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- 2024-04-01 03:16pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Haiti collapse
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2697
Re: Haiti collapse
I hate to sound deeply cynical, but isn't "invading another country to install a preferable government" exactly what the US tried in Afghanistan and Iraq, and what Britain did in, well, most of the world? It's worked out very well before. And if the justification is "it's for their o...
- 2024-04-01 10:19am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Haiti collapse
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2697
Re: Haiti collapse
With Haiti if you want to break the gangs quickly nothing short of a full military clean and screen operation of a ten mile wide sweeping column is going to do the job. We are talking about a door to door sweep of the entirety of Port-au-Prince. Nothing short of landing 70k troops in the harbor and ...
- 2024-03-26 09:08am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Baltimore MD Bridge Struck By Ship and Collapses!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1222
Re: Baltimore MD Bridge Struck By Ship and Collapses!
NY Times Live Thread
The entire port is shut down because of the bridge collapse and ongoing rescue operations but unfortunately the bridge collapse happened seven hours ago, the chance of anyone being alive and not yet found at this point is remote.
The entire port is shut down because of the bridge collapse and ongoing rescue operations but unfortunately the bridge collapse happened seven hours ago, the chance of anyone being alive and not yet found at this point is remote.
- 2024-03-17 05:26pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2170
Re: US passes bill to ban TikTok unless Chinese owner sells platform
So coming back around on this thread let me just asking the question, how exactly is the House Bill any more legal than the last three attempts to Ban Tiktok? NPR If the House bill eventually becomes law, won't there be a legal challenge? It is all but certain that TikTok will try to have a ban over...
- 2024-03-04 02:03pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25286
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
How'd that 2023 Ukrainian summer offensive go? You know, the one which was done by NATO trained troops and NATO equipment? A total fucking failure was what it was. Even the Ukrainians themselves will tell you that NATO training ain't worth much, and the Russians are way more competent and effective...
- 2024-02-25 08:02pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
- Replies: 363
- Views: 25286
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 2024 thread
So, by the numbers, assuming they're all accurate, Ukraine and Russia are losing troops at about the same rate. Not really sustainable, considering Russia has a massive population difference over the Ukraine. They're not losing troops at the same rate. The numbers for Russia are likely not too far ...
- 2024-01-15 07:43am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148685
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
There's a fifth possibility you left off, that of a sea based or air drone equipped as a one shot sneaking closing enough to pop off a missile re-purposed just to shoot these things down. No super weapon needed but a temporary lash up designed too take advantage of Russian flight patterns. There's i...
- 2023-11-04 11:09am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Final Fantasy XIV
- Replies: 304
- Views: 97910
Re: Final Fantasy XIV
On a more positive note Fall Guys except with FFXIV server side only net code means you to can be a Fall guy. That sentence made no sense to me. Sorry referencing this Reddit post as the server side net code and the fact your model is only really 1 pixel wide means you can fall through the map with...
- 2023-11-03 07:43pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Final Fantasy XIV
- Replies: 304
- Views: 97910
Re: Final Fantasy XIV
And tonight they're doing Maintanance to bring up 6.51. Can't wait for the Hildy stuff! I'm still back in 2.0 Hildy stuff because I can't do those initial quests sober, then I stopped drinking entirely so there Hildebrand remains for now. But the reminder made me hop on and tidy up a few things bef...
- 2023-10-30 09:33pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Final Fantasy XIV
- Replies: 304
- Views: 97910
Re: Final Fantasy XIV
And tonight they're doing Maintanance to bring up 6.51. Can't wait for the Hildy stuff! I'm still back in 2.0 Hildy stuff because I can't do those initial quests sober, then I stopped drinking entirely so there Hildebrand remains for now. But the reminder made me hop on and tidy up a few things bef...
- 2023-10-30 08:55am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Disney sidesteps DeSantis Board
- Replies: 140
- Views: 20588
Re: Disney sidesteps DeSantis Board
The question is, WHY would they do that? The Oversight District has to know pulling shit like that in legal proceedings will backfire. So, are they doing it to just be dicks, or are they trying to cause themselves, and therefore Desantis, problems? The Desantis board is made up of a lot of big fish...
- 2023-10-28 10:06am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
- Replies: 769
- Views: 126753
Re: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
So... let me get this straight.... A private entity that reserves the right to kick people off the platform for whatever reason(s) wants everyone in the world to put their entire financial life into the hands of the entity? The same entity that can't seem to keep scammers and child pornographers of...
- 2023-09-16 09:00am
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Final Fantasy XIV
- Replies: 304
- Views: 97910
Re: Final Fantasy XIV
Meanwhile I have beaten up Eric (Asphodelos 1st Circle) over 100 times now because there's a lot of things in this years Moogtomes I want/need/am to lazy to farm otherwise. That plus the odd alliance raid should see me through.
- 2023-08-18 04:09pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Baldur's gate 3
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10636
Re: Baldur's gate 3
I've had a lot of fun with it so far, and I'm already seeing points at which choices are very binary and going down some very different paths. Plus the physicality of the game is a lot of fun.
- 2023-07-10 06:34am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148685
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
You probably mean the Black Sea, as Baltic Sea is nowhere near Turkey (the ones holding the Key to the Baltic Sea are Denmark and Sweden thru the Danish Straights), while the Turkish Straights do hold the key to the Black Sea, they're nowhere near the Baltic Sea You are correct, my brain said Black...
- 2023-07-09 09:57pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148685
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
Looks like Turkey is starting to bet against Russia Reuters and the grain deal TL:DR no need to post the whole thing but the grain deal has been a back and forth thing between Ukraine and Russia with Turkey as the mediator. The world wants Ukraine grain to flow, Russia does not and Turkey who can sh...
- 2023-06-30 04:15pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
- Replies: 769
- Views: 126753
Re: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
So new Twitter update You can't see twitter posts period without logging in, which means I will never click Twitter links ever Also not great for possible new users, that change turns Twitter a place you won't bother linking to unless they are already logged in. All those places where they post thin...
- 2023-06-18 06:55pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: ... New Puppy!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3794
Re: ... New Puppy!
PUPPY!
That's not Renji Abarai Renji?
Either way cute doggy, I demand more puppy pictures, perhaps even puppy gifs
That's not Renji Abarai Renji?
Either way cute doggy, I demand more puppy pictures, perhaps even puppy gifs
- 2023-06-13 03:56pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Reddit goes dark
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6255
Re: Reddit goes dark
So latest update The Verge In an internal memo sent Monday afternoon to Reddit staff, CEO Steve Huffman addressed the recent blowback directed at the company, telling employees to block out the “noise” and that the ongoing blackout of thousands of subreddits will eventually pass. The memo, a copy of...
- 2023-06-12 08:10am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Reddit goes dark
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6255
Reddit goes dark
For those of you in the unaware, popular social media site Reddit has decided that the thing to do before going public is piss off their userbase and kill all 3rd Party apps. Despite Reddit tale of success directly being based off Digg.com pissing of it's userbase it can't happen twice can it they s...
- 2023-06-06 09:14pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148685
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
This is a nice before an after of the dam that has been posted around
- 2023-06-06 09:10pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148685
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
I think you all are underestimating exactly how hard it is to blow up a damn, they are massive, designed to hold up millions of galleons of water and do so under immense pressure. Your not taking it down with 81mm mortars and even 155mm guns would need concrete breaking shells and need a good number...
- 2023-06-03 07:00pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
- Replies: 769
- Views: 126753
Re: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk
Yes, Elon is unique in that he has managed to decrease profits, destabilise the product, attract multiple lawsuits and destroy the value of the company. That's not unique. That happens with most places that are taken over by people that have no idea what they should be doing. This is simply the mos...
- 2023-05-16 01:15pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148685
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
For obvious reasons Ukraine won't give the Russians any intel that things got hit but the flip side is it's hard to cover up hits to anything important because cell phones and the internet. The flip side is Russia is obviously lying about all targets being hit given we have nice videos of at least s...
- 2023-05-11 05:22pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
- Replies: 1780
- Views: 148685
Re: UKRAINE WAR - 1 YEAR AND GOING.
The Russian Defense ministry just issued an angry denial that the front line has been broken in several points in Ukraine while the Ukrainian Defense ministry is "not talking about active operations"
Translation, good news from the front
Translation, good news from the front