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KYHorn

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  1. It's also worth remembering that the POS systems are incentivized to make tip screens the default and encourage tipping for every transaction (ever notice interfaces that make "no tip" difficult to select or you have to enter $0 as the custom amount?) because they get a cut from every transaction.
  2. Some important points made in this thread, and I imagine the Polish citizens are much more aware of this context than we are. The rest of the thread is good too, but these are the significant points. He's right though: stationing nuclear weapons in Belarus prior to giving Wagner a home base gives them the protection of the threat of nuclear Armageddon and allows for the continued escalation of rhetoric that does seem to echo the justifications for the attack on Ukraine
  3. "...Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said." Text from tweet 2 down (can't insert it below on mobile): Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says that more than 100 "Wagnerians" has gone towards the Suwałki Gap connecting Poland with the Baltic States. According to him, they will be disguised as Belarusian border guards and will help illegal immigrants to enter the country and destabilize the situation in Poland. Morawiecki called it an "unconditional step" towards a further hybrid attack on Poland. Thanks, Kim.
  4. It's unfortunately worth noting that a number of normally positive accounts aren't too happy today. The fog of war and the difficult realities of an offensive directed into well-prepared defenses are obviously major considerations as well. While minefields and insufficient supplies from the West undoubtedly contribute to drawbacks, it is essential to recognize that failures in planning and coordination at the commanding stage above the brigade level lead to far more significant drawbacks. In any war or military operation, there are both competent and ineffective commanders. However, the main question is whether we will draw conclusions based on the performance of certain generals or simply lay blame on the West and minefields. Whether the assault concludes in Crimea or elsewhere in the South, it's vital to acknowledge both victories and failures and hold individuals accountable for seriuos shortcomings. No amount of NATO training for NCOs and privates can compensate for the absence of similar training and the right mindset among certain senior officers. To conclude, I would like to share a brief radio interception between Russian servicemembers that I heard almost a month ago: - How is it going for you guys? Are you holding? - Yeah. - What about Ukrainians? What do you think? - I have a feeling that their assault was planned by Gerasimov and executed by Muradov. this is directed at no one... and at the same time all the arm chair generals.. some of the recent attacks by the ukr forces (company sized) have not looked great.. and many have sat back and stated things about the command and judgements... the simple facts are...... 1. this is war and losses will be taken.. 2. ukr is on the offensive and the losses will go up now.. 3. we are not on the ground, we dont know the intel, we dont know the prep, and we dont know the overall real ground truth. 4. as bad as some assults look we are finding out that most of them do gain ground and ukr is moving forward... 5. this is a HARD fight without traditional air support, with a peer that MOST people thought would crush them in 3 days. 6. war is hard, its dirty, it never goes as expected, and there are always losses, even in the best operations. 7. some people are fixating on losses and not looking at the big picture.. few of the forces have been used so far, and more are coming. 8. im not going to pile on a company commander right now that may have had a bad mission. many times that commander is the first to die. constructive feedback is good and needed, and if a higher commander is needed to be replaced it will happen. have faith in the guys on the ground im confident that in the end ukr will have a breakthrough... till then the fight will be hard, and there will be losses.. but ukr will win the war.
  5. I can already imagine the propaganda video with Kadyrov decrying the "blatant and graphic homosexuality" if this gets captured. Then he'll take the items for some private time.
  6. Heard a report today that Ukraine is struggling to build it's own drones at the quantity needed because China is selling the necessary components to Russia. However, an area of focus for Ukrainian research has been developing AI for the drones so that when the Russians are able to interfere with the drones on the battlefield, instead of just falling to the ground, they can attack a target without ongoing communication with the operator.
  7. Graphic at the end Georgians protested and chased away a liner with Russians from the port of Batumi 🇬🇪 Yesterday, the Astoria Grande cruise liner, which was carrying Russian tourists, arrived in Batumi, Georgia. After that, local residents protested. They chanted "Russian ship, go to **y" and "Abkhazia is Georgia", and also brought photographs depicting Abkhazia and the events of the August war.
  8. https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1684794089659625472?t=NjqSvKkhrfbSTMebSeymMA&s=19 Audio File: An alleged correspondence btw #Kadyrov's men, who report about the huge losses. They declare that out of 500 fighters only 60 of the 1st battalion "Akhmat-North" remain alive
  9. ^ Pretty remarkable stat he gives in that article: 88% of casualties are from artillery. 10% are from snipers. 2% are from ordinary gunfire.
  10. Worth reading the 3 screenshots
  11. Sounds like some of the 10 or so remaining newly formed brigades are being sent in
  12. Mutinies and meat grinders Mutinies and meat grinders Navy sinks, Navy sinks Virgin sandwich Sloppy hoes, slop-sloppy hoes Well everybody's buried in the ground down here Prigozhin land
  13. (This is only tangentially related to your post) I have no problem with policies against self-plagiarism because you shouldn't receive credit for 2 assignments when you only did half of the work. There are plenty of courses with overlapping content areas, so if they have open-ended types of assignments (write an essay or lit review on a relevant topic of choice), students shouldn't be able to just submit work from another class and then receive credit for both assignments/courses. As some have pointed out, this is a somewhat unique circumstance in which it is the exact same class. Rather than the professor come to the student directly (which I don't really agree with because of the issues Mole raised- the universities ask instructors to submit instances of plagiarism through the formal process so there can be a proper record for each student's offenses), I think the student should have come to the professor. This has come up for me with students who failed my course and retook it. I've had a few students reach out proactively to discuss what I am comfortable with regarding their submitting previous work. My responses have been context-depedent. For the major assignments, I am fine with students using their past submissions as a reference or starting point, but it should be a unique work that is submitted. For more minor assignments that are application-based and personal (I teach mostly family, marriage, and sexuality courses), I ask them to consider their development and changing contexts in light of what they previously wrote and make any relevant changes.
  14. Ukrainian deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar: "During the offensive, our defenders performed military miracles that will go down in textbooks. They attack in conditions when the enemy has more weapons and people. While an offensive is considered possible when the opposite is true. At the same time, our troops are advancing. And the question should be asked not about the number of kilometers traveled, but about the fact that we are moving forward or not. The fact that we are moving in the face of enemy superiority is a sign of the high skill and courage of our defenders. The number of casualties on our offensive lines is much lower than the enemy's. In the Bakhmut sector, our casualties are 8 times less than the enemy's. In the Berdyansk and Mariupol sectors, 5.3 times less. This is despite the fact that the offensive side usually loses more," she said on 1+1 TV. t.me/annamaliar/961
  15. Likely not in one shot unless a massive fire broke out
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