public still don't understand how the Christmas season works.
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  4194. If you can copy the software and ge the schematic leaking those online anonymously would be a blow against the enemy.
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  4195. First wise move. Do not live in Vegas unless you are rich. Do not trap yourself in life by even wanting to live in expensive hoods. Cities are bad so I don't live in one. I carefully did what anyone who thinks ahead can do and chose a location I could afford beneath my means (there are many such areas but the news ignores them which may be a good thing for the residents!) that would and did remain that way. Life doesn't care what we want, but does reward cold smart methodical planning. Your life, your call.
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  4196. There is another lesson US adversaries were reminded of. A few blockships (including the surprise variety where the payload is concealed in cargo) could shut down US and allied ports without much effort. Ditto the Suez and Panama canals. The US needs to invest seriously in MILITARY units able to rapidly clear the most strategically important harbors because anyone can read a map including Houthis and Beijing. Bridges where practical should be replaced by tunnels sufficiently deep to withstand sinkings above them. Of course we know this will not happen until prompted by an attack....
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  4197. Specialty equipment focused on Iran is not MEANT to monitor local attacks from other directions. It's to monitor specific areas for ballistic missle launches and a ballistic missile flies a different path than a short-range cheap Qassam. Military illiteracy is inexcusable in 2023 especially by people who should be informed. Remember radar does not SHOOT DOWN missiles and the US base is not tasked with interception which is not the same as intel collection. The Israeli radar system is for monitoring inbound LOCAL missiles. Integrated defense systems like Iron Dome and Patriot have that mission. It's incorrect to assert the US system somehow failed. YT don't care since this is all about drama.
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  4198.  @urbanbeeman5402  ONE party blindly backs "law and order" no matter what the cops do. They're both trash but the GOP worship bad cops.
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  4199. Democrats chose this. The VOTERS are getting what they asked for therefore deserve. The problem is easy to fix. Stop voting your enemies into office but New York City is terminally liberal so that will not happen. I find self-inflicted foolishness hilarious because the poor vote Democrat then howl about getting what they chose at the ballot box.
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  4200. That abortion was an outgrowth of the (incredibly stupid and costly) Key West agreement which deprived the Army of heavy fixed wing attack aircraft. That and the various USAF gunships are great against opponents without MANPADS but that era is ending (see Ukraine where neither side has air dominance due to missiles not opposing fighters). It's still cute though.
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  4201.  @JNoMooreNumbers  We do not NEED most consumer garbage. We do not NEED luxury foods.
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  4202. Bounds? Only cowards want "bounds". Notice it's mostly women leaving so they can show off that they're leaving.
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  4203. There were over 12,000 made and the name itself is memorable. http://www.dviaviation.com/files/45136622.pdf
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  4204. Heavy is the way to go for survivability. M113 like all APCs was a horrible mistake designed for the post-nuke battlefield and clung to for cost reasons.(The drivetrain is extremely simple using a truck engine and automatic transmission.) The APC concept was fundamentally idiotic because its good feature (light weight with commensurate mobility) coerced it's use as an AFV where it's nearly helpless. Infantry require heavy weapons which either arrive by wheels or tracks, with tracks having much lower ground pressure. Clinging to the idea of a "battle taxi" (wheeled or tracked with worthless armor) that's neither fish nor fowl killed and wounded thousands of troops around the world because APCs are nearly unarmored with the exception of Namer. The APC concept ignored that RPG existed since before the APC, whose ancestors like the US M2 "purple heart box" halftrack were also grossly inadequate at protecting their human cargo. Militaries hated change so they clung to their various APC, Russia because they don't care about casualties and the US because it didn't care much during the Viet Nam era then later because it's sexier to spend procurement dollars on other systems. The AMPV concept is about sixty years overdue but that's expected from the Pentagon who failed to armor their wheeled transport until enough Americans died that hillbilly armor (for the second time, the first being SEA gun trucks) was fitted then public anger coerced adoption of Force Protection's MRAP (interesting beast, I helped train new welders for their production line in SC).
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  4205. The voters deserve the full ramifications of their choice which will never not be hilarious.
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  4206. Truckers USED to have strong unions but gave up. Both jobs should be automated out of existence because they're both pure drudgery. No workers, no public burden, no problem.
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  4207. Which hosts file entries currently (2024) block all Google Search Ads?
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  4208. Fast food in the US was always garbage but it's convenient garbage. The rest of the economy is strong. Fast foods selling point was always CONVENIENCE, not cheapness. It was never intelligent to live off it and as soon as that got popular the US got OBESE, DIABETIC and UNHEALTHY. Good riddance.
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  4209. Smart people left long ago. The US is enormous so not everyone needs to live in CA.
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  4210. Given inability to produce anything in quantity design will have little influence. Potemkin show tanks are easy to prototype and impress the average idiot but if it's not fielded in useful numbers it may as well never left the drawing board. If the best tanks in the world are not used properly as they fit in combined arms they'll be ineffective. Even amazing tanks die to land mines and a mobility kill not recovered is even worse than a K-kill because the opponent gets a free tank. Without a counter to artillery-delivered mines any canalized armored force is in deep kimchee, and as we see in Ukraine tracks are not reliable insurance against General Mud. Advances are essentially roadbound becoming shooting galleries and negating tank quality.
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  4211. Because DC is deliberately flooding America with people to whom Americans have zero obligation at great social and financial cost to the border states. That is not up for question but the motives are! Biden wants future Democratic voters and will gleefully displace Americans to import them. DC is historically an enemy to Texas along with the Democratic party so escalation is long overdue and Texans have been overly tolerant. Texas won't secede but the backlash may help flip the White House and other centers of power.
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  4212. Tesla sell nothing but sedans and they're enormous. SUVs and trucks do happen to be comfortable for many people, notably those of us with bad backs, are tall, obese or all the above.
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  4213.  @fredjones7705  List the places so those interested can further study them.
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  4214. How does "catch and release" cure sociopathy?
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  4215. Toxo effects are readily visible in cat hoarders (whose home and persons are to be avoided for that reason). Cat hoarders often have far more cats than they can care for but cannot control themselves. The human fascination with felines is dangerous. I won't have them on my property as they destroy native species.
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  4216. Railroad safety has been a MAJOR issue since the first railroad. Corporate railroad owners cannot be trusted to look out for public safety and proof is railroad history since the 1800s. THIS chit is why government regulation should be much tighter, as in aviation industry tight (or tighter considering what Boeing gets away with). Humans cannot be trusted to self-regulate without outside oversight.
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  4217. Flooding NY with Dem voters ensured districts would so reflect. NEVER forget generations of New Yorkers betrayed their nation by voting Democrat. No one forced them and they could sweep every Traitorcrat out of office in a couple of election cycles.
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  4218. The way to serve that kind of area is NOT by walk-in business so don't do that. Have a row of armored windows at street level where people can pick up their orders without putting innocent employees at risk. Customers could shop online then when the order is paid for (not before) it gets picked by staff and held in a ready line for X amount of time to await pickup. If the order is not picked up in a specified time a restocking fee covers time lost by returning the product to stock. No shoplifting, no problem.
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  4219. No doubt! So few straps is a sick joke for an object that heavy considering how many straps we used on ordinary 463L pallets.
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  4220. What Russian units "surrendered"? Withdrawal is not surrender even in American English.
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  4221. Those safes are NOT "thick" steel and aren't even made of plate. They are something of a cheap "composite" with the fireproofing sheets though.
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  4222. I've had a few (Ranger, two Ram 50s, S10) and while they served well I bought them dirt cheap used, got bored and traded them off to friends since they were severely underpowered four bangers without much interior room so I used my bigger trucks I still have much more. Truck longevity is real as it ease of maintenance and they fill the role station wagons used to (and had the same drivetrains, my Ford wrecker runs a 460/C6 out of Lincoln) while new trucks fill the role of large luxury cars. They just happen to have beds on the back.
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  4223.  @groundcontrol436385  Why would I believe the US government about anything when it wages entire wars based on lies?
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  4224. I find that much for an otherwise unremarkable machine whose sole virtue is rarity hilarious. I collect vintage Britbikes and HDs, but I grew up with them and am not at all starry eyed because while TOYS are fun they're just motor vehicles. Everyone involved with vehicles should think like a used car dealer because pimps don't fall in love. If anyone who is NOT stone cold knowledgeable about what they want to buy reads this, make the effort to get smart or be rich enough not to care. If you want to drive or ride a machine one that you can flog is MUCH more fun than a garage queen you'll only own a few years before dying of old age.
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  4225. Haiti will remain hopeless thanks to Haitians. No UN-approved force can inflict sufficent casualties and destruction without violating LOAC which is designed to make effective occupation against public will impossible. Haiti is so toxic the Dominican Republic must defend its border to control overspill.
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  4226. Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch but the fewer Russians the better for humanity and no one should pretend differently. By body count the various incarnations of Russian government killed far more people than Nazis, and millions were their fellow Russians executed to meet quotas same as they did to Ukraine.
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  4227. Democrats are traitors attempting to flood the US with their future voters. They will not stop of their own accord.
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  4228. It's polite and better for people to avoid each other. Most people aren't intelligent or interesting and friendships are best made far away from work. Work and school are for financial profit, not self-assertion. They're for learning social maneuver including how to get over in the slickest manner practical. The world was always a high threat environment even in racially homogeneous workplaces. Everyone is best respectfully interacted with so they imagine you like them and they don't get in your way. Hypocrisy is the Astroglide of social intercourse.
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  4229. The West should have excluded enemies of its indigenous people's cultures, but is unable to define anyone as such due to malice, cowardice or both.
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  4230. Hyper-dense cities are inevitably dystopias.
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  4231. The Left are a product of over a century of Anarchist later Soviet subversion which metastasized by design. There is ZERO moral obligation to buy what the Left are selling, the destruction of Western secular democracy.
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  4232. Many original mask ban laws were enacted because of white people wearing white sheets.
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  4233. Stop coming to the US illegally and all these problems go away. If any "community" object they have a whole world to choose from.
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  4234. You can finance then refi or pay cash the next day after the transaction is complete. That said buying a new vehicle was always for the rich since if you aren't rich it's normally a terrible economic choice vs paying down a mortgage.
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  4235.  @makylemur7019  Helmetless losers impose an expensive PUBLIC burden by their deliberate choice. That burden is reflected in (for example) my vehicle insurance rates. Most humans are stupid, intelligence being sufficiently rare as to be neurodivergent. I don't care if someone chooses to off themselves which is their right. I do care about them EXTERNALIZING THE COST to me.
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  4236. AA just stepped in feces and knows nothing about mechanics. Their woke consultants are racist, sexist social enemies of their own customer base!
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  4237. The strategic importance of Sevastopol is negated by modern weapons to which the formerly intimidating Black Sea is but a (shrinking) puddle. Seas awkwardly force transit to be vulnerable surface traffic or submarine traffic and both are increasingly vulnerable.
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  4238. Russia has nukes and WILL respawn because Russian culture not Putin is the problem. Putin is a product of Russia itself, not some alien visitor. Remember when Westerners wanted to believe in Russia and Putin? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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  4239. The auto market is saturated with expensive crap so losing excess companies is not a bad thing.
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  4240. Remember UCLA has been a leftist school since the 1960s. Democrat vs. Democrat is not the same as Democrat vs. good citizen. It's forbidden to point out which group subverted these schools decades before current students were born so I won't. Destroying social defenses to promote communism also destroyed social defenses against jihadists. Reaping what their leftist predecessors sow should surprise no one.
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  4241. How adorably naive. Democrats keep losing due to lack of introspection and their beloved purity spirals. Only winning matters for the simple reason defeat accomplishes nothing.
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  4242. "Working visual artist" is a tragedy. Women her age were NOT encouraged to work and be independent so most never got marketable skills. If you're female and reading this, take a good look so it doesn't happen to you then learn how to do jobs people pay well for, and the more skills the better! (My wife was an outstanding helicopter mechanic. You can do most anything you're determined to.)
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  4243. Maybe travelling to a failed narcostate isn't such a wise move.
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  4244. Doesn't matter much. CONDITION is everything so it's wise to have someone with zero ties to the seller inspect it.
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  4245. Expending troops they don't want to survive past victory is classic Russian pragmatism. It's also ideal against the gullible sort of humans who want Russian rule. These people would personally gain absolutely nothing from winning and even less from fighting for anything else. I find it hilarious as they're getting what they really asked for, used as cannon fodder.
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  4246. Wealth in the hands of simple primitives dissipates quickly. They chose not to value education without which wealth is of little use. They don't know what to import to eat that is healthy. They failed to invest wisely in infrastructure suited to the local terrain when they had money to do so. Nicotine and obesity are choices, not some inevitable fate, but their leadership did the predictable third world thing robbing everyone else blind. It's as if there are no functional adults...
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  4247. For society legalization is a personal freedom issue. For government its a place to gouge high tax payments (while grocery stores, restauants etc can sell vastly more dangerous alcohol without similar punitive restrictions). As Americans get old they find what they did for fun in the '70s works nicely for the aches and pains of old age but politicians are all about the money for their pet projects. NYC has had "weed shops" longer than most current residents have been alive, they were just mostly on the down low operating out of small storefronts in minority hoods. Cops in those days were famously on the pad (some even did Mafia hits!) so most busts were for show. Ask anyone how things rolled back then.
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  4248. I don't buy from dealerships. That avoids many ways to get ripped off.
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  4249.  @stevenjones5579  No fraud needed. NYC is very blue and has been corrupt since its founding.
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  4250.  @2MeterLP  That's why you do not LIVE there, just WORK there. The suburbs were developed before most Americans had cars and NY area light passenger rail made it happen. Long commutes are part of life if you want to succeed. That's worked since the late 1800s. My father and myself commuted from Jersey for many years before escaping.
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  4251. Terror didn't prevail. Afghan nationalism CONFUSED with terror prevailed. AQ were the terrorists. Talibs are a nasty lot but it is their country and like the muj the US supported, wanted foreigners out.
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  4252. Stupid Boot Tricks never get old and they refuse to listen to wise financial advice. (The drama First Shirts have to deal with is amazing, and not the good kind.) Selling used cars taught me that retail customers (all kinds) are their own worst enemies but their mistakes maintain the flow of used rides into the market. Not a soul is forced to spend money they don't have to impress bystanders they don't even know yet they do and will never change. If any G.I.s or vets reading this want a serious money effectiveness multiplier take an auto mechanics course at your local community college. Training changes lives.
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  4253. The US is foolish not to have permanent VEHICLE numbers like the UK. Tags exist as a legacy to which no thought was given. Match the tag to the VIN then tow if it's fake. NYPD could run snatch trucks and impound thousands of vehicles then make bank on the fines and towing and storage fees plus auctioning uncliamed vehicles (out of state, run them through Copart).
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  4254. This is of course a Democrat problem. Never forget it. Always mention it. Democrats did this.
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  4255. Living in LA is a very expensive bad idea. Why would any veteran choose so badly? You don't have urban problems if you aren't there in the first place and THIS veteran is too smart to play that game.
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  4256. Old structures are best demolished. Old cities are best demolished. The cure for this ancient accumulation of aging junk is a wrecking ball. The personal cure is not living there but too many people lack the imagination to leave punitively expensive, dangerous, deteriorating areas. NYC has always had similar problems so this is nothing at all new and no one should be surprised.
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  4257. They should have been armed and trained since youth. Israel direly needs a universal commitment by Jews to personally defend themselves and each other. Pacifism in the face of evil, is evil. A universal healthy nationalist gun culture is the bedrock of democracy.
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  4258. My late wife had a narcissist monster mother. I've seen the effects on her and her family. Narcissists don't change or get better or become enlightened because they are not wired that way so avoid them (no one can "fix" other people) completely. Narcissists are intrinsically evil and female narcissists skilled at finding weakminded men to feed on.
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  4259. The USSR opposed the real nationalists on their home ground. That was not a smart play but the US assistance to those nationalists was brilliant. (That it miscarried later is another story.) When the US supports the REAL nationalists, it and they succeed. When Americans get high on their own farts then succumb to hubris, vanity and our usual extremely rustic ignorance of anything outside our borders then embark on constabulary wars AGAINST the real nationalists, we squander our young men and trillions in treasure. Today the Russian Federation is waging another constabulary war in its eternal battle against Western civilization. The US and the rest of civilization should support Ukraine unless it's collectively forgotten the price of appeasement.
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  4260. Crime not the junkies are the problem. Every meet one or many? I have and to call their death a loss is a joke. Give them CLEAN narcotics and they can function for decades without robbing good citizens worthy of life. The US needs to harden up and stop blaming the markets our policy creates. We don't have an alcohol cartel problem (any more) because it's legal and managed.
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  4261. Meat in uniform and "fighter" are not quite the same thing. Ask Russia.
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  4262. Haitian society chooses this again and again. No invader is making these decisions. Haiti is incapable of competent self-government.
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  4263. Good job by all concerned! Never confuse "law" with "justice" and I refer any doubters to the Nuremburg Laws and legal slavery. Only trash defend trash. McElroy was trash and trash needs taking out.
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  4264. Good news no matter who did it except for the social traitors in the EU who funded Putin for decades. Energy dependence enables tyrants be they Russian, Saudi, Iranian, Kuwaiti etc. Buying gas from the ontological existential enemy of European civilization was never not stupid, Putin being merely a symptom of the permanent Russian problem which naturally enables tyrants suiting that culture be they Russian or from parts of its empire (Stalin etc).
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  4265. Everyone should be a prepper and this is yet more proof why because relief from outside depends on restoring destroyed roads and bridges. Timely evacuation (have you checked your bugout bag recently?) is key if your location is especially vulnerable. Prepping slowly over time is affordable (my SSI bros do it on very little income) with careful planning and it's never too early to start because future disasters are guaranteed. (Ask old folks what they've been through. It may surprise ya.) Note to anyone in local government whose area lost bridging: Portable steel bridges civilian and military exist including rentals but don't see much use in the US. They're better made than common bridging and when replaced with permanent bridges can be stored for the next time. The plans are proven and the bridge components were designed to be easy for any welding/fab shop to produce. I don't know what Guard units in the region do but they can find out what military bridging is on hand. Small bridges IMO should be portable for easy maintenance and quick replacement which takes days instead of years, but apparently I'm the only person (I've never seen anyone else mention them) who suggests them for civilian disaster response. Meanwhile the military drive main battle tanks and supply convoys over theirs... https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/donald-bailey-bridge-building-hero.html gives some background. A variety including the original designs are globally available. https://www.escpile.com/single-post/bailey-bridge The same beautiful geography which brings in tourists obstructs relief efforts. Reconstruction should include aggressive highway and bridge construction but like Californian geography the eastern mountains make cutting suitably large road nets extremely difficult. Mountainous terrain is pretty but making it more usable requires staggering civil engineering efforts and buying out private property for rights of way. Good luck getting people to give up desirable land in the few areas which suit highway construction.
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  4266. Dolton voters getting what they voted for is the price of democracy. They failed to do ANY diligence, not just due diligence. They'll pay for their unwise choice. No one intelligent would vote for her unless they were in on the grift.
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  4267. Russia helped inflict nearlu every US casualty since WWII. NeoSoviets and their delusional fellow travellers (not the hippies today, it's the rube right wing's turn to be chumped) are due the payback over a century of war against civilization deserves.
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  4268. 65 here and a techy whose devices are tools not toys, but I get that most users are just ordinary sheeple who follow their chosen herd and cannot value self-mastery. I don't consider the distraction of humans too silly to focus appropriately a problem because they're not smart enough to contribute anything useful. Before the personal computer age idjits were still idjits. Now they're just more visible.
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  4269.  @judylandry302  Your insurance company is boning you. I'm 65 and have a fleet (I rebuild classic motorcycles for fun) and own three (paid off decades ago and bought used) trucks.
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  4270. Filipino food is delicious. This American loves the stuff and my Pinoy and Pinay friends hook me up. Bring more Filipino food to the US. The market is wide open. McDs is nasty.
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  4271. As a former metro area resident I note many people are far too clueless and helpless for their own good. Every area which just flooded WILL flood again. Geography is what it is. Prepare.
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  4272. When government officials commit crimes (any felony) under color of law they should do life in population at hard labor, not in protective custody, with the tacit understanding the other cons can do to them what the fake justice system cannot. Government betrayal of the public is never acceptable.
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  4273. Scientists should avoid working for the US government and take their skills to private enterprise so they have a chance to receive proper compensation. The USA is savagely anti-intellectual and rustic (thanks to the Crown using it as a social dumping ground) and that will never be different. That means our government is broken with respect to science. Capable humans should know going in to chase profit or starve.
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  4274. The world needs to see columns of beaten gopniks surrendering to get the point across. (The average intelligence is too low for academic arguments to affect the masses, but they understand defeat and destruction). Muscovy delenda est.
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  4275. Unfortunate but easily sustainable. Life was always cheap and economic growth more important than quality construction.
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  4276. So what? It's just normal market saturation thinning the herd. Auto parts store realignments are common. Smart retailers have plenty of business because they win on customer service, like the old hardware store in my town whose owner was delighted at Lowes building a store a block away. He was right of course and personal service keeps his parking lot full of customers.
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  4277. Yet another "news" piece by the poorly informed inexpert infotainers. If you're really curious and able to understand at least some technical details this is a far better resource. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alpaDfnT-Bk
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  4278. Dangerous drug use is VOLUNTARY. It is an adult choice because the cure is an adult choice. No drug "takes over America" and that line is pure clickbait. It MAY however become popular with a degenerate subculture who make the adult choice to use it. The rest of us are better off without them because only intelligent, wise and smart humans with self-discipline are productive citizens. Pity cures nothing and the addict is the most self-pitying creature there is. I've met far too many to respect their foolish ways. There are plenty of safe NATURAL options for those wanting chemical relief, many in use for thousands of years.
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  4279. GOOD. Industry problems are not a CONSUMER problem. Sit back and laugh then pounce when prices drop and buy private party unless you actually work in the used car industry. (Buying new is silly for anyone not very, very rich and even they often buy used.)
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  4280.  @jonconnington8987  Not when they were deliberately settled under Bolshevism to displace the indigenous population. Putinist shill much?
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  4281. I find it hilarious so many progressives were licking Musk's boots until he became (even more) obvious. Musk lacks even basic cunning because he's incapable of introspection.
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  4282.  @arachosia  So don't live there. I faced that problem long ago and chose wisely.
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  4283.  @liamevans7661  Weapons enable violence in extremis. Cops do not yet oppress enough people for violent blowback. That is no defect in the Second Amendment, just a typical continuum. The US is rich, comfortable for most by global standards, and boringly safe except in select areas smart people leave without looking back. That's why there is no rebellion yet.
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  4284. Pray they don't alter it any further.
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  4285. There are plenty of spelter joint instructions online. It works very well and prevents corrosion.
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  4286.  @pauljastrzebiec-milewski4410  Atmospheric testing proved tac nukes are trivial, including operations not far from Las Vegas. Search "nuclear tourism".
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  4287.  @JohnnyDoebber  Like what? Military illiteracy is hilarious.
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  4288. To be fair we had B-52s and Skyraiders among other assets and the distraction of Khe Sanh drew US forces from elsewhere. Modern arty may be better though as it's far more difficult to interdict than Ukrainian air power.
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  4289.  @richardmoyer108  That's a popular but mistaken view (the reason professional military scholars in various War Colleges don't teach it). IRL China could always escalate because Nam unlike Korea is not a peninsula meaning resupply could never be completely interdicted. China had no need to repeat its success in Korea (fighting the US back to the 38th Parallel was no small feat) because US strategists understood NATO mattered while SVN had nil strategic value to the US the Domino Theory being nonsense. The US had no options to compel surrender and the SVN government were as worthless as the ANA. Occupying outposts indefinitely simply offered supply lines as targets letting the VC/NVA bleed US support troops (a lesson forgotten in the Iraq invasion to great cost). The Pentagon made many mistakes (the early attrition strategy being a bloody fvckup) but there was simply no way the enemy could not respond to because they had permanent initiative. General Matthew Ridgway (the WWII leadership were vastly more competent than their successors) understood the strategic problems and the absence of value to the US. His advice to Ike kept the US out until idiot hick LBJ thought himself a warrior and the rest is history. American military exceptionalism backfires when we engage cultures our culture cannot understand at a basic level which includes all peasant cultures. https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3064&context=parameters We squandered the opportunity to ignore the French after WWI then again after WWII and failed to support Ho Chi Minh's nationalists when they asked for it. That left their historic mortal enemy China (who tried to invade them after we left in the Sino-Vietnamese war) as an arms supplier so they did what any nationalist would do and took the assistance. Wild Bill Donovan's OSS had the chance to engage but squandered it. The US attachment to France was a mistake as Paris had nil real leverage. We lavished aid on their incompetently led forces to no avail then basically took over their war. Today the US Navy pays port calls to Cam Ranh bay as both nations have a common enemy in Beijing who tried to crush Viet Nam for centuries. American hick leadership (even our urbanites are fundamentally ignorant rustics) repeated the same mistakes after experienced Nam vets retired. Many of those were military. Our generals lied to get good OERs so the public (who take no interest unless they're veterans or history geeks or both) imagined A-stan was a success and ignored the SOCIAL FAILURE of the Kabul government which no US military action could remediate. The amateur take on war is that it's all technotactical and not social (despite Colonial resistance to the British being key to our own Revolution!) and our civilian leadership come from our ignorant civilian classes. That's why the US is good at nation-state war (mostly a technotactical and logistic contest at which our society is unmatched....so far) but terrible at choosing unconventional wars/missions. The Afghans understood the concept of a punitive raid and offered to negotiate but the US confused Taliban (local nationalists) with Al Qaeda (transnational pan-Islamist global Jihadists) who they made the mistake of hosting. Of course the US had to attack Al Qaeda after 9/11 but we in no way had to switch to the fool's errand of "nation building" which was foredoomed by going against local culture. (Could anyone bomb Americans into renouncing Christianity?) A-stan was a perfect trap and 9/11 the most staggeringly successful unconventional attack in history. It flipped US society into a demi-police state, built government empires, made KBR (Brown and Root of Southeast Asia fame) even richer and profoundly damaged the US military which now has to refocus on nation-state war after two decades of squandering the valor and lives of our deployed troops and civilians. Americans forgot Viet Nam (except the guys who remembered gun trucks and built their own in Iraq because the Army chose to use thin-skinned troop killer trucks) and they'll forget A-stan and Iraq in thirty years too. The Pentagon had free rein in A-stan for two decades yet chose to ignore the grunts on the ground warning it the ANA and Afghans in general had nil interest in dying for Kabul. Like Viet Nam it was in the end a failure of military leadership to speak truth to power. Men can be selfless in battle but gutless before their bosses and our young troops died for their lies in Nam, A-stan and the Pyrrhic victory in Iraq none of which did the American public who paid the cost a bit of good. That public have the attention span of a fruit fly so it will happen again. Each leadership generation imagines itself wiser than the McNamara crew (who may have saved the US in the Cuban missile crisis, a technotactical contest) who buried us in Southeast Asia. At least we're back to the European contest of containing the Russian Federation who are much weaker than the Soviets we defeated. Americans are good at supporting real freedom fighters from COMPATIBLE CULTURES. Our people should stay in their lane if they're serious about winning.
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  4290. Since when is dead concrete gendered? It is not sentient. It's a mere object.
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  4291. The only people impressed by Guard deployments have no idea what the Guard does (so nearly everyone). If New Yorkers wanted security they would never vote Democrat again and go back to the good old days of the only thing that REALLY controls crime, police brutality.
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  4292. If the USAF sent something like that to an airshow I'd not want my name in its forms... Former career fighter fixer (Bronco, Phantom, F-16 A/B/C/D/CJ, comm/nav then engines then merged to crew dog) here. In what alternate universe does being a "prototype" excuse SLOPPY WORK, especially on a highly visible display bird INTENDED to be seen by millions (modern cameras easily capture the visible errors without needing to get very close)? Sloppy sealant was a CHOICE. Any maintainer has seen some horrors but properly applying faying sealant (or RAM if that's its role) is not difficult nor is using masking tape on the panels before sealing. If a USAF outfit sent that hot mess to display they'd have invested at least the single shift (because cure time) to do it right before showing the world where billions of dollars are on the line. Cosmetics don't matter in combat but function does. Cosmetics do matter when showing off the supposed pride of a nation at war while trying to recover the reputation of Russian Federation hardware in order to sell more overseas. Fighters like sports cars are "halo" vehicles whose rep affects other marketing so doing airshows right in every detail s expected. Enthusiasts who caught the issues at first glance I see failure to rig those doors so they fully close which is the most basic assembly (or much worse, design) error inexcusable since the advent of retractable landing gear doors. This may be incredibly, excruciatingly difficult for some to understand but it being a prototype and test mule does not mean it cannot get the basic pre-airshow prep given other nations aircraft for generations because none of that work is hard. If your panel doesn't cleanly mate with adjacent surfaces that is an error in manufacture and/or assembly which can be fixed in the field by factory techs or ordinary maintainers given factory tech data and phone support. If doors are not adjusted to fully close someone just didn't care. A new USAF Airman straight out of tech school would know better (thousands do every year) and would be working under supervisors who sign off their work. These are simple dumbazz mistakes so who signed off on all that? The choice of Phillips head panel screws suggest the designers wife ran off with a maintainer. The heads wear and get worse over time as panels are removed and installed. You can replace slightly worn panel screws before most heads strip but even the rich USAF doesn't have infinite bench stock on hand. Phillips were invented before affordable torque-limiting installation tools so they rely on the bit camming out of the head under load rather than damaging (other) parts. That was fine on the ground for consumer crap but to use them on a modern aircraft is fiercely stupid because that will slow and delay maintenance for as long as they're used. If you drill out even one screw per panel that's about a half hour minimum and more if you have to dispatch a tech from backshop (some air forces don't trust everyone to drill fasteners which isn't horrible but must be done correctly or you get more problems). Combat aircraft exist to produce as many mission-effective sorties as practical in environments where if your bird doesn't launch on time your ground troops relying on it may die. Every detail matters. What does lack of attention to detail by Russian (factory no less!) techs tell observers? Others point out later SU pics look better, but everything everyone noted reflects rushed, sloppy work on THIS one so if a high-viz jet gets no love what OTHER corners are cut? US techs make mistakes too and thanks to the internet we roast those online too because jet mechs should be held to high standards.
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  4293. The right corporate culture makes or breaks software. Japanese culture suits hardware which they do superbly. They are better off WITHOUT software as the software industry is aggressively leftist. Horses for courses.
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  4294. Bot detected, or a idiot shill.
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  4295. The US does attempt meritocracy and not incidentally I've served with many Filipinos during my long USAF career. NOT ONE was the slightest disciplinary problem, they were great bros and all did well in their careers. Please send more. This old white guy is fine with it. I wish more native-born Americans had Filipino determination and cheerful work ethic and am delighted serving in our armed forces enabled them to do well for themselves.
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  4296. Bingo. The Russian system was built to fail and it's too late to fix. It takes years to build effective officer and NCO corps, and Russia has zero interest in an effective independent-thinking armed force. In contrast US and NATO troops not only function independently but rather enjoy it.
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  4297.  @physetermacrocephalus2209  Air power works against delicat complex first world systems. Constabulary operations where the humans we kill cost almost nothing do not fare so well. Air power narcissists are too easily seduced by techno-excitement. The reality of airpower is different.
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  4298. If the US objected to the drug trade its policies would not make it incredibly lucrative. Thanks to public ignorance of basic economics (and because punishing people we don't like is always delicious fun!) US policies on booze were a gift to the Mafia during Prohibition in the way US drug policies enrich the cartels. Cartels without money would evaporate, but the US prefers to reinforce failure by punitive policies which raise retail costs which increase wholesale profits which make the tons of money involved well worth killing over. US drug policy is the equivalent of someone punching themselves in the balls then punching even harder so make the pain go away.
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  4299.  @DarmokAtTanagra  No, they are fleeing for more opportunities to ruin fresh targets. THEY created Haiti as it is. You are free to invite as many as you want to live in YOUR house at YOUR expense. Christianity is not a suicide pact.
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  4300.  @Its.ok.2.go.outside  The bronze propaganda in the harbor was an INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION artifact from an era when capitalists were desperate for new workers. Today the US is full and we lack resources to take care of our own poor.
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  4301.  @adambussert3383  The US was not FULL then. It is now with millions of people already jobless. For what benefit to AMERICANS should we import useless eaters who are literally uneducated savages in the original meaning (which is not an insult but is an observation) of the word? These are not doctors, physicists, or skilled tradespeople.
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  4302. The humans responsible have names and faces. This concealment was no accident. Expose the (many) guilty people who can never be punished if no one knows who they are.
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  4303. Neither have the right systems in quantity for power projection.
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  4304. If you care what "influencers" say or do you deserve to be ripped off. Adults have no excuse for being fools. Grow TF up and lead a financially responsible life.
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  4305. Why did Fox fail to NAME the men? Crime has no expectation of privacy. This video is worthless and the producers only ran it because murders put eyeballs on content.
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  4306. If you're mindless enough to buy a home with an HOA in the first place you chose your fate. If you already made the mistake try to get elected TO the HOA which my bro did. HOA go with another common mistake, buying a condo instead of renting an apartment. If you do not OWN the property on which your home sits AND own the entire structure you're completely vulnerable to those who own the property etc. Many naive, simple, ignorant but otherwise decent people get ripped off for failing to understand the world is a very bad place.
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  4307. Modern medical care prolongs dying, not quality of life. When I can no longer care for myself I shall exercise my right to check out on my terms. One useful thing many old people learn is life is not always precious and instinct is not always wisdom.
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  4308. T Model Fords matched and beat that but they're forgotten today, being made into more specialty vehicles, truck conversions, farm equipment, "gow jobs" (the ancestor of hot rods), hot rods, tractors and other farm equipment, and their drivetrains used for industrial and light power generation. Beetles are cool but very much like T Models became quickly obsolete.
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  4309. Nothing worse than the past, but moderns don't care for history...
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  4310. My late and quite successful management consultant father agreed with you.
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  4311. Recycling is not "destruction" it is CHANGE.
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  4312. The cultural difference is why DR is doing decently (and is forced to contain Haitian spillover) while Haiti is a permanently hopeless failed state that should be made a ward of the United Nations.
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  4313. BLAME DEMOCRATS. Democrats did this. ALL of it.
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  4314.  @aryanaman7  War infrastructure and war workers (much industry was dispersed in cities in small shops) were legitimate targets. Why are you so eager to defend Japan?
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  4315.  @faccebookk3704  Why do you assert they were not when they contained industry and war workers?
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  4316. The Cold War never ended. Ask Eastern Europeans as that war is invisible to the US public who read therefore think at eighth grade level.
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  4317. The war isn't ending, it's in remission which is not the same thing.
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  4318. It's still better to be poor in the country than the city because you need to move a lot of money to be urban poor. I deliberately chose a poor area to retire in. My money goes into local businesses for goods and services while cost of living is dirt cheap. My workshop (which I built) is bigger than most apartments where I was born near NYC. Rural poor are often very resourceful. My cripplebro only gets disability yet owns his home and land because costs are low and he patiently did most of the work on his home and vehicles. The city OTOH denies opportunities for this because owning land is extremely difficult.
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  4319. Mining near the intersection was slick as the sappers understood the appeal of hard-surfaced roads to noobs who fail to go XC by preference.
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  4320. What drivel. Making people run more wash cycles to clean the same garments is not an economy (I'm a mechanic, like other blue collar people these elitist twits regard as vermin though we keep civilization running).
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  4321. If US taxpayers wanted professional policing they would vote accordingly and prod their elected officials to do their jobs. Rustic, backward areas with low educational standards have few choices when hiring public servants so they get what they get. This has never been different and cannot change because it's self-reinforcing. I've no idea why anyone from elsewhere would vacation in the US. You can see all the scenery online and nothing else is worthy of attention.
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  4322. There is no realistic prospect of reform unless far more unconventional pressure is brought to bear on the corporate parasite class. Of course there will be no substantial reforms because that does not happen.
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  4323. Most old Republicans oppose personal freedom other than the 2nd Amendment. It's time those old fools took their dirt naps and let in a new generation of conservatives who AREN'T ignorant credulous hicks.
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  4324. What changed is the government and good citizens are prohibited from defending society by imposing discipline on lower class filth (of all complexions, cracked out crackers are often the worst and when a cop magdumps one I thank the nice man).
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  4325. That's nonsense and you clearly never served. Information access varies by classification of information, the persons security clearance and "need to know" to support the mission. For example if he was preparing Powerpoint presentations for meetings he would have had appropriate security clearance for the information used and a "need to know" to compose and edit the slideshow. In other news a secretary doesn't make corporate decisions but does have access to what their bosses need them to use. "National Guardsman" is not a security clearance, Guardsman HAVE security clearances (or not). There are Generals with varities of Top Secret clearances in the Guard and Reserve. They are not LESSER forces, they are forces with different organizational models under different command structures.
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  4326. Slick design but an overhaul nightmare. If you can't easily overhaul an engine in the field with common standard machine tools handling all metal cutting operations the design is unsuitable, end of story. Factory production of specialty items like compressors which are replaced rather than overhauled and lead easy lives compared to motor vehicle use makes sense so the outcome is logical. Piston wear IRL is nearly irrelevant because piston RINGS are the moving wear surfaces and the bore being softer takes the brunt of the wear. Local machine shops generally finance large machine tool purchases and would avoid specialty machines until the market takes off, but the lack of local overhaul capability deters the market.
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  4327.  @user-vp9lc9up6v  Interservice rivalry is real and has a purpose, but that purpose is maintaining each ones rice bowl. It's not just lower ranks banter.
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  4328. Corpse rituals are not for the dead who no longer exist. They are to give the living an illusion of accomplishment and pretense of meaning.
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  4329. Shill account detected.
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  4330. US MBT were highly effective in Falluja. It's about the user more than the hardware. OTOH Iraqi Abrams crews were mostly good for abandoning their tanks to ISIL and got what that deserved.
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  4331. Were I that man's relative I'd tell him to take his pet Communist elsewhere and not defile family gatherings. Shared DNA does not confer the slightest obligation to tolerate stupid people.
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  4332. This may be incredibly difficult for the average militarily and geopolitically illterate person to understand, but not all wars are the usual idiotic constabulary operations against the wills of peoples Washington stupidly wants to build nations from while ignoring their culture and religion. For example the Cold War''s early innings contained the USSR until it imploded which preserved US global hegemony. That hegemony is WHY THE US IS RICH and the choice is maintain US hegemony or be ruled by NeoSoviets and ChiComs.
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  4333. ​ @allcatall3931  If Islam is so wonderful its people should never want to leave their homelands. They should do everything practical to stop the brain drain so domestic talent don't run away.
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  4334. Rule by agency prevents the PUBLIC from voting for or against those rules. End the agencies and let the PEOPLE choose.
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  4335. Great advice but the people who most need it won't listen! Dummies gonna dummy and someone dumb enough to be greedy and foolish is not curable. I sold used cars for a while and as anyone in that business knows, buyers of used luxury vehicles are "aspirational" buyers who spend money on vehicles they don't need but think give them clout. They're not reachable so best to just laugh at them. I find going in debt for a TOY silly and pathetic but that describes far more car buyers than outsiders imagine.
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  4336. The FBI has been an organ of oppression since the J. Edgar Hoover era (read about COINTELPRO). It got away with mostly ignoring the Mafia because busting those it did bust was easy and safe.
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  4337. Nobody needs a new HD given their vast customization options and aftermarket support that goes far beyond dealers. The market is already softening as the core demographic ages out so for the same money you can have an amazing motorcycle built YOUR way. Why do people even buy more than one new big twin since they're easy to ride for a lifetime and for that kind of money you can own multiple classics or custom build whatever you can imagine? There are so many low mileage barely used machines it's a no brainer even if you have enough to buy a new bike with cash. (I do but I like many already have a very full stable from Panhead onward.) Ultra-Woke HD isn't getting any more of my money when plenty of quality aftermarket makers offer anything I might want.
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  4338. Because the ideologues who want a BEV already own one and the rest don't NEED one. Unless and until a BEV does EVERYTHING better than my ICE truck fleet I don't need one.
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  4339. The Left (the real Left, not soft centrists who the real Bolshevik types invariably crush then dominate) have always been fanatics since their Anarchist origins. Democracy is for managing affairs between friends with shared purpose. The proper way to deal with the real left is the way Nationalist Spain did during the Spanish Civil War but with much less empathy. The Left are implacable, incapable of empathy and little different from their Bolshevik forbears. Never forget the modern Left are psychological descendants of Lenin, Stalin, and other butchers. The American Left haven't yet got Stalinist power levels which is why every decent patriot is armed legally and prepared to escalate as required to dispose of the Left when the time comes. I do not confuse Leftists with humans and regard Rightist demagogues as an inevitable consquence of an impotent effete conservatism which failed because it sold out. Enemies should not share dirt and I do not consider Leftists either American or human, but savage vermin who will provoke their own destruction. Escalation is wonderful and the tree of Liberty needs lavish, generous watering. The American public must take what they can get and the utter collapse by popular consent of out primary education system no one wants to pay for means the masses are irreversibly ignorant by choice. The average American reads (therefore THINKS) at ~8th grade level so discourse must be at the level theses masses DEMAND. They do not care what anyone else thinks because US leadership classes have ALL betrayed the general public and Demublican or Repocrat are just 304ing for money.
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  4340. Every mechanic and gearhead should already own a cordless angle grinder. (A fat inverter will run corded grinders from your battery, I carry one in my work truck to run corded tools.) You want on with 6" cutting discs (much nicer than the baby 4-1/2" grinders because they have faster edge speed and greater reach) and of course spare discs. I've cut through a 14-bolt axle (the actual axle, not the housing!) using them. Alternate option, a few Diablo Auto Dismantling recip saw blades and a recip saw. I saw a few to have spares in case of bending, but one blade and less than one battery will cut the front frame off a Suburban etc when harvesting LS drivetrains in salvage. A small cutting torch (the little HVAC size cylinders are fine) would go through one laughing all the way. I bring my kit to auctions to shorten steel beams to fit my trailer. A baby gas axe is also awesome around the shop. Every mechanic used to have one but moderns seem afraid of them or something.
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  4341.  @rep.dancrenshawtx-2688  Without a purge the GOP means nothing. Politics is war and the less Conservatie should be removed because they have undermined real Conservatives for generations.
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  4342. Never assume blue collar workers get early graves rather than a solid retirement, paid off house they can cash out to move someplace cheaper and much more fun than the frozen north etc. Media focus on losers far too much while the successful are chilling having led planned lives.
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  4343. That is not how lithium is mined. Why to tech-illiterates permit themselves opinions on subjects they do not understand? Lithium is not cobalt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3CrFR1Jk1w
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  4344. ISI helps Taliban defeat the Coalition. Taliban being consistent support their fellows in Pakistan. ISI gets buyers remorse, attacks Taliban via the Pakistani Air Force. If the Pakistani Taliban take over they will inherit nuclear weapons. There is no international way to "save" Pakistan from its own social incompetence.
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  4345. I hope someone somewhere captured a Tornado takeoff or burner run audio in FULL DYNAMIC RANGE. The auditory experience of fighters is no small part of working with/near them. Video camera mics etc aren't even close to good enough and that experience must be heard/felt to be appreciated. Other great aircraft like the Century series have passed into history without quality recordings ("hot streak" afterburner ignition was especially impressive). While Desert Storm audio gear couldn't do them justice I quite enjoyed hearing Tornado in person at the time (I was an F-16 engine troop out of Shaw AFB). If any runnable historic examples or engines exist (old USAF engines are sometimes converted to ground power production) I strongly suggest the Imperial War Museums record one in full reheat and if you've not heard one before you will understand why.
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  4346. Don't live where an apartment costs that much and don't live in an apartment in the first place since that's just pure restriction.
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  4347.  @dav6131  Your society elected the structure he thrived in and compare to the US you have no civil rights at all. He's not an exception and ignoring people like him is why the UK only benefits its upper class.
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  4348.  @glenarmy1  Canada should have joined the US but it's too late for you to be free because your leftist governments destroyed your nation by calculated, malicious immigration the way they are destroying the US. In both cases the situation is far beyond legal remedy because the enemy make the laws.
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  4349. I worked in the used car biz where dealers dress like mechanics but buy hundreds of thousands of dollars in auction inventory. These guys lived "steath wealth". One had a 100+ acre salvage yard in Columbia, SC and drove nice USED vehicles but if a customer needed a part he'd pull the plate, part the car and drive something else. He owned a home in the Bahamas and generally lived very well, but he liked his dealerbros and stayed in business really for fun.
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  4350. ^Best comment in the thread! Organic firepower cannot be cut off by incompetent spectators in rear areas.
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  4351.  @thaliaf9795  The USA was built by immigrants escaping European and Eastern European hellholes including my Polish ancestors. They formed strong communities lasting to this day. I'd like to see more not fewer people living under those oppressive machines become American citizens and after over 200 years they're a natural fit.
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  4352. Americans aren't too bright so most of them abandoned collective bargaining instead of getting involved and making it work. When every worker imagines they're special that ensures disunity and a bucket of crabs mentality. I've worked in good and indifferent union shops in my youth which is why I chose a field where collective bargaining is not required. Workers can have collective bargaining at their command but the uneducated (education is much more than showing up for school, it requires individual initiative) working classes are their own worst enemies.
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  4353.  @anthonyloconte7835  Whoever did it gave NATO a gift because paying Europe's eternal Russian enemy for energy was worse than foolish, it was treasonous. No European has any business being a Russophile.
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  4354. Purging cultural enemies will be expensive and fraught with conflict since everyone wants to protect their personal rice bowl. Boeing may like the DoD be too large and complex to reform against institutional resistance. Time will tell.
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  4355. If indigenous peoples have a right to their own culture that also applies to indigenous EUROPEAN cultures and is not to be confused with racism. A county belongs to its people NOT the rest of the world. Time to abandon Leftist nonsense which was and remains a product of over a century of Russian subversion.
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  4356. Customers buy based on styling first and you cannot go wrong with classic lines. Customers today are tech-illiterates for the vast part but they gladly spend money on esthetics so give them what they will pay for.
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  4357.  @rjaymanguino2760  The payoff can be huge. I paid mine off long ago which enabled a comfortable low overhead retirement in my forties. If the economy implodes all I owe is property tax easily covered by savings (because I refuse to live in high tax areas).
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  4358. I use USB to SATA adapters with 3D printed drive/adapter cases to use superseded SATA drives as fast externals I load with Ventoy to live boot multiple images, with Windows To Go externally bootable full OS installs, for externally bootable Linux installs and of course for storage but I make most of my external storage bootable because that costs nothing.
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  4359. No one is forced to buy expensive toys.
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  4360. The most important function of war is to get Youtube views by affirming influencer audiences. Spectators without skin in the game get cost-free affirmation, money is made and everyone's happy.
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  4361. Then move there and let us know how it works out.
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  4362. Under CCP rule life was always cheap. They do not protect the people unless something extreme by local standards (like melamine in baby formula) happens. Western trade pays for it all, with the US trade deficit alone paying for the entire Chinese armed forces.
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  4363. FOD walks are normal on every air force base as are FOD sweepers. F-16s can operate from concrete highways and be fueled and armed by dispersed vehicles making harder targets. They can ingest considerable sand which just blast cleans the fan and compressor sections. I borescoped plenty of Pratts and GEs on deployments.
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  4364.  @bradipobello7052  Prove it.
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  4365.  @Bird_McBride  Why would you imagine missile systems desgined for average Western soldiers to use would be difficult to operate or maintain thus requiring "mercenaries"? The US designs systems for ease of use and maintenance by troops who undergo quite ordinary training pipelines. Not much in modern war really is hard to work on or use (retired fighter fixer here). For some reason ignorant civilians imagine differently but anyone with a high school education can and does maintain most of the US military's hardware.
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  4366. Why does India worship Putin? What makes him better for Ukraine than Winston Churchill was for India? Not even Russians adore him so uncritically.
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  4367. Iran and Russia benefit from disruption in the Middle East. In other news water is wet and the sun reliably rises in the east.
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  4368.  @phoenixjim0527  Nothing today has antecedents older than the 1960s Leftist seizure of academia. Invoking dead people is delusional for historic continuity is but a generation deep and once disconnected it's finished. 2023 Harvard has nothing in common with 1923 or 1823 Harvard.
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  4369.  @bengaltiger96  That's just a big, wealthy club not to be confused with a center of academic excellence. They accomplish nothing but political and social subversion for which a just society would bulldoze the place then salt the earth.
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  4370. The public commit crimes. Criminals are part of the public and when they outnumber the good folks this happens.
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  4371. They are not indigenous Britons hence those who are have zero moral obligation to them. They are invaders, period full stopl. A nation belongs to its own, not the world, and the choice is take it back by force or be culturally obliterated. All these lies we're taught by the Left can be discarded along with all respect for or humanity towards the Left for they are mortal enemies in a cultural war. End respect first then the rest will beging to take care of itself. There is no need to serve your foreign enemies.
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  4372. If you want to make money start a low-end used car lot and fix mostly auction buys to fill it. Most people need cars and an economic downturn just means they need cheaper cars. My mentor did that and kept his donor vehicles to part out. He retired rich.
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  4373. How do mortgages in the UK work? I would NEVER accept an adjustable rate mortage which gutted millions of Americans in the last recession. How does a fixed rate contract "end"? BTW this video comments section is packed with stealth "financial advisor" bot posts so please report them. They begin with what seems an innocent post then the payload names a fictitious adviser for which the scam victim then searches for on the broader web.
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  4374. Independence would be in 2000 for big twins and 2003 for Sporsters for most owner mechanics, though a serious enthusiast can easily overhaul a Twin Cam axle to axle.
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  4375. Electrics work very nicely as home gamer and limbing saws. My gassers haven't been used in years after my shoulder replacement coerced me to go electric. Commercial and other high volume tree fallers are generally better off with large gassers but those use cases don't really apply here. Not having to waste time on carb cleaning etc is a MAJOR convenience also useful for demolition use where a saw may sit a long time between uses.
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  4376. Slow news day much? All the important things going on in NY and THIS is seen as worth covering? JFC... They did a "self help" project AT THEIR OWN RISK in a building generations had worked in without dying. Self-help projects have been common (but with authorized unit funds) in the armed forces for many decades. Other government orgs have plenty of skilled DIYers so why not use them? They save money on break rooms, snack bars (12+ hour shifts require coffee and snacks to keep workers functional) and other useful facility upgrades. Rikers has always been a hellhole and them improving some of it for temp use before it gets demo'ed is not a big deal.
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  4377. The only tragedy at Kent State was poor marksmanship.
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  4378. Local culture promotes savagery with predictable results including blaming everyone but the root cause, THE PEOPLE.
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  4379. Russian culture produces consistent results throughout history. No wonder most of the Warsaw Pact promptly joined NATO. Putin is not some outside calamity but a typical product of Russia which has killed and exiled its intelligentsia for centuries. That is why there is zero hope for positive change and any sane Russian emigrates to escape the rest. Putin will only be replaced by another tool of whatever group dominates. The Russian military threat is of course permanent but this war can weaken it demographically and economically buying time for NATO to rearm for the next century of containment. The more Russian casualties the better for civilization.
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  4380. "People who want powerful hardware and don't know Apple aren't playing fairly" are ignorant by choice or too rich to care. For a professional making money the price of hardware is background noise. As a work tool the cost of a personal computer is trivial. Note independent auto mechanics often have tens of thousands of dollars in tools they paid for and because those tools turn a profit there is no problem.
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  4381. That's a distinction without a difference because AFV are a SPECTRUM of vehicles and capabilities. It doesn't matter what the public call it because the average moron is tech-illiterate when it comes to military hardware.
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  4382. Until intelligent discussions of the Jones Act go beyond professionals, the average moron will have the field! The general public have never been and can never be technical people who are always a tiny minority. The US shipping industry sorely needs a SIMPLE one or two paragraph "Jones Act for Retards" (not worded like that of course) ad campaign because silence ensures doom. Normies do not even know this channel or gcaptain or similar exist. Shipping is magic to morons therefore the shipping industry needs a clueful outreach campaign focusing on JOBS. Bubba and LaQueefa don't care about sealift or war or anything more complex than their last defecation, but "JOBS!" is a reliable dogwhistle that cannot be overemphasized. Videos of suitably diverse shipyard welders, fabricators and dynamic humans doing cool stuff with shiny objects are required. Anyone imagining I'm too cynical is overly naive and part of the problem.
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  4383. Brave lad but when the Kremlin does the usual and exploits accumulated information to trap dissidents it would be wise to be far, far away. No one can come to the rescue and all dissent exists at the sufferance of the Kremlin. Putin wants a Soviet respawn and may well get it within the Federation.
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  4384.  @w.reidripley1968  He seems to hold an ancient conception of the GOP based on the early Cold War, but that party no longer exists and is politically deader than so-called "classic conservatives" like the also very dead Willian Buckley or Zbigniew Brzezinski. The US stopped producing classic conservatives when the GOP filled with escaped Dixiecrats driven off by the Civil Rights Act etc. Their votes were too valuable to stand on non-existent principles. I was alive through the "late early Cold War" and bear personal witness to that dual mistake. The Dems threw away most of their white working class base while the GOP Southern Strategy worked until its objects figured out the game then conquered the Republican Party forever.
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  4385. Insurance actuaries run on facts not feelings. They should publish the statistics driving their decision because the public know basically nothing but their own feelings.
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  4386. Thieves know the owner has to leave their wheel lock key if they use a spare tire or expect to use road service, but wheel nuts can buy some time. Don't forget to HIDE your custom nut driver where thieves won't find it. Don't even think of leaving it in the glove box since that's where repo people find most of them.
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  4387.  @Jazz1959  Pattern recognition exists for good reason.
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  4388. The "vulnerable" are largely a bunch of degenerates whose choices put them there and who refuse to leave the most expensive state in the union despite having their whole life to change what they do and where they do it.
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  4389. The public are nothing to admire and the public ARE the country. If the American people as a group were worth a damn they'd produce and elect better officials. When a democratic republic fails the VOTERS did it in. I don't love most of my fellow Americans but I certainly do my civic and did my military duty because that is a matter of MY personal honor.
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  4390. This also shows that foreign military forces formal or "terrorist" can easily block US harbors using blockships (a method thousands of years old). Sinking someone elses freighter or tanker in a key channel would be cheap and relatively easy by shipping explosives in a container or containers at the bottom of the stacks. The bad guys know this because it's completely obvious...
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  4391. It should have been dissolved back when Hoover used it against innocent citizens.
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  4392. Cops are very ordinary people (that means unintelligent) and departments often can't afford to be picky. The blue suit is just a uniform, and anyone who has worn (any) uniform knows they're just clothing not magic. The US generally doesn't have the training and academic requirements professional forces do because American taxpayers like the idea of professional police (and government for that matter) but don't really think those are worth paying for or enforcing because it's easier to be slack. The typical American may have credentials but that's different from genuine education which our culture doesn't value. Cops come from their communities and the bottom line is MANY American communities are pure trash with no one worth a damn to recruit from. However Americans like many simple people are fiercely proud and refuse to admit this, making things even worse. We're good at technology because tech makes money and is useful in war. We're not good at anything else so our society is a disaster our people refused to defend from outsiders by excluding them. Democracy in such a culture makes idiocracy inevitable so here we are. Choose where you live wisely and the goblins (a fine Jeff Cooper term) will be somewhere else.
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  4393. They can kill him. No one is irreplaceable and today's boyar is tomorrow's corpse. Image to spectators is not value to the regime and he can die in any number of convenient ways including a bomb then be buried as a hero. Far more important Russians have been disposed of in the past, purged by their replacements.
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  4394. The idea they are prestigious stems from their propaganda. The people who made them hives of Marxism take full advantage.
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  4395. Russian GDP is (much) less than that of California.
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  4396. Be like him and do not vaccinate, that his noble legacy will continue. Defy the Plandemic and fight the good fight.
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  4397. Scepter should sell their REAL military fuel cans and can do so in a compliant manner by making the cap like their water cans but threaded for an EPA spout (and provided with a tethered cap for transport). The G.I. cans are far tougher than steel cans which besides corrosion issues is why the US military replaced steel cans decades ago.
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  4398. Weakness is a choice. If indigenous Europeans prefer their cultures be destroyed they have every legal right to do so. The same conditioning that made people support centuries of monarchy makes them passive in the face of self-inflicted invasion. They are obviously delighted or they would take direct action. They will not fight for anything because they accept their conditioning that standing for yourself is wrong.
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  4399. Glass bottles becoming "obsolete" for (some) uses after centuries is not "failure" but apparently literacy is not "future proof".
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  4400. The Western quality ethos is completely alien to Chinese business practices which emphasize short term profits not corporate longevity. That works because buyers don't understand why customers should understand technology. (Techies will always be a tiny minority and the average person will never be one or even understand the benefits. Intelligence is abnormal and a matter of luck not choice.) Batteries sold in advanced nations should be strictly regulated. The third world doesn't care and life is so cheap it's worthless but that doesn't mean anyone else should burn for their desperation.
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  4401. Unless Ukraine frees itself the peace will destroy it as a nation. Of course as a Glavset shill you cannot acknowledge any Soviet atrocities.
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  4402. No ever accused Democrat voters of wisdom. The same people who elected Adams will install the next grifter.
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  4403. This is what a particular strain of liberals get for decades of support of Marxism on campus. Claudine Gay did not deceive or betray anyone because neither she nor others of her ideology ever agreed to a quid pro quo. Assuming there was one was entirely and hilariously one-sided. The people she just offended should not have installed her and other Marxist enemies of Western civilization in the first place. I was alive before they won that war and watched it unfold. They failed to understand HER interests and THEIR interests have nothing in common and never really did. Their motivation was naive eagerness for group advancement under the skirts of a much larger group. I quite enjoy watching Leftist infighting because that is what this REALLY is.
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  4404. Felons by their actions make the informed choice to establish themselves as enemies of society. Punishment is not to be confused with redemption or a simple "debt" because actions reflect character. Would you let a p3d0who served their sentence work with children? Would you let a convicted fraudster run a savings and loan?
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  4405. ​ @gridley  They aren't and haven't been for a very long time. Jersey City and Hoboken have always been NYC appendages.
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  4406. I threw mine together from multiple wrecks, a rollover for the chassis and running gear and a front end hit for the cab and bed. So long as they're not rusted it's worth doing and we did many before mine at the shop where I learned to build truck and SUVs from wrecks. If no key it's easy to delete ATS using free software, a power supply and a bench harness you can easily make.
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  4407. Hardcore DIYer here. Hoarding disables workshops which is why industry tends to work clean. Storage space is precious so I frequently purge leftover parts. Leftover minor parts tend to have no/few other likely uses so I toss them if my bros don't have use for them. If you cannot find a part or tool that has the the same effect as not owning it. Most DIYers make the mistake of not DIYing efficient storage but it pays off immediately then for life. Jewelry is a ritual wealth demonstration and a grotesque ripoff. Working in an antique and coin store forever curing me of seeing jewelry as more than metal and shiny rocks. De Beers marketroids reinforced utterly wasteful spending. Many gold and diamond mining operations exploit workers just like rare earth mining.
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  4408. The solution is simple. MOVE. Humans have moved for thousands of years. Our infrastructure is easy to replace and improve. None of it is special.
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  4409. ​ @laurijoemerick9188  The failure of businesses to correctly anticipate real demand is on them. Conferences are not new. Neither are mistakes. Next time the conference should be somewhere else, preferably overseas so some other city loses the profit. The city and the businesses concerned had agency and choices. Failure to organize the events so they could be monetized was a mistake that could have been avoided by mutual planning.
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  4410. "Homeless" REALLY means drunks, bums, junkies, addicts and other VOLUNTARY degenerates. Millions of immigrants make it in the US and keep coming. The locals have no excuse. Enough. Not everyone gets to live where they cannot afford to live. Again, immigrants can change countries but Americans refuse to switch counties. CRIME gets old.
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  4411. Many creative people have bats in their proverbial belfry.
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  4412. Replacing the obsolete HMMWV which was never intended for direct combat is many years and many casualties overdue. GWOT advanced the design of "armored cars" with combat experience so it's time to put that to work. To survive JLTV will require organic anti-drone systems and those don't exist at scale yet.
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  4413. Interesting times. Beijing is an outright strategic enemy but "thanks" to detente we (more than) pay for their entire armed forces while at the same time spending trillions per decade to militarily contain them.
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  4414. Keep in mind it is also long obsolete and that the general public has zero legitimate interest in knowing what any black program successor can do. That's a good thing from the only POV that matters, military superiority in a permanently hostile world.
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  4415. Now every imperfect video will be presumed AI. If it matters best to learn to analyze it professionally. If it doesn't matter then it doesn't matter.
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  4416. I care about my fellow AMERICANS. Everyone else takes second place or worse. Chicago aske for this.
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  4417. That smacks of concern trolling. What is your personal experience in the Viper community or military aviation?
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  4418. PAY WHAT THE MARKET WILL BEAR. Work is compensated because it is suffering not fun. Industry wants more serfs. Cry me a river.
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  4419. This will be amusing for crash repair (a subject only mechanics are able to understand therefore care about but everyone pays for via insurance) because these castings ensure more vehicles beyond economic repair in crashes. OEMs do not care about crash repair because the ideal car explodes the second it's paid off.
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  4420. The Russian military recovered from much worse. Those ignorant of history tend to imagine this is a temporary condition rather than eternal Russian imperialism. Russia has no other social identity and can never produce decent government because it kills, imprisons and exiles its intelligentsia. This war CAN buy time until the next one, but we should remember the disgustingly naive despicably childish mistakes the West made want so desperately to believe in Putin. His replacement will be another tyrant. Russia will not change and wanting it to is delusional because what outsiders want has no effect. Eastern Europe must always be armed to the teeth. Western Europe is only sometimes a reliable ally and for decades greeted Putin with legs akimbo. In the future there is only war and preparation for war. War is the entire Russian social identity. Ukraine must not only arm but get its own nuclear weapons like France and Britain.
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  4421. Economies of scale CAN drop production costs, just not in the US...
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  4422. In the good old days of the early Cold War air tag was normal.
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  4423. The Bridger line throwing gun remains in production and there are videos of it.
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  4424. "Conservatives" today want VALIDATION (just like feminists!) so they cannot tolerate dissent.
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  4425. Do NOT forget country living in Red states, but if you are a Democrat stay where you came from because Democrats did this. Cities are for the rich and the incompetent who made bad life choices. I live quite modestly in a semi-rural location. My alarm clock is a rooster and I haven't locked my door in thirty years. The people who live in these Blue dystopias chose then reinforce their fate. The US is a mobile society but few have the wisdom to use that advantage.
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  4426. Public stupidity is a problem in every disaster.
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  4427. To judge by the Luftwaffe K/D ratio rather casual. When the same aces went to the Western front their fate was often different.
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  4428. They have more money than god and can adapt easily enough. No HUMANS will be punished and Google can pay any fines with couch money then reorganize.
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  4429. In 2024 the cannon is really just clickbait for military illiterates who still think it matters in 2024 despite cannon range requiring the A-10 be in MANPAD range to use it. Big boomy things excite Bubba so it's always good for more views, but meat in the seat of ground attack birds requires CSAR (because real life war includes casualties) which itself costs more than thousands of drones.
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  4430. Trump is a threat to Jihadists so intercepting him before he becomes POTUS makes strategic sense from their POV.
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  4431. If you ever have jury duty there is NO legal obligation for you to find a good citizen guilty. "Jury nullification" is real.
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  4432. Are we supposed to be impresssed? I worked early and late F-16s and their advantage is compatibility with NATO munitions and their data link integration. Noobs dream of dogfights, a typical and contemptible childish fantasy. War is about putting warheads on foreheads and Russia has FAILED to produce air dominance next door. This is like US forces running out of steam at the Mexican border.
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  4433. It is unless one is living under a rock, but what PRECISELY would even more coverage accomplish? The locals and responders knew in advance and the smart ones prepared and/or evacuated. Putting even more content in front of someone on the other side of the US is useless because there's nothing they can do except feel their little feelings then drool on their shoes. Those in position to take useful action don't need anything beyond information news channels are poor at but cellular internet shines. For example Waze is almost immediately updated with traffic and road closures and mobile cell towers are the fastest way to restore comms. Watching some spokesmodel spout the usual is just space filler.
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  4434. Don't forget Stalin who killed tens of millions and who remains a hero to Russian nationalists. Putin wants to be Stalin but lacks a Warsaw Pact to loot.
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  4435. The wise personal choice is not to live in an expensive area in the first place. GROWTH IS BAD because it ruins the reasons people relocate to a given location. The smart move is choose a slow or no growth area to buy in. That gets you more land, fewer neighbors, more privacy and less crowding. Don't follow the herd, go in the opposite direction and win thereby.
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  4436. The Russian navy has fewer vessels than a NATO CBG, and no functioning carriers. Who is this supposed to impress beyond barely literate peasants who don't know what they're seeing?
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  4437. Why isn't FOX informing the public? It is not illegal to publish FACTS. The CUSTOM of HIDING juvenile criminals is not in most places enforced by law. If Fox does not name the rapist and publish its mug shot than Fox is aiding and abetting the next rape and the next. Fox is neglecting civic duty by concealing rape.
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  4438. The CCP antagonizes all its neighbors except North Korea, and is the major threat to Indian interests after Pakistan.
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  4439. The only reason he was offered a "deal" by the state is their cases may not be a slam dunk. Why was he offered a plea deal if all is beyond doubt?
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  4440. Breakdown how much he made per year and prison was worth it.
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  4441. Man here who is fine with GENUINELY smart, intelligent (they are not the same), capable and independent females but those traits are IRL extremely rare. I married a unicorn and we were in love for many years until death did us part, but women like that are uncommon. OTOH far too many reasonably economically successful women imagine the sun shines out their posterior and confuse emotional instability with healthy assertiveness. Those become Karens and they deserve the Darrens they get.
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  4442. It's cruel to hire people for jobs exceeding their mental and physical abilities, but there aren't many civilian filters (vs. the USAF which can filter potential recruits and assign them as appropriate).
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  4443. Failure that early is absurd and the reason I only buy proven drivetrains a few years into a production run.
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  4444. It's absurd to expect affordable housing in areas where everyone wants to live, so I don't live there. The US is enormous.
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  4445. White males should boycott every corporate racist sexist enemy permanently. We control billions of dollars collectively and we ARE most of the powersports toy (motorcycles are toys) market.
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  4446. Only weak fools crave "influencers".
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  4447. ISIS is likely to attack all who resisted it. The pattern is historically familiar.
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  4448.  @MrWaterPeople  Portable pumps exist and leaving a scene to recharge means more downtime than simply adding diesel. There is no demonstrated NEED for BEV fire trucks as their tiny mileage per year means trivial pollution.
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  4449. Islamic State-Khorasan bombed Kabul airport to attack the US forces exiting Afghanistan. They and the Taliban (who also got smoked while protecting the evacuation) are mortal enemies. IS-K presumably want revenge for Russia bombing their buddies in Syria, Chechnya etc.
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  4450. It's not as if the US military can afford to have standards when it has to pull recruits from an impressively dim public. The average person is nearly a moron and young morons are emotional (which is degenerate like all lack of self-mastery) so no surprise here. The exaggerated idea of military competence etc many neverserveds have means some are surprised. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. The weasel will maybe do a couple of years with a BCD but we don't even punish desertion in combat (too bad the Talibs failed to saw off Bergdahl's head since he was traded for enemy leadership who went on to help kill more Coalition troops) so this ain't chit.
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  4451.  @LucyOLastic  In what alternate universe is freedom of association not a right? Why should people be compelled to yield to their social enemies instead of having personal and group space?
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  4452. The rich are Democrats so I see no problem with them getting exactly what they voted for.
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  4453. Nitrogen without the silly boutique dispensers is cheap. I do my own HVAC work and keep a cylinder handy for pressure tests (far more reliable than vacuum when chasing leaks. I don't bother putting it in terrestrial tires though it's preferable for aircraft. The first job I did on my F150 more than paid for the used nitrogen cylinder (no point buying new since they're refilled by exchange), tote and regulator.
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  4454. Looks like the old normal. Anyone who bothered to learn urban history would have no use for living in a major city because doing so is jailing yourself with some very bad company. Democrats decided it's their turn to wreck NYC (yet again, this is a normal historic cycle and no one reading this can stop it) so if you have any sense you'll move to a red state then keep it red. No one should be even slightly surprised. I saw this coming in the 1970s and escaped in the '80s. If you're still there and not rich, ask yourself why you're too scared to leave and explore the rest of the USA. You know it will only get worse. You know Democrat power will only increase. You know your choices are get out or become a victim. You know you cannot afford land ("owning" a piece of a co-op is not security). You know when the next economic crash hits you can easily be homeless. Choose wisely.
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  4455.  @RUTHLESSambition5  Then openly act in your true interest and leave the EU etc for Russia as Hungary cannot defy its natural master. Hungary is Russian at heart.
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  4456. "Shocking"???? It's an effing DESERT. That's fine for the right folks and those it does not suit should not defile it with their presence.
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  4457. USPS despite being Constitutionally mandated is under-supported by government whose politicians would prefer it privatized so their buddies get rich.
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  4458. Buy an e-meter and do a teardown.
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  4459. Geography is the reason those areas were industrialized in the first place. Geography is also why businesses which can afford greenfield sites in warmer states build or relocate there instead. The Great Lakes are beautiful but the weather is a deal breaker for development. The cities in the region chose to have economic monocultures which made them vulnerable. Successful cities have economic variety. Compare and contrast cities which succeed over time with those which faded. Job destruction is relevant. One CNC machining center can out-produce a shop floor full of manual machine tools. US manufacturing is enormous but not labor-intensive. US workers are competitive too. Foreign companies invest in US workers all the time, like German makers in the Carolinas. (The factories are inshore for the most part not on the coast.) US businesses which failed typically suicided, failing to innovate and recapitalize, but the US is quite capable of automotive success stories like Tesla (love or hate Musk, the company is a success even building competitively in mainland China.) Depopulation is a plus for many people like myself who hate urban life. Those who enjoy it can locate accordingly. If the Southeast gets too hot I'd move to the Midwest in a heartbeat and being a mobile retiree would spend most of my income where ever I land. As other areas become crowded the Midwest has a lot to offer the right sort of people. I've many relatives in rural MI who love it there.
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  4460. Adobe does not rip me off because I never bought it in the first place and never will. Wise people don't use cloud software.
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  4461. Acceleration isn't just desirable in cars...
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  4462. Russian military incompetence and lack of funding (its GDP is lower than California's) make this mostly a public relations gesture. INDIA should build out its sea power more aggressively as India is wealthier and far more competently run than the Russian Federation. Indian sea power will be a major deterrent to its opponents (Chinese trade cannot all go by land and ships are by far the best way to move bulk cargo) and secure civilian maritime trade. There is no reason India cannot choose to build shipyards then ships at Chinese or South Korean scale. The Indian ocean wasn't named by accident and fading neocolonial empires like the Russian Federation (who treat their conquests like Winston Churchill did the Indian peoples) cannot maintain maritime power projection at the scale required. Indian basing and seaport buildout is an enormous opportunity for India to develop more skilled manufacturing and raise its standard of living. Russia cannot loiter forever (it lacks underway replenishment and supporting vessels) while India has nearby geographic presence.
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  4463. Anyone serious would have made sure like whoever whacked his family.
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  4464. He is 91 years old. At that age dementia sets in.
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  4465.  @eliman47  They don't mean that, they just aren't quite ready to admit selling out Ukraine is on the menu. NONE of that "killing" affects the US which didn't care about two decades of the foredoomed strategic mistake that was the US-Afghan war. No American needs to care about Russian casualties unless they simp for Putin.
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  4466.  @Bertinator-nm9ld  Being a vet in no way implies intelligence. Ask any vet how may dummies we had to work with while serving. All being a vet means (absent other individual actions) is they showed up at MEPS then did as directed well enough to not get booted. That's not a high bar. Armed forces must use the clay they are given. Force cultures differ too. Those not wanting to fall victim to our incompetent politicians often opt for the Navy or Air Force (and now, Space Force).
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  4467. The US failed to learn from past failures and will continue to fail because only the "exciting" technotactical stuff gets career-enhancing recognition. We're good at what we're good at but "choose to suck" at many tasks. Inaction is a choice. Military leadership failure is impressively common. Putting on a uniform doesn't work magic on the human inside. Document, document, document! Photograph burn pits if you see them on or off base as future evidence. A problem the naive public and much of the military don't quite understand is the military mind is so mission-focused it ignores everything else. This is normal not new. Buddy letters and all the rest of the documentation the Viet Nam vets had to come up with after that war are still a necessity. A heretical way to reduce waste is reduce the complexity and go full Spartan with no luxuries. Keeping it real all you need is clean water, MREs, field sanitation and shelter. Everything that is not mission-essential should be questioned. While Americans really like luxurious FOBs they forget how many logistics humans are maimed and killed bringing NON-ESSENTIAL items by road. I personally don't need a DFAC if my brother or sister dies trying to deliver consumables. The US desperately needs military reform but the military is (all complex systems inherently operate in degraded condition) too large and complex to fix even if the will existed which never has been the case. Nothing will change that matters so choose your service wisely. Your buddies may have your back. The system does not and never has.
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  4468. Google search is almost worthless. I predict that will not be fixed.
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  4469. When people dump something there is usually a very good reason. Price "cuts" just mean shaving the markup.
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  4470. Americans love debt for things they do not need, especially "too much car", "too much house" and "too many overpriced toys". Toys should be a self-reward for being debt-free. Stupid scam rituals like getting ripped off for entertainment at Disney or thinking diamonds are a flex (because they don't know how DeBeers markets them). Be smart, live BELOW your means and enjoy the freedom that brings. I much prefer my rural acreage and tiny property tax to brutally expensive urban living. I'm low income by US standards but about half that is discretionary because wise planning pays off. Put income security first, get smart and proudly live cheap.
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  4471.  @slappy8941  Bad analogy but these days WWII is mostly perceived as a video game. There was every reason to snuff genocidal occupiers so some people quite reasonably did. Would you trivialize Ukraine under Stalin or Putin the same way?
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  4472. Wrenching cars/trucks/motorcycles/industrial equipment is why I chose military aviation for a career. Aircraft are much more fun and the environment more professional. Aircraft are also MUCH less hard on the body than working on cars. Easiest wheeled vehicle wrenching is on motorcycles then other powersports equipment but the industry rarely has worthwhile benefits.
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  4473. Your military illiteracy is showing. Bomb what specific targets to what end? Are you twelve?
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  4474. Ratings are about MONETIZING VIEWS, not conscience. He got removed for failure to be profitable. You have to be rather bad at what you do to manage that since the average American reads therefore thinks at 7th/8th grade level. I am amused.
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  4475. Growth is bad for current residents. Growth is only good if you're SELLING. That's why I don't follow the herd and chose residence in a guaranteed slow-growth area away from major cities. That let me pay off my home and keeps taxes low. Growth destroys the reasons communities grow in the first place. Growth ruins affordability.
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  4476. What safety gear do modern sailors of old ship designs wear while working aloft if any? Firefighters have bailout kits for rapid descent. Would a maritime version be useful given an included fall arrester?
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  4477. Note the workers are shown burning SCRAP TYRES (0:42) for fuel. That's amazingly polluting and terrible for their lungs. The tyre soot effects on the product should also be examined as ingesting even small amounts of burnt modern rubber is highly questionable. Utter economic desperation and profit is why that particular factory is still standing. The workers should at least be issued protective gloves. PPE would avoid many injuries but only if issued by factories as otherwise it would be sold off. Melting salt and vegetable matter could easily be mechanized leaving workers to feed the system more safely. Molten salts are common in industry where larger crucibles (the technical name for that sort of "pot") are used. Molten salt heat treating is common and similar equipment could greatly and profitably boost black salt production.
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  4478. New Yorkers voted for this so they deserve it. Put the blame squarely where it belongs. The beauty of democratic republics is the voters are genuinely responsible for their own condition. Poor adults are poor because of personal choices they make due to their choices to be ignorant. Leaders are FORCED by them to pander to their stupidity. They voted for their mayor. He could rescind the sanctuary city executive order with a stroke of a pen but they do not demand he do that and most have no idea what that order even is. Poors will never get smart because you cannot choose to be intelligent. They will continue to elect their own worst enemies. I will continue to laugh at fools who did this to themselves.
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  4479. I don't forget only currently available tech is relevant. BTW the first ICE piston engine was the Lenoir invented in the late 1850s.
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  4480. English rule in Ireland was comparable to Russian brutality and genocide in Ukraine. The potato famine and Holomodor have much in common.
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  4481. Tanks without combined arms are just sexy targets. The UK can't afford the armed forces it has. Nice tank though.
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  4482. Columbia has been radical Leftist for longer than current students have been alive. They should never have wanted to go there in the first place and should be refunded their tuition so they can attend a non-hostile school.
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  4483.  @nozrep  Please list the affected companies currently run by "entrepreneurs" you assert exist. Otherwise that's strawmanning.
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  4484.  @nozrep  Please list some of them currently in power that we may look them up?
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  4485. Hold their feet to the fires and DO NOT STOP. Harley chose to be leftist racist shills. They forgot MOTORCYCLES ARE TOYS NOT TOOLS and absolutely no one NEEDS a new Harley-Davidson because (now) it has ceased to be an American cultural icon (and, speaking as a rational HD owner and mechanic, the mythos was overblown by propaganda). The old time dealers were put to the sword decades ago by HD requiring outrageous dealer investments which favored the rick and obliterated their loyal supporters many who did so since the early 1900s. The new HD aren't very good BUT Milwaukee just obliterated any reason to give them the support. The vast aftermarket which caters OLD HDs the factory DOES NOT SUPPORT does not need the factory. Shut it down, if you're helpless enough to prefer a new motorbike there are plenty of which are of better mechanical quality. Ask mechanics if in the slightest doubt. No white person should spend a dime with HD because if they treat their most loyal supporters like this, they don't care about YOU either.
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  4486.  @anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808  Democrats VOTED for both problems. They chose their fate.
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  4487.  @craighunt5426  Not my red state, unemployment is around three percent and manufacturing investment is steady. Democrat pockets have their issues so I do not live in one (nor do I post precise location because I don't want invaders).
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  4488.  @knine8154  Why do people take offense to WFH? Office space is a COST center not a profit center. Many technical jobs can be done from anywhere sparing business owners the cost of overpriced office space. Commuting is a complete waste of time, fuel and vehicle wear when it can be avoided.
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  4489.  @neilpountney9414  German automobile quality has declined considerably. If I bought new I'd buy Japanese (and then only after exhaustive research because as a mechanic I trust no company).
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  4490. These are END NIPPERS. If I ask a helper for "pliers" he'll have to respond with "what kind?" there being a great variety including visegrips, Channellocks etc. Great review but in future being precise with titles increases search engine hits.
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  4491. Maybe supporting their own enemies by helping the leftist takeover of academia wasn't the brightest idea? Columbia has been an enemy institution since the 1960s and should be defunded and shut down.
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  4492. You can claim any gender you identify with regardless of biology. so why can't she claim the culture she identifies with? There is no sincerity test for either because the person making the assertion is not breaking any laws. Her fans won't care.
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  4493. Cities exist for economic reasons and when they rely on industrial MONOCULTURES that makes them vulnerable after those disappeared. Efficient manufacturing reduces job count and one CNC machining center can replace a floor of manual tools, so it did. "The only people who stay in bad cities are the people who can't afford to move, or they are one of the few with a good job that makes it worth it to stay. " is spot on. The solution is not to live in one and when you had a lifetime to FORESEE urban decline there is no excuse for being there in 2023. Do remember that a bad city in no way means there are no good surrounding areas. An obsolete urban core doesn't always take adjacent areas with it.
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  4494. Were those thugs Seventh Day Adventists? Mormons? Swiss tourists? Do we have a description of these th0t patrollers?
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  4495.  @bradsanders407  I worked on F-16s for over two decades (A,B.C,D,CJ), first as an engine troop, later merged with the crew chiefs. Run qualified, Red X all systems etc. F-16s are easy to maintain. Any kid off the block can and has learned to work on them in several months of technical school. Some tasks can be tedious but none are truly difficult. They're easy to maintain under deployed conditions too. I did that in various places including Desert Shield/Storm with thousands of other maintainers trained in the same and other tech school courses and FTDs.
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  4496. The US military in those days was VERY different (all in bad ways) from the later All Volunteer Force. It was desperate for manning and tolerated accident and crash rates which would get commanders fired so quickly today they'd make sonic booms. Older systems were also intrinsically much less reliable. For example as late as the 1980s the USAF Safety folks correctly predicted the loss of roughly an entire squadron per year of fighter/attack birds AND what various factors would take them down. Safety folks are unsung heroes (for the same reasons workers grumble about OSHA) but in the armed forces they save enormous amounts of equipment and many lives.
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  4497. Low enlistment standards and lack of senior leadership accountability are normal "Hollow Force" eras like this one and the previous after the US gutted our forces after the Southeast Asian Strategic Blunder ended. Today it may not be practical to discipline the current force harshly enough. Troops thrive under discipline but modern society does not value ethics or professionalism. The public do not really care what happens inside the armed forces, they just thank them for their service while not doing their own civic duty to demand accountability.
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  4498. Historic? It's just a park. Vietnam is ancient history and most of the hippies are deceased of old age after selling out. Students need HOUSING not memorials to a dead time that is never ever coming back.
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  4499. Won't work since anyone can fake their age and/or IP address as needed. The average US reading level is roughly 8th grade. Most of the public are idiots and nothing fixes human nature. Anyone who takes these clowns seriously deserves what they asked for.
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  4500. Buying luxury goods is foolish even if you can afford them. So-called "luxury" is mostly marketing to chumps. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet don't flaunt their wealth to impress people they don't have a business case for impressing. Life's rare good times are best used to prepare for much more common bad times.
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  4501. Rwanda and Syria were local people doing their usual hacky-choppy sport they prefer to food, sex and oxygen. I defy you to articulate a compelling STRATEGIC benefit to the AMERICAN public from intervention in either case. Rwanda is a European problem resulting from European colonial policies. Somalia is a Somalian problem by choice of Somalis.
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  4502.  @cashewnuttel9054  The alternative is NOT trying to "fix" them because it's impossible in the real world. The desperate craving to fix things kills millions of locals. Ask Viet Nam, Iraq and A-stan about the merits of neocolonial stupidity.
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  4503. Nobody needs a new car. Nobody needs an expensive car. New cars are a TOY purchase. I find this hilarious that anyone even cares about dealers who doesn't work for one.
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  4504. Industry awards are just industry back patting for those silly enough to care. Emmys ARE entertainment. That is all.
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