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Does that look like the face of someone that would slit 6 throats?

Agreed. The logistics for supporting the Abrams seems to be a legitimate problem. Germany knows that the UA can't support them effectively. Germany is using this as an excuse to make sure Ukraine does not get ANY tanks.

Warning, long detour ahead... Velociraptors were actually Mongolian and the size of a big turkey with a long, stiff tail. Velociraptors in Jurassic Park were based on Deinonychus, which lived in Montana and was a little over 4 feet tall. After Jurassic Park came out, Utah's state paleontologist and some colleagues discovered a dromaeosaurid in Utah that's much closer to the dimensions of the one in Jurassic Park and named it Utahraptor. Pack hunting is actually a really complicated behavior to try to study. There is very little evidence for pack hunting in any dinosaurs, including Dromaeosaurids. It's mostly based on a specimen from Montana of a plant eating dinosaur (Tenontosaurus) with several dead Deinonychus preserved around it. Some paleontologists have interpreted this as evidence of them all being killed in the act of cooperatively hunting, but there are other plausible explanations, so it's unfortunately not much to go on. There is zero direct evidence for the behavior in Velociraptors. That doesn't mean they didn't do the behavior, but it's extremely unlikely to fossilize, and difficult to interpret even if it did fossilize. Fossilization is a very rare process that almost never preserves behavior. There is unfortunately a huge amount of ambiguity for how to interpret the small amount of data we do have. With no solid direct data, the next best thing is a technique called Extant Phylogenetic Bracketing. Basically look at what the closest still living relatives do and try to bracket the behavior with data from more ancestral and more derived relatives. If you see the behavior widespread in living relatives, you can make assumptions the fossil animal may have done that behavior too. It's usually a pretty clean method and easy to interpret, but not here. Pack/cooperative hunting is extraordinarily rare in modern predatory birds, which are the closest relatives, having evolved directly from non-avian predatory dinosaurs. As of the last time I checked, it had only been plausibly reported once in a single species of hawk in a desert environment with scarce resources. It's possible it's been documented more since, but it's clear birds of prey almost always hunt solo. Another problem is this may or may not even be informative, because almost all predatory birds hunt aerially and only some dinosaurs did this. Most of them were terrestrial hunters, so it's plausible the behavior could differ from modern predatory birds. There are a few terrestrial predatory birds and they hunt solo, but it's an uncomfortably small sample size to draw big conclusions from. Crocodylians may hunt with a bunch of other crocs nearby, but they don't cooperatively hunt, though they may communally feed once one of them brings down prey. More recent studies suggest turtles are also close relatives, though more distant than crocs and birds. Turtles don't cooperatively hunt. Just like with birds, this behavior may also not be informative, because they are almost all primarily aquatic creatures, while most dinosaurs were terrestrial. All other archosaurs are dead, so we can't get any observational behavioral data for them without a time machine. We do know from trackways and mass death sights that plant eaters often moved in herds, so a lot of paleontologists think it is plausible some of the predators may have hunted in packs, especially given how dangerous some of the potential prey could be in a large herd. However, we don't have any actual evidence for it and the Extant Phylogenetic Bracket method is the only thing providing actual data, which suggests that cooperative hunting was probably rare, if we can trust the data, which I'm not sure we can. If I put myself on the spot to draw conclusions, I'd say cooperative/pack hunting was likely more common in non-avian dinosaurs than it is in any close living relatives, but we'll likely never have the data to really know. A rock is a tool/weapon and one other primates also use, along with sticks, to attack each other and other animals. If we get to use them, so do the chimps, which they do commonly to war on neighboring troops. That said, this discussion has been about one person against the animal in unarmed combat. In the video posted, there are two people. One of them is using a tool (deer antler) to distract the badger, while the other guy grabs it from behind. Even with two people, and one of them using a tool, the stupid bastard that picked the badger up still almost got nailed. Tendons, blood vessels, nerves and muscles in the forearm are pretty vulnerable. That guy would have needed major reconstructive surgery if the badger had gotten a hold of his forearm and/or hand. He's as lucky as he is stupid. One person trying that without any tools/weapons would get fucked up fast.

Yes, there is. Weapons. We're soft and squishy with shitty teeth, piss poor jaw strength and useless nails instead of claws. We didn't become murder incorporated until we invented spears and the atlatl. Can vouch for this. I was chased by both camping when I was 13. I ran like a bitch from both and would do it again. My sister and I accidentally got between a female moose and it's calf. Not even anywhere close to either one, just accidentally somewhat between them. Mama didn't take kindly and immediately charged us. We ran as fast as we could back to camp, dodging trees as quickly as we could. The moose didn't dodge shit, just ran right through them. It was fucking terrifying hearing it smashing through the trees and rapidly gaining on us. Fortunately, my grandma had a very loyal boxer that heard us from camp and saved our asses. She came hauling ass towards us right as we exited the tree line and flipped the tables on the moose. The moose turned tail and ran, pursued by the dog. Dog came back about 30 minutes later proud as she could be and got some steak for dinner. I still miss that dog. One of my cousins got chased back to their truck by a bull moose around the same time. Cousin lept into the truck bed and had to climb into the cab through the back window. While they attempted to climb into the cab, the moose repeatedly charged and rammed their truck. The truck got fucked up pretty good before they could get it started and drive off. I've also had interactions with moose that were completely chill. Moose are either totally cool, or psychotic and the switch between them flips easily and somewhat arbitrarily. The badger was me and a buddy being stupid bored 13 year olds throwing rocks into a hole. Come to find out, a badger lived there. The badger came out fucking pissed and took off after us. We had to climb onto some nearby boulders and wait almost an hour for it to stop circling around the base of the bolder hissing and growling at us.

Ryan and McCarthy both knew exactly who Trump is and who pulls his strings, but they covered up for him and protected him for years. They are traitorous pieces of shit whose names should never be mentioned without being followed by some form of the word traitor. Fuck Paul Ryan. He had his chance and chose to betray his country and protect the assets of our #1 adversary.

It's honestly surprising more companies haven't moved on their own sooner. They lose enormous amounts of money and market share to Chinese intellectual property theft. China has spent decades now blatantly ripping off our science and intellectual property. In exchange, we get a more competent Chinese military and a whole lot of cheaper, shittier, counterfeit and knockoff products on Amazon. We need to stop funding our adversaries. The sooner we move our manufacturing back to our hemisphere the better.

This has been the correct answer since 2014 and it will remain the correct answer until we do it. Bullies will keep escalating until someone escalates back and beats the shit out of them. They only understand strength. The longer it takes, the weaker the long term outlook for support from the West becomes. This will only encourage Putin. His plan is to ride this out until his agents derail western support. That's the only part of his invasion plan that is working. When Russia invaded in February, there was broad bipartisan support for Ukraine. After less than a year, polls show 52% of the GOP is willing to let Putin rape, pillage and genocide Ukraine. A much smaller percentage on the far left agrees. Similar patterns are playing out in other NATO allies as well. I'm going to leave it there, as statements of fact, so it doesn't get too far off track into CR territory, but this is quickly trending the wrong direction and the prognosis for long-term bipartisan support for Ukraine is extremely poor. We do not want to fuck around with this conflict persisting into 2024. While we still have some bipartisan support, we need to give Ukraine what they need to decisively end this conflict by the end of the summer and throw Russia out of the Donbas and Crimea.

In retrospect, it might have been a terrible idea to give a huge amount of public money in tax cuts and forgiven "loans" to corporations and business owners with very few strings, or oversight, attached. I mean, you could only look at something like this in retrospect. It would be impossible to predict this exact outcome based on the last 42 years of data. Who, aside from literally everyone, could have seen this coming?

If you want something really infectious, take any that might be able to be influential and give them the Boris Yeltsin grocery store treatment. Let them see how everyday people in the West live compared to the bulk of the population of Russia. Remind them that the reasons THEY don't get to live like that are the kleptocrats stealing from them. Their quality of life only goes up when they point their guns back at the kleptocrats. The sooner they realize that, the better.

[Neil Diamond] There can be only one. [/Neil Diamond]

Miss Ukraine gets to use her sword.

She's got a two-day head start on them, which is more than she needs. That leopard's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan. She speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom. She'll blend in, disappear; you'll never see her again. With any luck, she's got her Whataburger already.

I wish Trump was.

Exactly. A ceasefire only gives Russia time to re-arm, reload and wait for Putin's agents to stop Western support for Ukraine. Now is the time to amplify that aid and bury the Russians.

Justice for Ashli Babbit would be to put the liars that worked her up into attacking our capital in jail. I'm still waiting for it too.

The Cybertruck is a meme electric truck. It's not a serious attempt, because Musk is not a serious person. Cybertruck is to electric trucks as Doge Coin is to the dollar.

100%. 2008 O was legit. The 2009 offense was Colt + Jordan + baling twine. The 2008 D was filthy. 2008 was Mack's second best team and it's not really close. A bunch of other Big XII coaches fucked us by intentionally downlinking us in the final regular season poll. Florida beat OU by 10, same score differential we did. OU was a pretender.

It's also going to depend on timing. Prigozhin/PMC's have gradually been accumulating more power at the expense of the professional Russian army and leadership. Also, as you pointed out, Prigozhin just released a bunch of criminals back into the wild. I think it will be interesting to see if they owe him loyalty for their freedom from prison, or if they fault him for the awful conditions they were deployed in. Prigozhin has apparently successfully blamed most of that on the professional Russian military and leadership, so the convict army likely sides with him. Putin used ties with the Russian mob to help consolidate power and that's an obvious route for Prigozhin to follow. At this point, he would have to be considered the favorite to replace Putin, having a private army and a network of criminals. The longer it takes, the stronger Prigozhin's hand gets. Regarding how that effects the war, there are people in Russia that Ukraine and the West could potentially hold discussions with. Prigozhin is not one of them. He's a criminal thug that would be a complete non-starter as a leader that Ukraine/the West could actually negotiate with, so the war would likely continue and depend on how strong his hold on power is. Regardless of who it is, it's going to be difficult for anyone to match the level of control Putin has seized, especially on such an accelerated time scale. Unfortunately, the Russian people have proven themselves to lack even an ounce of independence, or self-respect, so they'll likely stand aside and accept the new czar and do what they are told. Same as they always have.

I hope that's not all it is, but I've learned not to get my hopes up for consequences for any of these pieces of shit. He's a seditious liar, who will say whatever he needs to in order to get attention, so this could all be bullshit anyway. Whatever it is is likely not a clear cut crime, based on the way he described it. "in my summation and the summation of lawyers, committed a crime." If he was going to out her as the pipe bomber, for example, he wouldn't need lawyers to surmise that was a crime. The offense involves Georgia somehow, but he's not confident Georgia will prosecute it. He says the House "must" expel Greene, not that they will. He spent the rest of the rant calling her a "whore" and harlot", which makes pretty clear whatever he's upset about is of a sexual nature. This strongly implies that whatever it is, it involves drunken nights, MGT and consultants. That all reads drunken MGT cheating on her husband and fucking consultants. I hope I'm wrong and it's actually something much bigger.

Ali Alexander was ranting about her being a "whore" and a "harlot". Adultery is illegal in Georgia. His big reveal is going to be that she was cheating on her husband, which everyone else already knows.

Ali Alexander was ranting about her being a "whore" and a "harlot". Adultery is illegal in Georgia. His big reveal is going to be that she was cheating on her husband, which everyone else already knows.

Spot on. The GQP voters elected clowns. This is their circus.

Yep. He's caved on every possible issue, or committee membership, thought he had a deal, and they fucked him anyway. They are #NeverKevin and McCarthy's a moron that still thinks he can bribe them.

No one knows. He keeps flipping the money table over and telling them to read it again.