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There is the option that Putin has no intention of using those nukes for a first strike and it's more setting up a negation tactic of "if you allow us to keep the parts we occupied, we'll withdraw the nukes from Belarus". That's the sensible option, yes. We can't let him have that option,...

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An ecclesiastical court of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has declared pacifism to be a heresy incompatible with its teachings, according to a report by media outlet Sota citing documents in a case on the defrocking of priest Ioann Burdin, who spoke out against the invasion of Ukraine. In a serm...

Tucker is out at Fox Here is the latest on Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News. Fox News on Monday abruptly parted ways with Tucker Carlson, its most popular prime-time host and one of the most influential voices on the American right. The network made the announcement less than a week after i...

A snippet from the NYTimes link The case held the potential to make public a stream of damaging information about how the network told its audience a story of fraud and interference in the 2020 presidential election that many of its own executives and on-screen personalities did not believe. And the...

Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan specifically all have a signed agreement with Russia, the UK, and the US guaranteeing their territorial integrity and sovereignty. As a caveat, because the memorandum is vague to security obligations, and is also unratified, there's an open question as to whether it...

I found this interesting. I wonder what "bilateral interests" the US and Kazakhstan might have? Opposition to Russia's current expansion? That is my thoughts exactly. It's a former Russian Republic, they will not want to see Putin looking their way. Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan specif...

Why sign ballots at all? When I vote I sign in at the registration desk, am given a ballot, mark it with a simple x in a circle, and drop it in the ballot box. Done. If they changed to ranked voting I'd expect to either write a number or to be presented with a grid of places to mark with an x. Agai...

Again, from what I heard the decision would take effect 1 year from yesterday or so. So that would be post Biden inauguration (fingers crossed), and of course Biden would have no obligation to indulge Donalds whims. However in the event of a continuing Trump presidency, my understanding is it gets a...

When I heard this on NPR they were saying it would take effect in a year. The interviewer on NPR said there were additionally some questions about the legality, in that congress seemed to have had something to do with the US admittance in '48. And if that were the case unilateral executive action wo...

That should read that Andy Ngo claimed this.

Wha? :wtf: No seriously. What? There were some accusations that Antifa in Portland was lobbing milkshakes with concrete mix in them at counter protestors. Andy Ngo this. And apparently right wingers decided since he'd been beaten it was bad to question his report. It starts to get weird where count...

Board game geek has always been a pretty good starting point for me, in terms of strategies or army lists. I was into the X-wing table top game for a while, and I ended up finding some pretty good swarm lists and some pretty good elite lists there. Outside link: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1484...

Firstly it's worth mentioning that your thread title doesn't completely reflect what the article is saying. The article is talking about stock buybacks propping up stock prices. Secondly, the behavior of boards to emphasize stock price over fundamentals seems incorrect here; theoretically stock can ...

If the US really forces a trade war, the EU's likely fate will be self-destruction. I mean it's almost self-destructing already with the Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Eastern European crisis only subdued but not resolved, with Brexit and with the rise of the neofascists. If you add a lot of econom...

When I said it was "broadly speaking" similar to The Ultimate Plan (TM), I meant very broadly. Jellicoe, Davies, Wallace, O'Neill, Carter and McKay are thinking... bigger :twisted: Track the main Wraith fleet after it consolidates and starts moving, and supernova a sun at one of their sto...

The "bomb truck" idea does have some merit, and is (broadly speaking) similar to what I'm working on as The Ultimate Plan (TM) but as fnord pointed out, there are problems. Maybe not one big explosive, but use the suicide ship as a hyperspace missile bus. Load the ship down with as much e...

The best reason to leave it is that it's un-ratified and has no force of law in the United States without that step. We call this constitutional government. Or perhaps you'd prefer the executive be given more power to make law without the oversight of the legislature? I think Trump is a perfect exam...

I've been playing this a fair bit recently. The loot change is a big improvement from when I started playing right after they released things. It's probably enough to keep me paying for the occasional stimpack. It also feels like they did a fair redesign on both generic hero abilities, and Quick Mat...

Gandalf wrote:
It's the purge of Fox News!

Is Colmes also in trouble somehow?

He died in February.

To sum up this lame rant: I really want a box that just let's me play all the old SNES carts my pain-in-the-ass sister gave away because she's (to this day) a massive thunder-cunt. Still mad, 20 years later. Will be mad till the day I die. I was just reading about a very straight forward build that...

To sum up this lame rant: I really want a box that just let's me play all the old SNES carts my pain-in-the-ass sister gave away because she's (to this day) a massive thunder-cunt. Still mad, 20 years later. Will be mad till the day I die. I was just reading about a very straight forward build that...

A hilarious (to me) story was when I was talking to one of my brothers-in-law. He's like 22-23. I'm mid 30s now. He was talking about this really good RPG he was playing. But "FeniX! You'd like it, it's brand new but it's got like Retro graphics! And the story is great. And the combat system, ...

Back with a bang I see. Hmm...reinforced bones, enhanced muscle tissue, supercharged neural pathways...sounds like Dr. Catherine Halsey has been up to her old tricks. Or, more precisely, the Ascension long ago found another sleeper ship like Khan's/ I was wondering if maybe it was something like th...

<snip>The proposed replacement plan wouldn't fix any of the cost issues, it would make them worse actually, but at that point the Republicans would have their name on the bill and they'd own the fuckup. </snip> Everything I've seen from the CBO projections indicates that costs would go down and ins...